Have to use Windows for work (I’ve asked), the ads have been getting worse and worse on my work laptop. Today got a game ad notification… That’s clearly too far, right? Like I have to clear notifications, so I have to see it
MS goes out of their way to make shit harder than it needs to be.
For example. The store, they have a store for business where you can simply whitelist known apps buts it’s a PITA to setup AND they have been threatening to decom it for ages
Want to add safety/security features like secuirty keys. Well if you do it on a non domain joined machine you can just sign into a m365 account to enable a passkey or yuibijey as a second factor.
Want to do that in a business environment. Congrats now you have to deploy a windows CA and issue user certificates to tie to this. Even if you are signing the machine into m365 with ADAL.
They go out of their way to add complexity and failure points.
Ok, if you want some info here is a little summary :
Banning people condamned for bullying/hate speech from every social media they used for it
Blocking websites (mostly porn) without judge’s approval, both physically and by forcing navigators/DNS to block it
More ID checking to “protect minor”
And if you want details :
The current proposition of law is a melting pot of many Internet security subjects :
preventing children to access porn
punishing websites that host pedo porn harder
punishing deepfake and ai generated montage (and montages in general)
preventing hate speech and violent speech in all social media, including chat applications
regulating the market of cloud storage providers
regulating gambling and real-money video games
preventing phishing
They have different actions at their disposal :
Fines for website admins who do not comply
Forcing websites to check people’s identity to prevent minor accessing harming content
Forcing websites to ban some accounts suspected of illegal activity
Forcing websites to try and block a suspected person (not the user) from using/creating any accounts on their website (for max. 6 months to 1 year)
Forcing navigators, DNS providers and Internet compagnies to block any access to a specific domain for max 3 months, if this domain does not comply in (short) time to the administration instructions
Forcing websites to mention the name and adress of any person or company that host their content
Forcing apps markets to remove an app that does not comply to the administration instructions
It would be mandatory for vpn ads to always display a message that says something like “Pirating contents harms artistic creation” (does not have a lot to do with the rest, but it find it interesting anyway)
It would be mandatory for any content sharing website to stock datas enabling the identification of anyone who participated in the content creation
Easier police raid in places where content is hosted (no judge approval needed, they just get notified of the raid)
Now, i did not hear from this subject a lot, mostly for the pornography part since we probably soon will have to show ID cards to watch porn. I remember that everytime there are more or less violent protests, government says it originates from social media and that they have to control social media to prevent violences. Most politicians i heard on this seem to not fully understand what is at stake, which is kinda usual.
Relevant language from the bill in question, machine translated to English, and formatting cleaned up:
Article 1, section 1:
I. – Article 10 of Law No. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 on confidence in the digital economy is worded as follows:
Art. 10 . – I. – The Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority ensures that pornographic content made available to the public by an online public communication service cannot be accessible to minors and, consequently, to that the persons whose activity is to publish such a service of communication to the public online verify beforehand the age of their users.
It establishes and publishes for this purpose, after consulting the National Commission for Data Processing and Liberties, a reference system determining the technical characteristics applicable to the age verification systems put in place for access to communication services at the online audiences that make pornographic content available to the public, with regard to the reliability of verifying the age of users and respecting their privacy.
II. – (Deleted) ”
II (new) . – The Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority establishes and publishes the reference system mentioned in article 10 of the aforementioned law no. six months after the promulgation of this law.
Article 4a, section 6:
➆ II. – When the person whose activity is to publish the online public communication service in question has not made available the information mentioned in article 1-1 of this law, when this does not allow not to contact him or when at the end of the period mentioned in the first paragraph of I of this article, if necessary after this person has submitted his observations, it appears that the report mentioned in the same first paragraph is still valid, the administrative authority may, by reasoned decision, order Internet browser providers within the meaning of 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2022 on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector and amending Directives (EU) 2019/1937 and (EU) 2020/1828, Internet access service providers or domain name resolution system providers to immediately take any useful measure intended to prevent access to the address of this service for a maximum period of three months. The decision of the administrative authority designates which provider is responsible for preventing access to the address of this service, depending on the injunction issued and the nature of the measure envisaged.
After trying endlessly for two years to run a file sharing site with user anonymity we have been tired of handling the extreme volumes of people abusing it and the headaches it has created for us. Maybe it is hard to understand but after tens of million uploads and many petabytes later all work of handling abuse was automated...
Hi there, I’m currently looking into renting a domain from cloudflare for convenient access to my hosted services from outside my home. It seems some of the cheapest options for the domain name I want to use are country TLDs (.uk, .us). Does this bind me to their laws in any way? can anyone come at me for hosting (e.g....
Thanks for the quick reply! Assuming I host a Jellyfin instance for instance (pun intended), can they actually accuse me of breaking rules without a valid login? afaik for non-users the login page is as far as they (should be able to) go. As for the domain name, I’m not actually set on one specific name, but it seemed from the few I tried that .uk and .us are consistently much cheaper (~$5/yr as opposed to ~$10/yr).
Edit: I have added the share name at the end of the IP address and now I’m getting mount error(115): Operation now in progress. I haven’t figured this one out yet either. My computer IP and the network drive IP are on the same network and within range. Both should be using the same gateway and DHCP....
It’s correct. I put it in greater than/less than brackets up above to indicate that it was a placeholder and Lemmy stripped it out for some reason. I have edited above to just say “user”. Good eye though.
My file looks like that except for the domain value. I don’t have that line. What would go there? It’s a network drive connected directly to my router with a USB cable and then the router SMB client and mapping is configured. I know that’s correct because I can map them in Windows, and I can list them in Pop in the terminal, as well as browse it in Pop in the file explorer. Alternatively I started out just using the user/password arguments for the terminal mounting command and only moved it to the file to get rid of those arguments since the error it’s throwing is saying there are invalid arguments. I have the workgroup set in the config file and I’m explicitly declaring the IP in the mount command. There’s no domain name, unless that means something I’m unaware of.
I think the default domain is empty or WORKGROUP. It would be used if you had active directoy for the user authentication.
I read some more of the man page and this should be optional.
Sorry, I was thinking file browser mounts would appear in mount, but they don’t.
You should be able to list file browser mounts in a terminal using gio mount -li after mounting via the file browser, and it will list the SMB mount it’s using, ie smb://SERVER/$share/
This annoyingly doesn’t give us the username or domain for the SMB share, and to get that if the server and share looks OK we have to run gvfs (what the file browser for PopOS uses in the background) in debug mode and re-mount the SMB share; in a terminal run pkill gvfs; pkill nautilus; LANG=C GVFS_DEBUG=1 $(find /usr/lib* -name gvfsd 2>/dev/null) --replace 2>&1 ; this will unmount anything in the file browser but will show what username and domain the file browser is using to access the SMB share, for example after clicking on a share in the file browser, among other logs, I get;
This should give the username and domain that connects and can be used in the credential file.
Once this is done, you can exit the terminal with gvfs running and you should be able to close and re-open the file browser and the mounts should just re-appear normally.
Hopefully this will give enough information as to why the file browser mount works and the mount command doesn’t.
Well that’s kind of the thing, that’s why Google announces they are ending those things. Most companies just end development silently and let those things differ l drift off without support or intention to solve issues which becomes incredibly telling for anyone who comes along and decides to integrate that software into their systems or daily life which later just becomes a massive problem down the line.
Announcing the end of something, and even coming up with a solution for it like domains switching to square space, GPM transferring user songs into YouTube music, and SketchUp selling to Trimble are low or even zero hassle solutions that result in longer term support for their users without throwing a “sorry it’s all broken now, go fuck yourself” methodology
Additionally, it seems that they don’t have seem to have any external audits or releasing of code (correct me if I’m wrong). Additional they have a web browser, that’s only for Apple’s ecosystem. Overall, you pay for no-ads, I feel like for this feature set you could just use DuckDuckGo with advertisements off, or the HTML version (which doesn’t include JavaScript either). I’m kinda skeptical about it, but if it ends up taking off I’ll be happy there will be another alternative to Google.
Kopia
This actually looks very cool, so many new backup solutions to try after this thread. 🥲
Q. What is your cost per search? A. Currently it is 1.25 cents per search. But search indexes are about to become several times more expensive and we now have the AI integration cost. We will try to keep the cost at 1.5 cents per search or below by rethinking our partnering strategy and investing more into our infrastructure.
“Boosting” and blocking domains: basically permanent filters.
I mean, yes and no; it’s not quite a filter as it can tweak the ranking not just outright put something at the top or remove it.
“Lenses” - Similar to SearXNG’s different tabs, but more like a profile style system.
These are actually super cool because they put things like the old “site:reddit.com” trick on steroids and help.kagi.com/kagi/features/code.html is like site:stackoverflow.com on steroids.
Bangs are the same as in SearXNG, and I think you can do the same, or similar, thing in Firefox.
You definitely can do this in plenty of things; I don’t think it’s all that compelling really, but it’s a nice feature none the less, and it’s arguably easier to sync “bangs” than it is to sync these shortcuts between browsers and different software; but yeah, not a big motivator for me.
Custom CSS is cool and all but you can get that with a browser add-on (like Stylus).
Similar comment about the syncing of this; but yeah, this also wasn’t a big motivator for me.
Their “Comprehensive result filtering” seems that same as every other browser
True, but I think it’s there 1 for completeness, and 2 because the count of ads and trackers as a criteria is pretty unique to them. It’s also quite a bit more user facing, and easier to work with than say, getting the same options from Google search.
“Widgets” - Seems like Google’s quick answers, user created ones are cool I guess.
Not sure what you mean by custom ones, haven’t seen anything about that; but it’s definitely in the feature parity category.
CNET has been deleting thousands of old articles from its site in recent weeks in an effort to improve its search engine rankings on Google.
CNET confirmed it removes old content to appear more “fresh, relevant and worthy of being placed higher than our competitors” according to an internal memo.
However, experts say Google does not encourage deleting old content simply because of its age and that older content can still provide value to users.
The perception that “the Internet is forever” and content placed online will always remain accessible has proven untrue over time.
Link rot threatens old web content as links go dead and content disappears from original locations.
Copyright trolls have pressured sites to remove old images rather than risk expensive lawsuits over fair use.
Large portions of the historical web record are missing or inaccessible now due to link rot and deliberate content removal.
Archives like the Wayback Machine help preserve some content but can’t capture everything.
Sites focused on SEO are driven to extremes like mass content deletion to rise above noisy search results.
Archivists play an important role in preserving digital history by making copies of content before it disappears.
Additionally, it seems that they don’t have seem to have any external audits … (correct me if I’m wrong).
They don’t, but they do have a clearly worded privacy policy kagi.com/privacy.
This actually looks very cool, so many new backup solutions to try after this thread. 🥲
I’ve tried a lot of different backup solutions… I’d be curious where you’re leaning, but I’d say this one is likely going to be your winner for ease of use, privacy, and cross-platform functionality.
Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’::Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts quantum computers are far more important for solving mankind’s problems.
Yes. Glorified tape recorders that can provide assistance and instruction in certain domains that is very useful beyond what a simple tape recorder could ever provide.
I think a good analogue is the invention of the typewriter or the digital calculator. Its not like its something that hadn’t been conceived of or that we didn’t have correlatives for. Is it revolutionary? Yes, the world will change (has changed) because of it. But the really big deal is that this puts a big bright signpost of how things will go far off into the future. The typewriter led to the digital typewriter. The digital typewriter showed the demand for personal business machines like the first apples.
Its not just about where were at (and to be clear, I am firmly in the ‘this changed the world camp’. I realize not everyone holds that view; but as a daily user/ builder, its my strong opinion that the world changed with the release of chatgpt, even if you can’t tell yet.), the broader point is about where we’re going.
The dismissiveness I’ve seen around this tech is frankly, hilarious. I get that its sporting to be a curmudgeon, but to dismiss this technology will be to have completely missed what will be one of the most influential human technologies to have been invented. Is this general intelligence? To keep pretending it has to be AGI or nothing is to miss the entire damn point. And this goal post shifting is how the frog gets slowly boiled.
I don’t have a particular guide to reocmmend, but assuming you have a VPS already, you’ll basically need just a few components:
A VPN (I’d use wireguard) tunnel between your network at home and the VPS
A reverse proxy on your VPS (nginx-reverse-proxy is a pretty user-friendly implementation) to forward traffic to the correct host on your local network
A DNS record for your subdomain that points to your VPS’s public IP address.
That should basically do what you need. The reverse proxy will see the domain (whatever.example.com) and pass it on to the machine on your local network (e.g. 192.168.1.111:8888) via a VPN connection (which will push the routes so the VPS knows how to get to your local network).
The fact that specific domains and user agents are effected by this says otherwise. Take a look in the link for people discussing curling the urls and their findings.
The idea of copyleft is that you give anyone the freedom to do anything with your work, with one essential restriction: they do the same for their changes, derivative works etc. Technically attribution doesn’t have to be part of a copyleft licence, but all copyleft licences I know have a requirement to preserve copyright info.
And yes, it is popular in software (GPL, MPL, EPL), but for other types of works there is CC BY-SA 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike). If you want to copyleft books, images, videos, other forms of text… this is the way to go, IMO.
Some additional remarks, just to clarify:
Copyleft is not “giving up all copyright” - copyleft essentially “plays” the copyright system in a way that makes sure nobody is restricting access to or usage of one’s work. Using the rules of copyright against copyright, if you will.
In some jurisdictions, there is no such thing as “giving up all copyright” or “dedicating something to the public domain”. Best you can do, generally, is giving users all the same/relevant rights.
Most Creative Commons licences are not copyleft, only the ones with a ShareAlike (SA) clause. Some CC licences are also nonfree, meaning they don’t give you all the freedoms to do what you want with the work. The 2 possible nonfree clauses in CC licences are ND (no derivative works) and NC (no commercial use). NC can also be used together with a SA clause, making CC BY-SA (free) and CC BY-NC-SA (nonfree) the two CC copyleft licences.
I have a fair amount of experience with data visualization, analysis etc and thought it would be a fun project to try to visualize the Lemmy network, specifically which instances have strong links to one another via subscriptions from users in one to communities in the other....
Your public domain assumption doesn’t have to apply to others, legally or ideologically.
Data ownership does exist in the Fediverse, in fact it is one of its selling points that you can set up your server and own the data instead of using a surveillance capitalist SaaS that stores, manipulates and imposes legal rights over your data. Applications like Mastodon do send a federation request to other instances to delete data if submitters want to. Additionally, some users put licenses on their profile that might have restrictions (i.e: CC non-commerical, etc.) on what you are legally allowed to do with the data.
So no, accessing the data is not the same as using or processing it for many people, legally too in several parts of the world. Also, “innocuous curiosities” label is entirely subjective.
I prefer lemmy.world outlast then join the group of domains with an FBI seized page on it one day. It’s very easy to run multiple accounts, seems like many people have different users for different activity anyhow. It’s important to note it’s not uncommon for especially pirated software to contain malicious code.
Lemmy.world is pretty small in the grand scheme of social media. It’s only 130k accounts and about 3500 users a day. If Lemmy really takes off, instances the size of currently Lemmy.world are going to be the small fries. Like email, we’re going to have whale domains.
I think it incredibly damaging in the long run to have 50% of active users on this platform to be centralized on one domain.
I agree, but 50% is still better than 100%. I definitely appreciate that I'm reading about this while being totally unaffected personally rather than just disappearing entirely like what happens with a banned subreddit.
Ah, I should have said “from a domain you own or one of their own”.
The use case I’m talking about, which is the use of arbitrary domains, not Proton-provided ones and not domains you own and control.
I see that Simple Login provides aliases from its own domains, but not a way to use an arbitrary domain.
Proton’s address support overview mentions organizational addresses, but clarifies in the same doc that this is referring to a business plan where that whole organization will be using Proton.
Proton’s switching guide discusses forwarding, and it only instructs the user to tell their contacts about the new Proton address, which defeats the purpose of forwarding addresses.
Here is further discussion about the missing functionality.
Meanwhile, Google lets you use up to 99 of your own email addresses from whatever domains they are.
Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/4QzFt...
Game ad notification on Windows... (lemmy.world)
Have to use Windows for work (I’ve asked), the ads have been getting worse and worse on my work laptop. Today got a game ad notification… That’s clearly too far, right? Like I have to clear notifications, so I have to see it
Mozilla's petition against in-browser censorship law (foundation.mozilla.org)
The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.
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Reverse Proxy vs VPN: How do you access your home-server?
The more I am selfhosting the more ports I do open to my reverse proxy....
Anonfiles is shutting down (anonfiles.com)
After trying endlessly for two years to run a file sharing site with user anonymity we have been tired of handling the extreme volumes of people abusing it and the headaches it has created for us. Maybe it is hard to understand but after tens of million uploads and many petabytes later all work of handling abuse was automated...
Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc (arstechnica.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/eSuy1...
TLD and the law
Hi there, I’m currently looking into renting a domain from cloudflare for convenient access to my hosted services from outside my home. It seems some of the cheapest options for the domain name I want to use are country TLDs (.uk, .us). Does this bind me to their laws in any way? can anyone come at me for hosting (e.g....
Cannot mount smb shared drive from the router on my Pop!_OS system. Can someone give me some assistance?
Edit: I have added the share name at the end of the IP address and now I’m getting mount error(115): Operation now in progress. I haven’t figured this one out yet either. My computer IP and the network drive IP are on the same network and within range. Both should be using the same gateway and DHCP....
Looks like google domains is no more. (lemmyonline.com)
https://lemmyonline.com/pictrs/image/6dfbbd60-8363-4648-afdc-2ec7373173b9.png...
What are the coolest (privacy respecting) apps you have?
Title says it all. I’ll go first:...
Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’ (fortune.com)
Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’::Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts quantum computers are far more important for solving mankind’s problems.
Current, most up-to-date guide on creating a VPS tunnel.
I know that I can use 3rd party services to set up a tunnel, like Cloudflare, but I’d like to implement this myself....
Twitter's short link service, t.co, is adding a five-second delay to some domains. Like threads.net (news.ycombinator.com)
What is the opposite of "All rights reserved"? (i.ytimg.com)
I would argue that there are a few ways this phrase can be inverted:...
WiFi setup
Hi,...
Where can I get the data about Lemmy subscription patterns?
I have a fair amount of experience with data visualization, analysis etc and thought it would be a fun project to try to visualize the Lemmy network, specifically which instances have strong links to one another via subscriptions from users in one to communities in the other....
lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/2881638...
It would appear lemmy.world has blocked this community (sh.itjust.works)
!piracy has also been blocked from lemmy.world....
What's a good alternative to Gmail?
Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail....