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Or stop mucking about with toys and use protectli running opnsense.

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Self documenting systems ftw.

Spectrum Call Center in Charlotte, NC Reportedly Provided Fried Chicken and Watermelon to Employees for Juneteenth (thencbeat.com)

“We want to acknowledge some feedback received regarding our Juneteenth celebration,” Pezzuto said in his letter obtained by The North Carolina Beat. “Although our intent was to celebrate this nationally recognized day, some of you voiced your concerns regarding the associated food choices.”...

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Racism will continue to exist so long as people continue to get offended by friggin food of all things.

How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs?

I’ve been looking for a new job as a software developer. The huge majority of job listings I see in my area are hybrid or remote. I just had an introductory phone call with Vizio (which didn’t specify the location type in the job listing). The recruiter told me that the job was fully on-site, which I told her was a deal...

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And the commute is considered working hours. An hour commute means I’m in the office 9-3. With a lunch break.

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I just put a toilet in my camper van. My own place to poop no matter where I am!

Google Pay is officially dead in the US. Just got the email.

We are writing to inform you about changes to your Google Pay experience. As we continue to provide safe and seamless payments to users around the world, we are also simplifying the app experience in the U.S. For years, Google Wallet has been the primary place to securely store payment cards used for tap and pay in stores,...

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I got tired of fighting with GPay on crdroid every other week. Got a card that works with my Garmin watch instead. No more nonsense.

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Only took android 15 years to get it sort of right. 2009 pre was ahead of its time.

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Meanwhile github.com/XMMS2 has been open source from the start.

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I loved audacious and it was my xmms replacement. I don’t really use local media players these days as everything is on my plex server.

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How about putting all app data in storage0 so it can be easily backed up. The thing I care about most if my phone is stolen is being able to build a new one and not have to spend the next day reconfiguring every damned app.

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What a great use of their time. Vote these chucklefucks out already.

She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (www.theguardian.com)

Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi’s...

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Great digital forensic team. Dipshits.

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Ride smooth not fast has won me some mountain bike races.

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The music industry figured it out. Now the video streaming industry needs to. Until then, arrrrrr.

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Crdroid works well on my op7 pro. Android 14.

Congress’s push to protect kids online is at a crossroads (KOSA, US-focused) (www.washingtonpost.com)

Legislators are considering attaching KOSA (the anti-LGBTQ+ censorship bill, aka the Kids Online Safety Act) to must-pass legislation authorizing the FAA. As EFF points out, the latest version of KOSA is still a censorship bill....

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If these fuckwits really wanted to ‘protect the children’ they’d have a .kids tld with regulation. Then parents and schools can choose to filter everything but that tld, or not.

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A ton more fun once you flash rockbox onto it.

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I mean, that’s what Ford did. They had the tech to generate power for the factory, so were the city’s electric company.

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Nice coincidence I deleted my LinkedIn account today.

Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals (www.404media.co)

“Life-and-death decisions relating to patient acuity, treatment decisions, and staffing levels cannot be made without the assessment skills and critical thinking of registered nurses,” the union wrote in the post. “For example, tell-tale signs of a patient’s condition, such as the smell of a patient’s breath and their...

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Huh. This is how I feel about LNPs who think they are doctors too. I think in most cases I’d prefer the ai.

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No.

Recommendations please: Self-hosted web site analytics

Hello y’all! I have my personal (static) website / blog running on netlify out on the public internet. Netlify, in case you’re not familiar, is not a traditional web host, so I can’t add databases or anything else like that on the server itself. Right now, that site has zero analytics / visitor tracking and I’ve decided...

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You can ship to Graylog with netcat or filebeat. Then you can do all of your graphing, searching, and analysis there.

What would you like to see in a house IT setup?

Currently remodeling a domicile, with the sweet and expensive ability to add anything I want within reason. I plan on modernizing the place to bring it into the 21st century because this house deserves it (just a great structure with lots of history and nearing it’s centennial birthday)....

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  • home automation (zigbee, zwave, matter)
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We should stop using Calvin in our stupid memes.

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My friend’s apartment burned down when his cat knocked over a candle. Make of that what you will.

Is rsync.net a good service for backups?

I’ve been playing around with the self hosted apps for quite a while and I got to the point where I’m happy about my local setup. Next step is to setup reliable offsite backup. I’m using borgbackup as a tool to manage my backups (so far only local backups). I’ve been looking for an affordable yet reliable service to...

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I use it. No complaints here. They’ve recently reduced their rates. The alternatives are more involved and more expensive. I put my remote Borg repos on rsync.net

Because I use Borg I don’t really need their zfs snapshots but those are pretty cool too.

I have multiple Borg repos, so rather than add a remote for each I just rclone everything at once to rsync.

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I replaced all of mine with Nvidia shield and Walmart onn streaming pucks. It’s a better experience in every way (once projectivy is installed) and costs less too.

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

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They do. code.mil

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Black Mesa Project and Stray

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They get their media attention for mass shootings now.

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For home, use your firewall. Either physical ports on the firewall with dumb switches or vlans with managed layer 2 switches.

There are many ways to do this. Proxmox can do it with ovs if all your devices are virtualized. Pfsense is probably the most straightforward.

The best way to run pfsense is on dedicated hardware. This would work for you protectli.com/vault-4-port/

You’ll also then need switches or a managed switch with vlans for each network segment.

Do you need to download an anti-virus for Android?

So my workplace is mostly iPhone users and someone asked me what kind of antivirus software I used on my Android, and I said “none” and he flipped out about how unsafe it was. Other people chimed in saying how all androids need antivirus apps and I’ve never heard of such a thing. I do have ad-blockers and a VPN but never...

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AV is no substitute for proper hygiene. Don’t click random links, don’t install random software, use a VPN on untrusted networks, yadda yadda.

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I finally replaced my pebble with a Garmin. Pleasantly surprised. I still miss voice response and proper tasker integration, but otherwise it’s a solid smart watch.

Activities I only use for hiking. I don’t wear a watch cycling or kayaking. Looking forward to trying the snowboarding activity though.

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Programming is a trade now. It isn’t computer science any more. Make web things is the majority of it. Mostly using CMS.

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Tim’s name is the only one on the original html rfc. He is also a contributor on the httpd rfcs.

www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866

So as far as content creation is concerned, yes he invented it. Html markup made it very easy for non-technical people to easily create their own web pages. That we no longer do that as individuals is the main point he is making. The original intent of the tool has been taken over by marketing and capitalism.

Before his work we communicated and shared via ftp, telnet, usenet, gopher, smtp, and irc.

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The one you can keep for at least 5 years and still receive updates. I’m rocking a OnePlus 7 pro with crdroid 10.2 (android 14). No need to change unless it dies or 4g stops performing.

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I wouldn’t at home. Enterprise hardware requires enterprise cooling and rack mount systems are loud.

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Needing a credit card just to use Roku has always been nonsense. I bought a gift card, spent all but $1 of it, and registered with that.

But I’ve since moved to Nvidia shield on the theater and onn on bedroom, office. Much better experience all around.

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All of this iot shit, and all we really need is the ability for everything to just use an ntp server.

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Pornhub and other adult sites sue EU over landmark digital content law (www.aljazeera.com)

Pornhub and two other adult sites are suing the European Union over a landmark digital content law, the Digital Services Act, which imposes age verification and other obligations on large platforms. The European Commission last year named Pornhub, Xvideos and Stripchat as a category of “very large online platform” under the...

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.kids tla. Regulate and certify what can be on that. Let parents implement the .kids whitelist if they want.

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I’ll stick with my Transit camper build, thanks.

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As a stand alone service I don’t think it is great, but feeding into Plex + Plexamp makes it awesome.

Tidal integrates with Plex local libraries seamlessly. Itslike having your own collections without having to rip or download anything.

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In addition to ups, an LTE failover. I’ve had my Comcast crap be offline for hours.

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I run nut on a pi.

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There are devices like the Netgear lm1200 that can do it inline by themselves.

I have that device, but configured as a second gateway. My firewall manages the failover based on primary packet loss and latency.

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Yet it’s the sysadmin who gets blamed, not the developer. “How can you tune the database so this doesn’t happen?”

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I’m not even rooted and gpay keeps breaking on crdroid for me, despite passing safetynet. I’ve given up and just got another credit card that I can use with my garmin watch that works every time without the hassle.

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