Anonymouse

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[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

wX

Uses the US National Weather Service for data. The UI is basic but it has all the maps. Probably overkill and too complex for normal people but good for weather watchers, amateur meteorologists and pilots.

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Same for me. In addition to deflock.me and haveibeenflocked.com, are there any community resource sites for finding others in the same city that would be willing to start pushing on the city to cancel their contract?

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I recall hearing that there's a Debian install for Qnap devices. I've been considering reimaging an old Qnap with Debian and Minio for backups.

Edit: Found it https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/QNAP

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You're not just voting for politicians, but judges, sheriffs, school board members & many others. Often, you're choosing the lesser of 2 evils and rarely will you match policy-for-policy with your best candidate, but in what other way do you have to express your opinions?

I research all candidates on my locality's ballot and bring notes on who I plan to vote for. I sometimes can vote absentee, which is even better.

As I've found in many elections, I'm the minority. That's ok because I believe that when the polls are close, it can pull the candidates closer to my views as they try to appeal to the groups that may give them a few more votes.

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you decide what's for Terraform and what's for Ansible?

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I haven't heard about the terrible longevity. They even top the consumer reports list for EVs. What sorts of longevity issues are there?

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I had to scroll way too far down the pageto find this (i trynot to duplicateanother's comments). At the core of some of thescummy advertisements is profiling, enhanced by privacy violations. Remove the abikity to track you around the internet and IRL and advertisements become less obtrusive.

The other side of the coin is that it costs so little to add adverts to a web page, so why not collect a little cash to help offset your hosting costs? Remove the profiling and Google & friends don't have a leg to stand on, so then when you visit a cooking blog you see ads for kitchen utensils. No biggie. Looking for auto repair articles? Check out this awesome wrench! At least you now don't go to show your mom some wedding venue you're thinking about renting alongside an ad for ED meds from the dark market.

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Similar to others, I do this but the reverse direction. I have a Pi with HDD at a friend's house. On a timer, it wakes up at 3am, boots to a VPN and initiates an rsync (pull) with it's twin Pi at my place. When the sync is done, it powers down or the timer cuts power at 9am.

Other than clock drift due to power outages, I've had no issues.

I have a directory that i can put scripts into and the remote Pi will execute anything in this directory after the sync and before the shutdown. Logs from the rsync or scripts are pushed back to a different directory on the local Pi.

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

A pretty good read. I've made many of these mistakes myself and learned from every one of them. We spend so much time hardening our home labs from the bad guys, I wonder if we should instead focus on hardening from ourselves.

Of course, the answer is both.

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I'm in a shower of my own tears

I love this!

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago

Thanks for posting the contents of the image. This is especially important for folks using a screen reader and the source content is behind a paywall or login link.

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I mail a lot of gmail users. Is there a plugin to filter all my outgoing email to inject 0-width Unicode or replace all chars with a visibly equivalent character to prevent LLM training on my data, as I am not a GMail user?

 

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services. While this emerging operational interest has likely been sparked by wartime demands to gain access to sensitive government and military communications in the context of Russia's re-invasion of Ukraine, we anticipate the tactics and methods used to target Signal will grow in prevalence in the near-term and proliferate to additional threat actors and regions outside the Ukrainian theater of war.

TL;DR: keep your apps updated & don't scan QR codes that you don't trust.

 

As if anybody here needs a reason to be wary of what you do online, this essay shares how a foreign adversary used back doors that were intentionally put in place to spy on Americans and how the rest of the world probably has the same back doors.

I especially appreciate the phrase "nerd harder" and the quote, "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia".

How can IT folk help politicans to understand?

 

While reading many of the blogs and posts here about self hosting, I notice that self hosters spend a lot of time searching for and migrating between VPS or backup hosting. Being a cheapskate, I have a raspberry pi with a large disk attached and leave it at a relative's house. I'll rsync my backup drive to it nightly. The problem is when something happens, I have to walk them through a reboot or do troubleshooting over the phone or worse, wait until a holiday when we all meet.

What would a solution look like for a bunch of random tech nerds who happen to live near each other to cross host each other's offsite backups? How would you secure it, support it or make it resilient to bad actors? Do you think it could work? What are the drawbacks?

 

Does anybody have any workarounds for apps that don't work due to "security"? I have a few apps that I need for work that think my phone is rooted (it is not) and refuse to run. One is Entrust Identity Guard. It just won't open ("app keeps stopping") and the other is Service Now mobile ("a rooted device is not allowed").

 

Other than TiVo, what options do I have for recording OTA programs? I've been playing with Plex and rip my episodal DVDs, and would like to record, too.

 

I understand the intent, but feel that there are so many other loopholes that put much worse weapons on the street than a printer. Besides, my prints can barely sustain normal use, much less a bullet being fired from them. I would think that this is more of a risk to the person holding the gun than who it's pointing at.

 

Many of the posts I read here are about Docker. Is anybody using Kubernetes to manage their self hosted stuff? For those who've tried it and went back to Docker, why?

I'm doing my 3rd rebuild of a K8s cluster after learning things that I've done wrong and wanted to start fresh, but when enhancing my Docker setup and deciding between K8s and Docker Swarm, I decided on K8s for the learning opportunities and how it could help me at work.

What's your story?

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