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Hack Liberty's Lemmy server is closing permanently in the next few days
  • It's been a ride, and thanks for hosting for as long as you had.

    I have only been haunting lemmy as a holdover until proper forums get their federation support straightened out. Lemmy inherits the same flaws that other link aggregators suffer from, much like how Mastodon suffers from the inherited design flaws of microblogs.

    I tried doing my self ascribed duty to introduce ideas into lemmy that fall outside of the group consensus. But it is as you say, deviating from the accepted lines of thought just gets you disappeared.

  • Laptop, smartphone, and game console prices could soar after the election
  • Consoles: Hives of vendor lock-in and proprietary nonsense

    Smartphones: Hives of vendor lock-in, proprietary nonsense and a powerful tool for social engineers

    Laptops: Strong tendency toward proprietary design, eh they're not that terrible, I guess...

    All in all, making these things harder to obtain would be a net positive for society.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!
  • When enough individuals ignore a law, it becomes soft nullified. For example, everyone doing ~30 over the speed limit. Even the cops where I'm from will tailgate you if you're not going fast enough.

    I salute non-VPN'd torrenters. Thank you for your service.

  • When I was a kid in the 80s, "computers will teach your kids in school" was one of those future utopia predictions. Now the thought of a computer teaching kids is horrifying to me.
  • Actually, your kids will be taught dependency on proprietary corporate software that spies on them and conditions them into corporate vendors walled gardens in order to a create lifelong customers (+ data mining sources) in order to enrich giant tech corporations.

    Ideally, your kids would be taught genuine computer literacy so that they can be digitally self sufficient but that is never going to happen in a school setting.

    Here's an unrelated picture of a North American wood ape:

  • how much of our privacy has been lost worldwide due to Israel?
  • The rise of surveillance society cannot be so narrowly attributed to a nation state. There are many stakeholders with much to gain from the mass collection of data, the advertising industry chief among them.

    If cash stops being an option, it won't be because anyone had been forced to stop using cash, but because the unthinking masses uncritically accepted the convenience of centralized digital currencies and digital payment methods.

    I think there is a threshold number, say somewhere between 55-65%, wherein once that percentage of the overall population has accepted some fraud, it then becomes 'reality' because it has achieved enough inertia to become unquestionable doctrine. It then becomes propelled under its own weight without social engineers needing to run their narrative networks. For example, the surgeons masks and pharmaceutical products of the last four years.

  • Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks
  • Many experts in the past have noted that most such infected devices can’t survive a reboot because the malware can’t write to their storage. That means periodically rebooting can disinfect the device, although there’s likely nothing stopping reinfection at a later point.

    Relevant line for my lazy chadbros who know that reading articles is for sissies.

  • A Social Etiquette Question
  • Ask her what her favorite steam locomotive engine is.

    Get upset when she gives the wrong answer.

    Erupt into a heated diatribe about the necessity of good boiler design and make sure she knows why she isn't allowed to be friends with you.

    Yell something unintelligible at her son on the way out.

    If she still comes back to you later, then you know you've found a keeper.

  • How do you prepare for conflict on the astral plane?

    Like, I get doing stretches and some pre sleep meditation. But I'm talking about the stuff after you start projecting. My instructor introduced me to a little known trick in which you surround your mat with personal objects that hold strong memories. On my second most recent mission I found that I was able to close more portals when my childhood Raggedy Ann had been placed at my feet. And what do you guys do about the faces in the slip gates that speak in latin? Does everyone else just ignore them?

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    User agent strings: Spoof uniformly as Chrome+Windows or supply unique UA for each domain?

    Considering the stats at useragents.me,

    What is your opinion on "hiding among the crowd" versus "eternal polymorph"?

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    Hosting static website on residential IPv6

    I would like to scale back my hosting costs and migrate one (or a few) sites over to a machine that I host at home.

    The bandwidth is more than enough to cover the traffic of these small sites.

    The simplicity of IPv6 has attracted me to the idea of exposing that server over IPv6 for hosting, while my daily machines remain on the IPv4 side of the stack.

    I don't care if this means that the sites are reachable by fewer visitors, as the traffic has never been huge.

    Am I going down a rabbit hole that I will later regret? How would you do this right?

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    If you could, how would you deprogram an extreme liberal?

    How would you approach persuading a far extreme liberal toward center? What would you set as a realistic goal for a productive discourse? Would it be better attempt to do so in person rather than online?

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    If you could, how would you deprogram an extreme conservative?

    How would you approach persuading a far extreme conservative toward center? What would you set as a realistic goal for a productive discourse? Would it be better attempt to do so in person rather than online?

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    Digital gatehouse for remote maintenance

    The problem:

    I manage computers for some loved ones from whom I now live several states away. All devices are linux environments and basically serve as home theater and light duty SOHO.

    They have been running for several years without incident, but do require intervention for the "hard" stuff like major release upgrades. (And perhaps I like to slip some entertainment media onto their shared drive from time to time).

    And I'd like to have an avenue to do this that doesn't necessarily involve planning a road trip.

    Candidate solution(s):

    Deploy a micro PC to sit on their network, whose sole purpose is as a headless SSH server. I would intend to SSH into that device, and from there SSH across the LAN to the necessary computers. The rationale is that I would only have one device answering the door, so to speak, at port 22, greatly simplifying port forwards and any need for static IPs.

    With dual stack IPv4 + IPv6 internet service, would it be better that I attempt this through IPv6?

    The micro PC would be scripted to retrieve the current public IP address every X hours and email it to me.

    Another idea is to configure the immediate SSH box behind a Tor SSH hidden service or a I2P eepsite SSH. This way it would maintain a persistent, reachable address without requiring some cobbled together script & email IP notification.

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    Google closes in on Invidious, "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot"

    github.com [Bug] "This helps protect our community." · Issue #4734 · iv-org/invidious

    Update 21/09/2024: #4734 (comment) EDIT by @unixfox: The Invidious team is aware of this issue. It appears that it affects all the software using YouTube. Please refrain from commenting if you have...

    [Bug] "This helps protect our community." · Issue #4734 · iv-org/invidious

    >Hello,

    >Sad news for everyone. YouTube/Google has patched the latest workaround that we had in order to restore the video playback functionality.

    >Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won't work anymore.

    >If you are interested to install Invidious at home, we remind you that we have a guide for that here: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/..

    >This is not the death of this project. We will still try to find new solutions, but this might take time, months probably.

    >I have updated the public instance list in order to reflect on the working public instances: https://instances.invidious.io. Please don't abuse them since the number is really low.

    >Feel free to discuss this politely on Matrix or IRC.

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    People who destroy property over sportsball outcomes: Why?

    I've seen tables flipped, tv sets punched through, furniture thrown. And that's just in the home.

    How does one get to a place mentally where burning and destroying things, over a sportsball game seem a reasonable thing to do?

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    What is it like seeing ads on Youtube?

    Ever since around 2017, I have not visited (or even seen) the contemporary Youtube site.

    I had been using a combination of Invidious and yt-dlp (youtube-dl).

    Just within the last year or two, Google has been making efforts to obstruct these tools. This can most clearly be seen with Invidious, currently suffering from a generic "This helps protect our community" error message.

    It has got me thinking that Google might eventually succeed in extinguishing these islands of safety that I've so enjoyed.

    People who still use raw, unmitigated Youtube today; how much of a hellscape has it become?

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    Is it good employer strategy to pay my employees just enough so that they can't save money, so that they can never walk away from the job?

    Is it good employer strategy to pay my employees just enough so that they can't save money, so that they can never walk away from the job?

    Like, there is a threshold where if they are able to save X per month, they will eventually use that against you and quit at an inopportune time?

    And if that threshold falls below state mandated minimum wage, what steps can be taken to mitigate this?

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    Reference books which deem themselves "The XYZ Bible!"

    Ah, yes, the Bible on learning XYZ the right way. But I can only see such titles as suggesting the inner content is antithetical to communicating something clearly, concisely and in a way that doesn't leave the learner with even more questions.

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    Youtube continue breaking changes which can foil Invidious

    github.com [Bug] "This helps protect our community." · Issue #4734 · iv-org/invidious

    EDIT by @unixfox: The Invidious team is aware of this issue. It appears that it affects all the software using YouTube. Please refrain from commenting if you have nothing new to bring up. Thank you...

    [Bug] "This helps protect our community." · Issue #4734 · iv-org/invidious

    Roughly ~1/3 requests yields a loading issue. In case you were wondering why Invidious instances reliability seems to have been in decline very recently.

    According to open issue >Additional context >This seems to be a global update, done before 22:23 UTC. (10:23 PM.) From my brief testing, this is present throughout all instances, and regardless of IPv6 address.

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    Is there anything you've never done, that wouldn't be believed when sharing this with others?

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    I'm on board now. Fuck cars.

    I was recently held up in absolute dead stop traffic. We were sitting on the tarmac with no movement for well over an hour, in the 80 degree sun, before I felt obliged to leave my car and go see if it was because of roadwork or an accident or what.

    I joined a small crowd of onlookers after reaching the head, spectating a row of sit-in protesters. One driver had tried to get around but a few protesters moved tactically so that he couldn't go any further without injuring somebody.

    I didn't wait around, although there were people phoning the police and some tempers beginning to flare. So I head back to my car. The dairy groceries that I picked up on the way back from work had begun to spoil.

    I was late home by nearly three hours, so no time to unwind. Just enough to pack away some old leftovers before heading off to sleep and restart cycle all over, -1 hour or so of sleep.

    Previously, I had no opinion whatsoever on whether cars=good or cars=bad. But after being held up in traffic, wasting money, wasting gas, losing sleep and perhaps a bit of my sanity I am now totally on board with the Fuck Cars movement. I couldn't imagine a more convincing strategy to bring people over to your perspective. Excellent thinking. Good job.

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    Is second/third home ownership ethical in this economy?

    Especially when those 2nd, 3rd, + properties are being used as passive short term rentals. Observing the state of the housing situation "Hmm there aren't enough homes for normal families to each have a chance, I should turn this extra property of mine into a vacation rental." does this make said person a POS?

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