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by drnick1 14d ago
I know this isn't the solution you are looking for, but there is a fairly simple workaround and IMO it is superior: set up a Samba server or a Nextcloud instance, either at home or in the cloud, place it with behind a Wireguard tunnel,
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by drnick1 14d ago
To be honest the specs of the Fairphone are middling and the device is rather expensive for what you get. The Pixels are a much better value, especially with a series. If you want something truly high end, wait for the Motorola with officia
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by drnick1 17d ago
> The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. I think he is being over dramatic. In the space of about four years, LLMs progressed from mediocre high school student to Ph.D. graduate in ev
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by drnick1 18d ago
This is the right solution. I would be tempted to go one step further: disassemble the TV and remove the WiFi card, antennas, and other unneeded hardware such as microphones or cameras. Same treatment as modern cars with cellular modems.
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by drnick1 18d ago
> So I unplugged the ethernet cable and bought an Apple TV. What makes you think the Apple TV is any better? I'd wager that Apple collects just as much telemetry.
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by drnick1 18d ago
I would caution against this approach. It's fine to have Claude write a setup script, or whatever you need, but don't run coding agents as your main user on your production machine with full access to your files or whatever your &
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by drnick1 18d ago
I don't watch Netflix or AppleTV. I believe you can simply use a Web browser, at the expensive of capped resolutions on some streaming services. VacuumTube is a drop-in replacement and improvement for the YouTube/Leanback app. If
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by drnick1 19d ago
What makes you think the Apple TV isn't also spying on you? It almost certainly is collecting telemetry too. Whether that's more or less than LG I don't know, but my preference is a Linux box with Plasma Bigscreen.
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by drnick1 19d ago
> Folks, never update a TV firmware unless it's necessary. Why would a TV ever need a firmware update? Either it works out of the box or it doesn't and I return it. I never updated the firmware of my PC monitor either.
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by drnick1 21d ago
The idea here is that uBlock filters the domains that may serve the malware in the first place. It basically works the same as a DNS filter.
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by drnick1 22d ago
This is a scaling problem, not an intrinsic difficulty. Mullvad already had the infrastructure in place. I suspect the real reason is cost-cutting.
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by drnick1 22d ago
> Running a privacy-focused public DNS service is a highly specialized undertaking This seems like an overstatement: I have been running my own recursive DNS with Unbound for years and never thought it was a "highly specialized unde
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by drnick1 22d ago
This precisely points to my overregulation point. The E.U. shouldn't be telling private companies how to design their products.
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by drnick1 22d ago
One thing that I find extremely annoying when I occasionally read Julia code is the pervasive usage of Unicode. I explicitly forbid agents to use any anything other than ASCII for that reason.
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by drnick1 22d ago
Why do you expect models to do "genuinely new" things? 99.9% of real world tasks are extremely repetitive.
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by drnick1 22d ago
This is basically impossible to do on a global scale. And even within a jurisdiction, there is a great risk of overregulation, see e.g. Europe. Disclaimer: I am a Linux and GrapheneOS user, running my own DNS with filtering for trackers, et
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by drnick1 23d ago
"Internet" in this context usually means IP, and in any case it should be restricted to a LAN. If you actually own the device changing the domain or IP should be trivial, I don't think this is what the article refers to.
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by drnick1 23d ago
> Second, my email address also disappears. Third, all the IoT devices that use services on this domain become bricks. Basically, I disappear from the Internet. While changing email is inconvenient, I don't understand the point abou
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by drnick1 24d ago
There shouldn't be any telemetry in free software, end of. There are other ways to estimate the number of active users, e.g. through downloads and browser fingerprints. Mozilla does not need more money than it already has. Ladybird h
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by drnick1 24d ago
Maybe if Google did not shove their spyware down people's throats and actually allowed users control of their phones, there wouldn't be a need for projects like Graphene and Lineage. Until then, complaints are more than justified.
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by drnick1 24d ago
What do you mean? Graphene is also free software and everyone including Google can use it and learn from it.
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by drnick1 24d ago
Google's spyware (Play Services) ceases to work normally and Graphene had to patch it to run as an unprivileged app. So that's one "loss." I personally don't bother with Google dependencies at all. If an app require
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by drnick1 24d ago
All of this seems about right.
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by drnick1 25d ago
Use NewPipe and you won't see an add ever again.
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by drnick1 25d ago
Indeed, 10Gbps cards and adapters run very hot. I placed an 80mm right under the card in a PCI fan mount to keep the expansion card cool. The fan does not need to spin fast, but some directed airflow seems absolutely necessary.
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by drnick1 25d ago
Avoid Brave. It is basically Chromium, with commercial shitware slapped on, and an ad-blocker which performs worse than UBlock Origin on Firefox. Brave Inc. (a for-profit company) is openly hostile to forks and independent builds, and expec
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by drnick1 26d ago
To be fair, if you already have a Zigbee network, this is a rather cheap and elegant solution.
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by drnick1 26d ago
Compose files work just fine. The gap with Docker has basically closed, and the few things you can't do or that behave differently are precisely the things Docker shouldn't be doing.
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by drnick1 27d ago
> The OS does actually protect you when it asks if the terminal should be able to access ~/Documents. You can say no, and then random stuff you curl|bash can't read files in that folder unless there's an exploit. How is th
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by drnick1 27d ago
> I always make my user part of the docker group I don't, and I migrated to Podman because Docker is poorly designed and full of footguns. For example, it it will silently overwrite iptables rules and punch holes in your firewall.

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