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by nik282000 9mo ago
And software engineers can't design cars that they don't drive. As evidenced by the millions of tons od e-waste rolling around on city streets these days.
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by nik282000 9mo ago
Anna's Archive and Sci-Hub. So despite their facade the German government is just as draconian as the US.
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by nik282000 11mo ago
Windows is not a general purpose operating system. It's a platform for monetizing businesses via licensing and cloud services, and a platform for monetizing private users by way of advertising and data mining. If they were ever to prod
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by nik282000 11mo ago
"AI" is not a machine for improving the lives of people, it's a tool for consolidating power and wealth at the top. Declining welfare and access to basic human needs shows that decision makers are getting better at min/m
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by nik282000 11mo ago
Management, marketing, HR. People who want to send a message without having any kind of responsibility for it.
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by nik282000 1y ago
War driving will give you multiple sightings + signal strength, you can triangulate. https://wigle.net/
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by nik282000 1y ago
It's everywhere, reddit and the fediverse also seem to have drank the cloudflare coolaid. Someone's been pushing the idea that it's impossible to host on 80/443 safely, only big brother can keep you safe.
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by nik282000 1y ago
Im running Zoneminder for cameras, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf and lightmusicserver for media, keepass + webdav for a pw manager, file browser for fast file sharing. Takes a week to setup from scratch but from there on it's like 10min of
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by nik282000 1y ago
And it's cheap! If you want JUST cameras it's pennies a day, I'm running a 2010 gaming PC with a dozen services (which would cost >200 bucks from the usual suspects) and it's still only 20 bucks a month.
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by nik282000 1y ago
He never mentioned if the screens in every house had a monthly fee or if you could pay more to skip adds. We could still be right on track to war with East Asia.
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by nik282000 1y ago
Tailscale solves the access/NAT issue and keeps your services off of your WAN, but it relies on a 3rd party to let you use your own equipment. I understand why it is useful and a necessary service but I'll never touch it.
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by nik282000 1y ago
I understand why it's not feasible. I admin a server at home and one for a small business, and most people do not really understand "why doesn't it just work like a normal app." For the foreseeable future self hosting is
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by nik282000 1y ago
E2E encryption but what are the ends? If one is your camera and the other is a cloud service then you aren't really protecting anything.
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by nik282000 1y ago
Likely a form followed by a "Do you promise you didn't lie" checkbox at the bottom is all that will separate a user from access.
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by nik282000 1y ago
One of the many reasons to host your own stuff. It costs about 0.75CAD per day to run my server and PoE switch. For my 20 bucks a month I get cameras, a media server, password manager, push notifications, file sharing, and a dozen other ser
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by nik282000 1y ago
Pixel phones do this. Flashing a non-oem rom causes it to show a very "your device is broken" looking screen every time you boot.
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by nik282000 1y ago
Windows ME, Windows Vista, Internet Explorer, Adobe PDF Reader, Siemens Step7, Norton, McAffe, the list goes on. If you look at it as a function of terribleness * users then corporate ware takes the cake. There are loads of terrible open pr
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by nik282000 1y ago
> Grandma and grandpa aren't reading the source code and certainly not up at a professional level. This is one of the core misconceptions of the anti "free/libre" formulation of OSS. Most users don't need to read
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by nik282000 2y ago
They are a US based company, whether they say they log your data or not, they can be compelled to log your requests and not tell you about it. Regardless they look like good alternative for users who are unable to setup or are prevented fro
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by nik282000 2y ago
Yup, there was a project recently that used the airtag network to transmit data from a hardware keylogger. The computer could be totally gapped and the data still gets home via the typist's iPhone.
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by nik282000 2y ago
> It takes a genius to sell something that nobody wants. Or just a regular crook.
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by nik282000 2y ago
> elite salespeople Syntax error.
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by nik282000 2y ago
I've know about horsehair worms for years and noticed a load of mantises on the road this fall but never made the connection >_< I wonder how much this lowers the rate of infection in the long term.
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by nik282000 2y ago
Great minds. My thermal printer spits out the weather every morning and if any important devices fall off my network it prints a notification.
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by nik282000 2y ago
Being able to dig a ditch and being able to dig a ditch well are two different things. I've worked with people who can't do basic tasks after a decade at the same place.
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by nik282000 2y ago
Software that works offline, respects your privacy, and runs on nearly all hardware back to the 90s?
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by nik282000 3y ago
Hey, this reminds me of Bill Beaty's Human IR Sense: http://amasci.com/weird/humanIR.html
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by nik282000 3y ago
Tires last longer when you treat the controls as analog not digital. This is a problem for all terrible drivers, it turns out that a disproportionate number of assholes are also rich enough to buy electric.
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by nik282000 3y ago
Left or right, the Canadian government serves business not individuals and it shows everywhere. There is only ONE independent ISP left in Ontario and they have recently been talking to law firms who specialize in the sale of businesses. Tha
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by nik282000 3y ago
India has 25x the population of Canada, Facebook has no reason to side with Canada over any political dispute. More so after the stupidity of demanding that Facebook pay Bell for linking to 'Bell's' content.

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