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  • I feel like everyone's missing the point. Even 20 minutes a week is almost a day a year of your life sitting at a charger. I fill up my gas tank once a week and it takes maybe 5 minutes which is 4 hours a year that I spend feeding my car, staring at the stupid advertisements for a bacon-egg-and-cheese cinnamon roll covered in maple syrup or whatever other impulse items lie within the gas station. 5 minutes isn't enough to do anything whereas if I plan for 20 minutes, I'm going to go get a tea or something.

    On the other hand, something we can all agree is a waste of time is, "how many hours of your life have been/will be spent sitting at a traffic light?"

  • Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time
  • I know of a guy who had good intentions. He just wanted to make Germany great again. I can't remember his name right now, but IIRC, it didn't end up being good for a whole lot of people.

  • Replacing CD Collection
  • I had one from Sony a long time ago. It even had a cable you could attach between two of 'em (600 CDs!) so that it could seamlessly start playing another track while loading the next song. I dropped it during a move and the next time I opened the door, it spit gears at me. I had intended to fix it some day, but started watching Hoarders and decided it wasn't worth it.

  • thinking of trying linux,
  • Hi! I'm not having any problems with linux. I just thought you'd like to know.

    There. Now there's a message in the support forums about a person not having problems!

  • What is a good multirole server setup for a racked server?
  • Can you elaborate on the scenario this is solving for? Isn't software RAID a performance hit?

  • Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
  • You're 100% correct on the tactile difference in the buttons. I didn't think of that. A similar complaint is every feature is a "button" on the infotainment screen. I saw this on a Dodge. My current car has no touchscreen and I have driven it long enough to just know where all the buttons are without looking. In my opinion, distracted driving should include these types of things that take your attention off of the road.

  • Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
  • Push button transmission? It's been done before.

    Of course back then distracted driving was digging through the box of 8 track cassettes.

  • Best printers / printer brands?
  • Upvote for.disabling firmware. It's a sad state when the average printer consumer needs to know how to disable firmware updates and even needs sysadmin skills to know how to block a host from the internet.

  • New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...
  • Well, that's unfortunate. I've seen this happen way too many times.

  • I am looking for a privacy respecting android tv box/stick
  • I don't know what your criteria is other than privacy. This guy's post looks interesting.

  • What has been your best financial move in life?
  • I have a similar story as your first point. It boils down to tucking away money with each financial gain. I put in enough to my 401k to get the full match, then with each raise, increase the amount invested by the raise. I'd already learned to spend within my limits and had no credit card debt, so each raise was "new money". Years later, after adjusting our financials to pay for daycare, when the daycare expenses dropped (infants are most expensive, costs drop down as they age), we started putting into a college savings and some for school expenses. We had saved up enough to pay for private school, which was less than daycare. Now that private school is done, college is paid for, we're paying down the mortgages. We locked in at 3% years ago. The house will be paid off when the kid graduates HS and we turn 55 and are eligible for the employer's retirement program, including health care. We plan to travel in those years where we're young enough to be healthy and old enough to have some money tucked away.

    Oh, we also did the same for cars. When the car was paid off, we'd put the same money into a separate bank account and when it was tome to look for a new car, we had almost enough to pay for it outright.

    Of course all of this can only happen when you have the skill to spend with your means.

  • TIFU by rebooting before rebuilding my initfs
  • I have the Debian netinst disk, but it doesn't include the dm-cache modules, so I downloaded the live DVD last night. I only get about an hour a day to work on stuff.

  • TIFU by rebooting before rebuilding my initfs
  • 🤦‍♀️ I've never considered this, but it's the simplest solution and makes perfect sense. I'm always so diligent to keep my system clean to save a few megs.

    This particular server is an old PowerEdge server I'm using to learn server stuff on and a practice home lab. Unfortunately, it won't boot from SD card, so I have a few DVD RW's in a drawer. I've read that there's a SD slot inside that you can emulate a floppy, but haven't explored it.

  • New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store...
  • I'm just speculating here, but I've seen where app developers pull in a framework for a feature and it comes with all sorts of hidden gems since the framework was developed by a large corporation. The small development team now needs to consider writing their own framework (an established anti-pattern), find another (that may have the same problems or be less mature, etc) or include the privacy invading code and plan to replace it in a future release (which never happens because users want new features and the privacy concerned users have left).

  • TIFU by rebooting before rebuilding my initfs

    I had a super fast but small SSD and didn't know what to do with it, so I was playing with caching slow spinning LVM drives. It worked pretty good, but I got interrupted and came back a few weeks later to upgrade the OS. I forgot about the caching LVM, updated the packages in preparation for the OS upgrade, then rebooted. The LVM cache modules weren't in the initfs image and it didn't boot.

    I should know better. I used to roll my own kernels since Slackware 1.0. I've had build initfs images for performance tweaks. Ugh!

    Where's my rescue disk?

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    Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic
  • Any device that requires an app to function is an immediate deal breaker for me. Same for most things that require "the cloud" to work. Garage door openers, doorbell or other cameras, cooking appliances, door locks, cars, even a basic pedometer to name a few. All of these things will only work temporarily until the company decides it's end of life for any reason.

  • roku remote app showing ads now
  • I would love to give this a try. Did you follow any guides? Which Pi?

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  • This, and addition to company sponsored anti features, governments can ask or force companies to add back doors, unbeknownst to the consumers. For this reason (and others), I'll only ever trust open source software for security software, like VPN.

  • Mull (Firefox Fork) doesn't load Google.com. Switching useragent to Chrome "solves the issue"
  • While your statement is true, I install Firefox on any computer I support (family & friends) because I understand it better, can talk them through stuff on the phone and so I can install an ad blocker and not.have to deal with all of that. So now I need to explain to family and friends that Google is to blame, but they don't care and ask me to install "the normal browser". Ugh.

    Also, I now have to deal with the Google-heads at work using this as an example of how chrome is the superior browser. Double ugh.

  • What was the piece of media so emotionally overwhelming you just stopped it?
  • There was a news station I saw while vacationing in the Smokies. They called it "news with a heart". They did all the same news stories, bit didn't dwell on the death toll or show video of the carnage. It was the first time I didn't become enraged by the news.

    We have a drinking game for the NBC Nightly News. Drink any time they say "breaking news", "disaster", "epidemic" or show people crying. You won't make it through the news.

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  • I have. I was kindergarten-aged and my friend was over and she didn't flush. That was also the day that I learned that girls poop...a lot!

  • Privacy first – Cory Doctorow

    > Here's the "Privacy First" pitch: whatever is going on with all of the problems of the internet, all of these problems are made worse by commercial surveillance.

    If something like this were implemented in US federal law, what could the downsides be? Like California Proposition 65, the "cookie law" didn't stop tracking, it just made more pop ups. Would this do the same thing?

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    English is weird

    I got hung up on contractions this morning regarding the word "you've". Normally, I'd say "you've got a problem", which expands to "you have got a problem", which isn't wrong, but I normally wouldn't say. Not contracting, I'd say "you have a problem", so then should I just say "you've a problem"? That sounds weird in my head. Is this just a US English problem?

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    Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator
    arstechnica.com Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator

    OEMs collect too much personal data and share it too freely, says Senator Markey.

    Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator

    US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is one of the more technologically engaged of our elected lawmakers. And like many technologically engaged Ars Technica readers, he does not like what he sees in terms of automakers' approach to data privacy. On Friday, Sen. Markey wrote to 14 car companies with a variety of questions about data privacy policies, urging them to do better.

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    Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms
    www.eff.org Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms

    ContentsExecutive SummaryBreaking it Down: What Does Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation Look Like?Sketching the Landscape: What Real Privacy Protections Might Accomplish Protecting Children’s Mental Health Supporting Journalism Protecting Access to Healthcare Fostering Digital Justice...

    Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms

    The EFF has a white paper with a proposal to address various online 'harms' systemically.

    From the executive summary, "whatever online harms you want to alleviate, you can do it better, with a broader impact, if you do privacy first."

    Slashdot also has a pretty good summary if the white paper is too long for you to read.

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    Disclosure of sensitive credentials and configuration in containerized deployments - ownCloud
    owncloud.com Disclosure of sensitive credentials and configuration in containerized deployments - ownCloud

    Note that Docker-Containers from before February 2023 are not vulnerable to the credential disclosure.

    Disclosure of sensitive credentials and configuration in containerized deployments - ownCloud

    I haven't seen this posted yet here, but anybody self-hosting OwnCloud in a containerized environment may be exposing sensitive environment variables to the public internet. There may be other implications as well.

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    US Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's new Personal Financial Data Rights rule

    This is a long article about the US CFPB creating a new rule that may help protect your financial data. The interesting stuff is near the end where it sounds like they're putting your financial data back in your hands:

    > The Bureau will force banks to "share data at the person’s direction with other companies offering better products."

    > the businesses you connect to your account data will be "prohibited from misusing or wrongfully monetizing the sensitive personal financial data."

    I'm not very knowledgeable in this area so I'm wondering what your read is on it.

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    parking lot question

    I was out walking around and "popping" quests on StreetComplete. I was wondering what the consensus is on the question "Who is allowed to park here?" In this case, it's an ungated parking lot next to a commercial/industrial warehouse with many companies occupying the same space. A few of the parking spots had a sign indicating "reserved for XYZ customers", but most did not. This is not a city-owned parking lot. What's the right answer?

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    What started your privacy journey?

    What started you down the path to privacy? Was it a particular event, article, podcast or something else?

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    New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer
    gizmodo.com New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer

    Supporters of the bill say it's necessary to thwart convicted felons who use 3D printers to develop untraceable "ghost guns."

    New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer

    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.

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    iPod management software for linux?

    Is there any decent iPod management software for linux available? I have a 6th generation iPod that I use only for music and it's really the last thing that I keep my windows partition around for. The more I use linux, the more unintuitive iTunes feels. I had tried GTKPod in the past and one other, but they didn't support the 6th gen iPods. I'd be happy with just a CLI copy type command!

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    IPv6 for home lab

    Is anybody using only IPv6 in their home lab? I keep running into weird problems where some services use only IPv6 and are "invisible" to everyone (I'm looking at you, Java!) I end up disabling IPv6 to force everything to the same protocol, but I started wondering, "why not disable IPv4 instead?" I'd have half as many firewall rules, routes and configurations. What are the risks?

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    Any love for Kubernetes here?

    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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    Jerboa over Tor?

    Apologies if this is the wrong forum, but I figured this group would have the most experience with this problem.

    When using a /e/os phone and turning on the "hide my IP" feature, which enables For for everything, I noticed that Jerboa throws a full screen HTML dump. I can get to the Lemmy.world server (for example) via a browser on the same phone, even log in and use it that way.

    Has anybody else experienced this? Is it a bug in Jerboa? Is it some sort of IP blocklist on the Lemmy.world api? Unfortunately, the full screen HTML dump is useless because I can't scroll and it's centered vertically, so all it really shows is the top few lines of some JavaScript function. I may report it as a Jerboa bug if nobody knows anything.

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    How do my contributions help?

    I discovered StreetComplete recently and have been having fun "popping" quests around town, on vacation and around home. Now what? What happens with my contributions? How long before they're wrapped up into a map update? Do other people have to solve the same quest as a double check?

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    Hot RAID swapping?

    I'd like to swap my spinning disks with SSD drives. I have the new disks and they're just larger than the old ones. My configuration is a RAID-5 with 3 disks (and one hot spare). Can I hot swap a single disk (HDD to SSD), wait for the new disk to rebuild, then repeat?

    I'm thinking that I'd mark down the hot spare, replace it with an SSD, mark the SSD as hot spare, mark HDD 1 as "bad" causing the hot spare to activate, then repeat for the other 2 HDDs. I don't have a lot of experience with RAID, but did perform a single disk swap once with success.

    If this is a bad idea, why? What's the best way to upgrade?

    I'm not sure if this is the right community for this question. If not, please guide me to the right one.

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    Desiccant packet dehumidifier?

    Has anybody used one of these mini "dehumidifiers" to dry out filament as a substitute for buying a bunch of the desiccant beads? My filament seems OK, but I could do better to keep it dry.

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