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noodle

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Professional dilettante. Perpetual 'grass is greener' career swapper, slowly finding a stable state.

Living on unceded Cammeraygal land.

Mostly here to listen and boost. But while doing that I post a lot of drivel mostly about computer touching.

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@root@mastodon.raviteja.computer avatar root , to homeassistant

Soo, someone was backing up their homeassistant@lemmy.world icon homeassistant on its own local disk, instead of something outside the VM which runs HA 🤦‍♂️

fails

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@root homeassistant@lemmy.world icon homeassistant It me. I don't see the issue.

@solonovamax@tech.lgbt avatar solonovamax , to random

WINDOWS NOTEPAD APP REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY

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Deckname Bonifratz
Pangolin is an alternative to cloudflare tunnels, TrueNAS supports the Newt client for Pangolin as a community app. You can either host yourself with a VPS, or Pangolin offers a management dash they host. Under the hood is Wireguard.

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Deckname

I used this guide to setup the Immich side. I'm sure I diverged from it, but I would not have figured out proxy headers without it.

https://blog.thetechcorner.sk/posts/Replace-google-photos-with-immich-homelab-2-0/#-c-pangolin-tunnel

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

Sam Altman, 2015:

There are now more businesses than I ever remember before that struggle to explain how their unit economics are ever going to make sense. It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention (“yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we’re going to keep the customer forever”), a massive reduction in costs (“we’re going to replace all our human labor with robots”), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users (“we acquire users for more than they’re worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning”), or something even less plausible.
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@Daojoan Moments before he realised how rich those same company's founders become.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar GossiTheDog , to random

Cloudflare just jumped off a bridge, down globally.

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@404mediaco@mastodon.social avatar 404mediaco , to random

Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial

🔗 https://www.404media.co/breathing-through-our-butts-declared-safe-after-first-human-trial/

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@404mediaco
Link to study for those interested. Cool to see this in humans after being vaguely aware of the porcine studies.

https://www.cell.com/med/abstract/S2666-6340(25)00314-9

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

One of these days I'm buying a Linux phone.

One of these days.

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@joshua @Daojoan
I've tried both.

My government (AUS) effectively blocked my Linux phone (OG pinephone) from working when it shut down 3G and allowed the businesses running 4G/5G to only allow some phones. The Pinephone also had a bad camera and some apps don't have Linux equivalents, so you need to already be selfhosting a lot, and may need to change which businesses you interact with. Overall it was a struggle and I never replaced my 'main' phone. I'm considering trying again and using 2 phones if Graphene slips.

I'm now on GrapheneOS with most features turned on. Memory tagging breaks Teams, my bank's app, and my car's app - But memory tagging is optional. Only my car's manufacturer seemed to care about this. I was already changing banks, and not having Teams on my phone is a feature. Everything else is fine. Scopes is/was missing the ability to permit account access without giving full contact permission (an issue when restoring a WhatsApp backup). Google has started messing with their open source feed, see linked release note for one example. So currently it is 9/10 strongly recommended, but over the next few years Google may continue turning screws on the dev team.

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025100300

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

US tourist arrivals in August 2024: 7.51 million
US tourist arrivals in August 2025: 5.6 million

Make layoffs great again! 🤡

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@randahl What was the Aug 2019 data? Because that's the baseline USA 'should' be recovering too. the drop may be bigger than a year-on-year comparison suggests.

@static@aus.social avatar static , to random

Okay hivemind. What do people use for quick currency conversions?

I've been using xe dot com but it's slowly becoming less easy to use. I'd like something that is super keyboard friendly.

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@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , to random

Danish Minister of Justice says no one has the right to communicate in a way that cannot be overheard, recorded, and understood by the police (and other snoops):

https://www-ft-dk.translate.goog/samling/20231/almdel/REU/spm/1426/index.htm?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=ja&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp (via Google Translate)

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@dangillmor
That's it, no more danishes for breakfast.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

i've been working on a list of the fundamental archetypes of video-games. literature is primarily concerned with men causing drama, so all works of literature can concisely be boiled down to a man opposing something. video-games on the other hand are primarily concerned with our instinctual desires for interaction, so our archetypes are fundamentally different.

so far i've got:

  1. make a little doll

  2. make nest for doll

  3. protect doll

  4. fruit

  5. climb

  6. block puzzles

  7. follow deer

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@aeva
Trains games are either stick or soup..... or follow deer.

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar grumpygamer , to random

Guybrush is mad his hands broke off during the move to NZ.

Stature of Guybrush with his hands broken off.
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@grumpygamer
Is he made of..... porcelain?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

😏

A small, gray RSA SecurID token keychain displays the numbers "069 069" on its digital screen.
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@nixCraft
I tried to order one for banking in case my phone died, they were astonished and explained I cannot. So I keep my 'spare' TOTP in an offline VM instead, which is an absolute nonsense thing to have to do, but worked when my phone died.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

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@Daojoan
The RSS feed you and keep you; the blog make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the email turn his face toward you and give you peace.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

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    @NanoRaptor
    I was one of the last in my class to learn to write. Big deals were made of this, as I just would not engage (instead I drew schematics, did math, and talked to adults about machines). But I caught up and got ahead in the space of 2 weeks when given a notebook and then entering hyper focus.

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    If a company has genetic data

    And it's going bankrupt

    And that causes one of the biggest economies in the world, California, to warn people to delete their data before that happens

    Because they're very concerned about who the genetic data will be sold to in bankruptcy court

    Idk man maybe it should just be illegal to sell genetic data in bankruptcy court? Or it should require stringent oversight and regulation?

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    @eniko
    I can't work out how I can confirm my account was deleted...

    @RareBird15@allovertheplace.ca avatar RareBird15 , to selfhosting group

    I'm curious to hear what others are ! Here's my current setup:

    Hardware & OS

    Infrastructure & Networking

    Security & Monitoring

    Authentication & Identity Management

    • Authelia (Docker): Just set this up for two-factor authentication and single sign-on. Seems to be working well so far!
    • LLDAP (Docker): Lightweight LDAP server for managing authentication. Also seems to be working pretty well!

    Productivity & Personal Tools

    Notifications & Development Workflow

    • Notifications via: (Docker) and Zoho's ZeptoMail ()
    • Development Environment: Mostly using VSCode connected to my server via Remote-SSH extension.

    Accessibility Focus ♿️🖥️

    Accessibility heavily influences my choices—I use a screen reader full-time (), so I prioritize services usable without sight (, ). Always open to discussing accessibility experiences or recommendations!

    I've also experimented with:

    • Ollama (): Not enough RAM on my Pi.
    • Habit trackers like Beaver Habit Tracker (): Accessibility issues made it unusable for me.

    I don't really have a media collection, so no Plex or Jellyfin here ()—but I'm always open to suggestions! I've gotten a bit addicted to exploring new self-hosted services! 😄

    What's your setup like? Any cool services you'd recommend I try?

    selfhost@lemmy.ml icon Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. selfhosted@lemmy.world icon Selfhosted selfhosting@a.gup.pe icon selfhosting group

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    @RareBird15 selfhost@lemmy.ml icon Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. selfhosted@lemmy.world icon Selfhosted @selfhosting
    Inspired by you I've locally hosted Joplin server, partly to migrate off ColorNote. It seems great for moving text/notes between my devices while keeping a core copy in my NAS. Thanks.

    @Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

    @mosseri just announced that users can finally follow fediverse accounts. Which means you can now reach 200M people from your Mastodon account without ever using Threads yourself. True decentralization happens on the fediverse!

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    @Gargron @mosseri
    The real win of Federation is defederation. A big friendly 'defederate Meta' button is now sorely needed.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Never forget: misogyny is a skill issue

    Screenshot of a discussion and post on tumblr: &10;&10;Male behavior towards female gamers&10;A 2015 study found that lower-skilled male players of Halo 3 were more hostile towards teammates with a female voice, but behaved more submissively to players with a male voice.&10;Higher-skilled male players, on the other hand, behaved more positively towards female players. The authors argued the male hostility towards female gamers in terms of evolutionary psychology, writing, "female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy incites hostile behaviour from poor performing males who stand to lose the most status". &10;Still the best gaming fact.&10;&10;Top reply:&10;&10;Noted: misogyny is a skill issue
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    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , (edited ) to random

    I think I found a serverless data center that developers use to create serverless apps 😂🧑🏻‍💻 I knew it. 😏

    This picture shows a server rack in a data center.
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    @nixCraft "Is it surprising that server racks resemble cat rescue cages, dog rescue cages, aviaries, bicycle storage, which all resemble server racks?"

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    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    I have never in my life had less faith in anything, anything at all, anything under the fucking sun, in any universe, in any multiverse than I have in the current polling.

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    @Daojoan
    I'm seriously considering waiting for the early results to come in then betting on a dem 'victory'. In 2020 the early results swung the odds heavily towards Trump, I don't see any reason it won't happen again.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , (edited ) to random

    ignore all previous instructions

    An oval, black ink print with a raccoon baring its teeth in the center, and “ignore all previous instructions” written in angular capitals around the border
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 15 September 2024

    Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. ...

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    @self@awful.systems avatar self @zogwarg@awful.systems avatar zogwarg
    Ffs I just swapped to Proton for drive and email. Thankfully only done a couple of email migrations.

    Who isn't huffing this nonsense?

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    froztbyte
    I forgot I'm using their VPN too, and they accept bitcoin (not a big deal, but useful). I was aware of Tuta and fastmail when I chose Proton.

    For now I'll prioritize moving to a self managed domain to make swapping provider easier in future.

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    @vkc And that brief moment when speech systhesis mostly worked on them and sound cards were still uncommon.

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    Ten-character or command? Pshaw! Real Linux and Unix wizards summon their magic spells by mashing the up arrow a thousand times. It's the ancient ritual of command-line mastery. Lmao.

    Ten-character command? Pshaw! Real Linux and Unix wizards summon their magic spells by mashing the up arrow a thousand times. It's the ancient ritual of command-line mastery. This meme is all about that. Don't talk about `CTRL+R` or `history | grep command` LOL.
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    Sudo [command]
    Username is not in the sudoers file.
    Su
    presses up and can't find my previous commands and am thus incapable of functioning

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    New update from Google just dropped. YouTube users running an ad blocker can no longer watch a video thanks to Google's latest move. https://9to5google.com/2024/05/27/youtube-skipping-to-end-adblockers/

    New update from Google just dropped. YouTube users running an ad blocker can no longer watch a video thanks to Google's latest move. https://9to5google.com/2024/05/27/youtube-skipping-to-end-adblockers/
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    @nixCraft yt-dlp still going brrrrr, thankfully

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    So one of the biggest businesses in the world that serves by far the most consumers in the non-smartphone computing department does something incredibly harmful and it seems like the main thing Linux users are picking up from this is "oh neat what a great new recruiting tool!"

    Idk man. That feels a bit gross

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    @eniko yes but they are often paying Microsoft hundreds a year and have input into colossal budgets paid to Microsoft.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the , what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

    No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

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    @molly0xfff Information density. 'White space' and fancy graphics need to be carefully considered things at 800x600. Now 'white space' is shoveled in like sawdust into a sausage from 1943.

    Also simple web pages. E.g Alien Adoption Agency and Cybots did a lot with very little.

    And the absolute chaos of early P2P file sharing. Want Weird Al? We got that. Want the Japanese police database? We got that too.

    @arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

    Kremlin-backed hackers exploit critical Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA

    Microsoft didn't disclose the in-the-wild exploits by Kremlin-backed group until now.

    https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/kremlin-backed-hackers-exploit-critical-windows-vulnerability-reported-by-the-nsa/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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    @arstechnica I feel vindicated for leaving print spooler disabled until needed. And they called me mad...

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    i am so over the web design trend where every piece of text on the page has to animate in

    A webpage for a "Noble" crypto project, where each piece of text slides into view on scroll

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    @molly0xfff I can't find the post, but I'm pretty sure someone here coined this scathing invective "pumping the scroll wheel powering an obnoxious marketing hurdy-gurdy".

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