I’d go as far as to say it’s similar to a landlord requiring a key to access the apartment your renting from them. Sure, they probably won’t abuse that power, most don’t, but the doesn’t mean they can’t.

The bigger picture to me is it’s pretty clear then internally, Microsoft views you as a “tenant” of THEIR OS. Not a purchaser. This is why they use the words “This PC” in replace of “My PC”.

Yes, I think we can absolutely say that companies are pushing for consumers to use the cloud instead of their own hardware, but in this context, I’d say it’s more egregious showing their mindset that you’re just renting their software from them.

inb4 they name System32 to Copilot so you can’t delete it.

It’s a bit heavy for your use case and as a docker image but I use YouTrack.

I use the knowledge base to build out my notes for my environments and it can handle uploading pretty big documents (useful for attaching pdfs)

It’s a bit overwhelming and complicated for normal use but wanted to throw it out there.

This really stuck with me. “Rewrote” implies feature parity. What they really did was replace the taskbar.

Synthient wasn’t hacked, as a security company, they aggregated tons of stealer logs dumped to social media, Telegram, etc.

They found 8% of the data collected was not in the HIBP database, confirmed with some of the legitimate owners that the data was real.

They then took that research and shared it with HIBP which is the correct thing to do.

I was also thrown off by the title they gave it when I first saw it, a security company being hacked would be a terrible look. but they explain it in the article. Should probably have named it “list aggregation” or something.

Great, now there’s MSMaaS??

“let your motto be ‘eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty.’”

Freedom dies in the silence of the many at the hands of the few. We must always be adamant with opposition, because it’s hard to undo what has been done. The easiest way to put the genie back in the bottle is never letting it out in the first place.

Does Immich still require you to store all user photos into the same central directory?

I can’t move my family from Synology’s offering until I can be sure each users photos will be backed up to their own accessible drive.

Yes, correct. You can always locally host it as there are other benefits like unifying user credentials for all your hosted services. But its primary design is to be hosted externally.

currently I host everything locally, but I don’t like the fact that anyone visiting my domain can easily find my address.

I’m in the process of determining on if I set up Pangolin myself or not. Another huge benefit is higher availability. (ex. If my internet goes down at home, I won’t know until I try to connect, but if I have an external service and it’s monitoring that connection, it can inform me when it loses connection)

Price is certainly something to consider when weighing its value for your setup

The connection between your Pangolin service (hosted outside your network) and your LAN is through a VPN. Essentially you’re creating a proxy that you can point your domain address at which isn’t your house’s IP address. Plus then everything inside your network is still secure behind your VPN.

So you connect to Pangolin, and Pangolin routes the traffic to your network.

Does anyone know of any good resources on writing good documentation? It’s a thing I’m weirdly passionate about and absolutely want to get better at for my own sanity and for others as well if I can contribute.

But it seems like it’s a very under discussed subject…

Veronica Explains has a really good video talking about how much of a dead skill it is now from the standards it used to be.

Ohhh, so that’s why it’s called Docker!

As in “It works on my system” so they just copied and pasted the commands for you.

Note: if the above isn’t working, you may need to first set your shell to accept emacs commands:

set -o emacs

Here’s a 404media article discussing it:

https://www.404media.co/the-cia-secretly-ran-a-star-wars-fan-site/

As per the DMCA listed in the reference:

MNAO analyzed some of the code and determined that the code provides functionality same as what is currently in Apple App Store and Google Play App Store.

Here’s a fork that’s still up and explains how the DMCA request was made based off of functionality and not proprietary code.

https://github.com/runDMCA/home-assistant-mazda

I need that Eve background asap…

The ThinkPads are great. I have an X220 that I have running Mint that I use in my garage. Its use cases are music streaming, displaying PDF Service Manuals/Technical Diagrams, and web queries for random questions/video instructions. I’m working on trying to see if I can get Wine to let me run some diagnostic software on it too.

It can certainly do more than that as I used it through school a number of years ago for note taking and small programming projects. But it’s retired to being the tank that it is and it’s amazing for that.

Buses that could run self powered on side streets, yet charge using overhead power lines installed over main roads.

Would pretty much combine the energy savings of electric rail with last-mile service via bus routes.

Responsibility. We’ve yet to decide as a society how we want to handle who is held responsible when the AI messes up and people get hurt.

You’ll start to see AI being used as a defense of plausible deniability as people continue to shirk their responsibilities. Instead of dealing with the tough questions, we’ll lean more and more on these systems to make it feel like it’s outside our control so there’s less guilt. And under the current system, it’ll most certainly be weaponized by some groups to indirectly hurt others.

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”

I haven’t worked with Collabora before so I could be completely wrong but it looks like from the install doc that the “OK” string is what should be expected.

Is CODE the server backend to handle syncing and do you need to install a separate application that points to that server?

I know standard notes is like that.