[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Similarly, I have a cuckoo clock. I could watch the internal mechanism for hours.

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Given my skill with 3d model creation, i'd be more likely to create something that would hurt me than inflicting harm on someone else. Mostly when I take that razor sharp tool to remove anything from the build plate, but also just my awful measurements and tolerances.

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

How long before power is available on the job site? I have been involved in building houses and the power panel is the first wall to be built so that power is available to the crew. Could you strap the device to a tree and power off of a car battery until the on site power is available?

Using a large external power source with a power on/off timer, running only during daylight hours could save lots of watts.

I've looked into solar for a bird house camera and it was not a trivial project when you get to the short winter days and potentially cloudy skies.

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While reading many of the blogs and posts here about self hosting, I notice that self hosters spend a lot of time searching for and migrating between VPS or backup hosting. Being a cheapskate, I have a raspberry pi with a large disk attached and leave it at a relative's house. I'll rsync my backup drive to it nightly. The problem is when something happens, I have to walk them through a reboot or do troubleshooting over the phone or worse, wait until a holiday when we all meet.

What would a solution look like for a bunch of random tech nerds who happen to live near each other to cross host each other's offsite backups? How would you secure it, support it or make it resilient to bad actors? Do you think it could work? What are the drawbacks?

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I thought this group may enjoy this read about a suggestion on an option to take in the Google antitrust lawsuit. Of particular interest is that certain groups feel that the "right" approach is that everyone should be able to surveil the population, Google-style and the choice quote:

The judge repeats some of the most cherished and absurd canards of the marketing industry, like the idea that people actually like advertisements, provided that they're relevant, so spying on people is actually doing them a favor by making it easier to target the right ads to them.

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

Jeff? Is that you, son? I told you that it was nonnegotiable, now get off the internets, I'm expecting an important telephone call and don't want you tying up the lines.

While there are a lot of good technical suggestions here, I've found that a conversation goes a long way. In my experience, when talking with loved ones, explain your emotions. Not "I hate this" or "the governments are listening!", but those core emotions. "Having a device in my room that is always monitoring me makes me feel anxious and I don't feel comfortable in a place where I should feel safe." Make sure that the dialog is calm and remains about your feelings until you know that you're being heard. If you aren't, try other phrases or examples.

Once you've established your feelings, address their concerns and feelings (active listening). It sounds stupid at first, but it works. "I hear that you are frustrated when I don't come down for dinner immediately." Finally, propose some solutions that meet everybody's needs and that the parties can select one to try out for a week and evaluate it's effectiveness, trying new things until a mutually beneficial solution is found.

Good luck. Please post the outcome!

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submitted 1 month ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

As if you need any more reason to degoogle, consider what would happen if Google removed you from their platform tomorrow. This article some of the problems with putting all your eggs in one basket.

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

Thank you for a thoughtful post with citations and quotes. After reading the whole page by Mozilla, it seems like they're taking steps to show advertisers how they can get what they want while preserving people's privacy. I can live with that. They're trying to build a win-win scenario.

I'll still block ads. I'll still reject cookies, but I feel like it's a reasonable feature THAT I CAN SHUT OFF. I'm still in control of my browser! Great!

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submitted 5 months ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/e_os@lemmy.world

Does anybody have any workarounds for apps that don't work due to "security"? I have a few apps that I need for work that think my phone is rooted (it is not) and refuse to run. One is Entrust Identity Guard. It just won't open ("app keeps stopping") and the other is Service Now mobile ("a rooted device is not allowed").

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submitted 8 months ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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?

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

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.

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submitted 9 months ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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 (lemmy.world)

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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submitted 9 months ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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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submitted 9 months ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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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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.

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Video guides are nice, but I prefer Grog's Knots. He even has an app for offline knot learning, say, when you're deep in the woods and it's raining hard and your tent's rain cover blows off into the lake and you thankfully brought a tarp and rope but don't know how to make one of those adjustable knots that you can just slip-tighten. You know, theoretically speaking.

On a side note and completely unrelated, bring one of those big grout sponges when you go camping. In addition to mopping up all the water in your tent, it makes a nice pillow if your inflatable pillow decides to run away in the night in a storm and go swimming in the lake.

TL;DR: I hate camping.

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submitted 10 months ago by Anonymouse@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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.

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

I've seen this before and got a chuckle, so I gotta wonder who is downviting this and why?

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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?

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Why does Android allow this? Google is an advertising company.

sent from my Google Pixel

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

My wife is 7 years older than me. We met in college. I think I was 22. We've been married for 25 years.

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

This is not uncommon in IT type jobs with individuals from a certain country. I was at lunch with a coworker when he was approached to do an interview for a cousin of one of his friends. I must have looked puzzled because he explained it to me and I was flabbergasted. He said that it was more common during phone interviews, but since "they all look the same" to white hiring managers, it still happens over video interviews.

[-] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of good comments and suggestions, but the one that I'm not seeing is, "tell others".

Do you perform support for friends and family members? Explain why it's not in their best interest to use Chrome (and Google products in general), then ask and help them to install and use alternatives.

Have a laypersons response to why they should avoid Google for that person you're chatting with on the bus. Have a response ready to the awful, "but I don't have anything to hide" counterargument. As an aside, being the tin foil hat wearing guy/gal doesn't help the cause, explain it in plain language.

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