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It’s hard to describe how much this boils my blood. It would also f up the entire world’s natural ecosystem at an even faster rate than it is now. We’re not only destroying the planet, but taking ourselves down with it by trapping ourselves here.
But who cares, cause there’s money involved, right? ffs.
Still using my Gentoo install on my server which is now going on maybe 8 years?.. Never changing it lol.
As a lore fanatic of d1 and d2, plus the books all around those, seeing blizzard shove an extra class into a classic masterpiece and probably fuck all that up bothers me tremendously.
However, I can’t believe I’m saying… I’m actually happy they kept to their super money hungry ways this time and kept it a paid expansion. I can rest easy knowing I can still play the classic without this tainting it for me.
I found that classical music in my car was the only thing that would keep my cat calm on the way to the vet. Idk if just my cat or cats in general, but my single biased experience makes me want to believe that plants and animals like “natural instruments” for music.
Having a smart tv doesn’t mean you must use internet to utilize it. Mine is blocked from internet connectivity but connects to my media server on the local network. If anything, I prefer this so I don’t need an extra computer sitting in the living room and can instead use the same single media server my phones and computers do.
I bought a separate laptop and set it up with an encrypted password that both my wife and I know. It contains instructions on everything from my self hosted stuff to anything else related to my personal life that she would need. It’s 100% offline to keep it safe from a network compromise. This whole thing was especially important since I wanted to make sure my family could access all photos, calendar, contacts, etc for the last decade that are stored on my server.
It takes time to transfer everything to it (all in Obsidian) since it’s a brain dump… But it actually benefits me too. I’ve had a few times where I was like “how the hell did I set that up?” and had some instructions on there the helped lol.
Definitely recommend this to others to consider.
I’ll be honest, I think the grammar and way the post was written is what’s annoying me most. I’m reading it with at least 3 different possible meanings.
Interesting, I’ve never had this problem and have been using the auto upload for many years. I only use it for the photo taking, though. Any time I go through a phone cleanup and delete photos and videos, I’ll look at the folders I backup to on nc and actually go through them carefully to make sure everything was uploaded.
My install comes from f-droid so not sure if that’s something to do with it (unless yours is too).
I’ve got it setup automated on all my external domains, but trying to automate it on my internal-only domain is rather tedious since not only do I NOT want to open a port for it to confirm, but I have 2 other devices/services on the network not behind my primary reverse proxy that share the same cert.
What In need to do is setup my own custom cron that hits the hosting provider to update the DNS txt entries. Then I need to have it write and restart the services that use the cert. I’ve tried to automate this once before and it did not go so smoothly so I’ve been hesitant on wasting time to try it again… But maybe it’s time to.
What would be ideal is if I could allow it to be automated just by getting a one time dns approval and storing a local private/public key to prove to them that I’m the owner of the domain or something. Not aware of this being possible though.
I’d hesitate disabling it altogether, unless you’re absolutely certain nothing will need it. One suggestion I haven’t seen mentioned is looking at the other sysctl options that might be tweaked. Check with netstat how many of those connections are stuck in established, close wait, time waiting, etc. It’s possible you just need to lower the default values of things like nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_established, for example. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.html - naturally, research anything you think you might want to change before you do.
Gawd yes I’ve been sitting on these things for like 3 years waiting for someone smarter than me to come up with something. Thanks for the share!!
Tor is definitely another option. For my personal use however, I have my entire network covered by a VPN so all outgoing traffic uses it.
I’m sure I could setup Tor to do the same, but I imagine my family and I would get blocked more heavily on sites, as well as get our bank accounts and such flagged or something.
Like many things, it obviously depends on your threat model.
Thank you so much for sharing this, you may have just saved me a miserable future if my system were to crash.
I try to read the updates they share every month with detail, but this one must have slipped through the cracks. This feels like another thing they should have been way louder about considering the problems it could cause someone who didn’t know it flipped on without their interactive decision.
Ultimately being truly anonymous on the internet is pretty hard, and thus VPNs are mostly helpful for getting around region blocks for streaming services, not for obtaining more privacy.
I disagree.
There seems to constantly be two sides of the privacy discussion with public VPN options and they’re both wrong on their own. It’s correct that using a VPN on its own is not enough to keep you private online, fingerprinting being one example to why. However, not using a VPN but having no identifiable browser fingerprint doesn’t either, since your IP is still a fingerprint too.
I like to give the following analogies:
If the goal is to be private, remember that a VPN is only one tool in a very large tool belt.
I have forks that are updated every night through a cron for these very reasons. But I didn’t ever set it up for Android apps… Time to fork a whole lot more projects. sigh
Leave my recent “$20k and 80 hours of frustration for not getting parts you find out later you’ll need” upgrade out of this!
Unnecessary rant: I actually just had to downgrade my 575(?) driver after spending a few days trying to troubleshoot a freezing laptop. One day I walked away when it happen and that actually gave me the logs I needed to find the Nvidia driver was freezing the machine and then spitting logs out after giving up 10 minutes later (but still keeping things frozen). Was driving me nuts, thinking my hard drive was seeing the light, even though all tests for it were passing with flying colors!
I’m hesitant to try this new version since I didn’t see anything in the changelog about freeze fixes lol.
Daily on my Gentoo server, through a Cronjob every morning. It’s a custom script though, so there’s more than just doing an emerge update. It’ll send me ntfy notifications for the update results, if there are new news items, and if there are any time config merge updates to make. A few other things as well but that’s the main stuff.
Other servers, typically weekly or only manually when I ssh into them (for the ones I don’t really feel the need to update frequently).
“Backfirewall_” from a little while back. A masterpiece that deserved more attention! Highly recommend to anyone here who is big on tech (especially programmers)!
Big brain moment. If I create a license that makes it illegal to train AI on, and then prove they trained AI on it, can I do a takedown notice of their AI system or training model for copyright infringement?
Serious question. Any “legal smart” people out there know? lol