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I had dnssec enabled from 2018 until 1984 hosting messed it up in 2023 and I had to remove/disable keys from the registrar (oddly no information about this on their website or elsewhere, the issue apparently only exists in emails. Apparently they had an issue with BIND upgrade and it made up new keys...). I thought about reenabling it, but very few people other than me access my server, it has a static IP, and Firefox still doesn't validate dnssec anyways.

An expert in any subject matter should not be allowed to provide misleading statements, regardless of whether they're speaking in an official/paid capacity. It doesn't matter if it's considered legal advice or not, the fact that you've got a license and know better should be enough.

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

This is the entire text of the first amendment. Congress did not make the CCPA. The first amendment is irrelevant. Technically the first amendment also does not prevent Congress from saying you're not allowed to remember or see things, either, though likely there's other laws about this and/or an assumption that Congress will not make laws against thought crime and reality.

Determining who is at fault involves extreme annoyance and inconvenience for those who had fingers pointed at them, regardless of whether or not they were actually involved. If you involve yourself willingly, you're inviting that on yourself.

I have multiple drives that started out as their own os. Each of them has a Dropbox folder in the standard location. Each of them has a different set of files in them (I deduped at one point), with some overlap of different versions. I no longer use Dropbox, so none of these are synced anywhere.

They don't need to be in my case, I'm only using them now because of existing shortcuts and VM shares and programs configured to source information from them. That doesn't mean I don't want them backed up.

Same for OneDrive: Microsoft configured my account for OneDrive when I set it up. Then I immediately uninstalled it (I don't want it). But I didn't notice that my desktop and documents folders live there. I hate it. But by the time I noticed it, it was already being used as a location for multiple programs that would need to be reconfigured, and it was easier to get used to it than to fix it. Several things I've forgotten about would likely break in ways I wouldn't notice for weeks/months. Multiple self-hosted servers for connecting to my android devices would need to reindex (Plex, voidtools everything, several remote systems that mount via sftp and connected programs would decide all my files were brand new and had never been seen before)

Bayden SlickRun is still around, I use it daily for launching most of my programs (the only annoyance is the `hide` magicword gets interpreted as `hibernate` occasionally due to my typing `hi` and hitting enter). Unlike many other launchers, SlickRun uses minimal resources and can be configured to show useful information if you leave it on-screen (these days I have it set to auto-hide, as I have enough memory to not worry about it). Typing three keys to get auto complete and hitting enter is faster than searching the run menu (regardless of what implementation you use). I was very annoyed when I installed windows 10 and had to change my hotkey. (Much like I'm now annoyed at Windows 11 for hijacking the printscreen key I use for ShareX)

Or you could forget the borderless screen and add a bezel so I can hold my phone without touching the screen. Then you've got enough room to curve the corners and have square screen corners.

I agree that push connections should be disabled. Maybe it can prompt you the first time you try to subscribe to one as to whether you're like to turn them on; this would annoy me personally, but also not break features by default. The annoyance hardly matters as websites already put an in-page prompt up before using the API, iirc because of Apple restrictions.

Enabling extension updates by default seems like a smart thing, though, as long as you can turn them off easily (there should really be a setting for this), and possibly a 6-month reminder to update them (similar to the refresh your profile reminder when you haven't used the browser in for a while). Extension updates happen, and many of the most widely used extensions (eg. ublock origin) really should be updated every time it's available. Better that than having the extensions go online to fetch and run arbitrary payloads because you know they will if disabling updates gets popular enough.

Approximately 10-15 years ago I used an early Android app that synced contacts across multiple (local) accounts and deduplicated and merged them. It had Internet permission for some reason; on asking the developer why a dedicated contact management app would need to go online (in a time where I was using XPrivacy to prevent other apps from seeing my contacts), they said there was no real reason for it, and it was removed in an update two days later. This is the only time I've ever seen an app remove the ability to access the internet, and I really wish it was more common.

Of course, about 5-6(?) years ago Google removed it from both the play store and my devices (I allowed it because silly me assumed I could still get it again) because it requested a sensitive permission and didn't support runtime permissions.

I tried out portmaster recently. Coming from rethinkdns on Android, I was far from impressed; it looks featured, but it's much harder to use. Opensnitch looks better but doesn't have the nice features to drill down connections (get from app requesting a domain being resolved to an IP and connecting on a port, and filter this at any level including globally; if the request was already filtered, you can see why and get to that filter to either remove it or add an exception)

Would be very nice if the wait-list included pricing, given that it's apparently here enough to have a sign-in link.

Better can be relative, too. If your app is native (desktop or not) and now efficient with ram than your website is, I'll download it and use that instead. My mother's computer has 16gb RAM and was ooming due to outlook and Google workspace alone using up 8gb of RAM in 7 tabs. I added an increased swap file and it started thrashing instead of just killing the browser. It's so bad Quicken 200X doesn't work properly (according to task manager, Quicken uses some 30mb RAM)

For local apps, I'll firewall it: on mobile I use rethinkdns and trackercontrol to block unnecessary network calls; on desktop I'll mostly just deal with it (I have an extensive hosts file), but that doesn't mean everything).

Medium is not one of the largest content providers anywhere, in any form that I'm aware of. There's no users sharing and reposting (arguably one of the drivers of network effects in modern social networking), no PSA, no apps or third-party extensibility, no taking over third party platforms in unrelated areas.

> opens up your network to attack and/or compromise, you're massively increasing the attack surface, and a compromise of one of those components leaves the attacker sat on your edge router, at which point your entire network is fair game.

That's your answer.

Presumably you need to pay raycast once for a setup operation while you need to pay constantly for copilot. Why wouldn't you advertise for someone who makes you more money at the same time as advertising for yourself?

The governments are both pretty terrible, but China has been far more violent to it's own citizens in recent times than the US has. The recent non-citizen hunts and unwise involvement in foreign affairs notwithstanding, the US doesn't (currently) have a policy of ethnic cleansing and violating human rights on a massive scale on its own lands.

My "new" computer is a laptop with an 8th-gen i5 and 8 gb ram salvaged from the Windows 11-incompatibility heap (actually 3 of them, so I have 16gb in it). I installed Kubuntu on it and it runs extremely well. I can even install Windows 11 in a VM if I really need it. I'll probably be buying new (old) ram for it and maybe a bigger drive.

China does these things to their own citizens, so really only better for those out of range.

Depending on your hardware (SBC), FTP can also be several times faster than SFTP for transferring files over a LAN. Though I'll admit to having used other protocols like torrents for large files that had bad transfers or other issues (low-quality connection issues causing dropped connections, etc).

You can do the reverse, too. Hook up a dial-up modem to your PC and you can send and receive faxes on it. The software is built-in, though you'll probably want to configure it not to receive faxes automatically on your landline unless it's dedicated for that purpose. This has been built into Windows since at least Windows xp, probably been possible since 3.x. There's also Linux and probably Mac software available too. In Windows 11, I think the fax program isn't installed by default anymore, you might have to add it via optionalfeatures.exe.

When you stop moderating input, that's when someone builds a fuse filesystem on top of it. We had those for discord (dsfs), twitterfs, redditfs, yt-media-storage, etc. It's also when someone starts using it to distribute malware, like websites built on a combination of GitHub and a cdn.

The problem isn't finding people who will publicly criticize child abuse and government corruption. The problem is finding people who actually will do something about those specific problems and not find some way to enrich themselves (or their supporters) in their name instead.

If you give your kid a lighter and they proceed to set their clothing on fire, it's not zippo's fault. If you send them to watch TV and they switch to pay-per-view, it's not the TV manufacturer's fault, nor is it the network's fault. It's your fault.

Your 4 year old doesn't need a tablet any more than they need a lighter. Neither does your 14 year old. (If they "need" one for school, the school can provide it and monitor their use). If you give your child a computer, it's your responsibility to make sure they're using it properly, not the government's and not the device manufacturer's. The government's job is to make sure that you're not endangering your child and split you up if necessary. The device manufacturer's responsibility is to make sure it works and doesn't hurt you or anyone else in the course of ordinary use. Your responsibility is to not use it in such a way that it causes harm.

Allowing your child to go online is much like allowing them to go outside; you tell them what they're allowed to do, and if you don't trust them to listen to you then you don't allow them to do it. The act of having a child is taking on a full-time 24/7 job of ensuring they stay alive and unharmed until they're old enough to do it themselves. If you aren't up to that challenge, then you can't have that job and it should be passed on to someone else. You can't just shove your responsibility off to Google and Apple because you're too busy to be a parent any more than you could push it off on Sony (what you watched on TV growing up) or Macy's (what products you chose to buy). Being tech companies doesn't make them magically responsible for what you do.

If you insist on providing your child with a cellphone so you can contact them in seconds at any time of day, get them a feature phone. They offer numerous advantages: they cost less to buy, they don't break when you drop them, the battery lasts longer and charges faster, and the bill costs less (the phone is for you, not them. You don't need an unlimited plan).

Transition of power (peaceful or not) is not a necessary component of democracy. Nor are leaders (elected or not), representation, or power structures such as centralization of power. Pure democracy is also incredibly inefficient at scale.

This is how I mostly use my Windows PC: remote access from my Android tablet via ssh and rdp. My gripe is entirely different: Microsoft has turned to crap.

RDP: Every time a native notification pops up, I get disconnected (usually the notification is about something I've been doing, such as starting a self-hosted server or running winget via unigetui). It randomly disconnects when I've been using it for more than a few minutes, even when there isn't a notification. All of this so far seems to be limited to Android's rdp client (the Windows app). For Windows built-in RDP client, my issue is that there's no way to make it resize the desktop like vmconnect does when you resize the window (and no way to proxy vmconnect connections easily for home use--I do not want to enable WinRM for the full system and figure out how to secure it, I just want a single PC on the LAN to be able to access a single VM conveniently, preferably able to log in as different users)

But there's issues with ssh (and likely WinRM/ps remoting, though I haven't used it) as well: with Linux you need to use sudo, but with Windows there's apparently no CLI requirement; ssh runs elevated (though apparently you can change this; I make do with connecting to a running psmux session that's not elevated). So far as I know, there's no way to elevate without the GUI being involved (admittedly I haven't looked since I started using ssh with Windows).

Linux? Connecting to Linux works perfectly. I can't use xrdp or ssh or vnc or forwarding x11 over ssh or [other] and they work perfectly. I used to use x2go before Wayland, and despite the pain of actually getting it working even that worked better; XDMCP required some amount of setup, but it was awesome (too bad there's nothing that efficient with Wayland); xpra looks great, but either didn't exist or I was unaware at the time. The only issues with Linux remoting are, again, Windows-related (it's seemingly impossible to get vmconnect enhanced session to work properly with Linux at all on Fedora 43; the things I've found online don't seem to work for me).

Where do you see this? It doesn't appear to be in the website (if it's in the video, I didn't watch it but it's not in the subtitle file)

I could be wrong, but I believe businesses are generally required to serve the public if they're open to the public, and they can only refuse to serve you for limited reasons such as being disruptive or offensive. I don't think the way someone eats a hamburger is a valid reason to refuse service unless you're a private club (ie not open to the public). Maybe if you're a goop[1] you might get kicked out.

[1]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36664/36664-h/36664-h.htm#pa...

I use cargo-binstall, which supports quick install and a couple other methodsfor downloading binaries for rust packages

Some of it isn't them being dumb, it's them being stubborn. My dad has been using computers since the 80s and used probably every Microsoft OS from DOS to 11. Give him a Linux PC and he could probably fumble his way around. Try to tell him what the notification bar is on Android and he just straight up won't listen. He doesn't want to hear it. He doesn't want to know how to type without poking at individual keys on mobile. He doesn't want to know what the difference is between an app and a website. He doesn't want to know what the home screen/launcher is. Many older people have issues with understanding. Many have no problems with understanding. And many just don't want to know. Some people just want things to work the way they always have (and they have a point: there's no excuse for Microsoft changing how their mail app interface works every 3-5 years)

I prefer termimg, which supports whatever method your terminal does for images and falls back to block characters for a lower resolution preview if your terminal has no graphics support. Use this and it works the same in whatever terminal you're using.

https://github.com/srlehn/termimg