BearOfaTime

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Amazon clearly lying about "ownership" on Prime. (lemmy.world)

You all remember just a few weeks ago when Sony ripped away a bunch of movies and TV shows people “owned”? This ad is on Amazon. You can’t “own” it on Prime. You can just access it until they lose the license. How can they get away with lying like this?

BearOfaTime,

This is the answer.

All fed regulatory agencies are captured at this point.

BearOfaTime,

Seems a single image would be good for gaining attention. Turning it into a “leak” makes a story.

I’m not sure what to believe anymore , lol.

what are your recommendations for a good privacy friendly sms app?

Hello, currently I use qksms but its very problematic and lacks basic fetures. One of those issues being you cant send videos, and sending and recieving media is pixalated or blurry because of a commpresion issue. I’ve already tried adjusting the compresion options in settings to find out it doesn’t work....

BearOfaTime,

There’s no privacy with SMS. It’s sent in the clear. There’s no changing this with an app.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

Commenting largely to watch - I use Syncthing as my daily driver sync tool, and Resilio for the on-demand stuff.

Resilio has on-demand/selective sync, but I don’t recall if it’s open source, I don’t think so. Plus, it’s hard on memory with larger folders, as it keeps the index in ram. My media sync folder really impacts my desktop, and I only run Resilio on my mobile devices when I want to sync something, then turn it off.

BearOfaTime,

Yep.

Fuck Haier, espscially at this point.

Had they tried working with him furst, they’d have a little moral ground to stand on.

Now the lives are off. How many forks are there if his git repo now? It was a thousand yesterday.

BearOfaTime,

So?

They both represent the company. The company came on strong all ban-hammery, the news flashed around, his repo got forked over a thousand times in a matter of hours.

Haier found themselves on the defensive suddenly, so they got one of their engineers to play nice.

They now know they have 300k users who are pissed at them. People are choosing other products over this already.

Fuck them. With a pineapple. Corporations aren’t people, I owe them no consideration, no courtesy, especially when they act like this.

BearOfaTime,

Nah, this is Haier trying to save face. They saw how the story went, that the repo was forked a thousand times in a few hours. They know their engineering team can’t win, long term, against dedicated, pissed off geeks.

Would they play nice with you if the tables were reversed? No.

They already played the legal card, engaging with them at this point would be extremely naive.

Fuck them. Now is the time to pummel them even harder. Making them eat their words is what will send a message to the rest of the jackasses designing garbage and tracking us relentlessly for access to what should be trivial to engineer features.

BearOfaTime,

Nope.

They’re on the ropes.

Keep pummeling them. There’s no integrity behind this, and going along will just let them get away with their bad behaviour.

They played the “We’ll sue your ass off” card first. That means it’s already in the legal realm, they never even triedto work with the OSS community, they basically said “fuck you” until the community replied, very clearly.

Had the community not responded by replicating the repo 1000+ times, and making a story about it, they would’ve continued down the path of slapping the little guy around.

They now realize they can’t compete with potentially 1000 people working on this, against them. They also fear they’ve pissed off some technophile who has some serious skills or connections. Wonder if they saw a sudden increase in probes on their internet interfaces.

Make it hurt. Let them be the cautionary tale.

BearOfaTime,

Offline drives die too.

I’ve had more drives die sitting on a shelf.

Electromechanical stuff is just like us - it doesn’t do well sitting still.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

I’m not so sure the VMWare/Broadcom story is as much ignorance as many are, but rather intentional. They see the big bucks are in the large cloud providers, and knowing it’s not easy to switch away from your current virtualization, they can bend them over a barrel for a year or two and see massive profit gains. Those providers may consider transitioning to other products, but VMware will lock them in with new contracts first.

And for the resellers and SMB customers, it’s pennies compared to the cloud providers.

Fine, I can see the SMB space embracing things like Proxmox/KVM. It runs on x86 hardware, so if we see companies like Dell providing on server hardware, it’s game over in the SMB space for VMware. Imagine having to choose to renew a VMware license for 30% more, or just build new hosts running Proxmox, and transition. Especially since all hardware has a limited lifespan, often 3-5 years in SMB. So a server replacement is just around the corner… Good time to transition.

SMB has hit the point of being the “next market”. There’s a smaller set of enterprise environments, many more SMB’s, and there’s more volatility in the SMB space. So being able to support them, and manage mergers, etc, without worrying about licensing, is a huge benefit. Licensing in SMB is a hellscape, especially when dealing with mergers/transitions.

BearOfaTime,

Sounds like a market opportunity. Would be super disruptive

BearOfaTime,

Hot damn, there were just a handful at about 5 hours ago when someone else proposed the idea to fork it.

Sing it out, Barbara, let’s get this to the front page of the news!

BearOfaTime, (edited )

Tailscale can meet each of your bullet points.

Don’t bother with VPN just use Tailscale, and install the client on your other devices (they have clients for every OS).

This creates an encrypted virtual network between your devices. It can even enable access to hardware, like printers (or anything with an IP address) by enabling Subnet Routing.

To provide access to specific resources for other people, you can use the Funnel feature, which provides an entrance into your Tailscale Network for the specified resources, fully encrypted, from anywhere. No Tailscale client required.

And if you have friends who use Tailscale, using the Serve option, you can invite them to connect to your Tailscale network (again, for specified resources) from their Tailscale network.

BearOfaTime,

Have you looked at using the Funnel feature in Tailscale, instead of port mapping? This gets external traffic onto your Tailscale network (for anyone who doesn’t have Tailscale) for specific resources, courtesy of Tailscale servers.

If you’re just going to open ports to the world, Tailscale isn’t really necessary (it’s useful for you and anyone on TS, since you can use the Serve feature to permit other Tailscale networks to have access to specific resources).

BearOfaTime,

Like they sat on (and still haven’t resolved) the iMessage issues they’ve known about for years.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537444

The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful".

The Bill includes no definition of hate and is wide open to abuse by bad actors. Defend free speech – say no to this legislation, and any legislation of is kind… Anywhere!...

BearOfaTime,

I declare the use of the word “punish” to be hate speech.

Sorry, the moment you say you agree with this idea, you’re starting down a road that goes nowhere good.

Call me names. Call my family names. Use any language you want. I don’t care.

The line is when you’re calling for a crime to be committed.

“Hate speech” is a convenient tool to target whoever is in power wants to at the moment.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

For the money you’ll spend on drives, you may be able to pay for a year of space at somewhere like www.storj.io, and use something like Duplicati to backup to them.

Because even with a shiny new NAS, you’ll still need backup for it when it crashes, something is accidentally deleted, a drive hiccups and loses data, etc.

If you already have some stuff sitting around, spin up an UnRAID/TrueNAS, but still have a backup solution.

Starting to use "soulseek" do I need VPN

So I use a VPN when torrenting as per usual but with Soulseek I wish to share my music with others and that requires me to open a port. I have no problem doing so I just do not pay for a VPN that can do this at the current price I am paying. Is it possible/what are the chances of me getting in trouble ISP wise from using...

BearOfaTime, (edited )

Tailscale has the Funnel feature that doesn’t require an open port (well, it’s a UPnP port), and maintains an encrypted tunnel to your music server for anyone you decide to share it with.

Alternatively you could get as many of your friends to use Tailscale itself to minimize the need for the Funnel feature (so anyone you know get them using TS, for the general sharing let it happen via Funnel).

Tailscale is free, and easy to setup.

BearOfaTime,

And some cars have it built into things like the head unit/heater control/mapping, does everything box.

BearOfaTime,

Or just put a power test attentuator on the antenna output.

It essentially absorbs the RF from the antenna and radiates it as heat. Since cell is pretty low power (1/2 watt max, IIRC), and a cell radio will stop trying to transmit after a while (though it will try again), I don’t think it would cause any problems.

But I’m not an RF engineer.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

Simplex - requires nothing, just install. But you connect with other people by sending a code outside of SimpleX. Though they’ve added a directory service for groups.

XMPP

Wire (not Wiremin), though it requires an email account, which is easily addressed with a disposable email.

Signal is very secure from what I’ve read, despite the phone number identifier.

BearOfaTime,

And that UX makes it a hard sell to non-tech/privacy folks.

I had a few converts, then they pulled SMS. My converts left.

Telegram has its problems, I completely agree the encryption issue is problematic. But how do you get non-tech people to use a tool like this when to have a new device get the history, or signing into multiple devices simultaneously, requires transmitting an encryption key? I really don’t know.

I know SimpleX is working on this very issue - their current approach requires switching between active devices by scanning a QR code (or sharing code between devices out-of-band). So currently only one device can be active with your credsntials/ID. It has an ok UI, I’d say slightly better than Signal. But it’s security and privacy are just about the best I’ve seen.

This seems to be the big hurdle - people want a simple login, most don’t care if their convos are stored in servers iut means they can just login.

I’m using telegram with a few people for just this reason, since it gets us off SMS. They like that they can use whatever device is in front of them.

Getting people to switch to Telegram is far easier than anything else, since it’s UI is much better than Signal, Wire, XMPP clients (which can be some of the best).

We know exactly how bad Whatsapp is from a privacy standpoint - I’d choose telegram over it any day.

AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number & email (9to5mac.com)

The Beijing institute developed the technique to crack an iPhone’s encrypted device log to identify the numbers and emails of senders who share AirDrop content, the city’s judicial bureau said in an online post. Police have identified multiple suspects via that method, the agency said, without disclosing if anyone was...

BearOfaTime,

Well if Apple doesn’t fix it, like they haven’t fixed the iMessage flaws) they’ve known about for years, then it’s still useful.

And most people won’t even know of this issue, and they’d still use Airdrop anyway, saying “I’m not interesting enough to spy on”.

iMessage lacks forward secrecy, so if I get your RSA key which never changes, I can read all your old messages and any new ones too. And that’s just one issue with iMessage. And people don’t know about it, and still use it, thinking it’s secure. (it’s pretty good in my opinion, just wish Apple would fix the issues linked article).

BearOfaTime,

Setup Tailscale on your machine at home and on your Android device. It’ll provide a virtual encrypted network between your devices.

Not sure what video performance across it will be like, I’m sure there’s a bit of overhead.

BearOfaTime,

Use Tailscale with the Funnel option.

It provides a fully encrypted connection for external devices that don’t have the Tailscale client. Pretty impressive.

Similar to using Cloudflare tunnels but easier to setup.

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