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Did the iPad kid step on a Lego?

PEEEEETAAAAAAH I NEED YOU

Where is u/PeterExplainsTheJoke when you need him.

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It (www.wired.com)

For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable...

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Cops only like technology when they can abuse it to avoid having to do real investigative police work.

They don’t care to understand the technology in any deep manner, and as we’ve seen with body cams, when they retain full control over the technology, it’s basically a farce to believe it could be used to control their behavior.

I mean, on top of that, a lot of “forensic science” isn’t science at all and is arguably a joke.

Cops like using the veneer of science and technology to act like they’re doing “serious jobs” but in reality they’re just a bunch of thugs trying to dominate and control.

In other words, this is just the beginning, don’t expect them to stop doing stuff like this, and further, expect them to start producing “research” that “justifies” these “investigation” methods and see them added to the pile of bullshit that is “fOrEnSiC sCiEnCE.”

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wood for sheep?

I almost missed this.

I’ll just quote myself from my last game where I had a monopoly on the sheep…

YOU DARE COME TO THE MASTER SHEPHERD WITHOUT A TITHE IN HAND?

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Simplicity and organization can be very Zen, my friend.

Perhaps instead of judging yourself so harshly, you consider that others may see the positives of simplicity and small-scale as well.

Not everybody needs big and flashy. Utilitarian isn’t a bad thing. Utilitarian simplicity can be its own art form.

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This is honestly why anyone and everyone should invest in at least a small UPS that can keep your PC powered for at least five minutes so in this kind of scenario you can cancel the update, shut down safely, and resume when the power is back.

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I’ve got about 6 xPis scattered round my flat - is there anything worth doing with them or should I just bin them?

Fuck, if you can’t figure out what to do with them, give them to me and I will! There’s so many fun art projects you can get up to with Pis.

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Pin worms dude.

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Welcome to the Corporate Internet.

Get ready to play by Their Rules on Their Services.

Good thing a lot of them are useless fucking Dinosaurs like CNN that need to die anyway.

Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control (github.com)

I’ve been grappling with a concern that I believe many of us share: the lack of privacy controls on Lemmy. As it stands, our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone who cares to look. I don’t even care about privacy all that much, but this level of transparency feels to me akin to sharing my...

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If you’re not running your own server privacy policies are not even worth the pixels they’re presented on.

Literally, you’re just taking a random person’s word for it (whoever the admin is). A website is a black box, you have no idea what’s going on on the back-end.

The only way to be in complete control of your user data is to run your own server and be literally the only user on it.

Even then, any public comments you make are, you know… public.

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Peter Sunde, the coolest of the three Pirate Bay admins.

The other guys (Gottfrid and Fredrik) had more technical chops, but Sunde brought a lot of thoughtful politics to the table, had better social skills, and was the only one to actually willingly surrender to his prison sentence while the other admins skipped the country to avoid prison, only to be arrested and deported later anyway.

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Pootie’s Dad is still the Philosopher of Our Time:

You gotta have respect to get respect

They really needed to do something about that gorilla problem at the warehouse. Gone too soon.

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I have found My People.

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This is how FOSS dies.

Where the living fuck are the EFF’s team of lawyers?

I know they generally focus on US cases, but god damn, you’d think the egregiousness of this would get their asses involved.

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The soundtrack is indeed mid, but aren’t all the musical themes callback to the original Baldurs Gate music?

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Alice Eve, Star Trek Into Darkness, for anyone needing some sauce.

Linux Hijinks (reddthat.com)

So, like I needed any more projects or any more computers, but I bought a receipt printer and two POS terminals. Both are Celeron J1900 I think at 3Ghz, 128G hard drive and I’m not sure of the memory. All that cost me a whopping $45, so how could I resist? Right now we’ve got the POSBANK unit working, you can see me updating...

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Lastly the printer… Not sure what to do with this, any suggestions?

Try to build an equivalent to the GameBoy Camera? It used receipt paper.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Camera#Functionali…

You might have to search for a low-resolution black & white camera, though, to really make it work.

Anyway, that would be my dumb project for a receipt printer.

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You know the Hedge Fund Fuckies are just fucking salivating at the thought of Valve being available to buy.

entire system backups onto the server - how?

Hey there, I have a (very) small Ubuntu server and I was dabbling on the idea to do system backups (entire system, meaning, if the disk of the said pc fries, I can get another one, put the info from the backup on the new disk, works immediately afterwards). I have a couple of Linux mint machines and a windows one. I searched a...

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github.com/teejee2008/timeshift

I think TimeShift could maybe work for you, but you might need a script to offload the backups it creates.

restic.net

Restic is another option, but it’s a little less user friendly and is all CLI, if i recall correctly. However I’m pretty sure you can send backups straight to a server via Restic.

I'm new to networking and self-hosting and have no idea where to start.

I’ve been slowly working my way though a list of skills to learn, both to put on my resume and as personal growth. Networking is the next thing on this list. I am not sure what I am looking for, but I want to start another project. I have built many a personal computer, but the world of networking is a pretty foreign concept...

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Not necessarily in this order:

  1. Learn the OSI and TCP/IP layer models.
  2. Learn the fundamentals of IPv4 and IPv6. (Absolutely learn to count bits for IPv4)
  3. Learn and understand the use-cases for routers, switches, and firewalls.
  4. Learn about DNS. (Domain Name System)
  5. Learn about DHCP. (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
  6. Learn important Port Numbers for important Services. (SSH is Port 22, for example. The range of port numbers from 1024 to 49151 are “registered ports” that are generally always the same)
  7. Learn about address classes. (A, B, C are the main ones)
  8. Learn about hardware addresses (MAC address) and how to use ARP to find them.

And more! This is just off the top of my head. Until you’ve studied a lot more, please, for your own sake, don’t open your selfhosted ervices to the wider internet and just keep them local.

And just for fun, a poem:

The inventor of the spanning tree protocol, Radia Perlman, wrote a poem to describe how it works. When reading the poem it helps to know that in math terms, a network can be represented as a type of graph called a mesh, and that the goal of the spanning tree protocol is to turn any given network mesh into a tree structure with no loops that spans the entire set of network segments.

I think that I shall never see

A graph more lovely than a tree.

A tree whose crucial property

Is loop-free connectivity.

A tree that must be sure to span

So packets can reach every LAN.

First, the root must be selected.

By ID, it is elected.

Least cost paths from root are traced.

In the tree, these paths are placed.

A mesh is made by folks like me,

Then bridges find a spanning tree.

— Radia Perlman Algorhyme

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YOU AREN’T PART OF THE TURBO TEAM!

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It’s all in pursuit of the One Piece.

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Are the Bell Riots before or after the Climate Change induced Water Wars?

Insight on how the ADs network is built?

Does any of you know firsthand how the ad industry works? I hate them with all my heart and I already go out of my way to block them but maybe you have been on the other side of the fence and can share some internal insight on what to focus on to really disrupt the data collection. I.e. even if I use uBlock can the ad network...

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The benefit is generally only cosmetic at your end.

As backwards as it sounds, the more you do to try to “anonymize” yourself on the internet, the more you actually stand out… because so few people go out of their way to use anonymization tools, which are easily spotted.

So what happens is your profile goes into the “People Who Like Privacy” bucket, and you get ads related to the fact that you want privacy.

Bill Hicks really summed this up nearly 40 years ago, ad execs will use any and every psychological tool and path to get you to buy.

They may not be able to create a profile on “you” speficially with your name, address, email, et cetera, but they will be able to create a general profile for “you” about your preferences, web browser, screen size, geolocation, et cetera.

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Because Microsoft ain’t gonna make Windows any better for this form factor until it is way late to the game, as usual.

Windows is basically a product for corporations now. Consumer Windows is an afterthought most of the time.

However, I could be wrong with Xbox’s theorized pivot away from hardware.

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