lemmyvore

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lemmyvore ,

The IRC bots that run these sharing channels will crap themselves if hit with any kind of automation. Many/most have limited bandwidth and use a queueing system that only serves one or two downloads at a time and a small queue (it varies, some may have a 10 slot queue, some may have 50 or 100).

Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important ( www.techdirt.com )

This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of...

lemmyvore , (edited )

That's a pretty big jump that the article makes... Here's what the decision is about:

The Court, sitting as the Full Court, holds that the general and indiscriminate retention of IP addresses does not necessarily constitute a serious interference with fundamental rights

They also said that, which is true:

EU law does not preclude national legislation authorising the competent public authority, for the sole purpose of identifying the person suspected of having committed a criminal offence, to access the civil identity data associated with an IP address

I should point out that copyright infringement is not a criminal offense, it's a civil matter.

None of this adds up to what the article claims.

Networking Gear Recommendations? (starting from scratch)

Hi, I hope its appropriate to ask this here, considering this is the most active community closest to this topic (Networking). I am moving places shortly and will need to start from scratch will all networking equipment. Including router and wifi-extenders. Am wondering what the general consencus is around networking gear, what...

lemmyvore ,

Isn't 500€ a bit much for just the router?

lemmyvore ,

Wow get a load of Miss Eskarina Smith over here. 🙄

I've decided to switch to Linux Mint, but i have a lot of pirated games. How to play them with all the cracks and stuff in linux?

I have decided to switch to Linux Mint from windows. I don't use computer for work that much. And for my personal use I'm switching to Linux Mint. I have heard a lot about it. So giving it a try. I know about emulating windows in linux to play window games. But how do you use cracks and stuff?? Does emulating also access my 100%...

lemmyvore , (edited )

Use "wine-ge" not "proton-ge" in this case. Anything with "proton" in its name is specifically made to work best with games on Steam. "Wine-ge" has all the patches from "proton-ge" so you're not missing out on anything, but it can work better with non Steam games.

lemmyvore ,

It feels like the AI bubble won't last another 6 months.

Anyone ever removed stock launcher with ADB before?

Hiya, am thinking about removing the stock android launcher on my Pixel 7a, due to a bug causing one of the three navigation buttons to randomly not work, more about the bug here; https://lemmy.world/post/10555733. So was wondering if anyone had any experience regarding this? I know how to remove it, just want to know what the...

lemmyvore ,

And if they have root it would be safer to just freeze it with Titanium to prevent the bug.

lemmyvore ,

Having two launchers is a good point but it doesn't have to be the stock launcher. You can install any random launcher for backup as long as it can show the app list.

lemmyvore ,

You can use Titanium on anything if you can get root in a normal fashion (standard superuser) and if it has a decent BusyBox installed.

But you might also be able to freeze (disable) an app from terminal, the command IIRC is pm disable-user + parameters.

lemmyvore , (edited )

If you have root than Titanium is still the best around for things like app backup and restore, and if you have Titanium you might as well freeze apps with it because it's very easy.

But what Titanium calls freeze is actually a native function of Android ("disabling" an app), it just takes more steps. Normally it's available in the app's system info screen but preinstalled apps will bitch about it and may ask you to uninstall updates before allowing you to disable them. Some preinstalled apps won't let you disable them at all and you have to resort to terminal commands. It's just easier to use Titanium.

I think there's other apps around that specialize in disabling stuff and may or may not require root. I don't know, I've always used Titanium and never looked back.

lemmyvore , (edited )

If you're using them for your private use them just put them on different ports. Why do you want them both on the same ports?

You'll have to do this even if you use a reverse proxy. And also for a reverse proxy to work you'll need domains defined in DNS.

lemmyvore , (edited )

Everybody will eventually notice when it becomes useless.

lemmyvore ,

See if ytdl-sub is what you want.

lemmyvore ,

If you're storing them for yourself I would recommend doing an online AB test to figure out at what bitrate you are capable of hearing a difference (assuming decent headphones or speakers). For some people anything above 256kbps is wasted (or even 128). If you find yourself in that category you can just use lossy formats and stop worrying about FLAC.

lemmyvore ,

At some point no amount of PR will hide the fact search has become useless. They know this but they're getting desperate and will try anything.

I'm waiting for Yahoo to revive their link directory or for Mozilla to revive DMOZ. That will be the sign that shit level is officially chin-height.

An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? ( sh.itjust.works )

You're twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You'll be leaving for Grandma's in about a half hour, and she's lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is...

lemmyvore ,

Simon Tatham's Puzzles

40 different puzzle games. You won't like all of them but you'll like plenty and they're all super addictive so even one of them will keep you busy for a few days.

lemmyvore ,

AFAIK the problem is not LSPosed itself because LSPosed doesn't show an app in the app list so it can't be detected by normal means. (To run the LSPosed GUI you have to either use the action button on the persistent notification or dial ### in your phone app; or the GUI can create a launcher shortcut for you.)

The problem is that the LSPosed modules are normal apps that can be detected. So if they see something like GravityBox or XPrivacy installed it's pretty easy to figure out that you must be using Xposed/LSPosed.

I use TB Checker and it seems to be aware of most of the LSPosed modules I have installed (the above and also AFWall, Secure Settings, UpdateLocker), even of a Sony-specific module (Physical Button Master Control). It doesn't detect a couple of modules (Undo and BubbleUPnP Audio Cast) but I think the others are enough to conclude I have rooted the device. 😃

So to sum up you don't need to hide root anymore because Magisk takes care of that, and you don't need to hide LSPosed either. You can use the Hide module to hide LSPosed modules. But I would avoid doing it until all else fails for a specific app.

Obligatory note, if you add an app to the Magisk deny list it won't detect anything that has to do with Magisk but you won't be able to apply LSPosed to it so it will see the LSPosed modules.

lemmyvore ,

No extra module, it just hides itself.

lemmyvore ,

Short answer, yes. The ratio of LLM generated noise to actual content is increasing exponentially as we speak. To us it seems overnight because the increase is so steep but it's been happening for several years. And it's going to get a lot worse.

Honestly, I think we'll have to go back to 90s methods like web rings and human curated link directories.

lemmyvore ,

You only need lots of precessing power to train the models. Using the models can be done on regular hardware.

lemmyvore ,

Can they not get a TPU on USB, like the Coral Accelerator or something?

lemmyvore ,

If their track record is better it's because it's a record at a much lower scale, under more controlled conditions, and kept by companies with a vested interest in it appearing good. If Boeing can hide flaws in flying vehicles carrying hundreds of people per trip I think these companies can hide flaws in cars.

we aren’t advocating for stronger driving tests

Why aren't you? Wouldn't that be the most logical answer?

My country has had a very bad traffic safety record, among the worst in the EU, and that was one of the things we used to improve things, along with harsher consequences.

There's also another solution, reducing people's need to drive. Public transportation could be improved by a fraction of the money that goes into these self-driving endeavors.

Just adding "AI" to something may look cool and even make sense at small scale but ultimately completely fail in real life. "Sometimes knives kill people, let's put AI in knives that will retract the blade instead of cutting someone". Does that sound plausible too?

lemmyvore ,

Immich is more of a personal camera roll app, modeled after Google Photos. You can make albums and share them publicly but it wasn't meant as a public photo gallery.

It can work if the emphasis is on self-organization but it's quite limited due to the fact it insists on merging everything into a single photo stream and forces you to use its albums to split it back up again.

There's no way unfortunately to have multiple photo streams per user (unless you're willing to juggle multiple user accounts).

lemmyvore ,

Have you considered using a photo organizer like Digikam and exporting HTML photo albums from it? You can host plain HTML and images extremely cheaply on a CDN, tie a domain name to it and that's it, you just update the files over (S)FTP whenever you have something new.

lemmyvore ,

It can also accelerate machine learning through OpenVino if I'm not mistaken. Useful for face recognition in photo apps etc.

lemmyvore , (edited )

I urge everybody to read up on CAA records in DNS and add them to your domains. They basically say what CA the certs for that domain are supposed to come from. Even if another CA issues valid certs for the domain they would be rejected if they don't match the CAA în DNS. It takes 5 minutes.

You can specify the valid CA in the form of its representative domain, for example to allow Let's Encrypt you'd add 0 issue "letsencrypt.org". If you want to allow multiple CA you add multiple CAA records. They enter into effect if at least one CAA record is present. You can also restrict the challenge type, for example 0 issue "letsencrypt.org;validationmethods=dns-01".

Please note that this is worth adding a CAA record even if you don't use your domain for HTTP and you don't issue any certs for it, because a rogue CA can do it for you. You can add a blank CAA record (0 issue ";") which basically forbids any CA.

(And yes, this also applies to email. It's worth adding restrictive records even if you don't use your domain for email.)

lemmyvore ,

Right, I'll fix it.

lemmyvore ,

They are not similar other than they are both female.

I thought Ferengi were supposed to have good hearing.

lemmyvore ,

I can take 21:9 pics on the Xperia 10 III, did they remove that?

lemmyvore ,

I don't know but it started making international news during the pandemic, so at least 5th.

lemmyvore ,

The article is ok (summary of the current state of things) but the title is completely out of place.

lemmyvore ,

I wonder how much of this stuff may still be around on harddrives somewhere. Random blogs probably not because they were using shared hosting that would overwrite and reuse the space when the blog went down, and typically destroy the drives when the servers got decomissioned. But maybe large platforms like Geocities might still be archived somewhere.

lemmyvore ,

That might take a while.

lemmyvore ,

Site owners haven't figured that out yet. They still cling to the notion that search optimization works. And it still does, to some extent.

Like, if you're a small business owner providing local services in your city and you get customers that find you through Google, what can you do except continue to optimize for Google?

lemmyvore ,

If it's any comfort I've spent about a year getting away from Gmail and I can report it is in fact doable.

Finding another email service and using a domain of my own with it was the easy part. The hard part was painstakingly replacing my address everywhere I was using it with new addresses.

Way more doable than YouTube, which I don't foresee being replicated any time soon.

Secure portal between Internet and internal services

I thought I was going to use Authentik for this purpose but it just seems to redirect to an otherwise Internet accessible page. I'm looking for a way to remotely access my home network at a site like remote.mywebsite.com. I have Nginx proxy forwarding with SSL working appropriately, so I need an internal service that receives...

lemmyvore ,

The only catch is that some ISP or workplaces filler public DNS entries that point to private IPs because they can be indications of certain attacks.

lemmyvore ,

If it's resolved only on a private DNS server then it's ok.

lemmyvore ,

I turn Tailscale on at their computers and ask them to turn on VNC when I need to assist them on the desktop. Or you can use anything else, there's plenty of remote desktop apps once you waive the security requirement (because it's private anyway due to Tailscale).

lemmyvore ,

DOS wasn't a very complex OS and has already been reverse engineered more or less completely. Apps like DosBox already exist. It might cause a couple of minor revelations if/when the source is finally opened but I doubt it will have a big impact.

lemmyvore , (edited )

They trickle out versions over the years. This time they published version 4. The versions up to 6.22 (standalone) and up to 9 7-8 (part of Windows 9x-ME) are yet to be published.

lemmyvore ,

You're right. I'll correct it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#MS-DOS_7/8_(as_part_of_Windows_9x)

lemmyvore ,

They don't really have a choice. Classic website search will be useless in the near future because of the rapid rise of LLM-generated pages. Already for some searches 1 out of 3 results is generated crap.

Their only hope it's that somehow they'll be able to weed out LLM pages with LLM. Which is something that scientists say it's impossible because LLMs cannot learn from LLM results so they won't be able to reliably tell which content is good.

The fact they're even trying this shows they're desperate, so they will try.

lemmyvore ,

I believe you can use any GSI ROM as long as it matches the underlying Android version?

lemmyvore ,

TBF it's nice that they allowed it for everybody. Usually when a company is forced to do something in the EU they only do it in the EU.

lemmyvore ,

Don't use them as the only storage maybe. There's stories about Hetzner flagging accounts for false positives and they basically offer zero recourse. They close everything related to the account and cut all communication.

lemmyvore ,

Discord could solve this particular issue by simply adding a wiki.

We're going to see a lot of changes in online community tools and in the way people use those tools. Lemmy is not exactly revolutionary either, it's modern but it's still a forum at its core.

lemmyvore ,

I wish there was some kind of place where we could croudsource impressions and fixes for new versions of docker images.

Manjaro does something like this for their releases. They also have a survey that indicates how well things went (although it's participant biased to some degree since folks who had a problem tend to vote more than people who didn't).

It would be amazing to be able to pop in and see that jellyfin had a couple of new releases, that one of them does much better than the others in terms of overall quality, and what kind of issues there are (and how to fix them).

lemmyvore ,

They could mean that they have swap but it's not being used.

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