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  1. Comment on Google's new app will help warn you about nude images in Messages in ~tech

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    That's an interesting article, thanks for linking. What I'm referring to is the "on-device" processing the Tensor chip has allowed, and that over time, more features seemingly have been moved from...

    That's an interesting article, thanks for linking.

    What I'm referring to is the "on-device" processing the Tensor chip has allowed, and that over time, more features seemingly have been moved from cloud computing to on device computing of Google's Android devices. More specifically, given that the Messages app is separate from the Google Photos app, the engines behind them are fundamentally different. In the article you linked, it seems that the photo/video in question came to Google's presence of mind through the cloud backup feature of Google Photos.

    It's definitely a bit of a double edged sword. On the one hand, who wouldn't support stronger protections against exploitation of minors? But on the other, the invasion of privacy can't be negated simply in the name of "big brother keeping an eye on things". It's also no secret that Google scans files saved/shared in their Drive service for illegal or copyrighted content. While there's certainly an invasion of privacy argument to be made, I have a difficult time weighing that over the fact that it's invasion of a service by a service provider whose infrastructure is providing that service. People should be entitled to privacy, but also I can see why Google would want to be entitled to see what kind of data they're trafficking. That isn't to say they're totally objective or the single source of truth, there's more than enough examples out their of making what many would describe as "the wrong call". But ultimately there is no one answer or point of view that's going to be absolutely correct here, it's very much a gradient requiring nuance and a multifaceted approach.

    In this specific instance, I see the bigger problem being that Google is a giant nameless faceless organization that can do whatever they want with a service that people depend on in their day to day life. It almost makes me think it should be treated more like a utility, and rules should be put in place about gaining/losing accessing to that utility, in the year of 2024 when so many people depend so heavily on internet based services for daily life.

    6 votes

  2. Comment on Google's new app will help warn you about nude images in Messages in ~tech

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    Assuming it's done on-device, it doesn't bother me so much, although I also am not the target demographic for this feature. I have neither taken, nor received, any pictures that would be affected...

    Assuming it's done on-device, it doesn't bother me so much, although I also am not the target demographic for this feature. I have neither taken, nor received, any pictures that would be affected by this.

    Out of curiosity, what was your interaction/experience with your aforementioned photo? I probably have a few of the same pics of my kids as infants/toddlers, but I've never noticed anything different about them in my photo library.

  3. Comment on Joe Biden allows Ukraine to strike Russia with US long-range missiles in ~society

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    With his presidency winding down, I'm not entirely surprised to see this move. I am a bit nervous to see how Russia responds, though. The evolution of the Ukrainian war between the involvement of...

    With his presidency winding down, I'm not entirely surprised to see this move. I am a bit nervous to see how Russia responds, though. The evolution of the Ukrainian war between the involvement of the North Koreans, the US presidential election and the (likely) policy shifts to come when the new administration takes hold, and now this have (in my opinion) given some major changes to the dynamic of the Ukrainian side. I don't know where it's going, but it's certainly going somewhere.

    16 votes

  5. Comment on Where does your username come from? (Following up on last year's thread) in ~tildes

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    Always. They can't take the sky from us.

    Always. They can't take the sky from us. 🫡

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Where does your username come from? (Following up on last year's thread) in ~tildes

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    Always nice to meet a fellow browncoat

    Always nice to meet a fellow browncoat

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Where does your username come from? (Following up on last year's thread) in ~tildes

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    Once upon a time back in 2007 I got an after school job working at my local radioshack. I'm a taller guy, and at the time I drove a '96 Jeep Wrangler and wore big aviator sunglasses. When I came...

    Once upon a time back in 2007 I got an after school job working at my local radioshack. I'm a taller guy, and at the time I drove a '96 Jeep Wrangler and wore big aviator sunglasses. When I came in for my first day, they were playing Top Gun on the in-store TV's, so he looks at the screen and then at me and goes "goose". The nickname stuck, I liked it, and my friends started calling me "goose" also. He even pulled some strings to get me a name tag that I still have to this day. It was a fun job purely due to my manager being an awesome guy. It was in the mid-to-late decline of radioshack as a company, the high pressure sales tactics on cell phones were becoming more and more strong, and business certainly wasn't doing better year after year. Despite that, I did get to learn some about small electronics, and picked up some diagnostic and repair skills I still use today.

    9 votes

  8. Comment on Hello to Reddit folks from /r/selfhosted in ~talk

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    I've got 10 to give out if you need me to send some

    I've got 10 to give out if you need me to send some

    11 votes

  9. Comment on Mindless games, preferably mobile in ~games

  10. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I'm only skilled in shell script (bash). There's a particular rock/hip-hop mash up duo I've been following for years who post their stuff to Soundcloud. The episodes are around 90 minutes long, so...

    I'm only skilled in shell script (bash). There's a particular rock/hip-hop mash up duo I've been following for years who post their stuff to Soundcloud. The episodes are around 90 minutes long, so not exactly condusive to traditional music media players which expect tracks more in the 3-5 minute range, and no need to save playback progress.

    I wrote a bash script to use yt-dlp to grab the media, and then parse it for various data and properties, which it then stores in an sqlite database alongside the media files themselves.

    Then, I spent a few hours going back and forth with ChatGPT to generate a PHP page to parse the data from the sqlite database, and generate an XML RSS feed that I can load in to my podcast client as a private podcast. As a result, cron keeps files regularly updated and downloaded, and that PHP page will dynamically update accordingly. My podcast client periodically checks for new episodes, and saves my progress along the way if I have to turn it off part way through.

    Small thing, but given that I know very little PHP, I'm pretty happy with it!

    3 votes

  11. Comment on How's the iPhone experience on Google Fi in late 2024? in ~tech

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    Why do you think Fi is going to get axed? It's been around since 2015, and while the Google Graveyard has its fair share of products, the ones they partner with outside companies for...

    Why do you think Fi is going to get axed? It's been around since 2015, and while the Google Graveyard has its fair share of products, the ones they partner with outside companies for service/hardware for (Fi, YTTV) have seen pretty stable product life.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on How's the iPhone experience on Google Fi in late 2024? in ~tech

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    Was there some way to try and force voicemail to one app or the other? I could forsee complaints from my wife about not knowing which one voice mail could be going to.

    Was there some way to try and force voicemail to one app or the other? I could forsee complaints from my wife about not knowing which one voice mail could be going to.

  13. Comment on How's the iPhone experience on Google Fi in late 2024? in ~tech

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    My coverage has been solid with Fi, so I expect hers would be too. If I may ask, how was your experience with VVM and 5G?

    My coverage has been solid with Fi, so I expect hers would be too.

    If I may ask, how was your experience with VVM and 5G?

  14. How's the iPhone experience on Google Fi in late 2024?

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    I've been a long time Fi user on the Pixel line of phones, so I've always gotten the gold standard of service from Fi. My wife is an adamant iPhone user. We want to port her over to my plan, but I...

    I've been a long time Fi user on the Pixel line of phones, so I've always gotten the gold standard of service from Fi. My wife is an adamant iPhone user. We want to port her over to my plan, but I was hoping to get some recent feedback from anyone using a modern iPhone (just bought her a 16) -- All the things I find on Google are months to years old. If this is you, how well do the iPhone features (Visual voicemail, iMessage, RCS, FaceTime, 5G, etc) work for you on Fi?

    8 votes

  15. Comment on Advice for dealing with racist/pro-Donald Trump family? in ~health.mental

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    I don't have any evidence based practices to suggest, but I wanted to voice some empathy to your situation. I grew up in a mostly similar situation and underwent mostly similar changes as a young...

    I don't have any evidence based practices to suggest, but I wanted to voice some empathy to your situation. I grew up in a mostly similar situation and underwent mostly similar changes as a young adult transitioning to the real world and my first real career. Especially during COVID I had many painful conversations with family who largely didn't give a shit and still don't. But if I can offer a beacon of hope, things did eventually get better, and they can for you too. I think the blueprint of my situation is too fundamentally different from yours to offer any profoundly helpful advice. But, for what it's worth, I feel for you.

    22 votes

  16. Comment on Paperless NGX vs ??? in ~tech

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    Depending on how comfortable you are with Linux and/or Docker, I highly recommend it. I started using it back when it was just Paperless, then through Paperless-ng, and now Paperless-ngx (Just...

    Depending on how comfortable you are with Linux and/or Docker, I highly recommend it. I started using it back when it was just Paperless, then through Paperless-ng, and now Paperless-ngx (Just different developers retiring/continuing development). The features added have only made it more and more easy to use. Particularly with some e-mail filters set up to automatically forward things to the email address my daemon monitors, I spent very little time dealing with it in exchange for having digital copies of paperwork that are easy to search and organize.

    I run mine on a headless home server that lives in the basement, so my ideal scanning solution was a standalone network scanner to an FTP folder which the daemon monitors. I originally started out using a Brother ADS-2500W, which I really enjoyed and would still be using -- but when my printer died, I opted to replace both my printer and my scanner with an all-in-one device. The two features I would recommend you look for when selecting a scanner are:

    1. Automatic duplex (Scans front and back of documents automatically)
    2. Automatically skips blank pages
    1 vote

  17. Comment on US hospitals take steps to conserve IV fluid supply after hurricane Helene strikes critical factory in North Carolina in ~health

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    Working in a peds hospital, I'd love to see pharmacy start issuing 100 mL or 500 mL bags for kids who require boluses, but their 10-20 mL/kg calculates out so we're not burning a standard 1000 mL...

    Working in a peds hospital, I'd love to see pharmacy start issuing 100 mL or 500 mL bags for kids who require boluses, but their 10-20 mL/kg calculates out so we're not burning a standard 1000 mL bag. That said, another solid solution would be for the FDA to do something like they do with their emergency Atropine/Pralidoxime supplies, and allow for extending expiration dates on supplies kept in "acceptable" temperature/lighting/humidity conditions.

    9 votes

  18. Comment on How do I sync my dotfiles between PC and laptop? in ~tech

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    Two options I can think of: Any time I launch a shell, it uses rsync to pull my dotfiles from my "main host", a VPS I rent. Then I have some hooks in my .vimrc that when I edit those files and...

    Two options I can think of:

    1. Any time I launch a shell, it uses rsync to pull my dotfiles from my "main host", a VPS I rent. Then I have some hooks in my .vimrc that when I edit those files and save them, they hooks use rsync to automatically push those updated files to my "main host". Works well, as long as I'm only editing those files when I have a good connection, and I only edit those files with vim.
    2. Use a daemon like SyncThing to watch/sync those files between hosts. Advantage is that it doesn't require a single "main host" to be online, it's decentralized and more resilient to offline changes. But an extra daemon.
    5 votes

  19. Comment on Woocommerce: Apache or Nginx? in ~tech

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    Gotcha. My preference is for containerizing executable languages, including PHP. I'm just pure docker, no kube or anything, but setting up nginx/php-fpm/mariadb containers that can easily talk to...

    Gotcha. My preference is for containerizing executable languages, including PHP. I'm just pure docker, no kube or anything, but setting up nginx/php-fpm/mariadb containers that can easily talk to each other (and reverse proxy things correctly) was fairly easy. I can provide a copy of my docker-compose.yml if you need a template to work off of.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Woocommerce: Apache or Nginx? in ~tech

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    I've been very happy with nginx over the last 15 years, particularly for running on a slim VM, it's waaaaaay more resource efficient than apache2 was for me. What's the language of the site?...

    I've been very happy with nginx over the last 15 years, particularly for running on a slim VM, it's waaaaaay more resource efficient than apache2 was for me. What's the language of the site? Anything not static you'll have to reverse proxy through php-fpm, or some other handler. But, again, doing so was still way more resource efficient for my use.

    5 votes