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13 votes
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A closer look at the DarkSide ransomware gang, which was responsible for the recent attack on Colonial Pipeline
15 votes -
Elon Musk is not your friend
20 votes -
Substack is selling soap operas
8 votes -
TI announces new TI-84 Plus CE Python
16 votes -
Australian Criminal Intelligence Agency looking to expand it's intelligence gathering powers by claiming that criminals use encrypted platforms 'almost exclusively'
19 votes -
EFF Surveillance Self-Defense - Privacy breakdown of mobile phones
18 votes -
96% of US users opt out of app tracking in iOS 14.5
35 votes -
Midnight Sun K-Pop ‘pirates’ being reported to INTERPOL, streaming platform warns
6 votes -
New York Attorney General issues report detailing millions of fake comments, revealing secret campaign to influence FCC’s 2017 repeal of net neutrality rules
28 votes -
The chip shortage keeps getting worse. Why can't we just make more?
19 votes -
Deepfake lips are coming to dubbed films
16 votes -
The current chip and semiconductor shortage
7 votes -
The Epic vs. Apple trial: What we've learned so far
7 votes -
How China turned a prize-winning iPhone hack against the Uyghurs
11 votes -
Pressing flesh against flesh 🤝: The multi-skin toned handshake emoji reveals that it is more than a routine gesture
9 votes -
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
26 votes -
They told their therapists everything. Hackers leaked it all.
15 votes -
Getting kinky for the sake of data
4 votes -
Getting inked up? Thank Thomas Edison.
3 votes -
Twitter has acquired Scroll, a subscription for news sites, and intends to integrate it into their own upcoming subscription service
11 votes -
Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
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What3Words - The algorithm used to generate its geocodes, and issues with it that result in ambiguous locations being common
11 votes -
A third of Basecamp’s workers resign after a ban on talking politics
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What would make app stores better?
There was a recent discussion about the Windows App Store where people said they don't like using it. I'm in the Apple world, and people here constantly complain about the Mac and iOS app stores....
There was a recent discussion about the Windows App Store where people said they don't like using it. I'm in the Apple world, and people here constantly complain about the Mac and iOS app stores. I grudgingly use Steam to download games that are only available there. Everyone seems to hate using app stores, but most agree that having them is better than having to find stuff on the web or in bricks and mortar stores.
I don't tend to "shop." When I decide I need a product, I do research. I try to find unbiased sources, though that's problematic in itself. But I don't go browsing for anything because it's largely pointless and tends to drive you towards what the company that's best at selling wants you to buy rather than what's best for your needs. So for the most part, my interaction with app stores is searching for a specific program and either finding it or not.
What do people think would make app stores better? Complaints I've heard include:
- Too hard to find a product you want when you don't know the specific name of a particular one (like you want a photo editor that can make a photo mosaic, but don't know the name of a specific photo mosaic app)
- You search for a specific product and the top hit is a paid placement for a competitor
- Stores are full of crapware with similar names and similar keywords
- Top apps are all games
How could app store makers improve the situation? What would make using an app store a joy for you?
21 votes -
Florida bill would fine social media platforms for banning politicians— with exemption for Disney
14 votes -
SSD manufacturers start warning that mining proof-of-space blockchains like Chia Coin will void warranty
14 votes -
Tech people of Tildes, what have you automated in your life?
Talk about anything you have "automated" in your life. No restrictions on the tools or things to automate. You have a simple "silence your phone at work" thing? Great job! Do you have a complex...
Talk about anything you have "automated" in your life. No restrictions on the tools or things to automate. You have a simple "silence your phone at work" thing? Great job! Do you have a complex thing with hundreds of lines of custom code? Wonderful! All are welcome!
I myself have automated a bit of stuff, and am constantly looking for more (that's why this thread exists):
Home:
- My room will turn on the lights when it detects the brightness inside is going down, but will slowly do it relative to the current brightness so it doesn't suddenly turn on at once. (Tries to keep a certain brightness at certain times)
- I can send "loff", "lon" or, "lauto" through XMPP to turn my lights off, on, or toggle the automatic mode mentioned above from anywhere. I am blocking internet connections from my smart light hub so I had to re-implement that manually
Computer:
- Copying any YouTube links (or Invidious links, which get translated into YouTube) will automatically prompt me about opening them under MPV
Phone:
This is where I do the bulk of my automation, as Tasker is a very convenient way to automate stuff.
- Toggle full brightness and/or auto rotation on specific apps (Gallery, NewPipe, etc.)
- A couple of Android "Share" targets for
- Uploading dumb images to my webserver
- Adding links to Miniflux (abusing it's bookmarklet functionality)
- youtube-dl through Termux
- And some (mostly gimmicky) text-to-speech notifications for calls and XMPP messages
Planned:
- Miniflux notifier over XMPP. My last attempt failed because Node-RED apparently doesn't reconnect over to XMPP when its connection drops :(
26 votes -
What the 2000s thought today would be: Computers
4 votes -
Juan Joya Borja, known as 'El Risitas' or the 'Spanish Laughing Guy' meme, has died
12 votes -
Beavers chewed through a cable and knocked out internet service to hundreds in a Canadian town
6 votes -
The big business of manifesting money
3 votes -
Extremists find a financial lifeline on Twitch
7 votes -
Inventive grandson builds Telegram messaging machine for 96-year-old grandmother
16 votes -
Some tips for multilingual SEO best practices
3 votes -
Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material
15 votes -
William Gibson says today's internet is nothing like what he envisioned
10 votes -
Apple sued for terminating account with $25,000 worth of apps and videos
15 votes -
Proctoring tools and dragnet investigations rob students of due process
19 votes -
Microsoft enables Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 for developers
24 votes -
Dutch MPs in video conference with deep fake imitation of Alexei Navalny's Chief of Staff
11 votes -
After decades of not using them, the Pentagon has given control of millions of IP addresses to a previously unknown company in an effort to identify possible cyber vulnerabilities and threats
17 votes -
Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong
20 votes -
A community of 3D graphics hobbyists are making and selling avatars of real people in order to fulfill their sexual fantasies, and there's little anyone can do to stop them
11 votes -
What should a lay user know about Linux app packaging?
I’m enough of a Linux lay user that I’m not even sure if I’m using the right terminology in the question (feel free to tweak it if needed!). Here’s what I mean: I’m running Pop!_OS currently, and...
I’m enough of a Linux lay user that I’m not even sure if I’m using the right terminology in the question (feel free to tweak it if needed!). Here’s what I mean:
I’m running Pop!_OS currently, and I have at least one app installed via each of the following methods:
- Deb app from the distro repositories
- Deb deb downloaded from program website
- Flatpak app downloaded from Flathub
- AppImage app downloaded from program website
- Snap app downloaded from the Snap store
As someone who doesn’t really know or necessarily even care to know what’s going on under the hood, these all pretty much work identically for me (with the exception of AppImage which doesn’t integrate into my regular programs menu, and the standalone Deb, which requires manual updating). In fact, for most of the programs on my computer I couldn’t tell you which one they’re sourced from. They all just run like they should.
I’ve looked up differences between all of the options and usually end up finding conversations that go well above my head and get deep into technical details. My question here is basically aimed at cutting through a lot of that depth: what is the important, need-to-know information about these different methods of installing apps? Is there anything I should be aware of if all I’m really going to be doing is running them as a standard, non-power user? Also, if an app is available via multiple methods — is there one that is preferred/better/safer/superior/etc.?
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New in progress Blender render engine: Cycles X
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Looking for recommendations for a high-end / "prosumer" network router (that is not Ubiquiti)
I recently moved apartments. I have a Ubiquiti Edgerouter POE that's served me well over the past few years. I unplugged the router at my old place, drove over to my new place, plugged it in,...
I recently moved apartments. I have a Ubiquiti Edgerouter POE that's served me well over the past few years.
I unplugged the router at my old place, drove over to my new place, plugged it in, and...it failed to boot. I can log in to the web UI, but I immediately get an error that I can't get past. SSH, which normally works, comes back "connection refused" indicating the SSH daemon isn't even running.
There are forum posts about this problem from five fucking years ago. The only solution offered is to do a factory reset. I could do this, and I have a config backup somewhere, but I'm not going to put up with a device so unreliable that a power cycle bricks it.
I was a big fan of Ubiquiti up to now. I have two of their routers, one at my home and one at a vacation home my family owns that I'm the IT guy for, as well as several of their access points. After this, as well as the recent data breach (which didn't affect me personally but gives me a bad taste nonetheless) I think I'm done with them.
So, Tilderinos, any recommendations?
Some specifics:
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I have gigabit internet so I definitely want something that can handle those speeds and not be a bottleneck
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I'm knowledgeable about networking and have no problem with "user-unfriendly" setup & configuration.
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I have a site-to-site-to-site Wireguard VPN between my home, my family's cabin, and a server I run in the cloud. I'd strongly prefer to keep using Wireguard, which effectively limits me to Linux-based options, because FreeBSD support for Wireguard is still WIP. If it weren't for this requirement, something BSD-based like pfSense / OPNsense would be at the top of my list.
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I'd prefer to keep the router and access point separate rather than go with a typical "all in one" type device. The wifi spectrum at my new place is much less congested than my old apartment building, but I'd still like to keep the option of having multiple APs. I got spoiled by my old apartment being wired for Ethernet so running multiple APs was easy. That's not an option at my new place so I may look into either powerline internet (yes I know it sucks) or mesh wireless.
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eProcessor is a project that will create an open source RISC-V core for High Performance Computing (HPC)
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Discord has halted talks with Microsoft and other potential acquirers, is resuming interest in a future IPO
28 votes -
Academic surveillance software company Proctorio is suing a researcher critical of them, seeking to obtain private communications
@Ian Linkletter: Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.On the eve of the BC Supreme Court hearing to dismiss their lawsuit, Proctorio has applied for a court order allowing them to pry into my PRIVATE communications.Our response: https://t.co/jJdQ47P8Pe pic.twitter.com/leCr8yevsx
20 votes