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M4rkF

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Biological nerd from the Milky Way galaxy.

:linux: and #foss enthusiast.

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M4rkF, to random
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Hello comrades.

I'm looking for a solution for archiving and preferably indexing archived documents. I'm thinking like keeping digital copies of utility receipts and expense reports.

Suggestions and boosts appreciated!

jonathanspw, to Redis
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YARF! Yet Another Redis Fork.

In today's edition we have Valkey! Valkey is backed by the Linux Foundation and a large number of Redis contributors have moved to Valkey.

Packages are built for Fedora and EPEL.

https://valkey.io
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=valkey

M4rkF,
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@jonathanspw Do you know if this is intended to be a drop-in replacement?

JoeRess, to random
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Fun fact: a lot of potential advertisers for LNL podcasts want to blur the lines between advertising and content. For example they only really want to buy an ad if they can also get someone from their company (often the CEO) on the show to do an interview.

We always say no to that because we have a strict separation between ads and content.

The result is that we sell fewer ads than we could, but that's less of an issue than it used to be thanks to all our wonderful patrons. ❤️

M4rkF,
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@JoeRess
And it makes the podcasts that much better for sure! Thanks for keeping it that way!

M4rkF, to random
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@ enthusiasts, Do you host any services that use SMTP for password resets or that sort of thing? If so, which email service do you setup with your applications ... i'm not particularly interested in hosting email.

homeassistant, to homeassistant
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Home Assistant 2023.12 🎄

A gorgeous new login page, a new design for the thermostat card, a numeric tile card feature, options for the default dashboard, the history dashboard showing long-term statistics, and more!

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/12/06/release-202312/

M4rkF,
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@homeassistant Good riddance - MyQ

nixCraft, to linux
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😂 i guess you never tried Portage system under Gentoo

M4rkF,
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@nixCraft
Damn... someone has been watching me...

gnome, to GNOME
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Join us for a meet and greet with our new Executive Director Holly Million! Holly will be answering your questions on November 14 at 18:00 UTC.

Please register and submit your questions at https://events.gnome.org/e/HollyMillion

All question submissions are due Nov 07.

M4rkF,
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@gnome
Will she in fact be able to communicate with the ghosts of removed features?

gcluley, to random
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For anyone who is interested (from a technical malware-level) about what is going on with all these Booking.com scams, here's a good analysis by Akamai:

https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/sophisticated-phishing-campaign-targeting-hospitality

M4rkF,
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@gcluley
damn... in a way this is brilliant... too bad the process is designed to screw the customer.

w7voa, to random
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Gunshots reported fired at more than one business in Lewiston, Maine. Authorities are declaring it a mass casualty incident.

M4rkF,
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@w7voa

🤔 I do belive having arms around is the problem here ....

wait....

I get it now.

In all seriousness.... this blows and the worst part is yet to come when this gets politicized.

gcluley, to random
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Well, what do you know... I just (like two minutes ago) received a new scam message via Booking.com's app.

Here it is... Read more about this problem in my article from last week:
https://grahamcluley.com/fraudsters-target-booking-com-customers-claiming-hotel-stay-could-be-cancelled/

M4rkF,
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@gcluley
I do believe a 'Booking dot yeah!' is in order here.

gcluley, to random
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Amazon paid employee $350,000 in expenses for non-existent meals and fake happy hours, FBI says

(To be fair, Jeff Bezos earns that in the time it takes to put on one of his socks in the morning...)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/10/24/amazon-paid-inside-fraudster-350000-in-expenses-for-fake-meals-and-happy-hours-fbi-says/

M4rkF,
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@gcluley
Damn... if the problem was the fake happy hours... for that kind of money, I'm sure I could get creative and have some real ones!

M4rkF,
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@U2VuZCBudWRlcyA6KSAK
ahhh... the network effect....

I wouldn't use it on anything, but if you have to... i'd start by looking if it's possible to use it from a web browser instead of using an app. This way, the browser app will isolate it from having access to your entire device.

M4rkF,
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@whale @GnomeComedy
This also assumes they know how to tell if it is exposed or not.

I normally setup fail2ban as soon as I know something exposed to the outside.

Looking for a website like tracker control app

Not to long ago I had a website that functioned like the tracker control app. When using the site it would test against a list of trackers and tell me what my 1Blocker app is actively blocking. I cannot for the life of me remember the url or find it. I’m hoping someone here knows what I’m looking for. TIA

M4rkF,
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@stifle867 @iamtuna

Damn!.... looks like mine failed to block partner.ads.js ... how do I block that?

M4rkF,
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@stifle867 👍

popey, to ubuntu
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A Linux distribution based on , which has a very Windows 11-like theme, and wants a license key - which is validated with a remote server over HTTP.

M4rkF,
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@popey

Somebody was feeling nostalgic I bet

blogoklahoma, to opensource

QOwnNotes
https://www.qownnotes.org/

I've no plans to move from Obsidian right now, but QOwnNotes does look interesting.

M4rkF,
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@blogoklahoma
I've been using for a while and i'm pretty happy with it.

M4rkF,
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@Onyx376 @ares35

Is this a default setting for any browser?

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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M4rkF,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat Sounds like it's going great!

M4rkF,
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@knexcar @throws_lemy @Clent

If you didn't commit a crime, why should be part of the line up of suspects?

M4rkF,
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@knexcar @throws_lemy @Clent

This goes beyond coincidence. This is more like you being a suspect every time some crime is committed. I'm sure in a perfect world you would be proven innocent... but that world doesn't exist and handing over this power to corporate entities and govts only opens it up for abuse.

gcluley, to random
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Hi folks. Anyone got a security contact at booking.com?

M4rkF,
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@gcluley Which email client are you using? I'm curious about tracking pixel detection... also.. will you be using their hotel wifi during your stay? 😂 😅

M4rkF,
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@vector_zero @Syakaizin
You could just live boot a linux USB and mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 ;) 😂

gcluley, to Cybersecurity
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That day you find you’re suddenly in charge of Facebook’s official UK account.

https://grahamcluley.com/that-day-you-find-youre-suddenly-in-charge-of-facebooks-official-uk-account/

M4rkF,
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@gcluley 😂

hazel, to security

Could anyone give me recommendations for a password manager? Google is basically useless now and I don't know anywhere else to ask. 😅

So far, I've never found one that I trust enough to use. I do understand the importance but I'm extremely, incredibly hesitant to hand over my passwords to a 3rd party program. I'm even more hesitant to use randomly-generated passwords that I can't memorize as a backup.

All that being said, here's what's important to me:

  • Transparency - public audits, published whitepaper, and/or open source.
  • Export to a printable format. I don't have reliable backups, so this is a must-have!
  • Works with desktop & mobile Firefox.
  • Works on Windows & Linux (I regularly use both).
  • Works on Android - not critical, but would be really helpful.
  • Can work offline (I don't trust any sync server to stay online).

For everything else, I'm more flexible. I don't mind paying a small amount for a better / more trustworthy option, either.

Any suggestions, recommendations, or just boosts are appreciated! Thanks so much in advance! 💙

M4rkF,
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@tkk13909 @hazel
bitwarden works great for me. You do not have to self-host if you dont want to.
2FAS for OTP allows off-line backups that you can carry around and backup as necessary.

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