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gerowen

@gerowen@mastodon.social

Husband, father, US Army veteran, IT specialist, school bus driver, diesel mechanic, tech, security, Linux and free software enthusiast, gamer, dog lover.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Today let's spread the love!

@ someone in the comments who has made your Mastodon experience better, a little explanation as to why would be awesome too! You are welcome to do more than one.

gerowen,
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@RickiTarr @tekeous Landalf the Grey makes Mastodon better for me because he posts cool stuff and his avatar reminds me of the game "Dungeon Defenders".

Gargron, to threads
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#Threads is testing federation for a few selected profiles. I'm now following @mosseri! It's one-way for now, but it's exciting. It's a step towards the interoperable social web that we've been advocating for ๐Ÿ™‚

gerowen,
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@Gargron @mosseri That's cool. I can't see any of their posts, but it'll be cool to see when it actually rolls out.

Gargron, to random
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Itโ€™s hard not to say โ€œAIโ€ when everybody else does too, but technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing. There is no intelligence there, and itโ€™s not going to become sentient. Itโ€™s just statistics, and the danger they pose is primarily through the false sense of skill or fitness for purpose that people ascribe to them.

gerowen,
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@Gargron I've been telling people this forever and they don't want to hear it. They're so enamored with the science fiction of "AI" that they don't want to believe that these companies will lie for money.

Gargron, (edited ) to random
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We're testing a couple new follow recommendation algorithms on mastodon.online, so if you have an account there, please check Explore โ†’ People and let me know if the quality of the results has improved for you.

gerowen,
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@Gargron I followed several of the media outlets that are accessible now that @Flipboard is federating, so I contributed, ๐Ÿ˜œ

gamingonlinux, to random
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Itโ€™s fucking nuts that service providers can just remove your purchases like this without refunds.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/psvideocontent/#

gerowen,
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@gamingonlinux Playstation did the same thing to me way back with movies I had purchased directly from them.

With modern consoles you don't "own" anything, you're just renting a license to content for as long as they feel like making it available.

ilyess, to infosec
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I was shocked witnessing someone logging into their bank on the phone in public recently:

  1. Their phoneโ€™s big display was at full brightness so everyone around could see what they were doing.
  2. They typed their password in, so no password manager. Unsurprisingly the password was weak: 5 lowercase letters and 1 numeric character.
  3. They didnโ€™t have any kind of 2FA set up!

How on earth is this still happening?! ๐Ÿคฆ

gerowen,
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@ilyess Because people are lazy and don't want to think too much.

fribbledom, to random
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We're doing ad-blocking wrong.

Instead of blocking ads, we need to ensure they register being shown as often as possible.

Drain these ad budgets with useless traffic ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

gerowen,
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@fribbledom I saw a browser addon ( adnauseum maybe? ) recently that did exactly this, registered false clicks on as many ads as possible as you browse the web to flood their analytics with garbage data.

viktor, to opensource
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What's one project you can't live or work without?

โ—No distros/OS. Let's make it interesting.

Boosts appreciated ๐Ÿ™

gerowen,
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@viktor Once the PiHole sees each device individually, you can just add them as "Clients" based on MAC address, then add those clients to groups, and you can then set your lists or domains to only apply to certain groups.

gerowen,
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@viktor . I use it not only to block ads and malware network wide, but to place content restrictions on all my kids' devices. I've added lists for social media, pornography, gambling, etc. that only apply to my childrens' devices. When there's no school the next day, re-enabling YouTube is as easy as hitting a toggle in the interface.

caseynewton, to random
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Alex Jonesโ€™ return to X is indefensible. It also probably wonโ€™t matter https://www.platformer.news/p/x-restores-alex-jones

gerowen,
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@caseynewton It did for me.

ChrisPirillo, to random
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one does not simply

gerowen,
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@ChrisPirillo This is awesome. I've wanted a figurine of Azura holding her star to serve as my tree topper for a while, but it seems like the only way I'll get it is to work up a model and 3D print it myself.

gerowen, to linux
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So I was working on a computer for my mom earlier. It's dual booting Debian #Linux with KDE because she wants to learn Linux, and I figured KDE resembles Windows. Anyway, I was setting up shortcuts so she could find all of her files she normally uses, but there's one problem. #Microsoft #OneDrive appears to do something weird. There's an empty file called "OneDrive", that appears to be a pointer, but the OneDrive "folder" isn't present. Anybody know where OneDrive "actually" stores files?

gerowen,
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@kkarhan It's just weird; it "says" in Windows that the actual path is D:\OneDrive (it's stored on a separate drive), yet when viewing that drive in Linux, OneDrive is just a file with a size of 0 bytes, so there's some weirdness going on there, some metadata attached to it to obfuscate away the real location. It probably has something to do with how it handles some files being physically there and some of them are only online, but still get displayed when you open the folder.

GossiTheDog, to random
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    gerowen,
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    @GossiTheDog Why is it written in English? Just wondering.

    fribbledom, to debian
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    Debian/Linux users beware:

    Due to an issue in ext4 with data corruption in kernel 6.1.64-1, we are a pausing the 12.3 image release for today while we attend to fixes. Please do not update any systems at this time, we urge caution for users with UnattendeUpgrades configured.

    Please see bug #1057843:

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843

    #debian #linux #ext4

    gerowen,
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    @fribbledom My kernel after installing 12.3 is 6.1.0-14.

    thenewoil, to random
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    Facebook Is Ending Support for PGP Encrypted Emails

    https://joltmailer.com/facebook-ends-pgp-encrypted-emails-support/

    gerowen,
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    @thenewoil This was one of the few things I thought Facebook was doing right, so of course they're gonna stop doing it.

    gerowen, to apple
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    Senator Warren calls out #Apple for shutting down #Beeperโ€™s โ€˜#iMessage to Androidโ€™ solution | TechCrunch

    https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/10/senator-warren-calls-out-apple-for-shutting-down-beepers-imessage-to-android-solution/

    gerowen,
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    @mori_au I just don't get the hype around trying to hack your way into iMessage which is a proprietary walled garden. If Apple wants to keep it proprietary then just tell people on iPhones to use Signal. It's open source, cross platform and has been audited by third parties. If they don't want to use Signal to talk to you, then obviously they don't actually want to talk to you that bad.

    gerowen, to privacy
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    I wrote a little something talking about , and the things I use in my daily life to help control the flow of and access to my personal information. Here I talk about my recommended messaging, email, cloud storage and other services.

    https://gerowen.wordpress.com/2023/12/22/so-you-have-nothing-to-hide/

    gerowen, to PCGaming
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    #ElderScrolls #Skyrim just had huge update with lots of bug fixes, official Steam Deck support, support for ultra wide monitors and a the new "creations" store.

    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition - Creations Update Patch Notes

    #Gaming #PCGaming

    https://bethesda.net/en/article/4ORD7tshfmHUN8H4ULSgE4/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-edition-creations-update-patch-notes

    gerowen, to johnoliver
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    "Israel-Hamas War: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)"

    https://youtu.be/pJ9PKQbkJv8?si=5P_x1PpXGKoh8pxF

    gerowen, to photography
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    The entrance to one of our neighboring elementary schools. Brought our boys over for a basketball game.

    gerowen, to Israel
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    Holy shit, even #TheOnion is getting in on it.

    "IDF Soldier Recounts Harrowing, Heroic War Story Of Killing 8-Month-Old Child"

    https://www.theonion.com/idf-soldier-recounts-harrowing-heroic-war-story-of-kil-1826048745

    #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

    gerowen, to Playstation
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    A wave of users have had their accounts permanently suspended without explanation | TechRadar

    https://www.techradar.com/gaming/playstation/a-wave-of-playstation-users-have-had-their-accounts-permanently-suspended-without-explanation

    gerowen, to threads
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    Adam Mosseri spells out โ€™ plans for the fediverse / The head of says a full integration with the could take โ€˜the better part of a year.โ€™

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24003435/adam-mosseri-threads-fediverse-plans

    gerowen, to linux_gaming
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    3.5 dropped on the stable channel last night and today alongside a firmware update for Valve's official dock. This updates the Arch base along with new graphics drivers, new firmware (UEFI/BIOS) for the itself and more. It also adds support for HDR, variable refresh rate and several bug fixes.

    I did some testing with Death Stranding and the HDR looks great, though it'll take some getting used to. Lighting aside, the colors seem to pop more.

    A photo showing the update progress for dock firmware.

    gerowen, to internet
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    "Japanese disaster prevention #X account canโ€™t post anymore after hitting API limit"

    Governments should not depend on #SocialMedia for #emergency communication. If you run a group or organization, you shouldn't be using Facebook or Twitter for your official communications, you should use products designed for that purpose that won't interfere with your ability to disseminate information in the event of an emergency.

    #Japan #EarthQuake #Twitter

    https://www.dexerto.com/tech/japanese-disaster-prevention-x-account-cant-post-anymore-after-hitting-api-limit-2451266/

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