mystik

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mystik,

I was always told competition helps drive prices down. Was that a lie?

This story is weak and literally makes one statement: consolidate the retail market and we might see better prices. It misses the mark on what it might be trying to actually say or what is actually going on: there is no chain large enough to put pressure on suppliers ( which are probably consolidating, invisible to consumers) to lower their prices, so stores are forced to keep high prices or raise them.

mystik,

Seriously. I recently learned that group that owns Star Market, Shaws’s, (+ a bunch of others en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertsons ) wants to merge with Kroger’s (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger)

mystik,

Is this about elles ?

mystik,

TacticalRMM is very comprehensive, self hosted, but more geared towards organizations managing a fleet of machines.

mystik,

Don’t UWU! That’s a $350 fine!!!

mystik,

“Goodbye, Earl!”

mystik,

It’s not the Muslims, it’s the evil Christians. Same problem, but different names.

Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet

I plugged into ethernet (as wifi w/captive portal does not work for me). I think clearnet worked but I have no interest in that. Egress Tor traffic was blocked and so was VPN. I’m not interested in editing all my scripts and configs to use clearnet, so the library’s internet is useless to me (unless I bother to try a tor...

mystik,

It’s uncommon for ‘public use’ ethernet ports to exist, unless they are clearly labeled. The ethernet ports might grant access to the internal network, which, is easy to accidentally do. A non-profit library with a limited budget might overlook all the extra protections on open ports (enable/disable ports as needed, use 802.11x port-based authentication, internal SSL, etc), that would be necessary to secure it. Or, even better; that RJ45 port might be wired up to an old PBX, and you may have fried their telephone system, or your own hardware.

mystik,

The Germans have Russians. :-/

mystik,

Passkeys are great, and generally a plus for security; but (a) all the most popular implementations have not implemented key export and transfer to alternate implementations (b) It includes an implementation ID + hardware attestation feature which can be used to disable ‘unapproved’ implementations by key consumers. Considering the most common device with a ‘secure’ environment, and can implement this are your cell phones, and they are made by Apple + Google, this effectively locks your identity to either of these platforms. © All the public signals smell and look like the providers (apple, google, Microsoft) are doing everything they can to implement the features to make lock in all but inevitable, including mandating that implementations user-hostile features, or risk being rejected by sites.

It’s a great idea, and it could be awesome, but things are not being addressed. Or being handwaved as “we can address them later”. This recent discussion from last month (both the discussion in the linked github issue, and in the HN thread both including some key players in the PassKey system) is pretty telling: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698502

mystik, (edited )

pairdrop.net is FOSS, cross platform, realtime, peer-to-peer, and only needs a browser. You can host your own version if you prefer. In contrast, Firefox Send (also FOSS) was ‘asynchronous’ (you could upload, and then email a link), but it was shut down due to abuse. github.com/timvisee/send is a fork of the archived github project that you can self host with many improvements, notably authentication, so only yourself and trusted users can upload. (edit: wrong link for ff send)

mystik,

In fact, it can be better: having root means you can arrange additional ‘firewalls’ between apps and your data , or omit/falsify sensor data the the banking app should not need, that the Google is unwilling to implement.

mystik,

Here’s the REAL reason: Apps grant Developers/Content owners more control/metrics/data about the user to feed their advertisers, which translates to more revenue. It’s way easier to hoover up data about the user outside of the browser sandbox, and in apps.

mystik,

No.

Smart TV’s run automatic content detection on all their inputs. You will also be nagged to put the device online relentlessly, and some models will not let you skip internet connectivity.

mystik,

I wish I knew, but the ad industry LOVES this tech: duckduckgo.com/?q=smart+tv+ACR&t=ffab&ia=web Every other result is “How ACR is going to be awesome for advertisers/marketers”. the ones in between are “How to shut off ACR” :-/

mystik,

I see this said every time this comes up.

Are there any efforts starting or even attempting this? Or even taking an existing printer and replacing it’s main board?

mystik,

Dar Williams lyric in the title!

mystik,

These hips don’t lie

O365 email local cache

Work uses O365 and I’m getting a little frustrated with OWA. Thinking about running a local email server to mirror O365. In the end, I want to keep my email in O365, but have a 2 way sync with a local imap server. Looks like I have a few options on the email server - dovecot/cyrus/stalwart. For the syncing, I just see mbsync....

mystik,

IMAP on O365 now requires “Modern Auth”, which requires OAuth to authenticate access to mailboxes. Anything that connects via IMAP will need to be approved by the admins at this point (Including Thunderbird). Without the cooperation of your organization’s IT team, you are not going to get far.

mystik,

Linux. (ducks)

mystik,

You can lose your Google account in the blink of an eye with no recourse, no access to support or anything.

With local and my own backups, I can choose to put them at any location, cloud or local.

mystik,

“Automatic content recognition” …roku.com/…/acr-the-future-of-tv-and-audience-dat…! Roku is not the only ones doing it :(

mystik,

And before anyone says we’re snowflakes and can’t take a joke – he’s not joking. This was not a joke. Vote accordingly, and be warned, you do NOT want to be living in a dictatorship.

mystik,

I worry too – if this gets any significant uptake, what’s stopping Reddit from shutting off the spigot? Given their reasons for turning the screws on API and other policy changes, they may not take kindly to having “their” content re-posted elsewhere, let alone to a system designed specifically to escape reddit.

mystik,

Could be too much pressure – double check your z-offset/leveling? I had it so bad, and didn’t realize it, … and wore out the original brass gear :(. The nozzle was pushed right up against the bed, so it was trying so hard to push out filament that wasn’t going anywhere.

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