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  • Weather App of Choice?

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  • wX

    Uses the US National Weather Service for data. The UI is basic but it has all the maps. Probably overkill and too complex for normal people but good for weather watchers, amateur meteorologists and pilots.

  • Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”

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  • Same for me. In addition to deflock.me and haveibeenflocked.com, are there any community resource sites for finding others in the same city that would be willing to start pushing on the city to cancel their contract?

  • Why do you think voting is or isn't important?

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  • You're not just voting for politicians, but judges, sheriffs, school board members & many others. Often, you're choosing the lesser of 2 evils and rarely will you match policy-for-policy with your best candidate, but in what other way do you have to express your opinions?

    I research all candidates on my locality's ballot and bring notes on who I plan to vote for. I sometimes can vote absentee, which is even better.

    As I've found in many elections, I'm the minority. That's ok because I believe that when the polls are close, it can pull the candidates closer to my views as they try to appeal to the groups that may give them a few more votes.

  • How do you manage your home server configuration?

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  • How do you decide what's for Terraform and what's for Ansible?

  • Name one material thing you yearned for when you were younger, but never got it, and now in retrospect you're glad you didn't get it because ______?

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  • I haven't heard about the terrible longevity. They even top the consumer reports list for EVs. What sorts of longevity issues are there?

  • Will an anti advertisement movement ever materialize?

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  • I had to scroll way too far down the pageto find this (i trynot to duplicateanother's comments). At the core of some of thescummy advertisements is profiling, enhanced by privacy violations. Remove the abikity to track you around the internet and IRL and advertisements become less obtrusive.

    The other side of the coin is that it costs so little to add adverts to a web page, so why not collect a little cash to help offset your hosting costs? Remove the profiling and Google & friends don't have a leg to stand on, so then when you visit a cooking blog you see ads for kitchen utensils. No biggie. Looking for auto repair articles? Check out this awesome wrench! At least you now don't go to show your mom some wedding venue you're thinking about renting alongside an ad for ED meds from the dark market.

  • Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.

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  • Similar to others, I do this but the reverse direction. I have a Pi with HDD at a friend's house. On a timer, it wakes up at 3am, boots to a VPN and initiates an rsync (pull) with it's twin Pi at my place. When the sync is done, it powers down or the timer cuts power at 9am.

    Other than clock drift due to power outages, I've had no issues.

    I have a directory that i can put scripts into and the remote Pi will execute anything in this directory after the sync and before the shutdown. Logs from the rsync or scripts are pushed back to a different directory on the local Pi.

  • Nuked and back again – a tale of losing and recovering a bare-metal kubernetes cluster (mostly)

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  • A pretty good read. I've made many of these mistakes myself and learned from every one of them. We spend so much time hardening our home labs from the bad guys, I wonder if we should instead focus on hardening from ourselves.

    Of course, the answer is both.

  • Emotional abuse of immigrant children by their immigrant parents probably contributes a lot to to why the kids hate their ancestral language(s).

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  • I'm in a shower of my own tears

    I love this!

  • GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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  • Thanks for posting the contents of the image. This is especially important for folks using a screen reader and the source content is behind a paywall or login link.

  • Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

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  • I mail a lot of gmail users. Is there a plugin to filter all my outgoing email to inject 0-width Unicode or replace all chars with a visibly equivalent character to prevent LLM training on my data, as I am not a GMail user?

  • The Voluntary Trap: How Denmark Repackaged Chat Control After Defeat

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  • This just means that it's not about protecting citizens or vulnerable individuals. The fact that the law won't say the true reason likely means that the real reason is unpopular or at a minimum something that nobody can get behind.

    I saw something in The Oatmeal line ago about pairing abstract ideas with concrete ones. IIRC, the example was to tie Bald Eagle extinction to Twinkies (in the US, presumably) such that if bald eagles go extinct, so do Twinkies. It'd be useful to pair the right to privacy with another right, such as the right to free speech (in the US, for example). That way, if these types of laws pass, so would free speech, something that most people seem to value.

  • Switch to a Fully free Operating System

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  • I thought Debian didn't include firmware and other binaries by default. I remember having a separate firmware CD for installs on weird RAID controllers. Did that change?

  • Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings

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  • Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?

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  • I can shut my nose mostly, but when diving into water from a significant height, it will always shoot up my nose, so I plug it with my fingers.

  • Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car?

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  • Consumer reports recently added a privacy rating to their car ratings. I glanced at it a little last year. I think it rated if you could opt out and the reach of the sharing.

    I do have to say that I'm generally disappointed with the discussion on this topic every tine it comes up. The majority of responses go contrast to the question. "Don't buy a car" or "fix up a junker" are generally not helpful if you've already decided that your top priority is to have a newer car. Another thread actually recommended to move to another country where you could walk everywhere. Seriously.

    Most often a car purchase is a complex decision making process where you need to weigh multiple, often conflicting priorities where privacy is only one aspect. I get the impression that if people followed the advice of the majority of these comments, they'd be living in a tent off grid, hunting for food to stay alive, but living their privacy dream.

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    Any tips for how to protect our privacy from AI security cameras

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  • I understand your point, but there have been some successes in bringing these issues to light: City committee rejects Smart Street Lights surveillance policy in San...

    There are others as well, I can't find them now in the sea of articles. There are also large oranizations that can help to get a community organized.

    I think the key is to tone down the message a bit to bring the "normies" into the conversation. Talk about a waste of tax dollars, talk about why you should care about privacy when you have nothing to hide. Talk about how these devices are misused and abused for personal gain and rarely assist in bringing criminals to accountability.

    Most people don't care about privacy but may care if their tax dollars are squandered or if their daughter had a stalker.

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    Any tips for how to protect our privacy from AI security cameras

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  • There are individual solutions, but of limited success. The most effective method is policy change and the most effective way to change policy is with a collection of people.

    Form a concerned community member group, grow the group, approach local politicians and city council members, requesting change.

    Check out the deflock and EFF web sites for inspiration.

    This is the hardest but most effective method. I was able to change a speed limit in the neighborhood and close a road that was being abused as a traffic light bypass by bringing concerned community members together.

  • Privacy @lemmy.world
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog

    cloud.google.com /blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger

  • What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread

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  • I've been trying to learn K8s and more recently the Gateway API. The struggles are that most Helm charts don't know Gateway (most are barely Ingressroute) and I'm trying to find a solution to one service affecting the other gateways.when a service cannot find a pod, the httproute fails and when one route fails, the ingress fails. It's a weird cascading problem.

    Right now, I'm considering adding a secondary service to each gateway that resolves to a static error page. I haven't looked into it yet; it cane to me in the brief moment of clarity before I fell asleep last night.

    Also, I may be doing everything wrong, but I am learning and learning is fun.

  • Do you have any rules you try to follow when engaging with others online?

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  • Point taken. It was probably a bad example. I was trying to find an example of something that would be an unpopular topic rare hat would ultimately benefit the community.

  • Privacy @lemmy.world
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor

    pluralistic.net /2024/10/07/foreseeable-outcomes/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    community hosted backups

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it

    pluralistic.net /2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/
  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    Unpersoned (22 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

    pluralistic.net /2024/07/22/degoogled/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    TIFU by rebooting before rebuilding my initfs

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    Privacy first – Cory Doctorow

    pluralistic.net /2023/12/06/privacy-first/
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    English is weird

  • Privacy @lemmy.world
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms

    www.eff.org /wp/privacy-first-better-way-address-online-harms
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    Disclosure of sensitive credentials and configuration in containerized deployments - ownCloud

    owncloud.com /security-advisories/disclosure-of-sensitive-credentials-and-configuration-in-containerized-deployments/
  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer

    gizmodo.com /new-york-bill-criminal-background-check-buy-3d-printer-1850930407
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    IPv6 for home lab

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Anonymouse @lemmy.world

    Any love for Kubernetes here?