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Armand1

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  • Anyone else have to deal with this at work?

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  • If you're homeless in the UK, and especially if you are disabled, you can easily spend 20+ hours per week filing complaints, reasonable adjustments, writing suitability reviews, organising care, trying to get benefits etc.

    Just to protect yourself from abuse in the system and to get the right to live a life approaching that of a normal person.

    Instead of contributing to society, you have to fight bureaucratic battles just to get what you legally are entitled to.

    So effectively, you are working one of the most stressful and bureaucratic jobs imaginable, with 'colleagues' that question and deny everything you say, and if you fail you may freeze to death on the streets, and all without pay.

  • Six arrested at protest of Palantir, tech company building deportation software for Trump admin

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  • What are the rights around protesting in America? Is it legal for you to be arrested like this?

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • As mentioned by another user, all drives fail, it's a matter of when, not if. Which is why you should always use RAID arrangement with at least one redundant drive and/or have full backups.

    Ultimately, it's a money game. If you save 30% on a recertified drive and it has 20% less total life than a new one, you're winning.

    Here's where I got some.

    https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/manufacturer-recertified-drives

    I looked around a bit, and either search engines suck nowadays (possibly true regardless) or there are no independent studies comparing certified and new drives.

    All you get mostly opinion pieces or promises by resellers that actually, their products are good. Clearly no conflict of interest there. /s

    The best I could find was this, but that's not amazing either.

    What I do is look at backblaze's drive stats for their new drives, find a model that has a good amount of data and low failure rate, then get a recertified one and hope their recertification process is good and I don't get a lemon.

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • I got some 16TB drives recently for around $200 each, though they were manufacturer recertified. Usually a recertified drive will save you 20-40%. Shipping can be a fortune though.

    EDIT: I used manufacturer recertified, not refurbished drives.

  • They don't know

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  • I mean born into the mid-90s. I was a child - early teenager when this aired.

  • New research shows the psychological toll of the 2024 presidential election

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  • I think you'll find that the real mental health impact comes post election, when people are under the regime, even more so than when the party is not yet in power.

    When people's rights are actively being taken away, every day is a chaotic mess with the knowledge that your livelihood, your health or your legal status is at constant risk of being taken away.

  • They don't know

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  • Hard day at the office

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  • Imma have my 1-1 performance review on this.

  • Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, seems to get right-wing update

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  • Yep. Pretty sure that was deliberate on Musk's (or his cronies) part.

    Imagine working at X and being told by your boss "I'd like you to make the bot more racist please." "Can you convince it that conspiracy theories are real?"

  • The Best-Selling Apps Made By Israeli Spies

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  • I'm pretty sure I've been using the Simple Gallery app they mention for years.

    It looks like it is still open source. However I do see on the Play Store page that their contact details are in Israel.

    The Pro version, the one I use, claims to collect no data at all. Not sure how much I trust that.

    Maybe it's time to look for a new gallery app...

    EDIT:

    The open source code has not been updated since 2023, and neither has the Pro app. However the non-pro app has been updated in 2024.

    Therefore, it might be safe to use the open source code version on GitHub, but I wouldn't touch the free one on the play store.

    I wouldn't use the Pro version on the play store as you would be funding these companies and they could push an update in the future.

    EDIT 2:

    As mentioned here, a popular fork of many of these now abandoned Simple apps is the Fossify project. If you liked the app I'd recommend looking at that if you want to keep getting security updates at the very least.

  • Senate Approves Unprecedented Spending for Mass Deportation, Ignoring What’s Broken in our Immigration System

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  • Imagine if that kind of money were spent making people's lives better, instead of deliberately making people's lives worse at no benefit to anyone.

    "Government efficiency" my ass.

  • What strict parents actually teach

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  • This one hits a little too close to home...

    Also, the word you're looking for might be "abusive" rather than "strict".

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    Secret Santa will love it

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  • This has been posted half a dozen times in the last two months alone. Please. We get it.

  • Swap!

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  • This is effectively the plot of Trading Places (1983) starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.

  • Woke Cheat Sheet

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  • Another common one is "y'all" but I'm not American enough to pull that off.

  • Woke Cheat Sheet

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  • Someone at work said we should use "folks"... But I'm not a Loony Tunes ending screen.

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  • I think it's if you want to have user management. There's some sort of admin console you have to pay for, but I don't use it.

    To be honest I had kind of forgotten it was a thing. If you're using this for a business then you might want to link it to your OIDC (Microsoft account etc.) and therefore pay for those extra features.

    However if you use it to connect to your own devices or those of your friends like you would with TeamViewer (via device IDs and per-device passwords) as I do, you won't have to pay for it.

    Give it a go and see how you get on!

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  • Been using them for years.

    It's completely free, open source and has:

    • Unsupervised (for headless servers) or supervised (helping out relatives) access
    • Easily file transfers
    • Cross-copy paste
    • Identification server (what gives out connection IDs) can be self-hosted or you can use theirs for free
    • Can control PCs from mobile app (though not vice versa apparently they support this now!)
    • Experimental web browser client.

    EDIT: I forgot, but it's also much better at compressing video effectively than realVNC, which is what I used to use. Performance and latency remains fairly good even at low bitrate.

    For a little while, I even used to play point and click games remotely with my brother over it. Probably too much latency for an action game though.

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  • If your kid has half a brain he'll do what we did as kids when porn sites were blocked on the home WiFi: He'll just get a VPN.

    And when VPN websites were blocked on the home WiFi, we'd just download their apps on mobile data.

    Where there's a will, there's a way.

    Better to educate your kids on their natural urges and letting them use the more moderated sites than have them go down the more dodgy rabbitholes. No kink shaming but some of the things people do are nasty.