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Zagorath

@ Zagorath @aussie.zone

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Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

  • Crossherd #322 2026-01-24

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  • I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA

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  • Oh good tip!

  • it's truly a wonder how they accomplished this

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  • Wtf is this crap? Just because I'm taking the approach of siding with reality I must be a bit or corporate stooge?

    Google and Amazon do enough real things wrong without needing to make up bullshit conspiracy theories. Like Amazon's abusive labour practices, and…everything about the Audible & Kindle platforms. And Google's support of the American military industrial complex and shoving AI down everyone's throats while making their products actively worse.

    Just because something is bad, doesn't mean every single accusation against it is accurate.

  • I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA

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  • That's a pretty righteous set up OP.

    Lol not me. I'm not the author. Just saw the article and thought it was an interesting conversation starter.

  • it's truly a wonder how they accomplished this

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  • That might be true, I honestly don't know. But it doesn't matter to the point I'm making, which is that however the device does it, it's the device, locally, that determines whether a wake word has been said, before it starts transmitting what comes next.

  • it's truly a wonder how they accomplished this

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  • No, they can't. Precisely because of all the people who quite rightly don't trust Google and Amazon, who would notice their devices' network traffic increasing.

  • it's truly a wonder how they accomplished this

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  • I'm specifically talking about Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices, not anything else your phone or apps are doing. So the only one of those articles even remotely relevant is the third.

    And the third talks about "false wakes" being the cause. Which goes along with what I said before that until it hears the wake word (even if it's mistaken in doing so), it's not sending back recordings.

  • it's truly a wonder how they accomplished this

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  • Care to clarify your meaning? Or are you just disagreeing because it feels good to go along with the conspiracy theory?

  • I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA

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  • or a recipe for an insecure mess that could become difficult to maintain

    The concept, or the specific setup the author of that article has? If you mean the latter, I'm not going to argue. But the concept? It shouldn't have any effect either way on security, but the whole advantage of it is that it's less of a mess. The same way that running a whole bunch of services on bare metal can quickly become a mess compared to VMs or Docker/LX containers, declared state helps give a single source of truth for what all the services you might be running are. It lets you make changes in repeatable and clearly documented ways, so you can never be left wondering "how did I do that before?" if you need to do it again.

    If everything you run is a Docker container, there's a good chance Terraform is overkill; a Kubernetes config will probably do the job. But depending on your setup there are a whole bunch of different tools that might be useful.

  • I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA

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  • What's your preferred approach to defined state in your home servers?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    I made my home lab immutable with Terraform | XDA

    www.xda-developers.com /made-my-home-lab-immutable-with-terraform/

  • Peter Dutton alienated voters with ‘arrogant and aggressive’ approach, Labor election review finds

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  • Well, we might not be able to see what the Liberal election review said, since Dutton threatened to sue his own party over it. But at least we can get Labor dunking on them instead!

  • Circuits #831 2026-01-23

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  • Crossherd #321 2026-01-23

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  • Oof. Beat me by that much.

  • Crossherd #321 2026-01-23

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  • Crossherd #321🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩Time: 0:35crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

  • it's truly a wonder how they accomplished this

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  • The data isn't there. At least not in the way some of the biggest fearmongers talk about it. Everything you say to the device, you can assume is there. But it listens for the wake word locally and doesn't send information to the server until after it receives the wake word.

  • Circuits #830 2026-01-22

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  • Crossherd #320 2026-01-22

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  • Why are the Populist Right Surging in Australia?

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  • Yeah, maybe. But there are a few issues. One is that some regression to the mean is just expected. The last election was an exceedingly good result for Labor.

    Another is that there are issues with the data because of the irrationality of One Nation voters. Rationally, we would expect nearly every One Nation vote to flow back to the LNP, but evidence suggests it is actually much more evenly mixed.

    There's also the fact that One Nation's vote is not nearly as evenly spread as the Coalition and Labor's votes are. Total percentage may be high, but it's very unlikely to translate into an equivalent number of seats.

  • 🐀 rule

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  • Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Coalition on brink as Nationals quit shadow ministry

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-21/nationals-coalition-littleproud-ley-hate-laws/106254676
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Threat of Coalition split as three Nationals quit opposition frontbench

    www.smh.com.au /politics/federal/three-nationals-shadow-ministers-expected-to-resign-from-opposition-frontbench-20260121-p5nvoj.html
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Woolies' new AI system fundamentally changes the role of the shopper

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-20/woolworths-google-ai-items-shopping-groceries/106243642
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Banning hate groups in Australia | Constitutional Clarion

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Liberal election autopsy delayed after Dutton suggests report defamatory

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-18/peter-dutton-election-loss-liberal-party-report-delayed/106240876
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Promoting and inciting racial hatred - the proposed new Australian offence | Constitutional Clarion

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Adelaide Festival board members, chair quit after author's cancellation from Writers' Week

    www.abc.net.au /news/2026-01-11/fallout-amid-writers-week-cancellation-of-randa-abdel-fattah/106217646
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    $2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays $20 for all island deliveries even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited

    Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge

    honey.nine.com.au /money/woolworths-delivery-new-additional-fee-for-sundays-public-holidays/3c592b68-144d-4ae3-a6ed-354a32932dd9
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them?

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2026/jan/02/australias-red-and-yellow-beach-flags-can-dangerously-confuse-tourists-is-it-time-to-change-them
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    What to look for in building/buying a server?

  • Bicycling @lemmy.world
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    The UCI rule changes for 2026 you need to know about

    www.bikeradar.com /news/the-uci-rule-changes-for-2026-you-need-to-know-about
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Nextcloud AIO containers all stuck on "Starting" on Synology on first setup

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it

    www.smh.com.au /national/nsw/it-took-years-to-come-up-with-a-plan-to-cut-road-deaths-and-just-11-days-to-kill-it-20251129-p5njg5.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

    theconversation.com /australias-roads-are-full-of-giant-cars-and-everyone-pays-the-price-what-can-be-done-268212
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Coalition shamelessly uses tragedy for political gain

    www.smh.com.au /national/nsw/coalition-shamelessly-uses-tragedy-for-political-gain-20251217-p5nodb.html
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Will Reddit's challenge to Australia's "social media ban" succeed? | Constitutional Clarion

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Greens Preferences Flow to Labor – 2010 and 2025 Compared | Antony Green

    antonygreen.com.au /comparing-greens-preferences-to-labor-2010-and-2025-compared/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    What's the advantages/disadvantages to hosting Nextcloud with Docker vs the Package Center on a Synology?

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Kia and Dettol ads top complaints list for 2025

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-12-11/the-most-complained-about-ads-of-2025/106105394