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psivchaz

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  • Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?

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  • I use a little mini PC with a DAS connected via USB. So you don't need to go full server to expand the storage.

  • Universal Coronavirus Vaccine Breakthrough: A Single Shot That Could Protect You From COVID, MERS, and the Common Cold

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  • I'm a bit concerned about that TBH. I'm not a doctor or medical researcher though so if they make one I'll probably be an early adopter anyway. But since cancer cells are body cells with a problem, it feels like a screw up on a cancer vaccine would just lead to some exciting new autoimmune disease.

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  • Lifetime pass for Plex too. A few months ago, it bubbled up an ad-filled version of a show I was watching in front of the show on my server. That is, it showed up in Continue Watching. I was briefly baffled when I started watching an ad on a show that I thought was streaming locally.

    Anyway, I switched to Jellyfin. There's some imperfections, but so far it hasn't tried to trick me into watching ads.

  • SMH

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  • Yeah but have you seen the state of things? One man's absurdist joke is apparently another man's deeply held belief right now.

  • muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows

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  • It sounds like Hollywood tech lingo. Like when you're watching a movie or a TV show and the designated techy character starts just saying computer words that make no actual sense in the real world, but I guess in CSI: Idiottown the hard drives have severe overheating issues.

  • Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sell

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  • The best selling car in America last I checked was the Ford F-150, which costs slightly more than a Tesla Model 3. By your math, people who can afford a car payment are rich?

    What I'm trying to get you to understand is that the people you started this thread wishing harm to are mostly not millionaires, they're people who are one layoff or one medical bill away from the abyss, just like most people in America. Your hate for Musk makes perfect sense, and he HAS been obviously an asshole for a long time, and the hero worship he got early on IS and always was stupid as hell. But people catching strays in this fight just because they bought a car doesn't make any sense.

    If you're going to run everyone through a purity test based on who gets their money, it only makes sense that you should hate on every truck owner too for buying more gas than they need, hate on every Facebook user for making Zuckerberg rich, hate on every person who shops at Walmart for helping destroy retail. Basically, if your test of a good person is "have they ever spent money that went to a billionaire who's destroying the world" then you haven't got an ally in the world.

  • Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sell

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  • Nah, quite the opposite. My point is that we have to live in the society we're in. You want to label one billionaire asshole as worse than the others just so you can feel smugly superior to people who are, for the most part, more leftist than the average and in the same working class bucket you presumably are. It doesn't help anyone.

    Shit on Musk, shit on Tesla. They deserve it. Don't shit on the people who should be your allies. It's counter productive.

  • Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sell

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  • So you've never done business with a company who's CEO is an asshole? Never bought gas, used Windows, googled something, gotten on Facebook?

    I knew full well this guy was an asshole. So is pretty much every CEO in America. You can't opt out, you can only choose which asshole you want to do business with. The holier-than-thou bullshit because Musk is the asshole of the day helps no one. If you buy oil at all, you're funding an industry that has lobbied governments around the world to buy more oil for literal generations, all while knowing the harm it was causing and the people it was killing and would kill.

    It's cool that you've picked the Nazi you hate over the ones that had the good sense to stay home, but it's childish at best to think that makes you a better person.

  • Starbucks continues to be terrible

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  • I don't understand why you think it's either/or? I didn't say, "Starbucks is solely to blame" or anything of the sort. It's incredibly stupid that living requires an employer, and that's something we need to fix, but as long as it does they should act and be treated like they have the ethical responsibility they've been given.

    Maybe you should stop giving people free passes for psychopathy just because it's within the law.

  • Starbucks continues to be terrible

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  • To the company it is "an adjustment." To those people, it can be a devastating loss of healthcare, of the money they use to pay for food and shelter, and even an identity crisis. Starbucks has all sorts of positions, ranging from seasonal part time employees, to store management that gets paid pretty well, to corporate employees that presumed they were in 20y career trajectories. Every single one of them deserves better than losing their job just to pay for a big bonus for one guy.

    It's not about whether they are allowed or not. It's that actions should have consequences but the modern corporate structure has so divorced leadership from the consequence of their actions that this is normal. Let me rephrase: Hurting people to pump your personal wealth is not just normal, it's expected. That's sick.

  • Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car

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  • I disagree. He's done enough that calling him a Nazi feels accurate to me. Or at least enough of a Nazi sympathizer that I totally support not doing business with him.

    What I get frustrated by is justifying hurting the people that have his cars. Having a Tesla does not make one a Nazi sympathizer. You could maybe make the case that buying one today might, but even then I don't think it's justified attacking people for having a car.

    If you want to be an extremist about it, hurt the dealerships and the company. Don't go after people who are almost certainly not that different from you. The people keying cars just want to feel smugly superior to someone and feel morally justified for being an asshole, they don't want to make anything better for anyone. If that's how you act, you're just a fascist with a slightly different ideology.

  • Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car

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  • It's not locked in such a way that only Tesla can do it, but it can be hard to find places that will service them. Especially smaller shops just don't want to go through the hassle of figuring it out, and figuring out how to order parts and such, at least where I live.

    Basically, it is going to depend on the shops near you and while Tesla doesn't seem to actively prevent it I think they make it enough of a hassle for other shops that it may be true in some places that you can only rely on them for repairs.

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    Filthy Rich

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  • I think it's a case of correlation not causation. To become truly wealthy in present day society involves stepping on a lot of people. To relish in being on top, desire more and more wealth and power even as you achieve levels that set you apart from the rest of society. I don't think that mindset is the same as being a pedophile, but it's the same as the mindset you would probably have to have to actually have sex with a child.

  • Trump given power to rename Greenland 'Red, White and Blueland' under new bill tabled by Republicans

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  • I'm picturing the US flag but instead of stars it's corporate logos.

  • Trump given power to rename Greenland 'Red, White and Blueland' under new bill tabled by Republicans

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  • I mean countries have always done that, just not quite this stupid but also often very stupid. People in Japan call their country Nippon, not Japan. People in Germany call their country Deutschland. There's a ton of countries that English just straight up changed the names of for reasons varying from some form of probable racism to misunderstanding that they never bothered resolving.

    I'm not defending this move, it's dumb as hell. Just pointing out that "dumb as hell" isn't new.

  • I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user...

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  • The other poster gave you a lot. If that's too much at once, the really low hanging fruit you want to start with is:

    • Choose an active, secure distro. There's a lot of flavors of Linux out there and they can be fun to try but if you're putting something up publicly it should be running on one that's well maintained and known for security. CentOS and Debian are excellent easy choices for example.
    • Similarly, pick well maintained software with a track record. Nginx and Apache have been around forever and have excellent track records, for example, both for being secure and fixing flaws quickly.
    • If you use Docker, once again keep an eye out for things that are actively maintained. If you decide to use Nginx, there will be five million containers to choose from. DockerHub gives you the tools to make this determination: Download number is a decent proxy for "how many people are using this" and the list of updates tells you how often and how recently it's being updated.
    • Finally, definitely do look at the other poster's notes about SSH. 5 seconds after you put up an SSH server, you'll be getting hit with rogue login attempts.
    • Definitely get a password manager, and it's not just one password per server but one password per service. Your login password to the computer is different from your login to any other things your server is running.

    The rest requires research, but these steps will protect you from the most common threats pretty effectively. The world is full of bots poking at every service they can find, so keeping them out is crucial. You won't be protected from a dedicated, knowledgeable attacker until you do the rest of what the other poster said, and then some, so try not to make too many enemies.

  • I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user...

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  • Correct, horse battery staple.

  • Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts | Yesterday, the president said that no judge “should be allowed” to rule against the changes his administration is making.

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  • When I was little, long before I had a reason to want it to be true, I had this theory that the Secret Service, which is obviously not a secret, was called that because they had a secret mandate: If the President ever gets really out of pocket and goes for dictator powers, it's their job to execute him as a traitor.

    Anyway, I doubt it's true, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately.

  • Explaining green transportation policy to normies

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  • The irony being that you need unlimited money to be able to afford to live somewhere with proper public transportation, currently.