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  • Aurora australis set to light up Australian sky as agencies monitor ‘severe’ solar storm

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  • Last night:

    May 2024 was better:
    April 2023:

    ...all from Melbourne's far outer west, using an old sony nex camera. Did my best to preserve it as perceived by my eyes. No enhancement or turning up the colour (like phones and some cameras do now with their baked-in AI enhancement).

  • Non-connected MP3/MP4 players

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  • Old phone which is supported by (even an old version of) LineageOS, kept permanently in airplane mode.

    Can be extra cheap in countries which have switched off 2G+3G networks, and old phones are more likely to have a headphone jack. You might even have one kicking around in a drawer.

    Audio output quality and headphone driving capability varies -- research on audio forums for what might be good. LG v-series were very good.

    If you're feeling adventurous you could crack it open and remove/short antennas & microphones and cameras.

    If it's usb-only or the audio section is poor quality, apple sell a cheap usb-c dac that's pretty good. (get it from a reputable source -- most are counterfeit).

  • Australia Post rival shuts operations without warning

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  • Good riddance. Yet another lowballing courier undercutting what should be a natural monopoly for standard parcels operated by public-owned AusPost (unless the Libs get in again and have a go at privatising it).

  • Last mile provider FAST Group's post-merger meltdown: PE-backer freezes fund amid financial red flags (tl;dr - Sendle no more)

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  • Good riddance. Yet another lowballing courier undercutting what should be a natural monopoly for standard parcels operated by public-owned AusPost (unless the Libs get in again and have a go at privatising it).

  • turning a raspberry pi 4B into a vpn router

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  • Usually they're normal x86 PCs with nothing unusual about them so just your Linux/BSD distro of choice. You can look up the processor model to see what crypto acceleration it can do, or see if there's any wireguard benchmarks available.

    Some have interesting processors like PowerPC, or other strange hardware, but avoid them unless interesting is what you're after.

  • turning a raspberry pi 4B into a vpn router

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  • You have the pi, give it a go.

    If it's inadequate then i'd recommend a used fanless thin-client type PC, such as a Wyse 5070, just make sure it comes with PSU and a few GB of RAM and SSD. And check reports of how much power it uses at idle.

  • Email alternative for organizations

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  • Mozilla/Firefox sync - why does "Mozilla Monitor" appear with signed in devices?

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  • Ok, it's beginning to look like bad UI design on accounts.firefox.com:

    If I click sign in at monitor.mozilla.org, it redirects me to an oauth process hosted on accounts.firefox.com which prompts me for my password then sends me back to monitor.mozilla.org.The settings page at accounts.firefox.com then lists Mozilla Monitor under "Connected Services - Everything you are using and signed into" along with all my browser/device instances. But it doesn't disappear when signed out from monitor.mozilla.org in the same way that a browser instance disappears when signed out from sync browser-side.

    I'm supposing that list does not indicate what has access to sync data, which as far as I understood uses its own strong private keys browser-side which are never shared with the servers.

  • Mozilla/Firefox sync - why does "Mozilla Monitor" appear with signed in devices?

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  • I've seen no documentation that Mozilla Monitor works by accessing one's sync data.

    The interface suggests that it only monitors email addresses manually added on monitor.mozilla.org's UI.

  • Mozilla/Firefox sync - why does "Mozilla Monitor" appear with signed in devices?

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  • Yes, I was aware of that at the time, and I probably assumed that my browser would be hashing each piece of data (e.g. each email address or username) before sending it to Mozilla Monitor or haveibeenpwned.

    What concerns me is Mozilla Monitor appearing in the list of devices/browsers synced, each of which is implied to have cleartext access to all the data I decide to sync (bookmarks/history/tabs in my case, logins+passwords and more for many other people).

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Mozilla/Firefox sync - why does "Mozilla Monitor" appear with signed in devices?

  • I answered: Are VPNs essential?

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  • Most mass-marketed VPN services (the type marketed for accessing the internet) allow you to VPN into their private subnet where the thing you can access is their gateway router (which you use in place of your home gateway router/modem for connecting to the internet). You don't need a VPN service to use VPN software between two points you control.

  • RFK Jr admits to dumping bear carcass in New York's Central Park

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  • Plus, is he an abolitionist?

    Slavery, abortion, prison, or guns?

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  • ublock origin does not have this disclaimer. It works well and is widely trusted.

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  • If you're using Mozilla's level of endorsement as a metric, note this prominent disclaimer on the addon's page:

    ⚠️ This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.

  • Thoughts on Google turning every device into a scanner for Find My Device?

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  • any xmpp user ?

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  • Yep. It works and it's awesome. I use conversations on android devices and dino and gajim on desktops, various family members use siskin on iOS.

    With zero app or server-software or provider lock-in, and an actual in-practice diversity of apps and providers, the whole thing seems pretty immune to enshittification.

  • [UNRWA Defunding vs Genocide] Worse Than You Can Imagine - Craig Murray

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  • What then? Maybe 98% supports + 2% doesn't support the genocide?

    That 2% because a genocide might be a bit inconvenient with an election coming up?

  • [UNRWA Defunding vs Genocide] Worse Than You Can Imagine - Craig Murray

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  • [alt-text for the vision-impaired] Image appears to be a twitter post from Craig Murray posted on 2023-10-14: "To be entirely plain. I have always viscerally opposed war. I have dedicated my life to conflict resolution and reconciliation. But in the coming Gaza genocide, every act of armed resistance by Hamas and Hezbollah will have my support. If that is a crime, send me back to jail."

    Hmm. Could be seen as a rather outlandish thing to say in the immediate aftermath of 2023-10-07, but in hindsight with what we know now in terms of what atrocities the Israeli military forces have brought upon the people of Gaza since that attack on Israel, it seems a reasonable statement to support armed resistance against the coming episode of genocide which indeed materialised and continues today.

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    UNRWA Defunding vs Genocide

    Worse Than You Can Imagine - Craig Murray

    www.craigmurray.org.uk /archives/2024/04/worse-than-you-can-imagine/

  • Noticed this while talking with a couple of friends

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  • Ohh, so "pavement" meaning a sealed road surface?

    In my head I'm trying to figure out what the footpath (U.S. "sidewalk") a.k.a. U.K. pavement fits in with the jibe.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding

    kitklarenberg.substack.com /p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia
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    Google docs infects html exports with google tracking redirects.

    fosstodon.org /@Joe_0237/111145684757912952