New novel illuminates the suffering of Canada’s temporary foreign workers
New novel illuminates the suffering of Canada’s temporary foreign workers - rabble.ca
"Frosty Lanes" is a fictional dive into the de-humanizing federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, through the eyes of those experiencing the immigration system.rabble
New novel illuminates the suffering of Canada’s temporary foreign workers
New novel illuminates the suffering of Canada’s temporary foreign workers - rabble.ca
"Frosty Lanes" is a fictional dive into the de-humanizing federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, through the eyes of those experiencing the immigration system.rabble
Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate
Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climateNature
‘China isn't afraid of any US sanctions’: Beijing residents react as Donald Trump slaps 100% tariffs
‘China isn't afraid of any US sanctions’: Beijing residents react as Donald Trump slaps 100% tariffs | Today News
Beijing residents reacted with indifference to Trump's 100% tariffs on China, expressing confidence in their economy. Many viewed Trump's policies as unpredictable, while some anticipated minimal impact on daily life.Riya R Alex (mint)
Government chaos and vengeance? This shutdown is Trump's happy place
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits
McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits
: Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivityDan Robinson (The Register)
The old town of Annecy
I'm not really a photographer, but I took this photo when I visited the French Alps a month ago and thought it was a really nice one.
Camera: Sony RX100 VII
I 10 migliori film horror dell’ultimo decennio: il nuovo terrore d’autore da vedere ad Halloween
Il nuovo volto della paura ha dieci nomi. E tu, quanti ne hai già visti?
C'è chi dice che il cinema horror non sia più quello di una volta... ma noi non siamo d'accordo. Dimentica i soliti jumpscare: il terrore degli ultimi 10 anni è raffinato, disturbante, politico, viscerale. È nuovo horror d’autore.
Dall’inquietudine chirurgica de Il Sacrificio del Cervo Sacro al body horror femminista di Titane, fino all’incubo psichedelico di Climax… abbiamo selezionato i 10 migliori film horror del decennio, perfetti per chi vuole un Halloween fuori dagli schemi 🎃
Un viaggio tra cult moderni, registi visionari e paure che restano sotto pelle anche dopo i titoli di coda. E no, non c'è nulla di casuale in questa classifica. Ogni film è un pezzo di cinema che lascia il segno.
Vuoi scoprire quali sono e perché sono imperdibili?
Leggi l’articolo completo su Atom Heart Magazine: I 10 migliori film horror dell’ultimo decennio: il nuovo terrore d’autore da vedere ad Halloween
I 10 migliori film horror (2015–2025) da vedere ad Halloween | Atom Heart Magazine
Da Midsommar a The Lighthouse, dieci film horror che hanno ridefinito il genere nell’ultimo decennio. Perfetti da vedere ad Halloween.Alessandro (Atom Heart Magazine)
ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/28602691
The rule took effect in April 2024 after the FCC rejected ISPs' complaints that listing every fee they created would be too difficult. The rule applies specifically to recurring monthly fees "that providers impose at their discretion, i.e., charges not mandated by a government."ISPs could comply with the rule either by listing the fees or by dropping the fees altogether and, if they choose, raising their overall prices by a corresponding amount. But the latter option wouldn't fit with the strategy of enticing customers with a low advertised price and hitting them with the real price on their monthly bills. The broadband price label rules were created to stop ISPs from advertising misleadingly low prices.
ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all
ISPs complained about Biden-era rule, said listing every fee was too hard.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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VPN Comparison 2.0
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37366040
After making a post about comparing VPN providers, I received a lot of requested feedback. I've implemented most of the ideas I received.
Providers
- AirVPN
- IVPN
- Mozilla VPN
- Mullvad VPN
- NordVPN
- NymVPN
- Private Internet Access (abbreviated PIA)
- Proton VPN
- Surfshark VPN
- Tor (technically not a VPN)
- Windscribe
Notes
- I'm human. I make mistakes. I made multiple mistakes in my last post, and there may be some here. I've tried my best.
- Pricing is sometimes weird. For example, a 1 year plan for Private Internet Access is 37.19€ first year and then auto-renews annually at 46.73€. By the way, they misspelled "annually". AirVPN has a 3 day pricing plan. For the instances when pricing is weird, I did what I felt was best on a case-by-case basis.
- Tor is not a VPN, but there are multiple apps that allow you to use it like a VPN. They've released an official Tor VPN app for Android, and there is a verified Flatpak called Carburetor which you can use to use Tor like a VPN on secureblue (Linux). It's not unreasonable to add this to the list.
- Some projects use different licenses for different platforms. For example, NordVPN has an open source Linux client. However, to call NordVPN open source would be like calling a meat sandwich vegan because the bread is vegan.
- The age of a VPN isn't a good indicator of how secure it is. There could be a trustworthy VPN that's been around for 10 years but uses insecure, outdated code, and a new VPN that's been around for 10 days but uses up-to-date, modern code.
- Some VPNs, like Surfshark VPN, operate in multiple countries. Legality may vary.
- All of the VPNs claim a "no log" policy, but there's some I trust more than others to actually uphold that.
- Tor is special in the port forwarding category, because it depends on what you're using port forwarding for. In some cases, Tor doesn't need port forwarding.
- Tor technically doesn't have a WireGuard profile, but you could (probably?) create one.
Takeaways
- If you don't mind the speed cost, Tor is a really good option to protect your IP address.
- If you're on a budget, NymVPN, Private Internet Access, and Surfshark VPN are generally the cheapest. If you're paying month-by-month, Mullvad VPN still can't be beat.
- If you want VPNs that go out of their way to collect as little information as possible, IVPN, Mullvad VPN, and NymVPN don't require any personal information to use. And Tor, of course.
ODS file: files.catbox.moe/cly0o6.ods
VPN Comparison 2.0
After making a post about comparing VPN providers, I received a lot of requested feedback. I've implemented most of the ideas I received.
Providers
- AirVPN
- IVPN
- Mozilla VPN
- Mullvad VPN
- NordVPN
- NymVPN
- Private Internet Access (abbreviated PIA)
- Proton VPN
- Surfshark VPN
- Tor (technically not a VPN)
- Windscribe
Notes
- I'm human. I make mistakes. I made multiple mistakes in my last post, and there may be some here. I've tried my best.
- Pricing is sometimes weird. For example, a 1 year plan for Private Internet Access is 37.19€ first year and then auto-renews annually at 46.73€. By the way, they misspelled "annually". AirVPN has a 3 day pricing plan. For the instances when pricing is weird, I did what I felt was best on a case-by-case basis.
- Tor is not a VPN, but there are multiple apps that allow you to use it like a VPN. They've released an official Tor VPN app for Android, and there is a verified Flatpak called Carburetor which you can use to use Tor like a VPN on secureblue (Linux). It's not unreasonable to add this to the list.
- Some projects use different licenses for different platforms. For example, NordVPN has an open source Linux client. However, to call NordVPN open source would be like calling a meat sandwich vegan because the bread is vegan.
- The age of a VPN isn't a good indicator of how secure it is. There could be a trustworthy VPN that's been around for 10 years but uses insecure, outdated code, and a new VPN that's been around for 10 days but uses up-to-date, modern code.
- Some VPNs, like Surfshark VPN, operate in multiple countries. Legality may vary.
- All of the VPNs claim a "no log" policy, but there's some I trust more than others to actually uphold that.
- Tor is special in the port forwarding category, because it depends on what you're using port forwarding for. In some cases, Tor doesn't need port forwarding.
- Tor technically doesn't have a WireGuard profile, but you could (probably?) create one.
Takeaways
- If you don't mind the speed cost, Tor is a really good option to protect your IP address.
- If you're on a budget, NymVPN, Private Internet Access, and Surfshark VPN are generally the cheapest. If you're paying month-by-month, Mullvad VPN still can't be beat.
- If you want VPNs that go out of their way to collect as little information as possible, IVPN, Mullvad VPN, and NymVPN don't require any personal information to use. And Tor, of course.
ODS file: files.catbox.moe/cly0o6.ods
VPN for Privacy & Security | IVPN | Resist Online Surveillance
Audited, open-source VPN service with WireGuard, killswitch and tracker blocker. No logs, no false promises. Anonymous signup with 30 day money back guarantee.IVPN
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Nice chart, but I don't get the payment part, I looked it up for Proton and it states:
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, or Proton credits
Nothing about cash???
But they accept all major credit cards.
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proton.me/support/payment-opti…
Payment options | Proton
Find out how to pay for your Proton plan by credit or debit card, PayPal, Bitcoin, cash, or bank transfer.Proton
The age of a VPN isn’t a good indicator of how secure it is.
So then delete the row. OP, you control the spreadsheet, right?
Also, heat map conditional formatting favoring free is a bad metric. Free VPNs steal data, and Tor isn't a VPN, so this skews all the other paid options to seem negative.
So then delete the row. OP, you control the spreadsheet, right?
I can't speak for others, but I personally appreciate the info anyway. Because I wouldn't trust a VPN company that's been around for like 3 months. And it allows you to judge a track record with context.
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If you're going to be giving out advice, you should at least know that Mozilla VPN is rebranded Mullvad VPN. So most of the information on your chart should be exactly the same for both.
mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn…
Scroll down to "Convenient," then "More than 500 servers in 30+ countries," and click on the link "See our list of servers," which takes you to the Mullvad website server list here:
Unless something has changed, the VPN that Malwarebytes sells is also rebranded Mullvad.
In my opinion, if you're going to include a VPN like PIA, you should also include who owns them (Kape Technologies - owner of multiple VPNs), and instruct people to do an internet search for "Kape Technologies malware." I'm not saying don't get PIA, but people should be able to at least make an informed decision:
"Kape Technologies, originally known as Crossrider, has a history of distributing malware through its ad injection platform before rebranding and focusing on VPN services. While it has since shifted its business model, concerns about its past and corporate practices remain prevalent in discussions about its VPN offerings."
malwarebytes.com/blog/detectio…
Adware.CrossRiderAdware.CrossRider is Malwarebytes’ detection name for a large family of adware targeting both Windows and macOS systems. CrossRider offers a highly configurable method for its clients to monetize their software.
Source and type of infection
Adware.CrossRider is usually installed by bundlers. Programs offering some kind of functionality are combined with the adware component.
Additional reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Sa…
Likewise, inform people to search for "Nord data breach," so people can again make an informed decision. It wasn't the fact that there was a data breach, but how it was handled that some had a problem with:
"Evidence indicates the attack most likely happened some time between January 31st, 2018, when the server came online, and March 5th, 2018. The attack was made via a compromised data center account, not an account managed by NordVPN. The data center deleted this account on March 20th, 2018, blocking any further access to the server. NordVPN claims not to have been notified about the breach until April 13th, 2019, more than a year after it happened. It took down the server the same day, and began an immediate audit of its 5,000 servers. The company wouldn't go public until evidence of the hack emerged some six months later. Why? The blog post stated: 'thoroughly reviewing the providers and configurations for over 5,000 servers around the world takes time. As a result, we decided we should not notify the public until we could be sure that such an attack could not be replicated anywhere else on our infrastructure.'"
Again, not saying there is a problem with PIA and Nord, just that people should know about these things before making a decision.
Do yourself a favor. Get a Digital Ocean droplet for $6/mo, Debian version, follow their excellent step-by-step directions to install OpenVPN Server. Done.
You don't have to know Linux, the instructions are tight. I only got hung on one step where they left a small thing out. Also, I was drunk. Got it going the next evening.
This thing has been running for years and years, can't even remember how to log in, likely lost my SSH key. 🙄 No worries about logging. It's yours, they can't take it away or change the rules. It's yours.
And BTW, not sure my rate has gone up in the ~7 years I had it. Maybe $1? That might have been because I enabled additional backups.
My data center is in Amsterdam (AMS3). What are you on about? No, you can't flip your connection all over the globe, but it's still outside of America.
Go with a commercial provider then. But don't bitch about all the issues and risks.
Bad take
- You only have one country (the one you run your vps in).
- Costs more than any vpn provider (which come with many extra features out the box).
- You are not maintaining your OpenVPN installation and having to is likely a pain for most people (you said you "can't even remember how to login", which tells you me are not updating your servers OS or OpenVPN itself, which is leaving you open to vulnerabilities in the old software).
There might be advantages too, but I can't think of any unless you are gonna use the VPS for other stuff too and creating the vpn is basically free then (but I still wouldn't do it personally).
Holy shit, the entitlement of some comments here. As if they paid for your service and you let them down and caused them damages.
Thanks op for your contribution.
The concerns seem to be that the guide isn't particularly useful to novices which will be 99% of people getting a VPN.
They'll have questions like, "Do I need port forwarding to watch international Netflix" and "why shouldn't I just get the cheapest one what are all these other services".
Then guide tells you what VPNs offer what services, but unless you already know what all the terms mean other than price it isn't useful.
I'm not saying it's OPs job to make the guide intuitive but the fact that it isn't intuitive does mean that it's got a very limited audience.
This is a better one. Note - It is outdated since 2019, so take it with a grain of salt. However, it gives a general idea of where everything was and could still be today.
VPN Comparison by That One Privacy Guy
Welcome to the VPN Comparison! This section is meant to be a resource to those who value their privacy, specifical...thatoneprivacysite.xyz
Just wanted to leave a comment to say thank you for sharing your findings and taking the time to write your post here. I am sure you spent a lot of time and effort researching all of this. These kinds of posts are why I love Lemmy and its communities.
Not currently in need of a new VPN, pretty happy with Proton and my plan is active for another 1.5 years. But I still wanted to say I appreciate your post.
Thanks for this, looks like it took a long time to put together!
Some corrections with Windscribe since I use it: on Android you can get the APK directly ("sideload" - I use Obtanium) or through F-Droid. Also I think that pricing is for the full service. I pay like $3 a month with 30GB data and a choice of (I think) 3 or 4 countries IIRC. This has been more than enough for me and probably most people.
Done.
Symfonium: Your music, your way
Your music, your way. Play and cast music from your Android device, Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Subsonic, OpenSubsonic, Kodi, Samba (SMB v2/v3), WebDAV servers or supported Cloud providers (OneDrive, DropBox, Box)!Symfonium
This is the Lebanon ceasefire.
The IOF have some spare time on their hands now they cannot heavily bomb Gaza so they are doing some side quest terrorizing.
they cannot heavily bomb Gaza
I'm out of the loop... what's stopping them right now?
There is currently a temporary ceasefire deal for captive exchange in Gaza with Israel. Which will last 72 hours for now.
That said, Israel also has a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon which we can see they are not holding up.
Coal making a comeback as US datacenters demand power
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Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal
: High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stackDan Robinson (The Register)
Panspermia, biosignature detection, and the next decade of life‑detection strategies for exoplanets and icy moons
Both lines summarize panspermia, biosignatures, and near‑term missions spanning exoplanets and icy moons to align snippet text with page content focus. Including mission names helps relevance for astronomy readers and reflects current program timelines referenced in the source material. If truncation risk is a concern, prefer the shorter version for consistent display across devices and SERP contexts.
Panspermia, biosignature detection, and the next decade of life‑detection strategies for exoplanets and icy
Panspermia, biosignatures, and the next decade of life detection: from JWST and Roman to Europa Clipper, JUICE, and Dragonfly: methods, risks, and targets.Stefan (BreakingPaper)
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P2P WhatsApp Clone
IMPORTANT NOTE - READ FIRST:
This is still a work-in-progress and a close-source project (This is what a honeypot would look like). To view the open source MVP version see here. NONE of my projects have been audited or reviewed. I provide them for testing and demo purposes only. NOT to replace your current messaging app (or any other app you use).
BE RESPONSIBLE WHEN USING UNAUDITED SOFTWARE... DO NOT USE FOR SENSITIVE PURPOSES.
Now that I've hit you over the head with caution...
Want to send encrypted WebRTC messages and video calls with no downloads, no sign-ups and no tracking?
This prototype uses WebRTC to establish an encrypted browser-to-browser connection. Everything is ephemeral and cleared when you refresh the page - true zerodata privacy!
Check out the pre-release demo here.
- Website: positive-intentions.com/
- Mastodon: infosec.exchange/@xoron
GitHub - positive-intentions/chat: Decentralized chat
Decentralized chat. Contribute to positive-intentions/chat development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
It's a webapp hosted on AWS S3. That can be shut down along with the domain. I'd like to improve the functionality I have for the cacheing, so that it doesn't need to fetch the statics from online if it already previously fetched them.
The open source version has a mirror hosted on GitHub pages. You can fork it and run it yourself there for free: positive-intentions.com/blog/d…
How to Install and Run Your Decentralized Chat App Across Multiple Platforms
In today’s digital age, the importance of privacy and data security cannot be overstated. Our decentralized chat app aims to provide a secure and private messaging experience akin to popular applications like WhatsApp, but with a significant differen…xoron (positive-intentions)
There are ways around using a central server to establish a p2p connection. It isn't well explained or demonstrated, but the concept seems to work here: github.com/positive-intentions… .... I'd like to explore this more with exchanging the required data over QR codes or NFC.
Simplex is a great approach for p2p communication. I can easily recommend it over what I have done so far. At the very least, it's gone through things like a professional security audits and seem to keep a high standard in their practices.
Create webrtc wizard
(for testing purposes i use 2 separate browsers (not just windows) (there is a bug where you need a profile for this to work... you can ignore this bug for now, but for incognito, you will have to ...xoron (GitHub)
Just to be clear, my app is not better than jami (or any other app)... because its unreviewed close-source code.
The key distinction in my approach is that it's a webapp-first approach. You can avoid registration and installation, which is a feature other apps don't provide.
Bari Weiss and the Israel narrative in the US (25min Video)
For the past couple of months, the billionaire father-son duo of Larry and David Ellison have been making deals involving major media brands. Having acquired Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, they appointed Bari Weiss – an outspoken supporter of Israel – as the network’s editor-in-chief. The moves by the Ellisons are not just about growing their media empire, but about shaping the narrative around Israel in the US, where public support continues to decline.
Bari Weiss and the Israel narrative in the US
A relentless push to control how Israel is seen in US media - led by the billionaire Ellison family.Al Jazeera
software I use
Peertube Version: tube.blahaj.zone/w/qCS4ZDcukxV…
This should tide you over for at least a week I hope
Apps mentioned
- Kew: github.com/ravachol/kew
- Cool Retro Term: github.com/Swordfish90/cool-re…
- Signal: signal.org/
- CoMaps: comaps.app/
- VLC: videolan.org/
- Proton: proton.me/
GitHub - Swordfish90/cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display... - Swordfish90/cool-retro-termGitHub
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la maledizione delle viscere liquidose e le conseguenze troppo umane (ho il raffreddore o qualcosa del genere e sto esplodendo)
Da stamattina, purtroppo, regna la tristezza!!! Questo perché non sono riuscita a dormire 15 ore stanotte, bensì solo 10 scarse (facendo i conti senza Mi Band, visto che sto ancora senza cinturino)… Almeno, credo siano non più di 10 ore nette di sonno, contando approssimativamente anche le tante volte che mi sono svegliata perché non […]
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la maledizione delle viscere liquidose e le conseguenze troppo umane (ho il raffreddore o qualcosa del genere e sto esplodendo)
Da stamattina, purtroppo, regna la tristezza!!! Questo perché non sono riuscita a dormire 15 ore stanotte, bensì solo 10 scarse (facendo i conti senza Mi Band, visto che sto ancora senza cinturino)… Almeno, credo siano non più di 10 ore nette di sonno, contando approssimativamente anche le tante volte che mi sono svegliata perché non respiravo, e una in cui sono dovuta andare stranamente in bagno, nonostante sono abbastanza sicura di non aver dimenticato di fare pipì prima di andare a dormire, e in genere quello basta per non dovermi alzare, che è cosa scomoda e pallosa. Alle 11 proprio non ce l’ho fatta più a stare nella mia caverna odorante di marcio, dove pure stando dritta nel letto a quel punto respiravo a fatica, e allora ho dovuto alzarmi. 😾
Tutto ciò, però, non è accaduto dal nulla… bensì, in fondo si è verificato solo perché si è avverato il mio vero incubo peggiore a parte tutti i meme, ossia che mi è ufficialmente venuta quella cosa per cui produco quintali di muco dal niente e non solo inutilmente, ma in modo grandemente dannoso; che non è allergia, perché non è stagione, ma non sono nemmeno sicura al 100% che sia raffreddore, perché il flusso degli eventi non mi convince riguardo tale teoria… per ora la chiamerò “maledizione delle viscere liquidose“, semplicemente. Non solo di giorno coi fazzoletti, però, cosa che già di suo è terribile… ma di notte a morire, perché il muco mi cola malamente stando stesa, soprattutto sul lato come mi è davvero comodo dormire, e quindi finisco col naso otturato, e mi sembra di finire all’altro mondo… quindi devo allungare il braccio per prendere il fazzoletto lurido, che se va male non sta al lato del cuscino bensì sul comodino, e soffiare, e pur soffiando e cacciando muco ancora non si respira… Non ha aiutato nemmeno fare la doccia bella calda ieri sera; o meglio, per qualche ora mi ha spurgata un po’, ma poi al momento di dormire si è rivelato tutto inutile. E tra ieri e oggi avrò buttato già 7 fazzoletti, che è tanto considerato quanto io li riuso fino all’essere impregnati, oltre a vari strappi di carta igienica, quando mi trovo a soffiarmi con quella. 😰Per fortuna, da vecchia femcel socialmente isolata quale sono, il fine settimana non devo mai uscire (se non per boh, momenti rapidi per comprare cose magari… e dovrei anche ritirare il pacchetto con i cinturini della Mi Band, a dirla tutta), e questo fine settimana in particolare credo idem, quindi almeno la situazione dovrebbe non peggiorare, credo… cioè, lo spero sinceramente. Su una cosa non scherzo minimamente, e cioè che il muco è veramente il mio nemico non-umano numero 1 (si, è peggio degli spiriti malevoli); il freddo in sé dà fastidio, ma alla fine si va avanti… il problema è quando inizia questa maledizione, e tutto quello che comporta. E ormai quasi ogni anno è così da quando esisto, una tarantella allucinante… ora inizio a prendere lo sciroppo, ma questo sistemerà il problema solo per stavolta, mentre al prossimo incidente si ripeterà, e l’unica cosa che riesco a chiedermi è… perché cazzo non c’è una soluzione permanente a ciò??? Sono una ragazza magica, io, dovrei in qualche maniera poter riuscire ad hackerare pesantemente la mia biologia per non finire mai più in condizioni del genere… e, invece, continuamente sono sconfitta. È davvero così troppo chiedere di smettere di soffrire, ma allo stesso tempo non voler morire? 🧸
#freddo #inverno #muco #raffreddore
'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley
A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley
Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.Lily Jamali (BBC News)
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People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
“This is getting ridiculous and I'm about to just toss the whole thing and move back to Google,” one Redditor said of the “full-volume” ads for Alexa+ on their Echo Show.
Oh sweet summer child, Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.
People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
“I’m about to just toss the whole thing…”…Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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My pet pony keeps shitting on the floor.
I am very frustrated and did not expect it.
I should sell it off and buy a horse instead.
No. It's more as if you had to pay for the pony to get it, and then:
If you want to ride the pony, that's $2. The saddle has a coin slot to pay. It also has spikes poking both you and the pony if you don't pay. Any time you get off, the spikes relock, requiring another payment to unlock.
This is the exact same situation minus the animal cruelty part and with money being swapped with time.
Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.
Personally, I disagree with the first and agree with the latter. I have a Nest Hub, and there are no ads on that. But I would still urge the redditor and myself to get acquainted with Home Assistant instead of bothering with the offerings from Google and Amazon.
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It's not even personal opinion, it's objective fact...
Amazon shoves ads on everyone of their products far and above any competitors.
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Just get Chinese, they won't be able to do anything to you even if info is collected
Or just don't buy products from companies that don't respect you...
Buying chinese is like going to the guy who beats you less because he spending half the time at his other girlfriend's house.
I don't. Never used it In my life.
I even switched my android TV to alternative launcher because I don't want Google peddling shit
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edit: it's incredible to me, that people put as much trust as they do in the entire world
What Can Someone Do With Your Bank Account and Routing Numbers?
If someone has your bank account and routing numbers, they can withdraw or transfer money from your account, among other fraudulent activities.Tim Maxwell (Experian)
That's from the ancient banking system designed in the 1940s that is still lurching around. The protection on a check isn't cryptographic - it relies on the issuing bank to confirm the authenticity by examining heuristics on the paper check like paper type, ink and font used, check number, issuing address and the person's signature. It used to be that you would deposit a check at your bank and then it would be mailed to the issuing bank to be cleared for transfer. You wouldn't just deposit it and get your money instantly, it would take up to 10 days.
Honestly it is bewildering to me that they haven't changed the system to issue cryptographically secure deposit-only numbers and unique withdrawal numbers that at least verify the authenticity of the check itself.
In the case of smart tv's it's obvious why it works. It's way cheaper to buy a smart tv vs a dumb tv now, and It's all companies make for consumer side, which only leaves business grade TV's/advertisement boards which cost more. Even if this isn't the case though, with how streaming oriented most people are, the general public won't buy a dumb tv because they would still need to buy some sort of device to allow them to access their stuff. It's just convenient to have it in the same device rather than buy a tv then spend another $25+ on a device that can allow access to streaming, when one device can do it all.
I upgraded to a "decent" Smart TV for my den (my previous one was an early stage Phillips smart TV that the store was basically deprecated on), and it converted 3 devices I had for my dumb tv, into that one device. It's just convenient.
I personally think that people should be focusing more on not buying slop-ware, and working on implementing legislation of what companies are allowed to do to consumer purchased products before trying to revert back to dumb tv's and spending 3x as much. The future is going to happen regardless, and people are going to take the easy way out, the easier way is going to be preventing the annoyances from being allowed in the first place.
you do you. enjoy your convenience. for my part, i will continue to spend $0.00 for the privilege of being the product.
all of these brands can take their smart devices and go fuck themselves with it. "convenient" GTFO
Haha. Are people even supprised? I mean come on.
The best thing you can do, is just DIY your own display with a microcontroller and have some fun in building it. Maybe run Linux on it and voila.
they'll lobby these techs as unsafe and dangerous and potentially ban their use outright, or require special licenses and degrees.
They have a strong foundation in the DRM built into HDMI. I suspect this is exactly the real reason it is there.
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"Advertising is a small part of the experience".
Well great Amazon. Nobody is asking for this 'experience'.
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I run Pi-hole, and ublock.
I went to my pal's house and turn on his TV, ad. He turned on his Xbox, ad. Was looking for a specific game on his Xbox, another fucking ad.
"Too complicated" he says when I suggested setting him up with a raspberry pi.
Oh sweet summer child, Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.
The track record for people using that condescending phrase while not understanding what's happening continues...
The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.
Amazon uses their own version of Android, and that's where all the shitty stuff comes from.
I've got a nice name brand android TV, the only ads are "this movie is on streaming" or "this show premieres in a week".
I got a cheap Amazon TV in another room, in the same place for ads on the home screen, it has ads for random products
There is a marked difference. They are "better" at this. Obviously no one in 2025 thinks google is "good"
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I think my comment is more about privacy than ads
I agree ...
Everyone else was talking about one thing, and you acted like I was talking about a bunch of other things.
That's why you're confused, we were talking about ads, and you got upset we weren't having another discussion.
Now why are antelopes the super ungulates?
See how little sense that makes?
No. As a user of both Amazon and Google devices (with screens/sticks), Amazon is far more aggressive in their advertising practices. As the other guy said, neither is ad-free out of the box, but Amazon devices will literally make your screensaver/lock screen a full screen ad (even on your TV). Google just has a home screen ad about something that's going to play on streaming, usually.
If you want NO ads, set up DNS ad blocking or get an Apple TV and use that for streaming. But again, Amazon's devices are FAR more aggressive about advertising as much as possible. My father has one of those Echo Show things that's a speaker with a rotating screen attached to it. It's playing ads almost all the time.
The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.
I've been self hosting as much as I can for awhile. The one thing I don't have a good replacement solution for is Google TV. At least with alternate launchers and being able to install APKs (for now) it mostly works as a decent experience.
Back in the day wed hook up old desktops straight to living room PCs. There was no apps so we'd just go to websites.
I'd be surprised if there isn't some kind of raspberry pi mini PC with a good guinerap around Linux.
Some people will use a PlayStation/Xbox as well.
That isn't an option either.
Why anyone would want a corporate government surveillance wire tap that’s connected to the Internet and constantly listening for voice command is beyond me.
My friend used an Alexa and smart plugs to rewire all the lights in his house because it was cheaper to get the Wi-Fi connected lights and sockets rather than rewiring the whole house.
In order to keep the thing running, no one was allowed to touch any of the lights switches on the walls because it would break the system. It was fucking hilarious listening to him yell at his Alexa to turn on the lights in the living room and have it turn on the dining room instead.
He even had the screen on the base that would follow you around as you were walking in the house and this creepy screen would constantly be monitoring you while waiting for commands.
If anyone walked in it just looked like he was screaming at the top of his refrigerator about the lights in the house.
I assume that there's a segment of the population that:
- Does vaguely like the idea of at least some home automation.
- Doesn't have the technical expertise and/or time to wrangle with something like HomeAssistant. Wants something that works off-the-shelf.
- Doesn't want to spend much money up front on a system, which creates pressure for an ad-supported model.
I will say that I'm still more than a little fuzzy on what substantial practical benefits people are actually getting from their deployed systems, though.
For at least some of this, like having a voice command to check the weather, a smartphone has to be pretty widely-deployed competition.
The convenience is being able to sit your fat ass on the couch and yell vaguely in the direction of a smart assistant to turn off the lights without having to get off the couch.
The idea that a smart refrigerator could tell you when you’re about out of milk or coming up on the expiration date instead of having to open your fridge and take a look is cool but the privacy and other implications outweigh the benefits.
It’s a mild convenience that supposedly frees up extra time to do something else. The sad part is that something else is usually staying glued to your phone, social media, or TV.
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Isn't there a saying about this? "Leopards ate my face" or something like that?
It's like TVs... Google TV, Android TV, Chromecast, Fire TV... it's all ads, all the way down. Apple TV though? Just a grid of apps. Certain apps on the dock (the top shelf as it's called) could display ads because they're allowed to display content in the top half, but I haven't seen it done. Video apps typically just show what's up next in your queue and maybe something suggested. But you can control what goes on the dock.
Can't block ads on it and YouTube is fundamentally broken for it (despite there being no ad blocker between the app and the service). I'm looking into getting a gently used M1 Mac Mini for my TV, and wiring one of those Bluetooth keyboard/mouse things up to it. That way I can just run Firefox with uBlock Origin and call it a day.
Fuck all these "smart" devices. Can't win with any of them. Meanwhile you can get a Raspberry Pi and be running Linux on your TV. That might introduce some challenges, but hey, you got Plex (/Jellyfin/whatever) anyway.
Isn’t there a saying about this? “Leopards ate my face” or something like that?
"Leopards at my face" comes from claiming that your face would not get eaten while advocating for leopards eating faces.
If you would use it in the context of ads, it would be more along the lines of claiming you will not get ads because you are "special" while the thing just straight up says it will serve you ads.
I don't think the thing is advertised as something to serve you ads, so it's not the same.
Not entirely true, but necessarily false either.
Projectivy launcher for Android TV is great and will remove home screen ads, and provide a much more streamlined interface overall.
Apple TV is really nice though, clean, smooth, and stable. I honestly would recommend that to most people, especially if they already have Apple products.
Even without having other Apple products. The only real benefit I see with the Apple TV — I do have other Apple products — is I can AirPlay to it. But, it isn't very stable for whatever reason. The connection will just drop. So I AirPlay to the TV itself instead, and that works, though sometimes the audio doesn't, so I just route it back to the MacBook, which has very good speakers, and it's fine. Or I grab my Thunderbolt to HDMI and plug in directly, turn the TV into a monitor — but, this bypasses the Apple TV (but, so does AirPlaying to the TV itself). Oh, and I can use my phone or watch as a remote. All in all it's perfectly fine if you don't have any other Apple stuff.
The one thing it's really lacking is some Dolby codec that people need to play Blu-ray rips. People in communities like Plex and Jellyfin complain about that. But those are like 50GB+ per movie, I don't have that kind of storage to even come close to caring about that issue. It can still play 4K content, just not with that one codec.
In fact, it's probably one of the best Apple devices out there, just because the competition is so much worse. I'd also say the same thing about the iPad, and the MacBook. You can make a case for a gaming PC, but for a laptop that isn't gonna game because battery is an issue, you're going for efficiency, it's really hard to beat the MacBook. As for the iPad, it's hard to tell which Android tablets are good and which ones aren't — or which ones will never get updated. And iPad got a lot of love this year, it's basically a desktop OS now (it's like macOS lite at this point). No, you still can't install whatever you want — need an actual computer for that.
Boo Amazon
Boo Google
Certain Lemmy users using Apple devices adn advocating for it:
Hypocrisy at it's finest.
excuse me i'm on an hp they've never ever ever done anything wrong
why yes i buy brother printers why do you ask
Look at it this way - how does a business make its money?
- Google makes nearly 100% of its revenue from ad sales that are juiced by collecting every detail they can about as many people as possible.
- Amazon makes most of its money off of AWS because physical logistics are extremely expensive but they commit endless amounts of federal crimes by ripping off consumers and sellers to subsidize their total market takeover of physical goods. Oh and they make money by selling ad spots to their sellers that are juiced by stealing as much information about its users as possible.
- Apple makes most of its money on the app store subscriptions to apps it didnt write - like if you subscribe to spotify through the app they take a cut. It makes the rest of its money by selling devices that tend to have higher build quality than competitors. A very small sliver of its income comes from advertisements. Not even 1% and it is publicly declared as non-targetted advertising. They dont really have a financial interest in collecting your data.
That's the difference. They're all shit companies from multiple angles. But at least Apple doesn't actively disrespect you with unwanted advertising targetted to you by spying on you. They disrespect you by removing headphone jacks and making silicon valley executives behave like steve jobs who was notoriously a horrible person.
Welp...
I don't like my wallet being drained 30% faster ;)
But nowadays it's Google inching closer to Apple (sadly)
I'm about to just toss the whole thing and move back to google.
... Ah yes. Here we see that, while frustrated, the consumer remains largely undeterred from fitting into the boxes outlined by our fearless corpo overlords.
I had a Kindle Fire in 2012 and had to root it just to stop ads from showing up on the locked screen
Ad-subsidized or pay more for an ad-free model
But they have gotten significantly worse over time. I did buy a Fire Stick knowing i was getting ads, but it was so much better the Apps on my smart tv and cheap that it was well worth it. Now it’s gotten bad enough that I no longer use it but suffer through the TV’s apps
I do plan on trying Apple TV in case it stays useable but at this point I’m not buying consumer tech from three years ago
Similarly with the Fire tablet. I knew I was getting ads when I bought them way back when, but tablets were expensive. Fire tablets were much cheaper and quite usable so the tradeoff was worth it. That long since stopped being true, and this experience is e partly why I don’t have an echo show.
I do want some dory of home dashboard, but echo show had never been under consideration. If the Apple rumors are real I might try that but otherwise I guess I’ll see when I have the motivation to build my own
Edit: rereading the post, this is even on devices where people paid extra to be ad free
Yes it has, every amazon product is massively subsidized price wise with the expectation they make it up via advertisements.
I think the only one that really didn't fall down that train was the alexa, but, well we already know where they are making it up on that one.
To be fair I put in all my smart lights once 7 years ago haven't touched them a single time in that entire span. Took an hour to set up.
And now my alarm turns on lights which helps me wake up 😁
My smart switches have zero downtime. If I attack my server with an hatchet I lose smart functionality but pressing the switch still works, just like yours.
It doesn't take much to avoid the bullshit devices.
Exactly. It's not the smart part of a device that is the problem. That's an extreme overreaction.
The problem with most smart devices today is that they are proprietary, non-fully libre and open source, for-profit, cloud-connected, corporate committee designed spyware, adware, and bloatware.
Devices that are fully FLOSS (firmware, hardware, software) and based on open and free standards and protocols are awesome, but they get easily forgotten.
The Internet and your technology can be so much better. Demand it.
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Z-wave or zigbee. They use an alternative to wifi.
User in tandem with a open source system like home assistant.
Google is NOT going to be any better at this
What are you talking about? Google Home devices have been out for like a decade at this point, they don’t play ads on them.
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The Alexa division is struggling so they are well into the extract phase of the product.
Google will get there in time as well.
I get that we should expect shit like this from Amazon but at the same time, they bought something and the maker completely changed how the device worked after they bought it.
I’d be pissed too. We have to hold these companies accountable.
Home assistant is the way to go, all run locally on a homePC, I have ZigBee lights and switches automated
An example is my front deck lights turn on at sundown, at 10% brightness, at 11;00 pm they drop to 1%.
If motion is detected they brighten up for a bit. On holidays they have appropriate RFB effects.
All of this is automated, none of it talks to the internet.
My current project is making a harry potter style "clock", with hands for me, my wife, and kids. Can set up some geofencing. Run off some ESPhome and the HA app, which reports directly to my install, without releasing tracking info.
Oh, for sure, it's just for fun
My entire design goal is making it invisible for my wife, so things just work. As an example, I took our doorbell, and made it smart... Not a smart doorbell, but I have an esphome between the doorbell and the chime, so I can turn the chime off, or I can have our phonea get notified.
Yeah, they totally deserve to be sued and pay a $5 fee as punishment.
That will teach them!
This week Amazon starting pushing ads to customers paying extra for ad-free Prime Video.
Corporations are now so powerful they don't have to abide by reasonable norms, contracts, or laws any longer. Any fines are just a cost of doing business and are a small fraction of the profits they generate.
What are customers going to do anyway? Go to other businesses that are doing the exact same things on different days?
People should give up streaming subscriptions. How long would it take to learn how to get movies another way, from a friend who is already doing it.
People dont even own their media anymore and it can be removed at any time. And they are paying for that. Lols.
Its for families mostly. I dont want my small children coming up to me all the time asking for a different show downloaded that they heard about from school, and Erica's parents actually HAVE Disney+ and says anyone who cmdoesnt must be a loser omg etc etc.
I taught my brother how to do it years ago, and he got his shit virused so fast. I'm not sure if hes colossally stupid or just plain unlucky.
Just get Real Debrid with Stremio/Kodi.
Real Debrid + Kodi + Bingie theme = Everything available on torrents, instantly streamable in a netflix-like interface.
This is clicking buttons on your device. How did people install Instagram and use that without a degree?
I think people are just afraid of it.
What are customers going to do anyway?
Convince themselves that it's necessary.
We'll kick piracy into high gear.
Then they'll make any ISPs suspecting people of piracy to be forcibly shut off.
The real question is what will we do then?
I didnt see it coming. I assumed that having a device always available to add shit to your shopping basket and listen to everything you say forever would be enough for them.
Honestly it should be more than enough.
I can see the logic of being able to set certain items that you always want in stock, and your fridge being able to tell you if you're running low or if it's beyond its expiry.
Can smart fridges do that? I don't think so.
Even if they can, it's probably not worth the extra expense, complexity, data mining, security concerns, or the fact that Samsung or whoever can shut down functionality whenever they want.
I just want a basic fridge-freezer.
This is a real “the scorpion stung the frog” situation.
There was never any other way for this to go. Is in the scorpions nature to cram ads and tracking into your devices. That was always the strategy even with their Fire lines of devices.
Ring will be next. It’s already giving them your address, neighbourhood, routine, device types, etc. That data gates correlate to census income data, network traffic, etc. to build a profile of who you are as a consumer.
I believe there was just a post the other day arguing that Ring was beginning to collect biometric data on anyone that passed in front of it.
[Edit]It was A Boring Dystopia post from 6 days ago lemmy.ml/post/37147235
Advertising..helps customers discover new content and products they may be interested in.
Someone needs to coin a word to describe this type of infuriating corporate statement. They make astonishingly piss-weak arguments in a patronising tone, as if to insist that reality must be whatever they say it is because they’re a successful company.
It’s the kind of statement that’s not technically a lie, but still seems dishonest for them to present as though it were a sane response, almost like an attempt at gaslighting.
I think the person who wrote that response should be forced to wear it around their neck so that everyone can see what sort of person they are.
It's not just companies. Amazon started pushing ads to subscribers who pay for ad-free Prime video content. Some idiot here on Lemmy actually insisted it wasn't an ad at all, but a "promotion."
Companies are getting their customers to make infuriating, ridiculous corporate statements for them.
I guess? Someone also said "rhetoric", and although it counts as both of these, I'm specifically thinking about these kinds of statements you get in press releases that obnoxiously try to paint the world the way that the company needs it to be in order to justify what they're doing.
Things like "Customers don't like regulations that stop us giving them the best service", "Our users are clear that they want the freedom to choose what subscription models work for them", you know? Those kind of weaselly shit on my pie and tell me it's a blueberry statements, where they dishonestly attempt to pose as the good guys wanting to do best for the world. They clearly must know that nobody actually falls for it, but they say it anyway because they need it to be out there in order for their paid-off politicians and useful idiots to have something to support deregulation.
That sounds right to me. Maybe "spin" if I want to be a bit more neutral, but it doesn't look like they deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Theyre putting a happy spin on some bullshit.
There's a certain amount of advertising I'll accept. If I go to see an action movie, 1 to 3 previews of other action movies that are coming out in the next few months is okay.
Of course, because they tried to force a Mission: Impossible movie down my throat, I might never go see an action movie made after 2014 ever again.
FWIW, I have had some Google (now Nest) Home Hubs for years and I don't think I've ever seen or heard ads on them.
I'm gradually de-googling my life though, so maybe I'll just replace them with some DIY thing
I have an echo show in my kitchen. It displays ads, but they're super easy to ignore. They're just basically text pictures on the screen when it's not being used and on topics that I selected.
I'm pretty massively against ads, but the echo show's don't bother me in the least. If Alexa Plus starts giving me verbal ads or injecting them into things then it will quickly find its way into the trash can.
For me, there's no level of advertisement that is permissible, no matter how seemingly inoffensive the ad may be. It's still an ad.
In my own home on a device I paid for, it's simply not happening.
My tolerance is zero, because I am not willing to accept this ad-saturated society that we have somehow been generationally conditioned into thinking is acceptable.
I still dont understand how people think its fine seeing ads everywhere they look. What is in their minds....
It makes the world ugly. Real ugly.
"That giant electronic advertising billboard really tied the room together."
"And he peed on it."
B&O 😊 awesome Picture and awesome Sound.
Smartness is only achieved by placing an Apple TV into it.
And price is way too high.
My dad has one.
I have an old LG and have set on my router to keep it offline
I only use it with ISP TV box, Nintendo Switch and Apple TV
For a TV, just don't connect it to a network.
This doesn't work for the Amazon Echo Show though, since internet connectivity is required for its core function.
JFC
Advertising is a small part of the experience, and it helps customers discover new content and products they may be interested in. If customers don’t like a suggestion, they can swipe to skip to the next screen card or directly provide feedback by tapping the Information icon or pressing the screen.
No fucks given, we're gonna shove em down your throat.
[ Picachu Face : o ]
(I'm too lazy to find the meme)
Just a clock and a calendar? That's not the limit of what these things do, but that's easier to get that functionality without ads.
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More DIY
I don't think I'll ever buy any product that advertises itself as 'smart'. They seem to be anything but.
Edit: I do have a 14 year old 'smart' TV, but it's basically only a monitor for my PC.
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Nuova Scena 3 su Netflix: Guè entra in giuria con Fabri Fibra, Geolier e Rose Villain. Uscita nel 2026, premio da 100.000 euro
Nuova Scena, il rap show Netflix prodotto da Fremantle, è stato ufficialmente rinnovato: la terza stagione arriverà nel 2026 e avrà una giuria ancora più stellare. Al trio composto da Fabri Fibra, Geolier e Rose Villain si aggiunge Guè, leggenda della scena italiana. In palio per il vincitore resta il premio da 100.000 euro e la possibilità di imporsi come nuovo nome di riferimento del rap made in Italy.
TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Nuova Scena 3 su Netflix: Guè entra in giuria con Fabri Fibra, Geolier e Rose Villain. Uscita nel 2026, premio da 100.000 euro
Nuova Scena 3 su Netflix: nel 2026 arriva Guè in giuria
Confermata Nuova Scena 3 su Netflix: nel 2026 in giuria anche Guè con Fabri Fibra, Geolier e Rose Villain. Scopri tutte le novità sul format.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Putin blasts Nobel Peace Prize decision, wins thanks from Trump
Putin blasts Nobel Peace Prize decision, wins thanks from Trump
Putin praised Trump's peacekeeping efforts and said the Nobel committee's decisions to award the honor to "people who have done nothing for peace" damaged the prize's reputation.Abbey Fenbert (The Kyiv Independent)
How to get older version of Acrobat DC when installing Adobe Zii
Adobe Zii 6 can only patch Adobe Acrobat DC v20.012.20048 – 21.005.20048
But when I follow the install instructions and run the commands in Terminal, it only gives me the option to install "Acrobat Platform: macuniversal - 22.003.20310.7" through 25.001.20756.7.
Adobe Zii then gives me the Warning that it doesnt support the matched version 21.007.20091.
I'm guessing that if I get a copy of the right version it will work, but, how?
Im using a M1 Mac.
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OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door
OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door
OpenAI allegedly sent the police to the door of Nathan Calvin, an advocate for AI regulation, to serve him a subpoena asking for a trove of personal messages.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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The Making of María Corina Machado
The Making of María Corina Machado | Caracas Chronicles
She moderated her tone in the lead-up to July 28, but Machado is now engaging with the MAGA camp. How did she get here after 25 years?Caracas Chronicles
Il sistema di barriere sulla foce che conduce le speranze di Dublino verso il mare - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il sistema di barriere sulla foce che conduce le speranze di Dublino verso il mare - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Città costiera che si affaccia sul Mare d’Irlanda, la capitale dell’Isola Verde avrebbe potuto costituire da molti punti di vista l’esempio di un porto perfetto.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Warpping Discord around a VPN
Try oniux for that, exactly what you need
Otherwise look into oniux and how to replace arti with wireguare/shadowsocks/xray/amneziawg
Do you have any tool to help with that? Ive set this up in the past, but it was pretty hands-on namespacing to get it to work rootless.
Edit: For completeness, here is a script similar to what I use.
A tiny script to run a VPN client and an app inside a network namespace
A tiny script to run a VPN client and an app inside a network namespace - wg-ns.shGist
networking.wireguard.interface.name.interfaceNamespace you can then move it into the container. For running applications I cannot really comment because I have only one service making use of the VPN which runs inside a NixOS container for which the namespace can be configured with --network-namespace-path=/run/netns/…
procustodibus.com/blog/2023/04…
volatilesystems.org/wireguard-…
ismailzai.com/blog/creating-wi…
On NixOS:
vtimofeenko.com/posts/wireguar…
One of these should work
GitHub - dadevel/wg-netns: WireGuard with Linux Network Namespaces
WireGuard with Linux Network Namespaces. Contribute to dadevel/wg-netns development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
i usually run wireproxy with cloudflare warp (wgcf) for this purpose
zapret might also work
ip route to route discord's IP addresses through a different interface like a VPN, alternatively you could launch discord with proxychains, there's many ways to do it
Server recommendations
Howdy folks,
I’ve come upon a solid amount of 4tb drives, 8 SAS drives for dirt cheap from a local biz. Never used. I saw a HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 Server on eBay for $80 and thought it was a score since it had been the best deal. I’d been wanting to upgrade off my think center m710. Curious any recommendations for this? My current setup is as follows:
Main server:
Lenovo think center m710
16gb, gt 1030, 2 4tb HDD sata, one 500gb ssd sata
Ubuntu lts
Docker compose
- Arr stack
-Gluetun with open on proton in Germany
-qbittorrent
-sonarr
-radarr
-Overseer
-cleanuparr
-prowlarr
-plex
-navidrome
-audiobookshelf
-Minecraft server (modded: neoforge itzg)
-immich
-bunch of others that aren’t fully working like tatuli or plex wrapped
Secondary
Thinkpad x220 (loved this shit through college)
16gbRAM, 250ssd sata
Arch
Docker compose
-searxng
-pihole dns
I’m still looking in to some security system ideas as I’d like to use some storage and maybe do that with some of it. Or some cybersecurity projects or a banned book library or something. I’m open to any suggestions to help this go as smooth as I can make it and as fun as it can be.
I think the real question is going to be whether your power bill is going to be worth it. Running a large chassis server to power such old and small drives seems like kind of a bad trade considering how much more sense storage is now.
A RAID5 array with these will yield you 28TB usable, and then you'd have to worry about getting the same drive dimensions to replace one if it goes down in the coming years, which is going to be tricky.
Frigate is great, but it needs a lot of cpu/gpu or a corel TPU. OP has old hardware, so I'm guessing a slow CPU.
Zoneminder is a non-AI cctv system. Also free. Not as fun to play with as Frigate but solid.
Brendan Carr wants to let internet providers charge hidden fees again
Brendan Carr wants to let internet providers charge hidden fees again
Broadband customers may find themselves blighted by unexpected charges again, thanks to Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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I suggest creating another account on some other instance. Start with Lemmyverse to find a nice one. Once you find an interesting instance, check Fediseer for more details. Click the little (i) next to the instance name in the Lemmyverse results, and navigate to Fediseer endorsements. If the instance has been endorsed, censored or whatever, this is the place where you'll find some info about it.
For example, here's what it says about Hexbear. As you can see in the "censures received" section, that list is pretty long. BTW all the biggest instances attract attention, so disagreement and conflict naturally follow. However, the way the instance is run plays a role too. If you want to access more communities, make an account on one of the less conspicuous instances that hasn't been blocked by others.
My Laptop and Desktop have been windows free for years now. I Unfortunately have 1 box that it's only purpose is to run software for my Line 6 Helix and Power Amp, and my 8bitdo controllers for firmware updates. However, that box I debloated, and remote into it from a superior system.
USB pasthrough used to work, and I'd run a VM but I no longer am able to do this.
Tbf, a lot of versions of Windows sucked.
(I wonder if anyone wrote up one of these for MS-DOS back in the pre Win9X era. That'd be interesting just to see the roots of the copypasta, lol.)
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DeSantis calls on patriotic Floridians to fight back against ICE
Freshly after passing permitless open carry, Florida governor Ron DeSantis now calls upon patriotic Floridians to defend the state against invasion by Immigration and Customs Inforcement (ICE). "It's communism" he says, "we don't do communism here."
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Maybe the NYT's headline writers' eyes weren't that great to begin with?
The tech could represent the end of visual fact — the idea that video could serve as an objective record of reality — as we know it.
We already declared that with the advent of photoshop. I don't want to downplay the possibility of serious harm being a result of misinformation carried through this medium. People can be dumb. I do want to say the sky isn't falling. As the slop tsunami hits us we are not required to stand still, throw our hands in the air, and take it. We will develop tools and sensibilities that will help us not to get duped by model mud. We will find ways and institutions to sieve for the nuggets of human content. Not all at once but we will get there.
This is fear mongering masquerading as balanced reporting. And it doesn't even touch on the precarious financial situations the whole so-called AI bubble economy is in.
You couldn't "trust" video before sora et al. We had all these sightings of aliens and flying saucers - which stopped conveniently having an impact when everybody started carrying cameras around.
There will be a need to verify authenticity and my prediction is that need will be met.
The tech could represent the end of visual fact — the idea that video could serve as an objective record of reality — as we know it.We already declared that with the advent of photoshop.
I think that this is "video" as in "moving images". Photoshop isn't a fantastic tool for fabricating video (though, given enough time and expense, I suppose that it'd be theoretically possible to do it, frame-by-frame). In the past, the limitations of software have made it much harder to doctor up --- not impossible, as Hollywood creates imaginary worlds, but much harder, more expensive, and requiring more expertise --- to falsify a video of someone than a single still image of them.
I don't think that this is the "end of truth". There was a world before photography and audio recordings. We had ways of dealing with that. Like, we'd have reputable organizations whose role it was to send someone to various events to attest to them, and place their reputation at stake. We can, if need be, return to that.
And it may very well be that we can create new forms of recording that are more-difficult to falsify. A while back, to help deal with widespread printing technology making counterfeiting easier, we rolled out holographic images, for example.
I can imagine an Internet-connected camera --- as on a cell phone --- that sends a hash of the image to a trusted server and obtains a timestamped, cryptographic signature. That doesn't stop before-the-fact forgeries, but it does deal with things that are fabricated after-the-fact, stuff like this:
The real danger is the failing trust in traditional news sources and the attack on the truth from the right.
People have been believing what they want regardless of if they see it for a long time and AI will fuel that but is not the root of the problem.
Traditional news sources became aggregators of actual news sources and open source Intel, and have made "embellishing" the norm. Stock/reused visuals, speculating minutes into events, etc etc
It is increasingly faked. The right just pretends that means they're lies that feel "good" are the truth
Videos are now basically have the same weights as words, no longer a "smoking gun". Videos basically become like eyewitness testimony, well... its slightly better as it protect against misremembering or people with inadequate lexicon and unable to clearly articulate what they saw. The process wil become: get the witness to testify they had posession of the camera, was recording at the time of incident, and they believe the video being presented in court is genuine and have not been altered, then its basically a video version of their eyewitness testimony. The credibility of the video is now tied to the witness/camera-person's own credibility, and should not be evaluated as an independent evidence, but the jury should treat the video as the witnese's own words, meaning, they should factor in the possibility the witness faked it.
A video you see on the internet is now just as good as just a bunch of text, both equally unreliable.
We live in a post-truth world now.
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And that's perfect, that's the world that made all the due process and similar things evolve.
There's never been such a thing as independent evidence. The medium has always mattered. And when people started believing this is no more true, we've almost gotten ourselves a new planetary fascist empire, I hope we're still in time to stop that.
Videos are now basically have the same weights as words...We live in a post-truth world now.
It's interesting that you start with a bold statement that is IMHO correct, namely that namely what was once taken as unquestionable truth now isn't, but also it's not new, just yet another media, but still conclude that it's different.
Arguably we were already in a post-truth World, always have been, it only extends to a medium we considered too costly to fake until now. The principle is still the same.
In the Middle Ages people believed in creatures nobody had ever seen. And the legal systems and the concepts of knowledge were not very good.
And still the latter evolved to become better long before people started recording sounds to wax cylinders and shooting photos.
In the Middle Ages people believed in creatures nobody had ever seen
FWIW even centuries later, during Linneaus time, people were actually looking for unicorns.
Meh we're not there yet. But the day is coming.
"The Running Man" predicted the future!
Everything is permitted
That’s not really feasible without phones doing this automatically.
Even then didn’t the first Trump admin already argue iPhone video can’t be trusted because it’s modified with AI filters?
Sign every video automatically? Sounds like chatcontrol all over.
Also, I could just generate a video on my computer and film it with my phone. Now it's signed, even has phone artifacts for added realism.
it means if you see a logo that shows CNN, and its signed by CNN, then you know for sure that CNN released it. As a news organisation they should have their own due diligence about sources etc, but they can at least be held to account at that point.
versus random ai generated video with a fake logo and fake attribution that is going viral and not being able to be discredited in time before it becomes truth.
then you know for sure that CNN released it.
Why not link to the original CNN source then, if you want to be trusted? You'd have to do that anyways if you want to use the CNN footage in your own video.
I don't think people who care about the validity of a news video will be helped much with this, and people who don't care about the truth can easily ignore it too.
As a news organisation they should have their own due diligence about sources etc
But what if they can't anymore? News orgs don't only show video that they recorded. They have videos from freelance reporters, people who were at an event, government orgs, other news orgs in other countries...
building a web of trust has to start somewhere.
currently we're in the "its all very difficult, we cant solve all the tricky things, so we're not even trying" stage.
hopefully we find a way to move forward, even if its not perfect.
also: if a pixel changes then it isn't the original source video, by definition. being able to determine that it has been altered is entirely the point.
The point was to sign AI footage so you know what's fake. NFTs can be used as a decentralized repository of signatures. You could realistically require the companies to participate, but the idea doesn't work because you can edit footage so it doesn't match the signature. More robust signatures exist, but none is good enough, especially since the repo would have to be public.
Signing real footage makes even less sense. You'd have to trust everybody and their uncle's signature.
A digital signature works with public/private keys and content hashes. This is a solved problem.
In fact, it's part of secure DNS.
How does that answer my question, how do NFTs help an organization prove that a key belongs to them?
NFTs and blockchains are an entirely virtual construct that can't affect the real world, or take trusted, non-key inputs from the real world. That's not 100% true, but it is mostly true.
So really, you need a way to tie or bind a key to an identity or organization. You could perhaps sign some data, such as a domain name with a key on a chain, but that doesn't prove anything. Anyone could sign anything with any key, so you need to approach the problem from the other direction.
You can install the key directly, or the hash of the key into DNS, verifiers can retrieve the key from DNS, then resolve it to the full key if necessary. You can then use the key to verify signatures of signed data.
Why DNS? Because that is currently the most standard way to identify organizations on the internet. Also, much of the security of the internet is directly bound to DNS. For example, getting certificates for websites often entails changing a DNS record at the request of an issuer to prove that you own the domain in question.
This is not an idea I invented just now, there are multiple DNS record types that have been defined for literally decades at this point which allow an organization to publish keys to DNS. Among the first is this: rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2535#sec… Not completely related, but it is a key of some kind published to DNS.
I don't think NFTs provide any useful functionality in helping organizations prove that a key is theirs, at least nothing much better than a simpler solution which already exists.
It's kind of besides the point. Yes they don't add anything unique and yes it was most likely because if hype, but NFTs is just what they used in the wip to store the signatures on, but the core principle is flawed no matter what you put it on.
Sorry I thought you suggested DNS to solve the core issues.
Cryptographic signatures are something we should have been normalizing for awhile now.
I remember during the LTT Linux challenge, at one point they were assigned the task "sign a PDF." Linus interpreted this as PGP sign the document, which apparently Okular can do but he didn't have any credentials set up. Luke used some online tool to photoshop an image of his handwriting into the document.
Is this going to kill Onlyfans?
Or is the market decidedly because Onlyfans is about personal creators and thus it's more meaningful than porn?
But when short AI videos become so good you can't tell if you're being catfished, will it feel the same?
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ClamAV 1.5 Open-Source Antivirus Engine Released with Major New Features
ClamAV 1.5 Open-Source Antivirus Engine Released with Major New Features - 9to5Linux
ClamAV 1.5 open-source antivirus engine is now available for download with major new features, improvements, and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
Since a years we know, or might suspect, our chats are listend on, our uploaded files are sold for advertising or what purpose ever and the chance our social messengers leak our private data is incredibly high. It is about time to work against this.code and society | codedge
Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers
Stephen Miller may have just accidentally confirmed that he, not President Donald Trump, is the one calling the shots in regard to deportation raids and National Guard deployments.“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN on Monday. “Why would the mere presence—just think about this for a second. If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers
Miller’s slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge.The New Republic
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Taliban accuses Pakistan of bombing border town, Islamabad cites cross-border terrorist attacks
"Pakistan violated Afghanistan's airspace, bombing a civilian market in the Marghi area of Paktika near the Durand Line and also violating Kabul's sovereign territory," the defence ministry said in a post on social media."This is an unprecedented, violent, and heinous act in the history of Afghanistan and Pakistan," it added.
Taliban accuses Pakistan of bombing border town, Islamabad cites cross-border terrorist attacks
Pakistan says Afghan soil is being used to launch cross-border terrorist attacks.TRT World
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Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired
Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."
The current claims of mas firing dont seem to be substantiated yet
Edit: looks like they're firing the computer security folks
New Mass Layoffs?
You’ve probably seen that Russ Vought went on Twitter today and said “the RIFS [government speak for permanent layoffs] have begun.” Obviously I can’t know…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Trump, given an excuse to do what he's wanted to do ever since he got mad and fired my brother from another mother. Per the NY Post:WASHINGTON — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is among the offices being permanently downsized as a result of the ongoing partial government shutdown, The Post has learned.
The RIFs (reductions in force), which started Friday, will fire some of CISA’s 2,540 employees as well as thousands more within the federal bureaucracy — after President Trump repeatedly threatened to target offices cherished by Democrats if the party’s senators refused to reopen the government.
In an indication of the possible scale of the RIF, CISA had planned to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.
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Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown
CISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.Steven Nelson (New York Post)
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Anche quest'anno il GL-Como partecipa al Linux Day!
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in reply to shortwavesurfer • • •Let’s be real here. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated” to list the fees. What’s complicated about listing a few numbers? The problem is that they don’t want to list a myriad of fees.
The fact that “tell your customers what you will charge them” is a rule that had to be instantiated in the Biden legislation is in itself a joke.
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in reply to shortwavesurfer • • •absolutely right. Just like airline tickets, hotels and the like. Marketing got in the way...... Look we only cost 5 euro but the 299.87 worth of fees we have to add and/or collect on behalf of others makes the price go up.
Well guess what, so has the competitors! And guess again: I don't give a shit about that break-down, just give me the final figure. That's what I have to pay. So that all matters doesn't it? No need for you to tell me how you spend it, the money yours after the sale.
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in reply to FenrirIII • • •This is so dumb, how could anyone at the FCC even humor such a request?
"Please help us, we overcomplicated billing and don't want to explain it to anyone"
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in reply to FenrirIII • • •monogram
in reply to 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖 • • •Hahaha what competition?
That would require a separation of fiber/copper, infrastructure from internet supply, (just like the electrical grid)
Most houses have only one connection, one choice, mum’s spaghetti.
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Pressure, Vote (Left) for infrastructure that is inherently monopolistic to be state owned
Option 2
Let the only competitive option to only be accessible for billionaires, that dirties space travel and requires rockets to be continuously launched.
While defending billionaires.
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