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So I went to update my apps and was greeted with these warnings in FDroid. A quick and basic search online and in various communities yielded no news regarding a major compromise in Fennec and Mull, does anyone know more about this or have you seen any news regarding a vulnerability? Curious if this is a false positive or if there is something going on with firefox forks.

I'm really curious about how AI works on our smartphones. Like, when I use features like face unlock, voice assistants, or those AI camera modes - what's actually happening behind the scenes? Is it all happening on my phone or in the cloud? I'm not looking for super technical details, just want to understand the basics of how these AI features work on mobile devices. Any explanations would be appreciated!

Harvard students used Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to demonstrate how easily facial recognition technology can reveal personal details like names and addresses, raising serious privacy concerns.

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The US Copyright Office has denied a request to allow remote access to out-of-print video games, a decision that impacts video game preservation efforts. The request, supported by the Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network, aimed to let libraries and archives digitally share these games with researchers. However, the Copyright Office ruled against it, citing potential market harm and copyright concerns.Key PointsDenial of Exemption: The request sought an exemption under the DMCA to enable remote access to preserved games. The Copyright Office found that proponents did not sufficiently demonstrate that such uses would be noninfringing or fair.Opposition

Key points:

• The CloudScout toolset was detected in Taiwan, between 2022 and 2023, in the network of a religious institution and at a government entity.
• CloudScout utilizes stolen cookies, provided by MgBot plugins, to access and exfiltrate data stored at various cloud services.
• We analyzed three CloudScout modules, which aim to steal data from Google Drive, Gmail, and Outlook. We believe that at least seven additional modules exist.
• Hardcoded fields in CloudScout’s web requests for stealing Outlook email messages suggest that the samples involved were crafted to target Taiwanese users.
• Each CloudScout module, programmed in C#, is deployed by an MgBot plugin, programmed in C++.

I (21M) live in an Ohio household of hardcore Trumpers who, unfortunately, found out that I voted for Kamala Harris.

My father and brother are fascists. They believe in killing anyone who disagrees with Trumpism. My mother is not violent, but drank basically all the QAnon Kool-Aid and is batshit insane.

I am disabled. My cognitive ability suffers severely if I sit up or stand up for more than a few minutes. I also have another condition that requires me to avoid bending my neck, so I have to keep it straight. I also can't safely lift anything that's heavier than a few pounds, so anything more than that is very risky. I can push and pull fine.

I am also financially-dependent on my mother at the moment.

We moved to a new house recently, and the walls are very thin. That allowed me to overhear a private conversation between my father and brother.

My brother said that he hates Harris supporters so much that he wants a day of retribution where he goes on a violent rampage to kill everyone he knows who supports her, especially gay and transgender people. When my dad asked if that included me, he did not hesitate to say "Sure."

My brother is in peak physical condition. He owns guns and has military training. I had long suspected that he is the biggest potential threat to my life, but gaslighted myself into thinking I was overreacting. Today, he confirmed it.

My brother isn't the type to throw out threats of violence willy-nilly. He has also physically abused me in the past when we were younger and has major anger issues. I believe that I have to take this threat seriously, and that means that I need to evacuate ASAP. I think the most likely day for him to act is on election night or shortly after, which would give me just over a week. But then again, I can't be sure. Maybe he is planning a surprise.

My mother is too unreasonable to take any of this seriously.

I have a few thousand dollars and Democratic relatives from the South who might potentially take me in, though I don't know for sure if they will, since we're not close emotionally. I also don't know if my brother will go out of his way to target them once he notices my absence. He is going to an out-of-state Trump rally this week, so I know that he doesn't have much trouble crossing state lines.

I don't know where my birth certificate and social security card are, other than that my mother has them somewhere. My father is home the entire time and stays in one spot where he can see everything. Even if I knew where they were, there is no way for me to retrieve them without him noticing.

Fuck fascism. I was born to a family of vile abusive sociopaths. It was hell the whole time. I won't miss any of them. Fuck them. They are a disappointment to the rest of my family line. I spent my entire life learning how to become a decent human being in spite of it all and now the fuckers want me dead. FUCK. THEM.

The thing that separates me from the rest of my family is empathy. I refused to hate the people they wanted me to hate. Instead, I listened to their stories and befriended them. I care about everyone, not just straight white Christians. I voted for Harris because I wanted the best for everyone, which means preventing the installation of an authoritarian regime. And for that, I must pay the ultimate price.

I may never get to experience love or deep friendship, but no matter how this all ends, I vow to spend the rest of my days pouring out as much love and joy as I can out to every last ally I meet.

Any advice would be helpful. I don't want to wait, but I also can't do this without some kind of plan. I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing, so any input is appreciated.

Thank you.

As requested by /u/funkless_[email protected], this is a walkthrough of how I set up NGINX Proxy Manager with a custom domain to give me the simplicity of DNS access to my services with the security of Tailscale to restrict public access. This works great for things that you want easy remote access to, but don't want to have open to the internet in general (unRAID GUI, Portainer, Immich, Proxmox, etc.)

Prerequesites

1. A custom domain (obviously, because that's the whole point of this tutorial)
2. A Tailscale account with your devices linked to it

Steps

1. On the server that you want to serve as the entry point into your network, install the NGINX Proxy Manager Docker container (you could absolutely use a different installation method, but I prefer Docker so that's how this guide will be written)

   I. For this, I have a Raspberry Pi that is dedicated to being my network entry. This method is probably overkill for most, but for me it works wonders because I have multiple different devices working as servers and if one goes down I can still access the services hosted on the others.

   II. I'm not going to go super in detail here, because there is plenty of documentation elsewhere but you install it the same way you would install any Docker container and follow the first time setup

2. Log into your Tailscale account and get the Tailscale IP for the entry device (ex. 100.113.123.123)

3. Get the SSL information from NGINX Proxy Manager for your domain

   I. Navigate to "SSL Certificates" and then "Add SSL Certificate"

   II. Select "Let's Encrypt"

   III. Type in your domain/subdomain name in the first box

   IV. Enter your email address for Let's Encrypt

   V. Select "Use a DNS Challenge"

   VI. Select your DNS provider in the dropdown

   VII. From here, you're all set for now. We will continue with this later

4. In your domain DNS dashboard, you will need to do a few things (I use Cloudflare, but the process should be more or less the same with whatever provider you use):

   I. Set up an A record that redirects the root of your domain (or a subdomain, depending on your configuration) to your Tailscale IP from step 2

   II. Set up a wildcard redirect that points back to your domain root. This is important because it will redirect subdomain requests (i.e. service.example.org to your root example.org which then points to the Tailscale IP)

   III. (This is going to be dependent on your provider) Generate an API key for NGINX to use for domain verification, this can easily be achieved in the Cloudflare dashboard in the API key section. The key needs to have permissions for Zone.DNS

5. Back in NGINX Proxy Manager, drop in your API key in the text box where it asks for it (you need to replace the sample key).

6. The hard part is done, now it's just time to add in your services!

Here's an example of proxying Portainer through NGINX Proxy Manager:

1. Might be obvious, but open up NGINX Proxy Manager

2. Navigate to Hosts -> Proxy Hosts

3. Click "Add Proxy Host"

4. Type in the URL that you want to use for navigating to the host, I prefer subdomains (i.e. portainer.example.org)

5. Type in the IP address and port for the service

   I. Here's the neat part: because NGINX is running in Tailscale, you can connect to both other services in your tailnet or other devices running in your network that don't necessarily have Tailscale running on them.

   II. An example of this, would be if you have two houses (yours and your friends), where you have services deployed at both locations. You can have NGINX reach out through Tailscale to the other device and proxy the service through your main network without needing to set it up twice. Neat, right?

   III. Conversely, if you have a server running in your network that you cannot install Tailscale onto (for support reasons, security reasons, whatever), you can just use the internal IP for that device, as long as the device NGINX Proxy Manager is running on can access it.

6. Navigate to the SSL tab of the window, and select your recently generated Let's Encrypt certificate

7. And you're done

Now, you can connect your phone or laptop to Tailscale, and navigate to the URL that you configured. You should see your service load up, with SSL, and you can access it normally. No more remembering IP addresses and port numbers! I don't personally meet this usecase, but this solution could also be useful for people running their homelab behind CGNAT where they can't open ports easily -- this would allow them to access any service remotely via Tailscale easily.

EDIT: The picture formatting is weird and I'm not really sure how else to do it. Let me know if there's a better way :)

I capitalised it in the title because of its etymology, and for emphasis. I think I would use lower case in regular usage.

More examples:

https://www.messynessychic.com/2017/01/18/the-inexplicably-fascinating-secret-world-of-thomassons/

https://kyotojournal.org/kyoto-notebook/kyoto-tomason-the-hunt-for-hidden-hyperart/

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/04/thomasson-architectural-relics-that.html

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hyperart_Thomasson

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/4219031

Chinese EV battery maker SVOLT Energy plans to shut its European operations by January 2025, in a move that clearly points to China’s retreat from the market - and declining EV sales in Europe.

In 2020, SVOLT announced plans to invest €2 billion in two battery plants in Germany’s Saarland, creating up to 2,000 jobs. However, it halted plans for a plant in Lauchhammer [in the German state of Brandenburg] due to losing a key customer and concerns over tariffs and subsidies.

[...]

A lawsuit and local protests have also delayed a planned factory in Ueberherrn [in the German state of Saarland] until 2027. SVOLT's Heusweiler plant [in Saarland], intended to produce battery packs, was set to open in July, but reports suggest the company has now ceased all production in Germany.

Meanwhile, just like in the U.S., the EV market in Europe is cooling. New car sales in the EU dropped 18% in August, with Germany down 28%, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association. EV market share fell 44%, with Chinese brand BYD selling only 218 cars in Germany, or 0.1% of the country's EV sales.

[...]

SVOLT, spun off from Great Wall Motor in 2018, counts Geely Auto, XPeng, and Great Wall among its clients but has struggled financially, reporting a cumulative loss of 4.4 billion yuan ($618 million) from 2019 to 2022.

The company aimed to raise $2.1 billion through a Shanghai IPO in 2022 but abandoned the plan a year later.

https://youtu.be/N4_H--GwSI8?si=5TK8GtE69XfeGHbm

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21800855

Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s war with Hamas. Both workers were members of a coalition of employees called “No Azure for Apartheid” that has opposed Microsoft’s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government.

But they contended that Thursday’s event was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee giving campaigns for people in need. Mohamed, who is from Egypt, said he now needs a new job in the next two months to transfer a work visa and avoid deportation.

Google earlier this year fired more than 50 workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war. The firings stemmed from internal turmoil and sit-in protests at Google offices centered on “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021 for Google and Amazon to provide the Israeli government with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.

revealing interview on the StrictlyVC Download podcast, billionaire Frank McCourt shared his vision for transforming social media.