Lemmy - RazBot

Feeling blessed and thinking about folks who operate a “hardware store” in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum:

(As I recall, they’d recover rusty screws and bent nails from the pig manure-laden ditches; watched a YouTube video years ago.)

Or less interestingly for some, maybe your experience vs. the top 100 elites’. Though for many of us that gap might not seem too notable (if I can choose where to apply/work, choose what to eat, choose leisure activities, etc., who cares about zero or fifty yachts at that point—not losing sleep).

Monaco (people who care about) Yacht(s) Show:

Yes, the images focus on wealth, but I’m thinking about the freedom and the power, or lack thereof. Perhaps y’all have read good books on this subject. Closing with the Oxford English Dictionary definition of agency:

One of mine likes to tug my bathrobe rope tie thing (hell even the whole robe lol) as I walk by her perch so now I'll lay at one end of the couch and tug of war the bathrobe rope by itself with her on the opposite side of the couch to mutual delight

As we all know, privacy starts with security, which leads many people in this community to seek out secure services / software, some relentlessly so.

Then life happens, and suddenly you find yourself naked in a back alley in Hanoi (or if you already live in the region, you might instead find yourself naked in Santiago de Chile), stripped of all belongings and at best some vague recollection of an unusually good night. What is your strategy to regain access to what you need to get back home?

An no, the staff at the hotel does not recognize you.

Apple's revenue: $400 Billion.

Meet Alex Roman. He is part of the 6 most powerful men running the Apple Corporate Empire.

Vice-President of Finance. One of the very few people with access to Tim Cook's personal office. Roman's job is squeezing App developers and ensuring iOS users can never escape the Apple store.

He testified in front of a California court to defend Apple fees.

The judge said he lied under oath. She says he is taking her for a fool.

From the Court decision:

In stark contrast to Apple’s initial in-court testimony, contemporaneous business documents reveal that Apple knew exactly what it was doing and at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option.*

To hide the truth, Apple's Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath.

Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise*

Cook chose poorly. The real evidence, detailed herein, more than meets the clear and convincing standard to find a violation. The Court refers the matter to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25924283/epic-v-apple-contempt-order.pdf

I fuckin' signed in to YouTube with my existing account damn it

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29156476

Aborted VM rule

I am an information hoarder and liked the Foursquare swarm app for checking into restaurants and other interesting places when I travel, because I love seeing the pins on the map of the places I have been and remembering places later. I have scripts running to download my check-ins and store them in a self hosted map.

But I obviously don’t need to keep giving them my location data. Are there any self hosted alternatives with that kind of international database of places?

I would like to self host an OpenSource projectmanagement tool for our non profit association.

It shoud do the regular project management stuff like task, kanban board, meeting notes, contact management, etc. and it should also have a document repository.

I briefely checked

• Makeplane: no one click docker container (yeah, I'm a little bit lazy 🙃)
• Youtrack: not OpenSource
• OpenProject: no solution for documents

Do you have any further recommendations?

This project has been around since July of 2022. It's an alternative interface for Lemmy using phpBB hence «lemmyBB».

I just checked today and the dev archived it last February 2025 and the last commit (besides the archiving and readme) was in 2022.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

Just a concerned Fediverse citizen, maybe someone is interested in continuing/forking it. Alternative interfaces used to be popular in the early 00s for mrny projects. But these days, we often see the same frontend, just a different theme/colours.

Who knows, all good things start small and humbly, maybe one day it'll become popular and in demand.

"These price increases have multiple intertwining causes, some direct and some less so: inflation, pandemic-era supply crunches, the unpredictable trade policies of the Trump administration, and a gradual shift among console makers away from selling hardware at a loss or breaking even in the hopes that game sales will subsidize the hardware. And you never want to rule out good old shareholder-prioritizing corporate greed.

But one major factor, both in the price increases and in the reduction in drastic “slim”-style redesigns, is technical: the death of Moore’s Law and a noticeable slowdown in the rate at which processors and graphics chips can improve."

There are no other options. This is even more stupid than the phone number verification thing. Attemping to logging to Google Play Store on that wiped device (which previously was logged in to the account) doesn't work either.

Luckily, this is a throwaway account, not much data of value was lost. FRP on the wiped device was also off.

But like, what is the point of this. Suppose, my phone got stolen. How am I supposed to log in to Google to initiate a remote wipe, if it ask for a verification code which is on the phone that the thief has?

Zero logic at all. 🤦‍♂️

Edit: And MFA was never enabled. Just to clarify.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/29420245

I've been screwing around for a while and still haven't got a jsonld representation of anything.
webfinger isn't showing anything either.

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I tend to have some more free time on Sundays so I was hoping to start making some nicer and fancier diners.

I'd say I would have about 90 minutes or so that I could dedicate to prep time (or if it needs prepped the night before like a marinade that's fine too) and pretty much as long as it needs for cooking too.

What's your favorite meal to make on your weekends?

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/26553553

The author has no Instagram himself, but through his friends who photograph him at events, others still know about his activities.

Such leakage through other parties might be the greatest risk to privacy.

Hey all, i've decided I should probably setup something else to help block nefarious IP addresses. I've been looking into CrowdSec and Fail2Ban but i'm not really sure the best one to use.

My setup is OpnSense -> Nginx Proxy Manager -> Servers. I think I need to setup CrowdSec/Fail2Ban on the Nginx Proxy Manager to filter the access logs, then ideally it would setup the blocks on OpnSense - but i'm not sure that can be done?

Any experience in a setup like this? I've found a few guides but some of them seem fairly outdated.

Edit: thanks everybody for the great info. General consensus seems to be with crowdsec so I'll go down that path and see how it goes.

Edit 2: So after having it up and running for the better part of a day, i'm going to remove it again. For some reason there was a performance impact loading websites, probably because it was waiting for a response from the Crowdsec hub? Either way, after stopping it from running everything is back to normal again. So I might revisit how I do it and probably try Fail2Ban now instead. Thanks everybody