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[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago

But the U.S. government’s moves to crack down on cheap e-commerce parcels from China have pushed sellers to rethink their business strategies.

So, there's the problem then. If they made it all more expensive for the American consumer, then that solves the problem. /s

On a serious note: it's obviously cheaper because there's no physical shop with no staff. Isn't this how Bezos started out, from a garage?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's so sad when we all find these critical components are maintained by someone we'd just pass in the street... and then they're gone.

Lovely to see the contributions on ko-fi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Wow. I'm going to have to try some of those out! Thanks

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I think you've missed the point.

Yes, they're looking to continue selling older titles and your point is that pirating / torrenting is free, but GoG are ensuring the game will actually run on a modern machine - the pirated ones will have problems (not even covering the potential malware ridden ones)

I've been there, done it, got the t-shirt, the t-shirt faded, got ripped and is now a rag somewhere... this is a good move by GoG.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Gotta say, formatting of text isn't a high priority for me... I'm pinging someone about a thing, I'm not writing a presentation. Adding emojis is about as much as I need 🤔

And - to me - adding people to an adhoc group call / chat is straight forwards - and finding those conversations later is too

But, I believe that there's a few Corp IT settings that can be adjusted (we've recently lost the ability to add gifs for example), so maybe that's what's going wrong.

But we're a long way from AOL IM 😉

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I never even had an account...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

About time they went metric

/s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm curious if anyone's paying to support development (of either application)?

I'm just about getting all my photos into my NAS, so will be looking at these myself soon

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

the company said it would start turning off Manifest V2 extensions

...in time for Black Friday & the holiday sales?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I seem to recall back in (the rose tinted synthpop) 90's that Notepad was an example of Visual Basic... or at least we created it on a training course...

So, I'm surprised that anyone's done anything with it.

It's probably gone from a 12kB .exe to a 2GB file with another 10GB of .dlls

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ooh, didn't know about this and I listen to music ~16 hours per day!

Just need to capture it: No obvious collector for MythTV, so might have a problem there...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Interesting, I have those on my car and I actively avoid using them.

It can't cope with anything more than a simple scenario (dim around car in front, deal with on coming car in other lane). If you also have pedestrians and vehicles on side junctions, then you burn their eyes.

So, I'd assumed it was a US feature (straight, wide roads) brought over here

 

"On 11th November BBC iPlayer will no longer be available directly on this device."

OK, so, I didn't purchase this particular (Blaupunkt) TV, but as it's my mother's then, well, I'm the one that has to "fix" this.

Personally, I use TVs as a simple screen and watch everything through other devices (Roku, or a Linux PC running MythTV).

I see the BBC website has some links to review sites, but I thought this might be another place to ask for - preferably open source - devices that could be used.

Comments?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

As a long-term MythTV user, I read all the discussion about Plex vs Jellyfin, but I'm still here... recording Live TV, watching films, listening to "me choonz" all on free, open-source software. What am I missing? Any other MythTV users out there?

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NAS vulnerabilities (www.theregister.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Just stumbled across this (overly dramatic?) article and thought I'd just post it here...

It's more to act as a reminder that if you've got a NAS that is serving content to the interwebs, then make sure it's behind a proxy of some kind to prevent weaknesses (ie in the management Web UI) being exposed.

Obvz, this article is pointing to Zyxel, but it could be your DIY home-built NAS with Cockpit: CVE-2024-2947 - just an example, not bashing that project at all.

I've used Squid and HAProxy over the years (mostly on my pfSense box) - but I'd be interested to know if there's other options that I've not heard of

 

pfSense... Anyone have much experience with the new Kea DHCP server?

I'm using 2.7.2 (Community Edition) on a fairly good Celeron based system that's not heavily loaded, but I have 7 network segments (VLANs and physical interfaces), so I have 7 DHCP pools / configs.

Just adding 1 more static reservation can cause a significant delay when reloading the service and because I register static reservations in DNS, the network loses DNS so I "break the internet" for a short while.

Would Kea fix this?

 

Well, as the title says, I've had a few notifications that alerted over night and I'm wanting to sleep instead

These are ntfy alerts, but driven by Uptime Kuma... and I can't find a programmatic / config option that says "don't notify between 11pm and 7am" (but willing to admit I've just not found it... yet...)

I need my (Android, ofc) phone to be on in case of family calls / messages, so I can't use "Do Not Disturb", and remembering to manually mute the ntfy app each night just doesn't make sense to me - computers are quite capable of automating my requirements for me.

So... any pointers? I'm sure you're not all getting alerts at 2am because your ISP dropped a few packets...

 

So, I've had it up to here (^^^) with the family using WhatsApp, etc and I'm heading off into the land of XMPP to find a better solution.

I've got a Pi3 hanging off my pfSense firewall acting as a kinda DMZ box, so thought I could setup an XMPP server on it (Prosody?)

Any advice? Will the Pi crumble (see what I did there) under the pressure of 4 people using it?

Issues with proxying outside with a Lets Encrypt cert on the pfSense box, but maybe not inside the network?

"Better" server software?

Thanks

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