LazerFX

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

You're using teams. Modern teams is built on Skype, which is why it's shit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In one sentence, you say, "just use a password manager", on the next, "not really an improvement if you need extra software". I'm not sure what argument you're having, but neither one really addresses what this article is about.

This keeps the passkeys in the password manager (I use dashlane, it rocks, and synchronises the passkeys just like the passwords), but this new protocol allows you to change and export the passkeys to other password managers, preventing vendor lock in and allowing for transfer to another password manager.

Hope this clarifies things! And everyone should use a password manager of some kind; we should expect whatever site we're using to be hacked, and the only way to be safe is to have a unique password per site.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It was a term coined to describe the step-by-step process modern tech platforms go through:

  1. be good, get customers, grow
  2. get large enough to corner market, concentrate on profits
  3. get large enough to move to politicise their approach, drive out competition through aggressive tactics, and lock in consumers
  4. drive more profit through dark patterns and ensure nobody wins but the stakeholders

It's specifically that, and there wasn't a word that described that process previously, as it's only something that's possible in a modern, "web scale" worldwide platform.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

As "three dead trolls in a baggie" famously sung... "Every OS Sucks".

As true today as when it was first penned.

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

No worries... It's a pretty obscure math joke anyway :⁠-⁠P

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maths - sin, tan and cos are all factors of the rotation of a circle, hence pi being on there. I'm not a mathematician, I just watch standup maths and can recommend his book, "love triangle" to explain this sort of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The ICO in the UK is pretty good... I used to work on their CRM system and it was an eye opener how little, and also how big the things they investigated were.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I'm in the UK. I'll never brag about our train system, not after Twatcher privatised them, and further back the horrific Beeching cuts.

The rest - yeah, worth it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

This is illegal in UK and Europe...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Getting 1 star on GitHub

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Well, now you've called it out, I've got to updeet it.

 

So I'm looking to build my own CM4-based NAS appliance. I figure that I've got the time to build it, and it'll be cheaper, more powerful and more capable than an off-the-shelf appliance (such as a QNAP or Synology device).

I'm looking to use it for self-hosting, probably 2 - 4 SSD's to run it (Happy to spend the money on the drives, as I can spread that out over time)... will likely start with a relatively cheap 2tib 2.5" SSD like the Crucial BX500 and scale up as I go...

I'd like a relatively neat box - something like the Argon EON. I'd like to use the CM4 because it's got the PCI-E so you can use a relatively full-speed ACPI interface to the SATA ports, which rules out the Argon EON (Except, possibly, as a donor case). I don't have a 3D Printer, but I'd be happy to purchase a printed model from a makers group or similar. I'm happy to actually build up a unit (setting up fans, etc.) but I've no soldering experience whatsoever.

Software-wise, I've already got a RPI4 which I've been playing around with... Seems pretty good, and I had pi-hole running on it for a while (until SD card unreliability took it down).

Does anyone have any experience with a build like this? Any advice on what cases to use, what hats for the PCIE-to-SATA work best? Anything at all, really, that you'd advise?

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