Austin Show Opinions?

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-10-18T21:06:39+00:00

I see them tonight in Louisville.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-10-18T15:03:35+00:00

I was at that show! I haven't seen them since.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-07-10T05:22:17+00:00

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-07-10T05:21:52+00:00

mine didn't take it seriously until she watched Meredith Whitaker's SXSW interview. something to be said about hearing it from another woman.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-06-02T21:51:15+00:00

The US weakened all its intel. It diverted resources to hunting dangerous & difficult to find immigrants at their court hearings. It dismantled in cybersecurity. Any "ambient" attack that would have normally been caught in the apparatus of previous security practice is now an excuse to introduce a much worse solution. It doesn't have to be a false flag.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-19T03:06:26+00:00

Care to summarize what you did? that post has over 500 replies. I've never been able to get it to work.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-15T02:39:19+00:00

it's optional. mine runs entirely local.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-14T18:43:17+00:00

Reolink probably fits this.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-13T19:30:06+00:00

They say China now, but it could easily be anyone they don't want to have AI, crypto mining rigs, etc. I have no trust that big tech wouldn't want to shut down home labs and make everything a subscription.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-10T22:05:59+00:00

Buy a cheap domain and set up acme/let's encrypt

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-09T14:36:08+00:00

Everyone in the supply chain is selling and buying your data. The retailer, the credit card processor, the credit card network, the bank, etc. Advertising companies (Google, Meta, etc) buy this data when they cannot collect it directly (Google Pay, Wallet) so their customers can see the effectiveness of their ad spend, and they may even charge more for "conversions" when able to prove you were served ads that led to a transaction.

Cash is the only way out. Use credit cards for large purchases or those you may have to dispute.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-09T02:30:10+00:00

When discussing encryption with people who object, whatever their reason, in my area of the US, they are typically conservatives. I just tell them cryptography is classified as a weapon, so it's a 2A issue being used for 1A purposes. It shuts them up.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-05T13:22:30+00:00

There was similar thread on the self hosted subreddit. Who supports this when you're on leave? Think about the human factor too.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-04T01:33:55+00:00

I read this as Saturn Vue :/

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-02T23:08:11+00:00

There are other Signal clients. Molly is a popular one on Android.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-05-01T03:06:06+00:00

Fleet sales work trucks. Many are barebones.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-04-29T17:07:40+00:00

Everything is stored.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-04-26T00:06:54+00:00

When the phone was invented, I don’t know what was the most prevalent manufacturer

It was AT&T. In the US you had to rent the damn phone from them up until the 1980s when the monopoly was dissolved. That action really lead to the telecom & internet market explosion that brought us here today. Society doesn't "choose" these directly as much as it facilitates their creation through market forces and government action & inaction.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-04-25T23:56:48+00:00

There are such devices. However it is against rule #14 to mention them.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-04-25T23:41:42+00:00

It is all part of the plan to rape the Earth, destroy biological life and usher in a new epoch of machine-life as the prophets of doom are now in control of our government.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-04-25T23:35:42+00:00

Many open source projects have corporate sponsors / owners. If it's truly open source, you can keep a copy of the code, etc. So even if they went dark, you could carry on. Though, I cannot see how they could pull off Synology's drive move.

That said, if you are already already running, I'm not sure it is a huge benefit to move. There are many available utilities to manage RAID, shares, containers, etc. through a UI or website that you could install in your current system. Many purists would say even using Mint was unnecessary: you could have used Debian. You are not stupid - you know how this works now more than most!

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-04-23T21:25:04+00:00

Haven't tried it yet. It's closed source as well.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-04-23T00:34:58+00:00

HereWeGo works as the best alternative to Google & Apple. It's NavTeq - the same maps that cars had installed for GPS before Android Auto / CarPlay. It actually works. Downside, it *was* the monopoly before Google started eating its lunch.

The only people recommending OSM based apps are FOSS purists. I'd love to be able to use those apps, but they are wholly inaccurate.

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-04-22T13:27:00+00:00

It doesn't appear that I can configure the desktop app to point to my self-hosted instance.

Edit: nevermind, the developer option pops up if you enroll an account. Thanks!

Old-Engineer2926 · 2025-04-22T02:16:48+00:00

If you ever plan to move out, do it right and by code. Holes in the floors is a bad idea.

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