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TBH if it's free, that makes you the product, same as everything else.
You probably shouldn't be even remotely considering any free option if you're after something with any reasonable amount of privacy.
I don't have a recommendation for a non-free one, since I just build shit with Twilio when I need things, which isn't really uh, applicable to your desires.
My bias makes me immediately think that anything they're claiming should be considered suspect.
Frankly, if an antivaxxer told me the sky was blue, I'd go outside to check.
This is a case where you should find a second or third source making the same claims, as well as a better source that says how much and specifically what was found in the cookies because it's entirely possible to have dangerous things in something but at levels that are not actually dangerous, and I see no specific units being claimed anywhere.
And I mean, glyphosphate is something we've sprayed on every inch of the globe at this point anyways and is on every single thing you're going to eat, so sure, it's bad, but it's only bad at certain concentrations. (It's Roundup)
Hey, the anti-circumcision crowd finally has a legally-binding-ish decree they can use to go after anyone who performs one, now.
Just in case ya'll are reading this, I fully support you using this to beat every single person you can manage to find about the face with.
Swears liking femboys is straight.
...this is a thing? Man, learn something new and facepalm-worthy every day, seriously.
Very very little. It's a billion tiny little bits of text, and if you have image caching enabled, then all those thumbnails.
My personal instance doesn't cache images since I'm the only one using it (which means a cached image does nobody any good), and i use somewhere less than 20gb a month, though I don't have entirely specific numbers, just before-lemmy and after-lemmy aggregates.
Huh.
Usually when I run into that I just bounce the Portainer container and it sorts shit out.
Maybe that's actually causing the tokens to rotate/expire and thus doing the same shit?
Taking a 10% haircutcut?
They must really really want that shit dumped the fuck off their books.
I don't get how a doctor can fuck that up. The health CRM software shit will pop up a YOU SHOULD NOT DO THIS whenever you start adding drugs that will interact. I mean lazy and stupid I guess, but still, they already HAVE a computer telling them to not do dumb shit.
Android Police; they were never going to do anything to flout a law.
Police that follow the law to the letter? Well that's unexpected.
(Yes, I know they're not actually police, and whatever, but it amused me.)
As it is most doctors barely provide good care anymore.
As someone who nearly died and has seen a plethora of doctors over the last 2 years, you're not wrong.
The specialists or surgeons have all been knowledgable and good, but the generalists I've seen for routine stuff have ranged from barely sentient prescription pad, to actually good.
You probably could replace some of the walking prescription pads with an AI and not lose much, but I wouldn't trust an AI for anything more complicated than a sore throat, personally.
But where's the shareholder value in a simple machine reading some colored dots?
2025 food pyramid: glue, microplastic, lead, and larvae of our brainworm overlords.
USB hard drives larger than 16 GB
Looks like it's just larger external drive support.
You can also just drop the youtube channel link (ex. https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips ) as well into most readers and it'll sort it out for you, so you don't even have to go digging.
And if you don't want to deal with those breaking (becaue google is actively shooting them in the face) they DO provide RSS feeds for your creators.
Just add the channel url to your feed reader (ex. https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips )and forget the youtube webui exists.
You're completely correct about you no longer existing, but the problem is you think this in some way can benefit you.
What this is really is is another way to make you an unperson, so that they can do whatever they'd like to you, and then answer "I don't know who you're talking about" if anyone comes asking, since, of course, the sack of meat was no longer that person.
Well, no benefits for you anyway.
You just know this will end up mandatory.
And frankly, even if he's not a facist himself, the CEO saying something that fucking stupid makes me think that you shouldn't trust him to run the slurpee machine at a 7-11, let alone something sensitive like your email.
It's raid rebuild times.
The bigger the drive, the longer the time.
The longer the time, the more likely the rebuild will fail.
That said, modern raid is much more robust against this kind of fault, but still: if you have one parity drive, one dead drive, and a raid rebuild, if you lose another drive you're fucked.
Community for Free Games
Made this mostly because I've found putting RSS feeds into Lemmy useful since my doom-scrolling has reduced to just Lemmy and figured I'm probably not the only person that'd find this useful.
It's pulling 6 RSS feeds that provide free games for Steam, Gog, Epic, and Humble.
Nothing shockingly world-changing, but hey, free games.
Laptop for Linux use
So I'm looking for a laptop, but before you downvote and move on, I've got a twist: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux support that's going to intentionally be console-only and rely on TUIs to make a lower-distraction device.
I was looking at older Thinkpads with 4:3 screens and the good keyboard before Lenovo went all chicklet with them, but I'm kinda concluding they're both way too expensive AND way too old to be a reasonable choice at this point.
A X220 or T40-whatever would be great and be the perfect aesthetic, but they're expensive, hard to find parts for, and using enough crusty old shit that this becomes yet another delve into retro computing and not one into practical, useful computing which is the goal here.
So, anyone have any recommendations of any devices in the last decade that have a reasonable keyboard, screen, use modern enough components that you can source new drives and RAM and batteries and such, and preferably aren't coated in a coating that's going to turn
Proper sound balancing
So not entirely music related, but my don't-use-reddit policy and this looking like the closest not entirely dead community has led me to post sooo...
I have an audio question about recording levels. I'm doing voice-over stuff for some really bad Youtube videos I'd like to make and it never sounds remotely good.
I get that the recording volume should be just the green side of clipping, but how do you take a track, and then add it to other tracks and balance the whole thing to not sound like ass?
It always seems that it's either too loud or too quiet and I'm baffled as to how to tweak the mix correctly so that things sound right.
www.theregister.com Appeals court revives TikTok ‘blackout challenge’ death suit
Want a bot to pick engaging content and immunity from liability? Sorry, no
Basically, the court said that algorithmically selected content doesn't qualify for Section 230 protections, which could be a massive impact to every social media platform out there that has any sort of algorithm selecting content, which, well, is all of them.
Definitely something that's going to be interesting watching play out.
Endless Microsoft one-time-use code emails.
I have a question for the hive mind: what is the point of this, exactly?
I mean, I understand the attempt to gain access, and I understand why 2fa codes can be valuable to attempt to phish but that's like, not the thing here.
They just spam dozens to hundreds of these (I'm showing over 400 in my inbox right now) but like, even if I WANTED to give these codes to the attacker, I have no damn clue who the dude in China that's doing this is.
I'm confused as to what they hope to gain by trying over and over and over every couple of hours because it feels like there's no upside to whomever is running this bot, but I probably have missed a memo on some TTP around this, heh.
Service availability monitoring/flapping services
So I've got a home server that's having issues with services flapping and I'm trying to figure out what toolchain would be actually useful for telling me why it's happening, and not just when it happened.
Using UptimeKuma, and it's happy enough to tell me that it couldn't connect or a 503 happened or whatever, but that's kinda useless because the service is essentially immediately working by the time I get the notice.
What tooling would be a little more detailed in to the why, so I can determine the fault and fix it?
I'm not sure if it's the ISP, something in my networking configuration, something on the home server, a bad cable, or whatever because I see nothing in logs related to the application or the underlying host that would indicate anything even happened.
It's also not EVERY service on the server at once, but rather just one or two while the other pile doesn't alert.
In sort: it's annoying and I'm not really making headway for something that can do a better job at root
Anyone else get an email from Portainer?
Just got an email thanking me for being a 5-node/free user, but Portainer isn't free and I need to stop being a cheap-ass and pay them because blah blah economic times enshittification blah blah blah.
I've moved off them a while ago, but figured I'd see if they emailed EVERYONE about this?
A good time to ditch them if you haven't, I suppose.
Shelly relays for energy monitoring
I'm wanting to add a bunch of energy monitoring stuff so I can both track costs, and maybe implement automation to turn stuff on and off based on power costs and timing.
I'm using some TPlink based plugs right now which are like, fine, but I'm wanting to add something like 6 to 10 more monitoring devices/relays.
Anyone have experience with a bunch of shelly devices and if there's any weird behavior I should be aware of?
Assume I have good enough wifi to handle adding another 10 devices to it, but beyond that any gotchas?
ArcaOS + DOS BBS stuff
insecuredisaster.com Arca OS, a MiniPC, and running a BBS
I've been running a BBS off and on since the mid-90s, and have tried a variety of methods to do so: OS/2 on real hardware, DosBox on Linux, a VM running OS/2, and more modern software that runs fine on modern Windows without the need of dealing with
Saw an older post asking about ArcaOS and BBS stuff, and since I actually just did a rebuild of mine doing exactly that on newer hardware, figured I'd write about all the stupid shit I had to deal with and how to configure the OS in a blog and post it here if anyone is interested.