Its not difficult for technical people like you or me, but my friend who just wants to watch their favorite show on my Plex on their TV won’t know how to traffic engineer the traffic over a Tailscale network to my network. My mom won’t be installing Tailscale on her laptop and phone.

With Plex, you’re getting the easy ability to grant access to users. You get a single pane that can search across multiple Plex instances, and NAT traversal/port forwarding. Jellyfin makes you figure that out yourself.

That’s an inherent problem with serverless/functions as a service. There’s no guarantee at all on it staying warm for a given amount of time and any system that depended on it without paying for provisioned concurrency was just depending on hopes and dreams.

Yeah I often see devs come up with complex architectures to just work around Lambda’s limitations. Things to keep them warm (but then fail because they don’t account for concurrent requests still hitting cold starts), multiple levels of Lambda functions to work around 15 minute time outs, and more. Just use the right tool for the job and look at Fargate or Batch.

There’s no guarantee bugs get fixed in a newer version, but there’s a higher chance of a software feature working if it’s been out for awhile with a few patch releases than it is for a brand new feature to work day one on a YYYY.MM.0 release. Home Assistant generally holds new features for those YYYY.MM.0, but patches get backported.

Past vulnerabilities doesn’t mean there is active mpdern vulnerabilities especially ones in widely tested operating systems that’s exploited by as many apps as people claim are listening when security researchers also regularly reverse engineer and analyze the source code of popular apps to figure out what they’re doing. You can decompile Android apps pretty easily to see what they’re doing. Some are obfuscated so it takes some effort.

Its one thing to claim there’s some a system level bypass for the icon that the NSA uses to spy on its enemies, it’s another thing to claim that it’s being exploited on a wide scale by a tech companies on different apps, iOS and Android, multiple versions/devices.

The reality is that we leak tons of info through other mediums that are easier and cheaper to collect than through microphones.

update 2.1.3 once update 2.1.4 becomes available

I wouldn’t use that policy because what if 2.1.4 includes a fix for an issue in 2.1.3?

My update policy is wait until a month comes put, then update to the newest previous month’s version. Patches for bugs go into mainline and are backported so this minimizes bugs in the new features.

The city residents are also seemingly forgetting about safety. In the past six months there’s been a car accident on the intersection right by my building about every month from somebody running a red light and colliding.

Cameras have their privacy considerations but I’m getting concerned about my safety as a pedestrian.

I didn’t know about intersections, but knew that some retail stores and businesses actually do this. Devices around the stores will listen for Bluetooth transmissions or even WiFi signals from phones to see where people are congregating, how long they’re in the store, and all kinds of things. It’s why Android and Apple changed to use random addresses for phones.

You and your devices give off a lot of unexpected signals that can be monitored and tracked. Some things could be good like monitoring dwell time at a business or even queueing time at Disneyland, others could be used for marketing at a company. Just something to consider the next time you use WiFi at a business.

Here’s a good reason why you should run an ad blocker. Block the Google Analytics script from loading entirely.

Google Analytics gives you insights on what pages people visit, how long they spend, what kind of browsers and devices they use. That can give them data on what pages are important to customers and what screen sizes to support

I’d rather they self host this data vs use Google Analytics, but there are benefits.

They started charging money for Docker Desktop for companies and they have been adding pull limits on Docker Hub.

Personally, I’ve been enjoying cozy games like Dorfromantik, Rail Route, or even Transport Fever 2 (I just play with unlimited money and build great transit networks that I wish existed in my home country.)

Forest management can help prevent wildfires by thinning the amount of fuel available for blazes to feed upon. But forestry experts often suggest the removal of undergrowth that doesn’t yield timber

Can’t have forest fires that produce smoke pollution if there’s no forests left. Good thinking /s

The laptops are manufactured in Taiwan. There’s so much unpredictability in the tariffs so they’re delaying until it settles down. Tariffs are going to impact US companies and US residents.

Oh that would be nice. I would use that to just go into the database and fix all my broken music metadata which I can’t see to fix any other way.

https://www.recompile.se/mandos

You’re right. Unfortunately, open-source has proven time and time again to be unsustainable and burn maintainers out

That’s a good reason for people to take the money they would have spent buying a proprietary solution and instead donate that money to an open source project. For me it’s not always about the cost, but what I get out of it. I’d rather the money go to the community and better it.

Here’s a good reason why you should pin to specific sha hashes, not just release versions.