FauxLiving
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- Comment on PSA: PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently (today 14:00 UTC) 1 hour ago:
The
beatingscyberattacks will continue untilmoralesecurity improves - Comment on PSA: PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently (today 14:00 UTC) 2 hours ago:
Think of Louisiana before Katrina. Those systems of pumps and dykes are expensive and had been neglected… which was fine right up until they were severely tested by Katrina.
Our orange city counselman stopped funding repairs and inspections on the dykes and pumps many years ago. They’ve been deteriorating from neglect ever since.
A large hurricane is going to hit at 14:00 UTC
(In 10 minutes)
It’ll almost certainly be handled quietly and nobody will know but system admins, but this could be a bigger thing than usual.
- Comment on PSA: PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently (today 14:00 UTC) 4 hours ago:
- Comment on Finally escaping Windows, ironically thanks to AI 4 days ago:
AI is good at RAG tasks. When you’re asking it questions about text that is in the context window, the hallucination rate is significantly lower.
It can fill that gap between documentation and implementation that isn’t always obvious to someone who is new and answer question that they may not be able to form into a search string. The kind of simple questions that, in some Linux communities, would invite assholes (like ‘how do you set permissions’ or ‘I want to add my user to a group’) to tell them to RTFM. Now TFM can answer their questions directly.
- Comment on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking With My Sonarr 5 days ago:
There was a GTA6.exe that appeared on the torrent sites around the time of the first gameplay video leaks, I’m sure it got a few people.
- Comment on too real 1 week ago:
zswap
As an aside, I just read that zswap is getting a pretty big performance increase: phoronix.com/…/Linux-Better-Zswap-Performance
- Comment on too real 1 week ago:
I was looking into upgrading storage and ended up opting to buy 20TB in HDDs for my NAS.
I have to shuffle Steam games around but at 10Gb, it goes pretty fast (and you can run most games directly off the NAS) and the array can survive if a drive fails (ZFS).
You need the extra hardware to run the NAS but HDDs are a significantly cheaper option and you don’t need SSD speeds for most things.
- Comment on Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked 8 months ago:
used a self signed root cert,
Oh, it’s Windows software.
- Comment on Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked 8 months ago:
This doesn’t seem like this is an attack that should work.
How did this bypass signature verification, sure you can send a malicious update… but unless you have the package maintainer’s private keys you can’t sign it so it would be thrown out by the package manager?
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 10 months ago:
I can think of a money reason to block open source implementations…
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 year ago:
Yeah, I’m not sure why you’re being an ass when I’m trying to help you but I’ll leave you to it
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 year ago:
I’m not trying to get you to change anything. You can organize your media however you like, I’m mostly just setting up the solution:
The solution that you’re looking for is called filebot (www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7). In filebot you first define how you name your media and what directory structure you’d like to use. You can use it to handle ingesting new media. It will read common naming schemes used on files often shared online and re-name them into your defined directory and filename structure.
In addition, it comes with bindings already setup for the ‘plex’ format (that Kodi and Jellyfin also use) so you can, once you’ve defined a format to match your preferred directory structure, use filebot to hardlink your media library into a different Plex-compatible structure. Since you’re using hardlinks it won’t use any additional disk space.
Then you can keep your media how you always have it, have a powerful tool to handle managing that library (for example, you could define a new format and it can move the files between them) and also hardlink the files in a Plex folder structure which will let you have access to a media player interface.
If you manage any media at scale you should learn how to use filebot in any case, manually organizing a library can be tedious and take a while. Filebot is a lot faster once you learn it.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 year ago:
I understand, I used to manually organize my own files as well.
When I’m given the choice of user interfaces. Choosing between a file browser and something like Kodi, Plex or Jellyfin seems pretty easy, to me.
Even with the most organized file system, a file browser just isn’t a good UI for a media player interface. No user tracking (watched episodes, saving progress or playlists), for example.
That being said, everyone’s use case is different. There isn’t a “right” way, but in a multiuser environment across multiple types of devices with non-technical users it’s much easier and feature rich to simply use Kodi/Plex/Jellyfin.
Trying to setup direct access to the file system of a media server which could be accessible by Android/Apple phones, video game consoles, smart TVs as well as Linux and Windows clients would be more complex than just using a media interface and a standardized media directory structure.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 year ago:
Kodi doesn’t organize your media, you use other applications for that (tinymediamanager, sonarr/radarr, etc).
The default library layout, for Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi is very human navigable, for example TV Shows are in this format:
TV Show Name |-Season 1 |-Season 2 |-|-S02E01-Episode_Name.mkv
There may be a few extra files in the directories depending on what metadata you’re storing and what you’re pulling from the Internet, but it is organized and navigable.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 year ago:
Yeah, every product that they sell will do it.
Using something like OSMC (or buying a Vero is you don’t want to mess around with the setup) will let you control what runs on your player.
Until you do that, you’re paying some random company while also giving root access on a device in your house and letting them waste your time with ads.
All you get out of the deal is avoiding having to learn how to use a new piece of software. A Pyrrhic victory due to the fact that you have to learn to use Roku.
I’d rather spend a few hours learning how to setup Kodi. It’s free software, you don’t pay for it and it’s Free software, you control it with no strings attached.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 year ago:
They’re not “smart” TVs. They’re TVs with shitty android spyware boxes attached.
Stop using that garbage. Don’t connect it to a network, just use it as a display.
If you need to watch YouTube on your TV go and grab an OSMC (Kodi-based OS for media boxes) media box. You can get a pre-built one for around $100, or install it yourself on a raspberry pi.
These manufacturers depend on you being lazy and accepting their spyware. You will save yourself so much more headache in the long run if you control your own hardware and software.
Trying to navigate through the world without some minimal knowledge of computers means you’re going to get taken by every scam like what Roku is pulling.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 year ago:
🤌
- Comment on Happy three years to the Steam Deck - the Linux gaming machine that changed everything 1 year ago:
I’m using a 3080 and I do seem to have the occasional problem that my ATI using friends don’t, nothing that has prevented me from playing.
Example: Recently, gamescope hasn’t been working. So I’ve been using xwayland instead. Basically I don’t get HDR or VRR, but it’ll be fixed (it may already be fixed because I’m on a rolling release distro (Arch, btw)).
I haven’t, yet, run into a ‘This game doesn’t work because you have an NVIDIA card’. On the other hand, I can run local AI trivially easy because my card supports CUDA.
