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7·9 days agoHorses were domesticated some 6000 years ago. I feel so old!
Wow that’s a lot of effort compared to just blocking CSS and javascript with something like uMatrix.
Maybe he just doesn’t want to run DRM in his browser.
Maybe he wanted use a a least-friction streaming option.
Maybe he doesn’t want the NFL to correlate and data broker his viewing activity.
Maybe he has some ethical qualm with the NFL or their streaming infrastructure choice.
Maybe “It’s Free, it’s for Me” was meant as in liberty and not price.
Just last week I did a drive clone for somebody who’s disk reported a total runtime of over 9 years. The SMART stats only reported one pending sector and long spin up time but it was making noises that said otherwise.
The clone completed with only three I/O errors.
Stripping out the audio tracks for languages I don’t speak reduces the file size a little.
93·14 days agoApple ever using open standards at all seems to have just been a historical happy accident.
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Honestly I should have a bit of respect for zeds and alphas who grow up around locked black boxes and still despite that manage to come out the other side knowing how to use something like terminal or git.
Even no tech seems to be better than consumption focused devices.
It is far preferable to teach old relatives, who have never touched a computer, how to do basic things than it is to try to introduce a better or faster or freer way to those who have already been exposed to the officially ordained Microsoft or Apple way of doing things that should be simple.
Me: Whoops I accidentally archived it.
Aside: I am surprised to see people (on the fediverse of all things) hating on cryptocurrency. Where did this sudden turn of perception come from?
Zero sympathy for the phone zombies that saw a random code and decided to pursue it uncritically. Streamwise are pretty awesome trolls apparently.
It can and does continue to grow. We do not delete content. There is a trove of old (not recently acquired) files on these drives that several members have not gotten around to yet.
I am currently trying to devise a system wherein these different drives can be synced across geographically distant locations. Like a bi-directional rsync system which doesn’t remove extraneous files from the destination.
The problem I’ve run into is versioning, determining which collection is most “ahead”. We’ve had a large drive which was once used collectively by my family, but with everyone moving around it’s been demoted to a more downstream status.
21·1 month agoTIL jump hosts are an existing concept
I do use ClamAV. Most users just run some sort of daily scan, but this is remedial and not preventative.
In order to truly harness clamav’s potential, you need to configure clamonacc on-access scanning. It passes items off to clamd with lowered privileges and prevents file access through inotify until its realtime scan has cleared.
I meant to, but was rudely interrupted by a skeleton swordsman this morning.
My client is configured to reject all non-encrypted peer connections. It sacrifices some potential seeds but is worth the added defense in depth if ever my VPN fails catastrophically. Openvpn client to an obscure VPN service. All media gets passed through clamAV before being accessed.
While on the hunt for treasure, my browser is configured to send DNS traffic over Tor. All web pages only get to load HTML and images, and they (torrent sites) remain perfectly functional without anything else. DDG search with the old tricks ‘1080p’, ‘full’, ‘HEVC’, ‘x264/x265’, ‘ep0_/se0_’, ‘.mkv’ and so on.
I rotate my treasure chests between ships.