Agreed. Amazon is a sales company. Google is a data company. Open Home Foundation is a better company.

Hah, I was about to say they seem to have misspelled FreeCAD.

Best part:

The unauthorized party gained access to “information from a limited number of users who had contacted Discord through our Customer Support and/or Trust & Safety teams”

We aim to introduce additional paid services (not paywalled features, as we will never implement paywalled features), which will help support the project and that enhance self-hosting, making it easier and more reliable. First among the many services already planned is an end-to-end encrypted, off-site backup and restore feature, built directly into Immich. This will enable a buddy backup feature as well.

I love this.

Free features, but offering actual useful services for self-hosters (encrypted cloud backup). Great business model for a project like this.

This is flawed thinking. There is no “them” with a huge salary. The people making decisions are salaried or invested employees, and their livelihood depends on the stock regardless. There isn’t “one guy” that this hits, like it would with a salary, there’s thousands of investors which must be appeased.

Also, it’s likely many of those canceling were people who didn’t use the service as much as power users, which means they’re losing the cheapest to maintain customers (industry insight, no research to back this up, to be clear).

If we had boycotts and cancelations even a quarter this big across other media giants, our media would be a far better place.

Dropbear. You can run a small SSH server in initd that allows you to SSH in and type the encryption password. It doesn’t run a shell, just cryptsetup.

Given what happened (it skipping to the next step in the recipe), this was 100% “prerecorded AI” and they started on the wrong track.

Because given the position of the people and the fork point, the lower line is not master, but main. He has accidently made a feature branch called master and rebased backwards.

No it’s not. Tell them to learn to switch or lose access. It’s your server, do what you want.

They used different people’s feet.

Isn’t the same endpoint used to list all of a user’s comments in their profile?

My first mention. I’m honored.

I would love to see a single command that removes snap, cleans disk, keeps snap from reinstalling, and adds repos to replace packages lost.

Debian is just Ubuntu before they add Snap.

Or, remove snap from Ubuntu:

# Remove snap
        if [ -n "$(which snap 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
                SNAPS=$(snap list |awk '{print $1}' |grep -v Name)
                for SNAP in ${SNAPS} do; snap remove ${SNAP}; done
                sudo systemctl stop snapd
                sudo systemctl stop snapd.socket
                sudo systemctl disable snapd
                sudo systemctl mask snapd
                sudo apt purge snapd -y
                sudo apt-mark hold snapd
                sudo cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10
EOF
                rm -rf ~/snap
                sudo rm -rf /snap
                sudo rm -rf /var/snap
                sudo rm -rf /var/lib/snapd
                # Add needed repositories
                sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa -y
                echo '
Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: thunderbird
Pin: version 2:1snap*
Pin-Priority: -1
' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/thunderbird
                sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xtradeb/apps -y
        fi

After a while, you start to realize Ubuntu (or insert any Debian-based distro) is great because of it’s wide usage, and it mostly just works.

But then, you realize Snaps slow things down, or some other piece is annoying. Most of the time, these are things added on top of Debian.

So then you realize you can just run Debian, and pick and choose the parts you want from other distros.

Voron, but if that’s too much work, Sovol. They’re based on Voron.

Actual headline: “Intel says what they were told to say to avoid antitrust after US government pushes AI agenda and gains ownership in Intel.”

Linode has good, cheap VMs, and are a better deal than the AWSs of the world.

Also, when you set up Nextcloud, also set up something like samba-domain with LDAP for users. That way you have central user management as you add new services.

I made an 8 outlet box with relays connected to each outlet (might post a how to). That’s connected to a Pi via GPIO.

The Pi runs PiKVM, but also has a service that:

• Checks if the router can be pinged
• Checks if the internet can be pinged
• Checks if the router webUI is up

If any of those fail, it toggles the plugs for modem and router.

I run OpnSense on a 5V miniPC. I have a second one and will be setting up CARP, too.

Note: Cellular backup is more involved, but a separate Cellular inbound might not be. I’ve considered putting one on the Pi above.

The timeline on this is great if you read the article. No way Meta wins this one.