Answer #1: Someone gutted CISA’s budget. We’re not naming names here, but perhaps a branch of government with the “Power of the Purse” could figure out how to fund the organization properly.
Answer #2: Maybe don’t fire the people who actually make the organization work, just because they aren’t political hacks.
Answer #3: Cyber security is hard and it takes skilled people. Laying off large swaths of the staff isn’t conducive to good cyber security and leads to the remaining people taking short cuts which they shouldn’t. And a robust cybersecurity program has a batter chance to catch and correct these shortcuts before someone else finds them.

Of course, this would require the MAGAts in Congress to unwrap their collective mouths from Trump’s cock long enough to tell him to stop gutting critical government operations. Something we know isn’t going to happen. And given recent Primary results, is only going to get worse.

The just stopped working was the client stopped syncing?

The client doesn’t seem to detect new photos as they are created/taken. If I manually upload an image from my photos folder, it syncs just fine. Files in other folders seem to sync just fine. But, photos and videos just never even try to sync.

NextCloud decided to stop allow private made certificates with its client in 2025 and its what made me switch.

This hasn’t been an issue for me. I pay for a domain and have a certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt. The only certificate errors I get are when I refresh the certificate every 6 months, and that’s just the client asking me if I want to trust the new certificate.

Syncthing

I had looked into this a while back, but it seemed to be more of a point to point solution and not a client-server system. I was aiming to have an authoritative server with everything and clients (both phone and desktop) able to pull the needed/request files. I also like the ability to share via a web link when needed. Am I wrong in that understanding?

I currently use NextCloud, but I have been looking to move away from it. My main use case is for syncing photos and videos to the cloud from my phone (Android) and this used to work flawlessly. But, some time in early 2025, it just stopped working. I can still manually upload files and sync still works for other folders (e.g. Documents) just fine. But, photos and videos just won’t sync automatically. Not sure if there are other options which would work better, but NextCloud on Android just seems to be broke.

Good for them. If we’re going to live through all the stupid of an AI bubble, it’s good to see some of the insane profits making their way to the people who actually build the part and not just management and shareholders.

False positives out of Defender?
I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.
Well, not that shocked.

They do use a good bit of filament, but I really like the look of them. I’m a bit of a sucker for geometric designs.

I’ve been using these prints (not my design) on mason jars for a few years to grow various plands using the kratky method. My most successful plants have been basil, though I did have some bell peppers happily growing in these for a while.

There are worse things you could get for an “I’m not a robot” prompt.

If that “national service” includes Mangione’s service to the country, perhaps we should have that conversation.

By “de-shitify” they meant removing all the shit which isn’t owned and controlled by Microsoft.

nasa is about to remote into the computer

I’ve dealt with slow RDP sessions while fixing servers in the past, but the lag on this connection must really suck.

Given all the troubleshooting you have done, let me ask a potentially stupid question:
How old is the nozzle?

A worn out nozzle can result in all kinds of odd printing behavior, especially around inconsistent extrusion. I chased my arse for way too many hours on my previous printer, on;y to have a nozzle change resolve nearly everything.

Along with that, have you taken a good look at your extruder? A worn/broken gear can cause all kinds of headaches.

I’m not familiar with the Snapmaker U1, what I am finding is that it’s a tool changing machine. So, does the problem persist across multiple tool-heads, or is limited to a single tool-head?

Also, what idiot decided that only one settings window is allowed open at one time?

Microsoft engineers were worried that people missed the joys of MS-DOS and having only one application running at once. Next up, will be the return of base memory versus expanded memory versus extended memory. This ends when they devolve Windows to prove Bill Gates right that 640kB should be enough memory for anyone.

Simple, NoPilot can just erase all your files. Binaries can’t take up memory of they can’t be loaded.

That’s funny, while I still buy Samsung TVs, I hate their phones. So much of what their phones can do is usually locked to only working in Samsung’s apps and those are universally dog shit. The phones themselves are also often privacy and user control nightmares.

Granted, there isn’t a lot of good choices for phones these days. I’m still running an old LG phone and have been looking outside Android as my next possible solution. But, I also haven’t had a reason to upgrade.

That of ServiceNow, whose tools help businesses automate various tasks, dropped by 13%

If AI can kill ServiceNow, I’ll happily praise our new AI Overlords. I’m sure ServiceNow can be really good. I’ve just never seen it in practice. Perhaps we just never paid for the “interface which doesn’t suck” module.

I ditched cable TV over a decade ago for a simple antenna (and wrote a notable Reddit post on the antenna while I was at it). That was done because I was tired of my wallet being raped each month, because I had to buy a higher bundle to get the channels I wanted. I was stuck with cable internet for a number of years afterwards, as it was the only option in my area. Then T-Mobile offered up 5G based internet in my area at a low price. That was around 6 years ago and I haven’t looked back.

The cable companies sat on their laurels while the world moved on. They are now shocked that their terrible offerings for terrible prices are falling to real competition. Sure, I fully expect the new carriers to do everything in their power to enshitify their service offerings. That’s the nature of business/ But, with the market open to competition, there is now a real opportunity for us customers to shop around and get a less shitty experience. Broadband internet is a commodity and is completely fungible. Prices should be falling and it was only rent seeking rules keeping the prices up.

This is it exactly. I made a hard cut with Reddit, but I’ll admit to missing the sysadmin subreddit. The place was full of very smart, helpful people and also cranky. The PowerShell subreddit was another great resource. I haven’t been willing to go back, but those sorts of communities only exist when you hit a certain mass of people on a platform.

Gotta have that progress bar, otherwise you might be tempted to <Ctrl>-C and you will be left with some of your software problems.

Yes, and you can probably get better performance with different block sizes. This is just what I used to fix drives as it was fast enough and I couldn’t be arsed to do any real testing to find the right speed. Also, my stash of drives was no where near homogeneous, so the right size for one type of drive may not have worked for a different type of drive. I also used the 4MB block size when imaging drives to have an ok-ish speed while not losing too much data if there were read errors.