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Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers
  • I'm sure an AI babysitter won't be immediately and utterly broken and bypassed by every single kid in these "classes".

    (Seriously: we're talking about 8-12 year olds here and the absolutely are smart enough and incentivized to break the ever-loving crap out of this stupid idea.)

  • Mixing brands for home network
  • I'd seriously consider unifi gear, like the other comments seem to have also suggested.

    The only thing you don't get is ethernet drops out of the APs or anything like that, but the UAPs in a mesh configuraiton could proabbly do everything you want, unless you have a shockingly large piece of property.

  • Mozilla: Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers
  • underestimate how much work Mozilla does in standards and low-level shared API’s via w3c

    Oh, I didn't mean to disparage the work they do: I know it's important and extensive. I've been a Firefox user since, well, it was called Netscape. It's a critical piece of software.

    I was mostly just rolling my eyes at the sheer panic they're having with the only funding source they've bothered to cultivate going away, along with the fact that a good portion of that money is spent on things that aren't the browser, and frankly, don't bring a lot of value to the table or matter in the slightest.

    Dumping the Corporation baggage and making the Foundation strongly independent makes a lot more sense than begging to let Google keep paying them, which seems to be their approach, at least based on that open letter.

  • Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)
  • These drives aren't for people who care how much they cost, they're for people who have a server with 16 drive bays and need to double the amount of storage they had in them.

    (Enterprise gear is neat: it doesn't matter what it costs, someone will pay whatever you ask because someone somewhere desperately needs to replace 16tb drives with 32tb ones.)

  • Mozilla: Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers
  • But the article says they used Yahoo once! (When, I assume, Yahoo outbid Google.)

    I agree we need an independent browser, but right now Firefox is about as independent as my cat, and they're both a bit deluded into thinking that's not the case.

    The first thing that I have to ask: do we need Firefox-the-business providing Firefox-the-browser, or are they just dragging around a lot of Google-induced baggage that's otherwise worthless.

    I have a strong feeling on that one, but hey.

  • USA - No retire, only work!
  • It wasn't mismanaged, at all.

    It was flat-out stolen by Congress.

    Or if you prefer to be all polite they took it, and wrote an IOU knowing full well there's no way there'd ever be any money to pay them back without jacking taxes way up, and that's never going to happen. (And even if it did, that's you paying yourself back with new taxes on your old taxes.)

    Functionally the same thing, really.

  • Opinions about using a mini PC with a HDD enclosure as NAS
  • It's viable, but when you're buying a DAS for the drives, figure out what the USB chipset is and make sure it's not a flaky piece of crap.

    Things have gotten better, but some random manufacturers are still using trash bridge chips and you'll be in for a bad time. (By which I mean your drives will vanish in the middle of a write, and corrupt themselves.)

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced
  • Yeah, I remember the 'grandma wanted to die for the economy!' ghouls.

    And the 'it's just a flu!' people pissed me the fuck off. Like have you morons never HAD the flu? It's not like the flu is somehow pleasant and fun. You don't want the flu! Nobody wants the flu! You idiots got a flu shot, get your damn covid shot.

  • 'Y'all are so f**king unserious': Americans blast Congress for prioritizing bill to make bald eagle the national bird
  • I dunno, seems appropriate.

    Benjamin Franklin had a very Opinion about the bald eagle:

    For my own part I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labour of the fishing hawk; and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him, and takes it from him

    The bird who doesn't do anything valuable and just takes from the ones that are working is American as fuck at this point.

    Seems like the perfect bird and perfect bill to pass for a bunch of people who live off the public dole, and do nothing whatsoever otherwise.

  • Walmart employees are now wearing body cameras in some U.S. stores
  • Dystopian maybe, but as crazy as people have become I've been wondering if there's a less-than-obvious one any rando can purchase and wear.

    Much like there's no fucking way I'd drive without a front and rear dashcam - because mine have saved me in not one, not two, but THREE different incidents and quite literally saved me five-figures in costs, at the very least - I'm kinda wondering if it makes sense to have bodycam footage the next time a Karen decides to have a crazy fit and I'm close enough that it could become my problem.

  • Instance owners, how did you get your server online?
  • Okay so you're able to access it via the IP it's hosted on, but NOT via the domain name in the tunnel?

    Is the working IP a public or private one?

    My $5 is that you don't have the tunnel configured properly and that's why you're having issues, but maybe not.

    Also, what specifically did you put in the config file? Usually they're not asking for an IP, but the FQDN of the site.

  • Instance owners, how did you get your server online?
  • Are you using Cloudflare as DNS, proxy, or via their argo tunnels? (I know you said tunnel, but then mention accessing via IP address, so I'm not entirely sure what you've done.)

    Kinda changes what you should be looking at.

  • How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced
  • The problem was it was too quick: if you died of COVID, you were dead. You could be memory-holed and everyone would simply forget you and move on.

    If you had Polio, though, you were paralyzed and stuck in a metal tube and kept alive.

    Can't forget your not-dead kid who lives in a tube, and thus it was treated as more of a thing that should be fought because there was a clear and visible reminder of what this disease was doing to everyone's kids.

    If COVID left a couple million people living in tubes, then we absolutely would have treated it differently, but it didn't.

    (Alternately, if COVID had killed 10 or 20 million people, we would have also treated it seriously: it just wasn't sufficiently deadly OR left a wake of broken, but living, people.)

  • What are the things that makes a selfhostable app/project good?
  • 10000% this.

    Tell me what it does, and SHOW me what it does.

    Because guessing what the hell your thing looks like and behaves like is going to get me to bounce pretty much immediately because you've now made it where I have to figure out how to deploy your shit if I want to know. And, uh, generally, if you have no screenshots, you have no good documentation and thus it's going to suuuuck.

  • What are the things that makes a selfhostable app/project good?
  • It's because of updates and who owns the support.

    The postgres project makes the postgres container, the pict-rs project makes the pict-rs container, and so on.

    When you make a monolithic container you're now responsible for keeping your shit and everyone else's updated, patched, and secured.

    I don't blame any dev for not wanting to own all that mess, and thus, you end up with seperate containers for each service.

  • X's declining user base: Elon Musk's platform projected to lose millions of users in 2025
  • Or if you prefer to be a lot more cynical, he Old Yeller'd it, but he burned it's equity to get himself elected Co-President, and is worth like a hundred billion dollars more than he was before he did that.

    So really, it was a Very Wise and bigly Smart business move.

  • Community for Free Games

    forum.uncomfortable.business Free Games - Forum.UCB

    Free games from all your favorite (or extremely hated) online stores.

    Free Games - Forum.UCB

    Made this mostly because I've found putting RSS feeds into Lemmy useful since my doom-scrolling has reduced to just Lemmy and figured I'm probably not the only person that'd find this useful.

    It's pulling 6 RSS feeds that provide free games for Steam, Gog, Epic, and Humble.

    Nothing shockingly world-changing, but hey, free games.

    [email protected]

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    Laptop for Linux use

    So I'm looking for a laptop, but before you downvote and move on, I've got a twist: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux support that's going to intentionally be console-only and rely on TUIs to make a lower-distraction device.

    I was looking at older Thinkpads with 4:3 screens and the good keyboard before Lenovo went all chicklet with them, but I'm kinda concluding they're both way too expensive AND way too old to be a reasonable choice at this point.

    A X220 or T40-whatever would be great and be the perfect aesthetic, but they're expensive, hard to find parts for, and using enough crusty old shit that this becomes yet another delve into retro computing and not one into practical, useful computing which is the goal here.

    So, anyone have any recommendations of any devices in the last decade that have a reasonable keyboard, screen, use modern enough components that you can source new drives and RAM and batteries and such, and preferably aren't coated in a coating that's going to turn to sticky goo?

    Thin(ner) and light(er) would be nice, but probably not a dealbreaker if the rest of the pieces align. This will be almost entirely used at a table for writing and such.

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    Proper sound balancing

    So not entirely music related, but my don't-use-reddit policy and this looking like the closest not entirely dead community has led me to post sooo...

    I have an audio question about recording levels. I'm doing voice-over stuff for some really bad Youtube videos I'd like to make and it never sounds remotely good.

    I get that the recording volume should be just the green side of clipping, but how do you take a track, and then add it to other tracks and balance the whole thing to not sound like ass?

    It always seems that it's either too loud or too quiet and I'm baffled as to how to tweak the mix correctly so that things sound right.

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    www.theregister.com Appeals court revives TikTok ‘blackout challenge’ death suit

    Want a bot to pick engaging content and immunity from liability? Sorry, no

    Appeals court revives TikTok ‘blackout challenge’ death suit

    Basically, the court said that algorithmically selected content doesn't qualify for Section 230 protections, which could be a massive impact to every social media platform out there that has any sort of algorithm selecting content, which, well, is all of them.

    Definitely something that's going to be interesting watching play out.

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    Endless Microsoft one-time-use code emails.

    I have a question for the hive mind: what is the point of this, exactly?

    I mean, I understand the attempt to gain access, and I understand why 2fa codes can be valuable to attempt to phish but that's like, not the thing here.

    They just spam dozens to hundreds of these (I'm showing over 400 in my inbox right now) but like, even if I WANTED to give these codes to the attacker, I have no damn clue who the dude in China that's doing this is.

    I'm confused as to what they hope to gain by trying over and over and over every couple of hours because it feels like there's no upside to whomever is running this bot, but I probably have missed a memo on some TTP around this, heh.

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    Service availability monitoring/flapping services

    So I've got a home server that's having issues with services flapping and I'm trying to figure out what toolchain would be actually useful for telling me why it's happening, and not just when it happened.

    Using UptimeKuma, and it's happy enough to tell me that it couldn't connect or a 503 happened or whatever, but that's kinda useless because the service is essentially immediately working by the time I get the notice.

    What tooling would be a little more detailed in to the why, so I can determine the fault and fix it?

    I'm not sure if it's the ISP, something in my networking configuration, something on the home server, a bad cable, or whatever because I see nothing in logs related to the application or the underlying host that would indicate anything even happened.

    It's also not EVERY service on the server at once, but rather just one or two while the other pile doesn't alert.

    In sort: it's annoying and I'm not really making headway for something that can do a better job at root-cause-ing what's going on.

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    Anyone else get an email from Portainer?

    Just got an email thanking me for being a 5-node/free user, but Portainer isn't free and I need to stop being a cheap-ass and pay them because blah blah economic times enshittification blah blah blah.

    I've moved off them a while ago, but figured I'd see if they emailed EVERYONE about this?

    A good time to ditch them if you haven't, I suppose.

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    Shelly relays for energy monitoring

    I'm wanting to add a bunch of energy monitoring stuff so I can both track costs, and maybe implement automation to turn stuff on and off based on power costs and timing.

    I'm using some TPlink based plugs right now which are like, fine, but I'm wanting to add something like 6 to 10 more monitoring devices/relays.

    Anyone have experience with a bunch of shelly devices and if there's any weird behavior I should be aware of?

    Assume I have good enough wifi to handle adding another 10 devices to it, but beyond that any gotchas?

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    ArcaOS + DOS BBS stuff

    insecuredisaster.com Arca OS, a MiniPC, and running a BBS

    I've been running a BBS off and on since the mid-90s, and have tried a variety of methods to do so: OS/2 on real hardware, DosBox on Linux, a VM running OS/2, and more modern software that runs fine on modern Windows without the need of dealing with

    Arca OS, a MiniPC, and running a BBS

    Saw an older post asking about ArcaOS and BBS stuff, and since I actually just did a rebuild of mine doing exactly that on newer hardware, figured I'd write about all the stupid shit I had to deal with and how to configure the OS in a blog and post it here if anyone is interested.

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