The drivers license thing is likely due to a law passed by the UK a few days ago requires all mature content to be behind an age check. And not a “Are you 18: Yes / No”, more like “we will check using ID and photos of you”.
It’s the most hated piece of legislation in a while, with already 100 000 petition votes in 3 days to repeal it.
Wow. I thought only the right had conspiracy theorists.
What are the rights around protesting in America? Is it legal for you to be arrested like this?
As mentioned by another user, all drives fail, it’s a matter of when, not if. Which is why you should always use RAID arrangement with at least one redundant drive and/or have full backups.
Ultimately, it’s a money game. If you save 30% on a recertified drive and it has 20% less total life than a new one, you’re winning.
Here’s where I got some.
https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/manufacturer-recertified-drives
I looked around a bit, and either search engines suck nowadays (possibly true regardless) or there are no independent studies comparing certified and new drives.
All you get mostly opinion pieces or promises by resellers that actually, their products are good. Clearly no conflict of interest there. /s
The best I could find was this, but that’s not amazing either.
What I do is look at backblaze’s drive stats for their new drives, find a model that has a good amount of data and low failure rate, then get a recertified one and hope their recertification process is good and I don’t get a lemon.
I got some 16TB drives recently for around $200 each, though they were manufacturer recertified. Usually a recertified drive will save you 20-40%. Shipping can be a fortune though.
EDIT: I used manufacturer recertified, not refurbished drives.
I think you’ll find that the real mental health impact comes post election, when people are under the regime, even more so than when the party is not yet in power.
When people’s rights are actively being taken away, every day is a chaotic mess with the knowledge that your livelihood, your health or your legal status is at constant risk of being taken away.
Imma have my 1-1 performance review on this.
Yep. Pretty sure that was deliberate on Musk’s (or his cronies) part.
Imagine working at X and being told by your boss “I’d like you to make the bot more racist please.” “Can you convince it that conspiracy theories are real?”
I’m pretty sure I’ve been using the Simple Gallery app they mention for years.
It looks like it is still open source. However I do see on the Play Store page that their contact details are in Israel.
The Pro version, the one I use, claims to collect no data at all. Not sure how much I trust that.
Maybe it’s time to look for a new gallery app…
EDIT:
The open source code has not been updated since 2023, and neither has the Pro app. However the non-pro app has been updated in 2024.
Therefore, it might be safe to use the open source code version on GitHub, but I wouldn’t touch the free one on the play store.
I wouldn’t use the Pro version on the play store as you would be funding these companies and they could push an update in the future.
EDIT 2:
As mentioned here, a popular fork of many of these now abandoned Simple apps is the Fossify project. If you liked the app I’d recommend looking at that if you want to keep getting security updates at the very least.
Imagine if that kind of money were spent making people’s lives better, instead of deliberately making people’s lives worse at no benefit to anyone.
“Government efficiency” my ass.
I think it’s if you want to have user management. There’s some sort of admin console you have to pay for, but I don’t use it.
To be honest I had kind of forgotten it was a thing. If you’re using this for a business then you might want to link it to your OIDC (Microsoft account etc.) and therefore pay for those extra features.
However if you use it to connect to your own devices or those of your friends like you would with TeamViewer (via device IDs and per-device passwords) as I do, you won’t have to pay for it.
Give it a go and see how you get on!
Been using them for years.
It’s completely free, open source and has:
EDIT: I forgot, but it’s also much better at compressing video effectively than realVNC, which is what I used to use. Performance and latency remains fairly good even at low bitrate.
For a little while, I even used to play point and click games remotely with my brother over it. Probably too much latency for an action game though.
If your kid has half a brain he’ll do what we did as kids when porn sites were blocked on the home WiFi: He’ll just get a VPN.
And when VPN websites were blocked on the home WiFi, we’d just download their apps on mobile data.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Better to educate your kids on their natural urges and letting them use the more moderated sites than have them go down the more dodgy rabbitholes. No kink shaming but some of the things people do are nasty.
I think they are bundling this into their regular app, so they’d have to put every guardian read on the list😅
Ok, so it’s an encrypted, open source whistle-blowing feature in their app / system.
The article is light on technical details but if it makes whistleblowing easier and safer than for example emailing their editors that’s probably a good thing.
Not recommended, you could cut yourself on the edge.
I think the story there was that I broke off the tab by accident.
Woah woah woah. That’s going too far.
I was with them helping them out. For reasons I won’t discuss here I won’t be able to visit them anymore, so that avenue is gone 😞.
The exit plan from WhatsApp is quite simple. Start by installing Signal and setting it up – it takes only a couple of minutes. Then, resume any WhatsApp conversations on Signal if that person is already a Signal user. If they are not, then switch to regular text messaging and gently suggest to that person to switch over to Signal.
Sadly for me, this doesn’t really work for some relatives as
All I can do for those relatives is to leave WhatsApp installed but take away basically every permission I can, including running in the background.
No idea why they were collecting identification then.
Even worse, since the hackers got a bunch of the data at once, the company must have held onto those pictures long after they registered people to their service, which they likely didn’t need to do.