OminousOrange

OminousOrange , 3 months ago to Privacy in Feds Ordered Google To Unmask Certain YouTube Users. Critics Say It’s ‘Terrifying.’

There is a bit missing with auto discovery on these frontends, which makes sense...if it doesn't track what you watch, it can't recommend things. Most have related videos though, so you're not just stuck with your subscriptions.

OminousOrange , 3 months ago to Privacy in Are hardware security keys worth it? If so, which to pick?

Right, so fingerprint on everything wouldn't be the best practice, because it's all in one category and everything can be unlocked by a compromise of that one thing.

That's a good point. I might look at removing that from my totp app and using a passcode instead.

OminousOrange , 3 months ago to Privacy in Are hardware security keys worth it? If so, which to pick?

Would a passcode (different from phone, of course) or biometric unlock for the 2FA app count? For example, I have bitwarden and Aegis, both have fingerprint unlock when opened with a reasonably short timeout. So, even if my phone pin was compromised, both would still require biometric unlock to access.

OminousOrange , 4 months ago to Technology in Reddit’s IPO Filing Shows Lots Of Losses After Nearly 20 Years

They likely just sent it to anyone above a relatively low karma threshold desperate to get any sorry fool to buy their stock.

OminousOrange , 4 months ago to Technology in How Google is killing independent sites like ours

I've purchased a few things after listening to him yell at me for 20 minutes. The reviews are useful, but I wouldn't watch for pleasure.

OminousOrange , 4 months ago to Privacy in I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me

Toss Linux Mint on a bootable USB, fire up a live version and play around a bit. I was in the same boat and am working on fully transitioning over. The only minor hurdles are Office 365 and other Windows-only programs, but there are ways to get those to work, or just run a Windows VM.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago to Technology in Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

Without extortionate extra fees either. I recently wanted to crossplay Overcooked on my PC with a couple friends on my PS4. "Buy PSPlus for only $100+ to play this game online!" Yeah, fuck off.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in Question: Best UI to manage VMs and containers?

I use Docker LXCs. Really just a Debian LXC with Docker and then Portainer as a UI. I have separate LXCs for common services. Arrs on one LXC, Nextcloud, Immich and SearXNG on another, Invidious on a third. I just separate them so I don't need to kill all services if I need to restart or take down the LXC for whatever reason.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in Starting over and doing it "right"

For ease of setup and use, I've found Twingate to be great for outside access to my network.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago to homeassistant in Ecobee Thermostat

ERVs should be controlled by humidity, outside temperature, and time. Some come with an automated mode that adjusts run time and fan power with those. It'd probably be difficult to find controls that have multi zone, HA integration, and E/HRV features in one package.

I'd leave the ERV controls out of this one.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago to Privacy in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

Yes, it's a lot of words, but there's really nothing to keep track of after setup. I just go to my invidious ip rather than youtube.com and it works. There are very good tutorials available if you want to implement these solutions. That'd be a good first step rather than the 'I've tried nothing and am all out of ideas' approach.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago to Privacy in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

In hosting invidious or what? I've got it running pretty maintenance free in a docker LXC in Proxmox and use Twingate for access to it and everything else outside my home network. There was a learning curve to set up, but there's plenty of yt tutorials to guide you through.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago to Privacy in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

In this case, the someone else is Alphabet megacorp. I wouldn't waste any concern on them. The content is still hosted by YouTube, just played through the invidious instance.

To do away with all those concerns, you could self-host invidious, or donate to the instance you choose to use if self-hosting is outside of your technical prowess. If you want to support certain creators, donate to them directly instead.

OminousOrange , 5 months ago to Technology in Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Network time protocol protocol

OminousOrange , 5 months ago to Technology in Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March

I think it was Freakonomics that did a series on it? But yeah, quite an interesting and convoluted series of events.