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Redbox’s owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll (www.theverge.com)

informed employees of the filing late Friday [...] that it had filed for a debtor-in-possession loan — a way for companies that are reorganizing after filing for bankruptcy to secure additional working capital to meet payroll. [...] employees have been waiting for paychecks since June 21st [...] it’s not certain that the...

just_another_person ,

Imagine that: some scammy motivational speakers who have been peddling a bunch of feel-good bullshit for decades didn't know how to fix a company that was hemorrhaging money with warm thoughts and regards.

I would have taken that bet.

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    just_another_person ,

    Yes, exactly.

    Not only is it insanely power hungry and will drive up electric bill, it's storage and memory limited, and worst of all, 32-bit.

    You wouldn't be able to run much as far as modern software goes on it, and even then, not for long. You probably won't even find a working distribution because of the age of the hardware, and the fact that large swaths of 32-bit drivers have been removed from the kernel over the years.

    Just chalk it up to being E-Waste, and take it to someplace that will properly recycle it.

    Phone home tracking image in DocuSeal, and how to remove it (www.reddit.com)

    Kinda proud of this, so forgive me while I brag. I found a likely "phone home" tracking image in DocuSeal. I searched around: there was an extant issue about the image. I asked the devs: would they accept a PR to remove the image? A maintainer responded quickly that they were not interested in a PR to remove it, so I forked it...

    just_another_person , (edited )

    Okay, well they were very clear about it, and they have a pro version, so aren't removing the customizations that exist.

    Secondly, that isn't a "phone home" bit that you hacked around, it's literally a header that loads a GitHub badge, and that's it. It's part of a lot of open source projects.

    Blocking the DNS of the GitHub host it's calling back to is sufficient enough for everyone if this is a concern (it's of no security concern, freal), and you don't need a fork for this to be fixed. Maintaining a fork is an insane amount of work, and trusting someone who is maintaining a forked repo is WAYYYYYY more risky than just using the official repo, which has thousands of stars, and multitudes of users poking through it's code.

    I for one would never touch your forked repo without doing a full diff, and I'm not going to worry about doing that every time a release is missed by you, or a fix isn't upstreamed...yada yada. I would just use the official repo, and block the offending GitHub domain if I found it offensive, which I don't.

    Know what I mean?

    just_another_person ,

    Friend, please listen to reason.

    The "code" you linked to is not functional code of any sort. Not to be nitpicky, it's just an HTML image tag, so its Markup at best. All you did was stop the loading of an SVG image. The fact that they source it from their own domain tells you everything: they have a script that runs to check the current number of stars, then generates this image that reflects that. SVG is an image format. It's really standard.

    All your other points you're making because you do not have much experience in the software realm, which I'm not saying to be dismissive or anything at all, I'm simply illustrating that all the points you're questioning or mentioning are 100% standard.

    • you don't make a fork for three lines of code and ask others to "check it out". If anything, just point out the issue and post a diff or a script to fix it. Simple.
    • They have a pro version, and are using images they generate in a template viewed by users to promote its popularity and try to sell pro. They're running a business out of this. Not every FOSS project is non-profit, and these people are simply trying to sell a product AS WELL as keep it open source for others to enjoy, like yourself. Feel lucky to have the privilege they are letting you use it for free.
    • The term "phoning home" as you're trying to use it, is wrong. You're implying that it is functionally doing something unexpected. It is not. It is sourcing an image in HTML. The suspicious type of phoning home is code that executes locally and pulls down other functional bits of code that alter the way the software APPEARS to be used. It's a way of obfuscating something shady, like a virus, or malware. This is not that kind of code.
    • If your concern is simply that the code you've run is sourcing an image from somewhere, I can only imagine how upset you'll be to learn that software repos of this size are pulling things from dozens, if not hundreds of places. This project pulls from rubygems, yarnpkgs, and the dreaded example.com.
    • Lastly, the reason that team responded to you in that manner was more that they were taken aback. Like "WTF is this person talking about? I don't get it." Realize that they were nice enough to respond, where most project maintainers would just ignore or close the issue.

    Also, you might want to freak out about the social badges being sourced in this as well. This isn't a "privacy first" project or anything. They aren't doing anytweird, you're just misunderstanding some things.

    just_another_person ,

    AGAIN.

    This is not "phoning home" as claimed. It is not a SECURITY RISK as claimed. It is a privacy want/complaint/nag at the very VERY least. THIS IS ALSO NOT A PRIVACY FOCUSED PROJECT.

    Refer to the original comment, and realize this was being run in a container. So, what...it's a risk to have libcurl ide tidied on your server? Your IP address is so damn private and important? Literally nobody cares.

    Y'all need to get better hobbies, seriously. Probably just need to get off the Internet if this is the stuff causing consternation in your lives.

    just_another_person ,

    This only works for specific mechanical failures, and I'd say about 25% of the time. It works because metal shrinks when cold, and this can sort of let a drive limp along for a short period of time to get small amounts of data off.

    Drive clicking is the drive arm malfunctioning, and I wouldn't expect the freezer trick to do much if it's a messed up actuator or something. You already know the drive is bad though, so why not.

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    just_another_person ,

    No idea who this is, but I can already tell my the fake getup that I do not care to look up whatever persona this guy thought was entertaining. Streamers are terrible.

    just_another_person ,

    It's really just for tinkering at this point, or cheap build systems I guess. There's some small edge cases where the existing instruction set will beat ARM or x86, but they're very niche. Eventually it's expected to be a contender to the more optimized stuff we see in ARM chips these days.

    just_another_person ,

    RISC is only for tinkering at this point.

    just_another_person ,

    It's still very subjective to who is making the main CPU, but yeah. It's meant for low power applications.

    just_another_person ,

    What you're describing is data TRANSFER. Bad sector detection and management is done by the drive controller firmware.

    just_another_person ,

    What's the controversy?

    just_another_person ,

    Don't they all make that claim?

    just_another_person ,

    Yes.

    just_another_person ,

    This reads like an April Fools joke.

    just_another_person ,

    This pretty much opens the door for Proton on mobile I guess?

    just_another_person ,

    If I was a child, and toy stores looked like that, I'd be there in a heartbeat. This is making insane expectations for children that will never come to pass. Fuck this PR firm, fuck this company, and anyone else who has anything to do with this.

    just_another_person ,

    Why? Nobody even knows why he was famous anymore.

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    just_another_person ,

    Why do you ask?

    just_another_person ,

    Not sure why you're making it politically motivated, but alright.

    You think these companies are keeping tabs on who you voted for? Or maybe you're concerned about their participation in an idiots attempt at a governor uprising by occupying the Capital. One has more weight than the other, you see?

    just_another_person ,

    You're sad equally insane as the person who commented on my comment. Go outside.

    just_another_person ,

    TOUCH GRASS

    just_another_person ,

    Have you been arrested for fucking plants? Sounds like you might have something to hide from a potential employer then.

    just_another_person , (edited )

    Try switching your browser to a mobile view and see if that works. I have a hunch.

    just_another_person ,

    They generally don't let the patient try to swallow these without assistance for that reason. A quick gargle with Lidocaine wash to numb the Uvula and lessen gagging, and they just pop it in the back of your throat with a little grabby tool. Works well enough.

    Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

    I understand that people enter the world of self hosting for various reasons. I am trying to dip my toes in this ocean to try and get away from privacy-offending centralised services such as Google, Cloudflare, AWS, etc....

    just_another_person ,

    Firewall, Auth on all services, diligent monitoring, network segmentation (vlans are fine), and don't leave any open communications ports, and you'll be fine.

    Further steps would be intrusion detecting/banning like crowdsec for whatever apps leave world accessible. Maybe think about running a BSD host and using jails.

    just_another_person , (edited )

    If they literally only have a handful of users, so probably don't see a need to do anything about it 🤣

    Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks (apnews.com)

    The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

    just_another_person ,

    I'm shocked they sold that many

    just_another_person , (edited )

    Do you have money to replace everything plugged into those outlets, and sufficient home insurance that also ignores such things? Then, no, I guess.

    Just take an hour and make a ground yourself. It doesn't take a lot of specialized knowledge to do so.

    Edit to say, I'm pretty sure any surge protector worth itself has a ground output on it already. Just run a wire from it into the literal ground if possible, or over to a place in your home that is properly grounded. You're just trying to give something like a lightning strike a path of least resistance to discharge into. Any metal conduit in your home SHOULD be grounded, so that's an easy option.

    just_another_person ,

    There's a few things in here I would say you're absolutely deriving from a fundamental misunderstanding of what they are.

    • Gatekeeping: I'm not sure what this means in your context, but it sounds like you're imagining that some technically specific groups aren't fond of outsiders, and make it impossible for newcomers to join. What you may be misunderstanding is that some groups - just as in any other field - are specific to a catered crowd for a reason, while others or not. There are proper channels to go through to get accepted into said groups, most of which in the FOSS world would be to create something adjacent to that space that becomes popular and recognized. Johnny Newcomer wouldn't just be able to jump into the "1337 HaxX0rs Lounge" private IRC otherwise, but that isn't gatekeeping. I can't wander onto an MLB field, or an F1 racetrack just because I want to learn, and amateurs won't get access to similarly skilled people in the technical communities for the same reason. Teaching newcomers can be time consuming and takes a lot of effort, and people just want to focus on their own things in their free time.

    • "Open Internet": The Internet by its nature is open. Access to it is not, because the hardware is not, and the delivery is not. As far as places people can't go, or don't have access to, that's quite subjective I suppose, but I'd say the majority of it is decided who is making what content, and how much they decide to charge for it and to where people can access it from, surely. If we dial things back 20 years, there was a lot more free stuff, but once corporations get involved - especially if they are publicly traded - they find ways to monetize everything. This does not prevent others from being able to publish at will whatever they want online, it just seems most people don't bother anymore. A "Closed Internet" would more suggest you had to "pay to play" in that sense, but I've never seen an example of that happening in the real world.

    • Enshittification: I think you just missed the mark on this point from where the title and initial direction of your writing was heading. You're right about corporations making things shitty out there, but they can only affect their own little places on the Internet as a whole. People don't need search engines to use the Internet, they just prefer them. They don't need streaming services, they just tend to use them. They do need unrestricted access to human services (governmental or otherwise), information, and communications to really thrive in the world we live. The ones who are fucking that up are the corporations consolidating that physical access, and the authoritarian governments who are restricting how you get that access, and what you can see from it. This is what is leading to the massive partitioning and decentralizing of the Internet as a whole and it's services right now as we speak, which could be a good or bad thing depending on how you see it. Google censoring for governments is objectively awful, but there are other options.

    I'm not trying to be nitpicky, so sorry if it comes off like that, but there's some big swings for ideas in your writeup that presuppose some of the smaller ideas above, that I think shape the very ideas you're writing about, but will unravel if thinking slightly differently about the root cause of them.

    just_another_person ,

    The very design of the Internet is just a bunch of interconnected servers, and search engines just consolidate access to that. I don't need that to reach my bank, or pay my bills online, or even to find code I'd like to use. They make it easier, sure, but name one site you go to that doesn't have its own localized search built-in? My grandmother just needs to know how to do the things she needs to do, and that all works fine for her. My friend spends hours just link hopping on Wikipedia for no reason. My neighbor wants to find the best deals on whatever new thing he wants to buy, okay, you'll probably need a search engine for that. Different use-cases.

    Your writeup is presupposing that everyone NEEDS the latter kind of usage on the Internet, and that just isn't the case. The use of a search engine is totally optional when you're describing the Digital Divide, which is more about access to information and services being a human right. I don't think the founders of that concept had Netflix and Amazon shopping in mind.

    just_another_person ,

    Yeah, thanks for the writeup. It was a good read. You're creating the kind of content you want to see more of, and we should all be doing more of that.

    just_another_person ,

    Is this a question?

    We haven't even come close to exhausting 64-bit addresses yet. If you think the bit number makes things faster, it's technically the opposite.

    just_another_person ,

    I'm sure they would not entrust such a thing to a Windows OS in reality lol

    just_another_person ,

    It was a premade video...

    just_another_person ,

    This was a prerecorded video, if you did not catch that.

    just_another_person ,

    I think you might just be using cheap shit off of Amazon lol.

    just_another_person ,

    Well, the BSOD without a reboot should have been the giveaway. The keyboard clicking noises should have been another.

    just_another_person ,

    Light sensor threshold, and a rule to trigger the blinds. Pretty simple.

    just_another_person ,

    Seems this is a loophole that needs to be closed, but who do we yell at to do so?

    Removing ads from Smart TV YouTube app

    I don't know if this is the correct community to post this. I have a Smart TV from a Greek manufacturer named TurboX. Not Android TV, Smart TV. This means that it has Internet access, has some pre-installed apps, but I can't install any other apps on it. The menus thankfully don't have any ads. However, the Youtube app has. I...

    just_another_person ,

    Maybe not with your default lists enabled, you may need to expand. You could also try AdGuard and see if you get any better results with their defaults if you already have the Pihole in place.

    just_another_person ,

    Of course he does. I can't find a link, but he once thought of all of his kids as a genetic dissemination of his gifts. He literally thinks he's some kind of special, and not some rich kid cosplaying as Da Vinci or similar. The bar for narcissistic behavior has been raised.

    just_another_person ,

    Eh. LPCAMM seems more useful overall as a product. Faster DDR at this point in time has diminishing returns.

    It'll be interesting to see how this plays out though, because there are a few different paths to solve this type of problem with DDR5. Personally, I'd love for much lower power, but a wider bus, which is where I thought things were heading.

    just_another_person ,

    These are unrelated products. Not sure what you mean.

    Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?

    I plan to host Conduit for my friends and family. Even if I invite absolutely everyone there would be no more than 50 users, max. But would it actually sustain and work, as it is not yet on 1.0 is a question. I do not want to host Synapse as I had bad time with it's (lack of) garbage collecting. We do not plan to join very big...

    just_another_person ,

    Conduit should run fine up to many hundreds of users on a single node as far as message passing goes. For the storage part, you'll only operate as well as your storage solution. I'd honestly expect to invest some money on that part if you want the system as a whole to operate well, because some of the Matrix message handling is synchronous to media if attached to a message.

    just_another_person ,

    Is a pen and paper notebook just not cool anymore? You'd strain your eyes much less than trying to stare at this screen.

    just_another_person ,

    Not for 50% of the company though. They're going to have a rough couple years ahead of them.

    just_another_person ,

    It's a Markdown editor. You write markdown in one, and preview in the other. Or, you can just turn the preview off.

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