I thought that heatsink and fan was a spindle of CDs! I thought that was an interesting place to store them I hadn’t seen before…

I like what you were going for, but I’m pretty sure “that” is “ðat”, and “þat” would be like “thot”, but with an “a”. I think.

The difference between them is ð is voiced, as in your throat is making sound and vibrating, whereas þ is voiceless, meaning it’s just air and your throat is still, but the rest of your mouth is in the same shape.

This is similar to how, for my accent at least, “v” and “f” are the same mouth shape, and one is voiced and the other isn’t.

In the link you posted to the original question, it has a section on self hosting. That link takes you here where they say there are two servers.

Also, the documentation for Self Hosting basically starts by saying there are two servers.

I’m not sure how you self hosted it without hearing about it 😛

Ah, the Relay Server is only half of the service! If I understand correctly from the documentation I skimmed, and my existing knowledge of streaming systems, the relay server is just there to handle relaying the video stream from one device to another one in the worst-case-scenario that they can’t reach each other to form a direct client-to-client connection.

So probably your relay server has never been used.

But that’s just for media, and just for bad network configurations. The actual part that coordinates who can see which devices, etc, and sets up the media connections, is the other server, which it sounds like you’re not running. So your services are currently still using the public server to find each other and initiate contact!

I don’t know, I haven’t hosted RustDesk myself, but it sounds like maybe you’re not actually using your self-hosted server for your clients? Because that message sounds like it’s entirely about “The Public Server” which is not your server. Right?

I’m not on the list, and I’ve spent all evening and all morning looking at myself in the mirror like “Am… am I a Nazi? I don’t feel like one… but maybe they don’t feel like one either…”

Gen Alpha’s parents are… let me check my notes… Millenials. Aw Fuck.

Can confirm. Played that game, died.

I don’t care about Mullvad, but this is an interesting philosophical question. How far does that chain of money carry responsibility? Like, what if you donate to a hospital, and a nurse at the hospital uses their wages to buy bread, and the owner of the bread factory is problematic?

Definitely some fraction of my donation went to the bread factory owner’s politics, but is it my responsibility? Should I withhold donations to the hospital until they’ve pressured the nurse to buy a different brand of bread, or let them go?

Definitely the bread factory owner has a bunch of money, and money is power, and that money was given by customers in exchange for bread, so at some point if we want their power to diminish steps must be taken. But is the hospital donor’s money the right lever for that? Does it outweigh the benefits?

What if the bread factory’s owner is fine, but has a worker who spends their money on a problematic cause. Is it still the hospital donor’s responsibility?

Having the bios able to see the disk, but a live boot can’t, makes no real sense to me. If a partition was messed up I’d get that, but to not even see there is a disk to partition, doesn’t feel right. I know it’s probably a dumb question, but you didn’t happen to be messing around in BIOS settings or something right? Is it possible you changed some settings a while ago but haven’t rebooted in a while, and this issue was waiting for you this whole time?

If you don’t have any other slots on the mother board to try the disk in, you could buy an external adapter for whatever kind of disk you have, which would allow you to use this thing as a USB drive. That should at least allow the live boots to see it.

Also also, is it possible you have two disks, and grub is on one and your data is on the other? Again, kinda weird question, but it’s a kinda weird situation…

For me Jellyfin’s strength is that it can keep track of my wife’s place in her shows independent from mine, and also that the metadata and watched state and progress is synced between phone, tablet, and TV.

For outsiders: Doug Ford is the Premier of Ontario, vaguely like a governor I think, and is Conservative. From Toronto, Ottawa is about 3ish hours North East by car, and Kitchener-Waterloo (KW) is about 1hr South West of Toronto. Hamilton is perhaps the next major city after Toronto and is around 30 minutes South (ish) of Toronto. Guelph is a smaller city 30ish minutes North of KW.

This is why these various places were all brought up in relation to a comment about KW. Besides Ottawa, they’re all pretty close to each other.

And yes rusty tailpipe sounds about right 😉

I’m not trans, but I’m in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and know a few trans people peripherally, and see more I don’t know around town. So at the very least it’s safe enough for people to be out and about just casually hanging with friends. We have the University of Waterloo (UW, but not University of Washington), and it has well-regarded math, CS, software engineering programs, at least around here.

Just an option I figured I’d mention.

I have friends that daily drive BSD, but I never have. For me it’s because Open Source is already a small field, and Linux solves all the problems I have, while also having the most mind-share, focus, and community. I want it to be FOSS for ethics, which Linux is, but otherwise don’t need anything that BSD offers, so there’s no reason for me to attempt anything more. If there’s even one compatibility problem, it’d be one too many for no benefit.

That having been said, I do donate money every month to one of them, because I like that they exist. So that’s probably weird…

Similar to others here, but slightly different: start with what you’re most excited about. There’ll be some shitty parts where you’re confused and frustrated, and if you feel like you’re just doing something you’re “supposed to do”, it can feel like a job for no pay. Pick something you have an inner thrill for, and maybe that fire can carry you through the dark.

Hi! I’m a cis-het man, so I’m a guest in this space, and have already gone back and forth 100 times on whether to post anything at all, but eventually decided to. I just wanted to say I’ve encountered cis-het vulvas that look exactly like those pictured, so if your outcome looks anything like those then you’re in amazing company.

In my limited experience, feeling self-conscious about characteristics your vagina either has or doesn’t have, or has too much of or not enough of, is unfortunately pretty common amongst cis women, so you may be in a place to “level-up” your dysphoria into common internalized misogyny! Yay… 😅

If any of this has come across as creepy or inappropriate or hurtful in any way, I obviously can’t take it back, but please let me know and I’ll delete this comment as soon as I see, or if I don’t see soon enough please get a mod to blow it all away. It’s a sensitive area, and tone is hard to judge over text, and also maybe none of it was a good idea. kthnxluvyoubye!

Yeah, like other people covered, it’s unfortunate but also very important. It’s easy to tie “visible wifi networks” to “surprisingly precise location on globe” in many places, so the permission is named for the worst case scenario. Yes, the app might just be looking for a wifi, but it also could use that same information to locate you, so it’s the location permission. Sensible.

If they wanted to support just this one feature without requiring a location permission, they could maybe have an API that is “are you currently connected to this opaque token” API where the app can ask “am I connected” and is just told “yes” or “no”. That’s probably safe enough. And then I could register the app with my wifi without the app even knowing what my Wifi is, it just gets a unique but random string.

The same is true of bluetooth. If I can list nearby bluetooth, I can see that speaker and this TV and guess location. But there could be an API that hides that, there just isn’t currently

These answers will be theoretical, because it’s possible some browser or system will do things stupid and negate these positives:

It shouldn’t make things less anonymous, because different websites get unique passkeys made for them. This also makes them more secure, because if one site has a complete DB leak, that doesn’t impact other sites at all.

Also, the passkeys are used for auth, so there’s already no “anonymity” here, you’re logging into a website. They know who you are, at least which user you are, maybe not which human, which is as true as it was before with passwords.

Also they should require your device to ask you if you want to use the passkey, they’re not supposed to be automatically leaking to every site you visit without your knowledge.

Also, they are not stored via cookies. Unless you mean the login session, in which case that part is stored via cookies, but just the same way that a password login gets a session key via a cookie to use after you’ve logged in. So if someone can steal your cookies that’s already a huge problem, but they don’t get any extra information with passkeys. The actual secret material for a passkey is stored outside of the browser entirely.

The biometrics aren’t supposed to leave the device, they’re prompted for by the hardware on the device asking if you’d like to allow the keys to be used. The browser asks the passkey hardware “I’d like to sign this thing please” and then the hardware pops up the biometric thing as part of its decision making process on whether it should do that or not. Crucially this is not the website asking for biometrics, it’s your device. And if you unlock it, then it chooses to sign what it was asked to sign, and all the browser gets back is the signature.

In theory.

To anyone reading this that’s red-green colourblind, the joke is that the word “Red” is green coloured, and “Green” is red coloured.