[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 82 points 1 month ago

I simply can't wrap my head around the thought process behind launching a clusterfuck like this. Y Combinator probably didn't do their due diligence and simply rode the fading AI Bubble, so I can at least understand how the funding might have been approved.

But actively leaving your $250,000+/year job to team up with some questionable choices to basically fork two OS projects, change the discord links and generate an illegal licence for that shit show, all while proudly stating, publicly, "dawg i chatgpt'd the license, anyone is free to use our app for free for whatever they want. if there's a problem with the license just lmk i'll change it. we busy building rn can't be bothered with legal" when they are made aware of the fact.

This is absolutely insane, sounds like someone was about to get fired and decided to use some personal relations and fresh graduates to somehow successfully cash in one last time with absolutely no regard of even the basics. Pretty wild that those guys even managed to figure out how to found a Startup. Probably asked ChatGPT for instructions there, as well.

[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 41 points 2 months ago

Nice message, but the thought of the existence of a competitive scene of contractors specializing in mounting TVs is hilarious. Also, that mounting plate is crooked af.

[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 102 points 3 months ago

15-20 years ago, I'd have agreed with you. But apart from a select few news sites and exceedingly rare static sites, what percentage of websites most users use day to day actually function even minimally without JavaScript?

I'm convinced that in practice, most users would be conditioned to whitelist pretty much every site they visit due to all the breakage. Still a privacy and security improvement, but a massive one? I'm not sure.

Very happy to be convinced otherwise.

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submitted 3 months ago by Emotet@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I'm strongly considering adding another backup location in the form of an old Raspberry Pi and a USB HDD.

I want the Pi to exclusively use the available network to connect to my Wireguard Server, so other devices (local to the Wireguard Server and remote connected to the server) can use it as a secondary backup location.

I'm kind of worried about a scenario, where my network is compromised and, through the VPN connection of the Pi in the external network, the external network is as well.

What are the best practices to secure such a setup?

[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ah. So Lemmy with version 0.19.4+ allows users to set a custom thumbnail URL for a post, which can be set to pretty much anything resembling a valid link, especially a link to another image in the local pictrs db and trigger a deletion of both when a minimum age check is passed.

Also this:

Except that the field allows some funny URLs e.g. https://t.t/;';'%22;...[:%3C%3E?]%27;%20yaba%20daba%20doo, if this is an issue too is not confirmed

Relevant XKCD

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submitted 4 months ago by Emotet@slrpnk.net to c/news@lemmy.world
[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 49 points 4 months ago

This is exactly how it's supposed to work in a functioning democracy.

Where ideally everyone, but at least a critical percentage of citizens is educated enough to recognize the pattern of deceit and false, but easy answers to very complex questions from extremist parties.

Where established parties don't feel the need to pander to the votes of extremist parties by cooperating and adapting points pushed by extremists.

Where the average citizen doesn't feel left out by the system and is tempted to align themselves with extremist parties in order to protest the current reality of said system.

Where the system implements safeguards to not allow the system to be taken hostage by extremists.

Would be nice, eh?

[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 48 points 4 months ago

Because this repo is going viral from time to time to developers, I'm open for discussion if you want to promote a product/service in this README file. Just mail me at XXXX

Ew.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Emotet@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Currently, I have two VPN clients on most of my devices:

  • One for connecting to a LAN
  • One commercial VPN for privacy reasons

I usually stay connected to the commercial VPN on all my devices, unless I need to access something on that LAN.

This setup has a few drawbacks:

  • Most commercial VPN providers have a limit on the number of simulations connected clients
  • I either obfuscate my IP or am able to access resources on that LAN, including my Pi-Hole fur custom DNS-based blocking

One possible solution for this would be to route all internet traffic through a VPN client on the router in the LAN and figuring out how to still be able to at least have a port open for the VPN docker container allowing access to the LAN. But then the ability to split tunnel around that would be pretty hard to achieve.

I want to be able to connect to a VPN host container on the LAN, which in turn routes all internet traffic through another VPN client container while allowing LAN traffic, but still be able to split tunnel specific applications on my Android/Linux/iOS devices.

Basically this:

   +---------------------+ internet traffic   +--------------------+           
   |                     | remote LAN traffic |                    |           
   | Client              |------------------->|VPN Host Container  |           
   | (Android/iOS/Linux) |                    |in remote LAN       |           
   |                     |                    |                    |           
   +---------------------+                    +--------------------+           
                      |                         |     |                        
                      |       remote LAN traffic|     | internet traffic       
split tunneled traffic|                 |--------     |                        
                      |                 |             v                        
                      v                 |         +---------------------------+
  +---------------------+               v         |                           |
  | regular LAN or      |     +-----------+       | VPN Client Container      |
  | internet connection |     |remote LAN |       | connects to commercial VPN|
  +---------------------+     +-----------+       |                           |
                                                  |                           |
                                                  +---------------------------+

Any recommendations on how to achieve this, especially considering client apps for Android and iOS with the ability to split tunnel per application?

Update:

~~Got it by following this guide.~~

Ended up modifying this setup to have better control over potential IP leakage

[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 85 points 4 months ago

That's the joke.

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submitted 5 months ago by Emotet@slrpnk.net to c/dach@feddit.de

@elvith@feddit.org und ich haben mehr oder weniger unabhängig zwei Web Apps entwickelt , welche beide bis auf gewisse Extrafeatures den Accountumzug so einfach wie möglich gestalten sollten:

https://stablenarwhal.github.io/Lemmy-Userdata-Migration/

Features:

  • Export user data from any Lemmy instance (>=v0.19)
  • Download user data as a text file
  • Modify user data, e.g. to add or remove followed users/communites (Example in Wiki)
    • "display_name" ​
    • "bio" ​
    • "avatar" ​
    • "banner" ​
    • "matrix_id" ​
    • "bot_account" ​
    • "settings" ​
    • "followed_communities" ​
    • "saved_posts" ​
    • "saved_comments" ​
    • "blocked_communities" ​
    • "blocked_users" ​
    • "blocked_instances"
  • Transfer user data to the target account on the target instance

https://elvith-de.github.io/lemmy-migration/

Features:

  • Login and export settings from any Lemmy instance (e.g. feddit.de)
  • Optionally: Find local communities on the target instance that match followed communities
  • Optionally: Backup your settings to a file (can be imported on any Lemmy instance in your profile)
  • Login and import settings to any Lemmy instance (e.g. feddit.org)
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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Emotet@slrpnk.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10823519

So I wrote a little web app that allows a user to move their user data, like settings and subscribed/banned communities, from one account/instance to another.

It runs completely client-side, but is hosted on GitHub for the moment. Maybe it'll be of some use!

Features:

  • Don't trust me or GitHub? Clone the project and host it yourself or run it locally (Example in Wiki)
  • Export user data from any Lemmy instance (>=v0.19)
  • Download user data as a text file
  • Modify user data, e.g. to add or remove followed users/communites (Example in Wiki)
    • "display_name" ​
    • "bio" ​
    • "avatar" ​
    • "banner" ​
    • "matrix_id" ​
    • "bot_account" ​
    • "settings" ​
    • "followed_communities" ​
    • "saved_posts" ​
    • "saved_comments" ​
    • "blocked_communities" ​
    • "blocked_users" ​
    • "blocked_instances"
  • Transfer user data to the target account on the target instance
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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Emotet@slrpnk.net to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

So I wrote a little web app that allows a user to move their user data, like settings and subscribed/banned communities, from one account/instance to another.

It runs completely client-side, but is hosted on GitHub for the moment. Maybe it'll be of some use!

Features:

  • Export user data from any Lemmy instance (>=v0.19)
  • Download user data as a text file
  • Modify user data in the browser, e.g. to add or remove followed instances
  • Transfer user data to the target account on the target instance
[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 50 points 5 months ago

Misleading title.

In the string of images uploaded online, we get a look at file repositories, a rough map of the proposed Moon location, and shots of some early conceptual images and set pieces. As the story goes, CDPR originally intended for the Moon to be a featured location in the base game but recognised that it was too ambitious a goal, so they cut the content and instead decided to use it for an expansion – which ultimately never surfaced.

Cyberpunk 2077’s development has officially ended, so there’s no chance this will ever see the light of day.

[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 50 points 5 months ago

Those are some very bold and generic claims for an accelerator chip startup, that doesn't provide any details or benchmarks other than some basic diagrams and graphs while they are looking for funding and partners.

Kind of reminds me of basically every tech kickstarter ever.

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  1. Install the Userscripts extension for Safari, open the app and go through the setup as instructed by the app. Don't forget to activate the extension for Safari.
  2. After fully setting up the Userscripts extension, go to the TwitchAdSolutions git repo and click on userscript next to video-swap-new. You can play around with vaft as well, but video-swap-new works way better on iOS in my experience. This script replaces ads with a lower resolution stream.
  3. Install the script by opening the Userscripts extension in Safari while the script you opened in step 2 is the active tab and clicking the Install button.
  4. Go to twitch.tv and enjoy your ad-free experience.

Optional:

  • When you have the Twitch App installed, Safari displays the annoying "open in App" Bar on top of the website. This also leaks into Fullscreen Mode. To get rid of it, uninstall the Twitch App and optionally install another extension to remove those Bars altogether, like Unsmartifier.
  • Want 7TV/BTTV/FFZ features like Emotes or a customizable Twitch Experience? Install the FFZ userscript, reload twitch.tv and configure your experience and/or install Add-ons like 7TV Emotes by clicking the new icon top right.
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submitted 5 months ago by Emotet@slrpnk.net to c/reddit@lemmy.world

Using reddit without an account is a pain nowadays, especially with any commercial VPN. There are ways around that:

Some of you may known the rather short-lived Libreddit, an awesome frontend for Reddit that got struck down by its success.

Redlib is a (still working) fork of Libreddit with a few instances. Due to reddits API Limits, it's not very practical to rely on one instance.

A quite elegant solution is the Automatic Redlib Quota & Error Redirector userscript. Once installed, most Redlib errors are automatically detected and your request gets redirected to another instance. This results in an excellent user experience, altough some instances can be a bit slow if you're trying to access media.

The list of available Redlib instances the script uses gets updated quite frequently. The script also works nicely with redirect plugins, e.g. this one for Firefox, if you want to automatically redirect all Reddit URLs to Redlib.

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submitted 5 months ago by Emotet@slrpnk.net to c/dach@feddit.de
[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 93 points 6 months ago

Well, this tells us that more privacy minded people with a background or interest in technology tend to be more present/engaging on Fediverse platforms. Not really surprising.

[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 37 points 6 months ago

It's not shared for public benefit, though. OpenAI, despite the Open in their name, charges for access to their models. You either pay with money or (meta)data, depending on the model.

Legally, sure. You signed away your rights to your answers when you joined the forum. Morally, though?

People are pissed that SO, that was actively encouraging Mods to use AI detection software to prevent any LLM usage in the posted questions and answers, are now selling the publicly accessible data, made by their users for free, to a closed-source for-profit entity that refuses to open itself up.

Basically the same story as with reddit.

[-] Emotet@slrpnk.net 39 points 6 months ago

$480085. 4 B00BS.

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