greybeard

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greybeard ,

Theoretically, Microsoft could protect against most attacks. Apple has done it by making it increasingly impossible to touch kernel level stuff without an MDM. Every release they lock up more of the system. It means they are drifting toward iOS on their Macs, where the user doesn't own their device, but it is an effective blocker to stuff like this, baring zero day kernel issues.

I think that is where Microsoft is headed, but they also aren't able to let go of backward compatibility, so they really aren't getting any closer to a system that is secured enough to handle such sensitive data.

greybeard ,

Others have given you a good idea, but since you appear to be using Unifi for switch and firewall, o can give you a clear answer:
Don't set vlan on the Synology. Set it as the "Native" VLAN on the switch port going to the Synology.

Synology can be vlan aware, but you don't need it. Let the switch do the talking.

On the Synology I recommend putting it on DHCP while you test. Once it starts getting an IP in the right subnet, you can then switch it to static. Just make sure your gateway is right, putting it wrong will cause the device to not be able to reach outside its own subnet.

greybeard ,

They tore down a huge chunk of forest here, which was mostly oak and pine, and named the neighborhood that replaced it redwood, a tree that isn't found anywhere near here.

greybeard ,

I don't want to let nations off the hook for being bastards, but the technical incomlktence of both our core infrastructure and the tools that support them is also astounding.

greybeard ,

If you have never heard of it before, I recommend checking out the wikipedia page for it, and some of the information available about its creator.

greybeard ,

The way it makes a little since if you think of its as the gender neutral form of his and her. It is still stupid, but slightly more remeberable.

greybeard ,

Like most people, it changes. For me it is like someone took the volume knob on the world and maxed it out for half a second. Just a blip of every sound in the room suddenly being set to 11. Sometimes it is like someone yelling in my ear, but just a grunt or a scream like they fell over.

greybeard ,

Cars have been home repaired since cars existed. It has never been a notable safety concern. Somehow it suddenly is?

greybeard ,

I'm sure that is what the car manufacturers claim.

greybeard ,

Sounds like the problem is lack of regulations, not people repairing their own stuff. We are letting companies create unmanageable products then blaming owners for trying to take ownership. Encryption is a solved problem, and doesn't require a black box to be secure, in fact is more secure when it isn't. And this isn't the first time that Cara breaking on the road a risk. If someone put after market breaks on their car and they failed, people would die too, yet somehow we allowed that. Car manufacturers are being allowed to make anti-consumer decisions and are blaming us for them.

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" ( futurism.com )

Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

greybeard ,

That's probably ComfyUI, one of the more popular open source tools. You are right, it is visual programming. Mixing text, reference images, and a lot of other items into models to output images. I can easily see someone spending hours to get a single image out of it, but then it becomes a bit of a reusable pipeline. It's a cool tool, and, if as someone else in this comment chain said that art is a study of choice, then the output is arguably art. I'm not sure I'd go that far with it, but I have a hard time calling my programming art as well, although it meets most of the definitions of it, and is certainly a creative act.

greybeard ,

I daily drive it on 2 machines. Overall, it is super simple, if you know how to ready json or yml, you will understand the config file instantly. However, it is a unique OS, and works different than most other distros. As a result, any guide made for other Linux distros needs to be thrown out the window. It also doesn't natively support most self executing packages like app image. All that said, it is fun and easy, just make sure when you look for support, you are looking for NixOS support.

greybeard ,

To clarify, when it cones time to voke, you can vote for whoever you want, but primaries are how the parties pick who they get behind. Generally it isn't allowed to vote in the primary for more than one party, or some people would vote in all primaries, helping put their candidate into multiple parties, or tanking a party by poisoning their ballot.

O365 email local cache

Work uses O365 and I'm getting a little frustrated with OWA. Thinking about running a local email server to mirror O365. In the end, I want to keep my email in O365, but have a 2 way sync with a local imap server. Looks like I have a few options on the email server - dovecot/cyrus/stalwart. For the syncing, I just see...

greybeard ,

M365 is doing away with all legacy authentication, do not be surprised if IMAP is completely unusable in the next 12 months. If you simply want to keep a copy of everything, a store and forward SMTP proxy would probably be the solution, so all email going to your domain would hit that first, then send off to M365.

greybeard ,

Highway signage was critical. If you were traveling, you could tell which states sucked by them not having any signs pointing you back to the highway.

greybeard ,

I don't gave a lot of use of it in my personal life, but I did switch from LibreOffice over to OnlyOffice and have been happy with it. The interface feels relatively modern and logically laid out. My spreadsheets tend to be basic tracking sheets and I haven't made a written document file in ages, but for my modest needs, OnlyOffice is a clear winner.

greybeard ,

This is Wordpad, not Notepad. There is still a perfectly functional plain text editor(until they decide to slam ads into it) for Windows. WordPad was a rich text editor. Sublime and Notepad++ don't really compete with that. LibreOffice and OnlyOffice exist for free in that space, but you are right that non-tech savvy users will struggle to find them on Windows.

ajayiyer , to Linux
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Gentle reminder to everyone that support for ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

  1. Continue on Win 10 but with higher security risks.
  2. Buy new and expensive hardware that supports Win11.
  3. Try a beginner friendly distro like . It only takes about two months to acclimate.

@nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

greybeard ,

Wow, that's just waiting to get copyright and trademarked out if existence. It is one thing to make something look and feel like Windows, it is another to make it an exact visual copy and call it Windows.

greybeard ,

If I was running business workstations on Linux, I'd probably prefer Flatpak over distro specific package managers most of the time.

greybeard ,

Hopefully they get to Simple Launcher soon. I switched to that because Nova Launcher seemed to he dead and I couldn't find a better open source alternative. I certainly will take suggestions if someone knows something better on fdroid.

greybeard ,

Thanks for the recommendation, unfortunately it seems that one is no longer maintained either.

greybeard ,

If we judged citizens based on what their government does, I don't think many of us would come out clean. As an American, I don't want the whole world thinking that I agree with what the Feds are up to all the time. I recommend extending that same courtesy to people in countries who's government you don't like as well.

greybeard ,

If you like OpenArena, check out Xonotic. Its a similarly fast paced open source shooter.

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