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• Post #4501833

  Remember when I said my DR setup should have me back up in 20-30 minutes? Yeah. About that. Turns out a backup job can run clean every single night for months and still not actually be backing up what you think it is. So here's what I actually found out the hard way replacing nixos2's dying hardware. Feel free to cue the old "The more you know" clip. https://blog.ppb1701.com/best-laid-plans-replacing-nixos2s-failing-hardware-part-19-of-building-a-resilient-home-server-serie...

• Post #4243180

  Been away a bit (nixos2 drama, more about that soon), but the Paramount-Warner Bros. saga kept moving without me: EU cleared it with conditions, then Paramount agreed to freeze the whole deal until a trial happens — maybe not until June 2027. Both sides are calling it a win. Let's see why. https://blog.ppb1701.com/deep-freeze #streaming #paramount #warnerbros #antitrust #consolidation #streamingwars #mediaconsolidation #blog

• Post #4088506

  Bitwarden shipped a client update that requires Vaultwarden 1.37.0 — which also happens to close 8 medium-severity security advisories that don't even have CVEs assigned yet. Nixpkgs hasn't caught up. Stable currently points to 1.36.0. So I spent some time (unplanned) patching my server before the apps auto updated and relegated me to server website only. https://blog.ppb1701.com/when-bitwarden-breaks-vaultwarden-before-nixpkgs-catches-up-part-18-of-building-a-resilient-home #blog #...

• Post #4066398

  Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition this week, days apart, for two different stated reasons — account recovery, catching AI catfish. Same instinct underneath: give us your face. https://blog.ppb1701.com/everyone-knows-your-face #bigtech #google #meta #privacy #biometrics #faceid #surveillance #userhostile #blog

• Post #4065014

  Anyone popped the case off to access fans, ram, or ssd on a Minisforum em780? Mine's fans are making the dying hum to banshee scream. (using it as one of my homeservers) Trying to figure out how not seeing spots that really look like laptop pop points and only screws I saw when inside the "outer" case? #minisforum #em780 #selfhosting #minipc

• Post #3886700

  Back in April I wrote about the gap between what "Hide My Email" implies and what it actually promises. Now we have a court case. Apparently Apple knew about a Hide My Email flaw for over a year, said it was fixed when it wasn't, and kept selling the feature the whole time. https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-word-hide-is-now-a-legal-question #apple #privacy #hidemyemail #classaction #bigtech #userhostile #icloud #blog

• Post #3863367

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@kotaku/culture-ofp4l3m8z/-/a-DpBb0K6SQ3ilc2khVRTR4Q%3Aa%3A1938881949-%2F0 The problem is also likely at this point they have the design and probably some internal early ps6 models done...likely with no drive. Given I think them and MS had originally wanted to launch them maybe this year.

• Post #3809493

  The DOJ cleared Paramount-WBD with zero conditions in June. Turns out career staff wanted to sue and got overruled before they could say so. Now 12 states just sued anyway — and Oregon wants to know if Paramount helped write the DOJ's own clearance letter. https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-other-states-have-entered-the-chat #streaming #paramount #warnerbros #consolidation #streamingwars #mediaconsolidation #antitrust #blog

• Post #3696838

  Meta announced a fix so your smart glasses can't be secretly used to record people. Same week, it's testing "always-on" glasses that record everyone, all the time, and may not even light the warning LED. Same week, Instagram opted your public photos into AI image generation by default. 🤔 https://blog.ppb1701.com/always-on-always-watching #meta #google #ai #aiglasses #smartglasses #privacy #bigtech #surveillance #userhostile #blog

• Post #3651366

  Xbox cut 3,200 jobs and divested five studios this week. Some are calling it bad luck, but it's not really— it's the bill for five years of buying studios it couldn't fund, cancelling exclusives, and giving away the ones that worked. And it just handed Sony a blank check on ending discs too. https://blog.ppb1701.com/xbox-didnt-get-unlucky-it-got-managed-this-way #xbox #gaming #microsoft #layoffs #gamepass #activisionblizzard #sony #playstation #digitalownership #bigtech #insertcoin...

• Post #3414180

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/116818334745523184 nice discount....but I'm guessing a lot of us don't have 4k+ laying around in this day and age.

• Post #3374955

  Human-in-the-loop sounds like a safety net. It isn't. It's alarm fatigue in an understaffed ER, a driver watching a crash the car was supposed to handle, and a dev stamping a 30-file diff because it builds. Same failure, every time. https://blog.ppb1701.com/smaller-batches-sharper-eyes #ai #bigtech #blog #automation #codereview #humanfactors #amazon #selfdriving #softwareengineering

• Post #3374954

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116794350860331445 Probably DNS...😉

• Post #2416005

  271 real bugs. Real Firefox. All patched. The scariest thing about this week's Mozilla post isn't in the bug table. It's in the methodology section. https://blog.ppb1701.com/better-rivets #ai #anthropic #blog #firefox #glasswing #infosec #mozilla #mythos #security #userhostile

• Post #2416004

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116555858426332207 aside from it always seemed flaky to me on the phone anyway....I'd argue a third. The most logical spot would be with the screen. Now I'm not sure how much that could maintain the screen around that for screen use, but it would also be adding a point of leaving fingerprints, oils, and smudges on the screen. Yes I know it's a touchscreen and can get some....but really, how many people try to do much more with it that...

• Post #2416003

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116557033252546488 so whats the point of it versus an existing aggregator, rss feed, or if it's your thing just asking your favorite ai to generate the list?

• Post #2395575

  So on Friday, the FCC quietly extended the foreign router firmware deadline to 2029. Why you may ask? Well the said that enforcing it would create cybersecurity risks. I mean imagine that, unpatched hardware might be an issue....who knew? 🤷‍♂️ The new deadline lands 20 days before the next inauguration. Oh and I believe TikTok says hi. https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-firmware-cliff-just-got-quietly-pushed-to-2029 #fcc #routers #policy #security #geopolitics #netgear #eero #tplink #tiktok #user...

• Post #2143831

  OpenAI's CFO went to the Wall Street Journal during trial recess. Two sets of revenue numbers. Two sets of spending commitments. A joint denial that made things worse. Musk's lawyers read the Journal. Altman still has to testify. I cannot make this up. https://blog.ppb1701.com/two-sets-of-numbers #friar #altman #openai #trial #bigtech #userhostile #theranasai #blog

• Post #2068077

  OpenAI's CEO and president both held personal stakes in a chip company they then signed a $10 billion deal with. Neither disclosed it. Ever. Confirmed under oath. The CFO went to the Journal. Two sets of numbers. California AG watching. Eight banks holding a $40 billion unsecured loan with one repayment path. Musk stumbled into being accidentally correct. That's almost worse. https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-ipo-just-got-complicated #openai #altman, #brockman #musk #cerebus #ai #s...

• Post #2026310

  Remember when Sony owned Microsoft at E3 and basically won the console war in a couple of minutes? Yeah they apparently forgot.... https://blog.ppb1701.com/sony-forgot-what-won-them-the-console-war #bigtech #gaming #playstation #sony #drm #enshittification #userhostile #blog

• Post #1911073

  Evil vs Evil, or: How Two Billionaires Accidentally Told the Truth in Oakland https://blog.ppb1701.com/evil-vs-evil-or-how-two-billionaires-accidentally-told-the-truth-in-oakland #musk #altman #openai #xai #trial#bigtech #userhostile #tesla #spacex #blog

• Post #1828222

  @beaware.social I'm not really familiar with roh folks....but the one in the vest face reminds me of a cross betwen aang and krillin

• Post #1611690

  Bonus Mini Post Gaming site picks up Senator warning of AI companies trying to outrace the fuse they lit before the whole thing collapses. https://blog.ppb1701.com/parallel-series-bonus-mini-post #ai #bubble #gaming #userhostile #bigtech #senatorwarren #blog

• Post #1106280

  Proton built their entire brand on one promise: Swiss law means government agencies can't touch your data. Their own Terms of Service, their own infrastructure contracts, and a federal court case from March say otherwise. https://blog.ppb1701.com/not-even-government-agencies #bigtech #blog #infosec #privacy #proton #protonmeet #security #surveillance #userhostile #selfhosting

• Post #1033966

  Netflix Got $2.8 Billion Last Month. Now It Wants More of Yours. https://blog.ppb1701.com/netflix-got-2-8-billion-last-month-now-it-wants-more-of-yours #blog #netflix #streaming #streamingwars #bigtech #userhostile #enshitification

• Post #925982

  “Privacy. That’s iPhone.” — and Other Things That Need an Asterisk Apple isn’t lying about privacy. They’re just very careful about what they don’t say out loud. The Google deal. iCloud’s 5GB trap. The Meta silence. What “we keep your data safe” actually means. None of it required a lie. That’s kind of the whole point. https://blog.ppb1701.com/privacy-thats-iphone-and-other-things-that-need-an-asterisk #apple #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #blog #icloud #security

• Post #908735

  So the last couple weeks have been nuts on keeping up with the news....but here's another that might have slipped under your radar and will effect basically everyone in the US. Your home router has basically been declared a security risk. https://blog.ppb1701.com/all-this-has-happened-before #blog #routers #fcc #networking #security #policy #geopolitics #selfhosting #isp #userhostile

• Post #867590

  Back in Part 11 of the series i wrote "If GitHub ever 'goes stupid' — account suspension, policy changes, acquisition drama — all my code is sitting on hardware I own, with backups being replicated by Syncthing. GitHub becomes the mirror, not the source of truth." I recently added Spoiler alert to the post... https://blog.ppb1701.com/github-pivoted-so-did-i-part-15-of-building-a-resilient-home-server-series #codeberg #git #gitea #github #homeserver #microsoft...

• Post #304358

  Github being down so much lately is making me glad I put Gitea on my homelab. #selfhosting #Github #Gitea