jbloggs777

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

Not everything will be open source. For whatever reason, they decided to make this obfuscator open source. It might also just be an interesting side project that someone got permission to release.

Obfuscation can make it harder to reverse engineer code, even if the method is known. It might also be designed to be pluggable, allowing custom obfuscation. I haven't checked.

We also know that obfuscation isn't real security ... but it's sometimes it is also good enough for a particular use case...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It looks like a biltong candidate to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except my crazy relative (just 1, thank dog) also has telegram and feels the urge to forward every damn whackjob conspiracy theory reinterpretation of truth that they find to me and my wife, despite us never replying except to ask them to stop. eg. Cloud seeding, windmills and electric cars are responsible for destroying the atmosphere (not co2 and other greenhouse gases); Bill Gates etc. are spreading microchips through vaccinations; judges ruling that measles doesn't exist; Ukraine is full of nazis; and yes, even regurgitated feelgood fairy tales and random cat pictures from Facebook. So glad they are in a country far far away from me. They "do their own research", of course.

So bloody sad that so many people are in a similar situation of avoiding friends and family for their own sanity (and sometimes safety).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Gosh darn. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

News next week: $(John Deere)'s HQ relocate to Mar a Lago.

News in a fortnight: Socialist right-to-repair laws under federal review. Texas lawmaker's under investigation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But not Fire tablets (kids profile) or Samsung TV or many others that Plex currently supports.

JellyFin android phone app's UI is a little weird at times, but does work pretty well for me.

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What I would adore from any app would be an easy way to upload specific content and metadata via SFTP or to blob storage and accessible with auth (basic, token, or cloud) to more easily share it with friends/family/myself without having to host the whole damn library on the Internet or share my home Internet at inconvenient times.

Client-side encryption would be a great addition to that (eg. password required, that adds a key to the key ring). And of course native support in the JellyFin/other apps for this. It could even be made to work with a JS & WASM player.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My death record is personal, and I do not consent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Don't they know that the kids deserved it, because they like Hummus. Yes, I'm sure that was it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to love Pocket ... I remember they changed something, and then I refused to use it since. I don't remember what it was now, though. I assume enshittification of some kind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, at that point I wouldn't worry. If someone has docker access on the server, it's pretty much game over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Similar in Germany. Those with kids pay less for certain insurances (long term disabled healthcare, iirc) because there is an obligation for children to help parents in such situations. And parents get a small amount of direct financial support for every child. For some families, it's an absolute lifeline, but it can help pay the rent for a bigger apartment. Some jobs (usually public service) also pay extra for children.

Does it encourage self declared bachelors/bachelorettes-for-life to have kids? No.

Does it help those who have or want kids to afford it? Yes.

Does it subsequently help society? Yes, along with free/cheap childcare, medical services, and decent compulsory education.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Encryption will typically be CPU bound, while many servers will be I/O bound (eg. File hosting, rather than computing stuff). So it will probably be fine.

Encryption can help with the case that someone gets physical access to the machine or hard disk. If they can login to the running system (or dump RAM, which is possible with VMs & containers), it won't bring much value.

You will of course need to login and mount the encrypted volume after a restart.

At my work, we want to make sure that secrets are adequately protected at rest, and we follow good hygiene practices like regularly rotating credentials, time limited certificates, etc. We tend to trust AWS KMS to encrypt our data, except for a few special use cases.

Do you have a particular risk that you are worried about?

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