I am married to an Iranian and go there to visit family every couple of years, and my country is supposedly on the list, but I just apply for a visa regardless because it’s such a mess even figuring out how exactly no visa entry is supposed to work (as in we get ambiguous answers from the consulate) is not worth the potential headache of having some issue on wntey

Fancy exploits… Or at first maybe just a 17 year old wearing a costume mustache haha

I was just thinking about this recently. For my original data I already have multiple copies: 2 desktop PCs, home and office, synced with a home NAS, adding a server in the office soon too, laptop has everything but photos (which is a lot since I am into photography and timelapses). My non original media has only one copy, but will soon have a second copy in the server at my office.

But I can’t count on using my office at my job as a long term thing. For my original data, I have been planning on getting something like Backblaze for a full professional off-site copy. For all my non original media, well… It would be ok to lose it I suppose, but I would rather not. Would this be a good use case for some sort of other stable media? I forgot what it was called, but I recently saw a post about some high density disk (like some sort of multi TB blu ray disk thing?) That seems like a decent solution, better to lose 1 year of piracy instead of 20 years of piracy haha. I have lots of obscure stuff that would be hard to get again, curated by and copied from cinephile and audiophile friends, rare movies I ripped from university library DVD discs and even VHS tapes!

Maybe I need to start learning about some alternative storage media for that stuff. Anyone have suggestions? Some sort of tape or disc for this kind of large but immutable media?

I am about to go on this adventure of setting up a full *arr stack! I had it kind of almost working once, had a kid, and now finally getting time to work up a proper server to handle everything

I assumed that’s the only thing it could mean but literally could not believe anyone would decide to remove the fucking escape key of all things… WTF

Wait, what’s up with the escape key? I don’t know much about macs

This is really good, I just realized I read it a while back, and it prompted me and and a technically competent friend to at the very least be each other’s bitwarden “killswitch” users - forget what it’s called, the person that can take over your vault if you are dead/disappear, it is configurable in different ways, like if they request access and you don’t respond by X days, they get it. We don’t have the same skill set, but are both competent enough to figure it out or find someone that can access everything needed if given all the credentials stored there. I should do more and document, but this is a first good step if shit hits the fan

If you think this is run down, check out John Oliver’s recent piece on “dollar stores” in the US

Btw

Arch

I actually googled error 542 thinking I missed some obscure HTTP code 😂. Turns out lots of different things give out 542s but the first hit was SMTP

I love that I open the link, get hit with a 404 error, then wait, no, the website’s name is 404 media, then read just enough to learn what I already knew from the Lemmy post before I get hit with a paywall… So it might as well have been a 404 error lol

Weird - I see a lot of comments about how this is some evolution in the war of bots vs CAPTCHA, but I have come across this once, and it was many years ago. I just assumed it was a weird small captcha company that was doing their own thing

Meanwhile in new Orleans, guy on kayak during flood finishes his beer before entering the neighborhood bar

My first smartphone was a Samsung. It was also my last Samsung device.

I just spent 30+ minutes troubleshooting an MS office installer today that would just shut off after the splash screen, on a friend’s brand new laptop… But then again, I spent two hours trying to get my old Brother network scanner/printer on Manjaro a few weeks ago.

TIL what QubesOS is, what an interesting concept!