It’s better than that.

Ford has been in power since 2018. In his first two years, his admin advocated for and pushed through legislation specifically to allow speed cameras to be installed in municipalities. This may have been leftover legislative planning from the previous party, but in either case it rode through with conservative favour.

Political interests have since shifted, and with his most recent term as Premier, he’s been loudly admonishing any municipality that installs speed cameras, bike lanes or other traffic calming measures because he’s parroting nonsense about how it restricts traffic in high density areas and is making a stink about how it all just increases congestion.

It’s dangerous, stupid and frustrating. He’s made threats to municipalities thay don’t agree with his declarations, attempting to deny typical grants allocated to improving infrastructure in smaller regions.

Same, this seems incorrect

I had a blast with WD2. It was just fun. Unlike the first game, if wasn’t taking itself too seriously and it came out at a time where Ubi was still sorta developing what would become their open world formula, so it still felt fresher than similar titles do now.

I’ve had the opposite experience with Tidal vs Qobuz. Tidal had almost none of what I listen to, but Qobuz did the best job of catching my library when I migrated.

I think it depends entirely on what your music interests are. But I’ve been pretty happy with Qobuz.

Darknet used to be good, but there’s been a shift in the content recently in which it feels like Rhysider doesn’t feel like he’s interviewing someone as much as he’s trying to be that annoying guy at the party who keeps butting in to try and tell your story for you.

I can’t quite tell what changed, or when, but I feel like he used to give his subjects a lot more room to breathe instead of imposing his own personality over everything.

I don’t feel bad for Microsoft, but responsible disclosure is about more than that.

It’s ethical. It gives the developer time to correct an error before it has the potential to affect anyone using their products. When you don’t follow that process, whether one set out by the developer, or a best effort on your part, you are now contributing to the potential harm caused by that vulnerability.

This isn’t universal, and I have no doubt that Microsoft is also partly to blame, but there’s a significant element of attention seeking in the mix here. They could have reached out to other security researchers, validated the findings in private and found another channel to work through. Maybe he tried, but largely it seems like his actions are retaliatory and broadly harmful to anyone who has to administer these products.

I have a lot of respect for security researchers. My job relies on the work they do and the skill it takes to do it. But part of that relies on doing things in a way that minimizes potential harm.

I was mostly making the comment in jest. I do rename, but my folder structures, as someone who downloads everything manually based on what I want to watch rather than doing the automated *arr stuff leaves it in directories only I consider sensible.

I have Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy that lives in a DMZ and a WAF to go with it. I’m sure there’s still room for watching an unauthenticated stream because I forgot to rename a folder somewhere, but it’s not exactly an attack vector I care about. I’m more concerned about DDoS or impersonation attacks, which I also attempt to mitigate via an LDAP implementation behind the scenes.

It’s not perfect, but it’s the best effort I can make at the moment.

Jokes on them, my paths are a shitshow and I can’t be bothered to organize them properly

You’ve got a couple benefits. If you have a domain name, and aren’t advertising it publicly, then you can use the reverse proxy to point that domain to a non-standard port that Jellyfin runs on.

Security through obscurity is not good security, but it does prevent the majority of port scanning attacks. You can also use fail2ban on the reverse proxy side to try and mitigate some attacks.

I find it’s primarily an issue when looking for information about products. Listicles have always been a pain, but now entire websites show up just to summarize every category of product without adding meaningful review or input.

I’ve had a problem lately where DDG just returns AI generated articles on topics instead of any real resources. It’s not their fault, per se, since it’s just a wrapper for Bing, but it’s pretty lousy.

If I know what to expect, then it’s fine, but if I’m genuinely looking for something new, it’s increasingly frustrating

That’s actually…impressive

What do you typically use it for though? My PC is central to the media I consume, the games I play and as a creative outlet. I don’t think I’d be able to use most of the tools I enjoy with such little memory.

Other way around. In a Windows VM on Linux

Apple really does have a crazy hardware division. I wish their software was anywhere near as appealing. They could do a good job of kicking Qualcomm into actually making something useful if they chose to license their M series chips

It depends entirely on the implementation. Is it genuinely a “second factor”? Or are they just going to let you use one or the other? Because MFA is a real benefit to account security, even if SMS is the weakest version of it.

In theory, yeah

Cool, they’ve done effectively the same thing they did with the Steam Deck. I think they truly didn’t anticipate the volume of people interested in the controller.

The trouble for me in this sense is that I have an AVR, I’d like CEC to work and I’d like an interface that was actually designed for a remote.

I’ve done this before, and frankly it’s just not as good. It works reasonably well, but an HTPC has never served as well as a purpose built piece of hardware or software, even if that’s the TV itself.

If I really wanted, I could buy a hospitality TV and use the RS232 to control it from the PC but I’m tired thinking about the ways that’s likely to fail.

This is what strong endpoint security is for. EDR software is also common. Routing everyone’s internet traffic is pretty strenuous.

Generally speaking, most VPNs used for business are a split tunnel, and aren’t forwarding all of your traffic, just the traffic relevant to your company resources that would otherwise be inaccessible unless you were on-site. So your internet traffic and regular browsing are still sent as if you had no VPN connection at all.