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freitasm··on 2025 Banished Words List
Leverage and outcomes should be there.
freitasm··on Apple TV+ free first weekend of 2025
Slow Horses is a great spy series.
freitasm··on The Cody Computer
Love the chapter dedicated to Cody, in the manual.
freitasm··on Google search hallucinates Encanto 2
But do we see the big tech companies doing anything to stop this kind of thing happening? Or is it the case of "she'll be right" attitude?

Are the big tech still running this as a big beta test, without telling people?

Personally I ignore anything until the first search result. And I disable/hide anything AI-related in results. It's bad enough with the load of AI-generated SEO spam going around.

In the meantime, do we tell people not to trust AI-generated content in search pages, opening actual search result links instead?

freitasm··on Synology DS923 vs. FreeBSD with ZFS
Thanks. All my containers are running OK but I will check this out.
freitasm··on Synology DS923 vs. FreeBSD with ZFS
I have a DS923+.

The first thing I did was install more RAM. Then everything I run is via Container Manager (their Docker version, which is a bit behind).

It is a great little machine. I use it for OneDrive and Google Drive backup. I use it for Office 365 and Google Workspace backups. And because it is always-on, I use it as the exit node for my Tailnet.

freitasm··on Only 720k Snapdragon X laptops sold in Q3 – less than 0.8% of PCs
I'm not sure about the his view. Microsoft attempted smartphones twice. Failed both times. And stopped.
freitasm··on To Log into WordPress, You Now Have to Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good
Tomatoes already have umami. I would say olive are good but could really place with anchovies or capers depending on if you favour those. They are good too. Anchovies has the advantage of packing salty and umami in one.
freitasm··on Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007)
And most importantly, no Twitter.
freitasm··on How They Control You
> Ps: Democrats you had 4 years after Jan 6 to make sure he never gets in power again, yet you fucked up royally. Stop screaming now, what happens is as much as your fault as his by allowing him to come to power again.

This. Four years and nothing to show for it. So stop screaming. One side is as responsible for the outcome as the other.

freitasm··on Congress hears testimony on aliens
>> Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) asked panelists if they are familiar with "rumors that have come up to the Hill of a secretive project within the Department of Defense involving the manipulation of human genetics with what is described as non-human genetic material, potentially for the enhancement of human capabilities – hybrids." All four speakers said no

Stopped reading when I saw this person's name.

freitasm··on I converted a Macbook into a PC
Yes!

People who keep saying PC when they mean a Windows or Linux machine. As if the Apple machines weren't PCs too.

freitasm··on The Confusing State of RCS
I like how you are replying to me with my own website.

Here is some interesting comment from a telco staff https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=76&topicid=315...

What I meant is, interoperability between iOS RCS and Android RCS won't work until telcos deploy their own servers and Google fallback to those.

freitasm··on The Confusing State of RCS
It doesn't work in New Zealand. Operators have not deployed the infrastructure needed for it.
freitasm··on The Confusing State of RCS
Correct. Where operators don't provide, Google will use their servers. So the fact one uses RCS on Android does not mean an iOS user will have access. It may be using Google's servers...
freitasm··on Adding IPv6 to My Home Network (2024-11-03)
It can be simple. I use an ISP that's been providing IPv6 for years, and they were kind enough to document what users need to do to get it working (https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?topicid=240157). However, if you use their routers (Fritz!Box), it works out of the box.

I use a third-party router (Synology) and only had to check the IPv6 box to get it running—even with multiple VLANs in my network.

There are plenty of IPv6 services around. If a service is behind Cloudflare, it's likely IPv6 will be enabled by default. It is the same with other services, including some cloud providers now giving IPv6 addresses but charging for IPv4.

freitasm··on Adding IPv6 to My Home Network (2024-11-03)
>This documents how I added IPv6 to my home network, which runs OpenBSD, using OpenBSD's ifconfig, slaacd, dhcp6leased, rad, and unbound. This should serve as a guide to other people in the same situation, but be aware you need to be running at least OpenBSD 7.6, as that is the version that added support for dhcp6leased and updated rad to handle DHCPv6 PD (prefix delegation). For older OpenBSD versions, you'll have to use ports, and there are multiple guides for that, use your friendly neighborhood search engine."

The author forgot Step 1. Ensure your ISP provides IPV6 services.

Otherwise, good documentation for the record.

freitasm··on The Confusing State of RCS
The article does not clearly state whether Android RCS and iOS RCS will work together.

Interoperability depends on how RCS is implemented behind the scenes. Just because iOS RCS is here doesn't mean you can assume your Android friends will receive your messages or vice versa.

iOS RCS relies on mobile operators's infrastructure, while Android RCS uses Google services.

You can see where this is going, right?

Unless your telco invests in infrastructure to support RCS in-network, those two ecosystems will not talk to each other.

freitasm··on Low-cost, portable device can detect colorectal and prostate cancer in an hour
I did not imply this.

I believe this needs to be tested by other parties, results checked, etc. Like science.

Because claims like this ("diagnose," "small drops," "quick") were made before, people ended up in jail for the tactics used trying to protect the lies when they couldn't make it work.

freitasm··on American Airlines tests boarding technology that calls out line cutters
Is this really a "technology" or just some PR intern applying the wrong word for a business rule?
freitasm··on Understanding Round Robin DNS
Interesting. The author starts by discussing DNS round robin but then briefly touches on Cloudflare Load Balancing.

I use this feature, and there are options to control Affinity, Geolocation and others. I don't see this discussed in the article, so I'm not sure why Cloudflare load balancing is mentioned if the author does not test the whole thing.

Their Cloudflare wishlist includes "Offline servers should be detected."

This is also interesting because when creating a Cloudflare load balancing configuration, you create monitors, and if one is down, Cloudflare will automatically switch to other origin servers.

These screenshots show what I see on my Load Balancing configuration options:

https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/62250c035c074a1ee6e986...

https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/04654d4cdda2d6d1976f86...

freitasm··on A Media Player Without Peers – The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC
It really annoys me how these tools use so many exclamation marks. Also how they use those "Go...!" at end of paragraphs or end the results with a "personal question" like "What are you favourite [things I asked about]?" as if I had time to chat to something that can't reason.
freitasm··on Tesla's Beer-Serving Optimus Robot Was Controlled by a Human the Whole Time
Can we agree that he is leading the company down a path which it will be really hard to come back from later?
freitasm··on Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
Activity History has existed for years. It's not new.

New is extra data collection and Copilot "understanding" your activities based on those records.

freitasm··on I made $1M in 67 days during Covid
> We emailed Peel’s customer list announcing the product and shared it on our socials.

> Peel was an existing brand with customers and an email list. We had a basis to launch to.

A new product for an existing brand with a ready-to-go mailing list. Good story from a design and production perspective but nothing exceptional for marketing.

freitasm··on If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him
> Witkowski hasn’t worked out how threatening ET would open a door to communication rather than shut it rather firmly.

Well, then. That settles it. The "philosopher" has no idea what he's talking about.

freitasm··on OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company
Seeing so much money rolling in, hard to not want a slice of the pie.
freitasm··on Ask HN: How do you manage registration spam?
I run a forum, so there is a higher chance of spam attempts.

We confirm emails before creating an account. Visitors fill out a form with their email address and receive an email containing a URL with a hash of their salted email, which is the actual registration form.

Emails will not be sent to temporary email addresses, which we check using the DeBounce API. We also don't send emails if the IP address is a proxy, which is checked against another API. We also check the StopForumSpam API.

The request and registration forms are protected with Cloudflare Turnstile.

We also block registrations from a list of countries that are not a focus of our content.

I used to have Google reCaptcha v3, which returns a score. Scores above a specific value were rejected. I stopped using Google's service when they unveiled plans to charge with a low threshold for the free tier.

If you want to use the forum, you will register. If not, good.

freitasm··on Show HN: Bullshit Remover
Brilliant!

> Input

Good morning. Well done everyone on another successful project. It was really good seeing how all of you helped us deliver another positive outcome.

> Output

Morning. Project's done. You all did your jobs. Congrats, I guess.

freitasm··on Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache
With the exception of Cache Reserves, all these features are free.

Cache Reserve pricing is based on storage usage but optional.

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