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predictabl3on Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan thanks to abusive users

It's them making excuses for users calling them on obvious bullshit advertising.

What a terrible article too. What the hell does "crypto creeps" even mean? If it's plaintext over 35TB, it's fine?

predictabl3on Tickets for Fyre Festival 2 are on sale

> For many, it was $500-$1,200 for two weeks holiday in the Bahamas, covering food, accommodation, transportation, and the event fee.

I frankly don't understand how that's different than what the GP said.

predictabl3on I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS

It's on my list, but... to be honest if you Google "separate header Luks", you'll find it's trivial to create a LUKS device with a detached header. Then the default ZRepl quick start will get you going with the basic pool-to-pool local replication. That will get you almost all the way there. :) I used their docs/guide to do the remote replication too, though it would make a good write-up as I could throw in how I use sops-nix for securing the Zrepl TLS bits for the remote scenario too...

predictabl3on I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS

Zrepl is a big part of why I feel secure doing the digital nomad thing. A script, run nightlyish, opens a separate-headered LUKS-protected ZFS pool and then copies all snapshots over. That NVME enclosure lives in my "purse" that never leaves me sight/body.

Between this and NixOS, I can provision a new identical laptop in about 10 minutes.

I recently added off-site replication as well, so even if I get completely devastatingly mugged, there's still about zero chance of serious data loss.

Zrepl is absolutely brilliant software. Easy to run with, but incredibly sophisticated and powerful if you need all the knobs. I can't praise it enough.

predictabl3on Phone.wtf

Oh I looove this. I did this right after I quit Twitter. My mental health is streets ahead of where it used to be. Plus it's so much nicer to plan a call and do it over a reliable internet calling platform instead of the "phone".

If I had kids, maybe the "nothing is urgent" would be different, but I also know modern parents can't fathom the fact that I was never reachable during school, ever, and that was perfectly normal and fine.

Android let's you customize DND as well, so I don't even see new or existing notifications unless I swipe down. This means if I get my phone out to look something up, I'm not going to get distracted for 5 minutes.

Modern phones are a plague. Dates, parents, siblings, coworkers everyone seems to be oblivious to how often they will just drop out of a conversation midsentence because their phone buzzed or beeped. I just stop talking until they're done now, which inevitably makes them uncomfortable. Sorry, it's rude AF and I get tired of repeating myself.

predictabl3on YouTube is testing new “skip ads” button that makes it just a bit harder to skip

YouTube scraped my view history for years with it turned off, for recommendations. YouTube shows me a non-stop deluge of outright scam ads, dozens of times a day, and that's when it's not showing me the creep-crotch shot of a cheerleader ad. (I've reported it countless times)

I'm not rewarding any of their behavior. I don't care if I'm sort some of hypocrite, they're scummy and I will never give them a dime.

predictabl3on Android Dev account terminated after 12 years for violating “Stalkerware policy”

> You always read about these stories and think "they probably deserved it" and then it hits you.

Really? I sure don't think that. In fact, that attitude's a real sympathy killer, to be honest. How can people be so naive about the power these companies have to destroy your livelihood, in a single stroke, often due to an entirely humanless-process?

predictabl3on uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox

So can you tell Firefox to only allow MV3 (or MV3+sandboxed, I guess) extensions then? Or have you manually audited your list of extensions?

I was sort of aware but your post clearly reminds me that Firefox extensions are probably my single biggest point of general vulnerability on my phone and computer, given how much is done in browser.

Appreciate your original thoughts either way.

predictabl3on Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices

SMH at the lack of though or understanding some ppl have for layered device security...

This has an obvious clear benefit: all of the people who have said "oh well Google could be compelled to sign a malicious update for a single user"... This is an attempt at solving that via a transparency log.

Granted, I think for this to matter much all-up, it would need to apply to PSF, Apex, general app updates, etc.... Which I'm pretty sure this doesn't even attempt to touch.

I'd love to hear Google speak to that but that seems like a huge can of worms compared to the image based hashing, signing, verification that is already part of the tooling, ecosystem and consciousness.

predictabl3on Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones: odd plan to stop election fraud

Even better when you label the "wifi montiroing device" as "WMD" and strap it to a drone.

Also, why do I even know this? What is life anymore? Haha.

predictabl3on Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones: odd plan to stop election fraud

Honestly the real conspiracy is that Lindell and other dipshits are making legitimate concerns about voting machines impossible to talk about.

predictabl3on Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say

Dude, learn to read. I highlighted the important bits to make it real easy.

She wasn't even elected into her magistrate position. Holy fuck, I'm done with this useless conversation.

predictabl3on Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say

>If you were to gamble, what odds would you place on the idea that there was no evidence evidence for the warrant?

I'm getting trolled anyway. The affidavits have been released, they're a joke. Which is why Joel Ensley (recognize that name) revoked the search warrants. Seriously, you don't even seem to know the basics.

predictabl3on Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say

> On Friday The Star reported Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey, the prosecutor who will decide whether to bring criminal charges in the investigation, is also the brother-in-law of the business owner whose expiring liquor license helped kick off the firestorm.

Judge Viar served as the County Attorney until she was appointed into her judgeship position. (It would be interesting to know if she disclosed the two DUIs, I have my bets considering one of them is mysteriously missing court records.)

> It’s unclear whether a judicial nominating commission that selected Viar for the magistrate position knew about her arrests and diversion. Members of the commission did not return calls from Eagle and Kansas City Star reporters. She would have been required to disclose both arrests in her application.

>She was never sanctioned by the state’s attorney discipline board and won reelection multiple times as a Republican candidate for Morris County attorney.

Looks like the Mayor just missed the first City Council meeting, in 3.5 years. Surely another coincidence.

God I can't wait for more reporting to come out, it's gonna be so good.

And just in case since this thread seems to be full of people needing things spoon-fed, the cops also raided the single city council person who voted against giving a liquor license, illegally, to someone convicted of DUI.

Oh, and the initial meeting, at Keri Newell's restaurant, that preceded all of this, was illegally conducted:

>The meeting was illegal anyway because, if you’ll refer back to the Police Department’s Facebook post, three members of the Marion County Commission were in attendance. That represents a majority of the five commissioners, which makes it an open meeting. Government meetings in Kansas are governed by what is whimsically called the Kansas Open Meetings Act. It’s a bit ironic because its mostly about when government can close a meeting.

predictabl3on Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say

Maybe y'all bootlickers should inform yourself about the basics of this case before running your mouthes?

There's a direct line between her, the court attorney, the owner of the hotel, and Keri Newell.

And I'm willing to bet a small fortune of pick-your-favorite-crypto that she backdated the affidavits that the court openly said didn't exist the day after the raid.

God imagine defending a raid on journalists without bothering to do a modicum of research. Couldn't fucking be me.

predictabl3on Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say

I assume folks are going to look into this. If she back-dated those affidavits (which, man, sure seems likely), I would hope/assume she can be disbarred? Which would be great, but I hope doesn't prevent fuller accountability for the Sheriff's office as well.

predictabl3on A raid on a Kansas newspaper likely broke the law, experts say. But which one?

This one had better details imo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203078

predictabl3on Kris Nóva has died

I always figured I'd bump into her again and reconnect. Kris was unlike anyone I've met before. "infectious energy" exemplified. Big ideas and the determination to chase them. I still remember some words of encouragement she gave me, seemingly so easily. :( RIP Kris

predictabl3on NC files charges against Nissan dealership employees

> This isn’t the first time that Kazran has run into trouble with the law, either. Back in 2010, the Federal Election Commission filed a complaint against him alleging that he illegally reimbursed employees of his Florida dealership for close to $70,000 in political donations.

I'll give you two guesses, but you're only going to need one! To save you the work, it was for Vic Buchanan's campaign.

predictabl3on Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago

Imagine if a Linux user said this.

The bar is so vastly different for windows and Linux users and by and large I try to keep my mouth shut because I dual boot and I know DAMN WELL which OS needs more handholding and has required fuck-it-start-over handling. God forbid you ever try to login to Win11 with low disk space, you're totally FUBAR and there are countless reports online of this EXACT FKING SCENARIO. Imagine for one second if Linux became COMPLETELY BROKEN if you ran out of disk space, it would be A JOKE.

If manufacturer would consistently publish to LVFS, I would NEVER TOUCH WINDOWS AGAIN. And I play Halo every single day of my life. Sorry gaming on Linux is less of a complete pain in the ass than using windows. You paying attn MSFT? Your stock price is 80% of my life, so I sure hope so.

"Everything is constantly changing"?! Are you FUCKING kidding me? What has changed in Linux is the past 15 years other than Wayland, which, I've been running for 4+ years and know what is BS and what isn't (DM me and I'll screen share stream my desktop at arbitrary scale factors at 240hz). I can run Gnome2, I can run kde3 for gods sake. Meanwhile there's crapware discussed here weekly just trying to get a basic Start Menu back in Win11, or constant complaints about ads, or regressions or ON and ON; do y'all have ANY self respect?

Stockholm syndrome, laziness, take your pick, it's exhausting.

predictabl3on Xbox’s new “8 strikes” mod rollout judges hate speech 3x worse than cheating

Really rolling the dice here... My speech has been less suppressed on XBL than here. And it was much more warranted when I was struck there than any sort of retribution/slowmod'd here.

Just offering that up for the free speech absolutionists (lol) here.

predictabl3on StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

It's very odd that their 12-port dock also shows a DP port in the image, but it's not listed in the specs.

But the 2x HDMI are visible + listed. :(

predictabl3on StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet

No. It really isn't. I can tap a keyboard shortcut and change my desktop resolution in .1 increments and everything just works and scales up and down. I've run my internal laptop display at 1.7 for 3+ years. (Sway)

predictabl3on Hono and Htmx and Cloudflare is a new stack

Oh, ok, so Htmx avoids JS so let's hurry to shove some JS back around it. The entire appeal of HTMX for me is that I can basically never touch JS except maybe a tiny bit of progresive enhancement, at the end, probably in plain old vanilla browser only JS.

predictabl3on AMD Inception Mitigations Can Lower Performance of CPUs by Up to 54%

`boot.kernelParams = [ "mitigations=off" ];`

Have there been actual JS-based attacks on users seen in the wild? I feel conflicted about this. I'm very stubborn about enabling 2FA everywhere possible, but I just can't convince myself I need to have these mitigations enabled on my laptop. I do leave the mitigations turned on for my "servers".

predictabl3on Mullvad Browser

Seems like a real missed opportunity to cross pollinate between Mullvad user and Tor users. Like, why not just leave Tor enabled?

predictabl3on Weak Cryptographic Parameters in LUKS1

Dude, another serious issue with Tails, sigh. The entire live-boot stuff was a disgusting bowl of shell spaghetti last time I looked and it was barely working for iso boot, had all sorts of issues booting if you tried to boot the kernel and invited raw, on and on.

I love Tails but sorta begrudgingly. Spectrum OS cant come fast enough.

How is there not an explanation for why Luks1 was still being used at this point??

predictabl3on Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc

I am so happy you shared this here, I had no idea. Really lovely, thank you.

predictabl3on System Initiative has open sourced its collab DevOps tool

Wait, I thought k8s and open shift had this entire service catalog concept that was basically sort of a CRD->IaaS bridge.

Did that die? Is that not even what crossplane is? Once again, I'm 6 clicks deep and havent seen a single actionable example. I wish I could get inside some people's heads and wonder wtf theyre thinking when marketing this stuff.

Edit. Wow OSB and Service Catalog are dead. Is there a obituary?

predictabl3on QR codes appearing in Google street view?

Ah, indeed. Kind of a nothing-burger then if you ask me.