What are their names and badge numbers?

Otherwise they are just dangerous criminals impersonating law enforcement and people have the right to defend themselves with force.

When KDE Plasma Bigscreen becomes bigger and usable, then you can plug any Linux device into it (or even get one of those 100€ NUCs) and have a privacy - friendly smart TV.

It’s a bit difficult. I don’t have the money for an entire 2nd server on my network and $500 in HDDs just for a backup solution as part of 3/2/1.

I have 3TB of fault-tolerant-ish data in a ZFS mirror then 12TB in a third, single drive full of stuff that I don’t care a ton if I lost (media and stuff mostly)

Maybe I could back up the more needed data to Hetzner or something for cheaper, but it still adds up.

I would be interested in seeing compiled statistics of how many fell without capitalist interventions.

The CIA themselves have stated how active they were in the 20th century with corrupting, breaking down, and ultimately overthrowing communist regimes and installing dictators.

But also socialism with worker owned co-ops and only infrastructure and regulations through a central government may somewhat be a good direction to go.

The crux seems to be that all forms of government are susceptible to authoriatarians because people themselves are very susceptible to authoritarian strong men and propaganda, inherently.

Yep, openvpn with factory firmware. It even had a (limited) choice DDNS services for self hosting, on a cheap consumer router. I could never figure out if NAT hairpinning worked though.

Almost all routers have an “advanced” section where you get a lot if these nice options.

I have only bought a ubiquiti device in the last few years though, so I guess it is possible that routers have been enshittified like a lot of tech products with features locked behind a paywall.

Sure, but you can’t access your home network anyway if your router is turned off…

I have yet to encounter a router made in the last decade that couldn’t. Asus routers, even my 15 year old tplink archer A7 could, ubiquiti always can, openwrt, pretty sure at work we did testing with a dlink router and it also had that option.

Pretty much if you don’t use a Linksys 100Mbps router from 2005, you can at least do openvpn if not wireguard.

You can even use an ESP32 or similar since it just has to perform 1 tiny function.

Getting an WT32-ETH01 knockoff dev board for 15€ or PoE for 25€ and uses <300mW with the wireless modem off. You could even just use a WiFi module for 8€ if you don’t want something wired.

https://registry.platformio.org/libraries/a7md0/WakeOnLan

There is already an wakeonlan library to generate a packet very easily.

You can even do it in pseudocode with ESPHome if you have HomeAssistant

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/solved-wake-on-lan-packet-from-esp32-to-ha-server-how-to-automate/617595

Then VPN in, send a signal to the esp using one of various methods to tell it to send the packet.

They are doing their absolute best to make that impossible too.

With Bosch, who is normally a very good appliance manufacturer, you have to register your product with them to even be able to download the stripped down user manual.

That is not true even a little bit. Look at any inkjet paper under a microscope made after the mid 2000s.

Fibaro isn’t a company anymore, so I don’t know if those will be available. Here in the middle EU, all shops are out of stock of fibaro stuff.

I use the aeotec stuff, but those smart plugs are also being not restocked at most webshops in Belgium and the Netherlands for some reason

I would be interested to see a figure of people with home servers that have had that happen to them. DoS & pwned yes, especially 15+ years ago before there were good resources, TLS, reverse proxies, or authentication front ends.

I would be very interested to see any stat whatsoever of selfhosters that have gottened murdered specifically because of their server.

It is extremely important to note that in those days, people just opened their, often out-of-date, servers completely to the internet via a DMZ or port forwarding, let ssh be open to the internet, didn’t harden ssh at all, and most people didn’t use a VPN for downloading.

That is literally like saying that people who light wall torches in their wooden home burned their house down, so let’s not use lightbulbs or electricity.

Well I am learning that hardware-wise, my open source smart watch AFE might require an interrupt pin (apparently the RTC fallback that Maxim says is why a big crystal is required just doesn’t do anything and no docs on how to set up that or polling mode) to work with the algorithm chip. That brings the cost from 20€ for 5 PCBs to 350€.

So I might need to write a new zephyr driver for the AFE chip directly and then spend months more work making an open source PPG algorithm and adjustable LED gain algorithm to keep the project going.

What is the difference between a paid service and a paywalled service in this case?

So you have absolutely no devices that are a different resolution than you download? You don’t direct play 4k on a 1080p screen for example.

Really depends.

I am in belgium and for Electronics engineering, there are very few jobs and a lot of candidates (and notoriously difficult to get around via car in belgium). I have 5 year of experience, recommendation letters, and good references.

20 applications. 9 ghosted, 4 auto rejections, 2 declined by me as not a good job, 1 rejection after hiring manager interview (too far, 1.5+ hour one way in traffic and they had closer candidates just as good), 2 rejections after final interview (one ghosted, the other wanted to take both me and the other candidate on, but couldn’t), 2 offers.

It is definitely rough in the engineering industry outside of defense.

On the flip side, I see hundreds of software jobs here and hundreds of electrical/building automation jobs.

If you are in Belgium: Jules makes some damn good sweaters and pants, even for my brother in law who is very tall and thin and finds it very difficult to find clothes that fit well.

Thrift shops have always been bad for me. When I had an athletic build to now when I am a bit athletic but also fatter, thrift shops in Belgium exclusively have 170cm, 50kg men clothes and 190cm, 150kg clothes with rarely an in between.

Me too, and the new one I didn’t even realize this change happened. I saw there were no breaking changes, updated, and saw “oh, it isn’t synced anymore” so I reselected the folders, it ran a sync check on everything, which took a while, and everything works fine again.

I didn’t even realize there was a difference until now, but I guess there is a start/stop sync switch.

I bought 2 pairs from them (thin sport socks for summer), and one broke after only 4 uses, and the other after about 10. Worst socks I have ever owned.

I moved away though so I never got a chance to use the replacement policy, but they may have replaced them for me (though the chances of getting two seriously defective socks of different models at the same time is low)

They are probably actually fine for their normal, thick wool socks because my Smartwool and REI branded socks have lasted over 10 years with vigorous hiking in them for the first 5. I have to recommend to avoid their thin socks though.

Wasn’t Disney goosestepping in the 30s too?

Damn, I am only at a ratio of like 10 from some season packs of Chuck and The Mentalist. 565 is crazy!