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    Good mini PC?

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  • What hardware do you currently use and what software do you intend to run on the new machine? And what's your budget situation?

    In any case, I would always recommend to buy used or refurbished hardware. Even if it's not necessary financially, it's better for the environment.

  • PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

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  • That's very cool indeed – although I dread the moment he starts talking to his followers about Lemmy.

  • Gnome is Asking You to Donate Less

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  • I think a better title would be "Gnome is Asking You to Switch from Lump Sum Donations to Regular Donations, Even If the Total Amount is Smaller"

  • Realities of hosting a tor relay node at home

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  • Rather than running a Tor relay, running a simple Tor bridge (e.g. via the browser add-on Snowflake as suggested by @ryokimball@infosec.pub) is probably the best thing to do with one's home hardware.

    Actual relays must suffice certain requirements, according to the Tor project:

    Requirements for Tor relays depend on the type of relay and the bandwidth they provide. ==== Bandwidth and Connections ====

    A non-exit relay should be able to handle at least 7000 concurrent connections. This can overwhelm consumer-level routers. If you run the Tor relay from a server (virtual or dedicated) in a data center you will be fine. If you run it behind a consumer-level router at home you will have to try and see if your home router can handle it or if it starts failing. Fast exit relays (>=100 Mbit/s) usually have to handle a lot more concurrent connections (>100k).

    It is recommended that a relay have at least 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) upload bandwidth and 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) download bandwidth available for Tor. More is better. The minimum requirements for a relay are 10 Mbit/s (Mbps). If you have less than 10 Mbit/s but at least 1 Mbit/s we recommend you run a [/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy bridge with obfs4 support]. If you do not know your bandwidth you can use http://beta.speedtest.net/ to measure it.

    As for exit relays aka exit nodes, the obligatory advice is of course to not run them at all unless you know exactly what you are doing both legally and technically, and probably only if you're a foundation or something.

  • NAS Power Consumption

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  • Some local libraries or ecological initiatives lend devices to measure electricity consumption at the power plug. In particular, this is useful to measure other appliances as well.

    Specifically for computers, they probably have some means to tell you their own consumption, but they may not be accurate or complete and will most certainly omit any peripherals, e.g. external hard drives.

  • Cognitive Debt (A term to describe the costs of skipping thinking)

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  • TIL about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. From Wikipedia:

    The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing similar potential inaccuracies.

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  • Thanks. Makes sense that things roughly along those lines already exist, of course. CrowdSec's pricing, which apparently start at 900$/months, seem forbiddingly expensive for most small-to-medium projects, though. Do you or does anyone else know a similar solution for small or even nonexistent budgets? (Personally I'm not running any servers or projects right now, but may do so in the future.)

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  • There should be a federated system for blocking IP ranges that other server operators within a chain of trust have already identified as belonging to crawlers. A bit like fediseer.com, but possibly more decentralized.

    (Here's another advantage of Markov chain maze generators like Nepenthes: Even when crawlers recognize that they have been served garbage and they delete it, one still has obtained highly reliable evidence that the requesting IPs are crawlers.)

    Also, whenever one is only partially confident in a classification of an IP range as a crawler, instead of blocking it outright one can serve proof-of-works tasks (à la Anubis) with a complexity proportional to that confidence. This could also be useful in order to keep crawlers somewhat in the dark about whether they've been put on a blacklist.

  • YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.

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  • Feuchte Michmichs

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  • Why are they so foreign to your country, though? Poor people who use them but can't afford a ticket frequently get jailed.

  • One for the night crew

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  • 多好的主意 !

  • One for the night crew

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  • Go to your profile settings. There should be a list of languages you can select. Depending on the interface you use, Ctrl+Click may do the trick of selecting multiple languages. Then save.

  • Trump Ally Bukele Reportedly Set to Arrest Journalists Who Revealed His Secret Pact With Gangs | Common Dreams

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  • Trump Ally Bukele Reportedly Set to Arrest Journalists Who Revealed His Secret Pact With Gangs | Common Dreams

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  • To me it seems that "18th Street Revolucionarios" is just the name that this one gang has given to itself. Note that when the article calls the two individuals "Revolucionarios", the word is capitalized, which confirms that it's a proper name rather than a description.

  • List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs

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  • See other comments: Got bought up by some company and then enshittified.

  • List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs

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  • Look into PhotoGIMP, afaik it precisely delivers Photoshop-like symbols, maybe even layout, and shortcuts

  • List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs

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  • Browser is nice. On Linux though, Okular is superb (except for its occasional problems with forms).

  • List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs

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  • What's your opinion on Affinity (Designer/Photo)?

  • List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs

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  • List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs

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  • Well, on the other hand, it's by far not always the case that the program one person is currently using is already the best choice for their use case. For example, in the process of degoogling, I've begun using a lot of programs that are actually better for me than the ones I previously used.

    Of course there's friction/effort involved in finding the best replacement, but there's just no way around that if the goal is to get away from the defacto standards.