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dan

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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • Favorite search engines or browsers?

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  • For example on google I can search for a restaurant, and even if it has a common name, it will find the one that is the most relevant to me,

    This is what tracking helps with. Google knows roughly where you live (or exactly where you live if you have your home saved in Google Maps) and uses this data as part of Google search.

    One of the main benefits of other search engines is that they don't track you, but as a result, the results aren't customized for you.

  • Mudslinging over Wordpress – Employees flee

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  • I suspect we'll end up seeing a hard fork that's entirely community-driven rather than owned by a company. It's happened before - for example, Libreoffice was forked from OpenOffice .org when Sun Microsystems owned it.

  • How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay

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  • Very well written article, and a great methodology for collecting and analyzing the data. Maybe journalism isn't completely dead yet.

  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • That's a good point. I didn't consider the fact that all the encryption is done client-side, so that's the most important part to audit (which Bitwarden has already done).

  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • I hope it gets security audited one day, like Bitwarden was.

  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • I self-host Vaultwarden but I use a VPS where I keep things stable. My VPSes run Debian Stable and have unattended-upgrades installed and configured to automatically install security updates. My home server runs Unraid and is more experimental - I'm not running anything of critical importance on it.

  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • You only have to pay for a license if you need multiple users or want to use their cloud services, I believe.

    AFAIK you can have multiple users for free when self-hosting, and the features are essentially the same as the free hosted version. You need to pay if you want to get the premium features or share passwords across multiple users using an organization. Essentially the pricing is the same as the hosted version.

    I'd recommend Vaultwarden for a small-scale self-hosted solution. It's not Bitwarden, but it's fully API-compatible so you can use all the Bitwarden clients and browser extensions. Self-hosted Bitwarden is quite a bit heavier than Vaultwarden since it's designed for large-scale usage (like for an entire company of tens of thousands of people)

  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • if you work somewhere that uses 1password, you can usually get your personal subscription comped as an individual

    Same with Keeper as far as I know (which is what we use at work).

    I prefer security software to be open-source though, which is why I love Bitwarden. Even if you don't self-host it, there's still value in it being open-source.

  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • don't need to worry about Internet access at all.

    For what it's worth, Bitwarden caches the database for offline use, so it works fine without internet access too. When you get internet access again, it'll sync with the server.

  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • Accessing Vaultwarden through a VPN

    Hmm maybe I should move mine to my VPN. Currently I have it publicly accessible so I can access it from systems where I can't run other VPNs for security reasons (work systems). I use a physical token with FIDO2 (Yubikey) for two factor authentication though, so I'm not too worried about unauthorized access.

  • Alleged Switch modder takes on Nintendo’s legal might without a lawyer

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  • True, but it's especially true when they're up against Nintendo.

  • Discord alternatives?

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  • I've found that Conduit handles it a lot better than Synapse does.

  • Alleged Switch modder takes on Nintendo’s legal might without a lawyer

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  • Rule #1 about going to court against a large company with good lawyers: don't represent yourself, since there's no way you'll win, and the judgment will likely require you to cover at least some of Nintendo's legal fees.

  • Alleged Switch modder takes on Nintendo’s legal might without a lawyer

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  • Nobody's going to go against Nintendo pro-bono lol

    At best you may be able to find a lawyer that'll work on a contingency basis, but they tend to only take cases that they're fairly confident they'll win (since they don't make any money if they lose)

  • Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.

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  • You can get a smart TV and just not use any of the smart features. My TVs are on a separate VLAN with no internet access, so I can still control them via Home Assistant but they can't reach out to the outside world. I use Nvidia Shields for streaming.

  • What the hell Proton!

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  • get around local laws

    That's not a legitimate use; it's an illegal use just like piracy is.

    especially since SNI exists to de-mask TLS packets

    ECH will finally fix this. https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/

    SNI is still better than what we used to have. Before SNI, every site that used TLS or SSL had to have a dedicated IP address.

  • Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements from Lifetime down to just three years

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  • People use them because they're industry standard, and the value you get out of them is greater than the price of the products.

  • Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements from Lifetime down to just three years

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  • One of the best KDE apps.

    In case you didn't know, many other KDE apps are available for Windows and MacOS too. KDE Connect, Kate, kdenlive, Neochat, MarkNote, and a bunch of others.

  • Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard

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  • How is this different to HaLow?

  • China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor

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  • That link is a 404 for me.