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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

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • When generative AI can't even answer simple questions correctly, it feels like maybe it's too imprecise a tool to trust with this level of necessary precision.

    I don't think this would be generative AI though. Machine learning is probably a better fit - training a model based on recordings of human air traffic controllers.

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • Honestly, I'm not sure what's worse: the current state of things (severely overworked air traffic controllers because there's huge shortages), or using AI for it.

    The plane that crashed into a fire truck at LGA recently was mostly due to overworked ATC. One controller was working both ground and tower, with queues of five or six planes needing to land. He needed to continue working for half an hour after the crash too, because nobody else was around to take over.

    I'm not sure I'd trust ATC to be fully automated using AI, but AI tools could probably help controllers by reducing the amount of work they have to do. For example, smarter RADAR, recommendations for what to call next, more proactive warnings for if anything dangerous is likely to occur, etc.

  • continuwuity vs tuwunel: where to go from conduwuit? (Update: probably continuwuity.)

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  • It looks like there's no way to migrate from Conduit. If I reinstall from scratch using the same domain, and create an account again, will everything still work properly including federation with other servers?

    My server is just for myself.

  • continuwuity vs tuwunel: where to go from conduwuit? (Update: probably continuwuity.)

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  • What did you end up doing? I'm still running Conduit at the moment and I'm not sure if I should continue using it, or switch to something else.

  • Notifications from the server?

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  • I like Pushover too. I've been using it for over 10 years now.

  • The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason

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  • you need at least two NICs to properly setup a firewall.

    I'm not sure I'd recommend it, but two (or more) VLANs on a single NIC would work fine too. This setup is usually referred to as "router on a stick"

    I'm not sure about other OSes or Linux distros, but it's easy to add multiple VLANs on Debian. You load the 8021q kernel module, then add interfaces suffixed with the VLAN ID (e.g. if your NIC is ens3, you'd add ens3.10 to /etc/network/interfaces for VLAN 10). You'd also need to make sure the switch port is configured to allow VLAN10.

    Older NICs lead to regular crashes and/or slow network speeds.

    but the ones you're suggesting (I350-T2 and -T4) are 12 years old.

  • China is going after fake expert influencers, and the FTC’s new five-year plan seems to lay the same groundwork

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  • The US has freedom of speech, so having the government vet every poster is kind of a problem

    That's true, but it could be the platforms doing the vetting rather than the government.

    Is it any different to requiring an ID in order to use a service, like what Discord is doing (as required for legal compliance)?

    I guess I'm just annoyed at how much bad health advice is on social media.

  • My attempt at locating my iPhone from my Pebble Watch using Bluetooth Latency (It didn't work)

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  • Hopefully the EU goes after Apple for having APIs that only their own watch can use, since it's anticompetitive.

  • China is going after fake expert influencers, and the FTC’s new five-year plan seems to lay the same groundwork

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  • Just like with electric cars, the US takes forever to do anything, while China just gets things done with a better approach:

    Late last year, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a sweeping regulation: any content creator discussing medicine, health, law, finance, or education must prove verified professional credentials before posting or going live. In essence: no degree, no license, no post.

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    In all, China’s approach is preemptive: One has to prove their credentials before they post. The FTC’s approach is reactive, allowing American creators to post health tips or investment opinions without a diploma. The FTC only steps in after the harm is documented—but for both, if the creator lies, they pay up

  • France announces a crucial step toward phasing out Windows

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  • Does the VPN use Cisco AnyConnect? We use it at work and it works fine via NetworkManager in both KDE and GNOME, including two factor auth (pops up a web page to authenticate). I'm not sure of the exact config, since it's automatically configured using Chef.

  • PSA: If you use the Meta AI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing | TechCrunch

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  • It's not embarrassing to still be using any Meta product?

    I mean, they're some of the most used tech products in the world, so they clearly do have people that like using them. The only sites/apps that are used more are Google and YouTube.

    I guess it's like Nestlé. There's some people that avoid their products and might be embarrassed to use them, but that doesn't change the fact that they're still the largest food company in the world, and the vast majority of customers like their products and aren't embarrassed to consume them.

  • Finally got a 24/7 server up

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  • It's worth noting that Proxmox uses Debian. It's essentially a collection of Debian packages, and you can install Proxmox on top of an existing Debian system: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_13_Trixie

    Proxmox lacks a Docker UI though, which is annoying. One of the reasons I'm using Unraid at home is because it supports KVM, LXC, and Docker, all in the same UI. (LXC is a plugin rather than being available out-of-the-box, but it works very well)

    (and no, Proxmox's new OCI container support isn't it - that just converts the container to LXC and doesn't handle upgrades)

  • Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • Can books be transfered via USB even on the 2013-era Paperwhite? I've always used the email feature in Calibre-web to send books to my Kindle (even for books I've paid for) - I didn't realise it was doable over USB!

  • Guilty Pleasure

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  • It's common in Australia too. There's literally a brand called "Pink Batts"

  • Help setting up new server

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  • Unraid is pretty beginner-friendly, so it's what I'd recommend too.

    I use it too. I have over 20 years experience running Debian servers and can write a docker-compose.yml file and Nginx config from scratch, but sometimes it's nice to have a decent web UI that mostly "just works".

  • Vigil - a self-hosted dashboard that watches your Docker images

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  • Copying my comment from the homelab community:

    I haven't tried it yet, but here's some initial thoughts:

    Does it support multiple separate docker-compose.yml files? It would be useful if it could pull the list of containers directly from Docker rather than having to paste the docker-compose.

    Does it pull changelogs so that the user can tell if a change is a breaking change that'll require extra work?

    It would be useful to support Webauthn/FIDO2 2FA instead of just TOTP. TOTP is being slowly phased out due to its weaknesses (it's phishable). Similarly, it'd be useful to support single sign on using OIDC (OpenID Connect) as a lot of self-hosters use Authentik, Authelia, or Keycloak to have one login for all their self hosted services.

  • Vigil - a self-hosted dashboard that watches your Docker images

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  • Automatic updates for bug fixes (e.g. 1.0.0 to 1.0.1) are usually fine - it's major and minor updates that are scarier. I've never used Watchtower so I'm not sure if it has an option to only allow bugfixes.

  • Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people

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  • Even with federation, the majority of people are still going to use the "main" instance. Look at how many Lemmy communities and users are on .world for example.

  • Removed

    I built a simple tool to find things to do without the usual paywalls or account signups

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  • Where is the website template from? I've seen the exact same one before.