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conorab

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  • Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up

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  • Good! You wanna automate away a human task, sure! But if your automation screws up you don’t get to hide behind it. You still chose to use the automation in the first place.

    Hell, I’ve heard ISPs here work around the rep on the phone overpromising by literally having the rep transfer to an automated system that reads the agreement and then has the customer agree to that with an explicit note saying that everything said before is irrelevant, then once done, transfer back to the rep.

  • Why does hosting Lemmy require a display?

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  • What’s the error you’re seeing?

  • To keep trade flowing, the US is now using aircraft carriers to move containers around the globe

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  • What are the most paranoid network/OS security measures you've implemented in your homelab?

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  • I used to have all VMs in my QEMU/KVM server on their own /30 routed network to prevent spoofing. It essentially guaranteed that a compromised VM couldn’t give itself the IP of say, my web server and start collecting login creds. Managing the IP space got painful quick.

  • Anybody here running AD on-prem in your homelab?

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  • Run at home/lab to learn AD and also gives you a place to test out ideas before pushing to production. You may be able to run a legit AD server with licensing on AWS or similar if they have a free tier.

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  • Damn! Using .af for a LGBT+ site is insane! The country could have redirected the domain to their own servers and started learning the personal details of those on the site who I imagine wouldn’t be terribly thrilled having an anti-LGBT+ government learn their personal information (namely information not displayed publicly). Specifically, they could put their own servers in front of the domain so they can decrypt it, then forward the traffic on to the legitimate servers, allowing them to get login information and any other data which the user sends or receives.

  • [fake-news] Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages

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  • The term you may be looking for is “woozle”. :)

  • ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain

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  • Buying your own domain often includes DNS hosting but that’s not really the point unless all you’re doing is exclusively running an externally-facing website or e-mail. The main reason for buying a domain online is so everybody else recognises you control that namespace. As a bonus, it means you can get globally-cognised SSL certificates which means you no longer have you manage your own CA and add it’s root to all the devices which wish to access your services securely. It’s also worth noting that you cannot rely on external DNS servers for entries that point to private IPs, because some DNS servers block that.

  • ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain

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  • A good move!

    I’m surprised they didn’t codify “.lan” though since that one is so prevalent.

  • ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain

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  • People who do not wish to buy a GTLD can use home.arpa as it is already reserved. If you are at the point of setting up your own DNS but cannot afford $15 a year AND cannot use home.arpa I’d be questioning purchasing decisions. Hell, you can always use sub-domains in home.arpa if you need multiple unique namespaces in a single private network.

    Basically, if you’re a business in a developed country or maybe developing country, you can afford the domain and would probably spend more money on IT hours working around using non-GTLDs than $15 a year.

  • Top comment gets to choose my hostname

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  • Receive only email server

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  • If your domain will NEVER send e-mail out, you only really need and SPF record to tell other servers to drop e-mail FROM your domain. Even that’s somewhat optional. If you ever plan on sending ANY outbound (you should at very least for the occasional ticket) then do DKIM, DMARC and SPF. The more of these you do, the less likely e-mails FROM your domain are to be flagged as spam.

  • Receive only email server

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  • Some servers blacklist you no matter what you do because you’re not a big player in the e-mail space… Outlook. Fuck Outlook. M365 doesn’t do that though.

    Also the idea that reverse IPs are needed (in practice) when SPF, DKIM and DMARC are in use is insane. I have literally told you my public key and signed the e-mail. It’s me. You don’t need to check the damn PTR!

  • GameStreaming from UbuntuServer

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  • Ooh GoW looks quite neat!

  • GameStreaming from UbuntuServer

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  • I feel like there’s more to your question but here goes with the starter answer: install https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine on the computer which is running the game and https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt on the machine which will receive the game stream. I have Sunshine installed in a VMware Fusion VM running Windows which I stream to the host Mac since Discord doesn’t let you screenshare VMs with sound otherwise. I have also used Moonlight on my Mac to stream games from a cloud machine on https://airgpu.com but only played with it a tiny bit as a substitute for running my own game streaming machine in AWS or for some games that aren’t on GeForce NOW.

  • Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes

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  • I don’t have a problem with training on copyrighted content provided 1) a person could access that content and use it as the basis of their own art and 2) the derived work would also not infringe on copyright. In other words, if the training data is available for a person to learn from and if a person could make the same content an AI would and it be allowed, then AI should be allowed to do the same. AI should not (as an example) be allowed to simply reproduce a bit-for-bit copy of its training data (provided it wasn’t something trivial that would not be protected under copyright anyway). The same is true for a person. Now, this leaves some protections in place such as: if a person made content and released it to a private audience which are not permitted to redistribute it, then an AI would only be allowed to train off it if it obtained that content with permission in the first place, just like a person. Obtaining it through a third party would not be allowed as that third party did not have permission to redistribute. This means that an AI should not be allowed to use work unless it at minimum had licence to view the work. I don’t think you should be able to restrict your work from being used as training data beyond disallowing viewing entirely though.

    I’m open to arguments against this though. My general concern is copyright already allows for substantial restrictions on how you use a work that seem unfair, such as Microsoft disallowing the use of Windows Home and Pro on headless machines/as servers.

    With all this said, I think we need to be ready to support those who lose their jobs from this. Losing your job should never be a game over scenario (loss of housing, medical, housing loans, potentially car loans provided you didn’t buy something like a mansion or luxury car).

  • Thinking about making the big switch – recommend me a distro!

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  • To be fair, you can probably find it on Archive.org. Would be kinda neat if somebody made MaymayOS that just had theme packs for the other meme distros to keep them alive.

  • When do I actually need a firewall?

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  • Other comments have hit this, but one reason is simply to be an extra layer. You won’t always know what software is listening for connections. There are obvious ones like web servers, but less obvious ones like Skype. By rejecting all incoming traffic by default and only allowing things explicitly, you avoid the scenario where you leave something listening by accident.

  • Gentle reminder to everyone that support for #windows10 ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

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  • Another option may be to use Windows Server 2022 Eval. You may run in to problems with software refusing to run on a server though. The initial eval lasts 180 days, but you can run a command to extend that 5 times (don’t quote me on the exact number) which will give you an updated system for years to come.