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North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

I'm never quite sure how to feel about this. On one hand, if the person just wants to make some money and they're doing the job, why bother them. On the other hand though, I know that anybody who has consistent access to an internet connection in North Korea is almost certainly working for the benefit of the great leader and they aren't actually seeing any money or benefit for themselves. I just hate that the citizens of North Korea have to suffer and be punished because of their asswipe of a leader.

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Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]

I literally have clothes hanging on a line across the living room because our just out of warranty $1,000+ Samsung "smart dryer" died again a month after I replaced every sensor and the heating element, and I just don't feel like taking it apart again to "maybe" find the problem.

Before this we just had a plain white box from Maytag; easy to work on, cheap replacement parts. It was probably 30 years old when the motor seized and my wife asked for newer, fancier machines. Big mistake.

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[Answered] Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views?

Is the code good? Are you prepared to make any potential fork viable and useful in ways that Lemmy isn't so people have a tangible, non-ideological reason to choose your software over Lemmy? Do you have a long term goal for funding and maintaining a fork?

That said, Piefed is already a thing, and it federates with Lemmy. It's where I'm commenting from right now. It has a better on boarding process and does a better job surfacing things I care about.

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My PS1 died today

Check fuses. It may just have a blown fuse in the power supply or on the motherboard. It also may just be an issue with the power button.

That said, I haven't had a PS1 in years. Modern emulators like DuckStation can even play real discs but give you all sorts of benefits like upscaling, correction for polygon/texture warping, modern video outputs, etc. I regularly play my PS1 games, but I do so via an emulator on my Steam Deck.

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It's antisemitic? I haven't finished it yet, or maybe I'm just dense, but how is it antisemitic? And isn't Sirona trans? And I've met at least one openly gay married couple in game too.

I don't want to be defensive of something bad or to demean your opinion, I just want to understand this point of view since you aren't the first person I've seen express it.

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PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup

I've had very occasional issues with it not uploading new photos in a timely manner in the past. I haven't had any issues in a long time, but I have gotten into the habit of explicitly opening the app, clicking "Uploads" and hitting refresh and making sure everything has been uploaded.

I'm not really sure what causes it, though if I had to guess Android is putting the app to sleep in the background so it may have something to do with power saving settings. I've switched to the F-Droid version of the app and manually disabled the appropriate power settings as a just-in-case, though that may have nothing to do with anything.

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I sold my PS5 yesterday after a year of not touching it. To me this console generation was a complete failure and has pushed me to PC gaming. Any others have a similar experience?

I had been a PlayStation gamer since PS1 and the PS4 killed it for me. I had bought a lot of digital games during the PS3 era; I was all in on PlayStation. I even bought digital copies of PS1 games I had the discs for to save wear and tear on my discs. I bought the official USB memory card adapter that let you plug your PS1 and PS2 memory cards in and import your save data.

I bought the PS4 and none of it carried forward, not even PS1. I kept it for a bit and played some CoD and Fallout 4 , but eventually sold it and migrated to PC.

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Docker security

I just host everything on bare metal and use systemd to lock down/containerize things as necessary, even adding my own custom drop-ins for software that ships its own systemd service file. SystemD is way more powerful than people often realize.

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Australia announces gun buyback scheme in wake of Bondi attack

Disarming all the people who "didn't" shoot up a beach won't bring those victims back, and it won't stop motivated extremists from doing it again. The kind of folks who commit atrocities like this just won't bother participating in the buyback.

I'm curious what kind of indicators might have been present that police or others in the community might have missed; violent rhetoric on social media, a sudden interest in guns by somebody who previously wasn't into them, etc.

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Docker security

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Systemd has all sorts of options. If a service has certain sandbox settings applied such as private /tmp, private /proc, restricting access to certain folders or devices, restricting available system calls or whatever, then systemd creates a chroot in /proc/PID for that process with all your settings applied and the process runs inside that chroot.

I've found it a little easier than managing a full blown container or VM, at least for the things I host for myself.

If a piece of software provides its own service file that isn't as restricted as you'd like, you can use systemctl edit to add additional options of your choosing to a "drop-in" file that gets loaded and applied at runtime so you don't have to worry about a package update overwriting any changes you make.

And you can even get ideas for settings to apply to a service to increase security with:

systemd-analyze security SERVICENAME