Elvith Ma'for

Exactly what I meant with

LAN != internet

Most routers allow you to set child safety settings for devices to block them from accessing the internet in specific timeframes or completely. You can still access the local network from the affected device or access that device from your local network

Why? Does the printer need to be connected to the internet at all, if not for firmware upgrades? (Note: LAN != internet)

• Daily incremental (and occasionally full) backup to an external HDD - a full image of my PCs, so that I should be able to restore anything back to what it was in the last ~14 days, assuming no ransomware or fire or…
• All the data I care about gets synced to my Nextcloud (VPS, not home lab) - somewhat ransomware protected as I could restore VPS backups independently from my PC.
• Most precious data (mostly photos) gets backed up regularly to an encrypted zip file and then gets send to a glacier tier S3 bucket. Some manual retention is done on the zip file level, so that I can get a tad older backup restored.
• At least monthly a full backup image of my PCs is created on a separate external HDD which is not stored at home, but in a place I could access 24/7 if I really needed to restore something fast.

Phones, etc? Just sync to the mentioned Nextcloud, PC downloads from there and everything gets then into the aforementioned backups.

Homeserver? See “PC” above. With the caveat that some VMs/containers are not in the backup cycle, as they do not store any valuable data besides temp files, etc. For these, only things like docker compose files, custom config, ansible playbooks,… are in my backup.

Somewhat, I read a German news article that explicitly warned that USB transfer will be blocked. I just searched for an English article to post here afterwards, but I didn’t read it. So… yeah, „lost in translation“

So I’d suggest, unless you really really need some obscure feature, Calibre+Kindle is nowadays perfectly fine, and maybe you shouldn’t risk bricking your device.

Uhm… Well about that… You will not be able to transfer books onto you kindle via USB in about a week. Amazon is going to remove that feature from all Kindles next week. The only way to do that may be through the method you described. But how long will they offer that, if they say they are removing the USB feature because of piracy? You cannot pirate books onto your kindle, when you cannot transfer books from outside of Amazon onto it. (Also this is a nice reason for them to block you from buying books anywhere else than on Amazon, of course)

https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb

Oui

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FTFY

Here you go

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/

Edit: I didn’t see the other comment, oops

Hey, you might want to team up with Sony…

Line go up

Meta/Facebook made a Twitter/X clone called Threads. They enabled activity pub, so that Fediverse users can be followed from Threads and vice versa.

At 38C3, there was a talk about Volkswagen - a German car manufacturer - that didn’t correctly secure the data it collected from its vehicles and what you can „learn“ from this data. The talk can be found here, it’s in German but there’s also an English translation in another audio layer

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen

Also, depending on which device you use to watch: if you download the movie/episode and play it, you won’t see ads. Not every of their apps lets you download, but depending on which app (on which device) you can use, that’s also a neat workaround for non-children-titles

Relevant xkcd

ASCII is short for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. And as another commenter already pointed out, only the A for America is capitalized. It was just a joke playing on the way it’s written (and the fact that there’s the MAGA movement)

America great, the other things not ;)

If it’s loud, moving, can chase you and honks at you, then it’s an obnoxious goose a car

I just host my own searxng instance. Bonus: I get to tweak the config to my liking.

They have no free time in the calendar that fits for all people. We should schedule a few meetings with several sub-groups of those people to commit to a time slot that fits all their calendars or to negotiate with them that they should clear their calendars for us!

Yeah, I’m also using a local resolver. But since I had some problems using another DHCP server (which was probably a problem on my end), so I’m current setting some devices in my FRITZ!box to a fixed IP and then enter that in my DNS server. If I could just skip the second part and tell the FRITZ!Box to just resolve printserver.example.com instead of printserver.fritz.box - that’d be nice. Maybe I should do another try with a DHCP server soon.