Marcus @gerowen@mastodon.social

The "duplicate finder" is a useful #Nextcloud app for decluttering your system. My mom really needs to sit down and go through hers. It's nowhere near finished syncing, it hasn't even finished the "Documents" folder yet...

Setting up a new PC and new #Nextcloud server for my mom. Syncing her files to the server. This explains why her old computer was so slow...

Question. When connecting a #Windows PC to my #LG TV, the image randomly flickers static, as if the HDMI cable is loose. Wiggling the cable does sometimes reproduce the behavior. HDR is turned off. The same PCs running #Linux at the same resolution works just fine. Thoughts?

Pretty sure the copy of #GoldenGirls I got off #Amazon is a home-made pirated copy. The DVDs are only 4.7 GB discs and the paper inserts look like they came out of a Walmart inkjet printer. The discs are pressed, but there's even bubbles between the layers on some of them...

The longer this #Signal outage continues, the more suspicious I become. Awfully convenient it happened on the same day that #Whatsapp postponed its policy change and rumors started about #Facebook censoring posts that mention Signal. Federated my and my brother's #Nextcloud servers for the moment so he, I and my wife can all talk securely, but I still hope Signal fixes the issue so I can talk to everybody else.

#macOS #malware used run-only AppleScripts to avoid detection for five years

#security #cybersecurity

https://www.zdnet.com/article/macos-malware-used-run-only-applescripts-to-avoid-detection-for-five-years/

#Signal is down so I created a handful of private rooms on my #Nextcloud server so people can still communicate securely using Nextcloud Talk.

Kinda suspicious, saw a post on #Reddit this morning where a guy tried to post about Signal on #Facebook and the post got removed.

If you're looking for a good, viable alternative to #YouTube, check out #LBRY/#Odysee. It's a #blockchain based video and content platform with lots of interesting stuff. Here's a referral link that will get me some $LBC if you sign up, enjoy!

https://odysee.com/$/invite/@gerowen:4

#Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file's icon

#security

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-10-bug-corrupts-your-hard-drive-on-seeing-this-files-icon/

Between my #Pihole and #Bravebrowser, #YouTube #ads are non existent. Problem. Instead of skipping ads it can't load, YouTube sometimes just sits there spinning and doing nothing when an #ad fails to load until you refresh the page.

Thought. In #Linux when auto mounting #encrypted drives with a key file, a good practice might be to store the key file on an external drive, like a small thumb stick, so that in an emergency you could just remove and/or destroy the thumb stick in order to protect your #data.

One positive side effect of #Parler being ousted is several of my non-technical friends IRL got scared and installed #Signal on their phones. Mega corporations dictating what you can and can't say scares people, regardless of whether they're conservative or liberal.

Observation. I help my brother maintain his home server. It's using a self-signed TLS cert because his ISP blocks port 80, so I can't use #certbot. #Firefox blocks the page outright and says "You can't add an exception" even after I imported the cert. #BraveBrowser doesn't.

Noticed that rather than relying on Google #analytics, #BraveBrowser uses their own in-house "privacy preserving product analytics".

https://brave.com/privacy-preserving-product-analytics-p3a/

#Encrypt everything, #trust nobody.