@log4jmc
We will! And will also be chipping in to help out @jerry as promised

@jerry @log4jmc
I'll still be joining you at some point! I just haven't made it that far.

I'd venture a guess that many people also have a lot of other priorities going on at the moment, especially given the timing of our freshly turned calendar page, and the lack of immediate mass response doesn't necessarily suggest a lack of interest or that people were just blowing hot air. That may change in the coming days and weeks!

Companies: Introductory offer for new customers only.

Me: Hello, meet your newest customer: Buddherton 🧐 🐶

Fireworks in residential neighbourhoods should be punishable by Buddherton pooping on your head. 🐾

#FireworksAreStupid

I have successfully drugged King Buddherton.

Now to await the terrifying, obnoxious, and entirely unnecessary sky explosions.

I wonder how much bandwidth (and energy) is wasted by people playing videos at a higher resolution format than their screen itself.

@cassidy
I swear you are the only person who gives me any hope for any of this stuff.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/85#note_1860318

Thank you, thank you, a quadrillion times, thank you. :ablobcatheart:

My primary objective of this project is to make a simple way to generate very restricted networks for, say, IoT devices (e.g. smart TVs) that allow them outbound access to exclusively the one or two websites you decide (e.g. YouTube) but otherwise absolutely nothing else, in a more thorough and comprehensive way than just DNS blacklisting, which can be trivially bypassed.

In other words, no telemetry for you, even with direct IP connections.

Will be uploading once it's just a bit further along

Excited to share that I've made some great progress with whiteOut: my name-based whitelist-only NAT script (whiteOut because it limits your *out*bound traffic to only *white*listed DNS names)

It now successfully generates the appropriate dnsmasq and firewall rules from a list of domains you provide in a config file, using all the IP addresses within the dnsmasq cache for the specific addresses you allow.

Next to continually parse the dnsmasq log and update the firewall rules automatically. 🔥

"Having to get legal advice before giving a gift to society will discourage many developers, especially those without a company or other organisation supporting them."

https://bits.debian.org/2023/12/debian-statement-cyber-resillience-act.md.html

I'd gone there entirely by chance but was presented what I've considered my most important and cherished responsibility in life.

I hope he feels loved and happy and safe, confident that he has a home where he belongs, is appreciated, and enjoys living.

More than anything I could ever offer him, though, is how much he gives me. Living with chronic illness, when some days just existing feels like a miserable, tedious chore, my best friend is always there for me. So my world resolves around him.

Some of you maybe don't understand why I'm so obsessed with my dog.

Buddherton was tossed out on the street to die by his previous family. He had no tags or collar and had never been microchipped, nor been medicated against parasites as his tiny body was coated in hundreds of fleas. He was then collected by police who brought him to a kill shelter with three days to live. I spontaneously visited the shelter with a friend, Buddherton saw me and immediately knew he'd have a safe, loving home.

@jerry
I will very probably join your non-threads instance, and will donate if I do. Thank you for being someone I admire and respect.

@jerry
Just start opening circuit breakers until everyone's noise-makers power off, and put a lockout on the panel door not to be removed until you get your well-deserved eight hours.

Why did we allow computers to become privacy-violating gremlins that are uncomfortable to have around?

If you like me and want to stay in touch, please take a moment to let me know, and perhaps we can connect somewhere .

This #threads bs compounding atop some other sentiments already steeping in the background is drastically increasing chance of me spontaneously peacing out here, but I do like and would miss quite a handful of you.

Honestly people who are less than comparably obsessed with their pets are just broken and I'll hear nothing to the contrary.

Have I mentioned recently how much I despise spyware?

IoT devices are kind of like angsty teenagers who keep trying to sneak out their bedroom window to go to a rave, and you have to keep planting thorny bushes under their windows and checking their bed to make sure it's actually them and not a series of pillows arranged to look like a person...

Disclaimer: I do not have teenagers and this is only presumed to be analogous.