Captain_Faraday

How is codeberg?

Got this email last night and felt validated for never uploading any code to GitHub because I don’t trust Microsoft. lol I don’t have any big coding projects, but I self-host a ForgeJo server in my mini rack at home behind a Twingate VPN.

LinkedIn uses persona too, part of why I left the platform. No I won’t scan my gov id and face for you let me access my social media profile.

Would have to agree. I WFH now, with occasional lab testing and site visits for clients. Last place I worked, I shared a “quad” cube with a filing cabinet/table in the middle while everyone faced into their corner. Main problems: I shared it with an intern who constantly asked questions and two admin ladies constantly talking in said quad with all the other admin ladies about little league baseball games and one’s ongoing ugly divorce…yikes lol

Yeah, I am one and can confirm that lol. Literally have designed systems of managed cables in power industry for a living and tried to make it clean. lol

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Didn’t read the article, but honestly who cares what they say regarding this? Money talks and they invested $$$$$$$$ into these shenanigans.

Unless they’ve got an equally intensive use for all those expensive data centers built (and being built) for Ai, how on earth would they similarly profit by taking Copilot out of more things when it collects so much marketing data for them to sell? Their stock value dropped probably from the backlash, but I highly doubt they care about their users. It’s the money and image clearly.

My job has me working on the power systems supplying some upcoming data centers for multiple clients. Everything is constantly changing deadlines in engineering, but max throttle to get everything done. I’m certain this kind of rapid expansion is for Ai provisioning.

Yeah, my therapist told me this about my extended toxic family: “You can just let them do crazy over there and you live your life away from that drama over here.” I think that also applies here. lol

Yeah, I deleted all my Meta accounts several months ago and have never felt better or looked back honestly. lol The most I miss is getting funny memes from my spouse on Instagram, but she can just show me in person and that’s real connection anyways.

It’s like some of the benefits of Obsidian but with E2E notes accessible in the browser too. (I haven’t used Obsidian, but only passed due to lack of web interface since I sometimes access notes on work PC)

Okay, someone had asked what I had done and I finally cobbled together some info lol

I didn’t fully harden it like you might see in some YouTube videos, I.e bought with cash, no internet/bluetooth/airdrop enabled, location devices off, no Apple account during set up. My spouse didn’t want me to do that lol.

I picked and chose some of the steps in this Naomi Brockwell video namely, though some I found in regular Google search.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1g0RzOGxe40&t=1669s&pp=ygUdTmFvbWkgYnJvY2t3ZWxsIHR2IGhhcmRlbiBtYWM%3D

These are some of the highlights:

1. Disabled Siri

2. Enabled FileVault

3. Time server: pool.ntp.org

4. Disabled any targeted advertising and diagnostics telemetry I could. Apparently to turn off personalized ads in recent Mac OS versions, you have to wait till first one pops up at a random time in Apple Store or something OR you can use the terminal to kill it before they happen. I think this was the one I ran: defaults write com.apple.AdLib allowApplePersonalizedAdvertising -bool false

5. Installed LuLu for outgoing firewall so we can monitor apps like Adobe to see when they request outgoing connections and what they are requesting. (Spouse loves Adobe, I lost that battle lol)

6. Installed Brave browser and made default over Safari

7. Installed Proton Mail web app since we share account for home/critical stuff

8. Installed BitWarden, although they still like using Apple Keychain for their personal passwords. Critical stuff and shared stuff goes in BitWarden so not isolated in Apple’s stupid Keychain lol. (Good luck accessing your life’s worth of passwords if you lose your Apple devices or they self-sabotage like spouses $$$$ iMac did one day during Mac OS update a few years ago…)

I got my spouse to start using our cupid BitWarden vault and we recently setup a relatively hardened MBP for their work/now home use since their mini PC running windows 11 has basically bricked itself because windows… But yeah, they aren’t using the windows computer, so a hardened MBP is a win in my book even though Apple can be similarly privacy-invasive if their devices aren’t hardened.

Omg, you’re so right. I didn’t read it that way until you pointed that out.

lol that just occurred to me too

Omg, I love this! Thank you

Wait, Clippy was not helpful but at least pulpy and funny. I honestly miss that sorta stuff in software. Everything is so minimal and sterile these days. I mean, I use Neovim and prefer finding ways use my terminal for things, but I love my themes to be fun and still useful at least. I wish there was a local LLM you could run with Clippy as the animated face of it lol.

Saw this on Reddit earlier

No Roblox in our house… I have spoken. ~Probably Kuiil

And here too! https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Roblox