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  • Help! What is wrong?

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  • Thanks! I think I unpacked this filament about a month ago, and it was on open air for about two weeks, in 40-50% humidity. then I put it into a dry box with a box of silica gel, and it stays there at about 20% humidity. Until I take it out for a print. Is silica gel good enough for drying? I don't have the drying machine.

  • AI PCs aren't selling, and Microsoft's PC partners are scrambling

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  • You aren't wrong that these functions don't NEED NPU. But it helps with performance and offloading. What they also doing is opening APIs for software developers to use NPU and built-in models. For example, Adobe and Zoom use it for background filters. Again, with no CPU/GPU load.

    And for your final point - this is not anything new for a company to try selling you a product that you don't necessarily need. Their job is to make it attractive enough for you to upgrade.

  • AI PCs aren't selling, and Microsoft's PC partners are scrambling

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  • I think it's just bad marketing. Microsoft, as they often are, just messed up their marketing strategy with mixing controversial and creepy stuff like Recall and actually useful things like local TTS and STT, translation, image recognition and manipulation stuff. All these ML functions offloaded to an NPU are good additions to an OS. Computers with NPU don't have to be Copilot+ branded to be useful.

  • What are your latest privacy wins ?

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  • Virtual Machine

  • What are your latest privacy wins ?

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  • Ha, I wish! It's H&R Block. But it works offline, I can download update files, and I'm not forced to online filing.

    Unfortunately, seems that tax software is too complex for enthusiasts to start an open source project. And big tax filing corpos has no incentive to go open source.

  • What are your latest privacy wins ?

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  • My big win (in the making) is that I'm going to file my taxes completely offline. Working on the documents in isolated VM, using tax software offline, and sending paper forms wherever I can. Unfortunately New York state is not accepting paper forms, as far as I know...

  • First-In-Human Trial Of CRISPR Gene-Editing Therapy Safely Lowered Cholesterol, Triglycerides

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  • was safe and reduced LDL cholesterol by nearly 50% and reduced triglycerides by about 55%

    From the referenced article

  • What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment?

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  • I'm running one Pi-hole, but not on RPi. One is an LXC container on my Proxmox host, another is on dedicated Dell Wyse thin client box.

  • How would you mimic remote monitoring?

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  • Maybe this is a protection for a situation when you are at your home under the gun point, but they still let you answer the phone and order you to "act normally". Sounds like something from a movie, but maybe this happens in real life too.

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    does Reddit block my connection because i use a VPN?

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  • I think the main intention here is to block the bots. Reddit blocks requests coming from certain IPs associated with VPS and similar commercial providers. VPN services often rent exit servers there. My connection is blocked when it goes through Tailscale exit node hosted on a VPS.

    You can use Tor to browse Reddit anonymously, there is even a .onion address

  • VPN Comparison

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  • This is great, thanks for sharing! You've got a few useful feedback points, let me add one more: does a provider have an onion address. This allows decoupling of payment from usage. Not a big thing, but good to know.

  • Isn't brave supposed to be "private"?

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  • I vaguely remember some issues with extensions in ungoogled chromium. Maybe I should give it another shot.

  • Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

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  • People are free to whore out themselves

  • Isn't brave supposed to be "private"?

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  • Depends on what you mean by "private". I would not trust it much, but it's not a bad Chromium based browser when you need one. Use something like LibreWolf for much more privacy out of the box.

  • Backups? (and Intro)

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  • It's been my obsession for a while! It even starts to feel like a disorder sometimes as I'm struggling to find an ideal solution...

    I ended up centralizing my most important data (family media files and personal documents) in Nextcloud. This data is backed up with Duplicacy - 1 copy to local NAS and another to Wasabi S3 bucket.

    I also use Duplicacy to backup various Docker volumes of the stuff I run at home and my main PC home directory.

    Apart from that, I use Time Machine for Macs with an SMB share on NAS. And Proxmox Backup Server backs up everything which is not in Docker to another NAS share. These backups are replicated with HyperBackup (Synology app) to Wasabi S3.

  • TIL about EMF paints that purportedly block em radiation

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  • An outdoor WiFi access point would help with garden coverage

  • Stock Android users, are you considering switching your phone to another OS such as /e/os, GrapheneOS, LineageOS?

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  • Okay, thanks! I think I should try it then

  • Stock Android users, are you considering switching your phone to another OS such as /e/os, GrapheneOS, LineageOS?

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  • I probably don't know enough about sandboxing in GrapheneOS. So if you do that, you still have to log in with Google account, but Google will be able to only see what you are doing with play store apps? And the rest of data like sensors, file system, other apps, will not be visible to Play Services?

  • Stock Android users, are you considering switching your phone to another OS such as /e/os, GrapheneOS, LineageOS?

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  • I've been thinking about this for a while. I have Pixel 7, so GrapheneOS is an easy choice. But I have a few paid subscription apps via Play Store, and I don't want to get rid of them... Maybe I could ditch some, but not all.