Modern cars do spy on you. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-takes-action-against-general-motors-sharing-drivers-precise-location-driving-behavior-data

You’re already doing more than companies that charge people to host their photos.

There’s no point running games at 1800fps. Steel Nomad might be CPU or bandwidth limited on the PC laptop to make it perform worse, or it might be a Windows problem that manifests at such high frame rates. Gaming is an afterthought at Apple.

KDE Connect can do all three of these.

Are they really? They keep rolling out more AI slop generation features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZonG-qkGgTI

A 172.16.0.0/12 address would be a very unusual fallback behavior. Normally you’ll have only a 169.254.0.0/16.

lv* commands are for LVM logical volumes. They’re not related to LUKS. Unless your LVM “physical” volume is on a LUKS encrypted device, you aren’t using LUKS. You’ll need to make the LUKS encrypted PV larger before you can grow your LV.

Unless your PV is already taking up the whole disk, in which case whether it is LUKS encrypted or not is irrelevant and the question you want to be asking is “how do I resize my LVM LV to fill the rest of my LVM PV?”, which is probably what the commands you have do.

By default, Symfonium will stream music from Navidrome to your phone, but there are settings you can change in Symfonium to make it sync to your phone instead if you have data quotas or an unreliable connection. There’s probably a way to make it sync a subset and restrict playback to that subset when on a metered connection, but in my case I have more than enough storage to fit everything on the phone.

You can use both at the same time and it is useful to have ULA if your ISP changes your assigned prefix.

BIOS menus aren’t the only way to adjust fan speeds on servers. You may be able to do it from Linux using a management interface.

The writers interviewed did use AI but don’t want to get caught so they edit imperfections into the AI’s output. They’re just trying to fool the detectors.

Setting the SSH service to a random high port doesn’t make security better and may make security worse. Linux has a restriction that low numbered ports require special permissions but high numbered ports do not. If an attacker manages to get low privilege code execution on your machine, they may manage to bind their service to the SSH port instead. If the server and client are configured correctly, this will cause a host key mismatch error. Continuing anyway could allow the attacker to take over your account on the server. It’s unlikely unless you are a high value target.

Root login and password authentication are already disabled, and it’s very uncommon for self hosters to use SSH certificates at all.

Changing the SSH port away from 22 does not improve security unless your password is “password” or “admin”. Anybody who’s even slightly sophisticated will find your SSH service on the correct port and make requests there instead.

Is this a real question or is this an AI generated ad story?

This problem has nothing to do with NPM. Checkmarx was compromised last month, and during that compromise there were malicious VS Code extensions published to Visual Studio Code Marketplace. A Bitwarden developer says that somebody ran one of those malicious extensions, and GitHub API keys were stolen which were used in publishing the malicious CLI package.

It’s probably better that it happened on NPM. If the CLI were only downloadable from the Bitwarden website, it would have likely taken longer for somebody to notice something was wrong.

I’ve never heard of anything working that way. The preferred algorithm is RFC 8305 “Happy Eyeballs,” which uses whichever network responds first. Even if your clients prefer IPv4, having IPv6 available allows you to access some resources that are not available over IPv4.

Matter uses IPv6 but it does not require you to have IPv6 internet. As long as the router isn’t blocking IPv6 router advertisements and IPv6 traffic between devices in your LAN you should be okay.

Is Bitcoin really a good idea? bitcoin.com says you shouldn’t worry because it would cost “hundreds of millions to over a billion dollars” to run a 51% attack on the Bitcoin network for an hour. The US government spends this kind of money on wars, and likely has the means to reduce that cost by forcing offline or compromising a large portion of the trustworthy Bitcoin network. This alone wouldn’t allow money to be seized, but it could be used to destroy the crypto market, making that money effectively worthless. You wouldn’t normally need to worry about an attack of this scale, but the it’s not beneath this government and there are a few AI companies that could use a government bailout in exchange for temporarily converting all their GPUs to Bitcoin miners.

Does World War III involve different countries attacking and defending crypto currencies?

This is just the average Atlassian or Slack experience coming to GitHub. You’re just trying to do your job and the platform is constantly trying to push you to use services of advertisers.

Would the MacBook Pro or rpi4 with a second Ethernet nic running a firewall before the routers also fix the issue of not getting security updates?

No. For most routers, this provides no additional protection to the router. Your router should not be accepting connections from the WAN side that would be blocked by the firewall, but consumer routers almost always initiate connections to the WAN side, indistinguishable from normal client traffic to your firewall, and accept connections from the LAN side, invisible to your firewall. If the firewall blocks all incoming requests, it would create problems for UPNP, effectively giving you CGNAT, even if the firewall does not perform address translation.