I really don't understand how people can do it. I moved to a developing nation in the Caribbean. Everyone's livelihood is connected to nature here. Reefs, especially. Yet every local I have met will casually toss their garbage. I went to a festival on the beach and most of the locals were burying their trash in the sand just enough to keep it from blowing away in the moment. Some don't even bother with that pretense. There were trash cans in easy strolling distance, every 50 feet.
The roads and waterways are stuffed with garbage here. I live on a canal that connects to the sea, and have watched tour guides and fishing expeditions tossing plastic bottles, polystyrene food containers and plastic bags overboard daily for two years. These are the same people protesting dredging their flats and cayes near the reef, but inexplicably and deliberately ignorant of their own impact.
Also interesting to observe is the speed at which the nation transitioned from class and aluminum drink containers to plastics. Mt first visit here was just three years ago, and most drinks were in bottles that were clearly recycled. Laser etch marks, rubbing from other bottles, etc. Now its all plastic. There's a national ban on single use plastics, but it isn't enforced, and it all ends up in the water and in the ground.
When I first witnessed the ghastly indifference of everyone here regarding proper disposal of garbage, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was like watching a bunch of five year-old kids, the way they shamelessly toss their trash to the wind.
I'm nor a cash-only convert, but I have some anecdotal evidence for you.
I've visited Boston five times in the past thirty years. Every single time I used my debit card at Thanuel Hall for food, my card was later used for fraud. Always caught and never a big inconvenience beyond replacing my card, but still not ideal. I only ever use cash there now.
Online shopping, before the Amazon monopoly on e-commerce, my card would get compromised every few months.
Now I use privacy.com for all transactions that allow it, and its amazing how often those cards are stolen. Thanks to the way the service works, the stolen cards are useless to scammers or thieves, but my declined transaction filter has a few charges declined each month.
My point being that if you want to avoid fraud, and you can do it, cash is king.
I've never, in multiple decades of using Windows, and thousands of updates, ever had an update installed and not had my computer work again. I suspect this is most people's experience, or they wouldn't use it.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you aren't trolling and instead congratulate you on being a lucky Windows user. That's unicorn-level awesome to me. As a former tech for public universities for 14 years, I can attest to the validity of OP's description.
Faculty and staff begged for methods to postpone updates that randomly introduced breaking changes, and its easy to recall the many times I was in a lecture hall rolling back audio drivers that broke the A/V setup after updates. Professors would be mid-lecture or mid-exam and have a video card driver update without warning and set their screen to mirror instead of extend, putting their notes or answer key up for the class to see and breaking their lesson plan. Disabled hardware would be updated and reenabled, breaking input or output devices.
I've certainly had updates (especially when they began including BIOS updates without asking) break system function irreversibly as well, like when whole campuses had a new TPM version (1.x > 2.x) pushed without warning, which caused them to fail to boot with the static image they were running. The state was slow to fully-implement WSUS, but got on the ball by 2018. That changed everything.
Suffice to say that while you my have gotten lucky and never experienced any downtime resulting from an unscheduled Windows update, others definitely have.
Thx. I'm dabbling rn with a 2015 Intel i5 SFF and a low profile 6400 GPU, but it looks like I'll be getting back to all my gear soon, and was curious to see what others are having success running with.
I think I'm looking at upgrading to a 7600 or greater GPU in a ryzen 7, but still on the sidelines watching the ryzen 9k rollout.
I still haven't tried any image generation, have only used llamafile and LM studio, but would like to did a little deeper, while accounting for my dreaded ADHD that makes it miserable to learn new skills...
I'm reminded of this blog/article on Ars about ripping out OLS and reverting to NGINX. There's some good info there, and also links to other of his posts on the subject and references. Good read.
I don't self host presently, but if I get my server hardware back (moved out of the country a while) I want to dabble with a self hosted photo solution, so I'm glad to have found your post that keeps this fresh in my mind.
They also don't always keep the metadata in the same archive (zip or tar) with the pictures they belong with, and that can throw off imports with tools that process Google Takeout archives directly. Its a pretty nasty solution, for real.
I moved about 140GB to ente.io before they had their newer takeout process, but some destinations can enable third party apps (like rclone) to do cloud to cloud. Nor sure which work best, since I couldn't go that route myself.
Okay, I do recall that our software had a feature that could classify on "DHCP requested options', but it was low-fidelity, unreliable. Ultimately, the software works best with known devices, and isn't very good at reliably classing unknowns.
As you say, just the first few seconds of actual traffic from a device is so rich in terms of ID characteristics compared to DHCP.
I used to provide commercial end-user support for a network intelligence product that used as much metadata as possible to help classify endpoints, shuffling them off to the right captive portals for the right segment based on that data.
I can tell you that the things you're saying are transmitted in a DHCP request/offer are just not. If they were, my job would've been a LOT easier. The only information you can count on are a MAC address.
I can't view that link you shared, but I've viewed my share of packet captures diagnosing misidentified endpoints. Not only does a DHCP request/offer not include other metadata, it can't. There's no place for OS metrics. Clients just ask for any address, or ask to renew one they think they can use. That only requires a MAC and an IP address.
I suppose DHCP option flags could maybe lead to some kind of data gathering, but that's usually sent by the server,not the client.
I think, at the end of the day, fighting so that random actors can't find out who manufactured my WiFi radio just isn't up there on my list of "worth its" to worry about.
I think you and OP misread "week" to mean "weak." @kitnaht@lemmy.world meant the spotlight should rotate weekly, giving people time to see it before it changes.
EoL? They're releasing betas regularly and announced 13.3 for Q2. You mean how they're sort of winding down with scale taking the bulk of dev cycles? Not much to change with the platform, and security fixes will be backported to CORE. I think SCALE still doesn't fit my use-case, hut when it does, and jails go away with CORE, I'll shed a tear and pour one out for my homie.
I stand corrected. "Particularized," strikes again...