cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26769543

...because VPNs obscure a user’s true location, and because intelligence agencies presume that communications of unknown origin are foreign, Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law...

...VPNs might protect you against garden-variety criminals, but the intentional commingling of origin/destination points by VPNs could turn purely domestic communications into “foreign” communications the NSA can legally intercept (and the FBI, somewhat less-legally can dip into at will)...

Certainly the NSA isn’t concerned about “incidental collection.” It’s never been too concerned about its consistent “incidental” collection of US persons’ communications and data in the past and this isn’t going to budge the needle, especially since it means the NSA would have to do more work to filter out domestic communications and the FBI would be less than thrilled with any efforts made to deny it access to communications it doesn’t have the legal right to obtain on its own.

Since the government won’t do this, it’s up to the general public, starting with everyone sharing the contents of this letter with others. VPNs can still offer considerable security benefits. But everyone needs to know that domestic surveillance is one of the possible side effects of utilizing this tech.

I've got a Supermicro X11SSV motherboard with an mPCIE slot, and I've got a Lenovo Chromebook motherboard with an M.2 wifi card slot. Ideally I'd like to add 2 more sata ports to the Supermicro board, and I'd like to use a aliexpress M.2 to RJ45 adapter on the Chromebook. The problem is I can't find consistent information on the speeds of these ports. It doesn't say in either of the manuals, and from googling it seems that m.2 slots sometimes do PCIE x1 and sometimes USB 2.0, and that mPCIE is just another name for mSATA.

Does anyone have any info on how to determine what kind of speeds the ports do? Or how to determine it on a case by case basis? Thanks.

Hiya,

Plex / Jellyfin are nice and all, but you know what I really want? A TV-like "channel" I can configure with TV shows & movies to play on a schedule. I miss the cycle of Morning News -> trashy daytime tv -> light afternoon programming -> prime time -> late night -> repeat, or simply turning on the TV & having something already playing. Or that one-button channel up/down to move to a totally different vibe. "Playlists" in Plex/Jellyfin almost do what I want, but they're difficult to pick up midway through, the "dumb shuffle" doesn't care if I've seen an episode recently, and I can't really mimic that daily tv cycle.

Is there a media streamer that does this? Do Plex/Jellyfin have that function & I've just missed it? If it doesn't exist, would someone be a pal and whip that up?

An Israeli Instagram page has sparked anger on social media after it shared an image of a soldier using a detained, blindfolded Palestinian father to advertise its jewellery business.

The Instagram page, named ‘Shilo_Jewelry’, published on Friday the image of a Palestinian man, with his hands tied and crouched down on a sofa. In his hands is a piece of paper on which the soldier appears to have written the business’s social media handle.

Inspired by https://lemmy.world/post/45118004

What do you think is a good sweet spot for Achievements?

I think it's nice to have a few easy one (even if it's just to let the person know that the game HAS achievements), and some that just make progression sense (like, an achievement for completing a stage or a quest or a story etc.)

And I think it's nice to have some challenging ones. Especially ones that create certain limits like "use on X weapon" or "only have X resource" etc. But I don't love Achievements that are tied to purchases (like an Achievement for buying the game in Early Access or so). Also not a super fan of speed run achievements but to be fair, that's purely because I just hate the whole speed running thing.

Also don't like it when games that are very long have multiple ending-related achievements as they just smack of trying to artificially increase replayability. In similar vein, don't like achievements that you can fail at the last second.

I suppose I like achievements that reward dedicated playing over raw skill (call me casual then).

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/36068667

The headline feature of the patch is support for NVIDIA DLSS, which enhances image quality while maintaining stable performance in both 40 FPS and 60 FPS modes.

Beyond that, the update fixes a range of technical issues — including crashes, memory handling, and visual glitches. Lighting problems, flickering environments, and missing effects like textures or bullet marks have also been addressed.

Bethesda additionally refined the interface, resolving issues with menu transparency and incorrect button prompts.

Overall, this patch makes the Switch 2 version of Fallout 4 more stable, visually polished, and better optimized for portable play.

I started a new save last week in preparation. This way I'll have a early-mid game level character I'm invested in by the time it drops.

OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon "side quests" and focus on its core business.

The ChatGPT maker had purchased the 11-person company in a "low hundreds of millions of dollars" deal, according to a person with knowledge of the terms.

Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/VfGEx

Hey everybody! I am building self-hosted fast task manager, and today I am happy announce that I made desktop app and it supports macos, windows and linux! For mobile it is still PWA. All platforms support fast sync and works offline even when your homelab is down.

Also, one of the top feature that I really wanted is global quick add shortcut. You can trigger it with cmd+shift+a on macos, ctrl+shift+a on windows/linux.

• More info: https://will-be-done.app/
• Demo: https://demo.will-be-done.app/
• GitHub: https://github.com/will-be-done/will-be-done
• Download: https://github.com/will-be-done/will-be-done/releases

Installation

Single Docker command with SQLite as db:

docker run -d \
   -p 3000:3000 \
   -v will_be_done_storage:/var/lib/will-be-done \
   --restart unless-stopped \
   ghcr.io/will-be-done/will-be-done:latest

As part of ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization, the final steps to deprecate r/all are being implemented. All links to r/all will now redirect to the Home feed, following the prior removal of r/all entry points. Trending content remains available via r/popular.

Redditors on old.reddit.com, or those with settings that default to the old Reddit experience, will continue to access r/all as expected.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66483588

Minister of "Justice" Akın Gürlek, in a statement he made in Diyarbakır regarding the issue, said the following: “Our negotiations with social media platforms have been completed. Our requests for identity-based login to social media have been accepted. ID verification will begin within approximately 3 months.”