I think as written, I’d say these words are more FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt)

And I’ve been running servers for quite some time as well. SearXNG seems rock solid. And it’s tested. And when I had security issues in general, it was because we didn’t do timely updates. I haven’t really ever been affected by zero days in my hobby linux endeavours. Okay, we had a few nasty things in some more fundamental building blocks and sometimes people using slower distributions had been fine… But I don’t think it applies here. With these kinds of things, the latest stable release is your best bet. Not a previous version with bugs in it, which have been fixed since. And especially not an unmaintained project.

They’re likely referring to the sentences outlining the differences between searx and SearXNG in searX README (archived Github repo). I think it was about some feature to report bugs to the project. And NG having a faster pace of development.

I’d say if it’s as power hungry as people say, it’d maybe make a good on-demand backup solution. Install some NAS distribution and power it on once a month, make backups of your *arred collection and your laptop/workstation and shut it off again.

I’m with netcup.com and I’ve been happy. But some people complained their support isn’t the best and they sometimes don’t answer. I’m not sure about the details as I’ve never needed support. Maybe you want to ask someone else. And make sure to choose the correct server location as most of their servers are located in Europe and you don’t want that latency if you’re living in the USA.

I mean you can host anything. It’s just not reachable from the outside. And Fediverse or anything that gets data pushed in, won’t work. The common method to handle all of this is to use some tunnelling solution.

I pay 6.84€ a month for a VPS plus 4.65€ a year for the domain. That gets me a VPS with 4 cores and 8GB of RAM so in addition to Matrix, I can also fit a few Fediverse services, Nextcloud, a homepage, …

I mean their main use case is gaming… And you can do a few more AI things, LLMs aside. For example generate pictures, voice cloning (or changing), you can have a vtuber avatar and do live-streams as an anime girl. Or run Jupyter Notebooks with arbitrary machine learning projects. Do virtual reality. Or run a big CAD program and design some objects. Maybe even run finite element method simulations to see how your workpiece will deform with stress…

You need more practice. Maybe read a tutorial or watch a Youtube video on how to solder, and how to see if a joint looks alright. Several people made great tutorials and videos about this. I mean the upper ones are better, but not okay. It’s not the correct amount of solder, and the bulges look like the contact pad on the PCB didn’t heat up. The white cables aren’t really connected at all. The strands are all over the place, the solder hasn’t molten, it doesn’t really stick to anything and it just looks like someone stabbed it a few times with a soldering iron which was likely too cold. And/Or the time of contact with the tip was too short and the copper strands didn’t heat up and absorb the solder. I’m sorry… But don’t be disheartened. Soldering takes a bit of practice. In my experience people improve fairly quickly. Watch a few more videos and make sure to heat up both things you want to stick together, the pad on the PCB and the cable (or the two cables). And you need more heat, so heat it up for longer, like 2-3 seconds!?

I’m just unsure why this is surfacing now. I had that feature available in LineageOS for the better part of a decade. And similarly, it’s also been part of other manufacturer’s customizations for quite some time now (like Samsung).

Why is Google suddenly messing with charging on a regular basis? First the strange situation with the 4a, then whatever preceeded this, and now this…?

I don’t think the internet gave particularly good advice here. Sure, there are use-cases for both, and that’s why we have both approaches available. But you can’t say VMs are better than containers. They’re a different thing. They might even be worse in your case. But I mean in the end, all “simple thruths” are wrong.

Hehe, I don’t know if they don’t want to understand it, or if it’s a lack of technical knowledge… But yes. In the digital realm, a copy and the original are identical in every way, no matter how you twist it. And you can’t even properly transfer any item it in the same sense as it applies to physical items. (Unless we’re talking about quantum computers or something like that…)

Sorry, this just isn’t correct. Yes, you can ask for almost anything and it’ll be alright and merely asking a question is completely legal.

The issue is, you then proceed to do a second step. And that is transferring the data. And that is a separate thing. You then initiate the actual transfer. Your computer actively does that. It keeps the transfer going and recieves the network packets. It literally copies them into RAM and then copies them again onto your harddrive. To make your local copy. The uploader merely reads it from their harddisk and hands it out, they do one copy operation less. Though they’re still the distributor.

I think any expert witness would testify in court, that your computer as the downloader does two copy operations, at least in the technical sense of the term. And that you’ve ultimately also initiated the transfer as the downloader due to how TCP/IP works.

The thumbdrive example is a bit construed. I think you might get away with that, though. Unless you plug it into your computer. Because then all the copying to RAM and harddrive etc starts again. But I think just pocketing it is posession (which doesn’t seem to be wrong), and not necessarily copying.

But like: how do other laws work where you live? Can you instruct someone to do something illegal and you’re fine? I can’t come up with anything normal, let’s say I hire someone to kidnap my child/wife to teach them a lesson. Or I hire a hitman to kill my arch enemy. Am I fine dong that? It’s a bit over the top. But where I live I can certainly get into trouble if I make people do something on my behalf. Which I’d argue doesn’t exactly happen here. It’s a bit more complicated… But your concept of law doesn’t seem to make much sense to me.

Well, did the uploader push it onto my computer, or was it me who clicked on something and initiated the transfer? I’d say it’s the latter. So the downloader initiated the copying process… I mean if I steal an orange in the supermarket, we also don’t say it fell into my hands and somehow they’re guilty…

And additionally you might find other local laws like this: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/156.35
and generally, this is related to wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer… Which all seem to be crimes and something people get charged with if someone wants them convicted of a crime. See Aaron Swartz for example.

In Germany we definitely have this:

• https://www.juraforum.de/gesetze/urhg/53-vervielfaeltigungen-zum-privaten-und-sonstigen-eigenen-gebrauch

and we have Störerhaftung which can also get you in trouble even if you didn’t do it yourself.

In the USA it’d probably be something like https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106
which says the copyright holder has exclusive rights (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies […]
Which is kind of what you do when downloading something. There will be a copy on your harddisk… And (1) does NOT limit this to redistribution, like (3)… I’m not sure how it turns out in practice. I don’t follow American court rulings that closely.

Thanks, and I happen to already be aware of it. It doesn’t have any of that. And it’s more complicated to hook it into other things, since the good old postfix is the default case and well-trodden path. I think I’ll try Stalwart anyways. It’s a bit of a risk, though. Since it’s a small project with few developers and the future isn’t 100% certain. And I have to learn all the glue in between the mailserver stuff, since there aren’t any tutorials out there. But both the frontend, and the configuration and setup seem to make sense.

I’ve always been looking for an all-in-one mailserver with a few added features like mailing lists and something like AnonAddy (anonymous mail forwarding). Sadly there doesn’t seem anything like that out there. So I have to configure postfix and dovecot myself. Or make ends meet with a bit more basic features.

Hmm, maybe your setup is just too different from what the masses use. If you scroll through the comments on ProtonDB, you’ll find most people with a Intel GPU (like you) are also reporting issues. At least in the more recent comments. And the System Requirements on the Steam page for MacOS say something about unsupported Intel Macs. So I’d say it’s probably some issue with Intel GPUs. And since the majority of people use other GPUs, you’ll get an overall score that doesn’t match your situation. You can filter reviews on ProtonDB btw.

Most backup software allow you to configure backup retention. I think I went with some pretty standard once per day for a week. After that they get deleted, and it keeps just one per week of the older ones, for one or two months. And after that it’s down to monthly snapshots. I think that aligns well with what I need. Sometimes I find out something broke the day before yesterday. But I don’t think I ever needed a backup from exactly the 12th of December or something like that. So I’m fine if they get more sparse after some time. And I don’t need full backups more than necessary. An incremental backup will do unless there’s some technical reason to do full ones.

But it entirely depends on the use-case. Maybe for a server or stuff you work on, you don’t want to lose more than a day. While it can be perfectly alright to back up a laptop once a week. Especially if you save your documents in the cloud anyway. Or you’re busy during the week and just mess with your server configuration on weekends. In that case you might be alright with taking a snapshot on fridays. Idk.

(And there are incremental backups, full backups, filesystem snapshots. On a desktop you could just use something like time machine… You can do different filesystems at different intervals…)

Seems it means all together. (5600MT/s / 1000) x 2 sticks simultaneously x 64bit / 8bits/Byte = 89.6 GB/s

or 2933/1000 x 4 x 64bit / 8 = 93.9 GB/s

so they calculated with double the DDR bus width in the one example, and 4 times the bus width in the other one. That means dual or quad channel is already factored in in those numbers. And yes, the old one seems to be slightly better than the new one. At least regarding memory throughput. I suppose everything else has been improved on. And you need to put in 4 correct RAM sticks to make use of it in the first place.