Yeah, that’s all fine - when it works, it works well… But sometimes it just seems to get caught up in an error and can’t seem to reset for a few minutes. But ok, looks like your setup’s working ok, so must be just mine. I disabled a load of Google stuff and run trackercontrol (a local VPN on the phone that blocks stuff), so maybe I’ve broken something…

Hmm… I’m using gotify with a Ras Pi to send the alerts and I sometimes get long delays…

AFAICT it’s the phone, not the Pi, but all I can see are lots of websocket errors in the gotify client the time… are you not getting those then?

we are very excited about being part of the Claudflair team

Guess they’re so excited (and thrilled) that they forgot how to spell

Yeah, my reading speed has decreased a lot as I’m continually trying to assess if what I’m reading is true or not

Like, maybe the AI was the true story and the April fools story was the April fools? 🤯

Are you saying I could get Linux running on my Fairphone 3+?

Mind you, yeah, 3G switch off would then make life difficult…

Enterprises just lease desktops / laptops and replace them with the latest version of Windows… my team used to be after reasons to get the latest OS / laptop, now IT have to prise them out of their hands

Yep, hence my comment…

You should see the fear on people’s faces when I suggest they restore a backup - esp. on Production.

My advice (to combat their fear) is to take an offline backup that has some kind of checksum and then immediately restore it.

That gets them past the initial fear and then we progress onto other backup strategies… if needed.

Backups… fine

When’s the World “test you can restore” day?

Ok, didn’t think about “unlimited” actually being slower - thanks for the insight.

I’m running a pfSense f/w at the edge, so split horizon DNS and haproxy are already sorted… I’ll check out wireguard - should be straight forward

Thanks

I’m considering going this route - just to hide my (static) home IP.

What’s the rough sizing I’d need for a VPS? I’m guessing the smallest possible, but with the best / unlimited data usage?

Ok, so setup a DC (in a VM on your linux laptop), install Win11 joined to that domain, create a local user, then leave the domain & destroy the VM…?

Or install Linux 👍🏻

Dunno how long you’ve been online, but you should’ve seen searching before Google came along… it’s still better now.

But, there was not much tracking back then…

Depends… if you use an offline password manager ( like keepass), you can ask it to autotype your credentials into anything… if that’s what you ask it to do (ie it’s not a fault)

Main point though: don’t reuse the same credentials across different sites.

They’ll get 1 site, but not all the rest of them…

Was that the one with the vertical task bar that couldn’t be changed??

Or is it better now…?

1. Agreed
2. Well, if it’s the free tier option, then I guess not a lot…?

I’m all for revenue income to support these tools - as long as I’m not the product - I just won’t be using this option.

Yeah, just read a bit more, where it’s implied that Vivaldi recommend you share your Vivaldi account recovery with Proton, which was the problem recently:

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/proton-vpn-for-vivaldi/

Allow Vivaldi to share your account’s recovery email address with Proton (only shown during first use).

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/vivaldi_proton_vpn/

Proton VPN is operated by the same company behind the encrypted email service, Proton Mail. The business found itself in hot water in 2024 after complying with a legal request to hand over the recovery email address for a Proton Mail account.

Hmm… this doesn’t sound good to me.

They’re referencing the package as a whole, plastic casing, gold internal wiring, etc. and the silicon die in the center of it all.

Not sure what to make of this, they’ve got the potential to put a million qubits on a chip, but there’s only 8…

And others have had quantum computers for a while now… so… 🤷🏼‍♂️

Similar story here, Bose QC whilst the house next door was (basically) being demolished… I just found the headphones ate batteries faster.

I sometimes find I’m just working with the headphones on and whatever I was listening to had stopped ages ago.

by blocking everyday sounds such as cars beeping, there is a possibility the brain can “forget” to filter out the noise.

Also growing up in the quiet countryside, I can say that you do not “forget” to hear sounds like cars… it’s definitely the everyday background noise that’s the problem.

It all works fine for me with ad/ tracking blockers, browser based blockers, noscript, ublock origin, etc, even geoip blocking for anything inbound

I guess I use different sites…