Notices by Alex Rosenberg (alexr@mastodon.online)

Elon Musk is a foreign agent and has broken laws while trying to exert influence over our election process.

The only correct response is to charge him, seize any US assets he has, and deport him.

Oh look, more spam sent to my server from Google's Gmail servers, complete with valid DKIM.

This is your reminder that all of the "anti-spam" stuff that Google uses as an excuse to deny inbound email to Gmail users is actually just anti-competitive nonsense that does not work. They're the largest source of spam themselves. The call is coming from inside the house.

#GmailSpam #DontBeEvil

@feld @encthenet I also often use Infuse Pro on my MacBook Pro to get HDR support.

I run Tautulli to keep statistics. The stats Plex showed me when I disabled this feature were totally broken and old compared to Tautulli.

@encthenet Their article says you can alter these settings from Plex Web, which is clearly not the case for the current FreeBSD version of the server. I had to disable these settings from the iOS app.

@johnvoorhees @verge Their commercial models are identical except that they use a conventional Normally Open wiring style to activate, which means that any IoT relay solution can be used to activate them instead of their complicated proprietary solution. I enjoy the iSmartGate product in this use.

A reminder that VS Code has an enterprise-unfriendly remote access backdoor in it. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/tunnels

Do you trust that this doesn't give Microsoft access to the inside of your firewall and company-proprietary source code and other secrets?

Block all traffic to global.rel.tunnels.api.visualstudio.com.

@lanodan @homeassistant All three browsers I tried gave me this nonsense. Amusingly, using Private Browsing in Safari worked.

Wait, you're telling me that the CEO of Warner Bros. made nearly $.5B last year in compensation? The same guy who has been in charge of all those not good DC superhero movies?

Tim Cook took home only $100M in 2022.

Pretty clear that the writer/actor unions are in the right here. It's a huge problem that the VFX industry has no union because they're absolutely getting screwed.