Notices by Marcus Adams (gerowen@mastodon.social)

If any of y'all are still using #Plex, the price of a lifetime subscription is increasing from $250 to $750 on July 1st. So if you want to stay on Plex instead of moving to something else like #Jellyfin or #Emby, and you were thinking of getting a one-and-done lifetime subscription, you've got until July 1st to grab it before it triples in price.

Source: https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-lifetime-plex-pass-pricing/

#SelfHosting

@Gargron YouTube has been auto-dubbing a lot of folks's videos to languages other than the one it was recorded in, so you might be able to find a useful guide in English or something else and then just switch it to Spanish in the player settings.

@soatok It makes me wonder if GnuPG has died, or if they'll adopt PQ at all. The standards are there and have existed for quite a while now, and the way modern solutions like AGE implement it doesn't break the protections offered by the classical algorithms if the PQ ones are compromised later. And nobody is saying they have to drop support for RSA-2048 or whatever, just "add" support for the newer things, like they've done in the past.

@soatok This is awesome. Even AGE itself does post-quantum now, which is kinda awesome, and it's blazing fast compared to PGP. I did some benchmarking out of curiosity and even with compression turned off, AGE is 2-3x faster at encrypting files than GPG.

https://gerowen.substack.com/p/age-vs-gpg-pgp-encryption?r=54rcsd

@GossiTheDog Didn't they get yelled at a year or so ago because of some breach of government systems that didn't get caught because they were charging extra for event logging or something? Kinda feels like if somebody is paying for your product, they should get the whole product, not just bits and pieces.

Merry Christmas free software enthusiasts, 🙂 Somebody just sent them nearly a million dollars in Monero.

Headline: Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations

Source: https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-receives-historic-private-donations

#FSF #GNU #FreeSoftwareFoundation

Today I discovered #PieFed. It's a link aggregator like #Lemmy or #KBin ( Which has become #MBin ?), and it federates with those services, but has its own take on the user experience that I actually quite like. For one, when you sign up you get asked to select topics of interest and it automatically subscribes you to a variety of communities across the #fediverse related to those topics to help you get started.

Link: https://piefed.social

@nopatience @GossiTheDog Cloudflare offers DDoS protection. Anubis is just a local reverse proxy so it'll stop scrapers and bots, but it won't stop somebody just flooding your connection with useless traffic until it stops responding. But this is what, the 3rd or 4th time in just the last year or so that large swaths of the internet have gone down because of Cloudflare, so one site here and there going down to DDoS is arguably preferable to everybody being centralized.

@killyourfm When my mom decided to migrate her Windows 10 PC to Linux, I just installed Debian with KDE, then added flatpak support and she's been fine. The KDE Discover software store is surprisingly easy to navigate and use.

If it were me I might leave it in. Is it possible that the software center just hadn't checked for updates that day so it missed what you found with apt?

@gamingonlinux Yep; affecting me here in eastern Kentucky too.

@Gargron Yeah I had never seen it; pretty cool, 🙂

The conversations.im #XMPP server is now free to use. I verified the legitimacy of this message with the lead developer of the app. Pretty awesome that they decided to stop making money from something because they were able to meet their needs elsewhere, :-) #privacy

Headline: ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

Subtitle: A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.

Source: https://www.404media.co/fucklapd-com-lets-anyone-use-facial-recognition-to-instantly-identify-cops/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

#LAPD #Police #FuckLAPD #Politics

Headline: #Amazon annihilates #Alexa #privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading

Snippet: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing:

Source: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen

@Gargron This is awesome. I'll often see something but want to give my own take on it so I'll have to manually copy and paste the link into a new post, which seems duplicative. Really looking forward to this, 🙂

@repeattofade Surprised they don't have it hard wired to the battery with a sense wire connected to accessory power. That way it could sense when the bus is off and go to sleep under normal conditions, with the option of staying powered on long enough to finish updates in a situation like this.

@arstechnica This seems like something that would be handy for hauling things around locally. That driving range though, oof. I've got stores I frequent that are 50 miles away; that's 100 miles round trip. Add a thousand pounds of cargo and 5 years of wear on those batteries and could I even use it as a truck?

Headline: Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop #Election Security Work

Subtitle: The US #Cybersecurity and Infrastructure #Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing #elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/cisa-election-security-freeze-memo/

#CISA

I haven't adopted #PassKeys for my accounts because, as far as I can tell, there aren't really any options that let me own my private key and store it myself; they all depend on trusting somebody like Google, Meta or Apple to handle it for you, which completely defeats the purpose in my opinion. Like #PGP / #GPG, I want to own the private key so I can manage it myself. Trusting your PassKey to a third party app that's only on your phone introduces a single point of failure.

#Security #Privacy

Headline: RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

Subtitle: Job listings posted in China this week indicate that #Xiaohongshu, also known as #RedNote, is struggling to handle an influx of new users joining the platform from #TikTok.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/xiaohongshu-english-moderators-red-note/