Notices by Alejandro (alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza)

The little device I just bought for the office network firewall. I'll probably use pfSense since I'm already very familiar with it... Although I'm tempted to switch to OPNSense.

If you want Wi-Fi network to work perfectly, you need to use dedicated, specialized hardware.

At work, everything is fine, but at home I was temporarily using a mini PC with a Wi-Fi card as a router/firewall, and video streaming, for example, was suffering. Now I have an wireless access point with VLANs channeling all Wi-Fi traffic (currently with three devices simultaneously streaming via Jellyfin), and everything is running smoothly, with instant video playback.

Lesson learned... And shared.

#homelab

@djsumdog What a lot of money you have there! 😮

Your Windows 11 Computer’s Hidden Spy: The Dark Truth About TPM Chips

https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=t1eX_vvAlUc

Windows 11 is not an operating system, it is a set of tools created to spy on its users. It's ridiculous.

#privacy #windows11

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

https://endof10.org/

#linux #plannedobsolescence #circulareconomy

I've been using wget for years, but until today I didn't know that you can resume a failed download just by adding the -c variable, i.e., wget -c url.

A new tip for the collection.

#Linuxtipsandtricks #linux

Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) wants Microsoft to provide longer support for Windows 10.

The group indicated that Windows 10's death will lead to "the single biggest jump in junked computers ever."

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/pirg-microsoft-extra-year-of-windows-10-security-isnt-viable

- Linux users: Junked computers? Hold my beer.

#Linux #Windows

duf, an alternative to the classic df command to obtain information about the consumption of your hard disks, but with a nicer interface and even easier and faster to read.

#cli #linux

An association has managed to ban access to some websites in my country and their blocking measures are so advanced that they can be overcome by using any free proxy.

Big companies believe that it is still possible to grab water with your bare hands.

Their innocence is as funny as that of a young child.

#spain

The Death of Windows 10 Could Net You a Bunch of Free Linux PCs https://www.howtogeek.com/the-death-of-windows-10-could-net-you-a-bunch-of-free-linux-pcs/

The laptop I am writing from is a beast that boots Arch Linux in less than 7 seconds and was discarded by a large corporation for who knows what reason. Anyway, some people's trash, others' treasure!

#linux #circulareconomy

If you press Ctrl+(arrow) on the keyboard you go to the beginning or end of the previous or next word.

Here I continue sharing tips that the computer gurus already know, but that the rest of the mortals do not.

@djsumdog Why are you against CF? What did I miss?

Can you imagine a country where you can't access your server through a cloudflare tunnel because a national sports association has managed to ban its access (and any website that uses it) because pirate sports broadcasting websites also use it? That country is Spain.

By the way, it's midnight around here and the cloudlflare tunnel is working again because the sports day is over.

#spain #cloudflare #selfhosting

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

"LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse".

#foss #opensource

The association that organizes the football league in Spain has promoted the prohibition of access to pirate websites for the retransmission of matches. So far, so reasonable.

The problem is that it has taken advantage of the ignorance of the judges to ban Cloudflare's IPs. Yes, it's not a joke. Several ISPs have complied with the order and banned access to Cloudflare during the matches. :picardwtf:

Logically, Cloudflare has already filed the corresponding lawsuit and many more are expected in the coming days.

In Spain you never get bored.

#cloudflare

@selea I have already bought the hard drives and enclosure to make the third backup that I will keep in another place, as I do at work, but this option you point out is very interesting for other tasks that I need to undertake in the office. I did not know Wasabi-S3, thanks again!

@selea Sorry, it is not a NAS but a Icybox DAS in raid 5 mode.

The chances of multiple failures were remote, but I'm one of those people who suffer concatenation of unexpected events so a drop of sweat or two ran down my forehead in those moments. It won't happen again.

You run away from everything that has to do with Facebook and derivatives, try not to use Google services and try to self-host services on your home server. All this in order to safeguard your privacy.

And in the end, along comes some asshole with Mark Zuckerberg's "smart" glasses to let Meta know even if you've already had your morning coffee.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/harvard-students-make-auto-doxxing-smart-glasses-to-show-need-for-privacy-regs/

#privacy #internetofshit

Larry Finger, long-time GNU/Linux wireless developer, has passed away.

I'm sure many of us who use linux systems have used his drivers. I was one of them and he helped me win the battle against a Broadcom chip card years ago.

Thank you for your work and help. You will be remembered.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Larry-Finger-Linux-Wireless

Google Pushes Unpopular Chrome Update

"After an update in June this year, a feature called the WebRequest API will be removed, and the adblockers and tracker blockers that depend on this feature will stop working. Since the business model of Google is to track your online activity and then show you personalised ads, it is not difficult to see why this feature is removed.

(...) they are forcing the same update on all Chromium browsers as well."

https://lemmy.ml/post/14446619

#privacy #chrome #google