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Why is Google takeout so bitchy?
  • Apparently you can save it to Google drive then download the Google drive program and make that folder available offline so it downloads it to the computer.

    1. When you setup the Google Takeout export choose Save in a Google Drive folder

    2. Install the Google Drive PC client (Drive for desktop)

    3. It will create a new drive (i.e. G:) in your explorer. Right click on the takeout folder and select "Make available offline". All files in that folder will be downloaded by the Google Drive Desktop in the background, and you will be able to copy to another location, as they will be local files.

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    LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells
  • Yes but the camera should be in a place that can't be physically tampered with easily since someone could theoretically unplug the camera and plug into your home network and see all your computers or other devices as if they had stolen your WiFi password. A small risk but it's better to hardwire it somewhere they would need a ladder to get to or get a camera system that connects to a central box inside the house.

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    Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab?
  • I'm using a commercial desktop with an i5 Sandy bridge. I maxed out to 32Gb of ram only because I'm running trueNAS, debian with containers, and home assistant. Most RAM goes to trueNAS and trueNAS doesn't accurately report ram. For CPU, mostly just task limited but I don't really think thats a proxmox issue. Obviously it's not going to support an enterprise or even small business but it works for what I need of less than 4 users on my budget.

    Proxmox doesn't really ask for much but I probably would recommend docker for your arm devices.

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    Is there a simple way to severly impede webscraping and LLM data collection of my website?
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

    Should cover any polite web crawlers but it is voluntary.

    https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

    Might have to put it behind a captcha or other type to severely limit automated access.

    It's not realistic to assume it won't get scraped eventually. Such as someone paying people to bypass capatcha or web crawlers that don't respect robots.txt. I also don't know if Google and Microsoft bundle their AI data collection that doesn't also remove your site from web search.

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    US sets stage for antitrust probes into Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia
  • OpenAI may have grown a bit fast in relation to the ai hype craze so I don't know if it'll hold much water on an anti trust. Nvidia competes with competitors with things like GPUs but is pretty far ahead with ai chips and some data center ai related products. It will be interesting to see if either will go anywhere.

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    I just wanted some insights from other fathers...
  • I think the algorithm is skewed when searching male vs dad. What happens to the search results when you search for "dad advice having a baby"?

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    I did not know the origin of the quote
  • The origin of the quote is not Goebbels.

    Someone else has traced the quotation to a novel by Upton Sinclair in The Profits of Religion (do a books.google.com search for the phrase and you will find it.

    In short, it is highly unlikely that Goebbels said this. As is usually the case with such quotations, no one who cites it provides a source.

    Randall Bytwerk, expert in Nazi propaganda (Prof. Randall Bytwerk)

    https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/30683/is-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide-you-have-nothing-to-fear-a-line-used-by-joseph#40126

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    Does this plan make sense? v4
  • Robocalls should be opt-in unless emergency broadcast. Examples for TTY or other systems typically via text/email for vision impaired.

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    Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff
  • Last I read IBM was one of the big companies pursuing R&D in quantum computers and such plus they have some software stuff like crimestat and the weather channel under their umbrella.

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    How much of what you self-host do you keep LAN only over making accessible across the internet?
  • I keep everything behind a VPN so I don't have to worry much about opening things up to the Internet. It's not necessary about the fact that you're probably fine but more so what the risk to you is if that device is compromised, ex: a NAS with important documents, or the idea that if that device is infected, what can that device access.

    You could expose your media server and not worry too much about that device but having it in a "demilitarized zone", ensuring all your firewall rules are correct and that that service is always updated is more difficult than just one VPN that is designed to be secure from the ground up.

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