Grossman, who co-founded the Grossman Burn Foundation, killed Mark Iskander, 11, and brother Jacob, 8, in a speeding car in 2020.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16402340
> California socialite Rebecca Grossman sentenced to 15 to life for killing 2 kids in crosswalk > > A wealthy California woman who co-founded a burn center foundation in the Los Angeles area was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison Monday for the hit-and-run killings of two children while they were in a crosswalk more than three years ago. > > Rebecca Grossman was speeding when she struck and killed Mark Iskander, 11, and his brother Jacob, 8, while they were in a crosswalk in the Los Angeles-area city of Westlake Village on Sept. 29, 2020. > > “The loss of these two innocent lives has devastated their family and our community. Ms. Grossman’s blatant disregard for human life is a stark reminder of the grave consequences of irresponsible behavior behind the wheel,” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement. > > A jury convicted Grossman in February on two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and one count of hit-and-run driving resulting in death. > >
Grossman, who co-founded the Grossman Burn Foundation, killed Mark Iskander, 11, and brother Jacob, 8, in a speeding car in 2020.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16402340
> California socialite Rebecca Grossman sentenced to 15 to life for killing 2 kids in crosswalk > > A wealthy California woman who co-founded a burn center foundation in the Los Angeles area was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison Monday for the hit-and-run killings of two children while they were in a crosswalk more than three years ago. > > Rebecca Grossman was speeding when she struck and killed Mark Iskander, 11, and his brother Jacob, 8, while they were in a crosswalk in the Los Angeles-area city of Westlake Village on Sept. 29, 2020. > > “The loss of these two innocent lives has devastated their family and our community. Ms. Grossman’s blatant disregard for human life is a stark reminder of the grave consequences of irresponsible behavior behind the wheel,” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement. > > A jury convicted Grossman in February on two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and one count of hit-and-run driving resulting in death. > >
I am so sorry! I took another look at SMS Import / Export and to my surprise it does support scheduled backups! I had seen it before and had overlooked that feature so disqualified it. I'm going to test it now but if you don't hear back its probably because I made the switch without issue.
I saw this but its missing a key feature: daily backups. SMS Backup & Restore can make a backup every day then I can sync the file out to Nextcloud or similar. It also supports Dropbox if that's your thing.
This and so many others that are irreplaceable because of the Network effect. Google Maps, Uber and so on...
However if you are looking for a self contained app to bring into the Foss ecosystem then I would recommend making a game that you like?
My first game that I bought on Google Play was Osmos making a version of this that is open source would make me happy....
SMS Backup & Restore? Unless there is an alternative that I'm missing? Play store link
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/10912845
> Glad I was too dumb to finish college...
Your average user is comparing the time to setup a new game vs a punch in the face, no contest punch in the face all day! Now if you are getting punched in the face for more than 5 hours then maybe they will start considering an alternative....
YunoHost is trying to make it easier than a synology NAS to install services and get them setup properly but I agree that to configure your network properly is difficult and everyone's setup is different so specific knowledge is required.
Been keeping my eye on these guys hoping they can turn the tide: Taler
Now I'm just waiting for someone to do the same thing for the Nest Thermostats .....
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/19788762
> If you ever wanted to know too much about where the majority of our search results come from and the many niche alternatives trying something different.....
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/19788762
> If you ever wanted to know too much about where the majority of our search results come from and the many niche alternatives trying something different.....
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
If you ever wanted to know too much about where the majority of our search results come from and the many niche alternatives trying something different.....
I really hope they do but I'm keeping my expectations realistic.
An open alternative to Apple/Google/Samsung pay seems impossible.....
The actual % numbers are probably not that important. Software developers and hardware manufacturers are looking for a critical mass of users of their product. So if 20% of the world switch from Windows to Linux but they are the 20% that only use a web browser then why would the compatibility landscape change? Adobe are not going to do the hard work to support Linux just because schools and libraries switch to Linux. Even if every government mandates using Linux for government offices would Cricut suddenly support Linux?
I think this is the only feature that matters. For a user switching away from Windows I would love to hear about the user experience between buying a system76 (or another Linux system seller) vs a Mac laptop. Complaining that Linux doesn't work with your hardware is like complaining that the hackintosh that you built doesn't work with your hardware.
I had a similar idea: Could search engines be broken up and distributed instead of being just a couple of monoliths?
Reading the HN thread, the short answer is: NO.
Still, its fun to imagine what it might look like if only......
I think the OP is looking for an answer to the problem of Google having a monopoly that gives them the power to make it impossible to be challenged. The cost to replicate their search service is just so astronomical that its basically impossible to replace them. Would the OP be satisfied if we could make cheaper components that all fit together to make a competing but decentralized search service? Breaking down the technical problems is just the first step, the basic concepts for me are:
Crawling -> Indexing -> Storing/host index -> Ranking
All of them are expensive because the internet is massive! If each of these were isolated but still interoperable then we get some interesting possibilities: Basically you could have many smaller specialized companies that can focus on better ranking algorithms for example.
- What if crawling was done by the owners of each website and then submitted to an index database of their choice? This flips the model around so things like robots.txt might become less relevant. Bad actors and spam however now don't need any SEO tricks to flood a database or mislead as to their actual content, they can just submit whatever they like!. These concerns feed into the next step:
- What if there were standard indexing functions similar to how you have many standard hash functions. How a site is indexed plays an important role in how ranking will work (or not) later. You could have a handful of popular general purpose index algorithms that most sites would produce and then submit (e.g. keywords, images, podcasts, etc.) combined with many more domain specific indexing algorithms (e.g. product listings, travel data, mapping, research). Also if the functions were open standards then it would be possible for a browser to run the index function on the current page and compare the result to the submitted index listing. It could warn users that the page they are viewing is probably either spam or misconfigured in some way to make the index not match what was submitted.
- What if the stored indexes were hosted in a distributed way similar to DNS? Sharing the database would lower individual costs. Companies with bigger budgets could replicate the database to provide their users with a faster service. Companies with fewer resources would be able to use the publicly available indexes yet still be competitive.
- Enabling more competition between different ranking methods will hopefully reduce the effectiveness of SEO gaming (or maybe make it worse as the same content is repackaged for each and every index/rank combination). Ranking could happen locally (although this would probably not be efficient at all but that fact that it might even be possible at all is quite a novel thought)
Sigh enough daydreaming already........
Was just trying to watch the original Star Wars from when I was young and found out that it is simply not available for sale. My money is no good! Then I found this Project 4K77.
I think this is related to the GNU Taler open source project. Appears they are testing to see if the technology is appropriate. New EU project NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone
+1 servarr It took me a while to navigate the (high) sea of information but eventually I got a setup I like. I started, like you say, just running qBit but found the search results limited and tedious to review manually. Get started with Prowlarr if nothing else. No need to jump in the deep end with everything all at once but once you see how it works you can add other components later.
So upsetting that it takes decades for this information to surface.....
https://climateintegrity.org/plastics-fraud
I selfhost my own email and you are absolutely correct it is musch easier to receive than to send. I use a 3rd party to send all my outgoing mail on my behalf.
This is my experience too. The sites hosting the articles that I want to read only provide the first parapraph and then a link back to the webpage. News is just headlines. I love that RSS doesn't allow much formating so you end up with an experience focused on the content itself (and no ads). It feels like a long time ago since I really enjoyed my RSS feeds.
No matter if it is greed, competitiveness, narcissism, another personality trait or some combination of them the point was that we as a society should not consider becoming a billionaire as model behavior. By all means be the best sports player or musician or top surgeon and make as much money as you are legally allowed. Most tech billionaires are just not that impressive to justify their current net worth.
Following on from this discussion: https://reddthat.com/post/6044040 I finally updated my VPS setup - deleted everything and started fresh with a whole new approach. I decided to make a full writeup for anyone that might find it useful or at least mildly interesting. I'm not an expert in any of the concepts that I wrote about so looking forward to the many many ways that I can improve! Many thanks!
TLDR~ Networking is deceptively easy to grasp conceptually and infuriatingly fiddly to implement in the real world. I am looking for help and advice to design a solution that fits my needs but done 'the right way'.
The Hardware and Physical Network:
The main server is living in my home, it is an intel NUC running Ubuntu. I rent a tiny VPS (linode) running Debian with a public facing static IP (hello internet!). My networking is fairly standard consumer grade hardware with most things wired into my main gigabit switch. I have more than one wifi access point but all that is managed by my router. The router is connected to my ISP router in a way that creates a double NAT situation. Before you comment - I can't change ISP, I can't open ports, I can't change the ISP router, my ISP doesn't hand out static IP addresses, if you have any questions about my ISP the worst possible answer is probably correct. (The connection however is fiber and I'm getting about 800Mbps down / 80Mbps up.)
The Software and Setup:
I now have about 65 docker containers running all the usual services with plenty of extra apps that are somewhat useful but also just for fun (the number of containers is a bit misleading because I often have separate containers for databases or cron jobs and the like). The greatest hits include: Nextcloud, Homeassistant, Jellyfin, Photoprism, Vaultwarden, Pihole, Mailu and more. I also have some services setup natively (apt install): tailscale, wireguard and mergefs. About half of my services are 100% local only where I can access them on an assigned port number (e.g. jellyfin would be "server_name:port_number") and I can access those services in a pinch either through tailscale or via wireguard which bring us nicely onto the VPS: The VPS is runnng a wireguard 'server' and I have wireguard client configs for my devices and for my home server so that if I connect to the wireguard VPN I can access my server and also route traffic to the internet just like any other VPN provider.
Reverse Proxy
Now this is the really tricky part. I also have my own domain and I have configured a series of subdomains for services that I want to be able to access seamlessly from anywhere. I don't want to use the VPS/VPN unnecessarily when I'm at home and I don't want to have to remember to toggle wireguard/tailscale whenever go out or come home. For the most part I have solved this but I am sure I have done this in an amateur way: I run two duplicate nginx reverse proxy containers, one on the VPS and one on the home server. The VPS is able to request and obtain https certificates from letsencrypt and these allow either reverse proxy to terminate the encrypted web traffic. When connecting from the public internet, nginx (on the VPS) then proxy forwards the connection unencrypted down through the wireguard tunnel (so still encrypted) back to my server at home. At home I am running a Pihole DNS server so that when I request the same domain but from my local network the request goes instead to the duplicate nginx reverse proxy. When connecting nginx (on my home server) the https termination is handled there and then forwarded on the wireguard network but now this is all happening on the server and not across the internet. Happy days? Yes for the most part this all works great but it does seem like the wrong way to do it.
Mailu (but not really)
Currently my Mailu setup is limited as I am using the fetchmail service to get incoming emails from my existing email providers (gmail etc) and I am using a SMTP relay to send email. Mailu is not actually doing the job of a fully independent email server which I'm fine with for now and it gives me the possibility to expand its functionality in the future. So really everything up to this point has been the back-story to explain my situation with Mailu now. Currently I have Mailu setup exactly as the developers suggest: Mailu is a collection of docker containers that make up the individual parts of an email server and the stack is all wrapped up nicely by using its own specially configured nginx reverse proxy (if you've been keeping score that makes 3). This reverse proxy manages the https connections and then routes them to the back-end servers (containers). I was able to make this work for the webmail service because I configured it to serve unencrypted over http and then use my existing nginx (VPS and home server) the same way as for all my other services. However I wanted to have access to the IMAP and the SMTP services and for this I took a different approach. I used the nginx "stream" block in the configuration to forward the IMAP and the SMTP connections from the public internet via the VPS but on my local network the connection is just direct to the home server. So I can connect Thunderbird from my laptop and K-9 from my phone and send and receive email. And with the magic of having my own DNS server this actually works totally fine because all the connections require authentication and I don't need to know the source IP address of the client connecting for this to work. So when I setup my mail clients I use my own domain for both the IMAP and the SMTP servers - very satisfying!
Sending and Receiving Email Properly:
Firstly, if the reports about actually sending email from your own sever are true then I can safely say its not for me. I am happy to use a relay I'm not a masochist.... I do want to properly receive emails to my email server and I think it should be much easier than sending. I did manage to receive some emails. I configured my domain MX records correctly and then by opening port 25 on my VPS and having nginx stream that connection to Mailu I was able to receive email directly (yay!) but with one major problem: the source IP for all the connections were from my internal wireguard IP and not the actual public IP of the server sending me the email. This was a huge problem for my spam filter as it needs the source IP when trying to identify spam. The number of false positives just skyrocketed.
Issues with Proxy Forwarding
I am obviously not the first person to face this issue so I know that technically this can be configured correctly. The issues I am facing is that if I try and enable any of the proxy protocols in nginx to send the client IP in the header then Mailu spits an error (like 500 bad command) because we are interfering with the email protocol and the connecting server doesn't like that. I have tried changing settings in the Mailu reverse proxy but everything I have tried so far has no effect. Alternatively we can go up a level and use some IP forwarding rules to rewrite the destination IP of the incoming packets (maybe using iptables instead of nginx) and this will transparently preserve the 'from IP' packet header but then we need to setup my home server to relay everything back to the VPS otherwise the return packets will come from my home IP and not the VPS IP which will fail to correctly establish the connection. My current thinking is to create another wireguard client (in a container this time) that is part of the Mailu stack and that I can assign its own virtual NIC and IP address. Then I can bind port 25 to a unique IP and then have a routing rule to redirect all this traffic from that IP back to the VPS.
Cry for help:
How do I get this to work without breaking everything!? Have I made this more complicated than it needs to be? Have I just reached the edge of what these systems were deigned to do?
Thank you!
Just fill in this form – then the problems start. They look fine in Preview or another app, but don’t work right. Here’s why.
I was forced to fill out an XFA form (that was pretending to be a PDF) from the Canadian government and the experience left me feeling completely subjugated. The lengths that Adobe go to to make sure that you have the most frustrating experience possible is unbelieveable. Searching for alternatives or help leads you to either: be forced to buy their premium software (or a licensed equivalent) or subscribe for Adobe's online tools. Why is this propriety format allowed in government forms? What is so fantastic/irreplaceable about this format?
These are toys for kids but the original company made real vacuum cleaners that look almost identical: Henry (vacuum) From the wiki page: >Hetty HET200 - Short for Henrietta, pink "feminine" version of Henry, introduced on 7 July 2007 to be marketed towards women. Her face is different from all the other models' in having long eyelashes.
The connotation behind the word "criminal" has progressed as society has too. 'Criminal' used to and still does refer to those who performed inexcusable acts of legally unethical sin.
Is there really no alternative justice system than crime and punishment? Seems that punishments are taken for granted as necessary and that we only debate on the reason it is accepted.
Do you like hurting other people? Ten years later, it's probably the music that drove you to it, let's be honest.
Listend to the soundtrack recently but haven't played for a while......
