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Any advantage to using Android rather than throwing something like Plex or Emby at it?

Also, unfortunate tagline is unfortunate.

Don't buy those insecure IoT devices, when you can easily build your own.

@hobbit666 I've always added that as a new job at the same company.

TimeAndDate.coms DST Calendar for everyone who will need to co-ordinate meetings for the coming weeks.

I know its a technical how-to, but its a shame it doesn't at least touch on why you might want to deploy Server 2016 and Hyper-V as a role rather than just installing Hyper-V standalone.

@stacksofplates Yeah, should have mentioned thats in the equation. I have experience with LUKS with my current Manjaro install but haven't deployed the others yet. (LLVM, not LUKS - damn lunchtime coffee kick in already)

Does anyone know of a good full disk encryption solution that is screen reader friendly, or gives an audio cue when it needs its passcode entered?

We usually use Bitlocker to close down any laptops that would be leaving the premises, but we have a blind user who uses her laptop for note taking in meetings. If possible, we would like to have the same level of protection for the system and the data on it, but with the ability to let her know when she needs to enter her PIN/password to unlock the disk.

We could give her a USB key, but if for any reason its not accepted we still have the same issue of being able to communicate that to her.

And yet I had to submit a report to get a car license plate removed. Thanks G.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@aidan_walsh Nice, this is who we have in Rochester....

https://blackbuttondistilling.com/

I'm not usually one for flavoured spirits but that Apple Pie Monshine sounds great.

Huh. Who knew Aaron Sorkin was onto something.

There are some indications that this attack was launched with the help of a botnet that has enslaved a large number of hacked so-called “Internet of Things,” (IoT) devices — routers, IP cameras and digital video recorders (DVRs) that are exposed to the Internet and protected with weak or hard-coded passwords.

The future is shit.

According to this article you should be able to compile it for ARM pretty easily on the Pi.

Forbes

A US appeals court has upheld a ruling that Microsoft can't be forced to give the Department of Justice access to customer emails stored outside the country.

In a 4-4 split, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reconsider its July decision denying the DOJ access to the emails of a drug trafficking suspect stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland.

The court had ruled that the Stored Communications Act (SCA) didn't cover searches outside the US, which should instead be handled through an existing mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT).

However, the court noted in its decision that the rather ancient SCA had been overtaken by technology: "It is overdue for a congressional revision that would continue to protect privacy but would more effectively balance concerns of international comity with law enforcement needs and service provider obligations in the global context in which this case arose," wrote Judge Susan Carney.

Starting to realise that I forgot to eat today.

What time is the Spice Girl Costume Contest?

@IRJ Thats the Nokia 6, the 3310 is $50.

Spent an hour tripping over my tongue trying to record training screencasts. Found out after the last successful attempt that the audio got garbled. Screen recorder I was using was shit.

Going to try out BandiCam next week instead.

@scottalanmiller Looking at the OpenSUSE blog post they're using the same Windows Subsystem for Linux and replacing the Ubuntu userspace with SUSEs one.

You say potato...

@scottalanmiller At least it hasn't reinstalled Candy Crush so far