I use Nginx Proxy Manager and whitelist my remote users. They all have static IPs though, so its a workable solution for me.

Before I used a whitelist I would go through the access logs, and could never find any attempts to exploit the endpoints - only some random bots trying to find some admin page assuming it was another service. Not saying you shouldn’t take it seriously, but you are likely not subject to these attacks the moment you expose it.

That said, there is a discussion about these endpoints on their repo. At some point they will be fixed (my impression is that they are hampered by legacy Emby code). When they do, you could do this more securely.

Oh yeah, then that is how it really is. The script runs fine, the output is correctly piped, but it is just the signal handling that doesn’t work.

But I don’t actually know what the new behavior is. I think it is that it never receives a termination signal, and is then just killed instead, and if that is the case, how can I modify it do catch that?

What I intend to do tomorrow is to rewrite all the output (which I had hoped to avoid having to do for this) to write directly to a log file instead of trying to capture the print statements for this initially “only-meant-for-me” piece of code. That way I won’t have to do anything but run the Python script and it should receive the termination signal as intended. But as I said, I would still like to understand what is going on.

I am actually used to the company buying you a phone that you use as a personal device, but must then be enrolled in Intune or something similar. It is considered a perk of the job, and a taxable one at that. So the saving is not as obvious in this case.

Yeah, as far as I am concerned, there’s a direct conflict of interest between myself and my company when it comes the usage of a device that doubles as a personal and professional device. I understand the company’s need to take measures to control sensitive information, and when I do whatever I do on my spare time, I am unnecessarily (from the point of view of the company) endangering the information I have access to. And because of the safe-guards they put in place, they are taking an unacceptable amount of control of a device I keep my personal sensitive data.

Because of this I find it a bit baffling that BYOD ever became accepted practice, both from the employer’s side and the employee’s side.

What is FDE?

EDIT: Full-disk encryption?

I have a separate, company-issued phone that is used exclusively for work related activities and that is not even connected to my home network.

This looks really cool! Thanks for the share

I was recently introduced to this and I am very glad I found it. I was once recommended it, but then I thought they meant to attach a physical screen to my headless server…

I use this for archiving news and magazine articles as well (with snapshots), sorted on topic so that I 1) might be able to remember where I read something and easily find an article again if I discuss it with someone and 2) have a good starting point for researching something I don’t have time for or the will for now.

I have set up the file sync on a self-hosted WebDAV server as well as it quickly racks up storage space with all those snapshots and you fairly quickly reach the top tier storage plan they offer.

Zotero 7 brought some good UI improvements, but it is really resource heavy (at least on Linux). A CLI-interface as was mentioned under here would be interesting.

You should be able to achieve that with scrcpy (at least with Android). Never got around to test it myself, so I can’t vouch for how well it works though. My usecase for it died with installing a mini-PC in my living room, and now it would only be a curiosity for me.

I still struggle to get Heroic to install pretty much anything, while Lutris usually works. I would want to use Heroic, but a prerequisite is that installed games actually launch and I have yet to understand why they don’t…

While most of my library is pirated, I make it a point to buy directly from the artists whenever possible - whether that’s digital downloads, vinyl, or merch, direct support goes much further than streaming services ever will.

You might already do this, but I’d suggest to further prioritize buying from up and coming and independent artists. You don’t need to support whatever random person/corporation owns the rights to the discography of a dead musician unless you have a compelling reason to so, and you don’t have to deepen the pockets of already loaded superartists/bands. Is there a Bandcamp Friday coming up, then you can wait until then to make sure a larger chunk of your money goes directly to those who made the music.

Oh boy, I can see I really need to get my dashboard game together.

The market for local beef is an oligopoly with only a few buyers, so it’s easy for them to manipulate the price

That’s an oligopsony, not an oligopoly which would have only a few sellers.

If you installed Steam from the software manager in Mint, you might have downloaded the Flatpak. Flatpaks are a particular way of distributing software which have their own pros and cons vs other ways of installing software, and you will eventually see many people hold strong feelings about this topic (whether or not to use them for instance).

But for now, in order to quickly check whether Steam is installed this way, you can install Flatseal through the software manager. Flatseal provides a GUI for efficient permissions management of Flatpaks. When you open it, it will display all software on your system that is installed in this manner. If Steam is listed there, then you have installed it has a Flatpak. You can then edit the permissions and try to set GPU Acceleration to allowed and see if that helps. If not, you have a different issue.

And for the record, using Flatseal is not a requirement for managing permissions of Flatpaks. You can do that through the command line as well. But it is indeed a quality of life improvement for me at least.

Are you running games via Flatpaks and have not given the Flatpak permission to use GPU acceleration? That has severly slowed down games on my similar AMD-based Minisforum PC. If you are, you can use Flatseal to easily adjust settings.

I’d think enrollment rates would be a severe lagging indicator of education quality. Institutions could likely coast on reputation for quite some time after education quality tanks. Inertia is powerful, and some could even knowingly decide to go to poor educational institutions just for the status it still gives among peers and in their community.

That said, I have no first hand experience with US higher education, and wouldn’t know what the quality really is, just saying that enrollment rates probably aren’t a great indicator of it.

Oh, the name Longhorn unlocked some memories just now…

User replaceable batteries are a part of the new battery directive and will be in force from sometime in 2027 if I recall correctly.