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There was an article here about one of the companies doing this, basically one of the methods is having apps on people’s smart TVs or phones that scrape the web in the background and upload to a control server. So it’s a person’s genuine device in a genuine residence in some cases.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/free-apps-are-quietly-turning-smart-tvs.html

Proof of stability!

Transcoding media is great for saving space. My server has but a humble ancient 1TB hard drive (shared with other storage uses). From a DVD (mpeg2), an episode of this one TV show is 1.6-1.8 GB. After transcoding to AV1, it’s 200-400 MB, and I can’t tell the difference in quality. (consider that’s per episode so over an entire series that’s many GB of space saving!)

I use Veronica Explains’ helpful HandBrake guide, she provides some settings for AV1, which work very well for me (I just saved it as a new preset).

https://vkc.sh/handbrake-2025/

And you can do batches of files by opening a directory and adding all. I haven’t tried OP’s tool so I don’t know how it compares to HandBrake, but that works fine for my use case.

on any server with ssh exposed you’ll probably see a bunch of login attempts in the logs (automated attacks trying to find machines with a weak password). only keys is the way lol.

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I’d recommend using “password” as your password and “root” for the username. Attackers have a lot of stuff going on! Don’t make their job all complicated, make it easy to remember.

Older operating systems like a really old Linux distro or Windows XP are the best, since their performance requirements are a lot lower, giving better overhead for the crypto miners that will be installed. Modern OSs waste resources on security features and such.

oh boy. What a distinction, to have so many bad commits reverted that you derail a major project for months cleaning up after you.

Move using the number pad.

Your keyboard doesn’t have one? Sounds like a you problem.

Thanks for the explanation!

yeah… I’ve been wanting to upgrade home WiFi and the markups suck.

There were some rumors of an “OpenWRT Two” with WiFi 7, sometime mid-2026, but idk if those are credible so take with a pound of salt.

I hope they do come out with it, since WiFi 7 would be cool, and I hope it can stay at a reasonable price (though with the DRAM market explosion I doubt this).

Early research results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qbylbEek-M

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sounds like the SharePoint one of my previous employers used. Now, SharePoint supports folders! but, using it through Teams, like everyone did, with tens of thousands of files haphazardly vomited onto it randomly, meant that Teams literally can’t load the file list fast enough. So, again all information goes there to die.

It was not nice.

To elaborate a bit: what that function does (well, tries to do - it has serious limitations, which is why there is only one caller remaining and that one is used only when nothing else can access the filesystem anymore) is “kill given dentry, along with all its children, all their children, etc.”

I sincerely doubt that you will be able to come up with any word describing such action in any real-world context that would not come with very nasty associations.

I feel like there could have been better names possible… d_recursive_kill perhaps? I’m certainly not an expert in this system but I find it challenging to believe that “genocide” was the only word that is adequately descriptive of the functionality.

In fact, I’d argue it’s not that descriptive, given that genocide involves targeting some group of people based on some trait, like race, culture, disability, etc. - based on the description “kill given dentry, along with all its children, all their children, etc.” that doesn’t seem to fit…

perhaps I’m overthinking.

I am not sure lol. perhaps your ssh port isn’t exposed to the internet, or maybe the bots are just ignoring you? maybe your hosting provider has some sort of security process to reject those attempts preemptively?

I have no clue

so fun to look through the ssh log and see hundreds of attempts…

noooooo!

it seems like the brick walls in my case really impede signal. connection across the sides of the chimney, which is brick, seem to suffer a lot.

Oooh, they work with it? … my family still has these as actual WiFi routers. the coverage kinda sucks.

From what I can see, the GNU Compiler Collection supports this flag, so you can still build it with 100% free software.

Basically, it’s just behavior that doesn’t align with the C standard, but was introduced by MS. Then, GCC added a compiler flag which makes it behave like that, so that you can build code that requires that behavior.

It doesn’t seem to actually be dependent on MS, rather it’s named after them because it emulates the way their compiler works. I hope no Linux maintainers would entertain the idea of making it dependent on a non-free compiler.

I would love if my laptop had a numpad lol. The only downside is if it crowds the keyboard to be smaller than my hands.