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It's a little disconcerting that the company that's trying to make an "ethical" GenAI does the best at deception and backstabbing.

Opus was lured in by the hope of a non-violent resolution. It was quickly betrayed and eliminated by o3, which went on to win.

This is a very recent thing I've had happening, presumably since an update. I will often have multiple FF windows open. In one of the windows, I'll suddenly not be able to place my cursor in the address bar on any tab. But other FF windows function fine. I have to close that window and start a new instance or drag a tab from a working window to another screen, then that will work fine for an unpredictable time.

I have no idea what specific thing I might be doing that touches this off, as far as I can tell I'm just browsing. I thought maybe I had a child dialog opening in a hidden window, but it must be hidden pretty good because I can't find it if I do.

Fedora Linux 42 KDE

Firefox 139.0

I listen to a lot of podcasts. I spend a pile of time where I need something to distract me and keep me awake, and I also just like podcasts. But there's a lot of podcasts, especially from sources like IHeartRadio, that have scads of annoying ads (mainly for other podcasts, which seems weird, but OK).

I had gotten to the point where subscriptions like Behind the Bastards just weren't worth listening to because the ads went on for like 5 minutes. I had to come up with something or drop them.

Enter Pinchflat. You can create a "Podcast" media source profile that's audio-only, and respects Sponsorblock. If you have a podcast that has a Youtube channel, you can pretty much eliminate ads this way. And Pinchflat makes an RSS feed that you can subscribe to in your favorite app like Antennapod to consume that feed. One thing I like to add to the Media Profile is to redownload after a day or two so it updates the Sponsorblock info that might not have existed if Pinchflat grabs the episode when it's very fresh.

Links:

Pinchflat Docker compose setup

Podcast RSS feeds (Ignore the reverse proxy if you already use an always-on VPN like Wireguard/tailscale or download your episodes while on your LAN)

The heroes at Sponsorblock and the other heroes that contribute timeblock entries

Donate on behalf of Pinchflat to Zakkarry, a collaborator that the developer of Pinchflat has identified as a good donation target, as well as the EFF.

I noticed this recently, and now if I hover or click the network icon on Plasma, I see all my docker bridge networks, not just the normal Wifi and wired networks available.

Why did those start to show up, and how do I get rid of them?

What do you use for Dmarc report processing? Looking to reduce the amount of reports I have to wade through but I don't want to miss failures, so I need some sort of alerting.

Self-hosted, of course.

I currently do a lot of my monitoring via MQTT for my solar system etc. I currently use MQTT Alert and set up my alerts to ring my phone at top volume until silenced. But I have missed more than one alert because I don't think the background agent is always active and it doesn't necessarily start when I reboot the phone. While the application does "monitor" the MQTT connection, it only makes a short sound if it drops, with no followup until you notice that there was a notification and go back into it to figure out why the connection is down.

Does anyone have foolproof way of getting things like security alerts that will always trigger on the phone, without having to check the phone 10 times a day to be sure the application is on and the connection is active?

Rauthy is a lightweight and easy to use OpenID Connect Identity Provider. It aims to be simple to both set up and operate, with very secure defaults and lots of config options, if you need the flexibility. It puts heavy emphasis on Passkeys and a very strong security in general. The project is written in Rust to be as memory efficient, secure and fast as possible, and it can run on basically any hardware. If you need Single Sign-On support for IoT or headless CLI tools, it's got you covered as well. You get High-Availability, client branding, UI translation, a nice Admin UI, Events and Auditing, and many more features. By default, it runs on top of Hiqlite and does not depend on an external database (Postgres as an alternative) to make it even simpler to operate, while scaling up to millions of users easily.