I am extremely concerned about the new laws that are going to require ID to use any operating system. I know there is an exception for FOSS at the moment, but the phase 2 plans to deny access to web services for unverified devices would essentially make that exception useless.

I’ve been thinking hard about everything my home server connects to, and it isn’t looking good. How will I pull containers from GitHub or DockerHub when those sites will undoubtedly be subject to the same verification rules? How is SearXNG going to work when my users searches are tied to my identity? Put simply, how are we going to get around this as a community?

Ideas I’ve had:

1. Hire an anonymous person and use their identity. Problem: if they commit a crime, the authorities could think it was me, and if I’m suspected of a crime, they could be in trouble.
2. Figure out a way to route services through a virtual Windows 95 machine since many ATM’s run on that and maybe there would be an exception for them. Problem: my gut tells me that they would also be blocked and that ATM’s make direct connections separate from traditional web services.
3. VPN to the safest country possible during setup and pretend to be in a region that doesn’t require identification. Problem: even if the country doesn’t require it, it doesn’t mean that the OS company won’t require it.
4. Move to a more reasonable country and go full FOSS for the rest of my life. Problem: leaving everything I know behind and still potentially have blocked access to some sites that deliver FOSS software.

That’s pretty much it. Moving seems like the option with the greatest possibility of success, but it comes at a huge cost. I’d need to change jobs and start my life all over, but on the other hand, my home server is the only thing that makes my poverty tolerable here. If I lose that, then I have literally nothing to do but read books and wait to die.

So, with humility and anxiety, I come to you, my friends with bigger brains than me. What are we going to do? How are we going to remain private and free? What is your personal plan because I’m drawing blanks and starting to feel like everything I’ve ever believed in is crumbling around me.

Thank you for any advice or theories on how to navigate this paradigm shift. I never would have thought, when I first fired up Netscape and got connected to the whole world, that it would come to this before the end of my lifetime.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54393323

(German, 1863-1906)

Sophie Sperlich was a well-known artist in Munich, her home town. Although not much information is available about her, she was a popular artist painting both dogs and cats. Her paintings are in the same style as those of Julius Adam and Henriette Ronner-Knip. Many of her works were used as postcard illustrations.

More cats: https://artvee.com/artist/sophie-sperlich/

I am having issues passing through my new GPU to my Windows 11 VM. I previously had another AMD GPU hooked up to this same VM without issue. The new 9070 GPU will display the Proxmox terminal just fine, so I'm relatively sure there is no defect with the device.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
GPU: AMD RX 9070 XT
MB: NZXT N7 B550
PWR: 850 Watt

IOMMU: Enabled
Above 4G Decoding: Enabled
Re-Size Bar Support: Enabled

When I try to start the VM, I get this error:

error writing '1' to '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:08:00.0/reset': Inappropriate ioctl for device
failed to reset PCI device '0000:08:00.0', but trying to continue as not all devices need a reset
swtpm_setup: Not overwriting existing state file.
kvm: vfio: Unable to power on device, stuck in D3
kvm: vfio: Unable to power on device, stuck in D3
TASK OK

Device:

08:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 48 [RX 9070/9070 XT] [1002:7550] (rev c0) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: XFX Limited Device [1eae:8811]

/etc/default/grub:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR='lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian'
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet amd_iommu=on iommu=pt rd.driver.pre=vfio-pci kvm.ignore_msrs=1 vfio-pci.ids=1002:7550,1eae:8811 disable_vga=1 disable_idle_d3=1"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

/etc/modules:

vfio
vfio_iommu_type1
vfio_pci
vfio_virqfd

/etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf:

options vfio-pci ids=0000:08:00.0,0000:08:00.1
options kvm ignore_msrs=1
options vfio-pci ids=1002:7550,1eae:8811 disable_vga=1 disable_idle_d3=1
softdep radeon pre: vfio vfio_pci

VM.conf: I downloaded and added the ROM to the VM configuration file.

hostpci0: 0000:08:00,pcie=1,x-vga=1,romfile=9070xt.rom

At this point I feel totally lost in the weeds, and would greatly appreciate any help that could point me in the right direction to fix this. Thanks!

UPDATE: the error message changed somewhere between updating the BIOS and removing the rom entry from the vm.conf.

error writing '1' to '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:08:00.0/reset': Inappropriate ioctl for device failed to reset PCI device '0000:08:00.0', but trying to continue as not all devices need a reset swtpm_setup: Not overwriting existing state file.
kvm: ../hw/pci/pci.c:1654: pci_irq_handler: Assertion `0 <= irq_num && irq_num < PCI_NUM_PINS' failed. stopping swtpm instance (pid 10043) due to QEMU startup error TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1

I’m trying to set up a streaming server on a VPS. I’m using OBS Studio and MistServer in a Debian docker container with noVNC access to control it.

MistServer is supposed to be able to detect a stream on the local network and then create a custom RTMP key so that it can be passed to OBS studio and then streamed to multiple platforms simultaneously.

I was thinking that I could use Tailscale to create a virtual network, and that should connect the camera to MistServer. If I do that, could I just use the Tailscale IP as the RTMP IP address and then have it treat the camera as if it is on a local network?

Essentially:

Camera wired to iPad > Tailscale > MistServer > OBS Studio > Multiple Streaming Platforms

Is there some better way to do this that I’m totally missing?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Edit: to clarify, I’m talking about a livestream of my own live content that I create, not a Plex stream of media or anything.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/43902681

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40347903

Saint Jerome as the Representation of Melancholy - Farrukh Beg (1615)

Farrukh Beg (Persian: فرخ بیگ; c. 1547 – after 1615), also known as Farrukh Husayn, was a Persian miniature painter, who spent a bulk of his career in Safavid Iran and Mughal India, praised by Mughal Emperor Jahangir as "unrivaled in the age."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrukh_Beg

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/14301149

Hello Lemmy!

I have moved to a walkable area and no longer need to have my car keys on me all the time. My landlord has put in a crappy 4 digit combination style door lock, but said I could change it.

What is the best kind of keyless door lock that I can use instead? Ideally one with decent enough security to be as good or better than a key?

Thanks for your input!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16769691

Cat peeking out of a Nazi Sd.Kfz.222 armored car, date unknown, Interwar or WW2-era