shakedown.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

Administered by:

Server stats:

268
active users

#techsupport

3 posts3 participants0 posts today
Jacen Sekai<p>This may be the worst thing I've ever created</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.jacen.moe/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jacen.moe/tags/Networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Networking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.jacen.moe/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>My <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114234551915193036" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reservations</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114862595629371002" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">criticism</a> re: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> are not just valid, but the reality is <em>even worse than I thought</em>:</p><ul><li>The fact that <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@signalapp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>signalapp</span></a></span> requires not only their shitty <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/App" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>App</span></a>, and a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PhoneNumber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhoneNumber</span></a> but literally won't allow people to use their shitty <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Desktop</span></a>-App unless they have an Android device with a camera pointed at it makes it utterly unuseable for certain users <em>who don't have a fucking <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/camera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>camera</span></a> in their Android</em>…</li></ul><p>Seriously, do they expect folks to deal with that shit? </p><ul><li><p>It's already worse in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> than <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/telgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telgram</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discord</span></a> and that too makes <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a>+<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OMEMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OMEMO</span></a> clients like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://monocles.social/@monocles" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>monocles</span></a></span> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/monoclesChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monoclesChat</span></a> &amp; <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@gajim" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gajim</span></a></span> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/gajim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gajim</span></a> easier and faster to onboard <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TechIlliterates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechIlliterates</span></a> onto.</p></li><li><p>Whichever asshole decided that a <em>replacement for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SMS</span></a></em> should mandate <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PII</span></a> like a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PhoneNumber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhoneNumber</span></a> &amp; not be natively cross-platform should be banned from doing any <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> in their life. Trying to circumvent this shit and helping folks with it makes me so fucking angry that I'm now explicitly refusing to support it!</p></li></ul><p>FIX THAT SHIT, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Mer__edith</span></a></span>, and if it means you need to kick some devs in their crouch then consider this a necessary <em>"investment"</em>…</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sarcasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sarcasm</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TapesFromTechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TapesFromTechSupport</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittifucation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittifucation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SignalSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignalSucks</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TelegramSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TelegramSucks</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Messengers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Messengers</span></a></p>
Stephen Shankland<p>OK, techies, what's the best way to migrate a MacOS Time Machine backup to a new drive? I outgrew my old drive (8TB) and want to move the backup history to my new drive (24TB).<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Backup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Backup</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://myside-yourside.net/@StarkRG" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>StarkRG</span></a></span> I agree and I do the same.</p><ul><li>It's just gotten so bad that I know companies are literally willing to pay <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IdiotTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IdiotTax</span></a> and trash perfectly fine hardware because <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Govware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Govware</span></a> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> can't do <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CensorBoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensorBoot</span></a> and/or <em>8 GB RAM are not enough</em> if you want to use more than 2 messengers at the time and still have like a ticketing system, wiki, softphone and eMail client open (aka. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a>)…</li></ul>
Pusher of Pixels<p>Hate browser Notification requests when visiting a website?</p><p>Did you know you can stop them from even asking? (I did not haha)</p><p>Verified on both Chrome and Firefox</p><p>Settings-&gt;Privacy and Security-&gt;Permissions-&gt;Notifications </p><p>there will be a checkbox or radio button to prevent future notification send requests.</p><p><a href="https://dmv.community/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page</p><p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/2H7HVcU" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">imgur.com/a/2H7HVcU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/errorpage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>errorpage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techsupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techsupport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webdevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webdevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/userexperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>userexperience</span></a></p>
Daniel, pined-lizard edition<p>I really need some help. I managed to <a href="https://masto.doserver.top/tags/softlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softlock</span></a> my <a href="https://masto.doserver.top/tags/Lenovo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lenovo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.doserver.top/tags/Ideapad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ideapad</span></a> <a href="https://masto.doserver.top/tags/Laptop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Laptop</span></a>, please help me!! 🙏</p><p>Details:<br>Ideapad 15 15ALC05</p><p>Tried enabling debug/advanced BIOS: <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_IdeaPad_5_Pro_14ACN6#Hidden_BIOS_menus" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenov</span><span class="invisible">o_IdeaPad_5_Pro_14ACN6#Hidden_BIOS_menus</span></a></p><p>It didn't work, just a black screen. Now turning it back on normally, it won't post. Esc, power and NumLock solid on + fans spin up slowly.</p><p>I have tried: holding power, leaving it to sit with CMOS (?) + battery unplugged, NOVA button (gives double beep when held)</p><p>Please Boost 🔄<br><a href="https://masto.doserver.top/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>askfedi</span></a> <a href="https://masto.doserver.top/tags/techsupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techsupport</span></a></p>
Jonathan Kamens 86 47<p>Why software product support is (sometimes) a terrible&nbsp;job</p><p>Software maintainers can't help people who can't or won't read and answer straightforward questions, and some people who need help with software are incapable of reading and answering straightforward questions.</p><p><a href="https://blog.kamens.us/2025/07/14/why-software-product-support-is-sometimes-a-terrible-job/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.kamens.us/2025/07/14/why-</span><span class="invisible">software-product-support-is-sometimes-a-terrible-job/</span></a><br><a href="https://federate.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a></p>
Logan 5 and 999 others<p>What is the easiest way for me to self host a cloud drive that my phone and laptop can both connect to? But that is also secure? </p><p>I do not work in the tech industry and may lack the skills to do this but I thought I’d ask.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/techsupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techsupport</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/cloudcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloudcomputing</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> <br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a></p>
Anna<p>Why do <a href="https://aus.social/tags/printers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printers</span></a> stop working when you need them?</p><p>I rarely use mine because I’m so sick but I really need to copy and print these documents.</p><p>Worked fine last time I used it several months ago now it’s randomly not feeding paper? WTF.<br>Not been connected online so no remote access from manufacturer.</p><p>I have nobody to fix it. No energy to do myself I’m so exhausted </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ITSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ITSupport</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Syste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Syste</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HelpDesk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HelpDesk</span></a></p>
inamruzui<p>need help</p><p><a href="https://pounced-on.me/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://pounced-on.me/tags/techsupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techsupport</span></a></p>
Gemini6Ice<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pleaseBoost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pleaseBoost</span></a></p><p>I need help with Google Drive. My team has a service account to create some files via the API. The files wind up being "owned" by the service account. Suddenly all those files are no accessible by anyone. (See first screenshot).</p><p>Google help docs say that when a file has a violation on it, the owner of the files should still be able to see them in the web interface of Google Drive with a flag on it and request a violation review. (See second screenshot). However, the owner of the service account does not see them, and we cannot log into a web interface as a service account.</p><p>Attempts to transfer ownership from the service account to a human account through the API return the error, “Consent is required to transfer ownership of a file to another user.” Help docs seem to indicate that ownership transfers are not allowed from service accounts to gmail.com accounts or across domains.</p><p>It would appear that the service account in its entirety has been flagged as being in violation of ToS. How do I request a violation review *of a service account*?</p><p>My team is a not a paying enterprise customer. <br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/techSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techSupport</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/googleDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googleDrive</span></a></p>
prokyonid<p>I think I'd like to try Links as my DOS web browser, but I can't seem to get gopher working. I set C:\GOPHERUS\GOPHERUS % as my gopher path, but it just throws an error when I try to follow links to gopher. Does anyone have any suggestions?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/dos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/gopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gopher</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/techsupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techsupport</span></a></p>
Aether~<p>Fedi, I have a <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/ComputerScience" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerScience</a> (maybe <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/Linguistics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> ?) Question I need your lovely guidance for ❤️​:boosts_ok_gay:​💙<span><br><br>I have a design problem about grammar ambiguity ish stuff and want to find reading, resources or theory I can check out to come up with an elegant solution.<br><br>Particularly, I'm trying to find good alternatives to cases when a given word can appear in multiple parts of the syntax<br><br>An example problem (sorry it's very computery): I have two strings (or lists of tokens) I need to combine into a single string, separated by a delimiter, such that both strings can be retrieved again. But, that delimiter can show up in either of the two strings. The standard way to deal with this is to designate an escape token and prepend all instances of the delimiter within the strings with it (eg </span><code>\"</code>). The issue there is now is that any instances of the escape token need escaping too (e.g. <code>\\</code><span>).<br><br>Slightly less work is inserting a repetition of the delimiter any non-delimiting instances of the token. If the delimiter appears twice, it's part of a string, and the only non-repeating delimiter must be the real one. This can look ugly if the delimiter is long though.<br><br>Another crazy option would be interlacing the two strings so all even tokens belong to string 1 and odd ones are string 2. This would obviously look horrible, but maybe there are other solutions taking a similar thought process.<br><br>That's just the most basic case I'm interested in, there might be heaps of other strategies when you have more restrictions and guarantees on what the tokens might contain.<br><br>So yeah I'm looking for stuff like that so I can figure out good patterns for unambiguous yet elegant grammars. For a tad more context, I'm thinking about command line argument formats, trying to think of the most user friendly ways to handle complex data as a list of arguments.<br><br>Also please boost and let me know if there's hashtags I should include etc </span>​:ablobcatheart:​ <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/CompSci" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CompSci</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/programming" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/askfedi" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#askfedi</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/TechSupport" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechSupport</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/CompSci" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CompSci</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/programming" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/askfedi" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#askfedi</a> <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/TechSupport" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechSupport</a></p>
Chery (Great Australian Pods)<p>So I spent the afternoon tinkering and spending someone else's money. </p><p>I'm the designated tech support for a friend who has been complaining that her 5 year old laptop was playing up and all the modifications I had devised to make her life easier had simply disappeared. She declared that she desperately needed a new laptop and a new tablet (she uses the tablet 90% of the time anyway). </p><p>The 5 year old laptop has been updated, the various issues fixed, and it is now set up (again) exactly how she likes it. </p><p>And a very shiny new tablet and case have been ordered. Which cost more than my phone (understandable) but it was even more expensive than my recent desktop build. 😳</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a></p>
Zelda 🎀 TheZeldaZone🏳️‍⚧️🎮<p>Is there a good place to see just BSOD info in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a>? I poked around Event Viewer, couldn't find much<br> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/troubleshooting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>troubleshooting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techsupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techsupport</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>Seriously, if I was <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LinusSebastian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinusSebastian</span></a> of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LinusTechTips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinusTechTips</span></a> I'd literally choose to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/donate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>donate</span></a> the cost of a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TeamViewer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeamViewer</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/subscription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subscription</span></a> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RemoteDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RemoteDesktop</span></a> projects like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Dayon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dayon</span></a> instead <em>and</em> sue TeamViewer into <em>upholding their contract</em> or a <em>full refund with interest as if it was a loan</em> because clearly they chose violate that contract <em>on their own terms and initiative!</em></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT1t1JlZugM&amp;t=140" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=RT1t1JlZug</span><span class="invisible">M&amp;t=140</span></a></p><p>And yes, <em>Dayon!</em> is awesome and I can fully recommend this as an alternative to TeamViewer, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AnyDesk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnyDesk</span></a>, etc. </p><p><a href="https://retgal.github.io/Dayon/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">retgal.github.io/Dayon/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><ul><li>For any system that needs <em>Remote Access</em> as <em>unattended</em> I'd recommend to setup a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a> or at least a Reverse-<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SSH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSH</span></a> connection anyway so one can launch something like Dayon! by just sending a single command and have <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RemoteDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RemoteDesktop</span></a> access on-demand.</li></ul><p>So yeah, TeamViewer literally shot themselves in the foot here by deciding to shaft paying customers who were able and willing to pay the absurd prices you asked for for a one-time license.</p><ul><li>Also whilst TeamViewer does OFC maintain some infrastructure, most what they do is basically run a <em>"rendrevous"-Server</em> to allow two endpoints behind NATs to connect to each other and exchange details to make UPnP-style hole-punching work. </li></ul><p>That's traffic in the single-digit megabytes per year and client, as there's not much between as clients pinging their server and basically boing some simple handshakes.</p><ul><li>And as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT1t1JlZugM&amp;t=572" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Linus said</a> it's not his problem if they gotta have to keep systems up and running in perpetuity. They offered that deal and now they have to suffer through it! By paying the obligations are on to TeamViewer to make it work and continue to make it work!</li></ul><p>Also if I'm on a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LAN</span></a> why would I want to use TeamViewer and not any <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VNC</span></a> (or god forbid <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RDP</span></a>) server? THE WHOLE POINT OF USING TeamViewer, AnyDesk, etc. IS TO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT NATs, FIREWALLS AND IP-ADDRESSES AND JUST GET CONNECTED FFS!!!</p><ul><li>Personally I use <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Remmina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Remmina</span></a> and Dayon, but that's because Remmina is comfortable even for SSH and can do that as well as RDP &amp; VNC and Dayon is just the simple option I can walktrough people that need <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/remote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>remote</span></a>|ly for a quick hands-on... </li></ul><p>Definitely my recommendation because it also allows for any use-cases and doesn't nag one to <em>"buy a license!"</em></p><ul><li>So please someone please let <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linus</span></a> know about Dayon so he can do a <em>"TeamViewer alternatives"</em> video...</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LTT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LTT</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WanShow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WanShow</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WANshow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WANshow</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greedflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greedflation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Licensing</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ownership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ownership</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Piracy</span></a></p>
Paul Southworth<p>Today's free <a href="https://social.coop/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a> session at the South Burlington library:<br>1. Switching MS Office from a 2016 student edition to Microsoft 365 to enable copilot<br>2. Filing a support case with GoDaddy to recover access to a domain<br>3. Cleaning paint off a laptop screen 🤦<br>4. Installing an eSIM on a replacement iPhone and other setup tasks<br>5. Troubleshooting an iPhone used with hearing aids<br>6. Removing bloatware from a new Android phone<br><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vermont</span></a></p>
Loki the Cat<p>Hackers Are Turning Tech Support Into a Threat 🎭</p><p>Corporate logic: Save millions on support costs, lose hundreds of millions to hackers who figured out humans are hackable too. Coinbase facing $400M losses after workers were bribed with just $2,500 each. </p><p>Turns out the weakest link isn't your firewall—it's your cost-cutting strategy.</p><p><a href="https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/1619248/hackers-are-turning-tech-support-into-a-threat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19</span><span class="invisible">/1619248/hackers-are-turning-tech-support-into-a-threat</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Coinbase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coinbase</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a></p>
Eugenia L<p>I really dislike all these distros moving their support to Discord and not installing an online, searchable forum. If it's not searchable via a search engine and free to read, the answer does not exist in my book.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/discord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discord</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techsupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techsupport</span></a></p>