the first paragraph is not like in the post. did they rephrase it because of the “as it does” part?

this is the current version:

Tailscale recently announced our Series C fundraise. We were grateful for all the community support, but the Internet also raised a few of its collective eyebrows, wondering whether this meant the dreaded “enshittification” was coming next.

the internet archive does not show your version either: https://web.archive.org/web/20250702140430/https://tailscale.com/blog/evitability-of-enshittification

where did you get that quote from?

This theory is based on my understanding that computers don’t go all the way to sleep anymore and reenabling S3 restores normal sleeping.

yeah, now that you say that is probably most laptops in the last few years. but I don’t think desktops do it. wrong, even my 4+ years old pc motherboard supports it according to /sys/power/mem_sleep

I wanted to say this is not how it works:

My pet theory is that a lot of systems are constantly looking at what is active on the network and those pings are keeping the machine awake.

or if you meant that, computers are normally not pingable when they are asleep. net adapters only wake the computer when seeing a magic packet with their mac address in it, and it is the operating system that receives the ping request and decides to send back a ping response.

an exception is when it is set up to wake on some network traffic pattern, but few net adapters support that mode of operation

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wake-on-LAN#Enable_WoL_on_the_network_adapter

as I heard that’s pretty common at oracle, but it’s good to spread the word

its not the system that handles wol, it doesn’t need to ping anything. even the net adapter doesn’t need to do that

the config and databases or the media, you mean?

if so, the former, but I mount the meadia with a read only docker volume just to be sure, because chances are I would never notice it

well there’s lots of wasted space where the vacuum bag is empty

ok, but this does not help when the connector is vertical, like on the back of a PC, and often the front too. which side is “up”, left or right? on this particular product, of course.

and then comes when you cant see the connector while trying to plug it in.

I have a satellite tracker for when I want to contact radio sats,

which one do you use? can it show where is it on a camera background?

you must have lots of LoTs

wpa2, but password limited to 10 characters. letters and numbers only, trying anything else crashes it, and you have to figure this out yourself

ok, a backdoor then. can they overwrite any file with it?

with properly limited access the breach is much, much less likely, and an update bringing down an important service at the bad moment does not need to be a thing

it’ll still cause downtime, and they’ll probably have a hard time restoring from backup for the first few times it happens, if not for other reason then stress. especially when it updates the wrong moment, or wrong day.

they will leave vulnerable, un-updated containers exposed to the web

that’s the point. Services shouldn’t be exposed to the web, unless the person really knows what they are doing, took the precautions, and applies updates soon after release.

exposing it to the VPN and to tge LAN should be plenty for most. there’s still a risk, but much lower

“backups with Syncthing”

Consider warning the reader that it will not be obvious if backups have stopped, or if a sync folder on the backup pc is in an inconsistent state because of it, as errors are only shown on the web interface or third party tools

that’s horrible and funny at the same time.

I will assume they fixed that vuln later

that’s probably way too much for any sane Python algorithm. if they can’t run it, how do they even know how much is needed?

Probably they should only make a prototype in Python, and then reimplement it in a compiled language. it should reduce the resource usage massively

also competent assholes are less likely to change the world for the better

how do you know it’s working if you can’t connect?

if you run the server on your computer, did you set up the port forwarding? does it work if you just connect to localhost, or the local ip of that computer?

Edit: 🤔 what happens if I try to subscript a superscripted emoji?^

this:

Never thought of ^{super/subscripting_an_emoji_😎_~👽~}

but spaces break the superscript so you have to use something else for it

you can delete the calendaring and contacts apps