In a new study from Princeton University, scientists turned toward the humble oyster and its iridescent composite material nacre for design inspiration.

Matching the characteristics of nacre at the microscopic level, the researchers were able to increase the toughness of cement some 17 times, as compared to a cement block on its own.

I saw the image first without reading the title and was really scared thinking that it was some horrifying sous vide…

Honestly, I can’t make sense of it at all lol. Very neat to look at, but definitely intended for people in that particular field.

From the article about what is vulnerable:

For Linux systems, attackers need the target to be using a vulnerable 7-Zip version while extracting an archive format that supports symbolic links, such as ZIP, TAR, 7Z, or RAR files.

On Windows systems, additional requirements must be met for successful exploitation. The 7-Zip extraction process must have elevated privileges or operate in Windows Developer Mode to create symbolic links. This makes Windows systems somewhat less susceptible but not immune to the attack.

So Linux users would have to scan for symbiotic links beforehand, and Windows users just need to never run with elevated privileges, or scan beforehand if they do (I’m assuming that elevated privileges means “run as administrator”?)

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My guess, and confirmed by another comment, is that the ai only flags posts for review. Then the moderators have to manually check the post.

Honestly, it’s not a terrible use of AI in my opinion. Considering posts practically never change, they really only have to scan each post once. The mod can either flag it as safe or remove it. They are probably just running image and text pattern recognition on previously banned posts to flag newly submitted posts.

What is the range of a device like this? Is there any chance of using a mesh system like that if you’re not in a city? I’m about 30 miles away from a few towns, so there’s little chance for repeaters to be nearby.

After all the other comments and recommendations, I’ll likely do something like that. Haven’t looked up Reatic yet, but Tailscale looks to be what I need.

This will be for long term storage of files like family photos and document safe keeping, i.e. “let’s dump all our important files here so we don’t lose them”. Two people writing to the same file will practically never happen.

Our needs are flexible in terms of how the backup is performed in the technical sense, so I would imagine any of the feature rich NAS units can do what we need in some way or another.

I def need a massive drive just for me lol. I have multiple drives loaded full of files including an 8TB drive.

We will likely read data from every location. That way people can access the data at full speed using WLAN

I’ll keep Syncthing in mind.

I’ll probably go with an all in one NAS just to keep things simple for the less tech savvy people of my family.

There will probably be several pools. Each household will get a private pool. Then there will be a shared pool for stuff like family photos. Finally I’ll have the second drive as my own pool. So there will be 4-5 pools on the small drive.

Each NAS will be identical so all data is mirrored to each one. That way if a NAS dies or something worse happens like a house burning down, we won’t lose any files.

I’ll keep that in mind. Since you’ve pointed it out I can definitely see the technical difficulties of a system like that.

One thought I just had: could each individual NAS unit have its own 1:many? For example, the NAS in one house controls the backup for those people and the NAS in the second house controls the backup for them. That way each household can still access their own files through a wire if needed.

Having read some stuff on that drama, I got looking into Asustor NAS units. Their entry one looks perfect for our general use and has all the apps and features I think I could use.

That would be nice. Sadly, it doesn’t seem like there’s enough relevant people here on Lemmy to keep it active. At least not yet.

We want multiple devices so we can have extra backups of our important files. Power isn’t really a major concern since this will be mostly for long term storage.

Is Synology still a good option? I remember them getting some flack a bit ago. Something about hard drives I think?

I’ll kept a look out for deals like that.

I took a look at Nextcloud and really like it from a usability standpoint.

My question is what would my hardware options be? A form factor like the off the shelf NAS units is ideal since they will have to go on shelves next to the routers. If it was just me, a server rack would be fine, but I gotta keep it clean looking and on the smaller side. Also, I would like to keep the hardware price per house not much higher than the $300 range (excluding hard drives).