Jailbreak a Nixplay W10P Photo Frame

I own an older Nixplay W10P frame from 2023 which, despite having gigabytes of free space, will no longer accept new photos due to recent mandatory changes in the Nixplay’s terms of service. I’m not opposed to a company charging for services but their reasoning of “rising storage and bandwidth costs” is unconvincing given both have declined significantly in recent years. It’s reasonable to speculate that the next update will continue to erode the reasons I chose the frame in the first place. Who wants to bet it will be something to do with AI?

Bowser in his Koopa Clown Car

Mozilla Accounts password hashing upgrades

We’ve recently finished two significant changes to how Mozilla Accounts handles password hashes which will improve security and increase flexibility around changing emails. The changes are entirely transparent to end-users and are applied automatically when someone logs in.

PyFxA 0.7.9 Released

We released PyFxA 0.7.9 last week (pypi). This added:

Using Borg on TrueNAS

I installed TrueNAS a couple months ago to try out ZFS. It has some simple backup options built-in but I didn’t see any encrypted options. Since I use Borg elsewhere I thought this was a good opportunity to figure out how to put it on TrueNAS. TrueNAS is based on Debian, but relying on direct package installations isn’t recommended so I needed another option.