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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Way ahead of ya. Graphene is mostly working well. Some small issues like MitId not working due to Play Integrity but hopefully the UnifiedAttestation and focus on removing big tech dependence will solve that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta Philip soon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve passed €2.5/l in Denmark. I suspect we’ll hit the infamous 20 DKK/l next week. I think it was during the full-scale invasion that gas stations rushed to replace their price counters since they could only go up to 19.99 and now we’re about to hit those prices twice in less than 5 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw that on an app about a year ago. I’ve never uninstalled an app that fast before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s that smell in the air? Is it the smell of Schadenfreude?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could learn to imitate the art "style" of AI slop, and it would be one of the most difficult skills to learn while also being one of the least rewarding ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the shrooms just kicked in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  By the next frame I’m pretty sure she’s already halfway into her jump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🚀 Statistics for Strava v4.7.0 released! Dark mode & Milestones timeline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s simply not true. The Decathlon HRM Band for example connects to virtually everything that can understand a generic HRM over BLE. And limited in what sense? It’s either sending a heart rate or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🚀 Statistics for Strava v4.7.0 released! Dark mode & Milestones timeline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenTracks has integrations with several HR BLE trackers: codeberg.org/…/README_TESTED_SENSORS.md

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🚀 Statistics for Strava v4.7.0 released! Dark mode & Milestones timeline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenTracks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I saw a turd on my way home from work!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s sunburst orange!” -Clarkson

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I have an entire laptop for. I call it the Dust Collector. It’s sole purpose is to collect dust and maybe once or twice a year be ready for a proctored exam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I said that Wikipedia should take it seriously and rip off the bandaid as quick as possible when the DDoS’s started, a few didn’t believe me when I said there was no reason to trust the content anymore if archive[.]today decided malicious activity using their traffic was okay. The owner’s ehtics (or lack thereof) showed that nothing stopped them from maliciously altering the content either, making any reason to hang on to the archive site null and void.

  To those people doubting my perspective: Called it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You NEED To Selfhost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The SSDs are definitely weirder than they are spinny but otherwise it depends. A 7200RPM weird spinny thing is for example more spinny than a 5400RPM but if you take 3 of the 5400RPM in a RAID, then the spinnines is aggregated, making it more spinny than a 7200RPM. But in doing so, you are multiplying the weirdiness, making it exponentially more weird than a single 7200RPM weird spinny thing. This has to do with how the weirdiness particles flow between the spinny things to make sure that you’ll always be able to recover the weirdiness of one of the spinny things from the other spinny things in case of an untimely demise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You NEED To Selfhost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • NAS: A weird spinny thing where you store your data. Both over the network.
  • RAID: Multiple weird spinny things working together to recover the lost data if one of the weird spinny things dies.
  • SSD: A weird spinny thing that doesn’t spin. Currently prohibitively expensive, so can be ignored.
  • SMB: A language that computers use to share files from the weird spinny things or printers with each other.
  • ZFS: A method that your computer uses to keep track of how and where your files are on the weird spinny things.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When Trump threatened tariffs I went ahead and bought 50 TB of storage. With my then expansion it would easily last me until the end of Trump’s turn and maybe a decade if I rationed.

  Turns out that was one of my best calls of judgements to date, just not for the reason I thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re currently using waste heat in Denmark from data centres (and other industry including power plants, CHP - Combined Heat & Power) in district heating. Heat up the water and pump it down pipes to people’s homes.

  My home is for example heated up primarily by a cement factory, a CHP plant, and a waste incinerator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use the garden hose like a civilized human being⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  pebis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  at least unless you look at the actual sources submitted

  You can’t check the source for information that’s entirely been omitted. In any case, never assume Wikipedia provides the full story, or even a condensed and accurate one. What has been mentioned might be correct, but the devil is in what’s been left out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, Google was supposed to be named Googol, but the guy who were tasked with ordering the domain name misunderstood. As history would tell, they just decided to stick with Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “As quickly as possible” pulls a lot of weight in my statement. Just like when the EU is trying to cut our dependence with US payment providers, Wikipedia can’t do it overnight. The best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago, the next best time is right now.

  Cutting ties with archive[.]today takes a long time, but the longer the decision to cut it takes, the longer to the ties are actually cut. It’s all about “make haste slowly”, ie. do a lot of planning on how to actually cut the ties with minimal impact so you can do it when forced to (for example if FBI were to take the servers one day) or when you decide that the independence from archive[.]today is more valuable than the remaining impact of cutting dependence. This could take half a year, a year, or more.

  But indecision will at some point put you in a worse position: You are funneling your traffic to a malicious website that actively participates in DDoS attacks by using users’ traffic (including those coming from Wikipedia) to carry out the attack. Indecision can open you up to serious litigation and reputational damage by proximity. Given that archive[.]today crossed the line to malicious activity by misusing their traffic, what’s to stop them from malicious activity by misusing their content? IMO even if you think the integrity of your content and its sources are too valuable (and trust me, I think it’s very valuable) you need to consider this as a warning sign and realise that nothing’s stopping archive[.]today from losing the editorial integrity that you rely on.

  So my suggestion, brainstorm ideas that would make you independent: Make agreements with IA to improve retention, roll your own archiver, make a deal with news orgs to show their articles as citations (this last one I actually like most the more I think about it. A good negotiator can call it advertising for the news org and you’ll at the same time not infringe on copyright like archive[.]today is). If you wait until point of no return, the choice has already been made for you whether you like it or not. And worst part is that you’d scramble to find a solution instead of the best solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really see it as a complicated issue. Archive[.]today is now an unreliable source that uses its user traffic to engage in malicious activities. By using it, Wikipedia will become unreliable by proxy.

  The best course of action is to distance yourself from it as quickly as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me after too long of a nap⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hate to break it to you all, but she just woke up after a nap. The reason she’s that groggy-looking is that she was in the process of shedding her winter coat.

  Oh, and I never knew white brown bears existed. That was primarily the reason for hunting down the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me tell you about the wonders of DSB. You expect a train and lo and behold, it’s a “train bus”!

  If I have to take the “train” anywhere the next 4 months I need to take one of those infamous “train busses”

  But hey, at least the trains are working and on time when there’s not construction work? Think again! That is the time for signaling errors, brakes that fall off the trains, or leaves on the track! And guess what that means? More train busses!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure it was yesteryear that all the kids were hazardously catching Pokémon outdoors while staring blindly into their phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the fuck does a game require boot protection!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kitchen knifes are also infamously not dishwasher safe. Mine’s got wooden handles but they were slightly worn from not drying them immediately when handwashing. Ever since I got a dishwasher I chugged them in there and they have survived without any more damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mafs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  About 185. Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mafs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And 40th of August.

  Wait…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So just like M365 Copilot (actual name for the office app).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes it do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m currently hearing some doctors talking about “never have I ever seen!”, “this is highly improbable…”, “how are you not dead!?”

  I mean, I don’t think it’s supposed to bleed down there. And definitely not in those volumes. But it was a good kind of pain.