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- Comment on YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg 18 hours ago:
The correct way to hardboil eggs is actually to steam them, which is what the majority of the world does (have you ever seen someone selling hardboiled eggs? They are usually in a steam container). If you time it right, you don’t even need the ice bath to achieve an easy peel egg (though this takes practice lol).
Boiling is just a alternative method that is slightly less effective but very common because not everyone keeps a steamer basket at home.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 18 hours ago:
Jack Dorsey
Go back to sleep, dude has jumped on every consumer trend ever since he left Twitter. AI content is not even a core issue of current social media platforms, despite its overwhelming popularity and loads of posts.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 1 day ago:
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 1 day ago:
Look at this guy using btrfs like a normal chump. Real men yolo XFS with no backup and spam duperemove for the 10% faster performance.
Now to run xfs_repair real quick after my power outage…
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
They said they went LCD because of the light loss due to the lenses.
I dunno if they could implement a controlled backlit array + high constrast panel layer at that scale, but it would be killer if they did and made it seem 80% like a real OLED.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 5 days ago:
It takes a little more effort to setup, but the alternative to syncing a local keystore db like KeePassXC would be vaultwarden, which is a self hosted open source Bitwarden server that gives you all the features of Bitwarden and has full compatibility with all the clients.
Spinning it up is actually very easy, you just have to decide if you want to integrate SSL via a reverse proxy setup or just use the builtin webserver for HTTPS.
- Comment on Aeroplane 5 days ago:
Me flipping on reverse thrust and parking brake before touching the ground in FSX because I’m like 100 kts above the landing speed
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 1 week ago:
This actually reminded me of an actual instance of this I discovered for a family member.
Their 2.4Ghz devices would just randomly drop connections at seemingly random times, and changing the router didn’t fix anything.
So I fired up bettercap to take a look, and lo and behold it was a GE “smart” oven that would spam advertise its SSID with beacon frames on an interval and would block traffic because all the other devices would see a busy channel.
The funniest thing is said family member specifically decided against using the oven wifi feature because he already knew it was not going to be useful or even reliable, but he had no idea the wifi feature was left on which was causing all the packet drops.
Upon further investigation, we realized he actually did turn it off, but because the tap button was basically at elbow height, it was super easy to accidentally bump and flick back on.
Conclusion is that some GE ovens double as a crappy WiFi jammer lmao.
- Comment on The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size. 1 week ago:
Damn I was actually gonna add more context to my original comment about how QUIC is an overrated in place UDP upgrade for HTTP, but I didn’t wanna open my mouth because I haven’t read the QUIC spec.
Thank you for this lol
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Sliding windows are for losers, spam packets at gigabit rates or go home /s
- Comment on The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size. 1 week ago:
I need a CDN free single GET request club
- Comment on The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size. 1 week ago:
Something something QUIC something something
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 1 week ago:
If you want the meta search functionality, you should try out SearXNG, which os nasically self hosted poor man’s Kagi lol
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 2 weeks ago:
Couldn’t you just lazy build your own images if you don’t trust the source?
Even then most of these containerized apps can be run perfectly fine as a host binary, you just have to make your own start script and a systemd unit which isn’t that bad.
You could then build a completely custom image if you’d like, or move it into a VM if you don’t like the idea of running it baremetal.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 2 weeks ago:
How does it compare to Photoprism? Been on that solution for a while and I really like it, but have seen lots of people suggest Immich as well.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 weeks ago:
gg ez ease of use feature, which is hilarious because that’s exactly where smishing attacks come in. People are actually more willing to give out the OTP than their actual password, so it definitely less secure.
I think this started out as a decently good idea, like sign in with a device type of feature (think QR code from an authenticated device), but then along the way someone just went “screw it” and changed it to an OTP.
Even in 2025 password managers are rare, people still reuse the same 8 character password everywhere, and people fall for low effort scams. So someone thought “if they’re gonna be insecure anyway, lets just make it so they never have to use a password and sync it to their phone or email”.
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 2 weeks ago:
TP-Link is excellent for cheap switching hardware which a ton of vendors overprice for the same quality. Its your OG made in China deal that works pretty well for the price.
Otherwise, you should skip it as a router and instead opt for either a better AIO, or put in the 2 minutes of extra effort to get a cheap ethernet router and a separate AP because AIOs are still overrated in 2025 for the price per quality.
Not to mention that 5 GHz channels are getting clogged these days even on the DFS channels which people shouldn’t be using all the time. I know its not possible for a lot of people, but you’re really better off on even bargain basement maximum cheapo Cat-5e cables.
Gb WiFi speeds and MuMIMO not gonna matter when you have CSMA/CA throwing a metric ton of RTS and CTS packets causing increasing amounts of retries as you add stations.
Probably worst scenario is if you’re living in an apartment surrounded by like 30 stations within range. No amount of 802.11 magic is gonna give you a stable connection.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 2 weeks ago:
Finally we can view Mojang’s shitty server multi-threading implementation in all its glory.
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- Comment on PC Master Race 2 weeks ago:
$400 console
The only thing that qualifies is an Xbox series S, even Switch 2 is $450 lmao.
Even funnier when you consider “PC” consoles like Steam Deck or Legion which gives you a even wider access to games, including exclusives thanks to emulation.
Hell Sony and Microsoft gave up on the console exclusive system because PC & Steam demonstrated the expanded market is worth the tradeoff when your console hardware is basically a computer.
That didn’t used to be the case even up to the PS4 when the hardware was still targeted for games like high VRAM, but that’s no longer the case.
It gets even better with Switch emulation because it was a glorified Android tablet that was already outdated on arrival, meaning you can play Switch games even on your phone thanks to ARM instruction pass-through techniques.
- Comment on Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates 2 weeks ago:
No offense but CAs still don’t support ed25519, a now 20 year old ECDSA standard that everyone uses basically everywhere else, including FIPS.
Although tbf I’m sure the NSA could yolo PKI in an “emergency” situation anyway by compromising a CA, though I don’t think that would happen unless its literally WWIII.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 3 weeks ago:
Stop buying Starbucks coffee
They already did lmao, my old town was cheering because two Starbucks locations went out of business and got replaced by local cafes lol.
Although tbf that was in SE Michigan which exploded in the cafe business after Qawah house started a chain reaction by accident.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 weeks ago:
Only missing a night picture with the red LED backlight on
- Comment on A Beginners Guide To Selfhosting Part 1 3 weeks ago:
Ubuntu and Docker.
Really? Netplan alone disqualifies Ubuntu as a “friendly stable starter distro”, and I can guarantee you that your guide will somehow become outdated with a single new Ubuntu release, or some poor soul who accidentally selected an LTS release.
Docker doesn’t matter as much, but there’s a reason beyond just FOSS licensing why podman exists.
Would highly recommend Debian instead.
I started on Ubuntu similar to this many years ago and both the server and desktop experience was not fun at all.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 weeks ago:
IoT devs avoid MQTT and Multicast traffic like the plague.
- Comment on Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games? 3 weeks ago:
If the 3D of Gen 5 qualifies: smilingzero.github.io/BlazeBlack2ReduxWiki/
Don’t quote me on this, but I believe it should also be compatible with pkmnclassic.net which includes online WFC features such as:
### What works GTS Battle Videos Dressup (PtHGSS) Box uploads (PtHGSS) Musical photos (BW1/2) Wi-Fi Battle Tower and Subway Random Match ups (Currently requires AR Code: https://github.com/mm201/pkmn-classic-framework/issues/116) ### What doesn't Trainer Rankings (PtHGSS) ~~Wi-Fi Plaza (PtHGSS)~~ Seems to work now Game Sync Rating Battles / Competitions
- Comment on Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games? 3 weeks ago:
First time ever I’ve seen someone complain about Pokemon on lemmy. Only other time I saw Nintendo complaints was a couple of posts about Mario Kart during the Switch 2 launch.
I’m so damn sick of the bitching about fun games I’m trying to enjoy.
Most of us here aren’t braindead consumers who throw money at even subpar media, much less Game Freak slop. Could probably guarantee you most people on lemmy probably haven’t touched a Pokemon game since they were a kid.
It’s like a McDonald’s Happy Meal. It’s a targeted cheap product designed to make money.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 3 weeks ago:
I thought Canvas was self hosted? Or do they offer service instances too?
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
Dawg even pirate stream sites don’t host on AWS and GCP, you can still watch your content for free online without worrying about a cloud outage because pirate sites actually distribute their files on several cloud platforms since they’re technically always at risk of DMCA lol.
- Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 4 weeks ago:
You dropped your /s
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I did a 2 minute lazy search when people were talking about this, and its not just some random reddit post, several people working at stores posted online on several platforms that stock was being moved around or removed entirely.
Most likely its just brick and mortar stores moving product around to locations that are actually selling, or planning ahead for black friday deals. Nothing groundbreaking, but this site was the first that was heavily defending Microsoft for no reason lol.
- Comment on 2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions 1 month ago:
“No”
– everyone using compose to orchestrate software deployments
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Yes it is, and there’s a age old joke about docker being used for configuration management, which doesn’t require a container system.
