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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
It ain’t Ubiquiti selling that gear to them. Better luck next time.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
This is a narrative being pushed by a capital investment group that’s shorting Ubiquiti stock.
- Comment on Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War 4 days ago:
Oh look, a hit piece put out by a media company that’s owned by a capital investment group that is shorting UIs stock…I wonder what this could be about?!
Ubi isn’t selling this stuff to the Russians and neither are their vendors. Their vendors, most of them in the article are from overseas, are selling them to middle-men who sell them to another middle-man who then physically gets the equipment into Russian hands where it potentially goes through ANOTHER middle man before its used by Russian troops. There’s almost no way to control that and if you read carefully the “legal experts” quoted toward the bottom of the article use some very careful language.
You can’t just “shut it down” either, although even the article notes that Ubi is trying. Most of the gear that’s getting into Russian military hands for use in the war is stuff that you have probably never used. It’s PowerBeam and NanoBeam product that’s most often used by WISPs, which makes sense because that’s precisely how Russian forces are using it. What the article isn’t telling you is that this stuff does NOT need hooked to the Cloud in order to function. In fact it doesn’t need Internet access at all and so there’s no way for Ubi to know where it’s being used or even that it’s been powered up!
Even if Ubi can tell that the equipment is powered on and in use they may not know where it’s at with sufficient accuracy or knowledge to do anything about it. The damn thing could be on the Internet via Starlink sitting in Pokrovsk. On December 1st, 2025 was a SL system with Ubi gear attached to it in Pokrovsk being operated by Russia or Ukraine? There’s literally no way for Ubi or anyone else to know.
As for Ubi doing more if you read the whole article you’ll find that more than a few of these bad distributors HAVE been caught and shut down across the globe which almost certainly means that Ubi is helping at some level.
In short the article looks bad but when you start breaking down the individual points it quickly falls apart, especially when the media company behind it has a monetary interest in sinking Ubiquiti’s stock.
- Comment on Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War 4 days ago:
Nah, according to the article this is mostly the WISP type stuff, particularly the Power and Nano beam products meant for Long Range Point to Point / Multi Point connections. This isn’t routers / switches / etc.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Microsoft should not have the keys to decrypt Bitlocker ever.
Windows is a closed source and proprietary commercial Operating System. Microsoft is going to do whatever they like with it. If enough people get angry about an issue they may change their mind but that doesn’t change the nature of Microsoft’s ownership over their products.
I’ve been participating in discussion about what Microsoft should and shouldn’t do since the late 80s and it pretty much boils down to this: You need to select and use software that works the way you want it to. So if you don’t want MS to have your disk encryption key then don’t use Windows. If you don’t want MS to have access to your documents then don’t put them on any system that MS has control over.
It can be terrible inconvenient to protect your data in this way but this part and parcel of the privacy movement.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
It may seem that way but I’m really not. An encryption key is just data. It’s critical security data to be sure but it’s still data and like other data you shouldn’t share anything that you wouldn’t want made public.
Don’t want MS to cough up your data when asked? Then don’t give it to them. In regards to your BL key that means storing it another way, such as on a jump drive or printing it out.
In the end if you have data of any type that you absolutely DO NOT want made public then you need to retain that data locally. If that means leaving the Microsoft or any other ecosystem then that’s the price that needs paid for keeping your data under your control.
This is the foundation of the entire privacy movement.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
The encryption key is data, don’t give it to ANYONE. “Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
The word “Gave” is really doing some heavy lifting in that title. Microsoft produced the keys in response to a warrant as required by law.
If you don’t want a company, any company, to produce your data when given a warrant then you can’t give the company that data. At all. Ever.
Not fast food joints, not Uber, not YouTube, not even the grocery store.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 1 week ago:
It’s easy to do. Mine is a reolink piped through Home Assistant.
- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 1 week ago:
I hear ya but honestly you wouldn’t have the service let alone the devices without it.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 2 weeks ago:
Too many people thought that Twitters Blue Checkmark meant you were special. That attitude carries over to Bluesky and being verified.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 2 weeks ago:
Classic Liberal, yes.
- Comment on Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot 2 weeks ago:
You are not an IT Admin, you are not spending tens of millions annually, and thus Microsoft doesn’t give a shit about you. They literally would not piss on you if you were on fire.
- Comment on US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, at least some of planned datacenters ARE doing that. For example an absolutely ENORMOUS Solar Farm is being built in Cheyenne, Wyoming for another Microsoft DC. For a previous MS DC a big ass wind farm was built. Meta is building a fuck you sized DC in Cheyenne and recently inked a deal with Terrapower for a natrium powered reactor.
I dislike having to defend these assholes but what the Green Energy thing has been done, is being done, and they have definite plans to do more of it.
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 3 weeks ago:
I’m cautiously optimistic. This looks like a reasonable use of tech that doesn’t seem to have so many of the spyware elements that other glasses (like Meta) have. There’s no external camera, no screens (only lenses), and no mention needing an app or internet connection.
As someone in their target demographic I’m interested to find out what is actually released and would consider purchasing a pair.
- Comment on Colorado right-to-repair law covering consumer electronics now in effect 3 weeks ago:
Motors used to be BOLTED together, now they are GLUED together.
50 years ago you were working on brushed motors with relatively sloppy tolerances, less torque, and more electrical consumption. Today’s motors are faster, stronger, lighter, more efficient, and designed to higher tolerances.
It used to take me a half hour to change the clutch slave cylinder on my truck. Now (newer truck) I have to PULL the transmission to do that.
Very few vehicles in the U.S. have a manual transmission and the prevalence of them is decreasing quickly in all western countries. No matter how much we may prefer manuals it’s inarguable that modern automatics get better fuel economy, are easier to operate and are often stronger than their manual equivalent.
My point here is that often the same advances that make things better make them more difficult to service.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for the feedback!
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 3 weeks ago:
I actually don’t know. I’ll have to try it.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 3 weeks ago:
Just need a way to admin Active Directory from Linux and I’m set…
What’s wrong with Active Directory Web Services? It’s installed on every DC by default since WS2008R2.
You could also install PowerShell on your Penguin box and do tasks via command line.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 4 weeks ago:
Installing Collabra Office on a Windows PC requires the use of the Microsoft Store. Ick.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 4 weeks ago:
IIRC this happened in January of 2025. The rebrand obviously failed because I don’t know a single person who calls it anything other than “Office” or “Microsoft Office”.
- Comment on Taiwan chipmaker TSMC begins 2nm chip volume production 4 weeks ago:
Maybe the marketing language is technically deficient but the result of the technology speaks for itself; devices keep getting faster AND more power efficient.
Meanwhile it’s so damn hard to do that there’s only one company making the machines that can pull it off and only one company that can successfully execute the process.
This stuff is ultra pimpin now matter what the marketing department calls it.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 4 weeks ago:
Creality K1
See this is one of the things that confuses me. ASA supposedly requires a bed temperature of 120 but the K1 supposedly only goes to 100. Did you modify yours to get hotter or did it just work?
Thanks for the warning about the fumes. This machine will go out in the garage and be externally vented.
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 4 weeks ago:
The Centauri Carbon is surprisingly inexpensive, almost suspiciously so. I don’t need multi-color so that won’t be a problem. I’ll look into this one more.
The Snapmaker U1 looks interesting and it’s currently on sale for $849 so it’s in my budget -but- were back to the “I want a guarantee the thing will print ASA without 100 hours of frustration and faffing about.” thing.
BUT: please, for the love of god,the spaghetti monster and everyone else…
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I appreciate your warning about ASA and its toxic fumes. The machine will live in my 3 car garage where I can put an externally vented hood over it or enclose it completely.
And stay away from Bambu,imho.
That’s a bummer to hear as they’re one of the few manufacturer names that I actually recognize!
- Comment on What's a good printer for ASA filament? 4 weeks ago:
I know that BL has some controversy regarding lock in but I can’t even figure out which of their models would do I want in order to buy it!
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- Comment on (Technology Connections) I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [34:38] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been strongly considering adding a whole home humidifier and after watching I’m going to buy an Aprilaire 700 like his and do the same upgrade to it!
- Comment on MIT just made aluminum 5x stronger with 3D printing 4 weeks ago:
ALON is aluminum oxynitride. It’s aluminum. If you don’t like that then you are not going to like Saphire, Al2O3, as an answer either.
BTW I’m old enough that I watched that movie in the Theater and I’m pretty sure sure that Scotty doesn’t refer to “metallic aluminum”, he simply says “transparent aluminum” and we have two different materials that fit the description.