lepinkainen
@lepinkainen@lemmy.world
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 8 hours ago:
You can limit shorts in the YouTube parental settings! Just found out about this a few weeks ago
You can’t disable them completely, but you can set a time limit
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 8 hours ago:
Human people. My source is the old ham dude who gave us the ham exam I managed to bungle and haven’t gotten around to retaking.
He was the type who used morse code at gigabit speeds with a funky looking sideways key
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 8 hours ago:
Finland. The questions for the basic test require you to actually know your shit, they’re specifically worded so that you can’t wing it
I failed it, that’s how I know. By a few points but still 😀
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 8 hours ago:
Both can coexist, more options is better when talking about decentralised systems
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 9 hours ago:
Internet routing is a bit more complex, but basically yes.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 9 hours ago:
It all depends on the environment and the amount of nodes. I’m not exactly controlling Fort Knox here so 100% reliability isn’t a big point
It’s still cool to be at the store 2-3km away and get a notification that the fridge door is open, via a completely independent network 😀
I get the exact same notification via the internet, but it’s not as cool
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 16 hours ago:
They dropped the morse requirement because people just stopped taking the test
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 16 hours ago:
The HAM license isn’t a trivial checkbox test, at least not over here
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 16 hours ago:
Controlling home automation remotely without any internet access.
Tracking dogs, people or vehicles - again with no internet.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 16 hours ago:
There was a massive power outage in Portugal not too long ago and people used Meshtastic to communicate between cities to see who had power.
It does work, but it’s not a Final Solution
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 16 hours ago:
Now let me introduce you to APRS 😁
It’s pretty much the HAM equivalent of Meshtastic
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 16 hours ago:
Antennas and location.
I can see one node on top of the tallest building around here and it allows me to connect to nodes 20-30km away.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 16 hours ago:
They’re a mesh walkie-talkie, but you don’t need to walkie or talkie 😁
Meshnet means that if A can see B and B can see C, then A can message C, it’s routed through B automatically.
Also it’s text only, not enough bandwidth for speech
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 16 hours ago:
Nope, it specifically uses free frequencies. The same ones that are used by RC hobbyists and RF based remotes
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 day ago:
iPhones do by default, you need to specifically turn on fixed IP at home to identify the damn phone reliably
- Comment on Get this filth out of my sight 2 days ago:
Post nut clarity doesn’t hit for you?
- Comment on Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox 4 days ago:
I’m not self hosting email but my rule is that no email gets to be in the inbox except for VERY rare exceptions
And email lands in my inbox, I immediately make a rule that labels it correctly and moves it the fuck away from my inbox.
This way I can have notifications on for inbox emails and they’ll either be important or a new sender whose next email will end up labeled and NOT in my inbox
- Comment on TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker 5 days ago:
Fortnite is a massive cash cow, they’re protecting their investment with robust parental tools
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 6 days ago:
Instagram literally has “mommy daughter” accounts that are 100% CP fetish material, and every single comment is by an older man
Meta doesn’t give a FUCK as long as you drive engagement
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 week ago:
It’s not about standards. 3 grandkids will never need 7 China sets 😀
All needed exactly 0, I’m fine with the cups I have. I don’t “entertain”
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 week ago:
My grandma was the last one to go of all her sisters.
Her apartment had EIGHT full coffee sets, cups, plates, saucers, sugar dishes etc. just because she inherited them from her siblings and thought we’d want them
Nobody wants any of them, they’re old and pretty and also worth exactly zero euros.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
Using the Euro as the standard currency for oil would do it in a week.
Either the US invades Europe to prevent it or the country collapses.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 1 week ago:
And EU is pounding Apple to get 3rd party app stores on its platform.
Meanwhile at Sony:
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 1 week ago:
Meta actively doesn’t care about AI fake profiles or scammy shit.
Even TikTok cares more and actually take down shit if you report it and it’s supposed to be the evil propaganda machine 😆
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 week ago:
Cost of model T in 1913: $14,000
Cost of model T in 1916: $9,000
See how the price went down after its 1909 release ? 😁
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 week ago:
Like cars? Televisions? Home appliances?
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 1 week ago:
The problem with a battle pass is that you pay for the chance to maybe get something.
If you can’t play or don’t pay well enough, it’s wasted money
With a loot box you get something right now. It might be shit but at least it’s on your account
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 1 week ago:
The ate paint chips and crayons
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 week ago:
Everything is expensive at first, before getting cheaper in the long rub
- Comment on The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily 2 weeks ago:
Rory’s stuff is really insightful and you get those d’oh of course -moments when you listen to him talk and present his ideas