shortwavesurfer
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- Comment on Wrong Again: 'Experts' Keep Missing the Mark on Inflation 1 week ago:
The government is wrong? I’m shocked I tell you. /s
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Upgrade everybody to Linux Mint. Problem solved.
- Comment on Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, none of your extortion money was used to buy that Bitcoin. It was stolen from people. That’s all the government is really good for anyhow is stealing from people.
- Comment on Sam's Stuff - The State of Modern AI Text To Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users 2 weeks ago:
I use an Android TTS called RHVoice i got from F-Droid
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I heard. I know Samsung has been doing something like this as well.
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- Comment on Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t Australia the totalitarian state where you must verify your identity to use social media? If so, then just saying you’re older won’t work. If not, then the law is completely pointless.
- Comment on Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month 3 weeks ago:
Next headline, 4.17’s move to Fediverse.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
By out in the middle of nowhere, you would have to not be able to connect to any carrier network at all. If you are a Verizon customer and can’t get Verizon signal, but you can see an AT&T tower, you will connect to it to make 911 calls, or a T-Mobile tower, if that’s the one you can see. It doesn’t matter. Every carrier has to carry 911 calls for every other carrier.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I have not done so yet, but I’m going to set up a few of my family members with nodes, but I’m going to get them one of those helltec mesh pocket nodes since it’s also a phone backup battery. That way they’ll be likely to actually carry it with them.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Happy to report that meshtastic is still functioning, despite not being charged a monthly service fee.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, if it’s not Zigbee or Z-Wave, I’m not touching it. Because I won’t use anything that has a cloud account attached to it.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
For me, if I can’t control it with Home Assistant, it does not go in my house. I have smart plugs and I’m getting a smart thermometer and they are all badged for the Works with Home Assistant program so that they can be used even if the company goes out of business. I will buy nothing else.
- Comment on US frackers were already facing a global oil supply glut. Trump’s Venezuelan dream could make it worse 4 weeks ago:
Now we won’t boil our atmosphere because we will launch rockets to the moon and produce shades on the moon and put them at the Earth Sun Lagrange point and cool the earth down that way. So our ravenous use of energy will give us the energy to fix the problem.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 5 weeks ago:
But according to governments around the world, we should use our IDs in order to access this kind of material. And this is exactly why it’s a fucking terrible idea.
- Comment on Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X 5 weeks ago:
They will probably pay a small fine and fix the problem and the world will move on.
- Comment on Sabotaging Bitcoin 1 month ago:
Lol
- Comment on Sabotaging Bitcoin 1 month ago:
A similar attack actually took place on Monero in August of 2025. A mining pool called qubic decided to create their own cryptocurrency and mine Monero and then sell that Monero for Tether and buy their own coin back. This incentivized Monero miners to mine with them because they could get more in rewards than the Monero network itself was giving them. The attacking pool was able to gain between 33 and 35% of the network hashrate, but the other 66% would not join because it was against the Monero network’s interest. That 66% believe in Monero enough that they did not want to see Monero fail.
The Monero network has two-minute blocks, and the attacking pool managed to do an 18-block reorganization, or 36 minutes worth of blocks. This did cause the Monero price to drop somewhat, but the network handled it by just people organically asking for longer confirmations while the network was under attack. Most people on the Monero network consider a transaction to be finalized after 10 blocks or 20 minutes, and since the attacker was able to cause an 18 block reorganization, people started asking for around 30 blocks worth of confirmations.
In the end, the attack failed because the attacking pool realized that people still wanted to use the network even if it was under a denial of service attack and just asked for longer confirmations that they could not sustain the hashrate to undo.
- Comment on Gold and silver head for biggest annual price gains in over 40 years 1 month ago:
Wow, somebody who actually understands this. That’s amazing.
This is exactly why I no longer denominate my net worth in fiat currencies.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
In another comment, I specifically acknowledged that you could not track a device that is powered off, but as soon as it is powered back on, it would be trackable again.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
Sorry, dictation. T-Mobile supports TOTP authentication, which you might know better as Google Authenticator, but the actual name of it is TOTP, or time-based One-Time Pads.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
Team Mobile Connect offers five gigabytes of data, unlimited talk and text for $15 per month. That’s what I’ve been using for years now.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
My carrier supports TOTP for this.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
Somebody can’t steal your phone and pull the SIM card out so that it can’t be tracked.
As long as you don’t have the ability to enable airplane mode or disable cellular data from your notifications shade, you can’t stop it from being tracked if it’s stolen unless it’s physically powered off. And as soon as it’s physically powered on again, it’s immediately trackable.
- Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense 1 month ago:
Yeah, a couple of years ago, a flagship device such as an iPhone would have cost something like 6.6 Monero, and now it’s down to around 3. Some mid-range devices can be head for under one Monero, where they use the cost around three.
- Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense 1 month ago:
i am running a OnePlus Nord N200 5G (2021 release) that i bought brand new in 2023. It works well enough, and I run lineage OS on it with no Google Play services of any kind.
Thankfully, phones cost less and less Monero every year, so I can upgrade when I feel like it, though I don’t want to if I don’t have to.
- Comment on Most Americans see higher prices for groceries and electricity, poll finds 1 month ago:
My grocery bill has dropped a lot. It used to be over 1 monero, now its like 0.3
- Comment on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 2 months ago:
That just shows how much of an idiot these people are. These teenagers are just going to learn to use platforms such as Mastodon, Lemmy, and Nostr.
- Comment on Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era 2 months ago:
If it’s not decentralized, it can be taken over. Don’t use anything that isn’t decentralized.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
Any site that makes me do this immediately loses my traffic and I go to tor or a service that doesnt give a shit about us law.