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- Comment on US Dollar Down 10% Since Trump Took Office — Paul Graham Warns 'You've Become Poorer' Without 11% Net Worth Gain 3 days ago:
Okay, I think my 45 qualifies, because 45 minus 11 is still 35% up.
- Comment on First 3D printed titanium rocket fuel tank can handle 330 bar pressure under -196°C | by Korea Institute of Industrial Technology 3 days ago:
That’s quite frankly impressive. 3D printing is getting really really interesting as time goes on.
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules 3 days ago:
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 4 days ago:
I said absolutely nothing about government subsidies, and in another comment, further down the thread, I even said that if a company gets government subsidies to do so, and does not do so, they should be made to pay the money back with interest.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 4 days ago:
Yeah, you do make a good point there. I’ve seen that happen. Where a company takes money and doesnt do it. Those companies should be made to repay the money with interest for not doing what they said they would. But I’ve also seen companies that actually do the job and get high-speed internet out to those who wouldn’t have otherwise had it. So I think it really just depends on the company.
The two companies I’m thinking of right off the top of my head are AT&T and T-Mobile. AT&T took money to roll out broadband and never did so, and T-Mobile merged with Sprint, and said they would roll out high-speed broadband to very rural areas, and actually did do it, and I ended up benefiting from T-Mobile’s home internet rollout.
I lived in a pretty rural area for a while that had 10 MBPS wired internet or satellite and then T-Mobile came around and with their home internet you could get 70 MBPS so that was a no-brainer
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 4 days ago:
Yeah, probably not. If your country is the size of a postage stamp, it doesn’t take a whole lot of capital investment to run fiber through the entire thing. Whereas if your country is the size of the United States, it takes a fuck ton of capital investment to cover even a decent portion of it by laying lines like that.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 4 days ago:
That is possible. I was basing my comment on some information from an FCC report that said that there was no place in the continental United States that was not able to be covered by Starlink.
There was this program called Bead that was going to prioritize places with no internet access whatsoever or dial up for the first people to get funding, and they say they found that there wasn’t any, so they had to go for the next thing which was slow internet.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 4 days ago:
Not anymore. Now the cell phone company just puts up a tower and runs one fiber line to it and everybody has high speed internet or a rich billionaire launches some satellites into space on his rockets.
Laying one fiber line to a cell phone tower is much cheaper than laying a bunch of fiber lines to each individual household.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 4 days ago:
To be honest, I’m surprised it lasted this long.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 1 week ago:
Correct, services cannot tell where you are coming from when you are using Tor. However, the service itself has no such protection.
With the crackdown that is occurring on the internet, I think everything is going to have to go into hidden services to remain censorship resistant.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 1 week ago:
I do as much as I can over tor and hidden services make it even better since the service doesn’t know where you’re coming from and you don’t know where the service is.
I download podcasts over tor (antennapod), update apps over tor (fdroid), connect to my monero node over tor (various), chat over tor (Signal and SimpleX), and can connect to home assistant over tor. If I could get away with it, I would just direct all of my system traffic over tor all the time. Hell, the only reason I don’t is because I need to log into my bank sometimes.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 1 week ago:
Always good to have hidden services instead of having to go to the regular clearnet using Tor.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 1 week ago:
I need a good porn tor hidden service. Any good ones?
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 1 week ago:
Make sure to back up the simplex database and database password.
Unlike Matrix, SimpleX saves all the decryption data in the database and saves the database to your device.
As long as you have the password for it and the database file, you will be fine. Lose either and you’re absolutely fucked.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update August 2025 1 week ago:
By chants, where is your donation Monero address?
- Comment on St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed 2 weeks ago:
We’re at war with East Asia. We’ve always been at war with East Asia. George Orwell, 1984.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 2 weeks ago:
Eeh, with so many that do work that is super rotten luck
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 2 weeks ago:
I have this exact same thought. I see things like this and I’m like, God, I’m glad I don’t have any of that shit.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 2 weeks ago:
You do realize that most Steam games now work on the next natively correct? It’s true, not all do, but a lot of them do.
- Comment on Bitchat is a new private Bluetooth messaging app that doesn’t need the internet – here’s how it works 2 weeks ago:
Yes, places where this would work well would be street protests, concert venues, sports stadiums, etc. Could also be useful for conferences to send people in the same room links or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What if I’m an adult and I happen to like Taylor Swift reaction videos damn it?
- Comment on I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust 2 weeks ago:
Another competitor web engine is Ladybird. You might want to take a look at that as well.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Bitchat is a new private Bluetooth messaging app that doesn’t need the internet – here’s how it works 2 weeks ago:
I can answer a couple of those questions. It will go through up to seven devices and with Bluetooth maximum range of 300 meters you can get 6,800 feet or around 1.2 miles at maximum.
Mind you, that would be with everything perfectly done, so it most likely won’t be that far.
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 2 weeks ago:
There is a directory and you can find it by asking your favorite search engine for the SimpleX directory bot. As far as multiple devices goes, I’m not totally sure. I know that it’s supposedly able to be used on multiple devices, but I only run it on my phone, so I haven’t actually tried that functionality myself.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 2 weeks ago:
They’ve set the maximum at seven hops, but depending on weather conditions, that can easily be several hundred miles.
Nothing special is needed for a repeater except that you probably will want a node with a solar panel such as the seeedStudio solar. You would put it up as high as you can get it. I generally say if it’s more than 100 feet in the air, use router mode. If it is less than 100 feet but above 20 feet, use client. If it is less than 20 feet, use client mute.
Your node in your pocket or in your car should be on client mute mode since them broadcasting will not get the signal much farther and will just cause more channel utilization on high nodes.
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 2 weeks ago:
You can use SimpleX for large chats. However, at least the current architecture is not the most efficient way of doing so. Especially not once rooms hit a thousand users or more. Does it work? Yes. Does it work well? Only somewhat. I think the developers were caught off guard when people wanted to start using it for large rooms instead of one-on-one communications and had not planned for that when they made the program.
They are addressing the issue by having devices connect to super peers instead of directly peer to peer in order to make large rooms work better. That way, instead of trying to maintain a thousand individual connections, your device might maintain two or three connections to Superpiers and get messages through them. I make it even harder on myself because I demand that my SimpleX do everything over a tor.
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 2 weeks ago:
I have moved my communications to SimpleX for very similar reasons.
I always found Matrix to be extremely clunky because of key management for rooms and stuff like that.
I’m used to using cryptocurrencies. I know how to manage keys, and yet I was constantly getting hit with the same issues with decryption of old messages, even when I properly saved my keys and imported them.
I figure if I’m not even able to use this thing properly, knowing and understanding technology, how do I expect people I talk to to understand how to do it properly?
Then, on top of that, I found out about all the metadata leaking to your home server. Sure, your communications might be encrypted, but if the sender, receiver, reactions, timestamp, etc. is not encrypted, that’s not good.
I still have it on my device, but it very rarely gets opened anymore.
- Comment on GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza 2 weeks ago:
It’s a way of doing fundraising without having to ask for permission.
- Comment on GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Permission is being sought because they are removing fundraisers and in order to get them back you’re having to beg for them to be brought back.