LostXOR
@LostXOR@fedia.io
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
Almost as if a browser company that's not also an advertising company has no reason to fight ad blockers.
- Comment on Basic Security for your Website | Loudwhisper 3 months ago:
Yeah, I just left my SSH port as 22 since I only use key-based authentication so there's really no security risk. Plus, it's funny going through the logs and looking at all the login attempts.
- Comment on YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos 3 months ago:
You Won't BELIEVE What I Just Hallucinated!
- Comment on PSA: GoDaddy gated their own API. DDNS users warned 3 months ago:
If you're looking for a new registrar, I've had only good experiences with NameSilo. They're not the cheapest, but they're generally cheaper than GoDaddy, don't paywall arbitrary things like APIs or WHOIS privacy, and have good support.
- Comment on Is Backblaze a reliable provider? 4 months ago:
That's true. Though there are reviews saying their support is terrible, which I assume applies to B2 as well.
- Comment on Is Backblaze a reliable provider? 4 months ago:
I would not use them, they have bad ratings on Trustpilot.
- Comment on Still saying sweet things to each other after all these years... 4 months ago:
I assume the censorship was probably done by the original poster of the image. Not much point un-censoring it in that case.
- Comment on Water refill stations that force you to watch ads at Philly Airport 4 months ago:
Make sure to unscrew the water hose from the back and hang it on the machine so people can still get water!
- Comment on Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat 4 months ago:
Does this have any benefit over just using friction to convert the rotation into heat? I suppose it would suffer less wear, but it also seems way more expensive.
- Comment on True story. 4 months ago:
Joke's on you, I've won the game.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
I hear WebP can often offer much better compression than PNG in lossless mode so that could be an alternative.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
This isn’t a graph, it’s a phylogenetic tree. It doesn’t need units or labeled axes (and they wouldn’t make much sense anyways).
- Comment on Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like valid email addresses. 6 months ago:
Would be interesting to set up email servers on some of the more popular instances and see how much traffic they're actually getting.
- Comment on Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail 6 months ago:
If one millionth of the brain is 1.4 petabytes, the whole brain would take 1.4 zettabytes of storage, roughly 4% of all the digital data on Earth.
- Comment on Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses? 6 months ago:
That's a pretty cool idea, though I think it would be a challenge to align the plans perfectly with the actual construction site.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
There's always the carefully applied soldering iron.
- Comment on Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy 6 months ago:
Where are you located? I'm in need of some new backup drives and would be happy to pay a reasonable price + shipping if you're interested.
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 6 months ago:
Both "color" and "colour" are valid spellings.
- Comment on ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire 6 months ago:
Just block cookies for the site and never worry about it again.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi storybook uses AI to create stories with pictures on its eInk display 6 months ago:
The article does say it takes five minutes to create a new story and picture. I assume most of that time is spent generating the picture. Still pretty impressive, but nowhere near the few seconds you can get with fast hardware.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off. 6 months ago:
Yeah, I switched to Mint back in 2019 and can't imagine going back. I have a Windows dual boot for certain games, but whenever I use it it feels like such a terrible experience compared to Linux. I don't think I've used it in a couple months because of that lol.
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 6 months ago:
Don't fat-shame the acids!
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 7 months ago:
According to every site ever I was born on Jan 1, 2000.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
Freedom is still just a ribbon cable (or soldering iron) away!
- Comment on There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case. 7 months ago:
Only if someone was born in Kiribati in the first hour of Jan 1. According to Google in 2000 its population was only 89000 and its birth rate was 31 per 1000 people per year. That gives an average of one person being born every 3.18 hours. I'm not sure what the population of the countries in GMT+13 is, but I think they're also a likely candidate.
- Comment on An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields 7 months ago:
That's really cool. Much of the hype around AI tends to focus on it acting like an intelligent human (which it doesn't do very well), but glosses over stuff like this (which it can do very well).
- Comment on Fully working 270€ Nest Dropcam will no longer be supported. 8 months ago:
And to shut down the day of a total solar eclipse? That's extra mean.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I second this. Use a tool like ValiDrive to test whether that's the case; if it is, anything you've copied to the drive is unrecoverable.
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 8 months ago:
Nose to the left, mouth to the right, of course.
- Comment on 10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player. 8 months ago:
The vast majority of cameras are 4:3, however.