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- Comment on Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK 1 day ago:
See, in Germany you can buy your own cable modem or fibre endpoint and connect that to the copper wire/fibre line.
- Comment on Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK 1 day ago:
Not illegal, but the ISPs are seemingly under no obligation to give you those details. In Germany, there’s the “freedom of routers” embedded in the telco law. So they HAVE to give you everything you need to get your custom router online via their wire/fibre.
Bridge mode is just using the ISPs router and bridge that into your router. It’s not the same - you still need the ISP’s access device instead of just yours.
- Comment on Virgin Media Warns UK Broadband Users Not to Switch Routers Off at Night - ISPreview UK 1 day ago:
Yep, after moving from Germany to the UK I was pretty surprised that in the UK you’re not supposed to get this kind of information from your ISP.
In Germany you can get your own DSL/cable/fibre modem and your ISP has to give you the necessary information to get these devices into their network.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 3 weeks ago:
It was - in the ancient times. Then, there were 3rd party cookies which you had to manually approve upon the initial creation. And then it went all down south and got abused via CDNs and ad networks.
- Comment on Getting Your iPhone Repaired Could Ban You From Snapchat 3 weeks ago:
I can’t see what was posted above anymore, but the DeviceCheck API lets app developers store 2 binary digits (that means 4 different states: 00, 01, 10 or 11) per device on Apple’s servers. So, no, these don’t get erased during a Factory Reset as they’re stored on Apple’s servers. But your phone will.
- Comment on How to get discovered on Mastodon? 5 weeks ago:
Add hashtag
#fedi22
and hashtags of your interests to your bio and add yourself to the Fediverse People Directory. - Comment on NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation 5 weeks ago:
Step 4. NASA builds planes that work (on the side).
- Comment on Migrating Mastodon to Pleroma 1 month ago:
Did you also check out GoToSocial? It’s a very light Mastodon-compatible server, but comes without a user-facing GUI. So you need to use a client app.
However, I don’t know whether it can be easily migrated to from Mastodon.