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- Comment on This legendary Nokia phone is being brought back to life in 2026 6 hours ago:
It’s new roma for the Nokia N8 if you still have one. It’s a 2010 phone so no idea if it has 5g or even 4g. Meh. I still have an N9 which is also unusable today because the 3g network here is gone.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 day ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin
Blokhin was selected for the position by Joseph Stalin in 1926 and led a company of executioners that performed and supervised numerous mass killings in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s reign, mostly during the Great Purge and Eastern Front of World War II.[1] Blokhin is recorded as having executed tens of thousands of prisoners by his own hand, including his killing of about 7,000 Polish prisoners of war during the Katyn massacre in spring 1940, making him the most prolific official executioner in recorded world history.[1][2][3] Blokhin was forced into retirement in 1953 after the death of Stalin and condemned during de-Stalinization shortly before his death in 1955.
- Comment on Activist platform StopICE denies breach after alleged hack raises alarm 3 days ago:
Burner phone still tracks the person everywhere. Yeah it’s hard. Too bad 1-way pagers are near extinct now.
- Comment on Activist platform StopICE denies breach after alleged hack raises alarm 3 days ago:
Phone # seems like a scary thing to collect. Also, visiting the web site reveals an IP address, maybe also not good. Wonder if there’s a more anonymous way to get the alerts out, like if some larger sites sent out alert geolocations along with regular web pages.
- Comment on Activist platform StopICE denies breach after alleged hack raises alarm 3 days ago:
Why were they collecting that info to begin with? Sounds like asking for trouble.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 4 days ago:
No it doesn’t, you want to be able to turn off JS while it is running, and that is now impossible. Noscript stops it from running in the first place and that breaks too many sites.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 4 days ago:
Pepperidge Farms remembers when Firefox had a control like that to turn JavaScript on and off. The rest of you are supposed to have forgotten. Oops.
- Comment on 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night 5 days ago:
In interstellar space there is no temperature differential for that solar cell scheme to work from. It only works when there is something that is heated by the sun part of the time, and radiates heat into space the rest of the time. Maybe the far (“dark”) side of the moon counts for that, but for a moon station you probably want batteries or RTG’s or whatever. I’m sure there are uses for this thing but they sound very niche. Radiating heat into space on hot nights on the other hand is quite interesting, as an alternative to air conditioning.
- Comment on 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night 5 days ago:
The thing about deep space is confusing. When is it dark for long periods in deep space?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Microslop is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11.
Why bother? Just upgrade everyone to Windows 10.
- Comment on Fediverse needs a Q&A (Questions & Answers) service before Quora runs out of money 1 week ago:
We have Ask Lenny. Do you really want a bigger version?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Dunno what happened with your subculture but there is a recurring path that isn’t pretty:
- Comment on Pixlpal is more than just a screen 1 week ago:
For a clock or ticker, the 1:2 aspect ratio and 64x128 resolution are way suboptimal. You want something like 16x64 or 16x128 with bigger leds. I got crap free LED clock with 2" tall digits a while back if that is of any interest. Not that configurable though.
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 1 week ago:
Hardcore nerds use TeX but if I understand your question, you probably want LibreOffice. I’m unfamiliar with OnlyOffice so ok, maybe that’s good too.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 week ago:
I haven’t had trouble with 3rd party batteries but there’s a combination of FUD and legitimate scare stories about them. For cylindrical cells, the really cheap ones are crap and this can be detect by X-ray:
hackaday.com/…/lumafield-shows-why-your-cheap-186…
IDK if there’s a similar deal with pouch cells.
Generally, replace your battery at below 50%. At 68% I’d keep using it. Maybe add a power bank if you want to keep going for longer. If 68% isn’t enough to get through your day, then 100% is at best sort of marginal.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 1 week ago:
Laptops nowadays almost always use pouch cells.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 2 weeks ago:
I generally get stuff from porkbun.com since I’ve been there for a while, prices are decent and they have some convenient features. But, I should try namecrane.com since they are run by online buddies of mine. They are sort of a spin-off of the original buyvm.net.
Price comparator: tld-list.com
- Comment on Pixlpal is more than just a screen 2 weeks ago:
I guess it’s kind of cool, but why not a regular display? The LED array’s 2:1 aspect ratio (128x64) is kind of constraining.
- Comment on Ideas for a better Lemmy experience 2 weeks ago:
Ehh still seems useless, they then just have to age the accounts before posting. One thing I’d want to know is of those posts are in topic areas that anyone would want to influence surreptitiously.
- Comment on Ideas for a better Lemmy experience 2 weeks ago:
Kind of useless probably, at least in the present state of Lemmy. We’re not particularly overrun by new users. That would be a good problem to have.
- Comment on Is it just me, or does anyone else wish there was a federated, decentralized alternative to YouTube Music? 2 weeks ago:
Bands can start their own “labels” on archive.org, archive.org/details/netlabels . is that what you had in mind?
The attraction of youtube for almost all listeners is the huge copyrighted collection, which is (mostly) there through artist permission or upload, because the artists get a chunk of the ad revenue. Any serious competitor would also have to somehow deliver a payment stream, which means ads or subscriptions or something. Not really a fediverse thing.
- Comment on how to dust properly 2 weeks ago:
How can I wipe the dust in a way so as to avoid just pushing it around so much?
Vacuum it. My friend has a Roomba that does her whole house automatically. I thought those things were ridiculous until I actually saw it.
Also, as someone said, air filtration should get some of the dust out of the air. That is healthy for breathing. If you don’t mind the noise, you can make a powerful air filter from a box fan and 4 furnace filters: look up “Corsi-Rosenthal box” for how to do that. Otherwise you can get a smaller one.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
generally, use “netstat -lpn | grep 8080” (or whatever port number) to find out what process is already listening on that port. This kind of thing happens all the time.
- Comment on Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked 3 weeks ago:
In military systems it’s done with e.g. frequency hopping with encrypted sequences. That’s also how GPS anti-spoofing works (that’s for the military segment of GPS). The idea is say there are 1000 frequencies and you keep switching between them. Since the jammer doesn’t know which one you’re using at any moment, they have to jam all 1000 of them. So that increases their power requirements by 1000x compared to jamming just one frequency.
It’s not feasible for a mass market consumer product like Starlink. Even if it was, it would be thrown under sanctions or military suppression faster than you can say boo. And it would run at quite low bit rates to again maximize the ability to get through jamming. It would be useless for Netflix or transmitting video.
Maybe an activist cell in a place like Iran could put something together for its own members on the quiet, but it would be low bandwidth and would presumably be very dangerous for the users if they got caught.
I wonder sometimes if people overestimate the usefulness of stuff like this. Suppose Iran’s efforts to jam Starlink had failed, so Starlink still worked there. What would be different for anyone? We’d see more video getting out, but it’s not clear to me that it would have any effect other than to stoke up more internet rage. It’s unclear to me if that’s of any help any more.
Starlink was apparently believed to be unjammable until recently, when we found out that it wasn’t, fwiw.
- Comment on New study shows Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery—not just prevented or slowed—in animal models 3 weeks ago:
IN MICE
- Comment on Discontinuing the Teensy at Adafruit 3 weeks ago:
Meh, it’s sort of an empty gesture, as discussed in the HN thread. The “competitor” is a somewhat-compatible Teensy 3 that uses a different processor with roughly similar cpu performance. It doesn’t compete with the much faster Teensy 4 which is the only model that PJRC currently sells. And these types of boards aren’t generally about CPU performance anyway. If you want that, get a Linux board.
- Comment on Security Party by Tech Workers Coalition - 1/26 5:30 PM EST 3 weeks ago:
bit.ly? They may have degoogled but they still stopped too early.
- Comment on L.A. Rams Owner Stan Kroenke Becomes Largest Private Landowner in the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
2.7 million acres, about 4200 square miles. Location? IDK.
- Comment on Discontinuing the Teensy at Adafruit 3 weeks ago:
This is big stupid drama but there’s a long thread about it on hackernews.
- Comment on Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical” 3 weeks ago:
Ars technica is usually legit.