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- Comment on TiVo Rides Into the Sunset 2 days ago:
I bought my first TiVo back in… 2002?
I had to use my work landline to do the initial setup, but then I used a USB Ethernet jack for the rest. You had to do some fancy remote secret code, but it worked just fine.
Also was able to use disc mirroring to make a new, much larger, hard drive, so we could record essentially unlimited TV.
- Comment on SpaceX cuts off 2,500 Starlink devices at Myanmar scam centres 4 days ago:
Glad we have Musk being the arbiter of who can use the Internet or not.
Shit like this is the primary reason I’m never going to use Starlink.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 5 days ago:
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 5 days ago:
There’s always going to be vulnerabilities, that’s why they’re ending support. They don’t want to spend time updating an OS they don’t want people using.
Windows 10 is probably fairly secure… today. In 2 years, someone might discover a new vulnerability, and you won’t get the update. If there’s a new way to do web security and the browsers need OS support to implement it, you’ll be stuck on legacy security settings.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 1 week ago:
I need the cable company (or similar) due to the fact that infrastructure is hard to deploy, and we need Internet to participate in society.
Nobody needs Microsoft cause every single one of their products has an alternative that’s at least as good.
They survive by courting enterprises, but many of them can also switch away if they want.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 1 week ago:
Most likely blue are the input nodes and green are the output nodes.
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 1 week ago:
I use rsync to backup, I can delete and restore the whole drive if i want at any time.
I use watchtower to keep things updated. If you schedule the rsync and watchtower correctly, you can get the backup done before the upgrade and there’s basically no lost data with the rollback.
I use uptime Kuma for monitoring, and it shoots me an email with details on what failed.
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 1 week ago:
I automate my upgrades, but I also automate my backups, and monitoring.
If an upgrade breaks something, my health monitor lets me know and I can roll back to the previous day.
- Comment on xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings 1 week ago:
Go near the equator and look at where satellite dishes are pointed. They’re not typically straight up, they tend to be pointed pretty far east/west depending on where you are exactly.
Most countries don’t have their own satellites specifically in line with them, they’re often all using the same ones.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
You can also manually add or remove search engines (at least in current Mozilla releases)
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 1 week ago:
Well, for one, some YouTubers made a cheap, open source VR headset. That was pretty neat.
- Comment on Looking for a good kindle reader alternative 2 weeks ago:
I run it. It’s good if you want to just host the books. Share my 2k size ebook library with my group of friends.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 weeks ago:
No, this is completely different. Incognito mode deletes all browsing data (locally) once the window closes.
This allows you to say, be logged into Facebook on one profile, logged into Google on a different profile, and logged into your daily browsing in a third profile. Or you can have multiple logged in YouTube sessions in case you’re a content creator, you can have a profile for each of your channels.
This way the cookies for each aren’t intermixed, and it would make it (slightly) harder to correlate browsing habits from embedded cookies or logged in sessions, or just to keep tabs and browsing history separate.
- Comment on Are there any decor people here? I ask because in the Big Lebowski it begins with a rug that tied the room together. In your opinion did it? 2 weeks ago:
Counterpoint.
The dude didn’t have many nice things, but that rug was one of them. He was shown meditating on the new rug, so maybe that was his daily ritual for staying dude-like.
It tied the room together cause it was a quality object that took the focus, in his eyes, off the junk that was everything else.
- Comment on At 1% 2 weeks ago:
BNC connections were used on professional level video equipment, if you were rich enough, you could get an extremely high quality computer monitor and video card that used those.
Older computers, especially early home computers sometimes just had composite connectors to a TV. Older computer monitors often had a composite input, but SCART was also an option.
Higher end computer monitors sometimes had similar inputs to early HDTVs, there’s a lot of crossover.
- Comment on At 1% 2 weeks ago:
If you were rich enough, could have only used displays with RGB-BNC.
Or maybe they’re kinda crazy and used Component video with a TV screen. (Or composite…)
Or maybe they’re just not that old.
- Comment on Saab Suggests Subscription Model for Weapon Systems 2 weeks ago:
Neat, now if your gun can’t connect to the license server for some reason, you can’t shoot back.
Maybe it’ll use Dunuvo and now there’s a bunch of lag between pushing the button and launching the missile.
- Comment on In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day. 3 weeks ago:
He’s a field reporter. He goes out into the world to write about stuff. If he’s gone for three weeks working on a story, that’s what it takes.
He’s also super smart and super fast, so he can write the story in a small fraction of the time as most reporters.So, as Superman, he flies to where the problem is, solves it, then writes about it as Clark Kent.
Same thing Spider-Man does, except a big part of it is also getting pictures of himself as Spider-Man doing the problem solving.
- Comment on A truck bed with a tonneau over it is just an SUV trunk with extra steps. 3 weeks ago:
They call them Toppers where I’m from.
- Comment on A handy chart 3 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999
Been there, done that.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 3 weeks ago:
They also don’t have that data. Who you talk to and when it also concealed from them.
Check out their blog article about “Sealed Sender” from back in 2018.
signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/Also note that the EFF encourages the use of Signal.
ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal - Comment on A handy chart 3 weeks ago:
I’d find it hard to believe anything could happen that would cause the moon to be thrown out of it’s orbit enough to end up on the far side of the sun, but leave earth unaffected.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fell off the horizon into a black hole 3 weeks ago:
The universe is flat.
Most galaxies are semi-flat rotating discs of stars.
Only solid-ish objects like planets, stars, moons, and black holes are spheres.
- Comment on [Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything? 4 weeks ago:
Ok. The answer is yes.
But the context is what makes it interesting.
- Comment on [Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything? 4 weeks ago:
With the AnyAustin videos, it’s the journey, not the answer.
If you just want a yes/no, this isn’t the video for you.
- Comment on smol 4 weeks ago:
Anglerfish lengths can vary from 2–18 cm (1–7 in), with a few species larger than 100 cm (39 in).[36] The largest members are the European monkfish Lophius piscatorius (200 cm (6.6 ft) SL, 57.7 kilograms (127 lb)), the deep-sea warty anglerfish Ceratias holboelli (120 cm (3.9 ft) TL), the giant frogfish Antennarius commerson (45 cm (1.48 ft) TL), and the giant triangular batfish Malthopsis gigas (13.6 cm (0.45 ft)).[37][38][39][40]
- Comment on Uh oh lol 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Uh oh lol 5 weeks ago:
Since the speed something is moving away is dependent on the distance, something billions of light years away is absolutely not going to be moving towards us, regardless of its local orbits.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 5 weeks ago:
If it’s blue shifting from that distance, then it’s likely some advanced technology is moving it in our direction.
There’s not many other explanations for that.
