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- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 hours ago:
Access points and routers are usually separate once you get away from the consumer grade stuff. The people that run OPNsense at home often use MikroTik or Ubiquiti access points.
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 5 hours ago:
$150 will get you a mini PC that you can run OPNsense on. Hopefully they don’t ban WiFi access points next.
- Comment on Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address? 6 days ago:
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 week ago:
If you don’t want to write native code, then make a PWA. At least those don’t run a separate copy of chrome for each program.
- Comment on a VPN that is easily self-hostable and resistant to blocking? 1 week ago:
You can use stunnel to make your VPN look like HTTPS.
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 1 week ago:
Most ISPs have remote access to their modems. You should use your own if possible. If you can’t, then put it in bridge mode and connect your own router to it.
- Comment on 79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns. 1 week ago:
Those WiFi SD cards probably aren’t any more secure than the cameras.
If the camera supports downloading video over USB, you can get a USB OTG cable to connect it to a phone or tablet. Otherwise a card reader is the way to go.
- Comment on Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the F 1 week ago:
If a fediverse server has too many users for the mods to keep up with, they really should close the registration.
- Comment on [Zack Freedman] You can copy and 3D print perfect spare parts! (Legally) (Probably) 1 week ago:
Nobody’s going to know what you’re printing at home unless you’re using one of those spyware filled, cloud connected printers.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
Look for an armored HDMI cable. They are wrapped in a steel jacket. Conduit is also an option.
- Comment on 'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis 2 weeks ago:
It’s delay line memory. It was common back in the days of vacuum tube computers.
- Comment on Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld 2 weeks ago:
I’m more interested in the big enterprise grade NVMe drives. Those can be made to work on normal hardware unlike the HBM RAM.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 2 weeks ago:
The law would allow you to sue whoever is running the chatbot. If you run your own LLM locally and take bad advice from it, then it’s your own fault.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 2 weeks ago:
That’s nice you can replace the charging port without reflowing the motherboard now.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 2 weeks ago:
Lead acid batteries like to be kept fully charged all the time and don’t like to be discharged below 50% state of charge.
Lithium batteries like to be kept around half charged. They degrade quicker when kept at a high or low state of charge. Running lithium batteries from 20-80% does extend the lifespan, but charging to 100% is fine when you need to go on a longer trip. Just don’t keep it at 100% for long periods of time.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 3 weeks ago:
That’s what MidnightBSD did.
California residents are not authorized to use MidnightBSD for desktop use in the state of California effective January 1, 2027. California law CA AB1043 requires a complex age verification system implemented for operating systems with no exceptions for small open source projects. At this time, we don’t have development time or a plan in place for this.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 3 weeks ago:
The photo ID requirements are what will come next.
- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 3 weeks ago:
Any password manager worth using will generate secure passwords. There is absolutely no reason to use AI for that.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 3 weeks ago:
Backblaze personal doesn’t support Linux or BSD, so it would be useless for a NAS.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 3 weeks ago:
Normal blurays are easy to rip. The 4k ones need a drive with hacked firmware.
- Comment on FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me 4 weeks ago:
Letting AI code a kernel module is a terrible idea. A bad kernel module can easily crash the system and can create all kinds of security vulnerabilities.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 4 weeks ago:
Phones, tablets & computers have it too.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 4 weeks ago:
It keeps someone from booting code that hasn’t been signed with my key. That’s the whole point of secure boot. If someone else has the key, then it’s not secure anymore.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 4 weeks ago:
Secureboot is worthless if the Microsoft keys are still enabled. It should only allow code that you sign yourself to boot.
- Comment on Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies 4 weeks ago:
It’s for archival of data that needs to be stored for thousands of years, not for consumer use.
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The AI bubble can’t burst soon enough.
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 4 weeks ago:
From what I’ve heard, google free android versions won’t be effected.
- Comment on Global YouTube outage sees video platform homepage go dark 4 weeks ago:
Search still works and I can view the videos & channels I’ve bookmarked.
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 5 weeks ago:
If they are based out of China, then Amazon won’t get a single cent out of them. They will be back up with a new name and website soon.