cmnybo
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- Comment on Tape drive backups 1 day ago:
LTO tape is good for 30 years when properly stored. You should be transferring the data to a newer format much sooner than that anyways. LTO drives are only backwards compatible for 1 or 2 versions, so you probably won’t be able to find a working drive that can read your tape 30 years later.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 day ago:
I’ve never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 day ago:
Solar panels are already quite cheap. What we need is much cheaper grid forming inverters so we can stop destabilizing the grid with solar.
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 5 days ago:
When I used dial-up, local calls were free.
- Comment on Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots 6 days ago:
- Comment on Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots 6 days ago:
- Comment on Got my first script kiddy 6 days ago:
Switch to IPv6 only and the port scans will go away. The address space is so big that port scanning is difficult, so the usual bots don’t bother.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster 1 week ago:
Yeah, but it can’t run a decent ad blocker. That makes it useless to me.
- Comment on TikTok’s ‘ban’ problem could end soon with a new app and a sale 1 week ago:
Just ban it already. Nobody needs that brain rotting site.
- Comment on New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
Use your own modem and router so your ISP doesn’t have access to it.
- Comment on China bans uncertified and recalled power banks on planes 1 week ago:
I would much rather have a safer battery, even if it’s a bit bigger and heavier.
- Comment on China bans uncertified and recalled power banks on planes 1 week ago:
It would be nice if they would switch to safer batteries like LiFePO4 for power banks. They rarely catch fire and you can put them out with a fire extinguisher.
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 1 week ago:
How is that even supposed to work? The laser beam has to be reflected back down to the sensor in order to read the CD.
- Comment on Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence 1 week ago:
I think just about everyone who is not an executive at a tech company is highly skeptical of AI.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers 2 weeks ago:
That uses proof of work rather than just detecting and blocking the bots.
- Comment on Tips for TPU? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never had too much trouble removing TPU from a textured PEI plate. If the part doesn’t want to come off, lift up a corner of the part with a knife and put a drop of IPA under it.
- Comment on Netflix teams up with NASA to show live rocket launches and spacewalks 2 weeks ago:
It’s that thing that won’t let you watch videos in the quality you paid for if they don’t like the device or browser you use.
- Comment on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
Mesh should be an option of last resort. It reduces the speed and increases the latency quite a bit. The only thing worse is power line networking, which has the side effect of turning your whole house into an RF jammer.
- Comment on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
The cell carriers don’t need more bandwith. 5G is already quite fast with the existing allocations. The only times I’ve used 5G and thought it’s too slow has been in rural areas where the issue is a lack of nearby cell towers, not a lack of bandwidth. The cell carriers already have loads of millimeter wave bandwidth available for use in densely packed, urban areas where the lower frequency bands are insufficient.
It’s WiFi that should be getting more bandwidth. Home internet connections keep getting faster. Multi gigabit speeds are now common in areas with fiber.
- Comment on How to dry silica gel 2 weeks ago:
I dry my silica gel in a convection toaster oven at 125°C. I put a temperature probe in the bottom of the tray. The temperature will hold around 100°C while it’s drying and jumps up fairly quickly when it’s done. It usually takes around 90 minutes.
Don’t put indicating silica gel in anything you will use for food, it’s toxic. Some types are less toxic than others, but none are completely safe. I picked up a used toaster oven and baking tray from a thrift store and marked then “not for food”.
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes they fail to update. I would imagine that there are quite a few people who don’t bother setting up monitoring software to let them know if the certificate fails to update.
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy 2 weeks ago:
There will probably be a lot more websites with expired certificates soon.
- Comment on New Stainless Steel Filament Simplifies Metal 3D Printing on Desktop FDMs 2 weeks ago:
There’s no ads when you’re using uBlock Origin.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The Pi Zero 2w will provide more than enough performance to stream a movie over Wireguard.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
How much throughput do you need? The Pi Zero 2w will be fine on a DSL or cable connection, but it will limit your bandwidth on fiber.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 2 weeks ago:
So how do you determine if your headphones have the vulnerable chip in them?
- Comment on Is SPI just "slow"? 2 weeks ago:
That display can run a maximum SPI clock speed of 15MHz. That’s enough to update the full screen about 45 times a second when using RGB565 mode. If you are using an ATmega based Arduino, it’s probably the CPU that’s limiting your speed. Color graphics take a lot of processing power. Just make sure you’re using hardware SPI and that the SPI clock is set as high as it will go without going over 15MHz.
- Comment on Home surveillance set up 2 weeks ago:
The GPU won’t have any issues encoding several video streams at the same time. That’s not really necessary though. The cameras will do the encoding for you. Just set the bitrate and framerate that you want on the camera and pass that through. Most cameras support two streams, the secondary stream is usually limited to SD though. All of my Hikvision cameras support RTSP. It’s mostly just the consumer grade crap that only works with the manufacturers cloud service so they can spy on you or restrict features whenever they want.
Don’t make the mistake I did and buy any Hikivision stuff from Amazon. They are all grey market and the firmware can’t be updated. I tried to update one of mine and now the user interface is stuck in Chinese. You have to get them from an authorized distributor.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 3 weeks ago:
My watch runs for years from a coin cell. There’s no way that I’m replacing it with an internet connected spy device that constantly needs to be charged.
- Comment on We solved the Smartphone Keyboard problem back in 2013… It’s time to bring this concept back 3 weeks ago:
I would much rather have a slide out keyboard.
