cmnybo
@cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on This 50% recycled glass solar panel performs like brand new 2 days ago:
Of course there’s no difference. Glass is one of the most recyclable materials there is.
- Comment on Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers 6 days ago:
You can use the private DNS function with an ad blocking DNS server like AdGuard.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It would be nice if they banned it everywhere. It seems like a large portion of the scams I see online involve telegram.
- Comment on Ancient filament, salvageable? 1 week ago:
The ABS is more likely to be usable after drying.
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 1 week ago:
It’s been over a year since the last big Starlink outage. That’s a lot better than my old DSL provider.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 1 week ago:
There are browser addons that hide youtube shorts.
- Comment on What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside? 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need a static IP address, but you do need a public IP address. You can use dynamic DNS to avoid having to keep track of your IP address. FreeDNS will work fine for a basic setup.
Wireguard is one of the easiest VPN servers to use. If you’re not using your ISP’s router, it may even have Wireguard built in.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Ads used to be static text in the sidebar that the site owner manually put there. They didn’t have any tracking and didn’t slow down the loading time. Once they started adding images, I started using an ad blocker. I was stuck on dial-up until 2008 and a single, small image could add 10 or more seconds to the page loading time.
- Comment on Just a little server 2 weeks ago:
You can find used Thinkcenters pretty cheap with AMD CPUs. I recently got an M75s Gen2 with a Ryzen 3 4350G for around $100.
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 2 weeks ago:
It’s fairly minimal compared to the amount of microplastics that go down the drain every time someone washes a load of laundry made from synthetic fibers. At least PLA dust will break down a bit faster than many of the other microplastics.
- Comment on Tape drive backups 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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' 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks ago:
When I used dial-up, local calls were free.
- Comment on Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Got my first script kiddy 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
That uses proof of work rather than just detecting and blocking the bots.
- Comment on Tips for TPU? 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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”.