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- Comment on Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office? 1 day ago:
The SSH and VPN traffic is encrypted. Unless your private keys have been compromised, nobody can see what is going over the tunnel. They can log things like the IP addresses that are connecting to it and how much data is being transferred though.
- Comment on Blocking Gmail ads is possible! Here's how in 2025. 3 days ago:
Use your own email client instead of their crappy web UI or app.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 3 days ago:
Well, my ad blocker will just block twice as many ads then.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 3 days ago:
The new car is worse. They will sell your info to the highest bidder.
- Comment on Does Bambu lab transparent petg just suck as a material? 5 days ago:
Unless the filament ships in a foil lined bag that’s vacuum sealed with desiccant and an indicator card, you should assume it’s wet.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 5 days ago:
Yeah, they probably want to kill it and switch people over to a cloud service with a monthly subscription.
- Comment on LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System 5 days ago:
The issue with Starlink is power consumption. You will have to run your generator frequently to keep the batteries charged up.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 5 days ago:
Yes, they are called flexi discs.
- Comment on Space Pirates Are No Longer Confined To Works Of Science Fiction 1 week ago:
There’s been pirates on FLTSATCOM for decades. That’s what you get when you launch a bunch of satellites that repeat anything with no authentication though.
- Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t recommend putting something power hungry like a GPU in one of these. A NIC will be fine though.
- Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot? 1 week ago:
They are not USB based, they just happen to use a USB 3 cable to carry the PCIe signals.
- Comment on How do I fit a network card with a physical x4 slot into an x1 slot? 1 week ago:
If you don’t want to risk modifying the slot, try one of the cheap PCIe risers on amazon and send it back if it doesn’t work. You will need a case with a couple of extra slots under the motherboard in order to fit the riser in there though.
It will run slower, but that probably won’t be an issue unless you plan to max out all 4 ports simultaneously.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 1 week ago:
The K1 has root access and you can use whatever slicer you want. They are probably not the best machines if you want to install plain clipper though.
- Comment on China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms 1 week ago:
I’m sure that ban doesn’t apply to government operated facial recognition cameras though.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 2 weeks ago:
That’s the word of this decade.
- Comment on Is the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into space 3 weeks ago:
What would they use it for? The 2.5 seconds of latency would be too high for most uses. Cooling will be very difficult with no atmosphere. Solar power will be hard since night time lasts two weeks. Radiation will damage electronics unless they bury them.
- Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Be sure to use constant quality mode too. Set the RF to around 16-18 for SD video when using x264 or x265. The lower you set it, the higher the quality is.
- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 3 weeks ago:
Pirated copies rarely contain any of the extras. Some people actually do watch those.
- Comment on Google Photos will no longer sync with third-party digital photo frames 3 weeks ago:
Well, you are going to have to trust someone to store your offsite backup unless you can afford a second house somewhere. It should be a backup service where you can encrypt the data before uploading it though.
- Comment on Google Photos will no longer sync with third-party digital photo frames 3 weeks ago:
You shouldn’t be trusting google to store your photos anyways.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 4 weeks ago:
The latency of RAM has been around 10ns for the last couple decades. The latency of a good NVMe SSD is about 1000 times worse than RAM.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 4 weeks ago:
There’s lots of demand for large drives, it’s mostly for enterprise drives though.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 4 weeks ago:
It wasn’t that long ago when RAM had similar transfer speeds.
With PCIe 6, consumer grade SSDs shouldn’t need more than a single lane. That will be nice since AMD and Intel have been pretty skimpy with the PCIe lanes lately.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 4 weeks ago:
Probably E-LORAN. It’s ground based and transmits significantly more power than GPS. That makes it harder to jam, especially over a wide area.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 4 weeks ago:
uBlock works fine in Firefox and its forks.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 4 weeks ago:
uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock are still free.
- Comment on Advice for quick and easy pet can with remote access 4 weeks ago:
Zonemider is accessed through a web interface. Just enable HTTPS and put a lets encrypt certificate on the web server. Of course if you don’t have a publicly accessible IP address, things get more complicated since you will need a VPN or some sort of tunnel.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 4 weeks ago:
You can still get dot matrix printers with cheap, 3rd party ribbons.
- Comment on Advice for quick and easy pet can with remote access 4 weeks ago:
You could install ZoneMinder and set it up with your webcam. It will do recording and basic motion detection. You don’t have to mess with any docker stuff, it just needs a recent version of Debian or Ubuntu. If you want to access it from a phone, I would suggest using the zmNinja app since the web UI sucks on mobile.
Some actual CCTV IP cameras would be better than a webcam if you can still find any that provide an RTSP stream and don’t require any of that cloud crap.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 weeks ago:
How recent does the printer have to be for them to do this?
The two that I have are old and the toner cartridges don’t even have a chip in them, so I doubt they could tell if the toner is 3rd party.