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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
This reads like AI slop. Or, even worse, new age gibberish. Downvoted
- Comment on When will we have auto turrets mounted on plane engines to stop birdstrikes? 1 day ago:
Easy, use dry ice bullets!
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 1 day ago:
On desktop: uBlock origin (Vivaldi or Firefox). On mobile: Newpipe and AdAway (VPN mode, or rooted phone).
- Comment on Liberating manuals from the many jails of manuals into InternetArchive 3 days ago:
I have particular seething hatred for Scribd. That site needs to die in a fire (after all of its jailed manuals are liberated, of course ;) )
- Comment on Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’ 4 days ago:
If it doesn’t 100% look like a Heil, and isn’t repeated twice, sure.
- Comment on Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals 4 days ago:
archive.is or their mirrors should also be used, as archive.org has proven vulnerable to takedown requests from corporations, wouldn’t surprise me if they could be coerced into removing their data by USA govt request as well.
- Comment on Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’ 4 days ago:
As they say though, even a broken clock can be right twice a day
Use of a phrase doesn’t automatically imply agreement with its originator.
- Comment on Self host websites 5 days ago:
Yeah… and unless you really, really enjoy configuring your own stuff and tinkering, a hosting service is much easier.
- Comment on Self host websites 5 days ago:
If you’re in Canada, Rogers (nee Shaw) and Telus business small business plans both offer ‘static’ IPs (Shaw’s residential plans aren’t officially static, but they rarely change on a residential modem unless you are always switching out hardware). Telus business fibre 1GB plan offers up to 5 static IP addresses.
Then you must purchase one or more domain names and assign them to your IP address… depending on your business’s needs even small consumer hardware can run a web server just fine.
Have a backup strategy though! And be sure you actually test the restore procedure on a periodic basis!
My home server is my own, but if money is on the line you want proper backup and failover even. Most Linux distributions are easy-peasy to set up with Apache or nginx web servers but if you’ve never set those up you’ll need to study lots of tutorials and manual pages.
If you don’t want to tend to security and backups yourself though, it might be best to find a hosting service.
- Comment on Simple Sabotage Field Manual by the United States. Office of Strategic Services four friends in the US. 6 days ago:
There are multiple PDF copies on archive.org as well, which are somewhat more readable.
- Comment on Donald Trump imposes tariffs but Canada and Mexico hit back 1 week ago:
What would you recommend I look for from Sweden? I’m always open to new foods to try!
- Comment on Donald Trump imposes tariffs but Canada and Mexico hit back 1 week ago:
Good point, rest of the world’s invited (well, I there are a few I’d rather we don’t deal with at all)
- Comment on Donald Trump imposes tariffs but Canada and Mexico hit back 1 week ago:
To all our friends in the Commonwealth – please urge your local governments to seek expanding trade with Canada and Mexico. Let’s all work to reduce our reliance on the US economy right now. We need to show we can survive without them, if they choose to sustain this hostile action.
- Comment on Today I found out about blinking LEDs 2 months ago:
Is it true, or just a myth, that some of those cheap plastic votive candlelights actually use the same IC/circuit as musical greeting cards in order to flicker (that is, they’re ‘playing’ some song to the LED instead of a speaker)? I forget where I heard that but thought it was a clever hack if true.
- Comment on What 175 years of data tell us about house price affordability in the UK 2 months ago:
Well on the way back to serfdom… wonderful.
- Comment on An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS 2 months ago:
Oh, just 32 inches diagonal. I suppose it would be tough to source a monitor as large as those modern living-room TVs.
Are models marked as ‘commercial displays’ or ‘digital signage’ free of the smart TV junk?
- Comment on An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS 2 months ago:
Hence the reason I just bought a decent used monitor + external speaker when our last ‘smart’ TV died. Just give me a dumb display, please.
- Comment on Don't call it a Substack 2 months ago:
Same for ‘Medium dot com’. Another attempt at a walled garden for people’s thoughts.
- Comment on Question: What mineral/compound do modern arthropods use for their eyes (vs. Trilobites with their calcite lenses)? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Question: What mineral/compound do modern arthropods use for their eyes (vs. Trilobites with their calcite lenses)? 2 months ago:
Ah! So the same as the rest of their hard parts, I suppose. I suspected as much, but couldn’t seem to find any paper that explicitly stated this.
Thank you!
- Submitted 2 months ago to science@mander.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on How else are ypu supposed to check for a beam on your accelerator? 2 months ago:
Don’t be Anatoli Bugorski!
… or the guy involved in the Hanoi Incident.
- Comment on Lack of D 3 months ago:
Aaah! Begone hellspawn!
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- Comment on Minecraft is getting a new biome and The Creaking, a creepy mob that only moves when you look away 4 months ago:
Which came first, Weeping Angels or SCP-173?
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 5 months ago:
When our last TV which was ‘smart’ died, we just bought a big lcd monitor at the pawn shop. We already were only using Kodi on an Android box, so a monitor with external speaker is fine. (Seemed spyware free last time I checked, but beware no-name android media boxes on=from eBay etc., use a tiny or old spare PC instead if you wish).
One must ‘sail the high seas’ tovget content, of course…
- Comment on Waymo’s robotaxi depot is still honking its San Francisco neighbors awake 5 months ago:
Hmm, nothing a little thermite on their hoods wouldn’t fix?
- Submitted 7 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says 7 months ago:
Sounds like we’re all going to need to start putting the equivalent of Trap Streets in all our web content, source code, etc.
I heard someone has already had success placing nonsense in a white-on-white box of their site, later querying commercial AI to prove it was ingested w/o permission.
- Comment on Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility 9 months ago:
You can, but now it’s called “a big monitor and your own server with a personal media library”.
- Comment on How disheartening for Snowden to do the right thing and be stranded in Russia. 9 months ago:
You spread misinformation. Anyone who cares to do so can verify the info I give below.
Snowden stated from the start that he originally intended to go from Hong Kong to Ecuador, who had promised him asylum. He intentionally gave away all copies of his data, destroying his own, to the journalists who had met him in Hong Kong to evaluate his leaks (verify sources before believing those who claim ‘he leaked info to Russia’). He fully intended to be ‘clean’ if he were interdicted on his way out of Hong Kong.
The US illegally (violating international law! It is illegal for a nation to render their own citizen stateless while abroad) revoked his US passport as he flew to Russia, which he meant to be a temporary stop only to obtain passage on a flight to Ecuador as Ecuadorian officials were to be there in order to receive him.
The President of Ecuador’s own Presidential Plane, with the Ecuadorian President onboard was forcibly grounded over EU airspace, by fighter jets, at the USA’s behest, on suspicioun that Snowden might be aboard. Snowden was trapped in a Russian airport, against his will, with no valid passport, essentially rendered Stateless – again, a violation of international law perpetrated by the USA against one of its own citizens.
Imagine the USA’s response if Airforce One were forcibly grounded to a foreign airport, by foreign fighter-jets, at the behest of another country.