chasing0entropy

Use NAT hole punching if you're advanced, or you could fall back to IP/port filtering

Any work aged human should be able to lift 50lbs.

That's roughly the weight of a small child or the torsional force required to drag an average sized male on grass.

That's the weight of a Fully loaded suitcase for a flight.

I mean, it's a fraction of the linear force required to push a stalled sedan and about the necessary force to remove, maneuver, or install a car battery

Lifting 50 lbs should be a general societal requirement. Thanks McDonald's for stating the obvious.

Good god,that is an ugly steering wheel.

Whenever I see this excellent utility I mention yacy - elastisearch. Organize your entire document collection, host a local search engine, Join a defederated cluster. Installs from binary, little maintenance, scheduled crawls.

Uses wkhtmltopdf to create pdf snapshots of everything it parses.

Oh, well since a pay walled site said it...

Needs a login, fail.

Actually if you declare the income and classify it correctly you are clear from an income oersoective; by disclosing the crime you risk confiscation and prosecution but neither would involve the irs beyond certification of your submissions. Source: armchair cpa

Cool story: despite obvious racketeering, murder, assault, bribery, corruption, and trafficking associations, what ultimately got capone was the IRS.

Simply remove the storage drives before it is serviced.

Common sense tech regulation from non ameri-centric societiy is becoming too common. While we (US) are trying to hoard chat bot technology, the rest of the world is hoarding solar, EV, and agricultural tech useful for their survival and ability to flourish in a resource poor world; instead we strive to eliminate jobs while turning water and electricity into text and photoshopped videos.

I remember tinkering with crafted Bluetooth requests to make a Nokia 8290 zero click dial a toll number. It's surprising how unprotected from a security perspective, the bt stack is.

1. If the bt radio is powered, it is possible to find and identify it even with it's beacon turned off.

2. With the advent of BLE there is no doubt about #1.

3. Both BT and Cell chipsets contain dozens of undocumented vendor specific and ubiquitous but underdocumented modem commands.

You can STILL use Bluetooth pairing spam to force an adversary to either be ddossed by pairing requests or approve pairing. Then use voice activation hooks to open voice typing and take a transcribed stream from an ostensible keyboard input.

It's ugly, why it isn't at least exposed as an option to enable for power users would make me look at some advantage time stamps would give to an inference scraper or possibly their service APIs don't have contemporaneous access to the metadata available from the web interface.

Aren't part of the cost Yet :) actually upgradeable components were priority when motherboards and CPUs were too expensive to upgrade, it was ram ssds and memory that were changed out...

Soon, now actually, it is the inverse. Ram, ssds, high speed network, consumer GPUs, and anything else that needs a modest amount of DRAM.

Internet ID + Covid policies + OPSEC, are you seriously saying you think the EU has not suffered the same fate as the US?

Ive got a Dell mini 9 with the last release of encyclopedia Britannica (2015) and Encarta installed on it for nostalgia. There will always be people who value a medium with words and ideas that can't be memory holed without a trace.

GPUs have always been an essential component in every real computer be it an x86 behemoth or a 3watt ARM SOC.

Adobe suite has had GPU acceleration for a decade+, most modern browsers have graphics acceleration (I would love to see full code and markdown acceleration). Despite my disdain for LLM anthropomorphization, widespread GPU acceleration support means multithread optimization for everything, which I support.

The criteria for hn content modwration is pretty clear - politics in general are avoided while interesting subject matter possibly relevant to the thacker community is allowed. I see articles which could be interpreted as leaning one political direction or another but those posts are usually of some informational value and require lottle effort to avoid/hide if you don't think it fits the content policy.

Usually i post and forget but your reasonable reply prompted some effort on my part.

I live life so that at any moment, if modern services of society (food, internet, power, shelter, entertsinment, transport, personal defense) ended, and I was forced to use what I had access to, that my quality of life would persist. Besides physical considerations (hydroponics, solar, guns, hardened vehicles), I maintain nonvolitile backups of the same software I use daily - vanilla(unpatched) OSs from xp to 11), current and older browsers, non-ssl based content and servers, games, music, movies, hoards of older hardware in a cage that may may an emp.. never tested it. Anything computer related I have works from a bare metal install with no internet connection period.

I use the same retail desktop, laptop, wifi, cellular, and wan hardware used by most consumers but only if I can reset and inialize it offline, and can use the built in firewall to restrict outgoing connections to a single executable single port whitelist including my phone. Which means no nags, no updates, no new features, no removed features, no app stores, no federated os logins, no new terms of service, and no telemetry unless I choose to connect that program to the internet and the program is flexible enough to use a single port.

Zero day exploits won't work on my android 11 s9 with no play services, deny all firewall, and non standard chrome build. In app browser updates don't work until I manually install the binary, most AI features are broken by default even on my win11 laptop.

It's not an easy life. But if you insist that software and hardware do what you wish, your actions should back that. My actions probably more than most. I pass on a decent amount of IT gigs because they require app tracking or that I use their monitoring software, or vpn... but everything I have I KNOW I control now and until it stops working and I buy two more identical and grossly obsolete replacements.

Well said. Vote with your wallet. Use software that doesn't require an internet connection, write software that doesn't use s3 or online dependencies, stop patronizing online gaming communities, no adobe, no QuickBooks cloud, , pirate apps(not because it's free, because they work offline)

I know you won't believe me, and my precious karma score may suffer by stating reality: you don't NEED security updates. A properly hardened server with no patches will outlive cobbled together trash library patch over garbage code pasted from ai vibing script kiddies. Would you shake your head in disbelief if I told you 'security patches' are the fix delivered by a dealer to quell your shivers?

Give me functionality updates, cumulative service packs, and the just after BBS days when an exploit discovered in your software meant it was used by no one, anywhere, because we no longer trust your coding or your 'fix'

Google claims Only they are allowed to scrape data for profit!

They are the same, however one has Money to defend the accusations.

There so e obvious caveats that make ipv6 migration impossible for most users: 1. Ipv6 bridges are not practical at scale which means best case is dual use protocols for a decade (or more) which no one wants to support.

2. Actual implementation MUST be ubiquitous (it never will be) some examples - glo fiber in Virginia, and while I can get pfsense assigned a ipv6 address, there is usually no upstream gateway (meaning that if I disable IPv4, I will not have internet). I say usually because of four times I've checked, once I did get assigned a gateway which was unresponsive even to icmp.

Starlink roam - assigns ipv6 but no bridge so if you disable v4 you lose access to most internet.

Frontier FiOS in Florida - does not support ipv6 at all on my node. I have seen business nodes in Orlando/Tampa assign addresses with bridging but again, without browser or dns translation it's not a practical solution.

3. 'Everyone' is not using ipv6, everyone plugs in or logs into a device that has whatever network stack it has. Those users are not suddenly going to jump through hoops simply to avoid CGNAT and get a unique network address

4. Infrastructure; I have two modest half racks on the east coast at decent sized datacenters (esolutions and peak10), neither of those hosts offer ipv6 routing blocks by default. No provider I have gotten quotes for offers ipv6 by default

One of the lesser known dictatorship plays: the ostensible increase of police presence with a proportionate and perceptible increase in crime lead the public and local governance to embrace harsher rule of law and violations of their rights under the auspices therin.

Tldr: there is an option to fmdowngrade an existing account from the subscriptions page but not create a new personal account without.

Better options is to cancel your subscription.

The solution is a separate, internet connected device to play media connected to a non-connected tv.

Your youth is showing.

The US manipulation of mass media playbook has been on repeat since before executive order 1602.

With that description you could have been using tiktok with a new account or instagram with a non-us account. Twitter is no more or less a cesspool of misinformation that every other algorythmic content addiction generator (aka 'social media' site).

These articles always surface before eff announces something major...

Projectors are a cool toy to show off, same for a projector as a monitor however even on lowest brightness and wattage a projector is a space heater with a quiet but still noisy fan.

The image of a $1100 short throw projector cannot even compare to a $600 75" tv from Walmart which would produce less heat and give you a far more true fake "e-ink" experience with real monochrome output.