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landgenoot··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
Never assume malicious intent when incompetence.

I have multiple devices that queries their update server every 15 seconds, which all shows up as the top 10 queried domain in my network.

landgenoot··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
I use a voyage as well. Wish it had USB-C, because that's the only device I use regularly that still has micro USB.

Apart from that it's great, books won't get any better with an upgraded ereader.

landgenoot··on PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
So, like Lineage. I still rock my CyanogenMod
landgenoot··on F-Droid 2.0
> The EU mandates the 2FA method shows information about the purchase you're authenticating (timestamp, amount and cc used in my case), making unconnected dongles impossible to use.

There are unconnected photoTAN devices that support this. They have a camera that reads a QR code. Some European banks use this. E.g. Vasco digipass 770

landgenoot··on An update on Wayback Machine access
I worked on this before. You can solve the privacy issue using "statistical payments", by lack of a better word.

You visit website A,A,A,B,C,D,A,A

At the end of the month, you send your entire 20$ randomly to one of the websites you visited.

This will level out everyone's contribution and reward websites with lots of traffic. It eliminates the need for micropayments.

landgenoot··on Singapore subway (mrt) information display types
Why are plasma displays being used? I would expect they would burn in rapidly.
landgenoot··on Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
I think Qdenga was approved in India very recently.
landgenoot··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Isn't this a matter of regulation? I'm not sure about US, but in EU you have old houses/buildings that are protected. Sure, you can buy them, but you can't modify or destroy them (being cultural heritage).
landgenoot··on Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale
> Do propery owners and travelers really care that much about the app?

There is a threshold how bad it can be. With airbnb they happen to exceed that threshold.

Their website is so bloated that I cannot use it on Firefox mobile. It simply did not load within 60 seconds.

Sorry, don't blame me for spending my money somewhere else.

landgenoot··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
> Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access patronview.com Why have I been blocked?

> This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

Thank you, from Vietnam.

landgenoot··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Other sites are blocking VPN's as well. It's a contineous hassle of turning VPN on and off.

It feels like you are a third class citizen.

landgenoot··on Man nearly sucked out of 'detached' window on Ryanair flight
I would perform a chargeback if I paid for a window seat.
landgenoot··on OpenPrinter
Offices, maybe. Photography, not at all. Some photographers prefer inkjet over minilab.
landgenoot··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
How do I compare the peering capabilities of different ISP's? Assuming tier 1 ISP's are not available in my geographic location.
landgenoot··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
I don't care about fancy numbers, I care about high quality peering.

I'd rather have a stable 50Mbit than 1Gbit and 0.5Mbit international peering with packet loss.

landgenoot··on Set up your own DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service
Android private DNS does not support alternate paths, alternative ports or basic http authentication.
landgenoot··on How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths
It's easy to dress up warm. I think it's mostly about costs, not climate.
landgenoot··on South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools
Could you elaborate on the DPI? Are VPN's banned or only specific VPN traffic.
landgenoot··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
Yes I meant to reply to someone else. My bad.
landgenoot··on Ipv6catnow.org – Ipv6actnow.org
I think we need one brave country to ban IPv4.

We are missing out on so much network innovation due to the lack of IPv6 support. This innovation is increasingly needed to become less dependent on big tech.

Isn't it amazing that we have platform independent technology that allows you to call someone _on their IP address_? Or have someone start selling delivery pizza's independently by running an app that listens on port 80? What about a garage door opener that responds within 30ms instead of going through several cloud services first?

Not until we have a 100% IPv6 adoption rate!

landgenoot··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
Mine doesn't remember the last opened books when the date isn't correct. Unfortunately you cannot set the date manually.
landgenoot··on Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation
I use them on a daily basis, but I have my doubts about the health aspects. They have literal rough edges. I had to throw 10% away because I hurt myself while cleaning them and they are hard to clean.

On the streets I saw some buildup dirtiness behind those edges directly below the part you touch with your mouth.

Moreover, they are cooled down during the production process in the ashes, so they are very dirty when delivered.

landgenoot··on Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone
> 1 watt transmit can go miles yet sips your phone’s battery

How far can such a device reach in a typical urban environment with the longer antenna?

landgenoot··on Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer
Isn't the point that it's integrated in the keyboard, so that you don't have to move your hands away to use it?
landgenoot··on Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
Until you have a real life scenario and are dependent on 3 external services that spit out enormous JSON's.

It's nice for writing libraries though

landgenoot··on Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds (2024)
What is the framework of the TV's these days? I still have a 2011 high end Samsung that has no Wifi, but this thing is not going to last forever.
landgenoot··on IPv6 is the only way forward
> The INET6 data type is intended for storage of IPv6 addresses, as well as IPv4 addresses assuming conventional mapping of IPv4 addresses into IPv6 addresses.
landgenoot··on First lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000
> "He's got all the money in the world but there's one thing he can't buy." "What's that?" ... "A dinosaur."

This is getting close

landgenoot··on CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
The lightning network supports transactions starting from 1 Satoshi.

One Satoshi is currently worth $0.000713.

landgenoot··on We installed a single turnstile to feel secure
I think it's the coffee machine at the office
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