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mmwelton Quick VPN Setup with AWS Lightsail and WireGuard

Such hotels may simply be blocking UDP traffic entirely.

mmwelton Removing support for forwarded ports

To have a fixed internet point of presence, when frequently travelling. Otherwise, all kinds of services start complaining that you're logging in from a new location.

mmwelton Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain

In case anyone's wondering, this is a TV series:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0808491

mmwelton Functionality that has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Screen sharing seems to be a difficult problem to resolve. Zoom only just resolved this recently[1], Webex has been promising a fix for a while[2], and Skype still hasn't done anything[3].

[1] https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/6634039380877-Zoom...

[2] https://help.webex.com/en-us/article/9vstcdb/Webex-App-for-L...

[3] https://github.com/flathub/com.skype.Client/issues/142

mmwelton Word-processor idiot (Japanese expression)

This is often called 提笔忘字, translated to English as character amnesia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_amnesia

mmwelton Wine 8.0

About IrfanView: I've found nomacs to be a good Linux native replacement.

mmwelton The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)

I've found the main problem is when on a DFS channel and doing something real-time -- a Zoom/Skype call, for instance. Very noticeable then.

Also, don't use hidden SSIDs on a DFS channel: https://badfi.com/blog/2016/2/15/yet-another-reason-avoid-us...

mmwelton Jami: Share, Message, Call freely and privately

I tried this a couple of times but the main problem I encountered was: on Android, it doesn't seem to be possible to delete a conversation without also deleting the contact.

mmwelton Unredacter: Never use pixelation as a redaction technique

Hm. Pixelation may still work well with other languages, such as Chinese, though.

mmwelton Obese People Burn Calories Less Efficiently, Even After Weight Loss Surgery

What is interesting is that, "even after weight loss surgery, a formerly obese person would need to eat far fewer calories than a normal-weight person in order to maintain their weight loss."

In other words the MF didn't change even after reducing adipose tissue!

mmwelton OneDrive Ad in Windows 11 Logout Menu

Doesn't Apple do similar things, trying to get people to use iCloud?

mmwelton Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability

One probably important project that uses it is OpenConnect, as the VPN servers would probably be listening on a port reachable on the open internet.

mmwelton Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability

> And by widely leveraged, I mean almost completely ubiquitous, if you’re using HTTPS, chances are you’re using OpenSSL. Almost everyone is.

This is probably a bit of an exaggeration. There are quite a few other SSL implementations that actually are also "widely leveraged"[1]. In particular, LibreSSL was forked and cleaned up after Heartbleed. Google uses BoringSSL. GnuTLS is widely used and unrelated to OpenSSL.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementati...

mmwelton Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)

So, perhaps use acid-free paper and print the data as QR codes using a laser printer?

mmwelton iPhones and action discoverability

Is this a reference to "You're holding it wrong"[1]?

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=You%27re%20H...

mmwelton IPv6 Only Cloud Server

Similar offerings, but based in Switzerland:

https://ipv6onlyhosting.com/

mmwelton GoodbyeDPI: Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility

Doesn't work in China, though:

https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI/issues/123

mmwelton Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

I'm not the person you were replying to, but a few broken sites I've noticed are:

    web.skype.com
    Jitsi Meet (https://meet.jit.si/) -- apparently no support for insertable streams
    stuff.co.nz from outside NZ

mmwelton Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds

What helped me was not using a hidden SSID. Apparently, with hidden networks, the computer has to actively probe for the network, but passive probes don't affect latency as much.

mmwelton Wireless is a trap (2020)

Wouldn't be a problem if you have a Wireguard connection to your router.

mmwelton I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called

I wonder what the legal position is on this situation? Could this form of discrimination somehow be justified legally?

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Books & videos in Cree Plains:

https://www.jw.org/en/library/?contentLanguageFilter=crk-x-c...

mmwelton The Art of Plain Text (2015)

Quite so. Much of what the article says is interesting, but nowadays, I'd say using UTF-8 would be more reasonable.

mmwelton The Art of Plain Text (2015)

What's wrong with using UTF-8? Disregarding that I may want to write documents in a language that needs non-ASCII characters, I may want to use names of people or places that use non-ASCII characters.

mmwelton Barrier: Share mouse and keyboard between computers

Would be nice to have an Android client too!

mmwelton The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward

From the page you linked to:

> The tweaker is designed for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10.

Windows 11 probably isn't supported!

mmwelton Xiaomi cellphones can censor searches: NCC

The relevant comment from the previous thread is probably: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28620561

mmwelton Iceraven – Firefox for Android fork with more add-ons and configuration options

Iceraven also has an option to prevent frequent tab reloading[1], a problem that many users of Firefox have on Android[2].

[1] https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser/issues/...

[2] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731