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worldofmatthew··on My BC-250 Journey (With 40 CUs Unlocked)
I did Aliexpress coupon + Pay Later discount + Cashback. Whole set up including PSU, Fans and the stick on extra heatsinks will be around £130 all in once paid out.
worldofmatthew··on SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030
> mainlaind china

Exactly. China wil push for it as China factories will supply Chinese AI first.

worldofmatthew··on TV Won't Connect to Open Wi-Fi Without Permission or Have a 4G Modem
I'm pretty sure its similar in America as well.
worldofmatthew··on LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
Your smart TV would make you risk going to prison for theft? Just because its open does not mean permission to use.
worldofmatthew··on The UKs Smartphone Nude Filter Plan Is Insane
You did not read it. Literally content legal to view in person is not allowed.
worldofmatthew··on Acquire a Inexpensive Computer During This Time of Historically High Prices
He uses a slow DSL connection to self-host and AI bots are causing his connection to break.
worldofmatthew··on reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops
Requiring extra expenses is discrimination.
worldofmatthew··on reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops
Blind people need to start suing at least in America the ADA is far easier to win against large companies than in the UK as the equality act is treated vastly weaker by judges than if someone presented a religion or race lawsuit.

America is the only place to take down big tech discrimination.

worldofmatthew··on What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]
I am planning a blog post soon on this topic and all the ways a "VPN Block" can be bypassed and how even trying could cause internet bills to skyrocket.
worldofmatthew··on What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]
Its a picture of a women staring forward, laying against a wall, taken at a semi-side angle.
worldofmatthew··on A Decade of World of Matthew (Part 1)
Thank you, I have fixed the date.
worldofmatthew··on Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps
For walking direction Google Maps is a disaster (More than road directions). 90% of footpaths simply don't exist on there and the ones listed on Google Maps are often completely wrong.
worldofmatthew··on The "Cheap" Web
I mean the blog post itself has no images.
worldofmatthew··on The "Cheap" Web
I'm guessing Cheap does not count for the blog post with no included image weighting over 1MB....... 315KB for HTML and looks like your "favicon.ico" is literally a copy of the webpage...
worldofmatthew··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
Anti-Trust anyone?
worldofmatthew··on Re-encode AVIF images for iOS 16 (2023)
This is more posted to show just how broken IOS/IPAD OS support for AVIF is. This person suggestion did not work for me and most images on my website show a question mark when safari or every browser using webkit.

What a joke. Claim to support a format but it just looks to be partial support following a very limited part of the spec with no fallback if your images does not match up to that.

Google, Mozilla can do what Apple is too incompetent to do. And yes this will feature in a blog post of mines in a few days.

worldofmatthew··on On Privacy Memes
Streaming over Tor can be done (the network is fast enough) for around 720P. And you are forgetting more VPN providers use one or two British network provider for most of their location (M247 and Datacamp), those networks may be closely monitored by the authorities.
worldofmatthew··on I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet
That is very correct.

Normal browsers being used is a massive downside for anonymity of I2P. The Tor browser tries to make everyone on the Tor network look the same.

worldofmatthew··on Raspberry Pi 5: available now
Tomorrow I will collect my Raspberry Pi 5 :) (From the official Raspberry pi store)
worldofmatthew··on Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident
Cloudflare is horrible for privacy. It is also a bit of a sovereignty issue for European countries to have all their citizens web habits to be MITM by a forging power (no matter how friendly they seam).

Edit: not even going in to the sovereignty issue of having an American private company effectively decide your internet regulations.

worldofmatthew··on Snowflake
It not an exit. But by default someone has to knowingly run the Snowflake applet but webmasters could modify the code to automatically essentially start a Tor guard in someones browser. Though, that would be very evil to abuse someones resources like that.

That example has the users consent before starting.

worldofmatthew··on G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics
I've seen SEO spam sites that have been running for years without Google doing anything about them. Google could do a lot better.
worldofmatthew··on PhpBB
No
worldofmatthew··on JPEG XL against AVIF tested on ImageEngine
Are you using squoosh.app (That app is crap as it uses default settings optimized for AV1 video?
worldofmatthew··on JPEG XL against AVIF tested on ImageEngine
You can also adjust that deblocking in AVIF.
worldofmatthew··on Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about dropping JPEG XL support
That ticket has not been updated in about 6 months....
worldofmatthew··on Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices
Most do it for free. Powermods often are getting paid to promote stuff.
worldofmatthew··on At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end
The raspberry pi becomes even more outdated....
worldofmatthew··on This site is no longer solar powered for now
In the UK, USB 4G LTE adapters are cheaply available 2nd hand. Plug that into a SBC and away you go.
worldofmatthew··on HBO Max new Captcha system
I think re-posting one of my past comments might be appropriate:

"All Captcha's could in the USA be illegal aswell under the ADA.... As some people with learning disabilities won't be able to complete them."

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