abwizz

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by abwizz 3y ago
> American is pretty urbanized. Less than 20% of the population lives in rural areas i'd like that number put into perspective, but it does not feel like on the low end. > Yet the most popular vehicle for the past few years has b
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by abwizz 3y ago
because those 3rd-party resolvers are not under your control, which is usually interesting for someone running a homelab, and lie in responses. "it's always dns" should ring a bell :)
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by abwizz 3y ago
it's even more economical to buy more hardware than hire somebody to maintain it properly
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by abwizz 3y ago
so, there are cases where btle does randomize the mac address, but not when using 'normal' bluetooth things
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by abwizz 3y ago
blood sugar monitors are rather popular as well
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by abwizz 3y ago
tbf a lot of murricans live in rural environments where a truck does indeed make sense because of the lots of unpaved roads. city dwellers not so much
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by abwizz 3y ago
typical laptop goes below 10W while serving a gbps of samba
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by abwizz 3y ago
> Laptops make great servers because they are optimised for low power consumption + you get a free console and UPS built-in > Make use of the stuff you already have before buying new stuff. this is the way!
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by abwizz 3y ago
fwiw quality/longlevity and up-front investment often go hand in hand, so most consumers of pricy stuff enjoy a lower tco than poor ppl that often reach for the cheapest thing that'll fill their need.
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by abwizz 3y ago
my take from this document is that it is enabled for the low-energy variant but not the normal bt (with more reach). care to verify? my 1st-gen se with ios 15.whatever does NOT randomize the mac address in normal bt probes
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by abwizz 3y ago
bt is flaky enough as it is ;) but yea, fwiw bt mac addresses are NOT randomized on google and apple platforms and serve as a constant identification provider for anyone that cares (e.g. retailers). wifi macs are randomized for a few years
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by abwizz 3y ago
but i hope you can appreciate the ugliness of a situation were a shady for-profit org decides if you get someting to eat and is incentivised to err on the side of fraud-prevention
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by abwizz 3y ago
interesting i was running various jelly bean custom roms and band selection was a common feature iirc
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by abwizz 3y ago
the method will leak eventually subjecting all selfdriving cars to dos attacks
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by abwizz 3y ago
ususally a computer that is connected to the internet does indeed run untrusted code all the time
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by abwizz 3y ago
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878
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by abwizz 3y ago
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878
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by abwizz 3y ago
it'll be a day of celebration when apple allows fuse as a backend.
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by abwizz 3y ago
most games back in the day had to have a self-host option for lan gaming w/o internet access. this usually also works with global ip addresses
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by abwizz 3y ago
try switching your dns resolver, as mentioned in thread
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by abwizz 3y ago
if you can't trust your isp than either find someone that you can trust (by verification) or run your own resolver. there was a recent move from the eu to have an eu-centric public resolver which brought up the question if/how the
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by abwizz 3y ago
oversubscription ratios for consumer isp's are typically in the hundreds. and mostly that is fine because wifi is also involved which will domniate any availability or service quality metrics.
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by abwizz 3y ago
i'm reasonable certain that the majority here can stare at a screen for days at a time w/o involving smarthphones or social media. but, yea, i also despise ppl wasting their in-person time with screens
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by abwizz 3y ago
> To have sex, first of all you need to meet new people bummer worthwile alternative: get hooked up with someone you already know
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by abwizz 3y ago
> The Sears catalog wasn't replaced by porn, it was replaced by insta/tiktok thirst traps. imo there was a span of about twenty years of online erotica in between before the user-generated variant became ubiqutious on mainstrea
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by abwizz 3y ago
thanks for the thought! now i wonder how the distribution looks like
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by abwizz 3y ago
so what?
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by abwizz 3y ago
i too feel entitled to get stuff from a public library w/o having to deal with a for-profit company. also drm-free media because i grew up with copying stuff from libraies (books, cassette tapes, cds, vhs ...) and imho this is still a
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by abwizz 3y ago
idk. althou the instantaneousness is a newish thing, erotic art is definetly not and jacking off is not even exclusive to humans. thou i cannot see how internet porn could go away w/o also taking free speech along with it.
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by abwizz 3y ago
i guess there is something to be said in favor of humans and computers meeting half way

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