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by amatecha 8mo ago
Yeah, I made a website as part of a class at BCIT in 1995 and we just had a raw IP so I was showing people my awesome website on http://142.232.162.27 (actual IP) every chance I got.. for all like, 2-3 some-odd people I knew who
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by amatecha 8mo ago
> the "dumb" feed from my instance was already enough to waste my time I guess you joined a crappy instance. The Explore feed on my instance is freakin' awesome and full of a constant stream of interesting and enjoyable p
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by amatecha 8mo ago
I mean.. I'm not feeling like you have sufficiently debunked the argument I was citing/referencing. I have a 2012 thinkpad, and a 2018 thinkpad. They both pull the same wattage. It didn't benefit anyone for me to upgrade t
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by amatecha 8mo ago
The argument I've heard is (and unfortunately I can't find offhand where I've heard this), is basically rather than having new computers made and all the vast energy usage required to do so (mining/refining metals, compu
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by amatecha 8mo ago
it's a bot or AI or something, check their other comments. totally nonsensical posts
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by amatecha 8mo ago
I almost clarified that - Google Search is definitely part of that very centralized, corporate-owned web I was referring to. Like what you're describing is exactly what I'm talking about. But there are more and more niche obscur
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by amatecha 8mo ago
maybe the centralized, corporate-owned web, but not the internet... at least, not yet...
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by amatecha 8mo ago
The current record for ground-to-ground link on meshtastic is a staggering 331km, pretty insane https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/range-tests/ Prev record was 254km. High elevation is your friend haha
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by amatecha 8mo ago
I figured this might be about Meshtastic before I clicked the link. There is a lot of Meshtastic use in some areas in UA and they even use the mesh network to relay announcements of incoming air strikes. You can see the web dashboard for
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by amatecha 8mo ago
That's what I call it, "American AliExpress" lol
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by amatecha 8mo ago
Due to [0] and [1] I'm using the new fork "CoMaps" now, feature comparison: https://www.comaps.app/support/how-do-the-features-differ-fr... It's pretty excellent! The improved integration with Op
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by amatecha 8mo ago
What better way to bolster your reputation than to get your buddies to prop you up with fluff pieces? Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
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by amatecha 8mo ago
Nice, totally! My buddy and I played Bolo and Marathon as well, and later Quake. Great times :)
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by amatecha 8mo ago
Doom Shareware was originally just 2mb or so, enough to fit on two floppies: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Shareware
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by amatecha 8mo ago
Yeah, text editing on iOS has gotten progressively worse and worse. It's astonishing how much it has degraded in usability compared to the earlier versions of iOS. "It just works" is no longer a phrase I would ever consider
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by amatecha 8mo ago
Yup, seems pretty easy to spin up a bunch of fake blogs with fake articles and then intersperse a few hit pieces in there to totally sabotage someone's reputation. Add some SEO to get posts higher up in the results -- heck, the fake s
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by amatecha 8mo ago
Yeah, it doesn't matter to me whether AI wrote it or not. The person who wrote it, or the person who allowed it to be published, is equally responsible either way.
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by amatecha 8mo ago
Google literally just settled for $68m about this very issue https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/26/google-pr... > Google agreed to pay $68m to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-ac
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by amatecha 8mo ago
Ah yeah, this is actually part of why I never complete games.. I spend so much time messing around looking at all the cool little details, exploring the environment and generally "experiencing the place" moreso that pursuing game
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by amatecha 8mo ago
I got in trouble for bringing Doom shareware and putting it on one of the computers in the lab at school... worth, though - had half the class exclaiming at the awesomeness until we got busted hahaha
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by amatecha 8mo ago
Yeah, for me, Fallout 1 and 2 are the definitive Fallout games (ignoring Tactics as I never played it). I felt like 3 and onward were like Elder Scrolls total conversions, and I always saw them as "spiritual successors" but not e
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by amatecha 8mo ago
well, yeah, I mean a local 2fa code app (or integrated passwd manager as you say) is definitely simpler. the "just enter an email and paste in the code you got emailed" is the most foolproof because people don't lose access
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by amatecha 8mo ago
I've seen a few sites where the login flow is simply entering your email address and you get a time-limited login link sent to you. You never create any password at all. I was skeptical at first but I've found it seems to work p
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by amatecha 9mo ago
Yes, I just got "Subscribe to Reuters to continue reading." paywall after scrolling down into the page a bit. I could probably delete the element/scrim and make the page scrollable again with dev tools, but yeah... either wa
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by amatecha 9mo ago
Yeah, I'm remembering the time immediately before Steam launched, getting a computer set up with games for a LAN party or whatever, someone sharing a folder of installers/updates from their HDD so everyone could be on the same ver
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by amatecha 9mo ago
Yeah, even when you turn on "enable local cache of emails", the search is still terrible. What's pretty surprising to me is that for everything they say about privacy etc., getting Mail Plus gives you nothing better than a fr
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by amatecha 9mo ago
The graphic has an error: in the Signal box, "Phone number" should be included.
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by amatecha 9mo ago
I like to frame it like this: "ask me later" is rape culture. It promotes and reinforces a culture of never taking "no" for an answer, and pushing one's agenda/intent regardless of the preference/consent
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by amatecha 9mo ago
IMO also recent and related: NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46677628 - Jan 2026 (153 comments)
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by amatecha 9mo ago
Also https://apnews.com/article/trump-air-force-one-electrical-is... > President Donald Trump’s plane, Air Force One, returned to Joint Base Andrews about an hour after departing for Switzerland on Tuesday evening.

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