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by deftnerd 8y ago
Someone could have made the same argument against mobile phones, saying that they wouldn't compete with landlines because of the increased handset costs.
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by deftnerd 8y ago
I wonder why they landed on the "deleting oldest content first" format. The oldest items are the ones less likely to be backed up by users. They had lots of options, including removing original quality images and just keeping resi
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by deftnerd 8y ago
This is an interesting alternative to residential induction stoves that use AC to create the magnetic fields. I wonder what the power usage difference is. This style of heating up the metal instead of using AC current to generate electromag
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by deftnerd 8y ago
MySpace had one clever thing going for it, and that was your "Top 8". People had to choose who would be in their "Top 8" friends listed on their profile page, and being selected by a friend was considered a badge of hono
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by deftnerd 8y ago
This free API seems like a smart idea then. Since they're a solution in search of a problem, letting the crowd figure out what problems might be suited for their architecture could help them determine what industries they can offer ser
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by deftnerd 8y ago
I remember reading recently about heat sinks for AC units that expel waste heat in as specific infrared band that sees the atmosphere as entirely transparent. In effect, it allows you to 'beam' the waste heat directly to space. Si
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by deftnerd 8y ago
I've used https://dnmin.com for about 6 years now. It's a free service I found on lowendtalk.com You can paste in a list of your domains and it'll help you organize them and send you email notifications when they&
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by deftnerd 8y ago
I run dedicated onion addresses for my sites and check the CF-IPCountry headers and just redirect Tor users to the Onion site.
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by deftnerd 8y ago
To be fair, they usually have a warrantied lifespan of 25 years... and as solar cells start degrading, their output drops off in a gradual linear fashion. At 25 years, solar panels still produce between 80% and 87% of their manufactured c
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by deftnerd 8y ago
It might be useful for above-ground water reservoirs. They sometimes float balls on their surface to reduce evaporation in hot environments (especially ones with a breeze). If you could do the same with large arrays of floating solar panels
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by deftnerd 8y ago
Does the 30% lost efficiency bleed into the environment as heat energy? While it's not as damaging as greenhouse gases, we should try to avoid adding more heat to our environment if possible. Especially when considering planetary-scale
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by deftnerd 8y ago
I'm seeing the CAPTCHA a lot with the Brave Browser Tor Tab. You might want to reach out to the developers to make their Tor Tab be treated the same as the Tor Browser Bundle.
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by deftnerd 8y ago
If you operate any kind of Bitcoin related service where someone discusses their wealth (message board, wallet provider, etc), then being able to turn an IP address into a physical address could have resulted in very lucrative forced-entry
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by deftnerd 8y ago
There is a draft IETF standard to handle this! It uses a new "alt-svc" header that lets you specify alternative URLS to access a domain. Cloudflare is using it for their 1.1.1.1 service. If you look at the headers at https:/
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by deftnerd 8y ago
Being unable to prove a companies claims yourself != company lieing. A year ago, they posted on Reddit: "Audits have been done, about one per year usually. Cyberkov has done 3 audits since 2014 (they recommend it for their activities w
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by deftnerd 8y ago
Protonmail's method of encryption allows them to encrypt the entire message, including headers/metadata. It also encrypts the messages received that weren't encrypted when they weren't first sent. Your suggested method b
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by deftnerd 8y ago
My servers generally have an IPv4 address and a whole IPv6 subnet. I like to disable SSH except on a specific IPv6 address. Many botnets just focus on IPv4 and there is a lot more territory to scan on IPv6. I usually couple that with moving
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by deftnerd 8y ago
That's a dangerous precedent. If nobody has the right to a phone number, and governments can assign any telephone number to themselves that they wish, that the Russian government can take over the phone number to the Whitehouse Switchb
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by deftnerd 8y ago
I'm in one of those areas where I can buy everything from Walmart online and just drive there a few hours later and they load everything into my trunk. It's faster than Amazon shipping, I don't have to get out of my car (usef
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by deftnerd 8y ago
DDRAM requires too much speed to do something through the GPIO or USB... What you could do is use the Tinkerboard S, boot off of a microSD card and use the integrated eMMC storage as a big 16gb swap partition... or just partition the eMMC i
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by deftnerd 9y ago
I'm not saying that they would deserve it. If a company algorithmically fired portions of their workforce every day without even talking to those employees or giving them a chance to appeal, then I would expect something terrible to ev
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by deftnerd 9y ago
While they're not directly responsible, the problem was entirely of their making. They created a whole new profession (even my 8-year-old son wants to grow up to be a "professional youtubber") and then arbitrarily destroy car
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by deftnerd 9y ago
You could use the same argument against anything that groups of people consider "immoral". Alterations of the position: "While I'm in favor of people engaging in worship, I don't think anybody worships Mohammad with
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by deftnerd 9y ago
PHP is often used because it's mature, reasonable secure these days, and has world-class encryption libraries. Lots of companies develop web applications in it.... But if you're developing a web application that you host and also
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by deftnerd 9y ago
No... Just no! Facebook crawls into every portion of our lives. I killed my account because of its insidious feature creep. You don't put up photos of yourself in a swimsuit at work and would sue any workplace that demanded that you sh
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by deftnerd 9y ago
Almost everyone else has mentioned the most basic stuff (conduit, etc) so I'll add some of the less-thought of stuff. Also run conduit to a gang box (with a blank faceplace) in the ceiling of every room (tucked into a corner). It'
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by deftnerd 9y ago
I'm a big fan of BookStack. It's a Laravel based (PHP/Mysql) based app that performs well, is very stable, has a good interface, good features, etc. [1] https://www.bookstackapp.com/
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by deftnerd 9y ago
The author seems to be ignorant of some real facts related to Bitcoin availability. Lightning Network going live on Mainnet was against the advice of the LN developers who feel that it's not ready for prime-time usage and admit that th
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by deftnerd 9y ago
"One 2012 report, which presented the results of the study of over 26,000 French men, showed that the sperm count had fallen by a third between 1989 and 2005. A 2007 report in the UK presented the results of a study done on one city in
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by deftnerd 9y ago
I've been paying attention to the lowering fertility rate across the world. My instinct, until now, was that it was because of fire retardant chemicals found in furniture that act as an endocrine disruptor. It didn't totally fit t

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