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by dogcow 8d ago
That's not really sufficient. It could still phone home if it falls back to IP addresses. You should be blocking it at the firewall level, not just with DNS. But me personally, I wouldn't ever connect any of these devices to my ne
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by dogcow 29d ago
I was a long-time Fastmail customer for probably about 10 years. I had all my family members using it, but just finished migrating everyone away. They changed their pricing plans several years back, but kept me on the grandfathered pricing,
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by dogcow 4mo ago
As a long time FreeBSD user, the Foundation has really failed to impress me in recent years. I lost faith in them back in 2018 during the "code of conduct" fiasco, when they wasted Foundation funds on a consultant for a code of co
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by dogcow 7mo ago
Yes, same here. Very frustrating. It is almost as if the powers that be don't want lowly netizens controlling their own destiny.
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by dogcow 8mo ago
For those who feel that self-hosting limits music discovery, a more traditional option is "radio" (traditional in the sense that you listen to a curated playlist made by someone else). Radio Paradise [1] and Radio Swiss Pop/J
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by dogcow 1y ago
Or, more likely, we're seeing the result of a generation growing up glued to cell phone screens and crappy social media every waking moment from their youngest years?
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by dogcow 1y ago
Luckily, this can all be achieved using a Wi-Fi or (even better) a Z-Wave thermostat that is 100% locally-controlled using something like Home Assistant or any number of other solutions.
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by dogcow 1y ago
This is spot on. Nicely written! I think many people forget what a great, unique, and exciting time those decades were. (Or many simply did not experience them). There was a palpable sense of nearly unlimited potential for a brighter future
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by dogcow 1y ago
Not really true on modern digital radio systems. They are AES-256, but the voice frames are encrypted right after the vocoder does its thing, then the voice data is dropped into the stream just as if it were clear voice. It's all wrapp
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by dogcow 1y ago
Pre-shared, static keys are unfortunately quite common. However, the P25 standard does provide for re-keying over they air through a process known as OTAR (Over The Air Re-keying). To put it very simply, radios communicate with a central Ke
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by dogcow 1y ago
Yeah, I know about the workarounds, but that just kind of defeats the purpose for me. Also, I've read comments from folks stating they were having a hard time getting a larger prefix from Comcast using PD... don't know how univers
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by dogcow 1y ago
Thanks, I appreciate your explanation. I was aware that there are workarounds, but to me that defeats one of the core tenants of IPv6, which is that we're supposed to be doing away with this NAT and NAT-like nonsense by giving everythi
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by dogcow 1y ago
Please offer a good TrackPoint keyboard. Please.
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by dogcow 1y ago
I recently decided that it was high time to stop ignoring IPv6 after 30 years of computing and actually learn how it is supposed to work. So I started digging in, and there's definitely a lot to like. But I see two big problems that ar
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by dogcow 1y ago
This is such a dumb problem with IPv6. Unless ISP stop being crappy and start offering static prefixes to regular residential subscribers, then I just don't see how v6 would ever be practical. This seems like a big oversight in the des
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by dogcow 1y ago
Doesn't using ULAs kind of defeat the purpose (or one of the main intents) of IPv6, which is every device having a globally rotatable IP address? It kind of puts us right back in the IPv4 with NAT situation, only with longer, uglier ad
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by dogcow 1y ago
This is amazing. Thank you so much to the authors for putting the time into this and sharing it. I would love a way to download a local archive of music like this. Also, I hope this site doesn't disappear if/when the rather unpred
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by dogcow 1y ago
This is nothing more than another data harvesting scheme thinly veiled as a useful service.
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by dogcow 1y ago
Anyone looking for a commercial-free, listener-supported "radio" station would be remiss not to check out https://radioparadise.com -- it is truly a rare-gem in our over-commercialized world. And we can't talk abo
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by dogcow 1y ago
Somewhat related: Previous, an emulator of NeXT boxes. https://previous.unixdude.net/
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by dogcow 2y ago
Came here to echo this. Also, it always amazes me how many people respond to warnings like this (as seen in this thread as well) saying lower-resolution displays look just fine. I returned a M2 Mac Mini solely because it looked so awful on
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by dogcow 3y ago
It's a shame that the .us locality namespace and delegated manager infrastructure has been allowed to languish. GoDaddy (and Neustar previously) have intentionally made it difficult or impossible to register new locality domains under
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by dogcow 5y ago
Doesn't matter - Fastmail's response is just PR bunk. Two big isues: - Fastmail pays taxes to the Australian government. By supporting Fastmail, you are supporting this lunacy indirectly. - Their rebuttal revolves around requiring
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by dogcow 7y ago
Thanks for this. Additionally, it might be beneficial for folks to file complaints with the Washington, D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs [1], since the Internet Society is incorporated in D.C., and with the Virginia Depart
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by dogcow 8y ago
I've been a user of SDF for many years, and even though it may be irrelevant form a technical standpoint, even with all its faults I am thankful for its continued existence. At least in the case of SDF, it can be a "social" c
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by dogcow 8y ago
I am sharing my experience because I know how awful sleep problems can be. I'm in my 30s and eat what many consider a very healthful diet - virtually no sugar, just veggies, high quality fats and proteins, and minimal fruit. I spend 7-
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by dogcow 9y ago
XMPP - federated instant messaging
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by dogcow 9y ago
Check out the search engine at http://wiby.me From their about page: Search engines like Google are indispensable, able to find answers to all of your technical questions; but along the way, the fun of web surfing was lost. In
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by dogcow 9y ago
Gopher is a great protocol. I never really used it back in its heyday; I'm not sure I knew it existed at the time (I didn't really get "real" Internet access until 1995 or so). I recently discovered it after having simil
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How these librarians are changing how we think about digital privacy(csmonitor.com)
1 points by dogcow 9y ago|0 comments

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