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xthexder

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  • How Many Of You Privacy Pioneers Self Host

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  • I self-host a decent bit of stuff. My setup has been to rent rack space in a datacenter to put my own storage server in, plus a second server at my house that I mirror backups between. I run my own VPN, "Cloud" storage, lemmy instance, game servers, websites, CI build systems, media streaming, etc... You can find some cheap server hardware on eBay that's only a generation or two old, which you'll need if you're running in a datacenter, but for home servers it's super easy to just set up an old desktop with a battery backup.

  • Inside the 25th floor stairwell of an NYC skyscraper

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  • "Around here" is wherever they live, and we don't know because they didn't say. For all we know they could live on a farm without a single skyscraper nearby and what they said would be perfectly true.

    Regardless, the brick facades on steel skyscrapers does not make them masonry building construction like in Op's picture.

  • Inside the 25th floor stairwell of an NYC skyscraper

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  • OP's picture doesn't look like a steel frame structure to me. The stairways are usually a central part of a skyscraper frame, and this looks like freestanding masonry.

  • Inside the 25th floor stairwell of an NYC skyscraper

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  • I took your advice. The tallest masonry building in the world is Philadelphia City Hall, and is only 9 floors. It was surpassed by the Singer Building which had 41 floors, but was steel construction.

    So the person you're responding to is right. There's no 25 story brick buildings anywhere in the world.

  • Meanwhile, in California

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  • I've seen maybe a dozen colors driving around my city. I thought the best looking one was gloss black, because it obscured the shape and made it look a bit more like a regular SUV.

  • Trump says he's terminating trade negotiations with Canada over Ontario anti-tariff ad

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  • Think of it more like a fight with your neighbor's landlord who's promoting bullshit with the HOA. Banning your neighbors from visiting doesn't really solve the issue and just hurts regular people.

  • Fight me

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  • Ground-source heat pumps seem like they could be the new hotness. You don't have to dig very deep before the ground is a constant temperature, so that can be used to increase the efficiency even further in extremely hot/cold weather.

    Tech Ingredients did a nice little DIY experiment with it.

  • A Question For the Folks at Rogers.

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  • I didn't even know Rogers offered hosting. Why anyone would buy hosting from a residential ISP, I have no idea. OVH shouldn't even be a competitor, they're a datacenter company, not an ISP (they probably have service contracts with multiple backbone providers that are only available in datacenter hubs, which are orders of magnitude more reliable).

  • Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd

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  • I take my coffee black-hole seriously.

  • A Question For the Folks at Rogers.

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  • Looking at the ping you saw with Secure Core, this makes perfect sense. It's routing your packets out of the country and back through who knows how many stops. The other VPN you're testing is in your same city and adds basically no extra latency. You can't really blame Rogers for this, they're just following the laws of physics.

  • Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

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  • TCP will generally send up to 10 packets immediately without waiting for the ACKs (depending on the configured window size).

    Generally any messages or websites under 14kb will be transmitted in a single round-trip assuming no packets are dropped.

  • 5 reasons you should ditch Windows for Linux today

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  • Your hardware is incompatible

    I think you'll have an extremely hard time finding any hardware that supports Windows but can't run linux. With Win11 requirements it's much more likely to be the other way around.

    Your applications/games only work well on native Windows

    Personally, every game I care to run works perfectly fine on my Steam Deck. I refuse to play any games that require kernel-level anti-cheat. It's officially distributed malware if you ask me.

  • Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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  • Well, it's an order of magnitude less force than the "server room" experienced, considering the whole rack of computers was compressed into a solid mass.

    SanDisk SD cards are actually rated for up to 500Gs, and with how light the SD card is, it can survive these indirect impacts more easily. "1000s of Gs" is just a completely random estimate considering how some of the other heavier internal camera parts were damaged (a circuit board connector sheared off).

  • Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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  • They used 3 mini PCs with SSDs, which all of them were completely smashed and unrecoverable. the flash chips were all cracked or missing.

  • Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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  • The SD card was from inside a titanium cased underwater camera that was mounted outside the hull. It wasn't actually in the implosion, it just survived the shockwave (which was probably 1000s of Gs, so still impressive)

  • DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source

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  • Yeah, I'd expect this to be similar latency and accuracy. Lighthouse can do full 6dof tracking at a room scale too, not just sitting head tracking for a seated position like it seems opentrack does

  • itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!?

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  • The user does have to log in again to access the second TTY. I don't know exactly what Hyprland's settings do, but "allow_session_lock_restore" doesn't sound like something you want turning on randomly while an attacker is sitting trying to access your computer. It's very possible the crash itself was caused intentionally by the attacker in that case.

    Edit: Nevermind "allow_session_lock_restore" is just for saving open windows and stuff, so not really an issue. Restarting the lock screen however is very much not something you want to do while trying to keep an attacker out of your computer.

  • itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!?

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  • These steps require logging in again. I don't think it's secure to have it automatically try and fix the lock screen, since it just introduces more ways to potentially bypass it.

  • hmmm

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  • LLMs have a bit of RNG sprinkled in with the if-else to spice things up.

  • [Video] Big Israeli bombardement violating the ceasefire on a southern Lebanese construction site, destroying 300 bulldozers and excavators to rebuild southern Lebanon

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  • Ah okay, so not really anything other than their word then... I was kinda hoping there was more to it, but I guess we can hope this ceasefire lasts.