Why Home Wifi is Stupid and Dumb

rik_1088 · 2021-08-09T22:39:39+00:00

So, what is your alternative? Ethernet cables, otg adapters, and ethernet adapters? Not sure where you come from, but copper line phones are obsolete now.

tablet you cant use on a toilet

Because the only other room in a house is the toilet, right.

and doesn't have it's camera hooked up to an unsecured network?

Typical saidit paranoia.

rik_1088 · 2021-08-08T13:34:54+00:00

As the page says, computers will stay wired. But nothing else will. Phones, tablets, etc were and will stay wireless. It's not like anyone would trade usability for a gigabit link on a portable device, there is no need for it.

rik_1088 · 2021-05-17T01:11:15+00:00

Elsevier has declared a war against Sci-Hub and open science. It has been revealed that the FBI has wiretapped Alexandra Elbakyan, Sci-Hub's founder, for over 2 years. Twitter has already suspended the official sci-hub account because Indian academics were organizing on it against Elsevier.

We cannot allow Elsevier and other publishing bodies to limit access to knowledge by imposing extortionate fees for academic papers on universities and researchers.

Help us preserve Sci-Hub's 77TB of scientific articles by seeding a few of their torrents. More information can be found in the reddit thread.

Some trivia about Elsevier

In 2011, Elsevier supported the Research Works Act (RWA), a bill that would have made illegal the NIH Public Access Policy, along with any other similar government effort to make taxpayer-funded research openly accessible to the public.
Elsevier’s author copyright agreement includes language requiring authors to waive open access policies on their campuses

The firm operates on almost 40% profit margin for providing scientific articles. Source

The firm offered a $25 (£15) Amazon voucher to academics who contributed to the textbook Clinical Psychology if they would go on Amazon and Barnes & Noble (a large US books retailer) and give it five stars. Source

Is Elsevier really for science? Or just for profit?

rik_1088 · 2021-05-10T13:35:30+00:00

We'll see what happens when Facebook decides to act on it. They can't lose revenue forever.

rik_1088 · 2021-04-27T02:21:10+00:00

On the other hand, John Deere having bad security makes it easier to jailbreak firmware and repair stuff. Not that it should've come to this as far as right to repair is concerned, but hey, it's something.

rik_1088 · 2021-04-26T02:59:29+00:00

The mayor must have decided to follow the minister of defense, who also involved the police before, for a parody account of her on twitter.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/12/29/justice-minister-under-fire-for-reporting-twitter-parody-account-to-police/

rik_1088 · 2021-02-25T13:19:20+00:00

Unfortunately Napster and gnutella software (eg. Limewire) have been quite dead for p2p filesharing in general. At least ebooks can be hosted directly due to their small size relative to other media. It's a real bummer that there aren't any actually good torrent sites for ebooks either.

rik_1088 · 2021-02-10T12:20:16+00:00

A supervisor [...] saw a cursor move across the screen and change settings, Gualtieri said, and was able to immediately reverse it

If they attacked the PLC directly that wouldn't go down so well.

rik_1088 · 2021-02-10T11:01:44+00:00

The article mentions that the bill is unlikely to become law, and if it did, it would only cover PC parts. However it is a good start in protecting customers from these pactices.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-31T15:16:34+00:00

If the load is light an atom will be enough. I run a file server/gateway/torrent client on an ARM SBC and it runs well.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-30T15:13:50+00:00

Yeah unfortunately, you can get custom gaming laptops without OS for like half the price.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-30T02:50:35+00:00

I've never read the comments tbh so I don't know.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-30T02:49:35+00:00

System76 has some really nice hardware. The newer models are interesting.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-29T23:26:04+00:00

That could be true. At this point I think they're doing anything they can to produce their own marketing, probably anything goes.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-27T19:46:12+00:00

It's "think of the children!" all over again, with a new bogeyman this time.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-27T19:10:33+00:00

Let's hope this puts an end to companies using the US to bypass European privacy laws.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-27T13:37:46+00:00

Because they hate their customers and won't allow regular channels to livestream gameplay if they're monetized. So, they have to resort to the weak PR and clickbait you mentioned.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-27T02:10:39+00:00

Banned platforms would need untraceable hosting so that a hosting company couldn't be held accountable. Being a Tor hidden service would help.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-26T02:17:18+00:00

I don't believe such drastic measure is needed. There's other Blink based browsers sure, but it's not like Chromium has become useless. Thankfully there's someone willing to maintain the Arch package, and user-submitted packages may also appear.

rik_1088 · 2021-01-21T17:35:07+00:00

This sub is why I disabled custom themes lol

rik_1088 · 2021-01-20T01:58:56+00:00

Started with Ubuntu, then Slackware, now Arch. It works fine so I just decided to stick with it. Plus the AUR is really good.

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