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RookieNerd , to memes
@RookieNerd@hachyderm.io avatar

Let's help Dave getting his way in the Fediverse :)
Stolen from @memes

doomkernel ,

Yo Dave! Have some milk bro.

backhdlp ,
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

This can barely be considered exploring 💀

angrystego , to traditional_art

Shaun Tan, Rules of Summer (2013)

Sotuanduso ,

Hehe funny bunny : )

angrystego ,

How about his books? I find the endings rather hopeful and positive generaly.

Shkshkshk , to piracy
@Shkshkshk@dice.camp avatar

Is ProtonVPN worth it?

@piracy

Got reminded of this while reading about ProtonMail. The reason I haven't gotten into proper is that I don't have a VPN for torrenting, and the reason I don't have a VPN is that I don't . So it would be nice if I got a good VPN while myself.

Will ProtonVPN rat me out to Comcast? I know some VPNs don't hide what you're downloading from your ISP, for reasons I don't fully understand.

nullboi ,

I’m not the smartest bowl in the… bowl drawer, but wouldn’t removing port forwarding just affect speed? Or would it stop torentting with Mullvad entirely? I just topped my account off lol

landlubber ,

I know I’m really late to this thread:

The 3 VPNs I’d recommend for privacy are Proton, AirVPN, and Mullvad.

When it comes to torrenting, AirVPN is probably the best. It has port forwarding, a no logging policy, and general trust in the community. Proton is similar, but it’s port forwarding is not as good as AirVPN’s version.

When it comes to privacy, Mullvad is the best imo. You can pay in cash. They removed port forwarding recently, but they’re in a privacy oriented country, and when authorities raided them, they had none of the users’ data (the raid being the reason for port forwarding to disappear).

You don’t need port forwarding to torrent, but without it, you may have slower speeds and trouble downloading older/rarer torrents (it effects the number of seeders/peers you can connect to). I’ve been torrenting without port forwarding and have yet to run into a torrent I can’t download in a reasonable time. Highly overrated imo, but incredibly important if you want to seed (I’ve still had no problems, there might be a couple leeches, but the vast majority can be seeded to). Considering you have Comcast, however, I’m guessing you have a data cap, and with that seeding becomes rather difficult. If you really want to pass it on with the data cap, than a seedbox would be the easiest way. Without port forwarding or a seedbox, and especially with a datacap without either of those, you won’t be able to use private trackers (personally I don’t recommend them unless you can’t find content anywhere else, my advice running counter to many in the piracy community).

You’re not going wrong with any of those 3 VPNs. Mullvad for privacy (torrents work just fine, don’t believe the people convincing you otherwise, and if you’re concerned with seeding, then a seedbox will take care of uploading for you). AirVPN if you want a good privacy reputation and port forwarding, or Proton if you prefer them (their privacy is fine, their port forwarding is inferior).

I’ll also mention Windscribe, which is not as good as the above three, and I don’t know as much about. But it’s the only other one I can think of that might be worth it, though I strongly recommend one of the above 3 first.

Stay away from (most VPNS pay for advertising or astroturf, so always be careful when selecting):

PIA (yes, they were proven not to log… And then bought out by Kape (former name Crossrider), a spyware company. The parent company is not privacy oriented, no matter how much PIA simps want you to believe otherwise. Look into it yourself. I loved PIA before they were bought out!)

NordVPN (lol, just stay away, trust me. You can always search for previous NordVPN incidents.).

ente , to privacyguides
@ente@mstdn.social avatar

We're on @privacyguides! 🎉

Grateful to have the community backing us, as we work towards making and accessible 🙏

DeVliegendeHollander ,

Map feature works great for me!

LunchEnjoyer ,
@LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world avatar

Dann wish I knew about ente sooner!

ajsadauskas , to technology
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

Another day, another product joining the Google graveyard. On the upside, this time it's not a messaging app.

From The Verge:

"You might remember Google had a $5,000 Jamboard whiteboarding meeting room display — well, that’s also discontinued. The Jamboard hardware will no longer receive software updates on September 30th, 2024, and its license subscriptions will expire the same day.

"Then users will have until December 31st, 2024, to back up Jam their files, and on that date, Google will cut off access and begin permanently deleting files."

Pity the schools, universities, and businesses that paid Google $5000 for a "smart" whiteboard, only to now be told their files will be deleted.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894509/google-jamboard-whiteboarding-app-graveyard

@technology

CaptObvious ,

Bookmarking this site.

not_woody_shaw ,

And Chromecast Audio.

smalllebowsky , to dach German
@smalllebowsky@troet.cafe avatar

Es wird genudelt 🍝 meine Antipastis!

Ich habe noch nie in meinem Leben so viel gezeichnet, noch nie! Der Spucktober ging zwar voll in die Hose, aber das Buch ist jetzt viel wichtiger
@dach

rbn ,

Geht beides auch mal klar aber Spaghetti beste Nudeln. 🍝

Nobsi ,
@Nobsi@feddit.de avatar

Ich hab dein mamer genudlet

ajsadauskas , to urbanism
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Whoopsie! Sydney's road planners just discovered induced demand is a thing, after opening a new motorway.

For those outside Sydney, the New South Wales state government recently opened a new spaghetti intersection just west of Sydney's Central Business District.

It was supposed to solve traffic. Instead, it's turned into a giant car park:

"For the third straight day, motorists and bus passengers endured bumper-to-bumper traffic on the City West Link and Victoria Road. A trip from Haberfield to the Anzac Bridge on the City West Link averaged an agonising 44 minutes in the morning peak on Wednesday.

"Several months ago, Transport for NSW’s modelling had suggested traffic from the interchange would add only five to 10 minutes to trips on Victoria Road through Drummoyne and over the Iron Cove Bridge during morning peaks.

"Those travel delays have now blown out."

So what do motorists say when their shiny new road that was supposed to solve traffic instead turns into a massive traffic jam?

'Dude! Just one more lane!'

From the article:

"[Roads Minister John] Graham and his Transport boss Josh Murray appear reluctant to do what many motorists reckon is the obvious solution.

"That is, add lanes or make changes at the pinch-points that are causing the pain. A three-lane to one merge point from Victoria Road onto the Anzac Bridge, along with two lanes merging into one on the City West Link, are proving to be painful bottlenecks."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/how-planners-got-rozelle-traffic-modelling-horribly-wrong-20231129-p5ensa.html

@fuck_cars @sydneytrains @urbanism

ajsadauskas OP ,
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@WaxedWookie It was also deliberately opened at the end of the year because there's less traffic demand:

"But the government and motorway operator Transurban – who have a contract to run WestConnex until 2060 – say the traffic peak won’t come until February."

So the real test won't be how it performs on a Friday or weekend. It's how it will do once everyone's back at work in February.

Again, the underlying issue seems to be extra traffic that wouldn't be there if the M4/M5/M8 motorway extensions hadn't opened.

There's a lot of traffic being funnelled on to a bridge that was already at capacity.

"Since the project opened on 19 November, morning drivers have headed into the city and found three lanes on two of the main arterial roads abruptly merging into one. Feeder streets from nearby suburbs were jammed, with movement slowing to barely one block an hour at the worst of the crunch times."

The Inner West Council is claiming that department officials were concerned behind closed doors in the months before the interchange opened:

"Darcy Byrne, the mayor of Inner West Council, oversees a region that has endured a decade of dusty and noisy construction. He says Transport for New South Wales officials 'were very concerned' in briefings three months ago about how WestConnex was going to perform.

"'We have warned for a very long time [that] when you tried to funnel such a greatly expanded amount of traffic into the same number of lanes at the Anzac Bridge at Victoria Road, it was going to be a tsunami of traffic chaos,' he said."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/02/a-tsunami-of-traffic-chaos-the-new-sydney-motorway-prompting-calls-for-a-royal-commission

WaxedWookie ,

I guess we can just revisit this in February then. If the time to get through the mess remains around 90 minutes, we’ll call that one for induced demand. I think a meaningful reduction from that mark toward the actual baseline with induced demand is going to prove otherwise.

renwillis , to aww
@renwillis@mstdn.social avatar

Happy Caturday from the always vigilant Neko

Naps will not prevent her from keeping an ear out and protect us from any minor noises coming from the kitchen.

Thank you for your service Neko 🫡 🐈

@aww !aww

Wander , (edited ) to selfhosted
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The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?

Wait, what?

Think about it. At some point everyone has had an old phone lying around. They are designed to be constantly connected, constantly on... and even have a battery and potentially still a SIM card to survive power outages.

We just need to make it easy to create APK packaged servers that can avoid battery-optimization kills and automatically configure an outbound tunnel like ngrok, zerotrust, etc...

The goal: hosting services like , , !? should be as easy as installing an APK and leaving an old phone connected to a spare charger / outlet.

It would be tempting to have an optimized ROM, but if self-hosting is meant to become more commonplace, installing an APK should be all that's needed. can do SSH, VPN and other tunnels without the need for root, so there should be no problem in using tunnels to publicly expose a phone/server in a secure manner.

In regards to the suitability of home-grade broadband, I believe that it should not be a huge problem at least in Europe where home connections are most often unmetered: "At the end of June 2021, 70.2% of EU homes were passed by either FTTP or cable DOCSIS
3.1 networks, i.e. those technologies currently capable of supporting gigabit speeds."

Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/broadband-coverage-europe-2021

PS. syncthing actually already has an APK and is easy to use. Although I had to sort out some battery optimization stuff, it's a good example of what should become much more commonplace.

cc: @selfhosted

MonkCanatella ,

That’s definitely a good call. Before I even had a NAS, I’d just throw some movies and stuff on my macbook when I had to travel. Problem is that when you’re loading it up, you think you know what you’ll want to watch and then later you just wish you had different choices.

z00s ,

Counterpoint: spicy pillows

I was going to host pihole on an old android until I noticed it getting quite warm while continuously connected to power. Realised I didn’t know the lifespan of the battery and didn’t want it tp start a fire.

geras , to pics
@geras@pixelfed.social avatar

Salem and Pixie

@Pics

cheery_coffee ,

Those are some fine looking cats!

Buwka ,

‘Salem’ is such an amazing name!

iratesorbet , to 196
@iratesorbet@kbin.social avatar

@196

rool

GolGolarion ,
Duchess ,
@Duchess@yiffit.net avatar

is that a shark puppy??

smalllebowsky , to dach German
@smalllebowsky@troet.cafe avatar

Es ist Mittwoch 🐰 meine Kerle!

Wegen der doofen Grippe bin ich sehr hinten dran, aber es wird fleißig gearbeitet! Und es fehlt gar nicht mehr so viel 🤏

@dach

radioscout ,
@radioscout@mastodon.social avatar

@smalllebowsky @dach Gute Besserung!

garden_boi ,

Dann hast du endlich 5G, auch auf dem Land, und selbst auf dem Hügel in Brandenburg 👍

smalllebowsky , to dach German
@smalllebowsky@troet.cafe avatar

Es ist Mittwoch 🚂 meine Zugfahrer!

@dach

Teritz ,

Ja genau so stelle ich es mir ebenfalls vor :D

Ranslite ,
@Ranslite@feddit.de avatar

Ich bin Eisenbahner und muss dies bestätigen.

heyfrancis , to pics
@heyfrancis@pixelfed.social avatar

[OC] Abandoned elevator in Angeles City

@Pics

@Philippines

Mongostein ,

Haha oops. I’m leaving it.

Hazdaz ,

I’m guessing right out of frame is a homeless encampment with methheads and crackheads living out their best life.

crimedad , to pics

Moon with colorful aura [OC]

Is there a name for when a nearly full moon shines through the clouds at night and produces a rainbow-like aura? A moonbow perhaps?

@pics

Ferris , (edited )

I think 22deg lunar halo, though it is diffused into a rainbow

*definitely a lunar carona vv

CrimeDad ,

It might be a lunar corona.

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