kota

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

If I had to take a wild shot in the dark my best guess is that your router's upstream connection settings are a bit messed up and whenever your ISP gives you a new ip dhcp is taking a long time for whatever reason. You could try to pay attention to if your outgoing ip changes whenever this happens https://www.showmyip.com/

I guess also I'm assuming you're using a router with a built-in either cable or fiber modem? If you have a separate modem you might want to see about resetting it as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Wow that is fucking bizarre.. this isn't using powerline networking (ethernet over your power system via little wall sockets) or anything like that is it?

I'd definitely start with a factory reset of your router. Some routers have a little pin you need to hold down with a paper clip. With others you'll have to do it from their web interface...

You can usually get to the web interface by entering your default gateway in a browser. Something like http://192.168.0.1 or http://10.0.0.1 are common. It might be written on the back of your router. You can also usually find your default gateway in your connected network settings pretty easily: on my android phone it's just called "Gateway".

Once you're in the web interface you'll probably need to put in login info which is almost always written on your router. Then navigate that hellscape until you can do a factory reset.

~~Also if you're in the US and have a router provided by one of the big ISPs like Comcast, Verizon, Frontier, etc you're almost certainly renting your router for like $10 a month from those bastards. So call them up and make them fix it or get you a new router if they can't figure it out. You might as well try this before spending money buying a router.~~ I saw your other comment that you've actually bought this router yourself. Resetting it might be slightly more tricky since you might need to configure the modem settings a bit, but it's usually pretty easy. Probably worth looking up and downloading a pdf of the manual for your router before you reset it though in case you need to read it without internet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Is it happening at consistent times? Also next time it goes out, see if you can plug an ethernet cable into the router and see if you're getting a connection over ethernet. Also is the connection like completely severed or just a very high rate of dropped packets / slowness?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

running z-library

Would've actually gotten him a few votes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I don't know the current status on this, but it worked by recording your phone's mac address (or bluetooth address) when your phone scans for wifi networks. So it could track you without you even needing to join the network. AFAIK this particular tactic was countered by Android and IOS randomizing the mac address it sends out (your networking stack can simply lie about it).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Yep... might be a good idea to archive your favorite videos, tutorials, etc before it's rolled out to everyone

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Sadly this approach is very likely impossible to block. It's much more computationally intensive for google, which is why they haven't done this in the past, but it is essentially impossible to block if done well.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

been doing this for years and at this point I've got such a huge backlog it'd take me years to get through it all

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Basically when you "move fast and break things" eventually all those broken things catches up to you

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yea, I personally don't think of flesh and bodily fluids as being food shrug-outta-hecks

 

Enter xz, a modern compression utility for modern binaries. If gzip(1) is a Subaru Forester that "gets you where you need to go", xz is a lifted Ford F-250 that "just ran a stop and killed a cyclist".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For a filemanager try out nnn it takes a bit of getting used to but it's very elegant and has a lot of clever little quality of life features. I use pulsemixer for volume and ncmpcpp + mpd for music. I like this cli calculator. It works basically as you'd expect and you can use . to mean "result of last calculation".

I guess I'll also plug my calendar program lol:

I wrote this calendar over the last few years. Pressing enter on a day allows you to write a note/journal entry for that day, which can be previewed quickly in the calendar. You can also add keywords like "appointment" which, if they exist in a note, will change the color used to display that day:

I've added various other features over the years like a help menu (press ?) and mouse support. There's only a few minor things left I have planned so it's mostly a "finished" project which is nice.

 

Pretty much what is says in the title. Redis had been using the BSD-3 license for years to encourage developers to write code for them for free and now they've gone and switched to some custom proprietary license in order to secure their theft of the labor of everyone who has contributed to the project over the years. It's the same age old story.

A harsh, but important reminder to never write code for projects with these weak open source licenses. These licenses ONLY exist so that your labor can be stolen, either by them re-licensing at some point in the future or other companies taking it right now. That's the only reason they use BSD/MIT-style licenses.

As an aside it's a shame we're stuck with the GPL given the person who wrote it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Just changed it to 70ch and yea I think I prefer this stalin-approval

 

My phone barely manages to load the site. Pages crash and when they do load it's around 10-15 seconds. Pretty much all newer js-dependant websites are like this for me. I simply don't use most newer websites on my phone. Maybe eventually I'll buy a new phone, but things work fine on my laptop so I mostly use that and having a phone from this decade is bourgeois decadence.

A while back I thought maybe I should take a crack at writing a fast and simple read-only frontend that I can use on my phone similar I guess to nitter, invidious, bibliogram, etc.

So I went ahead and did just that: https://diethex.net

Hilariously, I actually wound up doing this TWICE. The first time I finished it up last June and then the site migrated to lemmy v3 so I had to rewrite almost everything which I just now got around to this month. Here's the code in case anyone wants to read it: https://git.sr.ht/~kota/hex

When a page is requested all of its data (comments, posts, etc) are cached for the next 20 minutes which dramatically reduces requests to the actual website when you're browsing around. Also every page is statically generated from simple html templates on the server; so javascript isn't required. I wound up adding a tiiiny bit of optional js to allow opening and closing comments. So you can swipe to the left on a phone to close a comment.

If hexbear is already fast for you then there's no point in using this, but figured I'd say something in case there's anyone else with my issues.

 

TLDR: Microsoft worked with Intel and AMD to develop Pluton which is basically a TPM chip designed to prevent running non-microsoft approved software. It will likely make it impossible to boot un-approved linux distros, bsd, and likely will make it very hard to run any un-approved software in the future.

This CPU "feature" is very likely to be a requirement for Windows 12 in 2024. Meaning nearly every computer available will have this and the majority of manufactures will not allow you to unlock the bootloader.

Similar situation to running LineageOS or PostmarketOS phones. For now, it can be "disabled" in bios on most of these computers, but that's simply a choice the OEM is making and will no longer need to make once this has become prevalent without any real pushback.

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