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Re:The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:20AM (#48205979)
Iron. For the purpose of building bridges.
Re:Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @05:44AM (#47500390)
This is an extremely important post. The wellbeing of tech workers is not important to anyone. Only short-term profits matter. Sustainability is irrelevant.
Re:It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921)
on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:33AM (#47261944)
Re:My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:26AM (#46575552)
Oh, sry! Your comment came after I posted mine. I had similar experience with a bottle of organic thinner for paints.
Re:My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:24AM (#46575541)
I believe, he might have stored some solvent in the vicinity of the cable.
Anyway it won't affect the optical performance of the cables. It's just the loss of mechanical protection.
The disintegrating sheathing could be repaired by shrink tubing, which is more convenient than by wrapping it up in tape.
Re:Recall for Linux
on Monday October 27, 2025 @09:20AM (#45720769)
Ingenious! Now imagine an M$ ad:
"Are you forced to work with Linux?
Do you miss the convenience of Microsoft spying on you and keeping track of everything?
Fear not! This amazing tool will bring back all those great Windows Recall features that you have been missing: WINDOWS 11"
Re:The ABS Programming Language
on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @03:44AM (#45422962)
Another BS? Apologies, I actually do like it.
Re:Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil ...
on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:02AM (#45249879)
I don´t see the relation to this debate. HAM Radio communications do not need encryption, as they have a fully different purpose. You would not discuss private/sensitive matters anyway as the whole thing is just a hobby/learning/experimentation or sport. Your life´s important decisions don´t depend on this type of communication.
Besides, I think one of the most important motivations behind this restriction is to avoid misusing frequencies for commercial purposes.
Re:Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequ...
on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @08:42AM (#44887757)
Yes, but if it hadn't been for the efforts of visionary scientists at NASA trying to reach the stars, there would be no means of putting those satellites into orbit.
Re:Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration – People vs. Big Tech
on Friday June 20, 2025 @05:41AM (#44326076)
It´s in the best interest of the people in the US to have the dominance of those corporations broken, before those companies eliminate democracy.
Re:Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:14PM (#44195369)
I´m living in the middle of a city, and PM2.5 levels get very high at times. We are way above the yearly 5ug/m3 recommendation. So I just bought a lot of air purifiers (just HEPA, everything else commercially available is useless) and they get switched on if the levels get high (via HomeAssistant). I have a device in the garden and another inside, so I am monitoring the difference on a regular basis. I optimize (manually, no fancy data crunching) for low noise produced by the filters and low <2-3ug/m3 PM2.5 values indoors. I don´t have forced ventilation, so I need to know how much do I open the windows to get humidity and VOCs down, while not letting in too much smog. Sounds more complicated than it really is.
Re:Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
on Thursday June 05, 2025 @06:09AM (#44190132)
You can get the same measurements and even more from AirGradient. Those are a bit cheaper and much more solid devices. Not so focused on design, but rather on accuracy:
https://www.airgradient.com
I´m not affiliated with them in any way, but I´m using their indoor and outdoor sensors since a few years by now, and I am very satisifed. Btw. their HW is opensource and you can choose between their SW or can flash anything else. The measurement data of my outdoor sensor is publicly available: https://explore.openaq.org/?location=2070168#13.21/48.22244/...
Re:Citronics built a router based on the Fairphone 2 mainboard
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @04:36AM (#43278208)
Also a single port? There are cheaper alternatives, capable of routing 1G between ports and with integrated 5G modem. Complete with case and smaller.