mipadaitu

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[–] mipadaitu 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

VPN into your home lab isn't about privacy, it's more about reducing your exposed services to the public internet.

If you have only the ports needed to VPN back into your network, then the rest is hidden behind your router. You only need to fully secure one thing, instead of having to ensure that everything is 100% patched.

It's not the only thing you should be doing, but it does help reduce the probability of a breach.

[–] mipadaitu 8 points 6 days ago

I cut my spending to the bone. I can afford to spend more, but I don't see any reason to participate in the economy more than I have to.

[–] mipadaitu 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's how people click on them. I follow a science interview podcast and they hired a new producer that started changing the YouTube thumbnails to those generic dumb click bait ones.

The host says he hates it, but can't argue that whenever they make a thumbnail like that, the views are significantly higher.

In the end, you do what draws eyeballs. The content is what matters.

[–] mipadaitu 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it's been hit and miss with downloading from the Kindle. I mostly get books from the library and strip the DRM from there. I figure it's a win-win, because the library gets a record of the checkout, but then I get to read it at my leisure while the next person gets to read it.

[–] mipadaitu 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ted Lasso is just Major League, but fútbol.

[–] mipadaitu 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

https://www.cloudwards.net/remove-drm-from-kindle-books/

This currently works, but I don't know if it will continue working forever - probably not too much longer after this announcement.

The "old Kindle PC app" might keep working in the future, but my guess is that it's going to be done soon as well.

edit: One thing I ran into was after installing the kindle app and turning off the auto-update, it still updates. So keep the installer handy and just reinstall it as needed.

[–] mipadaitu 16 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I've tried a bunch of times, but haven't really found anything that's been particularly useful as a steamdeck 3d printed accessory. Probably the closest I've come is a steamdeck gridfinity storage solution for my desk, and a stand to play if I felt like using an xbox controller instead of holding the deck.

Here's the ones linked from the video, nothing in there was super interesting. Best one of the bunch was the charger insert, but I've found it to be annoying to use. I just go back to a small bag to stuff the charger into.

Steam Deck Drop Protector (LupusWorax): https://www.printables.com/model/254680-steam-deck-lifesaver-drop-protection
Carrying Case Insert (Strider460): https://www.printables.com/model/202185-steam-deck-carrying-case-insert
Dock Cable Cover (yugi): https://www.printables.com/model/378549-steam-deck-dock-cable-cover
Charger Dock (Strider460): https://www.printables.com/model/230276-steam-deck-charger-dock
Steam Pal (Froggerdog): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5511683
Joystick Guards (MarkWithASea_240810): https://www.printables.com/model/723941-steam-deck-stick-guard-split

[–] mipadaitu 95 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Please don't stuff a firearm in your waist band without a proper holster.

[–] mipadaitu 6 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.universetoday.com/

https://www.patreon.com/universetoday

Universe Today is a space themed science publisher based on Vancouver Island, all their stuff is ad free on patreon even with the free tier.

They have written articles, YouTube, mastodon, blusky, and podcasts.

[–] mipadaitu 10 points 2 weeks ago

https://youtu.be/wHQo1YIMzU4

This YouTube video covers it pretty well. Part of a trend away from suspenders and using less fabric changed mens style to low waist, along with people coming back from war thinking the uniforms were more practical.

[–] mipadaitu 6 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I don't block them, I down vote them.

 

This may require a manual install, as the patching for this may not auto-run.

A vulnerability allows man-in-the-middle attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators.

The vulnerability reported by PWN2OWN 2024 (ZDI-CAN-25487) has been addressed.

 

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis have formed a coalition of governors to fight against “increasing threats of autocracy” and strengthen democracy during a second Donald Trump presidency.

The goal of Governors Safeguarding Democracy, or GSD, is to protect state-level institutions of democracy — and to utilize their collective legislative, budgetary, executive and administrative powers. Pritzker said it will “catalyze collaboration across state lines.”

“It’s built off a model that all of us governors have already successfully pioneered through the Reproductive Freedom Alliance,” Pritzker said. “And together, what we’re doing is pushing back against increasing threats of autocracy and fortifying the institutions of democracy that our country and our states depend on.”

 

Tips to keeping your identity secure, and protecting other members of your community from being accidentally doxxed or forced offline.

Extremely useful, especially for people who coordinate larger protests or online communities.

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submitted 8 months ago by mipadaitu to c/gardening
 

Neat time lapse video of a bunch of different plants (and fungi) growing from seed to flowering/fruiting.

 

We planted a variety of plants, at different stages of growth. After a bit of experimentation, cosmos grow extremely well. These were cuttings we put in just a couple weeks ago, and they're already bigger than most of the other plants that have been in there for over a month.

The very young plants did not survive, but the larger ones did. If they're too small, they just get swallowed down into the cups by the bobbing of the water.

Seems like the plants need to be large enough to reach all the way to the bottom of the pots, and still stick out enough.

Going to be interesting to see what it looks like at the end of the season.

 

The experimental mat has been out for about a week now, but extremely high winds during a storm last night pulled up a corner of the mat spilling out the contents.

Luckily the majority of the plants were able to be saved, so we have one empty spot now.

I added some weights to the four corners to hopefully prevent this from happening again.

This is why we're experimenting! Learning what works and what doesn't with the setup.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15830343

Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats.

Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly.

Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats.

Design is from:
http://www.beemats.com/

More reading:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub

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submitted 9 months ago by mipadaitu to c/gardening
 

Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats.

Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly.

Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats.

Design is from:
http://www.beemats.com/

More reading:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub

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submitted 10 months ago by mipadaitu to c/space
 

Really important step towards expanding our research on the moon, is creating highly detailed maps of the entire surface.

China is doing some great work on building out infrastructure and studies of the moon. They're the only country that's brought back any moon rocks in decades.

Space Race 3.0 is on, and we'll see how different approaches to the research and manned missions will move forward.

The US is currently building out an extremely upfront cost heavy project, but with a lot of long term benefits.

China is building a more straightforward moon project, but with higher ongoing costs, as much of the infrastructure is disposable (more like Apollo).

 

Jeff from The Float Life pushes it over 40MPH on a VESC'd OneWheel.

 

The amount of detail in these pictures is amazing. You can really see the texture in the nebula, and the features are so crisp, it kind of looks 3d.

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