Wintermute

Wintermute , 10 months ago to technology in It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars

400 miles doesn’t get you halfway across a single state in the western US.

Wintermute , 10 months ago to technology in All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU

Well if you broaden the definition that much, then it sounds like iPhone batteries are already user replaceable since I can easily purchase the necessary tools from iFixIt.

Wintermute , 10 months ago to technology in All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU

If that’s really the definition, it’s an awful definition and exactly why we shouldn’t regulate stuff like this. Torx are objectively better than Philips or flathead in every possible way.

Wintermute , 10 months ago to selfhosted in Best router for home use?

Another vote for Synology here. I have 2 RT2600 and 1 RT1600 between myself and my parents houses. They have been completely bullet proof and the oldest one is going on 7 years old now.

Wintermute , 10 months ago to worldnews in British nuclear revival to move towards energy independence

Nuclear power is green energy.

Wintermute , 11 months ago to technology in Satellites Are Rife With Basic Security Flaws

Are you speaking from first hand experience? I don’t have experience with commercial satellites, but I can say from direct experience that scientific satellites and other spacecraft absolutely run a (real-time) traditional OS these days (and even a decade ago). That said, we do take serious measures to secure our vehicles. I don’t think I want to say any more than that given the nature of the discussion.

Wintermute , 11 months ago to fediverse in 🍋 LemMon - Lemmy Monitor - Servers Status

I think you’re underestimating the number of requests that a server can handle. Even my tiny instance currently sees dozens of requests every second and is very lightly loaded. A single request per minute is an immeasurably small load.

Wintermute , 11 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Youtube added shorts to the subscriptions page, pushing the subscriptions almost entirely off the page...

This used to work. The latest block of shorts that they added in the subscriptions page that is not removable.

Wintermute , 11 months ago to reddit in Reddit Official App: "I am able to take mod actions on a sub I'm not a mod in."

If I read the announcement correctly, that is implemented by a bot with mod privileges that parses comments and takes actions on users’ behalf. I don’t think it’s practical to literally make every user a moderator.

Wintermute , 11 months ago to fediverse in How are comments federated?

AFAIK, you can’t load comments on posts manually. You only get comments that are pushed to your instance after someone has subscribed to the community containing the post.

Wintermute , 11 months ago to fediverse in Lemmy just had its first major hack. What happens next:

I agree. Sadly it seems the rest of the world does not. Hopefully as Lemmy matures we can get to a point where features are not pushed put half-baked because there aren’t enough people willing and able to give thorough code reviews.

Wintermute , 1 year ago to selfhosted in Welcome to [email protected] - What do you selfhost?

Lemmy, mostly :D. I also recently started up my own Matrix home server. I took a stab at email, but it was more trouble than it’s worth considering my relatively newly acquired cloud hosting IP is on several blacklists. Now that I actually have a server running again Gitea might be next on the list of services that gets added.