shortwavesurfer

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

None that I'm aware of. I guess it's possible, but I have not seen it be the case yet.

Edit: I can tell you for a fact that the ones I'm listing are legitimate. And if you don't believe me, try purchasing one with the multi-signature escrow.

https://xmrbazaar.com/user/shortwavesurfer2009

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It's also used to buy baking pans, dove soap, coffee makers, and toasters. Xmrbazaar.com

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Firefox gets tons of funding from Google, and their code is quite frankly humongous. From what I understand, it's extremely hard to get the gecko web view engine to work. In another browser, unless it's a fork of Firefox, unlike Chromium where you can just redesign an entire browser around it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Fair enough, there's some really golden information in this thread.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What about those military things that they use to disperse crowds? Where it makes you feel like your skin is cooking, but it's actually not. I feel like that uses high power and high frequency radio waves to accomplish that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

The higher the frequency, the worse that is. So standing very close to an HF antenna that only broadcasts up to like say 30 megahertz is different than standing next to a 700 megahertz cell phone antenna, which is different from standing next to a 2.5 gigahertz cell phone antenna. The reasoning for that is due to power levels and wavelength of the radio signal itself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

You know, that's a good point. I didn't even think of that. But you're right.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Mind crossposting this to [email protected]?

Also, they will lose. The FCC has said that the companies can build towers where they are needed for coverage. They might have to make it look like a tree or something, but they cannot be rejected from building it.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (2 children)

By using PeerTube instead

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Absolutely none whatsoever. Governmyth criminals have no right to tell me to go die for them. Go fuck yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I actually prefer to buy mid range phones that are brand new instead of buying phones that are a few generations old just because I know that with a new device the battery is new and I treat my batteries very well like only charging to 80% and so on. So I'm a lot more likely to buy like the Pixel A series or like the Motorola G series and such than I am to buy the latest Pixel flagship or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, my mom and I own a home together, because she is divorced, and I am legally blind, which makes it a bitch to find work. I'm actually doing better than her though because I did not fall into the stupid debt trap with high interest credit cards or student loans and since I'm blind I can't drive a car so don't have insurance and a car payment to worry about. So while I am not rich by any means, I actually have more money every single month than she does. Easily. Except for tax time, that is. That time she does have more money than I do, but only for a short time until it gets eaten by the credit cards.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I can't seem to find an actual currency estimate of how much privacy is actually worth. I see a ton of articles talking about why privacy should be worth more to people or what people would pay for privacy services or how much people would sell their privacy for, but I don't see anything that gives a value for the privacy industrial complex, so to speak. Like if you take every company and non-profit and everything else and throw it all together, how much is the privacy industry actually worth?

Edit: It's worth at least $2.8 billion US dollars because that is the market cap on average of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero.

Edit 2: If you put Monero, Zcash, and Dash together, you come up with $3.4 billion US dollars.

Edit 3: All the above plus Signal, Proton and EFF bring it up to 3.5 billion.

 

ISpy

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

2.4GHz wifi is not suitable for two big reasons, interference and low bandwidth. 2.4GHz wifi in any kind of suburban or city environment and sometimes even in rural will be congested with other networks, microwaves, other appliances, etc causing massive speed degradation or fluctuations. The range of 2.4GHz is just too large for all the equipment that uses it in today's world. In my previous apartment complex for example my phone could see 35 distinct 2.4GHz wifi networks while only 3 at max can operate without interfering with each other. In that same building i could only see 13 5GHz networks. Which brings me to the second issue of bandwidth

2.4GHz at least here in the US only has channels 1, 6, and 11 that will not interfere with each other. if anyone puts their network between these three channels it will knock out both the one below and the one above. Channel 3 would interfere with both channels 1 and 6 for example. By going up to 5GHz you have many more free channels, fewer networks competing for those channels, and higher bandwidth channels allowing for much higher throughput. 2.4GHz allows 40MHz wide channels which in isolation would offer ~400mbps, but you will never see that in the real world.

Personally, i think OEMs should just stop including it or have it disabled by default and only enable it in an "advanced settings" area.

Edit: I am actually really surprised at how unpopular this opinion appears to be.

 

What is the difference between "hot" "top" and "active"? Both "New" and "old" make total sense but i have never been able to figure the others out

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