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No, numbers stations are not permitted on amateur frequencies in the US. There are some notable cases of foreign governments setting these up and interfering with amateur allocatio…

> Voice encryption/scramble on Amateur-Band's is not allowed, everything else is ok. It seems like you're saying voice encryption is not permitted, but data encryption is? This is …

It sounds like GPS, and thus a GPS-based stratum 1 server, uses these time servers, but they were successfully failed over: > Jeff finished off the email mentioning the US GPS syst…

On my iPhone, I can see the size of my iCloud photo backups. Settings -> Apple Account -> iCloud -> Storage. Weirdly, that number is different than Immich’s estimate of my photo li…

I self host an Immich [1] instance to backup photos on my iPhone. It’s OSS and has a level of polish I’ve rarely seen in free software. Really, it’s shockingly good. The iOS app wh…

There’s an infamous case of xerox photocopiers substituting in incorrect characters due to a poorly tuned compression algorithm. No AI necessary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG…

I don't understand why people downvote questions like this rather than just answer the question. It's a perfectly reasonable question imo given that it's not clear how this feature…

From the article: > This allows for some interesting new deployment models for DuckDB, for example, we could now put an encrypted DuckDB database file on a Content Delivery Network…

Seagate has a proprietary version of SMART called FARM. It’s supposed to be more tamper resistant than SMART, but it appears the fraudsters have figured out how to manipulate it to…

I guess my head is still spinning. I took a second look at ad blockers on the app store, and many report that they collect various bits of data. Are you saying that there's a speci…

Scrolling through the comments reading about all the adblockers that folks recommend makes my head spin. Why exactly should I trust any of these to have full access to my browser? …

Terminal.shop lets you order coffee over ssh, which is kind of novel and fun. I did it, and the coffee was good! This post reminded me that they've gotten enough questions about se…

I posted this in a sibling comment, but I can confirm Beelink's EQ14 [1] works well with OPNsense (FreeBSD based instead of OpenBSD). The dual NIC model uses the Intel KTI226-V chi…

I use them interchangeably. Webster appears to back me up here. However, I only say ear bud when referring to the type that's inserted into the ear.

I don't think I've run into any bugs, but there are also entire sections of the controller I haven't explored yet. I have a pretty typical homelab style setup with multiple wifi SS…

I've only been using it for a couple months, but OPNsense (FreeBSD based) is such a solid piece of software. I installed it on a cheap Beelink mini PC with dual 2.5 gb NICs and an …

All the complaints about Ubiquiti in this thread from a few months ago dissuaded me from investing in their gear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746603 I ended up going wit…

You can also block any arbitrary page element and that block will persist between page loads. I think it’s in right click menu. I used this to permanently block the YouTube chat fe…

It doesn’t seem like email scanning is necessary to explain this. It appears that simply having a “bad” subdomain can trigger this. Obviously this heuristic isn’t working well, but…

This is a pretty significant lift for most home networks, both in terms of cost and complexity, but I agree it’s the right way to go. If you’re upgrading to a PoE switch, you might…

I remember when USB first came out and there was a ton of novelty in powering all sorts of random stuff out of your computer’s USB port like fans and mug warmers. This has me wonde…

I don’t follow. What part of this would a USB-C wall outlet solve? This would just be swapping a 120/240v cable for a USB cable, right? PoE reduces the number of cables, among othe…