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bandwidthcrisis ,

Los Angeles had hidden oil rigs.

https://lamag.com/lahistory/hidden-oil-wells

bandwidthcrisis ,

FWIW, I ran a Pi 2 with external (self-powered) USB drive for about 8 years as my main backup without issue (except that it was slow). I've just replaced it with a Pi 5 and TerraPi frame holding an SSD.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Maybe so. But it did process duplicity backups every week for hundreds of Gb, so it did a fair amount of work even though not constantly active.

bandwidthcrisis , (edited )

Superbowl reminds me of the SDF Fox News

https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/foxnews

Ifoxnews@lemmy.sdf.org

(Edited to make the bot happy!)

bandwidthcrisis ,

Absolutely. You'd be able to see Colorado from most of the country if the elevation was to the same scale as the horizonal distance.

Run Google Earth (the app or in the browser) and you can see how relatively flat it all is.

bandwidthcrisis ,

The proof is right there in the picture!!!

Well. Okay. I admit it looks like a very bumpy earth.

Nothing an iron can't fix.

Can I refuse MS Authenticator?

So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose "any authenticator" and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it's...

bandwidthcrisis ,

What's needed is an online 2fa service that just takes a username and copies the code to the clipboard.

/s before I get any replies.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Operating systems don't die, their time since the epoch just reaches INT_MAX.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Maybe all you need for this is a local HTML file, with some code set up to add "copy to clipboard" buttons on each section.

Just open the HTML file directly, no software needed other than the browser, no need to host work-related information anywhere other than your PC.

bandwidthcrisis ,

https://wikimapia.org/

It's a map site that helps you identify places around the world. Google maps is so commerce-focussed, Open Street Map often lacks an explanation of what something is.

But it clearly has issues such as not licensing the background options so it has watermarks and popups.

Opentripmap.com is similar, but is probably just OSM data.

Wikimapia is great for "what's that wierd marking in the desert"-type questions.

bandwidthcrisis ,

By the 5th picture, they couldn't be bothered to Shop faced on anymore!

bandwidthcrisis ,

Has he seen "The Lion King"?

Is there a good source of info on rental car liability insurance?

I want to know if the car I'm renting comes with liability insurance. I just want to be sure that if I am at fault in an accident, that the other car will be covered. Lets try to ignore any personal car insurance policy and let's ignore collision insurance for now....

bandwidthcrisis ,

When I rent in the UK they always tell my that each incident will incur a fixed penalty (e.g. large scratch: £1000, damaged windscreen: £1000) presumably to cover loss of earnings on the vehicle, but also to pressure me into purchasing excess protection.

So I wonder if having the extra insurance would cover these "fine" types of charges that are beyond the cost of repair.

bandwidthcrisis ,

I know that it is to cover the excess of damage costs.

I'm asking if they would only pay "reasonable" repair costs if the rental company charges me 1 or 2 thousand for just a large scratch, for instance, which is what Enterprise tell me that they do. (It's usually £1000 but was £2000 when I had a larger vehicle).

bandwidthcrisis ,

The distinction that I'm concerned about is that this isn't a charge from the repair company, it's a fee decided by the rental company. Unrelated to the cost of the repair.

It wasn't an invented example, the figures I gave are what they tell me they will bill me for any repair that's needed.

So thank you for clarifying, but I don't think that I'm musunderstanding what an excess is. I'm just wondering if the excess protection would still cover these arbitrary charges from the _rental company.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Some travel routers have a USB socket for media.

They're usually used to make connecting to hotel Wi-Fi easier (you connect your devices to its ssid, then connect to its admin page and connect it to the wifi, or just plug it in to the lan).

Tp-link ac750, for example

https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/340/

bandwidthcrisis ,

Someone once told me that they were running random program files in a DOS compiler directory, to see if there was anything interesting.

They found one that just printed a message to the console:
"Stop playing Russian Roulette with exe files."

bandwidthcrisis ,

Rsync.net has a discounted "Borg" account
https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html
Which seems to be basically no support and no zfs versioning.

How should I do backups?

I have a server running Debian with 24 TB of storage. I would ideally like to back up all of it, though much of it is torrents, so only the ones with low seeders really need backed up. I know about the 321 rule but it sounds like it would be expensive. What do you do for backups? Also if anyone uses tape drives for backups I am...

bandwidthcrisis ,

I like the versatility of rclone.

It can copy to a cloud service directly.

I can chain an encryption process to that, so it encrypts then backs up.

I can then mount the encrypted, remote files so that I can easily get to them locally easily (e.g. I could run diff or md5 on select files as naturally as if they were local).

And it supports the rsync --backup options so that it can move locally deleted files elsewhere on the backup instead of deleting them there. I can set up a dir structure such as
Oldfiles/20240301
Oldfiles/20240308
Etc that preserve deletions.

bandwidthcrisis ,

I can't recall storage costs (they're on the website somewhere but are not straightforward).

I was paying maybe $7 a month for a few hundred Gb, although not all of that was glacier.

But retrieval was a pain. There's no straightforward way to convert back from glacier for a lot of files and there's a delay. The process creates a non-glacier copy with a limited lifespan to retrieve.

Then the access costs were maybe $50 to move stuff out.

I moved to rsync.net for the convenience and simplicity. It even supported setting up rclone to access s3 directly. So I could do cloud-to-cloud to copy the files over.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Re needing lots of space: you can use --link-dest to make a new directory with hard links to unchanged files in a previous backup. So you end up with de-duplicated incremental backups.
But borg handles all that transparently, with rsync you need to carefully plan relative target directory paths to get it to work correctly.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Last year I found that there was a bundle. But I had to sign up for it via Hulu. Now I still get billed for both. At one point I thought that I was over paying, but I found that the Hulu bundle reduces my Disney sub price to add up to the bundle price.

I think. All I know is that it seems more complicated than it should be.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Oh, and by cancelling my Peacock subscription, I was able to sign up for it free (ad-supported), with my Instacart account.

What a world.

The BBC Won't Use AI to Promote Doctor Who Again After Being Yelled at by Fans ( gizmodo.com )

The backlash was immediate, but it didn’t stop the BBC from using text generated by LLMs—and purportedly checked and copy-edited by a human before approval—in two marketing emails and mobile push notifications to advertise Doctor Who. But now, the corporation will stop the experimentation entirely after a wave of official...

bandwidthcrisis ,

Catgacating! Cartchy tuns!

bandwidthcrisis ,

I like the idea of fanless because it's one less thing to fail. With an SSD, it means no moving parts.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Well if you'd played Vader Immortal in VR, you would.

bandwidthcrisis ,

From looking over that page, it looks like they explain how to use such aliases, but don't provide an alias service themselves, which it looks like Proton Pass does.

bandwidthcrisis ,

I'm referring to the link to bitwarden.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Someone said

Does bitwarden allow me to automatically create a new randomized email address for every new saved login

And I'm questioning that based on the page in the "yes" link reply, suggesting that the provided page is not evidence that they do.

I don't follow how your reply relates to that.

bandwidthcrisis ,

I like to have spare earbuds just lying around, e.g. some in the car glovebox. With wireless earbuds, even if a buy multiple sets, they would need charging.

And plugging in is far fewer steps then finding the BT connection option is I'm not just using them with one device.

USB C earbuds are a partial fix, but i have sometimes wanted to be charging my phone.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Android 14 is drag down twice, hold finger on Bluetooth button, select from list.

IOS on iPad is drag down from top right, hold finger on network buttons, hold finger on Bluetooth button, select from list.

Windows 11 is just 3 taps.

Do you mean that you have a button on the front screen that connects specifically to one Bluetooth device, or do you get a popup when your headphones are on?

bandwidthcrisis ,

My Bluetooth is always on too. I'm talking about choosing the earbuds to connect to.

They'd probably auto connect if I only ever used them with my phone, but since I use them with more then ones device, I need to keep selecting them on whatever I'm using.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Well that's one way too ensure that the parts of the antenna are the correct length!

ajsadauskas , (edited ) to Asklemmy
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

What should I add to my '90s website?

So I'm currently toying around with NeoCities, and decided to trial it by building your classic mid '90s Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pastiche website.

Some of the most important elements are already in place.

Tile background? Large font? Heading in bright pink with a shadow? Unusual colour choices? Random cat gifs? Under construction gif? Check! Check! Check!

In the true spirit of the '90s DIY web, some more pages (including the links page) are coming soon.

(I'm thinking of adding a page dedicated to either Britney or a nu-metal band.)

You can see the page so far here: https://that90ssite.neocities.org/

There are a few things that I want to add to make it complete, and I'm looking for suggestions.

The first, is to embed a midi file that plays automatically. Any suggestions on the best way of doing this?

Second, it's just not going to be complete without a guestbook.

Third, any webring suggestions?

Fourth, what's the best way of adding a java chat room in 2024?

Finally, anything else that really needs to be a part of a great '90s website?

UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback! I've added more annoying GIFs, a guestbook, a links page, and a cyber cat hangout.

UPDATE 2: And added even more gifs, an amazing Amiga demo, and a ton of links.

@asklemmy #tech #webdev #neocities #technology

bandwidthcrisis ,

I think that maybe not knowing how to make the embedded midi auto-play is more authentic!

But I used to use
Autostart=true in the Embed tag.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Ah, sorry, I was only looking at what I did in the 90s!

Looking at the page, there's a console error that says something about "invoke Tone.start()" so I wonder if it needs some javascript to do that, maybe

<script type="text/javascript">Tone.start();</script>

I think that it's including this player code?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/midi-player-js

But the docs there describe creating a new MidiPlayer object and calling play() instead of start(), so I'm probably not helping.

I don't work with javascript, so this is all pure guesswork.

bandwidthcrisis ,

I've used a Mac occasionally but mostly use Windows and Linux.

Trying to put my natural bias aside (being more familiar with windows) here are some things I've noticed:

Mac is meant to be generally easier to use, but installing a program involves this odd process of dragging a downloaded package into an apps folder in some window. That seems strange compared to just clicking the downloaded installer.

A program can be open with no windows. Just the task bar showing. Windows always having a program window seems less likely to confuse a newcomer.

With windows (and some Linux desktops) windows-key-number launches a program from the task bar. So win-1 might be my browser, win-2 my file manager etc. For Mac, I have to install an app to do that. There are other shortcuts like that that seem rarer on Mac, or it has overly-complex combinations of Fn, Ctrl, Opt, Cmd buttons.

BUT: Mac is unix-based! No need to mess around with WSL (abd its own separate filesystem) if I need a Linux feature. With Mac it's just there! But is that really why people choose Mac over Windows?

bandwidthcrisis ,

Do not attempt to combine options 3 and 4 on that list!

bandwidthcrisis ,

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.

I think that this captures so much of the human condition.

bandwidthcrisis ,

Kitboga on YouTube baits "tech support" scammers who ask for gifs card codes as payment then he redeems them to himself (or fakes doing so with custom web sites), while they scream at him.

bandwidthcrisis ,

I'm comfortable using a terminal, but with my Linux machines s common pattern is:

Need to get some software working. Find how to fix it, edit some config files.

Months later I run a system update and it's starts asking me about merging the changes I made to various files. What were they for again? Are they still even necessary with the update or are the values I changed no longer used?

Then sometimes, something I installed is no longer supported, or needs a manual update because of how I installed it.

bandwidthcrisis ,

I always have to look at this one after that.

https://xkcd.com/1504/

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