black0ut

Notes worth making:

• Mv2 will not be deprecated in firefox or firefox based browsers

• Adblock plus is not the best adblocker extension, even for Mv3. uBlock has made a version that works with Mv3, called uBlock Lite

• Even though Mv3 adblockers exist, they will always be worse than Mv2 adblockers, because they have a limited set of rules.

TLauncher was caught with malware

Minecraft, the game that sold the most copies in history, has a huge infrastructure of community-hosted servers, some with tens of thousands of players playing at the same time. The community has created different flavors of the server software, optimized it, added mod support and even reprogrammed parts of it.

At this point, it's hard for me to believe how someone could say a community can't run game servers with a straight face.

Publish schematics with every piece of hardware you make. Paradise for repair technicians and retro tech enthusiasts in a few decades.

The prohibition is not for your health, it's because everyone else also has to breathe your smoke.

Smoke in private, not in public places, and especially not in public places where children play.

Lucida already didn't rip from spotify, nor does doubledouble. Try to get your songs from another service if they're available (Qobuz and Tidal usually have good availability and high quality)

I've always heard this claim, but in reality I've had more luck running old software on linux with wine than on windows.

Windows has a lot of old bloat still around (even some win3.11 apps remain on win11), but that doesn't mean it's that good at backwards compatibility. Backwards compatibility also requires an effort, which Microsoft doesn't want to make.

Last I heard is that he compiles the kernel on an AMD machine (with a threadripper iirc), so he also has a beefy desktop.

I've been looking for that version for years, but for some reason I can't find it anymore

It really isn't that slow, last time I tried to homebrew a working DNS tunnel it maxed my 100mbps card. I never needed the extra speed so I didn't try to see how fast it could be on a 1gbps card

Probably the port forwarding was automatically set up by UPnP, which is also something that can't be done on a vpn without port forwarding. If you have a tracker, the torrent might also work, but then the tracker itself would have to be port forwarded.

Sound cannons are actually pretty weird, in that they don't work like you'd imagine them to work. They produce sound when multiple beams of ultrasound collide with an object, so if they're pointed at you, you're the one producing the sound that hurts you. That's why they're so effective.

Some people online have done some tests, and thin cardboard appears to be the best way to stop them. Put the thin cardboard before you, and it stops most of the sound. It can be the cardboard from a poster, if you have one.

Ear protection headphones (for workshops) also help, and their effectiveness is enhanced further by wearing small earplugs inside. Active noise cancelling headphones don't help and can even be counter productive, so don't use those.