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Stranded astronauts plan to vote in the 2024 election from space
  • I mean, even if they did, this isn't an emergency since they're not in any danger. The station is still working fine, they have plenty of supplies, etc.

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    Apps can now block sideloading more easily and force downloads through Google Play
  • Aw shit, it says this is supposed to detect when an app's binary has been tampered with... That means it's probably gonna be used to block stuff like ReVanced. I hope they can find a way around this that doesn't require root.

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    Help setting up Wi-Fi router
  • I've been running PiHole for awhile, in short it's your own DNS server that's configured to block DNS requests to known advertising domains. So when you load a website and it sends a DNS request to PopularAdvertisingCompany.com to load an ad, PiHole blocks the request so the ad can't be loaded. It's useful for devices that you can't put an ad blocker on, like iPhones and smart TVs and such, but can't block stuff like YouTube ads cause they come from the same domain as the videos themselves.

    It also has bonus features like DNS caching which can speed up web browsing.

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    Help setting up Wi-Fi router
  • Any router from a mainstream brand is likely fine, just don't enable any of their "cloud" BS and don't use their smartphone app. I've had good luck with Asus, they have an app but you don't have to use it at all.

    For security, try to enable WPA3 on your Wi-Fi networks, otherwise WPA2 is probably fine unless you're being targeted by a government-sponsored hacking operation. Choose a long password for your network.

    Once you get it up and running, then worry about DNS and PiHole and VPNs and all that. Don't get in over your head.

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    The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
  • Ha, I just came here to post this! It's seriously cool, and the Navajo's history in the semiconductor industry is something I never knew about.

    I would love a rug like that.

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  • Exactly. Or, you could just buy into "many worlds" and the idea that your brain and all the quantum particles that comprise it just join in on the laser beam's wave function. (That's an oversimplification but close enough)

    Just like there's no reason to believe the earth is at the center of the solar system, there's no reason to believe that human consciousness is a fundamental part of quantum mechanics.

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    At this point, Microplastics pollution should probably be included
  • Jesus christ. I really thought that headline was exaggerated, but no, the brain samples they tested actually ended up being 0.5% plastic by weight. That's seriously disturbing, I really would have thought the blood-brain barrier would do a better job of keeping plastics out.

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    File Storage on YouTube | YouTube
  • This is such an incredibly dumb idea. If this "storage method" was to gain any traction, Google would figure out how to shut it down, either by banning accounts (removing all your data) or worse, instituting a policy of removing videos that don't reach a certain view threshold. Not to mention, encoding data this way is inefficient as hell.

    Just pay a few dollars for reliable storage, whether from Google or Proton or whoever you like.

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    Mitochondria is the power house of the cell
  • It's pretty hard though. Without mass, everything travels at the speed of light and doesn't experience the flow of time, which don't really mesh well with classical physics (or quantum mechanics, and definitely not relativity).

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    Bathroom tampons.
  • Purely out of curiosity, how long ago was this? Cause if your cousin had access to the internet, there's a 200% chance he already knew what sex was.

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    AMD takes down NVIDIA-CUDA replacement for Intel GPUs. What?
  • The project started as an independently developed ZLUDA, meant for Intel GPUs. AMD started funding development of the project, expanding its scope to also work on AMD GPUs, with the condition that if AMD abandons it, the code would become open source. This happened a few months ago, but now for some reason AMD backtracked and pulled the open-source code for reasons we don't know. AMD is usually pretty good with this stuff though, so I'm interested to find out what their motives are.

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    Isn't "MAGA" an admission that currently, America is NOT great?
  • Yup. It was funny how during the 2020 election cycle they briefly had to change all their merch to say "keep America great" despite continuing to use the MAGA slogan throughout most of Trump's administration. By their logic, America was only "great" during the first part of 2020, which is.... questionable, to say the least, since almost nothing was "great" during that time.

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    Looking for a program to document things in life.
  • I second obsidian! I use it for a daily diary and various notes. You can either use a network share and Syncthing to sync your files between multiple devices, or just pay a few dollars for their (completely encrypted) cloud service

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    What devices should i look for to get a -30V power supply.
  • You just need to be careful that the supplies' outputs are completely isolated from mains. Otherwise you'll end up with a lovely spark show.

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    Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels?
  • Funny enough, a number of years ago a giant 4chan archive surfaced which included a lot of the very first SCP posts that had been lost. It actually confirmed that 173 was posted after Blink aired, meaning it was almost certainly inspired by the episode. Not that it makes the SCP worse, but it's some interesting lore.

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