BTyson

@BTyson@dragonscave.space

I love technology, music and talking with friends. I try to be laid back, I think things are easier that way. Twitter: btman16

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TheQuinbox, to random

In case you ever wondered what I do in my downtime, I just found the IP address for my cable modem's dashboard, and spent 30 minutes going through, reading all the addresses, and tweaking things like the front-panel lights or energy-efficient Ethernet. Now, back to drinking this coffee I completely forgot about while messing with this.

BTyson,

@TheQuinbox I can totally see you doing that. I'm just imagining someone standing near it being like, "Why are the lights going on and off?"

mikedoise, to random
@mikedoise@techopolis.social avatar

I’m really thinking that today’s event is only half of the story for the iPad this year. I think WWDC will have some really cool iPadOS features. What do you think?

BTyson,

@mikedoise That was a waste of 39 minutes. They could've made that a press release with videos. I don't think they'll do very much in terms of features on the iPad.

BTyson, to Games

Let's do another typing prediction game. On your phone, start the sentence with the following and see if the predictive can get the rest. Over the course of a year, I... go!

BTyson,

@evilcookies98 That's a very interesting subject, I haven't heard of that one before.

TheQuinbox, to random

Today I learned: killing Windows Defender can seriously speed up Thunderbird. If it's ever unusable try it, magic will happen. Not my discovery, but this just made my life so much nicer.

BTyson,

@TheQuinbox How did you kill it?

BTyson, to windows

Hi @JenMsft I just wanted to let you know that in Flight Hub, clicking on the entry for build 26100 is loading the page for build 26090 instead. Are you also able to reproduce this? Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any input you may have. Thanks. #Windows #Windows11

BTyson, to random

I believe I figured out how Narrator reads its controls, there's a template XML file that it seems to read from.

BTyson,

For example, this controls how a checkbox is read, whether Narrator pauses, etc.

BTyson, to random

If this registry value does what I think it will, this computer is set to find a good time to restart for updates, normally it tries for 7 days, and then gives up, but apparently, I've now set it to try for 16777215 days, or about 45964 years, before it will give up. Welcome to me being bored at 2:00 AM.

BTyson, to random

In today's random searching through the registry, I found some info on power settings that I had no idea what they did. There's a setting hidden under sleep settings to allow programs to prevent the system from being able to go to sleep. The default is to always allow programs to prevent the machine from sleeping. I have to test it yet, but so far, my thinking is that if programs have logic in them to keep the system awake, this is the setting that controls whether that can actually happen. Windows Update can do this, for example, if updates haven't been installed for a long time, and I don't like that. So I've tried disabling this, in the hopes that it will prevent that from happening.

BTyson,

There's also a setting, Legacy RTC mitigations, that you can modify to allow the system to hibernate, even if a wake-up alarm is pending.

BTyson,

Here is what the description of this setting reads, about 8 levels deep in the registry: Avoid waking from hiberate via the legacy RTC wake alarm. Also defer hibernate in the presence of an immanent wake alarm.

BTyson,

And I did not write that typo, that's pasted directly from the registry.

BTyson, to privacy

So I just read this article about this thing that scrapes Discord messages and can show what servers a user is part of and when they join voice chats. Do we know if it also collects direct messages? https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/

BTyson,

@datajake1999 Apparently, it says that there isn't anything that indicates this is the case, but you might have to have an account to see that part.

ppatel, to random
@ppatel@mstdn.social avatar

A spy tool is scraping the messages of thousands of Discord servers and selling the data.

This is letting people track users across servers, shows when they joined voice chats, which servers they're in, etc.

https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/

BTyson,

@ppatel Do we know whether this includes direct messages?

BTyson,

@ppatel That's still scary though. If it can do all this currently, I feel like it's only a matter of time before it could, unless something else happens.

TheQuinbox, to random

Okay yeah, I'm done with firefox I think. No more accessibility hangs, but it's just, so, slow! I have 16 cores, it is absolutely and completely absurd that it takes over 15 seconds to load enafore! It used to be just on new instance launch, now it's every time I use the address bar. God dammit I hate computers.

BTyson,

@TheQuinbox Do you have any extensions running in Chrome or Firefox?

BTyson,

@TheQuinbox I've seen weird cases with UBlock Origin. As a temporary check, does it do this if you disable it? Also, another random question, but what do you have Firefox set to load on startup? For example, is it the new tab page, a home page, blank page, etc.?

FluidEscence, to random

Oh boy. This is abouta be a problem soon. Maximum Capacity 93%

BTyson,

@FluidEscence @TheQuinbox There's a video of someone showing an iPhone 6 running iOS 8 and they find out that the battery capacity is 10%. And that makes sense given the fact it only lasted a few minutes on battery.

BTyson,

@simon @FluidEscence @TheQuinbox Oh no!

FluidEscence, to random

so, anyone know what kind of cable I would use if I wanted to connect a BrailleNote Apex over USB as a braille display?

BTyson,

@FluidEscence I believe you want the USB to mini USB cable. It's got the mini USB on the one end that goes into the client port on the right side, then the full USB on the other end.

BTyson,

@FluidEscence Do you have the right cable? I should totally get my Apex out again!

BTyson, to random

If you want more control over Windows not automatically downloading updates, including from Windows Update and the Store, you can meter your connection. You can do this in the properties for the network you're using. The easiest way there is to right click the network you're on in the network connections icon on the taskbar, and selecting properties.

BTyson,

To add to this, I also found a way to have Windows automatically set all future networks you connect to as metered so you don't have to think about it. If anyone wants that, feel free to let me know and I'll post it up to BT Projects.

BTyson,

@TheQuinbox I'm planning to post it to the blog. I'm gonna get the first post ready and posted, then work on this one. The post talking about this will have the link to the file, but also will manually outline the steps for those who like to see exactly what changes are being made to their system so they can do it on their own to be able to see the change they're making.

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