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Edent, to solar
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🆕 blog! “One MegaWattHour of Battery Power!”

Less than a year ago, in August 2023, we installed a 4.8kWh Solar Battery at a cost of £2,900. Whenever I talk about the upfront capital costs of solar power, people rightly want to know what the payback period is. Well, after less than 10 months, the battery has given us 1MWh. To put that […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/one-megawatthour-of-battery-power/
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@Edent I am considering doing it when we redo our roof (don’t want to install anything on an old roof) but my main problem isn’t the tech or even install cost, it’s how scammy the whole commercial aspect around it is (at least where I am). All I see is over inflated claims, financing offers, etc, when all I want is a quality setup with reliable support if needed…

skinnylatte, to random
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literally everything i do today for work and money comes directly from 'me dabbling at random stuff at a computer 20 years ago that no one else around me understood' so i truly feel sorry for kids of helicopter parents who are like 'no screens'

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@skinnylatte same. I can trace my entire career back to weekends spent messing around with Linux on some piece of crap laptops while I should’ve been studying or sleeping.

evan, (edited ) to random
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What is your relationship with your instance owner?

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@evan does “I self admin just to have a funny domain” go with “family”? 😅

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Audio Hijack by @RogueAmoeba has always been awesome, but 4.4.0 making use of recent macOS improvements to:

1 - not require reboots/disabling security features to set up
2 - work as a standard user

is AMAZING

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    @neurovagrant can you participate in shared albums in photos at least with known contacts or is that still disabled and not excludable?

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    @neurovagrant Thx… that’s probably the only thing holding me back by now…

    neurovagrant, to random
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    Sure we've got influencers, but really central to infosec community cohesion is the shitposters. I worry that emerging infosec students aren't told about the importance of our shitposters. We need a list for them.

    Maybe even a college course.

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    @neurovagrant @catsalad I forgot to renew my Certified Information Security Shit Poster certification unfortunately

    mivox, (edited ) to random
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    Imagine living in a world where a disease that only killed ~3000 people in a “bad” outbreak was taken seriously? :blobcat_blushplead:
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-iron-lung-dead-paul-alexander-b2511827.html

    (Oh, and now I’m hearing the man died of COVID… Jesus.)

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    @mivox @bonaventuresoft My dad got polio in the 50s cause he was at camp and they couldn’t reach his parents to get consent for the vaccine. If he was still alive he’d be freaking out at all the anti-vax bullshit going on in the last 10 but especially 3-4 years…

    AnnemarieBridy, to random
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    It so awful that in our current state of commerce, buying something online opens you up to constant email badgering by the seller until you literally demand to be left alone.

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    @AnnemarieBridy And donating exposes you to the highly caffeinated version of that experience…

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    Wait we’ve got quote toots now?!

    g, to security
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    🇨🇦 DO NOT LET CANADA BAN SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS!📻

    @ouaibe and I wrote an open letter to François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry.

    You can read it at https://SaveFlipper.com

    PLEASE re-share it, repost about it on other social networks, comment here as well as on LinkedIn:

    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guillaumeross_save-flipper-activity-7165718369940295681-i1Yi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

    gruber, to random
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    Mozilla should definitely do this. And then when it goes nowhere, everyone will finally agree that PWAs were never a great platform for mobile apps. Right? https://indieweb.social/@whalecoiner/111940727614198057

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    @gruber Also isn’t that basically WebOS anyway?

    tvaziri, to random
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    AVP owners and reviewers - can you input text via your iPhone? (similar to how you can input text to your Apple TV via iPhone)

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    @gruber @tvaziri do you think they’ll ever do iPhone pass through, or will they resist it to promote devs shipping Vision Pro apps?

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    @gruber @tvaziri Using a remote screen tech like the Mac pass through but to render your phone’s screen on the phone itself

    bynkii, to random
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    I will say this until it is no longer true:

    If a non-admin user clicking on a link or opening up an infected word file damages anything on your network your security is shit.

    Periodt.

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    @shortridge @bynkii @saraislet and in the meantime there’s an RCE in Outlook preview pane anyway, so now we should blame users for previewing emails. Next step would be to blame them for receiving it, and soon, for existing.

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    The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true.

    Here’s the original source of the story: https://archive.is/2024.01.30-203406/https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/kriminalitaet-die-zahnbuersten-greifen-an-das-sind-die-aktuellen-cybergefahren-und-so-koennen-sie-sich-schuetzen-ld.2569480

    It’s simply a made up example. It doesn’t exist. It starts talking about NoName Ddosia, too, which also isn’t toothbrushes.

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    @GossiTheDog @SwiftOnSecurity but IT COULD HAPPEN as soon as someone makes a toothbrush with a 2lbs battery in it! It COULD!

    dangoodin, to random

    Does anyone know of any attacks, either PoC or in the wild, that use malicious printer cartridges to infect printers? I saw this article from 2022

    https://www.action-intell.com/2022/10/05/hp-bug-bounty-program-finds-reprogrammable-chips-open-printers-to-malware/

    It says that HP's Bug Bounty program found such attacks are possible, but there are no details about who reported the bug that made such attacks possible. I remain skeptical about the accuracy.

    Any help from experts in the form of pointers to attacks or analysis about whether printer cartridges are a viable infection vector would be much appreciated.

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    @dangoodin Even if it did happen… fix your POS printer that has code exec from a cartridge???

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    @haifisch @dangoodin CEO goes on national news to brag about 0day in their product is a hell of a move

    revengeday, to random
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    Cheesus, people get on my nerves with their fucking firecrackers...

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    @revengeday This post out of context was intriguing

    ernie, to random
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    It’s so weird Sony built these amazing headphones that work really well but didn’t anticipate that people would want to use the USB-C port for wired audio connections.

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    @ernie Which Sony model?

    g, to random
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    I keep seeing posts about it being DOOM. Make it stop. https://recyclebin.zip/posts/2023-12-21-autospill/

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    @GuillaumeRossolini Yeah it’s a problem with how web views are used. Not the end of the world.

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    Spotted this deeply cynical take on UX over on the orange site re: Figma.

    The world is lists. Information is just a list of stuff. I can dumb down the value of organization too.

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    @ernie Stupid people paying so much for ones and zeroes amirite

    hrbrmstr, to random
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    I see Silicon Valley is in full "LOL! Nothing Matters” mode, again/still.

    https://www.404media.co/openai-announces-sam-altman-is-coming-back-and-theres-a-new-board/

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    @hrbrmstr Honestly, who was still there on that board and thought the for profit and “mission” where still a thing once they accepted billions in investment from companies who wanted enterprise AI? That’s the moment when they accepted it. Now they’re just trying to go back in time and it’s not working.

    sanguish, to random
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    I’ve been looking at IMDb as a data source for an app.

    But it’s 120000 a year

    There’s an IMDb-api site that’s much less, but only accepts PayPal and crypto. Which is a bit weird. Is it legit?

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    @sanguish I’ve seen apps that look decent built on https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs - not sure how their commercial pricing works, is that the one you are referring to with PayPal and crypto?

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