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  • Any site that generates content can choose to create an RSS feed. Essentially it’s a link to which the site can push new stories.

    You need an RSS client. Good news! There are a lot of free ones (and open source, too!).

    The pro’s of RSS:

    • all your different go-to news outlets in one place
    • no ad-ridden webpages
    • no dealing with interfaces of said news outlets
    • your pick ff categories, for instance if you’re not interested in celebrity gossip, you just turn that off

    The cons:

    • you’ll need to go collect RSS links from your favorite sites
    • one of your sites might no longer use RSS because they don’t get ad revenue for it
    • RSS readers are often not pretty
    • you might get weirdly formatted text pages sometimes


  • It’s wholly possible these people are not bothered by loud noises. I have neighbors and especially their kids seem to have no clue what an inside voice is, how far bass travels or how to walk down stairs.

    They shout, they blast music, they fall down stairs.

    If I did that as a kid, my dad would tell me to cut it out. And I think that’s the key difference. You’re either raised to be considerate of others, or you’re not. And if you’re the considerate type, most likely you’ll go out of your way because you don’t want them to be bothered by you while they might not even register if you happen to fall down the stairs or fire a cannon indoors.

    I used to be really careful with watching tv at certain hours, or announcing to my neighbors of I was going to have people over. It took me a while but I now don’t even really care if they hear me anymore. Because even if they do, it’s unlikely they’ll be bothered as much as I am when their preteen kids shout that they don’t want to go to bed at 10:30 PM when I’m trying to sleep.


  • I’m not familiar with how malware like that masks but you can pretty much find any traffic with a tool like WireShark. It’s just a matter of finding out how processes recreate themselves once killed.

    If something lives in the storage of your router, specifically, I’d see about formatting the storage and flashing new firmware. As you stated, that may not solve anything.

    Regardless of how they enter and what is installed where, once it’s inside your home network it can pretty much access anything. If you wanna be fully secure you’d need a firewall and just block any traffic you don’t specifically whitelist. As you can imagine, this is cumbersome.

    Are you worried that something has infected your network devices? Do you have any reason to suspect something? In some countries, ISPs do some passive monitoring on what goes in and out of your home and if they see anything untoward they’ll disable that bridge device and notify you.










  • What’s the worst thing is that the rhetoric they keep spouting is just verifiably false. They say stuff like “the left has been destroying this country for long enough” even though the last five or six cabinets have been dominated by the largest right-wing party.

    It’s a simple trick: take a general issue that is visible throughout the largest part of the population, pick a scapegoat, preferably one you can generalise, then promise a bunch of stuff you’ll never be able to pull off without dismantling democracy.

    Currently, the far right is just blaming all kinds of institutions that are supposed to protect our systems. Their plans are all short sighted bullshit that’s so easily checked for its faults that’s it’s just easier to say it’s being criticized for ideology rather than content. Anyone who would take a second look at what has happened for the last two years should be easily cured from their far right views but these voters don’t take the time to actually look into the numbers and plans. Their attention span for politics doesn’t stretch much farther than yelling about immigrants and taxes.

    I am not optimistic about the results of today’s election.




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    Don’t really get why you got downvoted. Probably someone still using an old 32" HD Ready screen warning 480p content saying it’s fine and they don’t see the difference anyway.

    Modern TVs do upscaling, so anything lower res you watch on a 4K or 8K screen will get upscaled a bit. Watching crappy quality stuff on a 4K tv will get blown up enough for you to really see a difference compared to a lower def tv.

    That said, it’s really no use looking at just the resolution. Most likely, an 8K TV will have a panel that is just better overall quality (depending on the brand, of course). You’ll have better HDR, most likely it’s gonna be 12 bit colour, the contrast ratio will be excellent, it might even have decent sound. It’s just gonna be an overall high end TV. Apps will run more smoothly because it’s likely they fitted it with a decent processor. The image processing engine is just better because it’ll have to be. Again, unless it’s a cheapo brand that only focused on the 8K of it and left the rest on the table.

    It probably won’t really justify paying triple what you’d pay for a decent 4K TV but there’s gotta be early adopters, otherwise we’ll stay on the current gen forever.