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lasr_velocirptr··on America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs
I have thinking about doing this for a while. How does one go about verifying whether a business is PE owned or not?
lasr_velocirptr··on BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH
can anybody familiar with the tool comment on if the encryption codein borgbackup is audited or is there a tool whose encryption portion of the code is audited to ensure that there are no glaring bugs in the encryption scheme?
lasr_velocirptr··on 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist
not really feasible for non technical folks but at that point you start to run a dns proxy in cloud with static ip and proxy all your dns requests using DoH to that IP. That would be really hard to block without blocking all outbound https connections
lasr_velocirptr··on 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist
I am sure if you use DoT or DoH it's going to be very hard for ISP to block using your own DNS even if you rented a modem/router from them. It does need client-side support though.
lasr_velocirptr··on Kobo announces color e-readers
If you are up for a little diy, you can get the libra working with a bluetooth remote that you may already have

https://github.com/tsowell/kobo-btpt

lasr_velocirptr··on I’ll never be an astronaut
I wonder if it makes sense in this day and age to have AEDs as part of first aid kit? There is an issue that people require adequate training to use one properly. Maybe, we could subsidize AED for people that have taken advanced CPR class

Without looking at the statistics, I wonder how many lives can be saved if there are enough people trained to use AED and provide CPR considering in a lot of areas it can be a while before ambulance shows up

lasr_velocirptr··on Measured: Typing latency of Zutty compared to other terminal emulators (2021)
PS/2 Keyboards are faster than a USB keyboard with slow-speed negotiation with the host computer but for USB keyboards with high speed negotiation, they are at par[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgULBpRoXk&t=1766s

lasr_velocirptr··on Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization
One of the potential solutions might be to just treat youtube as a separate service i.e. create a separate account for YouTube with 2fa disabled.

It’s not ideal since you need to deal with two accounts but that’s what password managers are for.

lasr_velocirptr··on Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print
Welcome!

Yup. That’s the link. You can just log in there if you have subscription and grab the rss url

It will look like

https://www.economist.com/audio-edition-podcast/<auth_token>...

You can paste that into a podcast app of your choice. I use pocket casts on iOS which works with the above url for sure

lasr_velocirptr··on Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print
yup. That's what I do right now when I want to check out magazines. Though, I will admit that's not often

With that being said, it would be amazing if Kobo can implement support for magazines so that you could use eink displays for reading magazines in a park on a sunny day without any glare

lasr_velocirptr··on Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print
It does work offline. I don't remember the exact steps on how to do it.

Basically, you can get an rss feed with credentials imported into podcast app of your choice and just download the episode before going offline.

I prefer this approach since 1) It works offline 2) I can use podcast player of my choice with much better UX than the economist app

lasr_velocirptr··on Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print
I wasn't able to find any integration with overdrive in Canada when I last tried the kindle. The Kobo's here do work seamlessly with overdrive but only for ebooks though, no magazines or audiobooks
lasr_velocirptr··on HackTheBox: A Hacking Playground
Do they offer online course or is it something that’s in-person only?