u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is HP 255 G7 running Manjaro and Linux Mint.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.

SDF Unix shell username: user224

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Termux: “Look at what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power”

    Maybe they could rather fix AOSP. Based on that recent LTT video Google doesn’t really give a fuck about it anymore.

    I just recently bought 2 phones (one returned, other isn’t far from that), one with A14 the other with A13. Changing minimum width to >600dp (to simulate a tablet (larger screen) and trigger tablet mode) has very wild results now. I mean like overlapping icons in notification shade, completely non-functional 3 button navigation, app tray squished to less than width of 1 icon (completely unusable), icons getting off-screen, gesture navigation occasionally not working either, notification shade icons and notifications offset from their background (just a visual problem) and a lot of wasted space everywhere.

    Sure, it’s in developer settings, but so far whenever I did something to this in up to Android 11 including, the phone just beautifully adjusted to this and everything suddenly made more sense on a large screen.
    Though maybe I was just lucky?

    I am currently typing this on an old Moto G5s Plus (2017) with the now discontinued PixelExperience (11) ROM. My last bug-free Android experience. I can even route hotspot over a VPN, how cool is that.



  • I just did a manual test with sh.itjust.works comparing it to lemmy.blahaj.zone.

    sh.itjust.works keeps accepting attempts
    lemmy.blahaj.zone blocks after I think 3 attempts (I forgot to pay attention)
    lemmy.ml also blocks after 3 attempts

    sh.itjust.works and lemmy.blahaj.zone even use the same version, lemmy.ml is on a 0.19.6 beta.

    Going further, lemmy.world: no blocking (as far as tested)
    lemm.ee: no blocking (as far as tested)
    sopuli.xyz: after 10 attempts

    Summary: SDF is using old version, the rate limiting seems to be variable suggesting a setting

    Analysis: lemmy.ml, lemmy.blahaj.zone and sopuli.xyz appear to be exposed directly (.zone doesn’t respond without SNI, other 2 show NGINX page). NGINX can pass client IPs in headers. The rate limiting appears to be IP-based.
    sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world and lemm.ee are all behind CloudFlare.

    Hypothesis: Either a problem with passing client IP headers from cloudflared or the instance admins simply trust CloudFlare to provide some rate limiting.
















  • I would stop. At that point it’s not really a donation, but a payment. I don’t know how much of that donation to consider a “payment”.

    Similarly I didn’t get the Tor Project stickers. I don’t know how much the stickers, envelope and postage cost them, thus I couldn’t determine the amount that is “donation”. As such, I opted not to take them. Just the same with Fediverse Canvas 2024 stickers. Some amount of that has went for Canvas development, but how much I don’t know. Once again I opted for donation only.
    I’d like them in both cases. Perhaps $3 (excl. shipping) per sticker is still OK to consider a purchase, but $25 for a few stickers, meh.

    Anyway, my point is, if for the donation I am provided exclusive products or services and I either don’t know their cost (to subtract from donation amount) or don’t have the choice to opt out from being provided the services/products, I won’t donate at all.

    But even outside of that, it wouldn’t pass. For me, one requirement for donating is that whatever group I am donating to provides everyone the same service no matter if you pay them or not. Otherwise I can’t really consider it a donation, and I don’t have the money to pay.