HeartyBeast

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Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Nice tip. Thank you. I was similarly confused

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.

This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£ in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

You should definitely spend time trawling through Oxfam shops for books, if this annoys you.

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the smile this morning 🙂

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest

US military pier starts moving towards Gaza in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

You should have quoted fir the job

iOS 17.5 Attention Aware bug in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

You misspelled ‘I cannot answer your question’

Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

The technology is magnifying the flaws in capitalism

BSE: 'Mad cow disease' case found on farm in Scotland in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I suspect down - initially

Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

That sounds as if the register for .ar should be out of a job

iOS 17.5 released in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

News seems to work just the same in the UK - mix of free and premium news stories

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After 34 Years, Someone Finally Beat Tetris (youtu.be)
 

A weirdly uplifting video about the niche world of torturing Tetris until it crashes

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Tsunami warning in Japan after strong earthquake (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country's central region on Monday.

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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth due to computer issue | CNN (www.cnn.com)
 

NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.

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The Skewer: Three Twisted Years (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Interesting to see Jon Holmes’s radio satire translated onto the screen for the first time

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Broadcom to divest VMware’s EUC and Carbon Black units (www.theregister.com)
 

Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces

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Does adding a photo to a comment not work with federation? (kbin.social)
 

I commented in a discussion and added a photo. Others could see it.

Known issue, or did I just muck up?

https://kbin.social/m/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/t/671847/Why-are-there-circles-of-melted-snow-on-this-icy#entry-comment-3889016

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Decent brand external drive for Time Machine backups? (kbin.social)
 

My TM drive has just failed and I'm looking for an alternative. There have been so many mergers and rebranding among drive manufacturers over the last few years and noise about how previously good brands have been taken over and now sell junk, I'm trying ti get a steer on which ones are still decent.

Looking for 4TB - to be honest, happy woth spinning rust as it is only for backup the speed of an SSD not really needed.

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COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Leaked documents show how the COP28 host planned to use its role to strike fossil fuel business deals.

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Researcher flags OpenCart security issue, founder rages (www.theregister.com)
 

Web storefront maker fixed the flaw, but not before blasting infoseccer

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Whisky - A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI (getwhisky.app)
 

Run the latest DirectX 12 titles effortlessly on your Mac with Whisky!

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Survival, scandal, a secret cell: how the nail-biting Israel-Hamas hostage deal was done (www.theguardian.com)
 

Weeks of precarious talks finally led to Friday’s releases of captives. Here’s the inside story

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‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase (www.theguardian.com)
 

Online anti-vaxxers, conflating Covid and MMR theories, are convincing parents against immunising their children

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