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  • No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard

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  • Yes, there is not much going on on this board, but since those trigger boards with USB-PD functionality are so cheap these days, it should have been possible to add such a trigger chip. If you wanted to go the really fancy route you could even use PPS and allow for pretty much arbitrary voltages.

  • No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard

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  • Missed opportunity there, not being able to select all the other available USB-PD voltages. Not every circuit runs on 3.3 or 5 V.

  • Can't access Vaultwarden

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  • I’m using a DuckDNS domain with caddy as reverse proxy, but it appears that the domain is defaulting to port 80 no matter how I set up the config. I can’t specify a port number in DuckDNS as far as I can tell.

    A domain or DNS in general has nothing to do with ports. DNS is primarily used so that you don't have to remember IP addresses.

  • how much power does your system need?

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  • kWh is a unit of power consumed. It doesn't say anything about time and you can't assume any time period. That wouldn't make any sense. If you want to say how much power a device consumes, just state how many watts (W) it draws.

  • Let's Encrypt Announces New-Certificate-Every-6-Days Offering

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  • I understand their reasoning behind this, but I am not sure, this is such a good idea. Imagine Letsencrypt having technical issues or getting DDoS'd. If the certificates are valid for 90 days and are typically renewed well in advance, no real problem arises, but with only 6 days in total, you really can't renew them all that much in advance, so this risk of lots of sites having expired certificates in such a situation appears quite large to me.

  • Pixel 6, 7 series get an extra two years of software upgrades

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  • Ok, that endoflife.date site apparently isn't quite up-to-date then. But even still, Android 14 was released in October 2023 and as far as I can tell, Fairphone released their Android 14 update only in July 2024. I'm not saying Fairphone's update policy is terrible or anything. It certainly is better than that of many other vendors, but if you want updates as quickly as possible, you are probably better of with a Pixel phone. Of course repairability is an entirely different matter.

  • Pixel 6, 7 series get an extra two years of software upgrades

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  • Absolutely, security updates are much more important than feature updates. Upgrading to newer Android versions is mostly useful to have access to newer Android APIs (apps eventually will require newer versions, although that usually takes quite a while). Another benefit of newer Android versions might be added security features.

  • Pixel 6, 7 series get an extra two years of software upgrades

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  • Yes, there are multiple reasons, but that security chip was very important to them. An easy way to install the OS was also quite essential.

  • Pixel 6, 7 series get an extra two years of software upgrades

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  • Samsung's update policy for their lower end models is pretty atrocious. While on paper they offer updates for a couple of years, it you look more closely, you'll notice that the update intervals get larger and larger as time goes on. You might not get important updates for half a year. Sure, still better than not updates at all, but a pretty awful policy for security updates.

  • Pixel 6, 7 series get an extra two years of software upgrades

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  • Fairphone is actually worse than Google when it comes to updates. Even their flagship phone is still on Android 13. Even the Pixel 6 runs Android 15 at this point and with this news it is guaranteed to get at least Android 17. Google has always been offering 5 years of support for the Pixel 6 and 7 series. What they didn't promise until this announcement was additional feature/OS upgrades, but when it comes to that they were already ahead of Fairphone.

    When it comes to alternative OSes, Google actually makes it very easy to install them. That's one reason why GrapheneOS and the likes chose Pixel phones as their primarily supported phones.

  • Pixel 6, 7 series get an extra two years of software upgrades

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  • For the Pixel 6 and 7 series Google has promised 5 years of security updates right from the beginning. What's new here is that they now also offer feature and OS upgrades for that same time period. Certainly nice to have, but not essential.

  • First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released

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  • I would prefer more LAN ports as well, but how does that relate to what I said? I never said they intended to build or should build a device that fits all use-cases.

  • First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released

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  • Linksys WRT54G

    The Linksys WRT54G did not run OpenWrt by default and the original OS does not even remotely resemble OpenWrt. What OpenWrt did use from the original OS was the Broadcom wireless driver because it was closed source (and a similar kernel version, so the driver could be used), since there was no driver in the mainline kernel.

    But to try to answer the question, this device has been designed by the OpenWrt developers to fit their needs (and their users needs). Other routers running some variant of OpenWrt on them by default were designed by companies unrelated to the project. They most likely used OpenWrt because it was convenient to them. Their intentions weren't usually the same as the OpenWrt team's (repairability, easy to unbrick, etc.). Not that there is anything wrong with that. I like GL.Inet routers.

  • Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe

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  • MW/h

    There is MW which is a unit of power and then there is MWh which is a unit of energy, but what is MW/h supposed to mean?

  • On the importance of backups

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  • How would ZFS snapshots help in a situation like this, where you have accidentally formatted your drive?

  • Security blindspots for selfhosted website

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  • Unless you require the dynamic features of Wordpress, you could have a look at some of the static site generators out there (such as Hugo). Having a static site would reduce the attack surface considerably. Also due to the shenanigans happening with Wordpress at the moment, I would be weary of using it.

    About SSL, what others have already mentioned, SSL certs are available for free these days, thanks to letsencrypt.

  • JetKVM - a polished take at the nanoKVM(?)

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  • Why? Even 1080p is more than what is usually needed for such a KVM solution. It is not like this is meant for doing remote work on a computer or anything like that.

  • JetKVM - a polished take at the nanoKVM(?)

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  • It lets you remotely control a server as if you were sitting in front of a screen and keyboard directly attached to it.

  • Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns

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  • I was really sceptical of the CTOs first response, but this does actually seem to be genuinely good news.