Yes, but only for 2.4 ghz since I live in a small apartment and there's no benefit to high transmit power in those cases. 5 ghz is another story since it doesn't penetrate walls easily anyway, so no harm to others.

1y ago

Two-thirds of Americans now say they wouldn’t drive a Tesla — and most of them cite Elon Musk as the reason why, according to a new poll

Jump

vividspecter @lemm.ee 1y ago

It doesn't actually matter. It should have been a landslide in favour of Harris, and if there was cheating it would have just reduced her margin of victory.

The fact it was close enough to work (if it occurred) is an indictment of a significant proportion of the population.

1y ago

Is there a federated or open source search engine alternative?

Jump

vividspecter @lemm.ee 1y ago

I think there is some postprocessing but yeah it uses Bing. I simply meant that SearXG uses its results (and Bing too for that matter). So it's layers all the way down.

1y ago

Is there a federated or open source search engine alternative?

Jump

vividspecter @lemm.ee 1y ago

I'll add that it's a meta-search engine rather than something that does the actual searching itself. That's still useful, but you're limited by the quality of the upstream search engines (including google, duckduckgo, qwant, etc).

The gain from self-hosting is that you have more control over the results, and can do things like redirect social media sites to privacy friendly alternatives, and create your own bangs (or even add your own custom search engines).

Probably not a massive privacy gain though, although if you host the instance behind a privacy VPN queries won't be associated with your IP at least.

1y ago

calibre 8.0

Jump

vividspecter @lemm.ee 1y ago

Calibre is used as a server all the time, see calibre-web.

calibre-web is technically not Calibre and is written and maintained by different people, although it does use the Calibre database (and I believe it must be created with desktop Calibre initially). But it's a good option and I highly recommend it.

1y ago

calibre 8.0

Jump

vividspecter @lemm.ee 1y ago

you just load your books from Calibre (or right through USB if you’re hardcore for some reason) and you’re basically off to the races.

There's also an OPDS server option with calibre-web that you can use to load books from if you're using koreader.

You can also use the Kobo server replacement option with calibre-web although I personally couldn't get it to work at the time I tried it. But this will give you a sync option that works like the official Kobo server which is quite nice.

1y ago

‘What a travesty’: Outrage as Columbia University 'surrenders' to Trump's $400M threat

Jump

vividspecter @lemm.ee 1y ago

Imagine being such a miserable human being that you hold a grudge for 30 years over an unsuccessful business deal.

1y ago

America should be paying attention to what happens with the judges

Jump

vividspecter @lemm.ee 1y ago

The Cigarette Century goes into an aspect of this, and how easily the public were manipulated into consuming cigarettes en masse. And the echoes of the same tactics that are used today.

1y ago

I overheard some Trump voters visiting Ireland last week

Jump

vividspecter @lemm.ee 1y ago

They don’t seem particularly bright but it seems they’ve done well for themselves in life.

This is such a dangerous combination. Success combined with stupidity seems to breed arrogant people that have never had a deep thought in their entire lives (nor do they believe they need to, given their success). Usually these types defer to some sort of homespun "common sense" no matter the topic at hand.

1y ago

Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia, alarming scholars and speech groups

Jump

vividspecter @lemm.ee 1y ago

We don’t have to exaggerate and make shit up to justify how we feel. That’s what the MAGA fucktards do.

I'm not making shit up, this is just my experience dealing with academia (and not in the US to be clear). But thanks for informing me that the situation is different at Columbia University.