anonymouse2

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Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The downvotes are because your "solution" is not based in the reality that the rest of us live in.

I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They had been collected from various ISP provided modems and routers I've purchased over the years.

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I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x (sh.itjust.works)
 

After seeing that my wireless speeds were much faster than the speeds I was getting over Ethernet, I decided to invest in some new cables. I didn't know it before, but I saw while I was changing them out that my current cables were Cat 5e. While putting my network together, I had just been grabbing whatever cables I could find in my scrap drawers. Now I have Cat 8 cables and my speeds jumped from 7MB/s to an average of over 40MB/s. It's a much bigger improvement than I expected, especially for such a small investment.

2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

It doesn't even suck that bad. Last time I had to unlock mine, I saw that the previous unlocking had been two years earlier. Each time I have to do it, I set an end date and it automatically relocks. Whole process takes maybe 10 minutes for the big 3 credit bureaus.

Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was wrong. It wasn't the forgotten password link. It was one of those sites that sent a login link instead asking for a password when you put in your username. That changed once I set up 2FA.

Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

For a few months, I had been getting emails from booking.com saying that I had forgotten my password. Probably scammers with my Gmail username futilely attempting to use the forgotten password link to get at stored payment info. Once I set up 2FA on the account, the emails stopped.