Daniel @da@mastodon.technology

Bandwidth drops from 250 to 9 Mbps during peak Netflix hours every day this week. I really wish Netflix and YouTube could preload my “watch later” queue during off-hours. #congestion #broadband #fiber #lastmile

@Mojeek still keep getting HTTP 403 Forbidden errors when I try to search with Mojeek.

New EdgeDeflector 1.2 addresses installation woes.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/edgedeflector-12update.html#src=mastodon

The new WSLg makes it trivial to run Linux desktop apps on Windows 10.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/wslg-desktop-apps.html#src=coil

I just played Tuxracer and browsed the web with Firefox on Microsoft Wayland on top of Windows Subsystem for Linux. It even got its own Start menu entry mapped from the app's .desktop file. Is this real life?

Superfeedr sends logins in plain-text (a HSTS case study) 🔓 #security
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/superfeedr-hsts-oopsie.html#src=mastodon

FeedBurner stirs in its slumber to announce more feature deprecations #RSS
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/feedburner-2021.html#src=mastodon

The thing about ‘The Thing About Harry’ #lgbt #movie
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/thing-about-harry-availability.html#src=mastodon

“Nutritional quality and costs of gluten-free (GF) products: a case-control study of food products on the Norwegian marked”
https://foodandnutritionresearch.net/index.php/fnr/article/view/6121/13441
“GF products are normally […] characterized by a low content of fiber‚ […] have a higher carbohydrate and fat content, [and] is particularly high in saturated fatty acids.”
“[GF products are] 443% more expensive than [regular] products.”
#coeliac

Lower the paywalls to keep the bullshit at bay
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/lower-the-paywalls.html#src=mastodon

There's little in this world that annoys me as much as pressing a help link in Windows and get redirected from proper documentation to a garbage search result.

What is the best file format for web shortcuts
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/internet-shortcut-files.html#src=mastodon

Third-party PayTrackr extension not enough to address Coil’s monetization transparency issues.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/coil-transparency.html#src=mastodon

GNU Parallel can do anything, but is too complicated to be useful
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/not-gnu-parallel.html#src=mastodon

How to set Store apps as the default for arbitrary file types in Windows 10
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/win10-store-default-apps.html#src=mastodon

Kitty Letter scrambled my brain and disrupted my sleep
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/kitty-letter-scrambler.html#src=mastodon

Get Meltdown Alert notifications for PlanetSide 2 (PC)
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/planetside2-meltdown-notifications.html#src=mastodon

Jellyfin and metadata privacy
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/jellyfin-metadata-proxy.html#src=mastodon

Why I migrated my media server from Plex to Jellyfin. #multimedia #opensource
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/jellyfin-vs-plex.html#src=mastodon

Be wary of file sync conflicts with KeePass apps on Android
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/keepass-file-conflicts-android.html#src=mastodon