We have a lovely area on the lower slope of our backyard with nice outdoor furniture and a huge umbrella, but it has weak wifi signal. The only wireless access point in the house is a single, ancient router in the living room. I would love to work from this lower slope; it’s so peaceful and quiet. So, I bought a second wifi router, installed OpenWRT on it, and spent most of the day trying to configure an 802....
I got a new Pinephone Pro earlier this year, and I’ve been meaning to find an inexpensive mobile phone plan with minimal data . I didn’t want to add this phone to my existing Google Fi account, because I’m trying to de-Google myself, and it seems counterproductive to give Google more money if my goal is to stop being their customer. In my research, I found a fantastic Reddit community named “NoContract” whose goal is to “Reclaim your freedom – and your wallet!...
I’ve always had eclectic taste, but I’m really enjoying wrecking Netflix’s (and other streaming services) recommendation engine lately. It appears to have no idea what I am anymore. I typically watch weird indie movies and random shows from 2 to 10 years ago on my account, but I also watch a bunch of stuff with the kids - we just finished Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (it was decent). And I occationally watch blockbuster movies with Andrea, or family movies....
I just skimmed https://blog.mycrypto.com/sign-in-with-ethereum-an-alternative-to-centralized-identity-providers. This reminds me partially of what uPort and 3Box are doing. I’m still very interested in a passwordless future where we use our wallets to sign in to things. Looks like this article is about https://login.xyz/, which has an OIDC server here: https://docs.login.xyz/servers/oidc-server.