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selfhost.eu offers dynamic DNS which works perfectly fine with my router, using their API access as documented by them. It also works perfectly well with Let’s Encrypt integrated in Nginx Proxy Manager.
They’re in the market since 2001, I use them since ca. 2010 and never had any issues. Their website looks ancient, almost historic. But it’s functional.
Can you ELI5 why water has no calories, which is also a unit of energy?
Calories are a very specific type of measuring energy, especially when used in the context of nutrition. When nutritionists say that water has 0 calories, they mean that water has no nutritional energy.
But when looking at it from a non-nutrition perspective water has calories.
When you say, “something has X calories”, it’s a shorthand of saying “something has an equivalent of X times the amount of energy that is needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C.”
From a physical point of view water ALWAYS has energy (that you can express in calories) because something with mass can never have no energy.
But I’m not sure that all matter has energy.
It has. If it has mass, it has energy, that is a core principle of how matter is defined scientifically.
Calories are not “a thing” but a measurement unit for energy. So yes. everything “has calories”.
You can easily remap it to something useful.
At this point I wonder if the last few months of systematically destructing the rest of Microsoft’s reputation is a false-flag action by Linux users who infiltrated the company.
AI bro’s “won” again.
If someone has the “ultimate solution” to something, they wouldn’t give it away in the Internet for “just $29.99”.
Wero is a trap
It is also insecure by design and actively supports scamming people.
Would have been great if it wasn’t shit, though.
So wild that Facebook still is a thing.
Someone else will continue selling RAM and making money.
TNG is also painfully old fashioned. Especially the fist two seasons are … hard to watch sometimes.
Honestly: I would start with VOY. It’s easy to watch, has a certain amount of action, and doesn’t lose it too much with society and politics.
I’ve seen someone with a pool noodle sticking off the side of their bike at the minimum passing distance for cars.
A better and less passive-aggressive solution to make cars pass at the minimum distance is psychology.
If you ride your bike on the outer right part of the road, car drivers tend to squeeze trough on the same lane because the center line also is a “psychological barrier” they do not want to cross. And “since there is enough space on my lane, I stay in my lane”.
The solution here is simple: Do not drive on the outer part of the road. Imagine you’re in a car on the passenger seat. Ride your bike where you would sit in relation to the road. You’re still on the right side of the right lane but this gives not enough space to squeeze through, and when not being able to squeeze through, drivers tend to properly use the opposite lane for passing by.
Source: 30+ years of urban cycling.
How generous of them that we’re allowed to install software on our mobile computers that we own.
The USA are a circus only existing to entertain the rest of the world.
Have we just become numb to ads?
Online I use multiple browser extensions and settings to avoid showing ads. In the offline world there is no way to avoid them but I think I pretty much can ignore them.
I also intentionally do not buy anything I remember seeing an ad for.
Yes, all access to outside sources is blocked by default and users are asked on a per URL basis with the author manually requesting each URL access including a reason – with occasional manual validation from Mozilla staff.
There is none. Mozilla has no support staff reachable by mail.