USB-C all the things.

I was able to read the article with some ad blockers and without a subscription, but editing to add an archive link, shared below: https://archive.is/NBivg

This seems like a really cool device from a company called Werewolf. As the article details, they make a little $8 programmable USB-C power adapter, called the VFLEX, that you can get barrel plug adapters for to power older devices that use barrel plugs.

The article discusses some caveats, such as not every USB-C power supply supporting every voltage a device may need. But you can plug the VFLEX into your power adapters (and battery banks) and create a local database of available voltages. Then when you want to power a specific device the app will guide you through which power adapters are compatible with it.

I have no affiliation with the company, but after reading about the VFLEX it seems like a neat option to power some older devices I have.

      • muzzle@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        Can you suggest an alternative? While I deplore what they did I can kinda understand the archive maintainer being pissed at someone who tried to dox them.

        Anyway this kind of things can happen when you use illegal services.

        • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Can you suggest an alternative?

          Use Firefox, install uBlock Origin and enable all filter lists as well as https://filterlists.com/lists/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter and install Cookie AutoDelete extension to clear number of visits to a website (for “you already read 3 free articles, subscribe now” things).

          Doesn’t work everywhere but does work for The Verge and Telegraph.

      • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Oof, that’s pretty bad… reminds me of when Tesseract dev put faulty DDoS code on their manifesto

        As we previously reported, malicious code in Archive.today’s CAPTCHA page was used to direct a DDoS against the Gyrovague blog written by a man named Jani Patokallio. The Archive.today maintainer demanded that Patokallio take down a 2023 blog post that discussed the archive site founder’s possible identity. Patokallio wasn’t able to determine who runs Archive.today but mentioned apparent aliases such as “Denis Petrov” and “Masha Rabinovich,” and described evidence that the site is operated by someone from Russia.

        In emails sent to Patokallio after the DDoS began, “Nora” from Archive.today threatened to create a public association between Patokallio’s name and AI porn and to create a gay dating app with Patokallio’s name. These threats were discussed by Wikipedia editors in their deliberations over whether to blacklist Archive.today, and then editors noticed that Patokallio’s name had been inserted into some Archive.today captures of webpages

        “Honestly, I’m kind of in shock,” one editor wrote. “Just to make sure I’m understanding the implications of this: we have good reason to believe that the archive.today operator has tampered with the content of their archives, in a manner that suggests they were trying to further their position against the person they are in dispute with??? If this is true it essentially forces our hand, archive.today would have to go. The argument for allowing it has been verifiability, but that of course rests upon the fact the archives are accurate."

        More than 695,000 links to Archive.today are distributed across 400,000 or so Wikipedia pages. The archive site is commonly used to bypass news paywalls, and the FBI has sought information on the site operator’s identity with a subpoena to domain registrar Tucows.