cmnybo
@cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 22 hours ago:
How is that even supposed to work? The laser beam has to be reflected back down to the sensor in order to read the CD.
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy 4 days ago:
Sometimes they fail to update. I would imagine that there are quite a few people who don’t bother setting up monitoring software to let them know if the certificate fails to update.
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy 4 days ago:
There will probably be a lot more websites with expired certificates soon.
- Comment on We solved the Smartphone Keyboard problem back in 2013… It’s time to bring this concept back 1 week ago:
I would much rather have a slide out keyboard.
- Comment on Makers of air fryers and smart speakers told to respect users’ right to privacy 2 weeks ago:
Don’t install their apps either unless it’s on an old phone that you’ve wiped all of your personal data from.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour 2 weeks ago:
At least with TV, you could tape your shows and fast forward through the commercials.
- Comment on HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam 3 weeks ago:
Nobody needs a $25k display for a conference call. A normal phone will be good enough. Most of the time video is not even needed.
That 3D display would be cool for CAD or 3D modelling if the resolution is high enough though.
- Comment on New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc 3 weeks ago:
Someone just needs to make a double sided CD-R so we can have data and artwork on it.
- Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers 4 weeks ago:
It looks like Meta or Yandex apps must be installed for the exploit to work. Luckily I don’t have any of those installed on my Android devices.
- Comment on The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites 5 weeks ago:
During solar maximum, the lifetime of a satellite could be reduced by up to 10 days, the researchers say.
I’m sure they have, but it doesn’t make a significant difference. The headline is just clickbait.
- Comment on The oldest Fire TV devices are losing Netflix support soon 5 weeks ago:
You can always use Jellyfin or Kodi with your old Fire TV and get your Netflix shows elsewhere.
- Comment on Amazon is sending customers refunds for some really, really old returns 1 month ago:
with one poster claiming to have received almost $1,800 this week for a TV returned to the retailer in 2018.
Wow, I would have filed a charge back and deleted my account if Amazon did that to me.
- Comment on Huawei’s foldable laptop is probably thinner than your phone. 1 month ago:
I hate thin laptops. The screens flex when you open them and feel like they are going to break and they don’t have enough connectors.
- Comment on Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera 1 month ago:
Every normal color camera has an IR filter. If they did not, the photos would be pink in sunlight. Some IR gets though the filter allowing you to see IR LEDs, but it’s significantly attenuated.
- Comment on Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera 1 month ago:
Cameras have an IR blocking filter and it still damaged the sensor. I don’t know how they can consider it eye safe. I wouldn’t want to be close to one.
- Comment on Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say 1 month ago:
What do you expect? Computers have gotten a lot faster over the last 80 or so years.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 1 month ago:
It most certainly won’t apply to their own bots.
- Comment on I found an interesting USB-C alternative to barrel jack wall warts. Thought I'd share... 1 month ago:
Yes, you definitely have to be careful with them. They do come in handy when I can’t find the correct power supply or even one that will work despite having a 50 pound bin full of them.
- Comment on I found an interesting USB-C alternative to barrel jack wall warts. Thought I'd share... 1 month ago:
It would be much more useful with USB PPS support for adjustable voltage and barrel plugs that can be swapped.
- Comment on MTA wants AI to flag 'problematic behavior' in NYC subways 1 month ago:
It will probably generate so many false alerts that they just start ignoring all of them.
- Comment on Everything Google knows about you and how to stop it! 1 month ago:
They forgot one of the most important things. Use Firefox or one of its forks with uBlock Origin to block google’s ads and tracking scripts.
- Comment on Microsoft engineer reveals more details about Janet Jackson song that used to mysteriously crash Windows XP PCs 2 months ago:
Maybe the specific model of hard drive that was affected was only used in windows laptops.
- Comment on Visa and Mastercard unveil AI-powered shopping 2 months ago:
I don’t know what AI shopping is, but I know that I definitely don’t want it.
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 2 months ago:
I still prefer eSATA over USB when using SATA drives. A lot of the USB to SATA chips don’t support reading the SMART data from the drive. Now we have NVMe SSDs connected over thunderbolt, which is much faster than SATA or USB3 and SMART works correctly.
- Comment on What to do once your Surface Hub v1 becomes an 84-inch, $22K paperweight 2 months ago:
Its got a video input, so it can be used as a monitor.
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 2 months ago:
So, some modeling clay and an airbrush then?
- Comment on ISPs and robocallers love the FCC plan to “delete” as many rules as possible 2 months ago:
I noticed a huge increase in spam calls back around September and they haven’t let up since. I had to set my phone to reject calls that aren’t in my contacts. If someone needs to contact me, they will have to text or leave a voicemail.
- Comment on SSL/TLS certificates will last 47 days max by 2029 2 months ago:
What a pain in the ass. I will probably just disable HTTPS and use a VPN or SSH tunnel for my stuff then.
- Comment on YouTube considers a daily timer for users looking to cut back on Shorts 2 months ago:
I wish they would just get rid of shorts all together. Vertical video shouldn’t exist.
- Comment on Mobile drone lighting system uses 288 LEDs to turn night into day 2 months ago:
The long burning parachute flares have to be dropped from an aircraft. The ones you launch from the ground only provide about 30 seconds of light.
