cmnybo
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- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 1 day ago:
There are lots of standards for charging over USB such as PD. Many of those standards have multiple versions since newer devices keep needing more power. That’s to be expected of an interface that’s been around for almost 30 years. If every device came with a 240W USB PD charger, the price would increase by over USD $100, not to mention the only model I’ve seen is the size of a brick.
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 1 day ago:
Non standard cables and chargers either wouldn’t connect, wouldn’t charge, or would burn something up if you used the wrong one.
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 1 day ago:
Most already have.
- Comment on Smart in-asphalt fabric provides live reports from within roads 3 days ago:
It sounds like it’s just natural fiber fabric with some wire woven into it. All the electronics are in a box beside the road.
- Comment on Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech 3 days ago:
That requires a mouse with an 8kHz polling rate. With a 1kHz polling rate, this trick will be limited to sounds under 500Hz.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 2 weeks ago:
Just remember, a seedbox or VPN is a lot cheaper than a single streaming subscription.
- Comment on California could mandate tobacco-style health labels on social media 3 weeks ago:
There’s a huge difference between e-mail and a site that is specifically designed to keep people addicted.
The warning won’t do anything though. I would be surprised if it takes more than a day before ublock origin has a filter to hide it.
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 3 weeks ago:
I will never buy any of their devices. I prefer to self host my own ad free streaming using open source software.
- Comment on Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing 4 weeks ago:
Higher resolutions and sample rates only matter when the recordings are going to be edited.
- Comment on E-Paper Display Reaches the Realm of LCD Screens 4 weeks ago:
It’s certainly not the first e-paper display that’s fast enough for computer use. Dasung has had 60Hz greyscale and 30Hz color monitors available for a while now.
- Comment on Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default 5 weeks ago:
That would be one of the top three reasons for doing it.
- Comment on Internet standards body proposes new header field disclosing AI — will make it easier for machines to determine if AI was used on a site 1 month ago:
It would have to become law in every country in order to work.
- Comment on The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through The Years 1 month ago:
It’s been ages since I’ve used Adobe Reader. I typically use Okular or Xreader. They are both tiny compared to Adobe’s bloatware.
- Comment on High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups 1 month ago:
WinRAR still exists? I think it’s been a couple decades since I last used it.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 month ago:
You can use object detection to send an alert if there is a person in your yard or if a car pulls into your driveway. It avoids the frequent false alerts you get with normal motion detection.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 month ago:
It would be nice if Frigate supported the NPU in AMD CPUs. Then it could be used for object detection with CCTV cameras.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 2 months ago:
There are browser addons that hide youtube shorts.
- Comment on Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots 2 months ago:
- Comment on Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots 2 months ago:
- Comment on TikTok’s ‘ban’ problem could end soon with a new app and a sale 2 months ago:
Just ban it already. Nobody needs that brain rotting site.
- Comment on New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals 2 months ago:
Use your own modem and router so your ISP doesn’t have access to it.
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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.
