cmnybo
@cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Huawei’s foldable laptop is probably thinner than your phone. 18 hours 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 6 days 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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... 2 weeks 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... 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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! 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Its got a video input, so it can be used as a monitor.
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on 'OLED and LCD will die out’: A microLED expert explains how the superior TV tech will finally become affordable 1 month ago:
Any display with pixels that produce light can burn in. MicroLED is supposed to be less susceptible because of the longer operating life of the LEDs, but there’s not a whole lot of information out there since microLED displays are still pretty rare.
- Comment on 'OLED and LCD will die out’: A microLED expert explains how the superior TV tech will finally become affordable 1 month ago:
LCDs won’t go anywhere. They are cheap, bright, and don’t suffer from burn-in.
- Comment on Starlink competition is ramping up in Ukraine 1 month ago:
I wonder how well the Eutelsat equipment will hold up to the constant Russian cyber attacks they will be getting.
- Comment on Blocking Gmail ads is possible! Here's how in 2025. 1 month ago:
Use your own email client instead of their crappy web UI or app.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 1 month ago:
Well, my ad blocker will just block twice as many ads then.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies 1 month ago:
Well, Hollywood seems to prefer quantity over quality. Now 99% of everything is junk that’s not worth wasting your time on.
- Comment on Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds. 2 months ago:
I never have and will never use any of those voice assistants. Tech companies already collect way too much data. There’s no way I’m going to willingly give them anymore.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 months ago:
This is one of the many reasons why you should be your own streaming service. 🏴☠️
- Comment on Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them. 2 months ago:
Streaming a single movie will use more data than a typical person will use for email signatures in their entire life.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 2 months ago:
Probably E-LORAN. It’s ground based and transmits significantly more power than GPS. That makes it harder to jam, especially over a wide area.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 2 months ago:
You can still get dot matrix printers with cheap, 3rd party ribbons.
- Comment on If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it? 2 months ago:
The hard part is figuring out all of the tricks that were used to squeeze out every last bit of performance from ancient hardware and deciphering over half a century of updates.