cmnybo
@cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Walmart shopper data will soon feed targeted ads on Disney Plus and Hulu 6 days ago:
If you have to use sites like these, be sure to use an ad blocker as well as containers to keep cookies completely separated between sites.
- Comment on YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment 2 weeks ago:
And with my ad blocker, I will never see them.
If I’m pausing a video it’s usually because I need to talk to someone and can’t have sound from an ad playing or I need to read something in the video and can’t have an ad on top of it.
- Comment on The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC 3 weeks ago:
Never connect a smart TV to the internet. Always buy them from a store with a good return policy. If it doesn’t work without an internet connection, then return it.
- Comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users 3 weeks ago:
Not everyone buys a new phone every 1 or 2 years, so there are still lots of phones in use without AV1 hardware decode.
- Comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users 3 weeks ago:
Youtube already stores every video in H.264 and VP9, with some videos also being encoded in AV1. They aren’t removing support for other codecs yet, they are just making AV1 the default.
- Comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users 3 weeks ago:
That’s going to get them a lot of complaints about choppy playback and high battery usage from anyone without a hardware AV1 decoder.
They should only enable it by default if the device has a hardware AV1 decoder.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes 3 weeks ago:
You should always assume anything generated by AI is bullshit until you verify it.
- Comment on YouTube is testing a new design that you'll probably hate instantly 4 weeks ago:
That does look like crap. I bet someone will make a browser addon that changes it back.
- Comment on US fines man $9.9 million for thousands of disturbing robocalls 1 month ago:
Nice, I just wish there was something they could do about the robocalls coming from outside the US.
- Comment on U.S.: Responding to the “gunshot detection” tool ShotSpotter, a Chicago police officer opened fire on an unarmed teenager 1 month ago:
ShotSpotter is inaccurate and unreliable. The amount of reflections you get in an urban environment make it very difficult to triangulate the source of a sound. It is falsely triggered by many sounds that are not gunshots such as fireworks and vehicles backfiring. Also, ShotSpotter costs a ridiculous amount of money that could be better spent on more police training and more patrols.
- Comment on Cable ISP fined $10,000 for lying to FCC about where it offers broadband 1 month ago:
They should have to pay $10k per day for every address that they lied about having broadband until they provide it to each location.
- Comment on FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps 1 month ago:
They really should require it to be 100M symmetric. Slow upload speeds make it nearly impossible to use online storage.
- Comment on These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security. Amazon Sells Them Anyway. - Consumer Reports 2 months ago:
You should never buy any IP security cameras unless they support ONVIF or RTSP. Then you stick them on their own isolated subnet with no internet access and use your own DVR to monitor them.
- Comment on Flipper Zero WiFi phishing attack can unlock and steal Tesla cars 2 months ago:
Yes, scammers have been setting up fake WiFi networks for phishing for just about as long as there has been WiFi. Let’s just blame it all on Flipper Zero though.
- Comment on Facebook plans to shut down its news tab in the US and Australia 2 months ago:
They will probably just go the way of myspace and digg eventually.