B0rax
@B0rax@feddit.org
- Comment on Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face! 3 days ago:
I guess someone had that idea, sold it and then contracted some poor guy to implement it, even if it is bullshit and does not work
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 5 days ago:
The iPhone also had local speech recognition for quite a while now. It is available since the iPhone 6s and the iPhone SE. Both of which came out in 2015 - 9 Years ago.
- Comment on German cybersecurity watchdog warns of pre-installed malware on IoT devices linked to China 5 days ago:
You don’t understand. The end user is the importer. That’s the whole idea behind aliexpress, temu and others. They don’t need to adhere to any local laws because the customer directly shops on the Chinese website.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 5 days ago:
What? Local speech recognition is already integrated in most phones. Open source options are also freely available… I am not sure what the news is here…
- Comment on German cybersecurity watchdog warns of pre-installed malware on IoT devices linked to China 6 days ago:
A recall in cheap Android streaming boxes dropshipped from China? Ha!
- Comment on anyone know any good android games? 1 week ago:
+1 for mindustry. If you like factorio, this is a game for you.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 weeks ago:
They started to support svg (which is 23 years old by now) in Office a month or so ago. What a time to be alive!
- Comment on Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details 1 month ago:
Windows only in this day and age…
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 1 month ago:
Which in this case means: you need a constant supply voltage
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 1 month ago:
Doesn’t help when you need 3.3V and the batteries are now down to 2.5V they are not putting a boost converter in there.
- Comment on The number on this sticker... 1 month ago:
I don’t think the point is the number. The point is that the arrows indicate the width, which is 1920 pixels. But the numbers indicate the height (1080 pixels)
So the sticker is mildly infuriating by having the arrows not correspond to the number, which is the topic of this community.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 2 months ago:
At this point, streaming the game (just the screen content) would be less of a bandwidth hog.
- Comment on Google as Darth Vader: Why iA Writer quit the Android app market 2 months ago:
Regarding your gaming point. Look up „game porting toolkit“ it is a native tool from Apple which lets you play most windows games on an ARM machine seamlessly.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 2 months ago:
Companies should publish schematics, drawings, 3d files etc when they mark a product obsolete.
- Comment on Anon is God 2 months ago:
No risk, no fun.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops: Digital IDs make it tempting to leave your driver’s license at home — but that’s a dangerous risk. 2 months ago:
Or hold the power button and any volume button for 3 seconds. Same result.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops: Digital IDs make it tempting to leave your driver’s license at home — but that’s a dangerous risk. 2 months ago:
Only on devices that don’t use a 3D authentication, which for example the iPhone uses.
- Comment on AMD hides Taiwan branding on Ryzen CPU packaging as it preps new chips for China market release — company uses black sticker to erase origin information 2 months ago:
If they want to hide that, why not just not print it on the box?
- Comment on PlayStation 5 Pro Blog Post 3 months ago:
To play online, yes. Has been like that for a loooong time on PS
- Comment on Hey, Mother Nature, it's September. Chill out already. 3 months ago:
Yep, that’s the beginning of climate change scientists have warned about since ages.
Don’t worry, it will get worse in the next years.
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold 3 months ago:
No. Remove the need for a server that the company provides for example.
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold 3 months ago:
The point is not to force them to invest into it, but to open them up if they don’t want to support them anymore.
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold 3 months ago:
You‘re welcome :)
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold 3 months ago:
Are you home now?
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 3 months ago:
I am all for smart appliances, as long as they are local and work with things like home assistant
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 4 months ago:
DNS filtering only gets you so far. An adblocker is still a very good addition