henfredemars
@henfredemars@infosec.pub
This is a secondary account. My main account is listed below. The main will have a list of all the accounts that I use.
- Comment on My led lights suddenly turned dim. Why do they break like that? 1 hour ago:
The LED bulb itself is not typically the reason that these fail. There’s also complex regulation circuitry which consists of far more complex components than a single LED. Electrolytic capacitors and driver circuits can have shorter lifetimes than the actual bulb.
With that said, manufacturers know this, so they also tend to overdrive lower cost LEDs to bring the failure rates in line with the rest of the circuit. This sounds like this may be what has happened to you just based on the dimming, but without knowing exactly how they have wired it up, it’s difficult to be sure.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 days ago:
These practices are exactly the kinds of behaviors that regulators should prevent.
When a business gets huge it shouldn’t be allowed to buy up all of its competition. Regulatory authorities should block these acquisitions. For example, Sprint should never have been sold because it concentrated power even further and gives customers less choice.
It’s not simple price competition either. A company like Walmart can afford to sell products at a loss to drive other businesses out on purpose and then jack up the prices when they’re the only game in town. Dollar General has been accused of strategically placing stores to block businesses from making a profit.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 days ago:
It’s like we have a centrally planned economy but dumber.
I don’t know what the solution is.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 days ago:
What we have isn’t even capitalism. The supposed free market doesn’t exist when the big players pocket the regulators to use as a weapon against smaller businesses and secure their own market positioning.
Incidentally, this is typically the end result of capitalism if you don’t rain in and break up the monopolies.
- Comment on Signature move 3 days ago:
Literal shitpost. Definitely meets the requirement.
- Comment on Tesla is the most unreliable used car brand in America, even behind Jeep and Chrysler 3 days ago:
Far be it from me to defend the Nazi car company, however:
While the results may seem like a damning indictment of Tesla, the report notes that the company has improved the build quality of its vehicles. All of its latest models now offer “better-than-average reliability,” and Tesla ranks among the top 10 brands in Consumer Reports’ new car predictability rankings, surpassing established automakers like Ford, Chevrolet, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Volkswagen.
- Comment on Hair trade offer 3 days ago:
737MAX
You just might get your wish.
- Comment on Hair trade offer 4 days ago:
Gray hair can look lovely. I accept
One can’t say the same for skin cancer.
- Comment on It's the Lord's problem now. 1 week ago:
This is a gag gift, right?
- Comment on Hi, I am TotallyNotForeignNational and only have the best interests of america in mind. You can trust me because this is reddit, not xitter, and I say good things about the American president. 1 week ago:
One Iota of critical thinking would resolve this, but it appears that might be too much to ask.
- Comment on "It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer] 2 weeks ago:
Santa Ragione
- Comment on True 2 weeks ago:
It’s a reason, but probably not the only reason. You are less likely to innocuously forget while on auto-pay, though, I don’t they care why so long as they get paid.
- Comment on True 2 weeks ago:
They don’t mind if you’re dead so long as it’s on auto pay.
- Comment on What is the difference between a managed switch and an unmanaged switch? 2 weeks ago:
An unmanaged switch is a simple, zero-configuration network device that connects multiple Ethernet devices together. This is by far the most common type of switch because they’re cheaper to make and satisfy most needs in the home and small office. There are no settings to configure, and the device generally avoids inspecting the traffic it switches. Unmanaged switches are commodity products that are all pretty much same, varying only in the number of ports and speeds provided.
Managed switches add a central CPU for device administration. This design enables configuration settings which is usually an important precursor to have features such as VLANs, QoS, IGMP snooping, and port security. Businesses usually need managed switches to implement security policies. In addition to the added hardware, businesses have deeper pockets, and managed switches are no longer simple commodities because comparing the advanced feature set and software is no longer trivial.
Only recently have we seen pro-sumer switches occupy the space in between these two options by offering some simple managed features (VLANs) while reserving necessary enterprise features (port security, DHCP snooping, reporting) to segment the market.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 4 weeks ago:
I remember finding online guides for the first time back in the days of dial up. It was incredible. So many games I had places where I was stuck and you just accepted that you have to figure it out or you just don’t continue the game.
- Comment on I said, LOOK at it! 5 weeks ago:
This nobody has a lot of opinions 👴
- Comment on So sad to see a really old guy driving an expensive sports car 5 weeks ago:
It’s not sad. Let the man have his fun! He may have been saving for decades.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 5 weeks ago:
Considering how the open source community is being inundated with low-quality bug reports filed using AI, I don’t have much faith in the tech reviewing code, let alone writing it correctly.
Could it be a useful aid? Sure, but 70% of your reviewing is a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream. Not with still delivered a good product.
- Comment on A new insult each and every day 5 weeks ago:
Wow! Getting abused through vendor lock in does not make me want to buy a new PlayStation if this is true.
- Comment on You're so predictable 1 month ago:
Inflation. Pixels cost less back then.
- Comment on Black widow life 1 month ago:
This doesn’t usually end well for the simp nerd.
- Comment on Her slumber is now complete. 1 month ago:
In the US, the left mirror doesn’t usually have this effect.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 1 month ago:
Wasn’t that disproven by Snopes?
- Comment on Didn't workout for me, do you guys have other advices? 1 month ago:
You’re supposed to use the other rear.
- Comment on beta-tetra-eel 1 month ago:
This is my kind of meme.
- Comment on Eventually I'll have enough to just keep finding random ones 1 month ago:
I own an Ethernet cable tester. Somewhere.
Then the frustration as you desperately try to find the hardware you know you have to avoid the shame of buying a new one.
- Comment on $1,000 richer 1 month ago:
I’m already ugly so might as well get paid for it.
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
That’s the good spice.
- Comment on turkey 1 month ago:
How to delete someone else’s post.
- Comment on So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A 2 months ago:
Not nearly lifted enough. And where’s the cross and punisher logo?