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- Comment on Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say 4 days 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 4 days 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... 4 days 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... 4 days 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 5 days ago:
It will probably generate so many false alerts that they just start ignoring all of them.
- Comment on Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
Keeping data centers cool is hard enough on earth. It would be completely impractical in space.
- Comment on Everything Google knows about you and how to stop it! 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
I don’t know what AI shopping is, but I know that I definitely don’t want it.
- Comment on How to Send Audio with Meshtastic 1 week ago:
Why not use Codec2? It only needs 700 bits per second. That’s well within the capabilities of LoRa.
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 1 week 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 weeks ago:
I wish they would just get rid of shorts all together. Vertical video shouldn’t exist.
- Comment on VarAC - does anyone use it and what is your experience? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not a fan of proprietary protocols. It would be great if someone could create an open source modem that’s compatible with VARA though.
- Comment on Whats your thoughts on this? 4 weeks ago:
SMA is too fragile and PL-259 is a pain to weatherproof. I prefer BNC for portable use and N connectors for just about everything else.
- Comment on Mobile drone lighting system uses 288 LEDs to turn night into day 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
I wonder how well the Eutelsat equipment will hold up to the constant Russian cyber attacks they will be getting.
- Comment on Cheap TVs’ incessant advertising reaches troubling new lows 5 weeks ago:
There’s always the option of using computer monitors or projectors.
- Comment on Blocking Gmail ads is possible! Here's how in 2025. 5 weeks ago:
Use your own email client instead of their crappy web UI or app.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 5 weeks ago:
Well, my ad blocker will just block twice as many ads then.
- Comment on Re: Delete, Delete, Delete - FCC Initiates Broad Inquiry on Rules to Delete or Amend 1 month ago:
Get rid of the baud rate limits on VHF and 70cm.
- Comment on What's the point of owning a geochron? 1 month ago:
The mechanical ones are really cool. There’s no way I would pay that much for the electronic ones though.
- 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 Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts 1 month ago:
OCR makes a lot of mistakes, so unless someone bothered to go through and correct them, it’s only really useful for searching for keywords.
- Comment on Micro Thor vs. LoRa question 1 month ago:
When you get skip on 11m, it usually goes halfway across the continent and nothing will be heard the next town over.
You need NVIS propagation to get a signal to a nearby location. That only works on lower frequencies like 30m through 160m depending on solar conditions. The signal gets send straight up and bounces back down in a several hundred mile radius around you. There is a map that shows which frequencies will currently work for NVIS as well as the Local Area Mobile Prediction tool to help you figure out what frequency to use for a given time and location.