cmnybo
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- Comment on Blocking Gmail ads is possible! Here's how in 2025. 15 hours ago:
Use your own email client instead of their crappy web UI or app.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 16 hours 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 2 days ago:
Get rid of the baud rate limits on VHF and 70cm.
- Comment on What's the point of owning a geochron? 2 days 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 6 days 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know it was still around. I stopped using it when microsoft bought it.
- Comment on 5 bizarre AI TV features that simply shouldn't exist 1 month ago:
TVs that do anything more than displaying a signal exactly as it’s input shouldn’t exist.
- Comment on Splitting a receive antenna the brute way? 2 months ago:
Just use a cable TV splitter. It won’t cover the whole frequency range, but it should work fine for HF-UHF.
- Comment on I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR 2 months ago:
Home 3D movies were never good, you didn’t miss much.
- Comment on Lenovo is removing the iconic Trackpoint with its new ThinkPad X9 2 months ago:
I will not buy a Thinkpad if it doesn’t have a trackpoint. They work so much better than a touchpad, especially for things like selecting text.
- Comment on USB-C charging is now mandatory in EU, here's what you need to know - GSMArena.com news 2 months ago:
They should have mandated markings on the plugs that indicate what the cable supports.
- Comment on My new HF radio set up successfully 2 months ago:
Scanning isn’t particularly useful on HF. You will have to manually tune in whatever signal it stops on and most of the time it will just find noise. A band scope is much more useful.
- Comment on Our first new Framework Laptop 16 Expansion Bay module - the Dual M.2 Adapter, enabling you to add additional storage drives or other high speed devices. 3 months ago:
It would be nice if they would make a module that has 120 Gbps USB4 or Oculink for connecting high end external GPUs.
- Comment on Are We Ready For Driverless Buses? 3 months ago:
Self driving cars are bad enough. How is a self driving bus going to navigate crowded city streets?
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 months ago:
In that case it would be unusable in any remote area without cell service too.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 months ago:
A fire is what you may get when a hacker decides to turn the oven on for you.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 months ago:
It’s only a matter of time before corporate WANs like Amazon sidewalk and/or the ever decreasing cost of cellular modems and IOT contracts mean they won’t even ask anymore.
Then it’s time to heat up the soldering iron and disable the wireless connectivity in hardware.
- Comment on Netflix raises prices as password boost fades 5 months ago:
You can get a VPN or seedbox to avoid those letters. They are a lot cheaper than a single streaming service.
- Comment on What happens when the US runs out of SSNs? 5 months ago:
Just add another digit and watch the entire country break down because they can’t find someone to update their 40+ year old software written on COBOL.
- Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility 5 months ago:
Helium doesn’t just kill apple devices, It kills anything with a MEMS oscillator. Helium atoms are so small that it’s impossible to make a seal that completely blocks them.
- Comment on Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads 6 months ago:
Used cars are going to get much more valuable with all the enshitified crap they keep putting in new cars.
- Comment on YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel 6 months ago:
There is potting compound with high thermal conductivity for things that produce a lot of heat. A YubiKey hardly uses any power, so heat should not be an issue.
The main downsides of potting are that it makes repair practically impossible and it can add a lot of weight if there is a large volume to be filled.
- Comment on YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel 6 months ago:
Encasing the circuit board in epoxy. It makes it very difficult to access components without destroying it. It’s also great for water proofing and increasing the mechanical robustness.
- Comment on YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel 6 months ago:
For the price they charge, they should be made so that opening the case will destroy the contents. They could have at least potted them.
- Comment on Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib 7 months ago:
Remember, if it requires an internet connection or an app, the manufacturer can take features away whenever they want to.
- Comment on The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life 7 months ago:
Check if it has a bridge mode. That will bypass the routing function and make it operate as a basic modem. Then you can connect your own router to it. If it doesn’t, you can still enable the DMZ function, turn off the WiFi and connect your own router, but it will slightly increase latency.
- Comment on The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life 7 months ago:
This is why you never use ISP provided hardware or cheap consumer grade crap.
- Comment on Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions 7 months ago:
I would be more worried about that fact that the AI enabled device likely needs an internet connection to function. That means the manufacturer can take away features or brick the device whenever they want to.