cmnybo
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- Comment on The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites 3 days ago:
During solar maximum, the lifetime of a satellite could be reduced by up to 10 days, the researchers say.
I’m sure they have, but it doesn’t make a significant difference. The headline is just clickbait.
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 4 days ago:
The problem with laser communication is that it doesn’t take much rain, snow or fog to block the signal.
- Comment on The oldest Fire TV devices are losing Netflix support soon 6 days ago:
You can always use Jellyfin or Kodi with your old Fire TV and get your Netflix shows elsewhere.
- Comment on Tetra 1 week ago:
It looks interesting. It has nearly twice the audio bitrate of DMR and it has 4 timeslots.
- Comment on Amazon is sending customers refunds for some really, really old returns 1 week ago:
with one poster claiming to have received almost $1,800 this week for a TV returned to the retailer in 2018.
Wow, I would have filed a charge back and deleted my account if Amazon did that to me.
- Comment on Huawei’s foldable laptop is probably thinner than your phone. 1 week ago:
I hate thin laptops. The screens flex when you open them and feel like they are going to break and they don’t have enough connectors.
- Comment on Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera 2 weeks ago:
Every normal color camera has an IR filter. If they did not, the photos would be pink in sunlight. Some IR gets though the filter allowing you to see IR LEDs, but it’s significantly attenuated.
- Comment on Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera 2 weeks ago:
Cameras have an IR blocking filter and it still damaged the sensor. I don’t know how they can consider it eye safe. I wouldn’t want to be close to one.
- Comment on Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks 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... 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I wonder how well the Eutelsat equipment will hold up to the constant Russian cyber attacks they will be getting.