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- Comment on New Orleans Loses Bid to Tax Music Streaming Service 1 month ago:
Am I understanding this correctly? NOLA was arguing that, since they tax satellite radio for listeners in their city, they should be able to tax internet streams for the same listeners? If so, I feel like the two things should be comparably applicable, but also fuck all the way off, NOLA. Get fucked, seriously.
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 1 month ago:
I feel so lucky to have been here for this discussion today.
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 1 month ago:
What would give them standing? They’d have to be an entity protected by the constitution to claim that protection was harmed. Is it this (my emphasis)?
TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. source
I guess I’ve never thought about what makes an entity have rights here. Buckingham Palace couldn’t just open shop here and start suing our government, right?
- Comment on How to get wood sealant off of a window 2 months ago:
And this article recommends waiting 48 hours to make sure it’s dried enough to pick/scrape.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“it’s a car, not a church.”
- Comment on Guys will meet him and just say "hell yeah!" 2 months ago:
I remember seeing a documentary or news piece or something about a woman who pivoted hers to “BISCUIT!” I really hope that was real. But I don’t remember how she got there, like if she had to trick herself that “biscuit” was offensive.
- Comment on Our god is ever hungry 2 months ago:
Cookie Monster in a toilet.
- Comment on FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service 3 months ago:
And the thing about regulation like this is that it just resets the bar height for everyone. It’s not like this doesn’t apply to all competitors.
Unless we mean non-cable competition, i.e. streaming. Maybe that’s not under the jurisdiction of FCC? If not, though, then I have to wonder why this has to be an FCC thing in the first place. This is about truth in advertising, in general.
- Comment on Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right 3 months ago:
I’ve felt like Tidal has behaved exactly like Spotify in my use so far (which has only been a couple of months). I was doing side-by-side comparison of playing, adding to the queue, inserting next in queue, etc., and it all seemed to behave exactly the same.
- Comment on A Mysterious Wave-Like Structure in Our Galaxy Found to Be Slowly Slithering 4 months ago:
I wonder if that was meant to say our solar system. I’d check the original article for a hint if it wasn’t paywalled.
- Comment on ‘FBI pwned me’: Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests — 200 crypto wallets frozen, 11000 domains seized, 14000 rouge accounts closed 4 months ago:
Sounds like the foundation of a thrilling story you can’t just makeup.
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 4 months ago:
Ah, I see. I was focused on the 80% limiter for that “Maximum” setting, which I think is not an option on Pixel. But I see now that “Adaptive Charging” sounds like it does what that middle setting “Adaptive” does.
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 4 months ago:
You have an older Pixel or just rooted, maybe? My 7 on the latest vanilla Android doesn’t seem to have it, and this thread seems to say it’s not available in the stock os.
- Comment on What would happen if you moved at the speed of light? 4 months ago:
The time thing is interesting, but I feel like no one talks much about the appearance of passing objects. That is, I wonder how the image of a passing celestial object might distort due to length contraction and any other effects. I’m still trying to understand that. This article seems pretty digestible, so far.
- Comment on BBC iPlayer to end programme downloads for PCs and Macs 4 months ago:
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 4 months ago:
Good point in general, but, what they’re specifically talking about here (rolling codes), perhaps what they should have said is that no one can (feasibly) do it, not just that their hardware isn’t capable.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 4 months ago:
“Flipper Zero can’t be used to hijack any car, specifically the ones produced after the 1990s, since their security systems have rolling codes,” Flipper Devices COO Alex Kulagin told BleepingComputer.
"Also, it’d require actively blocking the signal from the owner to catch the original signal, which Flipper Zero’s hardware is incapable of doing.
Just politicians trying to appear to be doing something so they can keep their jobs.
- Comment on Taylor Swift deepfakes on X falsely depict her engaging in election denialism — and have been viewed millions of times 4 months ago:
- Comment on Question of recommended home camera system 4 months ago:
I’ll be curious to see if anyone recommends any offline solutions for that use case. I did a Swann system awhile back, and its proprietary software sucked.
I’m thinking of eventually converting to either doing another Synology NAS dedicated to its own cam functionality or adding cams to my Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro. Those are both expensive, and out of these three, two of them only work with their own cameras, and their own cameras only work with their software (I think).
On the other hand, Arlo has been convenient and less expensive. It’s internet-connected, but for exterior cams, I don’t have any problem with that. I don’t recall if they have a free plan, so the cost could eventually add up in the long run, but it would take 5 years of a $30 subscription to add up to about $2k.
My limited personal experience makes me think the service-based providers (Arlo, Nest, SimpliSafe) have the most incentive (recurring revenue) to make their products easy, and they should stay more fresh with improvements and fixes. On the other hand, each time I mess with the old closed Swann system, it feels harder to find compatible access. It has a web UI that’s stuck on some old browser plugin that doesn’t meet most browsers’ security requirements, and I haven’t found an app that works on my latest Android. They have no incentive to make that old hardware stay good, and every incentive to get me to buy another system.
So that’s why I would only look for a mainstream, service-based system for a family member for whom I need it to “just work”. I got my parents Arlo, and they send me wildlife clips once in a while. I also got them a Logitech Harmony back when those were cool, and they kept losing it and, somehow, the sub for their sound bar, reverting to the basic-assed TV speakers because for some reason the better sound system controlled seamlessly both via HDMI and with a universal remote was still too complicated. The more fiddly Swann cameras would have just been a dust heater if they didn’t rip it out and toss it.
- Comment on Misinformation spreads in China on ‘civil war’ in Texas 4 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Misinformation spreads in China on ‘civil war’ in Texas 4 months ago:
This is just a photo and a claim about a trend in social media posts. Did I miss a link to an article with anything, like some supporting data?
- Comment on First graphene semiconductor was created 4 months ago:
Is whatever he was holding in the video a good enough “it”? Or, like, a consumer product going all the way to market?
- Comment on Americans will measure with anything but the metric system. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 5 months ago:
Epoch comeback!
- Comment on Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March 5 months ago:
Isn’t this just a business article?
- Comment on 80 years later, GCHQ releases new images of Nazi code-breaking computer 5 months ago:
I wondered how this related to Alan Turing’s now-famous work cracking Enigma. TIL.
Alan Turing’s use of probability in cryptanalysis (see Banburismus) contributed to its design. It has sometimes been erroneously stated that Turing designed Colossus to aid the cryptanalysis of the Enigma. (Turing’s machine that helped decode Enigma was the electromechanical Bombe, not Colossus.)
- Comment on Science bro beatdown 5 months ago:
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Newton knew that knowledge evolves. He wouldn’t be an adversary to progress, as he saw its natural course, himself.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 5 months ago:
We’re talking about Dads here.
- Comment on Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech 5 months ago:
It’s not just a sig on the image, but on metadata as well. Harder to fake time + place.
…including the date and time a photo was taken as well as its location and the photographer…
- Comment on CyberPunk Santa is coming to town 6 months ago:
This is a masterpiece.