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- Comment on AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What? 15 hours ago:
There’s probably a few things you can do live one a call.
I always wanted to try passing a common function through a minifier then a beautifier. Show them the code with unhelpful variable names, and ask them what name they would give the function.
A good programmer would be able to identify a string compare function or an IP bitmask eval function pretty quickly.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 2 days ago:
I really struggle to process voices, but I hear absolutely everything.
Someone talking to me can get completely drowned out by a 15KHz hum of an electronic device, the acoustics of a room or a TV in the background.
Yet, I ask them if they are having trouble hearing me over all the noise. They usually reply “wharlt noise?” If it’s a high-pitch hum, they won’t acknowledge the noise even if I show them on a spectral analyser.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 3 days ago:
I’ve used this. The only annoyance is that all the on-screen timestamps remain in UTC because JS has no idea what timesone you’re in.
I get that TZ provides a piece of the fingerprint puzzle, but damn it feels excessive.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 3 days ago:
So, manifest v3 was all about preventing Google’s competitors from tracking you so that Google could forge ahead.
- Comment on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 1 week ago:
Sharing a video about a Google security vulnerability on Google’s own platform. What would you expect?
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 1 week ago:
Why they changed it, I can’t say.
(Donald just liked it better that way.)
- Comment on Chinese Temu sellers use fake U.S. postage labels to boost their profits. 1 week ago:
The mentality is just disgusting. They use the word “cheating”. Not once did they refer to this behaviour as criminal.
Like, I could reduce my grocery bill by “cheating” and paying with counterfeit bills.
They’ve done the maths and decided they make more money through crime than they accumulate in fines.
- Comment on Turning a mini-pc into a WiFi access point 1 week ago:
That’s basically it. My Ubuntu server is a router, NAS, plex server, public statum-1 NTP server, wordpress server, nextcloud server, security camera NVR, SMTP/IMAP mail server, tor relay, and probably a few other things I forgot about.
- Comment on Turning a mini-pc into a WiFi access point 1 week ago:
I’ve done this before on Ubuntu. You can install nftables for routing, then install hostapd for a wifi AP.
- Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits 2 weeks ago:
It’s FDoS when it’s federated.
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Every corporate pledge ends with “unless we can monetise it”.
- Comment on Chinese algorithm claimed to boost Nvidia GPU performance by up to 800X for advanced science applications 2 weeks ago:
Does this mean better crash physics in Beam.NG?
- Comment on We need faster speed limits in Australia - and I'm not saying that because I'm a hoon | Opinion - Car News 3 weeks ago:
No. We have higher insurance premiums because the insurers felt like charging higher premiums.
- Comment on We need faster speed limits in Australia - and I'm not saying that because I'm a hoon | Opinion - Car News 3 weeks ago:
Those reaction times are 1.5 seconds. How fucking drunk must you be? Reaction times are about 100ms if you’re paying attention.
- Comment on We need faster speed limits in Australia - and I'm not saying that because I'm a hoon | Opinion - Car News 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never complained about being behind a car that’s doing the speed limit in the right lane. In fact, they’re ideal because your get there in the fastest possible time using the least possible fuel.
A car in the rightmost lane doing the speed limit,by definition, cannot be an obstruction.
What pisses me off is cars with overreading speedos that think they’re doing the speed limit. Everyone should check theirs. 100% of new cars are wrong.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 4 weeks ago:
They’re all too bloated. I would not purchase a handset unless I could install GrapheneOS or LineageOS on it.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 4 weeks ago:
I replicated the same problem on the newer pixel.
- Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off 4 weeks ago:
My phone doesn’t receive half of its incoming calls. I actually narrowed it down to the VoLTE keepalive packets being transmitted with a MAC address of 00:00:00:00:00:00 when on CLAT (which is Telstra default) on all Google Pixels. The connection silently dies, there is no return UDP route, so the phone won’t ring.
I reported it to Google, but they don’t give a shit. I guess the million or so people with a pixel can just deal with it.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 1 month ago:
No, you’re just paying a premium.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 1 month ago:
I got a new Android TV for offline use. Most people say you get an OK experience if you don’t connect the TV into a network.
The biggest remaining annoyance is that it takes 45 seconds to cold-start. Almost as if it’s booting an OS desgined for a phone or something.
- Comment on idk french but this escalated quick 3 months ago:
They turned it into Cher-noble.
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 3 months ago:
He got Melbourne the F1 Grand Prix, and then nerfed all public transport to the GP to make room for a bloody casino. It’s almost easier to drive to Adelaide.
Oh, and he started that fucking toll road trend that has spread like cancer.
- Comment on Customers suddenly find their new phones can't make calls or send texts 3 months ago:
You’d think it would be trivial task to check if an individual phone can make a VoLTE call, and simply put a flag on the account once it does.
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 3 months ago:
That’s hilarious. I haven’t been able to enable IPv6 since the August update. The machine just spins to 100% CPU across every core like a forkbomb.
It pissed me off because my home network is built IPv6-first.
- Comment on Inquiry warns distrustful public wouldn’t accept COVID measures in future pandemic. 3 months ago:
Well, that just sounds like Brett Sutton with extra steps!
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 months ago:
I’m waiting for the part that it gets used for things that are not lazy, manipulative and dishonest. Until then, I’m sitting it out like Linus.
- Comment on Indonesia bans iPhone 16 over Apple's investment plans. 3 months ago:
Australia banned half a million active devices from their mobile networks today. It must be a new trend.
- Comment on 3G Shutdown: 258,000 4G/5G Phones to be Blocked from November! - Gov Blocking Rules Now 'In Force'! 3 months ago:
I don’t think BYOD has anything to do with this. It’s just kicking devices off the network because their modems won’t support VoLTE. You can still buy an outright phone and flash whatever ROM you want on it.
- Comment on Friday Night 3 months ago:
Went to Coles and bought CC’s, pringles, Oreos, party mix, soft drinks and it’s already been eaten.
Not getting pissed tonight because I gotta survive Oktoberfest tomorrow.
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 3 months ago:
PlexAmp is an amazing bit of software for a phone. It doesn’t translate well to the desktop, but it’s still pretty good.
Most smart TVs have a native plex app available too.