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- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
It’s not just DNS. I have this rule in my firewall:
udp dport 15600 counter drop comment “Block Samsung TV shenanigans”So far, it has blocked 20575 packets (constituting 1304695 bytes) in 6 days and 20 hours.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
Anticheats can be very invasive, they can theoretically scan all the files inside your computer (whether it is practically done, I don’t know but it surely feels like it’s been done), take screenshots regularly, send your hardware information, etc. So yeah, if you are someone who takes security seriously…
- Comment on Servo Browser Now Supports Tabbed Browsing, WAV Audio Files. 2 months ago:
Servo was an experimental ground for Mozilla in some ways (like testing out a new CSS engine and porting it back to Gecko if it works). So it’s quite normal for people to be unaware of it, it was not quite meant for the public.
For a while it was abandoned by Mozilla and stuck in a limbo, until it got picked up by the Linux Foundation.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
Indeed, the Ryzen laptops are very nice! I have one (the 4800H) and it lasts ~8 hours on battery, far more than what I expected from laptops of this performance level. My last laptop barely achieved 4 hours of battery life.
I had stability issues in the first year but after one of the BIOS updates it has been smooth as butter.
- Comment on Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot 4 months ago:
If proper SATA ever goes away, I’d wager that there will still be SATA-to-USB adapters on sale. Heck, people still find ways to connect floppy drives to their modern PCs.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It’s just a notable milestone. For as long as I can remember Linux marketshare never went above the 3.something% mark.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 11 months ago:
I am using it now as I’m commenting.
Been using it daily for years at this point.
- Comment on Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years 11 months ago:
And that’s why the MTU is typically 1500 bytes for Ethernet
- Comment on A box of DevOps 1 year ago:
TOML isn’t elegant at all but damn, it is really simple.
- Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests 1 year ago:
“it just maxes out the ram and then does nothing.” is absolute nonsense. The programs need memory to operate.
If your RAM is maxed out and the programs seem to operate just as fine, the OS is doing something behind the scenes, it’s just the matter of what it is doing. Memory swapping / virtual memory is a well-known method of alleviating RAM overuse.
- Comment on In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars 1 year ago:
Tell me you know nothing about Chinese EVs without telling me you know nothing about Chinese EVs. BYD’s best sellers are actually plug-in hybrids, which is in no way “stolen” from Tesla.
- Comment on Madden should not be 70$ 1 year ago:
Where did you pull those numbers from, then?
- Comment on Madden should not be 70$ 1 year ago:
I am pretty sure we don’t need to raise every employee’s wages. Some of the upper management who sit in their offices biting nails, for example.
The point is to reduce the wage inequality inside a company.
- Comment on Madden should not be 70$ 1 year ago:
Cut the CEOs’ pay and you’ll be able to get both
- Comment on College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT 1 year ago:
As an anecdotal though, I once saw someone simply forwarding (ie. copy and pasting) their exam questions to ChatGPT. His answers are just ChatGPT responses, but paraphrased to make it look less GPT-ish.
In this case, the only skill that is tested… is English paraphrasing.
- Comment on Why I use the D programming language for scripting 1 year ago:
I don’t know where D fits nowadays and which problem it’s trying to solve.
My experience has been similar - it’s hard to categorize the language.
As a low-level system language like C, C++, Rust, Zig? The garbage collector makes it a hard sell to other people, even though one can opt out of it.
As a higher-level application language like Java and Go? D frequently gives me a “low-level language” feel, but I am not sure why.
As a scripting language? I feel like its type system works against the rapid-prototyping coding style commonly seen in scripts.
- Comment on Yearly reminder that github still does not have an IPv6 address (2023) 1 year ago:
The IPv4 exhaustion is far more gnarly in developing countries. Something on the scale of hundreds of people sharing one IPv4 address.
If I want to get a public IPv4 address from my ISP, I have to spend extra. Some ISPs in my country simply don’t give public IPv4 addresses anymore. They have completely exhausted their pool.
- Comment on Yearly reminder that github still does not have an IPv6 address (2023) 1 year ago:
You can’t talk about NAT and then mention speed in the same statement…
The 128-bit IPv6 addresses are just four simple 32-bit integers if you think about it, but with NAT you have juggle around and maintain the (internal IP, internal Port, external IP, external Port, Protocol) tuples all the time. That’s a significant overhead. Also, switches typically deal with the Layer 2 stuffs. IP is Layer 3.
See the HN discussion for more information.
It’s just easier to do IPv4 in every way
Except when you have to NAT transversal. Then you are in a world of hurt.
- Comment on Yearly reminder that github still does not have an IPv6 address (2023) 1 year ago:
The numerous CGNAT deployed worldwide suggests otherwise.