hilbert42

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by hilbert42 6d ago
Yeah, unfortunately you are correct. Life's too busy nowadays and there's not enough time to do a quarter of the things one wishes especially projects that require planning and months to implement. Moreover, the reduction in or lo
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by hilbert42 10d ago
This is really terrible, I feel deeply for the father's predicament. This ought to be a salient lesson: never store card details online despite the convenience. Further, as I do, use only a debit card for online purchases with the avai
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by hilbert42 10d ago
That's pretty much what happened. Trouble was the stakes were already high, if Starlin didn't yield to a bluff (had one been pursued) it would have been an embarrassing backdown and a show of weakness on part of the allies. "
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by hilbert42 10d ago
"But still able to create additional annoying regulations on top of nation level ones." It seems to me the EU is overburdened with trivial regulations (like regulating the maximum power consumption of domestic vacuum cleaners) r
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by hilbert42 10d ago
"…as a normal part of a free market." That's unfettered capitalism at work—"free" implies no bounds. Multinational corporations have never been more powerful now than at anytime in history.
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by hilbert42 10d ago
"If they changed that they'd perhaps become world powers themselves." If they were to change some within the citizenry would stand to gain at the expense of others. Inequality would increase. Seems—for now—middle democracie
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by hilbert42 11d ago
That's fine; as I've often repeated, we don't necessarily need tight(er) regulations but sophisticated and intelligent ones.
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by hilbert42 11d ago
"Now consider what that means for software, a fully unregulated industry. It means some form of credentials…" So what! Until the 20th Century pharmaceuticals/medicines were unregulated (eg: buy laudanum (opium) anywhere wit
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by hilbert42 13d ago
"I picked the rubber ones; they somehow seemed both tougher and more flexible. No regrets. I've bought more examples over the years…" Right, depends on the quality of the rubber I suppose. I've been suspicious of rubbe
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by hilbert42 13d ago
Orwell's 80 years ahead of his time. The great unwashed who watch Netflix etc. either don't know or don't care that they're mirroring the closing moments of the book. The warning has been there for 80 years and still mos
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by hilbert42 14d ago
"…I saw already Bruce Schneider's blog some team proof of concept where they listened using laptop speakers what was spoken in that room." Users need to know the electrical features of their H/W and its limits. If a lo
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by hilbert42 14d ago
"…as long as you're satisfied with the factory installed firmware version." Why wouldn't one be? Not that long ago 'dumb' TVs never even had firmware (and that was the situation throughout most of television
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by hilbert42 14d ago
"HN users are very much in a bubble if it's surprising if it's learn consumers expect voice control functionality on a new TV." Perhaps a few are unaware but most know. As I said in my post, some (like me) only want tr
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by hilbert42 14d ago
Like I do with laptops, just snip wires (or pull out header/connector) to microphone and camera. Problem partly solved. Fully solve it by disconnecting network cable/Wi-Fi so there's no internet. For me a TV set only receives
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by hilbert42 18d ago
Sorry, not available where I am, nor do I see USB, coaxial cables etc. of that type.
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by hilbert42 19d ago
"…actually overplasticized PVC," Despite the point in my comment about power cable extensions coverings becoming hard through the lack of plasticizers, I confirm your point about overplasticized PVC in instrument cables. I have
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by hilbert42 19d ago
I cannot understand why silicone rubber is not more commonly available for cable insulation. It is so much better than much of the badly plasticized PVC and other plastics that are now used. What's made this situation worse is that it
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by hilbert42 21d ago
It would be nice if our smartest hackers would address the problem and hack these TV sets to our advantage. Seems to me we need to: (1) Reverse engineer/disassemble the code to find out exactly how they're stealing our data. (2) H
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by hilbert42 23d ago
Same, I never use apps because they're the simplest way for vendors to violate your privacy. The real reason why vendors want users to use their apps is that an app maximizes the information they can steal from users with the minimum d
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by hilbert42 25d ago
When I was in highschool in the 1960s mercury in the chemistry lab was commonplace. One way to familiarize students with mercury was to have several liters of it in a wide open-top jar and have them force their fist through the mercury pool
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by hilbert42 1mo ago
"…but it came with superb documentation for every bit of hardware and software in it,…" Very true, I still have my XT and AT manuals and use them as illustrations of how documentation should be done. Back then, good documentatio
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by hilbert42 2mo ago
There are two laws missing that allow such privacy violations to occur. First is strong and enforceable law that makes it unlawful to violate one's privacy. The second is to prosecute violators directly—that is, employees cannot hide b
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by hilbert42 2mo ago
It has to be back to the exams of old days like I had to do. Just a couple of hours in a supervised exam room with only one's own brain for answers. Surely this is obvious.
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by hilbert42 3mo ago
Unfortunately, Photoshop is easier to use than GIMP, it's ergonomically more functional. This is lost on GIMP's developers (see my other post).
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by hilbert42 3mo ago
There's good reason why people are annoyed with GIMP/GIMP developers. For example, I used to use GIMP and became quite expert at it and would often swap between it and Photoshop. That changed when GIMP's developers removed th
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by hilbert42 3mo ago
"Case in point, ReactOS is far behind what Windows 11 is capable of, …" More importantly, as I've mentioned, ReactOS is not stable nor reliable enough to even use as an offline O/S sans the Win 11 dross. If these stabi
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by hilbert42 3mo ago
"…the interior not yet" Right, there is a long tradition in it taking centuries to build great cathedrals, Chartres, Notre Dame, etc. I've little issue with that, however taking so long to build something such as an O/
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by hilbert42 3mo ago
"Or perhaps a specialized variant of ReactOS with that focus in mind." Trouble is there's never been enough interest in ReactOS to get it to the point where it's stable let alone warrant fancy extras. (After three deca
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by hilbert42 4mo ago
What is left when all other options are exhausted? The American War of Independence, French Revolution and English Civil War were acts of terrorism. Were those acts justified? Not if you're the ones who were initially holding the powe
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by hilbert42 4mo ago
I've not scanned them, I'd have to find them first and that's not easy at moment because they're among tens of thousands of docs that need sorting (I rarely chuck out docs like that). How I came by them was by accident w

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