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by wolrah 4y ago
> Not sure why, but cars don't generally support that. Yeah, I wasn't suggesting it as something that cars support right now, but it's something that 100% could be supported easily and would "just work" with basi
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by wolrah 4y ago
There is a widely used standard, actually two, that solve this problem just fine over a single pure digital interface. USB Audio Class has been almost universally supported in computing devices for literally decades at this point, as has US
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by wolrah 4y ago
> So could Ford stop me from using footage of a Mustang? Vehicle design and logos are copyrighted. What about a movie wear characters are wearing designer clothing? Those are covered by copyright as well. You may notice how when cars are
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by wolrah 4y ago
It was almost 20 years ago at this point, easy mistake to make.
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by wolrah 4y ago
When was Gmail ever sold as unlimited? When it came out the big deal was that it offered 1GB, which absolutely destroyed the 5-10MB most free providers were offering at the time. I recall a time where they were raising the limit constantly
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by wolrah 4y ago
It doesn't work exactly the same as a subscription, but you can add a playlist from a channel to your library, if the channel offers one that fits what you want. For example the channel Accursed Farms puts out a Half-Life based show ca
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by wolrah 4y ago
Again though what benefits are offered by adding the complexity of a blockchain compared to simply having a shared central database? Either way to be effective you have to get all the parties involved to agree on using one system, that&#x2
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by wolrah 4y ago
> but in this case the bug is caused by Microsoft Defender, yet Firefox, the car manufacturer, is a different entity. Quoting the Mozilla engineer responsible for most of the recent activity on the bug: "This problem has two sides:
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by wolrah 4y ago
I didn't say anything problematic, but I certainly might have used the restroom thinking I was muted.
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by wolrah 4y ago
G930 got me too. If it's powered on while connected to external power (like a USB battery) it works as an audio device but none of the inputs work, including the mute command.
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by wolrah 4y ago
You'll want to be very confident that it actually mutes in hardware. I thought my old headset (Logitech G930) did, until I found out the hard way that it was in fact just sending a software command to mute the mic at the system level,
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by wolrah 4y ago
At the US Federal level the law is "one party consent", meaning that someone who is a party to a private conversation can record it without requiring the approval of the other part(y/ies). You can't record someone else&
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by wolrah 4y ago
> The Union sets the employees and the business up as adversaries and guarantees that there will be a contract negotiation. > I don’t understand why people expect labor to be able to play hardball while also trying to benefit from a c
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Or it was the only one they clild get in volume. The last 3 years have been merry he'll on supply chains. This is Asus. They make a phone that has two USB-C ports, plus a variety of mobile accessories that all have one. They als
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by wolrah 4y ago
Amen to this. I wish the USB-IF would officially deprecate the entire mini and micro line, stating that they are not allowed to be used and will not be certified compliant in new hardware designs unless the new design is intended to be a p
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I've been a developer for nearly 40 years (mostly in Windows, barely dabbling in linux) and I've yet to figure out what the heck that number means, or how I might predict what the correct number is when I want to look somethi
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by wolrah 4y ago
> No one is bringing a raw Blu-Ray signal into the back of their TV over Ethernet though— Netflix's 4K streams cap out at around 16mbps, which is a tiny fraction of that. Who cares about internet streamers? Plenty of us definitely
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by wolrah 4y ago
My emphasis for that sort of scenario would be on the * need* to meet in person aspect. I've been working remote exclusive for over a decade at this point and even though we're all in the same part of a single US state the last
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Isn't it better to meet in a place where one of the people is already located? Then one less person has to fly, and they can use their saved time to work and offset the CO2 spent by the additional time traveled by the others. I&#x
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by wolrah 4y ago
This is a really neat tool, but I'm having a hard time imagining situations where it'd be all that useful, where people from substantially different locations all need to meet in person, but don't care where they're meet
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Say I want to make an Ethernet-speaking sensor of some sort, the sort of thing that might be on CAN today. I now have to make multiple versions of it if I want to sell into all those markets, which I'm not likely to do in practice
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Hmm, this is 802.3cg which is 10Mbps single-pair, which doesn't seem to be compatible with the 802.3da multidrop iot stuff 802.3cg supports multidrop as part of 10Base-T1S. 802.3da is a draft intended to enhance these capabilities
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by wolrah 4y ago
> But how does eg a device programmatically tell the firewall to allow traffic in in this case? This is done via UPNP on ipv4 NAT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Control_Protocol , which also allows for UPnP-like
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Unconfigured/not activated firewalls usually fail reachable Local firewalls on devices, maybe, but network firewalls generally are default-deny on untrusted interfaces, and between 0 and 1 interfaces are trusted by default. Back i
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I am quite happy that all those shady IoT devices cannot be reached from the internet directly when I am using IPv4 and NAT - what would be the best way forward to keep it that way in a IPv6-only future? The same exact way you do it ri
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by wolrah 4y ago
> wonder why they chose that form factor instead of like direct-serial Because MiniPCIe is a common formfactor for cellular modems, so this could be swapped in to existing devices with no hardware changes and minimal software changes. Th
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Well, they are embedded in the PDF as a Type 1 font. That support can in principle be removed (e.g., if your font rendering depends on a library shared with other software that drops Type 1 support), although indeed that would not be i
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I wonder if it would be possible to put a weighing pad at airports for a double-check. A few modern pickup trucks have a system for measuring how much weight is in the bed or being transferred through the tongue of a trailer because of
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Good to see PDF viewers will at least keep supporting it. No, the reason PDFs created with these fonts will remain viewable is the same reason printed documents will remain readable. The glyphs used are part of the document. You don&
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by wolrah 4y ago
Exactly, Reddit and HN are pretty decent replacements for Slashdot and the like for discussing the day's news, but they're not places for long term projects, megathreads, etc.

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