Have you considered how much money you could loose to credit card chargebacks and similar fraud? How will you stop a flood of scammers trying to use your service to pay a 'freelancer' that is actually an accomplice in…
"with the latest policy update in 2021, WhatsApp made data sharing with Meta mandatory for all users" "Given the network effects and lack of effective alternatives, the 2021 Update forces users to comply, undermining…
I think this would be better with a "How do I use this?" section at the top. Normal people are unaware that the person who wants to receive a file or message should be the one who generates the key pair (in a public key…
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742556 On-device scanning of files is not "New Tech" This video is someone vaguely rambling about EU chat control.
DRM is "Direct Rendering Manager" KMS is "Kernal Mode Setting"
In Chrome browser on Windows and in Firefox and Chromium on Linux, the text on the /signup page is black. The background is black. That makes the text invisible.
The create-an-account pages have black text on a black background. The text and submit buttons are not visible unless you ctrl+a or drag-select.
It sometimes makes sense to made a distro that is specifically for new or unusual hardware. I point to Asahi Linux, supporting Apple computers based on their M1, M2 and M3 ARM cpus is a load of work that is still in…
VOLMET radio transmissions, which are computer generated voices reading out weather information on shortwave frequencies are getting much less range than usual. Listening on some WebSDRs, overnight Shannon VOLMET on…
This creates a booby trap for everyone who avoids using a Microsoft account to log on to their computer. If you use a local account and don't keep a backup of your bitlocker key then you can loose all your files if…
Debian stable, but my hardware is all old. Hardware that uses a new chip, such as some wifi devices released in the last couple of years, may require using a kernel from backports or waiting a couple of years for a new…
I like that Firefox still exists, despite the questionable management at Mozilla, and this is almost entirely funding it. At least some good comes from this.
Two weeks ago that website said that they are moving their office and lab from one US state to another: http://web.archive.org/web/20240406204554/https://www.greena... The website was/is served by an ip address that…
Windows file explorer parses files in the folder you are looking at. It does things like read jpg files to get the date that that a photograph was taken from the EXIF data, read eml files to get the date that a saved…
I prefer having a medium amount of RAM, 32GB, because I mainly run Linux with xwindow and many years ago I generally found that it handled out-of-memory condition very poorly. I do not like the whole of xwindows…
Perhaps search hnn for "cryptocat" which was an attempt to do e2e chat through a website a dozen years ago. It was somewhat controversial at the time. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cryptcat The author gave up on it after a…
Anyone doing that should be warned that it is not unusual for a new laptop to have the harddrive/SSD encrypted with bitlocker without any notification to the user. If you don't create a Microsoft account and then later…
This reminds me of a thing from a few years ago, my vague memory is that it was by Travis Goodspeed. A smart TV would accept a firmware update from a file on a standard USB stick. The TV reads the file start to finish…
https://xkcd.com/195/
A radio club in the Netherlands were able to receive it with their twenty five meter diameter dish. https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2024/uhf-signals-of-japanese-m...
Until about the year 1993, 3.5" disks were very reliable if you didn't abuse them. Around the early days of windows 3.11, someone figured out how to make cheaper 3.5" disks and putting data on off-brand disks became a…
I think the number of UK people who are inconvenienced by not getting huge 5G speed is small. Two of the UK cellular networks are completely turning off 3G service over the next few months, which will allow them to use…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quick-analysis-starlink-link-... I don't think that polarization makes any practical difference to how hazardous non-ionizing radiation is. Please show a reference to back up your claim.…
The RF power from Starlink satellites that hits the outside of your body when you are outside is very very tiny. It is estimated at 0.000000294 watts per square meter. That amount of energy is much smaller than the 1000…
Discussion at a slightly earlier post about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38808026
Have you considered how much money you could loose to credit card chargebacks and similar fraud? How will you stop a flood of scammers trying to use your service to pay a 'freelancer' that is actually an accomplice in…
"with the latest policy update in 2021, WhatsApp made data sharing with Meta mandatory for all users" "Given the network effects and lack of effective alternatives, the 2021 Update forces users to comply, undermining…
I think this would be better with a "How do I use this?" section at the top. Normal people are unaware that the person who wants to receive a file or message should be the one who generates the key pair (in a public key…
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742556 On-device scanning of files is not "New Tech" This video is someone vaguely rambling about EU chat control.
DRM is "Direct Rendering Manager" KMS is "Kernal Mode Setting"
In Chrome browser on Windows and in Firefox and Chromium on Linux, the text on the /signup page is black. The background is black. That makes the text invisible.
The create-an-account pages have black text on a black background. The text and submit buttons are not visible unless you ctrl+a or drag-select.
It sometimes makes sense to made a distro that is specifically for new or unusual hardware. I point to Asahi Linux, supporting Apple computers based on their M1, M2 and M3 ARM cpus is a load of work that is still in…
VOLMET radio transmissions, which are computer generated voices reading out weather information on shortwave frequencies are getting much less range than usual. Listening on some WebSDRs, overnight Shannon VOLMET on…
This creates a booby trap for everyone who avoids using a Microsoft account to log on to their computer. If you use a local account and don't keep a backup of your bitlocker key then you can loose all your files if…
Debian stable, but my hardware is all old. Hardware that uses a new chip, such as some wifi devices released in the last couple of years, may require using a kernel from backports or waiting a couple of years for a new…
I like that Firefox still exists, despite the questionable management at Mozilla, and this is almost entirely funding it. At least some good comes from this.
Two weeks ago that website said that they are moving their office and lab from one US state to another: http://web.archive.org/web/20240406204554/https://www.greena... The website was/is served by an ip address that…
Windows file explorer parses files in the folder you are looking at. It does things like read jpg files to get the date that that a photograph was taken from the EXIF data, read eml files to get the date that a saved…
I prefer having a medium amount of RAM, 32GB, because I mainly run Linux with xwindow and many years ago I generally found that it handled out-of-memory condition very poorly. I do not like the whole of xwindows…
Perhaps search hnn for "cryptocat" which was an attempt to do e2e chat through a website a dozen years ago. It was somewhat controversial at the time. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cryptcat The author gave up on it after a…
Anyone doing that should be warned that it is not unusual for a new laptop to have the harddrive/SSD encrypted with bitlocker without any notification to the user. If you don't create a Microsoft account and then later…
This reminds me of a thing from a few years ago, my vague memory is that it was by Travis Goodspeed. A smart TV would accept a firmware update from a file on a standard USB stick. The TV reads the file start to finish…
https://xkcd.com/195/
A radio club in the Netherlands were able to receive it with their twenty five meter diameter dish. https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2024/uhf-signals-of-japanese-m...
Until about the year 1993, 3.5" disks were very reliable if you didn't abuse them. Around the early days of windows 3.11, someone figured out how to make cheaper 3.5" disks and putting data on off-brand disks became a…
I think the number of UK people who are inconvenienced by not getting huge 5G speed is small. Two of the UK cellular networks are completely turning off 3G service over the next few months, which will allow them to use…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quick-analysis-starlink-link-... I don't think that polarization makes any practical difference to how hazardous non-ionizing radiation is. Please show a reference to back up your claim.…
The RF power from Starlink satellites that hits the outside of your body when you are outside is very very tiny. It is estimated at 0.000000294 watts per square meter. That amount of energy is much smaller than the 1000…
Discussion at a slightly earlier post about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38808026