Hacker News: anonomousename

New comment by anonomousename in "Google change is breaking some digital photo frames"

anonomousename — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:51:44 +0000

Legitamate technological improvements include thread, which allows local control of devices with no cloud servers involved, which lets you use home assistant or an equivalent

New comment by anonomousename in "Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages"

anonomousename — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 02:47:53 +0000

Fun story: I’ve had a speaker which would connect to a Bluetooth device as soon as it was turned on, and only enter pairing mode if a paired device wasn’t in range. I couldn’t figure out what device it was connecting to, so I put it in the microwave (while it was off!) briefly to trigger the pairing timeout.

New comment by anonomousename in "Dexcom starts selling its new over-the-counter glucose monitor in the U.S."

anonomousename — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 09:30:24 +0000

Glasses do not require a prescription - you can enter arbitrary values. Contacts on the other hand, require a prescription within the last year and is verified with your optometrist.

New comment by anonomousename in "Cox (was) bragging about listening to user mics"

anonomousename — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:39:38 +0000

Note: article states the restaurant is not Disney affiliated. Disney claims this is the reason why they filed to dismiss.

New comment by anonomousename in "Windows File Explorer will be more powerful with version control and 7z"

anonomousename — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 04:13:56 +0000

The safer way is to disable the app execution aliases.

New comment by anonomousename in "Show HN: I created a selfhostable steam-like platform for loose game files"

anonomousename — Sat, 04 May 2024 22:17:07 +0000

I remember seeing this a bit ago when it was crackpipe! Glad the name got changed haha

New comment by anonomousename in "A recent abrupt change in Internet SSH brute force attacks against us"

anonomousename — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 03:22:43 +0000

If true, that seems like some solid evidence. Do you have any links/sources I can read up on? I wasn’t able to find anything.

New comment by anonomousename in "Nvidia hits $2T valuation as AI frenzy grips Wall Street"

anonomousename — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:20:32 +0000

Yes - I believe the shift is coming. For inference especially, check out Groq’s chip design and its simplicity and speed compared to general purpose GPUs.

New comment by anonomousename in "NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars"

anonomousename — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:44:41 +0000

Excellent explanation! Although 1 lb * 32.2 ft/sec^2 = 32.2lbf.

New comment by anonomousename in "The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List"

anonomousename — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:02:33 +0000

Some of my passwords weren’t found on that tool but I was able to find them on but scatteredsecrets.com - I searched because I was getting 2fa emails from services with that password. Just keep in mind it isn’t a definitive list

New comment by anonomousename in "Ask HN: State of gaming and it's developement on Apple Silicon"

anonomousename — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 17:25:25 +0000

Moonlight + sunshine also works great! Give it a shot. I believe sunshine has a Apple silicon build.

New comment by anonomousename in "Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra"

anonomousename — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:01:09 +0000

There is - stremio + torrentio + real debrid is a ~5 minute setup, works on web and android tv, and was easy enough for my parents to setup all by themselves. Real debrid does cost $3 a month but the experience is so much better that it’s well worth it. The money you’re paying goes to a seed box type thing that caches torrents online and lets you stream them to avoid notices from your ISP.

I recently abandoned my jellyfin + radarr + sonarr setup because for the above. After Usenet subscriptions, electricity costs and storage costs, it was much cheaper. And I could watch content on demand rather than having to wait for the whole thing to download.

New comment by anonomousename in "An update on HDR and color management in KWin"

anonomousename — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 01:28:41 +0000

From https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr/#tests:

“Note for Safari / iPhone users: The top image on this page (the building with the before/after slider) uses a workaround which shows an HDR video as if it were a photo. This will let you get a sense of the HDR benefit, but you will fail the tests below as Safari / WebKit (which means all iPhone/iPad browsers) only supports HDR video and not HDR photos at this time.” :-(

New comment by anonomousename in "Gemini AI"

anonomousename — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 08:18:47 +0000

I’m surprised that the multimodal model is t significantly better than GPT4. I thought that all the Google photos training data would have given it an edge.

New comment by anonomousename in "Show HN: Free image generation using Cloudflare Workers AI"

anonomousename — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:35:58 +0000

I just see a sad Pepe.

New comment by anonomousename in "Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes"

anonomousename — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:39:27 +0000

If you make the switch to home assistant, you can mirror devices you want to control frequently with the HomeKit integration. It’ll be like nothing changed, expect for increased stability and interoperability. You can also add Google Home and Alexa afaik

New comment by anonomousename in "Google Podcasts shut down in 2024 as podcasts debut globally for YouTube Music"

anonomousename — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 23:13:37 +0000

I used Google podcasts because it was no nonsense and cross platform. What a shocker - I really should’ve seen this coming.

New comment by anonomousename in "Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently deleted for inactivity"

anonomousename — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:14:44 +0000

Out of curiosity, what did you search? Searching “gmail plus” gives plenty of results, some of which are from Google themselves.

https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282734?hl=en#:~:t... "Create variations of your email address"

New comment by anonomousename in "Tell HN: Teddit has been de facto shut down"

anonomousename — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 07:04:42 +0000

This is an ideal use case for something like TailScale! It’ll only redirect traffic that’s meant for your internal network, unless you set it as an exit node - then it asks as a regular VPN.

New comment by anonomousename in "How to ramp up a factory consuming a lot of energy?"

anonomousename — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 23:19:48 +0000

Yes. The voltage alarm in this case would be the voltage dipping too low (voltage sag) due to high current.