Hacker News: drdebug

New comment by drdebug in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

drdebug — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:05:37 +0000

Any one knows what happens when duck tape is being used to cover the camera?

New comment by drdebug in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

drdebug — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:02:39 +0000

Nice work, but is it just me or does this take away from the car’s original spirit?

New comment by drdebug in "Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection"

drdebug — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:10:51 +0000

To pass fake/modified image as genuine?

New comment by drdebug in "SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"

drdebug — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:14:06 +0000

In practice, very short texts don't carry very high value so watermarking is (usually) less important. For longer text false positives are not an issue at all since you have a large amount of data to extract your signal from.

New comment by drdebug in "SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"

drdebug — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:06:47 +0000

If you are interested, you can look into the work of Hany Farid on this topic as a good introduction to image forensics and related topics.

New comment by drdebug in "SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"

drdebug — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:23:33 +0000

I wonder where you got that impression. Several professional watermarking systems for movie studio type content I have worked with (and on) are highly resistant to noise removal while remaining imperceptible.

New comment by drdebug in "The Best Darn Grid Shader (Yet) (2023)"

drdebug — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:23:36 +0000

You can install the "Dark Reader" plugin on Firefox, works great.

New comment by drdebug in "Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?"

drdebug — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 08:55:16 +0000

According to airparif.fr air quality is currently degraded in Paris, could air pollution be the culprit ?

New comment by drdebug in "Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy"

drdebug — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:57:34 +0000

Also, a Twitter account is required.

New comment by drdebug in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now"

drdebug — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:06:13 +0000

The wording in the current draft seems to indicate that it applies to "providers of hosting services and providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services". So unless this includes ISPs, I wonder if that means a decentralized P2P service is not covered.

New comment by drdebug in "A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024"

drdebug — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:17:37 +0000

Same here with 20+ years old mail service on the same domain that has never sent spam with correctly configured DNS SPF DKIM DMARC, getting gmail rejections. I noticed a significant improvement after linking the domain to my google account https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9981691

New comment by drdebug in "French court issues damages award for violation of GPL"

drdebug — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:38:25 +0000

The conclusion of the article says "[...] so far linking (even statically) is done for interoperability, does not [...]". IANAL but it could mean that linking against a GPL library for interoperability is OK in EU, but it does not mean it's true for general case of linking with GPL libraries.

New comment by drdebug in "What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?"

drdebug — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:09:33 +0000

I believe SSDs are soldered onto the motherboard for M1 laptops + M1 mac mini, I wonder how bad of an issue it is when considering used M1s.

New comment by drdebug in "8GB vs. 16GB M3 Mac"

drdebug — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:30:29 +0000

"Much better screen" is also not necessarily true for everybody. For example I can't stand the glossy reflective screen, from what I saw last time I stopped in an apple store it was pretty much a mirror. I find the mate screens on thinkpads vastly superior and less difficult on my eyes, and their trackpads are fine: the magic track pad on my mac mini m1 is fine too, but I don't prefer one over the other.

New comment by drdebug in "Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla"

drdebug — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:23:36 +0000

May be if you drive often near bars or places with specific orientation?

New comment by drdebug in "Rocky strikes back at Red Hat"

drdebug — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 07:50:18 +0000

Often things can be ported easily without much effort, but the issue lies in validation and testing, there are often corner cases that need to be identified and tested, it can cost a lot of time and effort and it's not always feasible. Redhat knows it may be cheaper to purchase RHEL subscriptions in that case.

New comment by drdebug in "Are We Sixel Yet"

drdebug — Sun, 14 May 2023 10:45:33 +0000

Displaying the result of a command as a graph (histograms, plots) can be more pleasant than a bunch of **** bars. An external graphic window works well too, but displaying in place can be convenient sometimes, no need to click or alt-tab.

New comment by drdebug in "Spinning Diagrams with CSS"

drdebug — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:12:35 +0000

FYI, contrarily to the original post, this does not work with javascript disabled.

New comment by drdebug in "If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed"

drdebug — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:34:47 +0000

Internet Archive is likely the only memory of the digital world. They may or may not have made a mistake during the covid pandemic by extending their book lending program, but in the age of IA where many text and images are going to lack any source of truth, they may be one of the very few ways to document modern history.

New comment by drdebug in "Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace"

drdebug — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 07:47:35 +0000

It looks like the framework laptop keyboard is missing PgUp and PgDn keys (I use them constantly).