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Ask HN: Why are some websites locking or using the audio device on Windows?

ezconnect — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:43:02 +0000

When X or Aliexpress is open on a tab even if they are not the active tab or the browser is minimize I can't change the input device or output device because they are using the audio device even if they are not playing sounds. Do they use it to stream data or they use for other purpose?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47192394

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by ezconnect in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

ezconnect — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:18:21 +0000

So basically we just need a 1pps from a GPS chip to make the analog clocks accurate and use that to drive the motor. We set it once and it will be accurate for a long time.

New comment by ezconnect in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

ezconnect — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:57:39 +0000

The next crash will probably be a race for assets or hard assets for the people who can afford it. It means the stock market will reach all time high, gold all time high and land prices skyrocketing as people try to escape from the dollar currency. The US President will still be proud the economy is still good because the stock market is at all time high and the people are rich because their homes are at all time high valuation but the middle class can barely afford food because there are no available jobs that pays good enough.

New comment by ezconnect in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

ezconnect — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:51:25 +0000

I only check the US stock markets to see the health of the US Dollar. Every time it reaches new high it means dollar devalues a tiny bit more than the last stock market peak.

New comment by ezconnect in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

ezconnect — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:42:20 +0000

Because the world trades using US dollars. Country A needs to buy something from Country B. Country A needs to buy/get dollars to buy stuff from Country B. Country B will not accept anything but dollars or gold for its products because it also needs to buy other stuff like oil in dollars from other countries.

New comment by ezconnect in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

ezconnect — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:15:34 +0000

My 3 year old learned how to use the remote and watched by himself. We just instructed him not to watch silly stuff and he learned which show teaches him something and discovered numberblocks and alphablocks by himself on youtubekids. My other son just can't comprehend how to use the remote and learned it when he's already 4.5 years old. The main method they use for discovery is the speech search.

New comment by ezconnect in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

ezconnect — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:44:29 +0000

The problem with current naming is it now using common names like coffee and it's hard to search for them or relate to them. At least the old Unix naming are kinda unique and sometimes means something. Unlike today.

New comment by ezconnect in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

ezconnect — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 03:55:03 +0000

The only feature they added is you can't open other Word files so you need a new version.

New comment by ezconnect in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

ezconnect — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:05:23 +0000

Licensing is really complicated and requires lot of paper work. The best example is the music soundtracks of old TV series. They even get substituted if they don't get the proper license to stream them. So some old show get new soundtrack or background music and they don't feel the same.

New comment by ezconnect in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

ezconnect — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:59:07 +0000

Solar flares are the best excuse. We just have to wait it out.

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ezconnect — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:46:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4L4XDXwCKU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977224

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ezconnect in "The history of Casio watches"

ezconnect — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:44:17 +0000

I had the calculator watch when I was in highschool. We competed who has the toughest watch by throwing it on the blackboard. It survived. When I got older I realize how stupid it was and how expensive it was compared to the digital watch on that era.

*It was the C-80 and it was the 80s, it was rubberized all over like the G-Shock of today.

New comment by ezconnect in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"

ezconnect — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:41:49 +0000

Walmart is a tech giant.

New comment by ezconnect in "The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory"

ezconnect — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:25:01 +0000

They have been blogging about engineering before blogging was mainstream. You have to subscribe to their CD of MSDN articles to appreciate how info they put out for their products because they used to be developer centric.

New comment by ezconnect in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"

ezconnect — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:40:08 +0000

It's probably simpler, Arduino knows the market has no future and wanted to get out and did a sales pitch to Qualcomm and Qualcomm accepted.

New comment by ezconnect in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

ezconnect — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:18:14 +0000

#2 was frequently used as a spam filter for private domain emails that don't want to deal with setting up spam filters on their mail servers. I used this a decade or so ago in one of my online store it was very good at spam filtering and you get to use one webmail client to process all your emails from different domains.

New comment by ezconnect in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

ezconnect — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:25:31 +0000

Back in the 80s there was a Playboy article about how influential the Saudi's in USA because of their overflowing oil money. I guess it never changed they just got a good PR management to fix their image for a few decades and they are in the spotlight again.

New comment by ezconnect in "Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D"

ezconnect — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:46:16 +0000

Falcon game still have a large following today.

New comment by ezconnect in "Hyundai Design Boss Asks: 'Why Do We Need a Screen?'"

ezconnect — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:45:12 +0000

This probably have a HUD for navigation.

New comment by ezconnect in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

ezconnect — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:50:37 +0000

You gave those affiliate link people an awesome idea! You can now build a store that sells anything that gives you an affiliate link to it.