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New comment by p0w3n3d in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

p0w3n3d — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:27:15 +0000

much faster, above all, but this would be electronic signal processing with quantisation etc. I am targeting zero latency purely analog circuit. I'm not sure if FPGA can do it...

New comment by p0w3n3d in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"

p0w3n3d — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:55:23 +0000

There are multiple topics mentioned in this article. One is quite curious, which I had missed before, I must admit:

  Universal Music Group is currently at the center of a growing legal fight against AI music platforms like Suno and Udio, accusing them of training on copyrighted music without permission. [...] The claim is straightforward. These systems learned from real artists without paying for it, and now they can generate songs that compete with the originals

To be honest - I really doubt that Suno-like company created music they taught their systems on. The AI companies are usually using our property (text, music, code) to teach their models and then sell them to us. Quite different view than a constant admiration on how the AI helps us coding...

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

p0w3n3d — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:18:48 +0000

I got it to produce me an 6x lm3915 + 10x TL072CP + 18 1N4148 solution. Need to order the BOM and try it in free time

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

p0w3n3d — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:49:09 +0000

IANAE but I would go for electric circuit, not electronic software that steers the led. I think that nowadays, with the LLM support it can be easier and better to optimise it for the sake of latency.

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026"

p0w3n3d — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:33:07 +0000

wow - looks nice... too nice if you ask me... where's the catch?

New comment by p0w3n3d in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

p0w3n3d — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:45:22 +0000

I used to think this way, however lately I understood that all wars, I mean all of them (even those religious ones) are motivated by resources. Those resources are money, power, control. People deciding on war to begin are those who benefit from it (usually, unless they've been manipulated).

And sometimes there is crazy. But crazy I can't explain, sorry.

Yet, we all mostly understand we are people and we love each other. But then the big guys come and lead us to war. To get more gas, to get more power, to get influence. Ukraine? They threatened to become independent from Russia (influence). Afghanistan? They threatened to use gold as price factor (influence). Iran? here it might be the third factor I won't explain, but also motivation by money I guess...

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026"

p0w3n3d — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:06:56 +0000

Say what? Is the creation of text boxes that float text to each another supported in word? Is correct Setup of pages supported?

Maybe I am outdated a little bit on Word news, but Publisher's purpose was for a certain use case, and it did it well. I understand that nowadays people rarely create magazines, but it's still the thing. And I'd like to be supported in it.

The alternative for DTP is Scribus, but the UI is really giving me headaches, and there is no proper support of copying formatted text...

New comment by p0w3n3d in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

p0w3n3d — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:35:35 +0000

I used to host a wordpress on my server for some people who configured it. However, when some bots got there, I was unable to keep them at bay. I upgraded WP's version, but the Wordpress had some vulnerable plugin, and I was unable to find out what path did the attack go. I only could find that the malicious files were uploaded into images/ directory and run from there. That's something I blame PHP for (and of course my lousy LAMP configuration skill, but the directory was not allowed to run the code from, I must impress). I tried also to block IPs attacking my server, but this was like cutting one of the hydra's heads.

So, long story short I ended up removing write permission to all the folders, thus disabling upload, and later they went to another server. They host it fine there, I still maintain redirection from the main domain to their host. However I failed, but really this is sad the WP is so vulnerable just by the plugins installation.

Since then I am looking for WP replacement that would not mix up the code and the images from the upload directory (presumably in rust or golang), but this would need to be opensource anyways.

New comment by p0w3n3d in "How to turn anything into a router"

p0w3n3d — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:42:24 +0000

I wonder how much energy does the old Thinkpad consume, however I'm grateful for the tutorial. It sure can be used in other hardware

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

p0w3n3d — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:41:07 +0000

I almost hear that screen cracking when accidentally closing macbook with the camera inside...

I love Mac since I started using it in 2020, but boy this hardware is fragile. I am scared that I will be held accountable for fixing a broken screen of my work MBP

New comment by p0w3n3d in "How to turn anything into a router"

p0w3n3d — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:02:41 +0000

There's a famous Polish song "Mój jest ten kawałek podłogi", written in times of Soviet influence, about a man building wall around his home, but later he gets hungry and there's no exit...

Anyone with translate.kagi can find it and translate

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Log File Viewer for the Terminal"

p0w3n3d — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:07:28 +0000

I'm thinking of logs that are configured to ship as Json but sometimes you have no grafana or have local logs (tests run locally in container) and would like to search through them efficiently

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

p0w3n3d — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:05:37 +0000

Yeah but android runs on a number of devices that have no GPS and network. Car radios, tablet etc. Location can be turned off too

New comment by p0w3n3d in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

p0w3n3d — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:18:52 +0000

I'm looking for similar colonization rewrite. FreeCol lacks that retro look and feel

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

p0w3n3d — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:53:14 +0000

Yeah, to me android is another Linux machine. I can change the date and for the device it's tomorrow. At least should be. What then? Will it accept the apk I just installed because it's tomorrow? Or reject because of no lease token from the one-almighty-Google? Or maybe it won't work at all when offline even with offline apk?

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)"

p0w3n3d — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:10:19 +0000

My guess: On the left of the mortality curve are those who play Minecraft without mods and not using maps, and on the very right edge are those who use modded Minecraft with minimap.

I wonder what about gta players. And does playing GTA mainly in taxi count in

New comment by p0w3n3d in "US Diesel prices surpass $5.38"

p0w3n3d — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:46:28 +0000

Please be minded that US people tend to tell prices without tax, because it differs from state to state. So it's I think even more... maybe even $6.20...

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits"

p0w3n3d — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:06:09 +0000

Like electric cars. It's nice to charge it in summer 2013 when you're the only one on supercharger, and pain waiting in a pissing queue of 10 cars right now

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Goodbye to Sora"

p0w3n3d — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:53:29 +0000

however the forensic or semi-forensic tools should be given to people to help them verify the videos. On the other hand I suspect that these tools are not released so wrongdoers are not able to test their fakes against the tools (security by obscurity)

New comment by p0w3n3d in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

p0w3n3d — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:31:14 +0000

Black Rock Black Stone... Maybe even Black Dodecahedron someday