Hacker News: pixelcloud

New comment by pixelcloud in "US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels"

pixelcloud — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:02:34 +0000

While that may be true, the article is accurate and has links to its sources.

New comment by pixelcloud in "Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform"

pixelcloud — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:08:08 +0000

The large renewal "uplift" is partly a strategy to get in front of the C levels and board of directors.

I heard of a one billion dollar renewal quote from Broadcom. The company didn't pay anything close to that. But it bypassed middle mgmt... Not exactly sure what the overall strategy is here, but this is not an isolated incident.

New comment by pixelcloud in "YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI"

pixelcloud — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:17:11 +0000

They don't make a distinction between AI generated and VFX. This is contained within the linked article.

New comment by pixelcloud in "Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud"

pixelcloud — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:57:46 +0000

In terms of the RCMP and their aggressive behaviour. It makes perfect sense. First Nations people have not been treated well by the RCMP or LE for a very long time in Canada... This still persists to this day, systematic discrimination and all that stuff.

New comment by pixelcloud in "Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act"

pixelcloud — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:55:28 +0000

This doesn't change anything in terms of hospital capacities here. The surgery backlog is massive, the hospitals are overrun with covid patients. Taking additional precautions is an attempt to try to protect the larger populations access to healthcare.

New comment by pixelcloud in "Trump Press Conference Video Doctored?"

pixelcloud — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 18:42:04 +0000

In lots of countries any form of unwanted direct or indirect contact would be considered assault. So by trying to force the mic away, she could have been charged with assault! If the mic is someone else's property and he would not give it up, the police would have the right to make unwanted contact to get it back.

New comment by pixelcloud in "How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind"

pixelcloud — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:50:07 +0000

Not all parents should be allowed to raise their children...

New comment by pixelcloud in "MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber"

pixelcloud — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 02:39:00 +0000

But does the i9 version have performance issues (i.e. it under performs compared to the i7)? The XPS 15 with the i9 configuration comes with 32GB ram and it much cheaper than an equivalent macbook pro. I can deal with it getting hot!

New comment by pixelcloud in "Google Won't Renew Contract for Project Maven, Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program"

pixelcloud — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 20:44:27 +0000

That is a great opinion and I can do that too!!

I seriously doubt the majority of Google Employees would support defense contracting.

New comment by pixelcloud in "'Impossible' EmDrive Space Thruster May Really Be Impossible"

pixelcloud — Wed, 23 May 2018 21:33:58 +0000

It find it super funny how it was a cable related issue

just like this famous one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...

New comment by pixelcloud in "PowerHammer: Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers Through Power Lines"

pixelcloud — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:54:10 +0000

You would need to be pretty close to the server/storage/etc to get a clean enough signal to be useful though. So physical security might be enough to protect against this type of attack. You probably can't just dig up the powerline outside and start tapping it thankfully.

New comment by pixelcloud in "Tesla issues its largest recall ever over faulty Model S steering"

pixelcloud — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 06:18:33 +0000

There are literally 2 much bigger recalls happening right now.

Airbags! Multiple companies have recalled a specific airbag module that catches on fire. 1+ million cars

Ford recalled 1.3 million cars last week, the steering wheel can fall off. That "internal manufacturing expertise" in action.

New comment by pixelcloud in "Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, Officials Say"

pixelcloud — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:17:09 +0000

And lots of those stories are from Hawaii! Many many people have died their due to tsunamis, etc. They take their warnings seriously (in the past they didnt have them for things like tsunamis)

New comment by pixelcloud in "Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year"

pixelcloud — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 22:30:03 +0000

Monitoring software (elastic, splunk, etc..). That stuff is expensive!

New comment by pixelcloud in "Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year"

pixelcloud — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 21:34:40 +0000

That type of advertising is fairly ineffective at "convincing" someone to make a purchase. Compared to more modern advertising techniques (like Facebook or Google) and their advertising resulted in me making a 100k purchase of software. The TV cannot market particular seminars, or blog posts that I might find relevant to what i'm doing right now, but google and FB can.

It's scary and interesting.

New comment by pixelcloud in "If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery"

pixelcloud — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:14:32 +0000

I wonder if Android does the same thing. My understanding if batteries is that @ 100% charge they are going to sit around a certain voltage. They will never stay at the maximum voltage under use though. Is it possible that the OS needs to drop the CPU freq due to the voltage requirements (which maybe a 70% healthy battery could NEVER hit), and ultimately stressing/draining the battery quicker at higher frequencies.

New comment by pixelcloud in "Apple delaying HomePod smart speaker launch until next year"

pixelcloud — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:00:03 +0000

I find it a bit surprising that companies like B&W haven't integrated Alexa into their wireless products. Sonos has a new wireless speaker that looks nice, but I wouldn't consider it high-end.

New comment by pixelcloud in "Reddit is reportedly considering an IPO"

pixelcloud — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:32:08 +0000

There is no such thing as hate speech, as something that can be objectively identified and reasoned about.

Are you sure? My country defines it in a legal sense, along with many others.

New comment by pixelcloud in "The impossible dream of USB-C"

pixelcloud — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 01:11:19 +0000

We should just stamp a tiny QR code on each cable end! Then we can use our smartphones and a special USBC app !!

New comment by pixelcloud in "Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway"

pixelcloud — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:31:42 +0000

I've been using XRDP for a while now. Works extremely well.