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New comment by tacomagick in "Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us"

tacomagick — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:52:05 +0000

You could also argue the head compute does not make it faster tbh

New comment by tacomagick in "Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity"

tacomagick — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:03:44 +0000

We used DeepFreeze in our smartboards, It would lock onto a disk state and until unlocked would revert the system back to the locked state after every shutdown/reboot.

New comment by tacomagick in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

tacomagick — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:03:21 +0000

Could be in need of a thermal paste refresh etc.?

New comment by tacomagick in "Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper"

tacomagick — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:26:45 +0000

I'd like you to elaborate more on your answer

Encode-Less Video Editing

tacomagick — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:25:53 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.sukonbu.party/encode-less-video-editing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517064

Points: 1

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New comment by tacomagick in "I’m joining OpenAI"

tacomagick — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:26:16 +0000

Yes pretty much. See the Windows 11 security vulnerability chaos going on.

New comment by tacomagick in "25L Portable NV-linked Dual 3090 LLM Rig"

tacomagick — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:35:36 +0000

Simply replacing the 3090's with 4090's would provide a major performance uplift assuming your model fits. (I have rented both 3090 and 4090 systems online for research, this comment is based on my personal experience, it is well worth the price increase and the hourly rate for the inference speed you get)

New comment by tacomagick in "The hunt for a perfect laptop continues"

tacomagick — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:08:29 +0000

I've asked the author if they considered Proart PX13 before, they told me they didn't see it fit due to five reasons including:

-Has an NVIDIA GPU

I'd probably suggest the M4 Macbooks, as there are not many AMD graphics based laptops out there at the moment, and the battery life of an ARM based platform does not seem to be compareable to an x86_64 yet assuming you won't need a x86 processor.

New comment by tacomagick in "Google nerfs Pixel 6a batteries following fire hazard"

tacomagick — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:09:56 +0000

Not sure if it is different than mine but I use Payoneer to get payments through Fiverr, From my knowledge they don't really hold money but just transfer it to your available card. I have never been hit by a fee for inactive account (i've paused my gigs on Fiverr but not my Payoneer account for more than a year at this point)

The fees are quite real though, before I've moved to using BTC for payments i've been getting around 900~ while when i moved to BTC my payments went up to 1900~ thanks to no wire and skipping Fiverr's and Payoneer's cuts.

New comment by tacomagick in "Windows 11 Insider Preview Build"

tacomagick — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:45:29 +0000

You are actually testing for both, as an insider your feedback is asked every now and then, also you report issues you encounter willingly (Get Help metro app) or unwillingly (System Service/App stopped responding, collecting data and sending it to MS)

New comment by tacomagick in "Europe cannot rely on US protection, Pentagon chief tells NATO allies"

tacomagick — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:33:19 +0000

Come on people, this is no platform for flame wars.

New comment by tacomagick in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"

tacomagick — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:01:45 +0000

"As far as we know" is the most important part.

New comment by tacomagick in "Fair Pricing"

tacomagick — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:05:31 +0000

People see no tracking and just trust it nowadays? I'd much rather use a public SearX/NG instance than to trust something that claims to have no tracking and isn't open source. Same thing with DuckDuckGo.

New comment by tacomagick in "Predicting sex from retinal fundus photographs using deep learning (2021)"

tacomagick — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:00:29 +0000

Existance of the Y chromosome causes a major difference (gender, body shape, hormones etc.) so it's not surprising it causes minor differences too.

New comment by tacomagick in "NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers"

tacomagick — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:30:47 +0000

Do note IPv6 is still not supported everywhere yet.

New comment by tacomagick in "NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers"

tacomagick — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:29:44 +0000

Here I am also.

New comment by tacomagick in "NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers"

tacomagick — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:28:56 +0000

I don't see how this could prevent unsafe sites leaking credentials (Assuming unsecure == No TLS) as unencrypted data will be sent through the exit node to the web server. It does however help for wifi snooping.

New comment by tacomagick in "NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers"

tacomagick — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:25:11 +0000

I'm a user of Mullvad, I can get configurations for Wireguard and OpenVpn through my dashboard. This eliminates the possibility of being used as an exit node as I can read the wg config and see exactly what it does. I think other providers should do the same with their systems. It allows for high flexibility.

New comment by tacomagick in "NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers"

tacomagick — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:20:45 +0000

Steam has a feature for this where for supported games like Counter Strike 2 or Team Fortress 2, your connection will be routed through other players, or just people on your friends list depending on your settings.

New comment by tacomagick in "Badbox"

tacomagick — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:11:38 +0000

Is this present in big phone manufacturers like Samsung? (considering the phone has been sourced in an intended way)