News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

k33l0r

Re:Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:58AM (#47244859)
Other displays with Mac-compatible PPI densities that have come out since 2022:

- BenQ PD2730S (5K)

- BenQ MA270S (5K, Thunderbolt 4)

- Asus PA27JCV (5K)

- Acer ProCreator PE270XT (5K)

- Asus PA32QCV (6K)

- Acer ProCreator PE320QXT (6K)

Announced at CES, not yet for sale:

- MSI MPG 271KRAW16 (5K)

- MSI MAG 271KPD7 (5K)

Re: on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @06:42AM (#46869723)
I use my ISP's default DNS servers and have consistently gotten the CAPTCHA page for weeks now. The CAPTCHA seems to be broken too, rendering archive.today entirely inaccessible.
Re:UniFi 5G on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:20AM (#46158783)
The video shows it on a moving vehicle
An Apple TV or HomePod mini, if you want to stay within the Apple ecosystem…
Electricity contracts with 1-hour pricing are already pretty popular at least in Finland, even for consumers. I myself have one.

Plus large parts of Europe are currently transitioning to more granular 15-minute pricing: https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/trading/transition-to-15-mi...

You can still get fixed tariff electricity contracts but you'll end up paying a bit extra in return for greater predictability…

Re:Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower? on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:29PM (#44800205)
Slower and broken more often, a winning combination!
Anker is very bad at handling country/region redirects correctly. If you're not located in the region the link is pointing at, they'll just redirect you to the home page of whatever region they think you should be looking at.

This is really annoying when trying to find product information because, for example, the Anker Nordics site doesn't have product pages for all the products they sell in Europe, but they won't let you look at product pages from other regions without some VPN shenanigans.

Re:Japan Post launches 'digital address' system on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @07:19PM (#44121469)
The fundamental problem with deliveries is that you, as the recipient, are not the customer.

The merchant pays for thousands of deliveries, but you on the receiving end are at best getting a handful.

So the courier is incentivised to offer the best rates to the merchant while completely ignoring the requirements or preferences of the recipient.

Your only recourse is to complain to the shop, who might do something if the volume of complaints is high enough, but most likely they’ll just pass the buck to the courier…

Re:A M.2 HDMI capture card on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @03:53AM (#43759986)
I haven't used one myself, but I believe that something like a Blackmagic ATEM Mini should be able to do that (and much more).

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemmini

Re:The all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle on Thursday October 17, 2024 @03:43AM (#41867324)
I've found that Send to Kindle does a much worse job at converting to MOBI than Calibre, which is a bit ironic but on par with Amazon's overall treatment of non-Kindle books.
Re:Planlike.pro – New Estimating Tool on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:06AM (#34881297)
Lying about testimonials is worse than no testimonials.

FWIW, the quotes may be real but the photos not. Either way dishonesty is not a good way to start a business relationship…

Re:UPS and the Package Wars on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:46AM (#34322911)
It's the same in Finland. There was a big blow up about it a few months ago when someone's Twitter thread[1] about it blew up online and, eventually, in the local media[2].

The drivers are given utterly unrealistic quotas and there's appears to be little incentive for packages to actually get delivered. There's also no way for a consumer to escalate delivery issues to anyone who'd actually be empowered to fix mistakes.

[1]: https://twitter.com/MikkiHEL/status/1549027653906272257 (be warned, it's a thread with hundreds of tweets. In English, though)

[2]: https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/art-2000008955913.html (in Finnish)

And they're very possibly sharing chat metadata with Russian intelligence services https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/russia-is-spying-on-telegr...
I was pretty surprised to learn that my 2021 OLED TV only has a 10/100 ethernet port. Apparently previous models had USB 3.0 ports so you could workaround it by adding a USB gigabit ethernet adapter but in newer models they've reverted back to USB 2.0 ports, for whatever reason.
Re:Demystifying USB-C and Thunderbolt Docks (2017) on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:39AM (#29482431)
Even a $7 AmazonBasics HDMI cable has Ethernet support (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014I8SSD0), not that this really matters since hardly any devices ever supported Ethernet over HDMI.

Also, Ethernet over HDMI is limited to 100 Mbit/s which would make it slower than most modern Wi-Fi networks (leaving aside any possible reliability issues).

Re:How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:59AM (#28286132)
Ah yes, the Ident-i-Eeze card from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy…

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/92742

Re:Brave, the false sensation of privacy on Friday June 18, 2021 @09:09AM (#27549886)
I tried out Edge for about 15 minutes but had to bail because of the amount of Bing and MSN nonsense embedded in the browser…
Re:Still Why No HTTPS? on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:44AM (#21811818)
There are some other confusing ones as well.

nature.com is marked as Chinese, as are nginx.org and ntp.org.

example.com is Indian in the list as is the now defunct dmoz.org.

I don't understand the methodology behind the country assignments at all…

They’ll cancel it over email if you’re insistent enough, or at least they did for me.
Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:24AM (#16357525)
According to Wikipedia “the French Département du Déminage (Department of Mine Clearance) recovers about 900 tons of unexploded munitions every year”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest

Older »