machrider
Re:Video Encoding Requires Using Your Eyes
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:39PM (#43223953)
Appreciate this, I was feeling the same way as the original comment. It looks maybe over-sharpened, but I don't see anything as glaring as the text of the article makes it sound! (Of course, I'm not a video codec developer.)
It does remind me of how stereo & speaker manufacturers sometimes boost treble a little bit (rather than being perfectly "transparent" to the original signal) because it gives the impression of clarity. But ideally each step in the processing chain "colors" the signal as little as possible, because those little differences can add up.
Re:The “smolnet”, build for friends and friends of friends
on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:47AM (#36294458)
One thing I've worried about with self-hosting small (or smol) services is that I'm responsible for securing them against attackers. Even if my circle is 15 people using a particular service, potentially thousands of malicious actors will be poking at it over the months and years I'm running it.
I'm a big fan of self-hosting, especially things that I can run inside my home with no internet-facing ports. But anything that will be outward facing has to be sandboxed from everything else, kept up to date, and monitored for intrusions. It can be daunting unless you definitely have time to stay on top of it. I'm curious if any self-hosters have thoughts about this.
Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me?
on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:54PM (#35489205)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659191/amazon-sidewalk-...
I mean, bandwidth doesn't really matter if we're talking about whether the device is sending home private information about what content you watch. It doesn't need to stream video back to Samsung to be basically malware.
Re:Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”
on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:34AM (#34011833)
This is exactly like that time on TNG they used random phaser settings to get a single shot on a Borg drone before they blocked it
Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about undefined behavior
on Monday November 28, 2022 @08:58AM (#33773697)
I guess the thing about dragons was true; it's not mentioned in this list.
Re:Cool desktops don’t change
on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:42PM (#31770746)
I'm liking vimwiki, for what it's worth. It feels like a pretty small set of changes to vim that make the wiki stuff "just work", and otherwise it's my regular ass plaintext world that I love.
Re:An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking
on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:20AM (#30298622)
There's an open source app that does it, AirGuard: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.seemoo.at_t...
So I don't think it's a technical limitation.
Re:Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
on Sunday September 26, 2021 @06:05PM (#28665085)
I'm running Jellyfin on a recent Intel-based Synology (they also have cheaper ARM CPU models), and it can transcode H.265->H.264 on the fly using about 50% CPU. It also runs in a Docker container so it's pretty easy to manage. I'm a big fan!
Re:Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
on Monday February 08, 2021 @10:49AM (#26066075)
I just tried the camera app with a QR code (on a Pixel 5) and nothing happened.
Re:Whose Computer Is It?
on Thursday October 22, 2020 @04:30PM (#24862964)
It's funny how the end user isn't even in the list.
Re:The Open Goldberg Variations
on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:25AM (#23625880)
If you like this sort of thing, you should also check out the Netherlands Bach Society [1] on Youtube. They've been producing incredible renditions of Bach works and sharing them freely for a while.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2kF6qdHRTM_hDYfEmzkS9w
Re:How Not to Learn Cryptography (2014)
on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:37AM (#23389301)
I was really amused by this. Also if you try to visit over HTTPS, it serves up an expired certificate.
Re:New boson appears in nuclear decay, could break standard model if c...
on Friday December 20, 2019 @03:37PM (#21847186)
The Higgs boson was expected though, while this claimed boson is not predicted by the model at all?
Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record...
on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:20PM (#20670600)
Do you think he would notice if the test machine downloaded a ~100MB file from the web?
Re:Engineers in San Francisco Have Mediocre Take Home Pay
on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:42PM (#14984026)
The cost of living is about to skyrocket in Seattle, if I had to guess.
Re:Factoring may be easier than we think
on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @06:53PM (#12355863)
There are crypto functions that are not amenable to quick solutions with quantum computers, right? Is there any reason why we wouldn't start migrating to those functions today? It seems foolish to wait until technology matures and present-day crypto is completely invalidated before we react defensively. Is anyone working on this?
Re:Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate
on Saturday August 06, 2016 @06:34PM (#12240202)
The problem with noise is that your signal has to be bigger than the noise in order to be intelligible. Preferably you'd find a channel with less noise, not more.
Re:The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain
on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:00PM (#11880449)
They should have said "Cadillac" here, based on the table. It's a mistake.
Re:Are Your Taxes Paying for the Cost of Your Street?
on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:23PM (#11639759)
For one thing, you can safely go a lot faster on asphalt than on dirt while still being able to round corners and come to a stop.
Re:Uncanny Valley
on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:52PM (#11586302)
I got an "error connecting to the database" type of message. I think the entire site was having trouble with the HN traffic spike.
Re:Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revela...
on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:42PM (#11586267)
> My conclusion, traffic is probably changing due to what is in the news rather than anything else.
I appreciate you throwing some data for a few keywords together in your comment, but you'll excuse me if I lean toward trusting the published paper instead.
FWIW, paper is downloadable here (at least, for now): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2769645
Re:Uncanny Valley
on Monday April 25, 2016 @10:35PM (#11569047)
Re:Glittering Blue
on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:14PM (#10977776)
Black screen here, too (although the loading text went from 0 to 100%) on Firefox 44 on Windows 7.
Re:TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain
on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:18AM (#10538304)
What the hell is the justification for the document being secret, anyway?
Re:The 16-bit v/s 8-bit Blind Listening Test, Part 2
on Monday November 09, 2015 @02:40PM (#10535284)
I think it's sarcastic. Elsewhere he says unless you get 9 or more correct, you probably can't tell.
Re:The XY Problem
on Friday August 07, 2015 @02:41PM (#10024181)
This behavior used to be common in IRC, where there are really no consequences for being a dick. In IRC, my experience was generally: ask question, spend 5 minutes justifying why it's a reasonable question to ask, then maybe (or maybe not) get an answer.
I think StackOverflow does a pretty good job of incentivizing people to give helpful answers, so I haven't seen this behavior as much there. Even when the person asking has flawed assumptions, the answers tend to steer them politely in a better direction.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @03:22PM (#9814478)
Goodreads | San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and Seattle | Engineering full-time
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We are hiring engineers for several parts of our site, including our UX, Back End, iOS, Community, Android, Authors, and Social Reader teams.
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Re:Project Fi Review: Cell Service from Google
on Monday June 29, 2015 @12:54PM (#9799273)
That makes sense. I'm also curious about data though. Unless they tunnel all your traffic through a VPN, you just have to hope your apps and web sites are using https correctly. (And if they did tunnel all traffic through Google servers, it would raise a different set of concerns...)
Re:Project Fi Review: Cell Service from Google
on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:01AM (#9797054)
Any idea if they're layering any additional security onto the unsecured WiFi connections it seems to prefer? (attwifi, xfinitywifi, etc. are all unencrypted, and I personally only use them in very limited ways for that reason.)