Time for a piece of tape over the camera lenses, with this 'Always sensing' technology?
Posts by TheRealRoland
771 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jul 2009
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera
The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?
Re: Rebranded Mail & Calendar
I remember the multiple sessions with colleagues on helping them uninstall the OneNote 2016 'app' and finding and installing the actual proper OneNote 2016 application. Biggest easy-to-identify-which-version difference between the two was that in the 'app' version you can't email a OneNote page to the attendees.
Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts
Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries
Raspberry Pi on IPO plans: 'We want to be ready when the markets are ready'
Re: Pi 4 vs 5
The only reason i started looking into this is that i installed a couple of Roku devices. And it turned out that the Roku Media Player is very limited in what it can play when streaming. Sure, i can install a media server like Kodi onto the tv directly, but then I'd have to do that on every tv i want to watch stuff. So, i thought, Media Servers allow uPnP. Well the Roku played some more stuff than before, but now i would not be able to fast forward :D
So i remuxed MP4 into MKV. Fast Forwarding works, but now Roku doesn't show the subtitles. Apparently not possible at all w Roku and MKV.
Sigh :D
Re: Pi 4 vs 5
For me, the biggest issue I had with audio/video sync is that the original dvd was copied using variable framerate. Once i set the extraction to constant frame rate, that problem went away. The out-of-syncness happened on all mediaplayers, so i know it was not a system / infra issue.
I'm just running into limited bandwidth now. Am using those power internet adapters for some of the streaming devices - they work, but sometimes the network in the home gets crowded.
Re: Pi 4 vs 5
While i could run some of this stuff combined - i have Pi4s running NextPVR, OpenMediaVault and some plane trackers. Another one runs Moode / is used for tinkering; and a Pi3b waiting for some repurposing. I have a telescope and goto-mount that i can attach this to, to control it remotely :D
The pandemic, you know...
Re: Pi 4 vs 5
I got it running Handbrake, an external cd drive, the red/white housing with fan, but using a 3A power supply. I had to disable the switch to not limit the current to the USB ports and the thing runs like a champ :-)
Currenty ripping my Blakes 7 set - alongside a iMac from 2007. The thing converts twice as many fps as the iMac :D
Gonna see what a Pi4 does, over the weekend, perhaps.
Drivers: We'll take that plain dumb car over a flashy data-spilling internet one, thanks
Re: 3G cars?
The 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee I drive used to use 3G, which has been switched off here in the US, so no more connected stuff. Bought the car in 2018, never used the connected stuff anyways. It did phone home to the mothership with some OTA updates, which also could have been installed via USB instead.
Welcome to 2024: Volkswagen really is putting ChatGPT into cars as a gabby copilot
UK officials caught napping ahead of 2G and 3G doomsday
NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish
Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output
FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today
Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army
How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'
Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase
Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons
First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online
AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian
MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water
Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023
US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation'
Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner
Marketing company chases Twitter for $7,000 over 'swag gift box for Elon'
Fossil brain undoes 350 million years of scientific understanding
James Webb Space Telescope suffers another hitch: Instrument down
San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots
FCC gives SpaceX OK to launch 7.5k Gen2 Starlink satellites
San Francisco lawmakers approve lethal robots – but they can't carry guns
News article, soon, i'm sure.
"We sent in the robot, armed with guns. Upon entering the premises, we lost contact with the robot, which switched over into its automation mode, and due to a glitch in the programming, fired indiscriminately into the group of hostages. We're looking at additional training for the operators to not have this happen anymore." - spox, SFPD
Intruders get their hands on user data in LastPass incident
Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot
The all liquid-cooled colo facility rush has begun
Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset
Catching a falling rocket with a helicopter more complex than it sounds, says Rocket Lab
Had to scroll way too far down for this...
@imanidiot - "Probably not. The Corona program catching returning film capsules from spy sats needed the cargo aircraft (They also used C-119s, C-123s and some other aircraft beside Hercs iirc) "
Some nice reading material - https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/corona/StarCatchersWeb.pdf
The National Museum of the US Airforce in Dayton, OH has a nice exhibit about this as well.