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bestham··on Online Collection of Keygen Music
Aryx.s3m 21 kiB of magic.
bestham··on ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
I’m for a Awesome ACM in the style of the original https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
bestham··on Show HN: Windows 7 GUI for the web
For me more about 2000 than XP. 2000 still felt like a Workstation OS and it was very responsive. XP themeing was the first thing I removed once I could not continue on 2000.
bestham··on Pimping My Casio: Part Deux
I love my JDM Oceanus S100. It is one of only a few watch movements where all hands are individually controllable by their own motor. As you move the crown you select different time zones and the hands spin whatever direction is closest to indicate correct time for the new time zone. It is magical. Also the way all hands magically snap in place when you take the watch out of dark store. 10/10 would buy again. (the steel series does not have this movement).
bestham··on The Italian towns selling houses for €1
The “human heater” was literally a mock idea for a competition in the sitcom Silicon Valley. The jury canned it. https://youtu.be/Di3fPj0pUbQ
bestham··on EU Commission makes available age verification blueprint
It’s a very interesting take that you are more concerned about the output of these individuals than what this means for their mental health to be present on social media. To have access to the brains of their users before they are legal users could potentially be a gold mine.
bestham··on 'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'
I would love to see what innovation could happen if privacy and sustainability was paramount in tech. That the user of the product or service was not the product to be sold or mined. There are only a handful of companies worldwide with that ethos. Many of them are not European. As a European I fully support the regulation of US tech in the EU. We are using US tech, but it has some inherit fundamental humans rights and competition problems that EU regulators want to address. I do not expect that EU will become innovative in a way to compete with US or Asia.
bestham··on Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
It doesn’t have to be reproduce with real data.
bestham··on Sendkeys: Command line tool for automating keystrokes and mouse events on macOS
Apple Script is a programming language and you have full control flow at your disposal to wait and branch as needed.
bestham··on Framework Laptop 12 review
Perhaps they dropped their laptop from great height? Something would render a conventional MacBook a write off. You cannot know that led to the repairs. Only that they were successful.
bestham··on A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface (2022)
Just burn a QR-code.
bestham··on What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?
Then you learned your mistake and assumed that nibbles in FastTrackerII was coded into a module. Computers are hard.
bestham··on The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia
A good idea is an idea that possible to turn into reality, else it is just an idea.
bestham··on What went wrong with wireless USB
Instead of talking about the fundamentals like Fourier transforms, Shannon/Nyquist and wave propagation i usually refer to human speech: how increasing the rate of speech (signalling rate) comes with 1) substantial reduction in transmitting distance as the environment affects signal quality and 2) places a higher burden on error correction (interpretation of language) that is independent of the actual ability for the transmitter to create the faster speech.
bestham··on .localhost Domains
There is also mkcert by Filippo Valsorda (no relation to mkcert.org) at https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
bestham··on Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock
Is it really true that the phone must be passively listening? The field of the payment terminal will induce current in the NFC-coil and that should be able to wake the phone as necessary.
bestham··on Video encoding requires using your eyes
That is true. But why would you replace a simple known to be working filter with this thing that yields worse performance? There are no upsides to this, and that is why the domain expert is baffled. We have been making filters like this for a long time, it is known how they should be evaluated and yet this thing is still touted as state of the art but its creators. If the image quality is lower with this filter and you say that is does not matter then the quality of the stream is to high. This filter is not going to solve that.
bestham··on Video encoding requires using your eyes
That is the exact same phenomenon. Artificial sharpening is introducing high bandwidth components to a signal. If you bandwidth limit (low pass) a signal to fit below the Shannon-Nyquist limit you will get ringing as the signal cannot be represented accurately and will smear in the time domain. Given a bandwidth constraint, artificial sharpening above a certain threshold will result in ringing.
bestham··on Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost
I guess Tailscale or Mullvad should consider hosting you.
bestham··on OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web
This begs the question; Is stills still how people use Wikipedia?
bestham··on It's time to make computing personal again
Due to the way iOS apps are sandboxed together with their user created content a lot of users have video projects that are locked into CapCut without an easy way to access them following the ban of the TikTok suite of apps. Remind me how your iPhone is yours, when your creations on your device can be locked away from you.
bestham··on Ask HN: Seeking device to normalize audio output for consistent volume levels
VLC used to have a built-in compressor as a plugin by default. Try it and see what you think.
bestham··on Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025
You can buy a LG compatible remote on Amazon for $ 10-20 with a pause button that will most certainly work. The codes are still being interpreted, just that they removed or repurposed the physical button on the remote. My kid destroy LG remotes on a yearly basis and I have purchased the cheap one (non magic wand or whatever they call the Wii like experience). It does what I need it to do. Change the brightness, input, channel and volume as well as HDMI-Arc play pause.
bestham··on Keeping a Changelog at Work (2020)
No, IIRC Apple Intelligence does not make such claims. It can keep context within interactions and know about information in some of your silos. Recall has a much bolder feature set in that it wants to beware on everything you see on your screen.
bestham··on Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked
Due to the VoLTE end-ro-end encryption from your phone (UE) to the home operator, some countries (at least Sweden) will force downgrade inroaming users to circuit switched voice (2G/3G) in order to do lawful intercept (LI).
bestham··on Laptop Ports: Is USB-C only fine, or should I get HDMI,USB,Audio if I need them?
USB-C IS DisplayPort (among other things). You can get from USB-C to DP "passively", just by signalling the right thing to the USB-C port. The mode is called Alt-Mode and gives you DisplayPort and USB2 or USB3 speeds as a side channel (depending on the amount of bandwidth consumed by the DisplayPort stream). Barring that, some USB-C docks rely on a USB data stream (DisplayLink) and not a DisplayPort stream. Avoid these.
bestham··on Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine
Pumping losses are greater in a Otto cycle engine due to the increased resistance in compressing the whole stroke. In an Atkinson-cycle you get a longer power stoke than compression stroke and thus are more efficient. There is always another cylinder that get does i take during the short time when valve is open during compression in another cylinder. Thus that cylinder get some free assistance during intake.
bestham··on My Homelab Setup
The engineer that stole the data should have needed to collaborate with at least one peer to exfiltrate it. There should be no way for any individual to take this data and clear himself from the audit logs. Segregation of duties in this instance should have made it possible to detect the event quicker and attribute it to this particular employee.
bestham··on My Homelab Setup
The gist is that as long as your business model is collecting certain data that can be used to identify individuals you must cater for the insider threat and for instance implement segregation of duties. When you do not manage the risk of the data you’re collecting that’s when you end up together with ubiquity.
bestham··on My Homelab Setup
IMO this should have been included in their threat model. The only way to exclude yourself from insider threats is if insiders cannot possibly become threats.
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