MarioMan

Self-signing outside of the developer program lasts for 7 days. Historically, it used to last for a month. If you are part of the developer program, self-signing lasts for one year.

I've been wondering how one could efficiently and reliably pack arbitrary data into YouTube videos, a hacky way to get free and obfuscated data storage. Streaming QR codes has been the most promising way I can think of, particularly since they offer resilience against YouTube's video re-encoding process and are standardized for far larger codes, which could be easily fit in a video for later parsing out by a tool. You could probably embed even greater data densities with a color QR solution too.

They can work as decent networked audio playback devices even with mute switch physically disconnecting the microphone.

tonymacx86 has maintained a recommended hardware list that gets regularly updated here: https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/building-a-customac-h...

Another useful guide from r/hackintosh lists hardware to avoid: https://dortania.github.io/Anti-Hackintosh-Buyers-Guide/

In case you or someone else may find this helpful, you can install Whited00r on older iOS devices like the iPod touch 1st gen to access AppTimeMachine, which gives you access to a community-contributed collection of legacy iOS apps.

http://www.whited00r.com/

It should be. Look at DraStic, for instance, a DS emulator which runs ARM code on Android. It's a fairly performant and accurate emulation option. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsemu.dras...

Now if you're talking about trying to run one of these emulators on an ARM build of Linux, you wouldn't see these performance improvements since their designs are optimized around x86 CPUs, not ARM.

Edit: Several far more informed comments than mine have mentioned that running on ARM is only one small piece of the performance coming from DraStic.

Parking spaces and roads average significantly larger in the states to accommodate pickup trucks, SUVs, etc. Americans love their big cars for the flexibility it affords.

On a related note, there used to be a site, https://twitch-tools.rootonline.de/, where you could find "uncategorized" streams with no game set. All sorts of strange broadcasts live there, from pirate sports casts to whole movies streamed to the most random garbage, but the owner took most of the site down after Twitch requested that they stop scraping the site (https://twitter.com/CommanderRoot/status/1250486976547106821). I haven't been able to find any alternative services that offer this. If anyone has such a service, I'd love to go surfing around the strange part of Twitch again.

They added a link to a Colab notebook. The upsampling takes most of that time, so if you're wiling to deal with a noisy and compressed sounding piece, it's actually very doable.

For those curious as I was, Windows 10 1903 or later made it harder to disable Cortana. It's no longer in Settings and now requires a change in the Group Policy Editor (available to Enterprise and Education editions) or adding a registry entry.

Yes, but Costco is known for their excellent return policy. They're an ideal target for this sort of scheme.

>As things are now, flagship games on the PS4/Xbox One struggle to stay at 30FPS, frequently dropping to 20FPS or less, without the option to reduce graphics quality or resolution PC gamers have.

Developers are doing what they can here, but the average game that has these sorts of drops is dealing with limited CPU resources, budgeted around a 30FPS target. Especially on consoles like Xbox One X (due to its powerful GPU but limited CPU), it becomes evident that, on average, resolution and graphics cuts have little effect on performance in these situations. The only mitigation is to build your game with a higher frame rate target in mind from the start, requiring serious compromises to things like simulation complexity, for instance.

PS5 and Xbox Series X have a good chance of pushing past this limit. Current generation consoles are using aged laptop-grade CPUs while the upcoming console generation features desktop-grade Zen 2 processors at surprisingly high clock rates.

I'm hoping this isn't a dumb question, but why does it matter that a public key is public-facing and unencrypted?

The concern is not a one-time conversion to MP3 but several generations of MP3s derived from each other, each one with more artifacts than the last. It's the same problem we experience with image compression. Lossy compression of a lossy source results in a lossier output. From a preservation point-of-view, it's best to have a lossless (perhaps compressed) copy and use that as a source for whatever arbitrary audio format we're using decades from now.

I share in these concerns. Tesla collects information during crashes but will not ordinarily release any of it directly to the owner of the vehicle[1].

All modern Teslas passively use the cameras outside of the vehicle to monitor your driving to compare and improve their own self-driving algorithms, which is part of the reason the hardware is present whether or not you paid for the upgrade[2].

There's also the problem of forced updates, where some updates (particularly safety updates) must be installed, whether you want them or not[3]. In an extreme case, such as the aftermath of the Tesla battery that caught fire in China, they are believed to have solved the problem by limiting the maximum charge of the battery in software, reducing range significantly for a minority of drivers[4].

In all of these cases, user-control is sorely lacking.

[1]:https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/tesla-blames-drivers-wh... [2]: https://medium.com/@trenteady/deepminds-ai-learned-to-play-s... [3]: https://www.wired.com/2012/09/tesla-over-the-air/ [4]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/4/20898741/tesla-cars-nhtsa...

Now I'm wondering if there are programmable lenses to provide basic, real-life filters at concerts and other events.

There is certainly a cultural aspect to it. Tom Scott's video on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtnD4jmCDQ

Not the same thing, but you reminded me of this since it's in a similar vein. Ben Eater went through the entire process of building a VGA "video card." Anyone with a basic understanding of logic circuits has enough background to understand it. Worth a watch. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqY3FMuMuRo

>OSX virtualization has a hard requirement for running on Mac hardware.

If you aren't a stickler for Apple's terms of service (if you're doing this for business purposes, I suggest you should be), you can use a tool called macOS unlocker to patch VMWare Workstation to run macOS VMs. Runs great, though all VMWare products can only render display output for macOS in software mode.

If it didn't before, it certainly does now.

"Though the CD-ROM drive was not currently working when it was found in 2009, it has since been repaired by Benjamin Heckendorn, a YouTube personality known for his console repair videos."

I can speak from personal experience that NVIDIA GPUs will use bilinear scaling on Windows to display non-native resolutions on displays that don't have built-in scalers. This isn't a rare situation either. As far as I know, every display with a G-SYNC module inherently does not support display-side scaling. Also worth noting, NVIDIA lets you choose whether to use their scaler or the display's scaler.

>But as far as I understand Tesla Superchargers are so superior to conventional charging in terms of speed that not having them available is a huge drawback to a Tesla owner.

That's highly dependent on your use-case. For the average driver, you install and use a level 2 charger at home every night and wake up to a full battery. Superchargers typically only come into play on long road trips, and you can still pay to use them outside of the complimentary charging they provide for new sales.

It's unlikely that the internal camera is used for data collection by Tesla. It's something they've put in the car to monitor passengers for their planned autonomous taxi service. Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1113977924947009536

Here are Tesla's data collection policies, which includes remote image and video clip collection: Telematics log data: To improve our vehicles and services for you, we may collect certain telematics data regarding the performance, usage, operation, and condition of your Tesla vehicle, including: vehicle identification number; speed information; odometer readings; battery use management information; battery charging history; electrical system functions; software version information; infotainment system data; safety-related data and camera images (including information regarding the vehicle’s SRS systems, braking and acceleration, security, e-brake, and accidents); short video clips of accidents; information regarding the use and operation of Autopilot, Summon, and other features; and other data to assist in identifying issues and analyzing the performance of the vehicle. We may collect such information either in person (such as during a service appointment) or via remote access. Source: https://www.tesla.com/about/legal

Waze has a feature called "Avoid difficult intersections" designed exactly for these situations. https://www.pcmag.com/news/waze-wants-to-help-you-avoid-diff...

If you release the summon button, the car comes to a stop. You are supposed to be able to see the car visually at all times so you can release the summon button and avoid problems.

The way I read it, it seems that only Takeout users were affected, on either end. Either way, this still needs to be made explicit for the sake of transparency.

I have to wonder why. I would expect that the technology and mitigations are fundamentally the same. Perhaps the difference is cultural.

They block you out after the first few profiles you view. Try a private browser and you can still see them.

These are excellent rules, but they’re useless without sites and journalists that follow them. Does anyone here have some recommendations worth reading?

>Google created Chrome, and bribed Mozilla with billions, to keep ad blocking from becoming a standard browser feature.

This caught my attention, as I haven't heard anything about this before. Do you have a source with more details on it specifically? All I see is that Google pays Mozilla to make Google Search the default search engine and pays Adblock Plus to whitelist their ads. I'm not seeing any sources indicating that Google paid Mozilla any money to keep ad blocking out of their standard feature set.