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chmars

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Aviation and technology enthusiast living mostly in German-speaking Western Europe
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chmars··on DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'
There is no such ban at DEF CON. They only ban smart glasses etc. «that can record audio or video with no consistent way to understand if they're recording or not».

Meta smart glasses in particular are known for their LED.

So DEF CON has restrictions for photography, but as long as you do not hide your smart glasses' activity LED, you can just walk around and record everything as audio and video?

Full text at https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-photo-policy.html:

«Smart glasses and other devices that can record audio or video with no consistent way to understand if they're recording or not, are prohibited at DEF CON, they erode trust and invade people's privacy.»

(Last paragraph. The other paragraphs refer to photography.)

chmars··on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
Same here.
chmars··on Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production
How is this different from Auphonic?

https://auphonic.com/features

chmars··on A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
It’s about 12 weeks in Germany:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4dc8

chmars··on Telegram raises $210M through bond sales
They have never had a domicile in Germany. In Dubai, there is basically an empty office room used as their domicile.
chmars··on ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance
How do you use Tresorit for backup?
chmars··on Rogue antibody and mystery pathogen behind AstraZeneca blood clots: study
Sub-Saharan Africa has of course also suffered greatly from SARS-CoV-2, they just have not the means to count their cases. SARS-CoV-2 does not behave differently in Africa than in other regions of the world, especially not in low-vaccination (or even no-vaccination) countries.

«Rather than an ‹African paradox,› the far simpler explanation is that COVID-19 has affected African countries just as the virus has everywhere else, but has gone undocumented.»

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/morgue-data-reveal...

In countries with a younger population, less deaths from acute COVID-19 are expected, although the number of additional direct deaths from COVID-19 is still substantial. The disease burden burden, i.e., morbidity, also remains high, maybe even more given the sub-par health infrastructure.

chmars··on Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?
Do you have a source for those 'silly teams'?
chmars··on Taking a Look at Mastodon
'I can actually see content from people I follow'?

On your home page, click on the star icon in the upper right corner and choose 'See latest Tweets instead'.

chmars··on How I would start my next startup in Germany without a GmbH (2020)
According to German law, executives can be held responsible anyway …
chmars··on Reverse engineering Xiaomi air purifier NFC stickers
In automatic mode, different ppm level should result in higher fan speeds. That is at least the case with my filters. Cooking for example can be a trigger.

You are of course right that automatic mode does not do much. At the same time, higher fan speeds are noticeable (and annoying).

chmars··on Reverse engineering Xiaomi air purifier NFC stickers
The filter durability is time-based in my experience:

I set up several air purifiers at the same time in December 2021 but used them in different areas, i.e., with different filter loads. The air purifiers ran 24/7 and mostly in automatic mode, except for some hours after known possible coronavirus exposures.

Official end of filter life was reached after about five months and for all filters on the same day. The air purifiers are still running tough, that's a plus!

Xiaomi recommends to replace filters every 6 to 12 months. The recommendation, however, is based on the use in polluted Asian cities, I guess. We have rather clean air here. I therefore assume that it is safe to use the filter for an additional few months.

chmars··on Insect Hotel
A company in Switzerland has an interesting business model:

You buy a bee hotel (or bee hotels). They provide you with a tube containing a few fresh bee larvae every year before the wild bee season. After the season, you return the filled tubes. They remove parasites etc. and sell the resulting bee larvae for their commercial business with farmers etc. The biannual exchange is free. There is also minimal gamification because you can compare your success with other bee hotel owners from the same company.

https://fr.wildbieneundpartner.ch/ (in French)

chmars··on Five dead as Romanian MIG disappears, and helicopter sent to find it crashes
Romania is a former member of the Warsaw Pact and has therefore still MIGs in service.
chmars··on Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation
Why does a website need to know my zoom level, i.e., why is this information even made available?
chmars··on Philips LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy
I found some similar looking LED offers by Migros, the largest (or second largest) retail chain in Switzerland:

https://produkte.migros.ch/osram-led-special-t26-25-2700k-e1...

https://produkte.migros.ch/osram-led-special-t26-40-2700k-e1...

https://produkte.migros.ch/osram-led-retrofit-clas-a-60-e27

chmars··on Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store
I’m wondering which legal entity has filed the complaint. Telegram has always been reluctant to provide transparency on its ownership and the legal entities in charge.
chmars··on Google Cloud Issue Summary [pdf]
'On June 30, Google's email delivery service was targeted in what we believe was an attempt to bypass spam classification.'
chmars··on Apple Acquires Fleetsmith
Yep … but someone had (and has) to run the necessary services …
chmars··on Apple Acquires Fleetsmith
Most of the features are gone, i.e., support for third-party applications …
chmars··on Apple Acquires Fleetsmith
That sounds great, however, 'just launched' doesn't sound too promising.

In addition, I'm not sure whether you are GDPR-compliant as claimed at https://jumpcloud.com/gdpr. Where's your Privacy Shield certification and who's your EU representative according to art. 27 GDPR?

chmars··on Apple Acquires Fleetsmith
Wow, without third-party apps, FS has become mostly useless.

That's a lot of pain for admins, especially in a SME environment where I'm not aware of any viable alternatives …

chmars··on Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread
Testing is very limited in many countries. In Switzerland for example, testing is only done for very limited groups of persons with severe and for some medical staff. Broad testing never took place.
chmars··on Covid-19: Infection Biology Lecture by Prof. Marcel Salathé, EPFL, Switzerland
Summary on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coronavirus-what-facts-ks%C3%...

chmars··on Covid-19: Infection Biology Lecture by Prof. Marcel Salathé, EPFL, Switzerland
Interview with Prof. Salathé:

“We need to buy time for a vaccine against the coronavirus"

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/we-need-to-buy-time-for-a-vaccine-...

chmars··on OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
Be careful with using Little Snitch etc.:

'Predictably, online discussions about problems with app translocation and Little Snitch usually recommend stripping quarantine flags, and from what I can see, this has become quite widespread practice. Yet – just as in the blog article – no one seems to be concerned that what they are doing is bypassing macOS’s primary security defences.'

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/01/26/last-week-on-my-mac-when...

chmars··on Prevent mail to Gmail users from being blocked or sent to spam
Found on Twitter:

'We've updated our guidelines to help ensure your messages are delivered to #gmail users’ inbox. Using these methods reduces the possibility that your messages will be marked as spam, or blocked by Gmail.'

https://twitter.com/gmail/status/1222592248199745537

chmars··on Incident: Wizz Air and Air Europa Planes in Near Collision over Spain
It’s usually written NM.
chmars··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
That’s vault sharing, not password sharing.
chmars··on iPadOS review: The iPad is dead, long live the iPad
Same on iOS. I would have to pay around 20 USD / month for YouTube Premium.
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