* Posts by TheRealRoland

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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera

TheRealRoland
WTF?

Time for a piece of tape over the camera lenses, with this 'Always sensing' technology?

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

TheRealRoland
Unhappy

Re: Total confusion

If you're up for some frustration - look into how MS Project, MS Project Online, and Planner are being positioned. Or however they call their products now.

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Unhappy

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.

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Unhappy

It's already here...

Don't know during what version this was removed, but you no longer can copy/paste a meeting invite. The classic Outlook UI even shows a message telling you along those lines.

Yes, i know about making meetings recurring. Not the same for me.

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

TheRealRoland
Unhappy

Re: Major major cock-up

No, the word is debris.

Aircraft rivet hole issues cause delays to Boeing 737 Max deliveries

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Coat

Re: Reap what you sow

Does a rocket fly if it doesn't have wings?

Raspberry Pi on IPO plans: 'We want to be ready when the markets are ready'

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Devil

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

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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.

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Terminator

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...

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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

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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.

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Terminator

That, and touchscreens and 'haptic' buttons. Really keeping me driving my old Jeep, with just the wind-down windows.

ETA: a clothes dryer connected to someone's wireless network, generating out 3.5 GB of data a day ?!

Are you listening, manufacturers?

Welcome to 2024: Volkswagen really is putting ChatGPT into cars as a gabby copilot

TheRealRoland
Terminator

"Ha! See? Told you. Should have turned left back there. But nooo..." - nag system powered by AI

UK officials caught napping ahead of 2G and 3G doomsday

TheRealRoland
Devil

Re: Going to be awkward

JTL instead of JIT?

(Just Too Late vs Just In Time?)

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

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Coat

Re: A repeating pattern of ones and zeroes

Shirley you mean "101010" ?

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Angel

Re: Petunias

One '1' for No, two '1' for Yes.

I don't get it? They're all 'No', sir?!

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Devil

Re: Have they tried

I'm sure we can have some focus group sit together, funded by some venture capitalists, just for this purpose. Where do i send the bill to?

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished

TheRealRoland
Devil

Re: A future who me?

Instead they opened a window for some fresh air. "Fresh air never killed anyone", someone overheard a staffer say.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output

TheRealRoland
Angel

"Breakdown of communications"...

Always set your out-of-office message, people!

FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today

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Re: Can't turn it off

Weird - i had the sound all the way down, the message showed on the phone, but other than that, meh? Bigger things to worry about than 'the government putting messages on my phone'.

Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army

TheRealRoland
Terminator

Re: No, thank you for the offer ..

"Eh, i always wait until they run out of ammo, then they're easier to maintain."

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Happy

Happy Skynet Judgment Day

Perfect news for such an occasion...

How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'

TheRealRoland
Devil

Re: We had a similar incident

In the 80s a documentary was made about what can go wrong with lifts...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lift

Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase

TheRealRoland
Happy

You're new around here? The phrase is

"Playmobil, or it didn't happen."

Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons

TheRealRoland
Devil

Re: dies poetae

>regular almost compulsory event in 2970s London

Posted this on a friday afternoon, did ya?

First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online

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Angel

Re: ROI?

Agile, baby!

AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian

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FAIL

Re: Yes, but....

Case in point: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/03/millennium-tower-san-francisco-keeps-sinking-repair-project-halted/5716514001/

MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water

TheRealRoland
Coat

Those are some concrete examples of what is what, well-cemented in everyday language.

Sorry, all i could come up with, this early.

TheRealRoland
Devil

"Don't lick the foundation!"

see icon -->

Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

TheRealRoland
Devil

Re: XP was great

Shirley, 4.1518 hundredweight you mean?

US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation'

TheRealRoland
Angel

Yes, it wasn't real, but...

Wouldn't it be scary if it was?

Also, so historic Djinns were perhaps proto-AIs? *insert it was aliens meme*

Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner

TheRealRoland
Happy

Buy that lottery ticket when it happens again ;-)

Marketing company chases Twitter for $7,000 over 'swag gift box for Elon'

TheRealRoland
Coat

Re: Elon

i like wontons.

Fossil brain undoes 350 million years of scientific understanding

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Coat

Re: Conclusion....

That gas station sushi looks better and better...

James Webb Space Telescope suffers another hitch: Instrument down

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Coat

Akshually - the AP thought it would have been derogatory -- The French, The Eggheads...

Oh, the Horrors!

San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots

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I would be scared of that as well, since he's been dead since, what, April 2021? Also, "Air Offense", I would think.

FCC gives SpaceX OK to launch 7.5k Gen2 Starlink satellites

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Re: Smaller batches

The article states that the satellites are too heavy to launch - and provides a link to an earlier article that goes into more details. Not every article needs to repeat all details of a previous article.

San Francisco lawmakers approve lethal robots – but they can't carry guns

TheRealRoland
WTF?

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

TheRealRoland
Devil

Until they're not...

>credentials are safely encrypted

Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot

TheRealRoland
Devil

That's a problem to be sorted out in the second iteration, after this all has been put into place, with 'adequate' testing

"What? Oh that? Wasn't a use case so we didn't test against that. Good, moving on."

The all liquid-cooled colo facility rush has begun

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Happy

Mandatory scuba classes for new hires?

Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset

TheRealRoland
WTF?

He seems to be in a good head space.

Catching a falling rocket with a helicopter more complex than it sounds, says Rocket Lab

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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.

Want to crawl inside a nuke plant swinging a hammer? No? Toshiba's inspection bots will do it instead

TheRealRoland
Headmaster

But will it be able to do the 'Huh... That's funny.' thing, while buzzing around?

Physics Nobel Prize in a superposition between three quantum physicists

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Boffin

Re: Measuring a property does not set it...

You feel you deserved the prize, didn't you?

Ever suspected bankers used WhatsApp comms at work? $1.8b says you're right

TheRealRoland
Devil

This is my surprised and shocked face ->

Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms

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FAIL

Funny... The series "Girls who Cook", on the other hand...

No comment... None needed.

Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch

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Coat

Re: King Andrew in the hot seat

"Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, on this list, with my reputation? What are they thinking?"

Asus packs 12-core Intel i7 into a Raspberry Pi-sized board

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Re: Register unit of computing power

*Taps the sign* https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

Perhaps this is in need of an update?

Microsoft mistakenly rated Chromium, Electron as malware

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Devil

Re: Mistakenly?

"Nurse! He got to the computer again!"

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