Posts by SimonP

TikTok tops Google to win Cloudflare’s 2021 traffic ratings

Not popular, just chatty

I use a third-party DNS to block all manner of nasties, and after installing the tiktok app on my phone, opening it once and never touching it again, it was comfortably the most common DNS query run out of my (fairly techy, four-person, smarthome gear, WFH full time) home network.

I blocked it from using background data, which helped enormously, but it was still managing to squeak out some traffic, somehow.

I put it to you, Cloudflare, that what you have here is a ranking of the most inefficiently (deceptively?) written apps...

Calm a CARMA drama chameleon: Barça super waves ARMs, GPUs

Headline WIN

"Calm a CARMA drama chameleon"

Oh, very well done indeed!

Boffins build eye-controlled interface out of game-console cams

Prior Art?

The 3D stuff is new, but some graffiti artists did this about 3 years ago, and posted an instructable:

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-EyeWriter/

Shame it never got the publicity it deserves - I'm sure there are thousands of lives that could be transformed by this tech.

Captain Cyborg sidekick implants virus-infected chip

I have a cold...

..and just sneezed on my computer.

I hope McAfee's DAT files are up to date, or I'll lose all my documents!

UK cops eye shotgun cartridge Taser

Better name?

Surely, rather than the bit-of-a-mouthful TASER XREP, a simple change from 'eXtended Range Electronic Projectile' to 'Extended Range Electronic pRojectile' gives us the far more pleasing:

TASER-ERER

Also sounds a bit more friendly, I think.

That'll be £25k please, TASER marketing dept. - just pop it behind the hot water pipes, third washroom along, Victoria Station - thanks!