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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
However there were concerns (from the very guy who invented bluetooth) that bluetooth connectivity is not a good proxy for physical proximity.
Oh definitely. Signal can be good for nearly 10 meters or impossibly low at three inches. It's just as consistent as the reliability of Bluetooth itself...
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I've heard suggestions here (based on EU privacy rules limitations) that it can be done entirely without a central directory. If I remember correctly, random tokens can be distributed, and the fact specific tokens were 'contagious' can be communicated afterwards. I'm pretty sure you could also work the crypto such that the messages afterward are authenticated to who sent the token, without being able to correlate different tokens to the same sender. Probably by switching keypairs often.
However there were concerns (from the very guy who invented bluetooth) that bluetooth connectivity is not a good proxy for physical proximity.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I doubt chicken shit will make much of a difference. That particular night is celebrated with bonfires and getting drunk as fuck. A bit of fertilizer in the grass won't be much of a deterrent.
Pig shit is where it's at for proper stank. Though I think the citizens of Lund would take a dim view of such shenanigans from the politicians.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
However there were concerns (from the very guy who invented bluetooth) that bluetooth connectivity is not a good proxy for physical proximity.
Oh definitely. Signal can be good for nearly 10 meters or impossibly low at three inches. It's just as consistent as the reliability of Bluetooth itself...
Or zero, because you have it disabled. In the several years I've had my current phone, I've never found the need to use Bluetooth for anything.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
However there were concerns (from the very guy who invented bluetooth) that bluetooth connectivity is not a good proxy for physical proximity.
Oh definitely. Signal can be good for nearly 10 meters or impossibly low at three inches. It's just as consistent as the reliability of Bluetooth itself...
In my experience (which everybody claims is “wrong” and I should get better hardware, but it’s been consistent over a decade and everything I’ve tried) Bluetooth is some of the worst tech ever invented.
I was talking to my friend about this idea while we were on a bike trip and figured if it took the first ~10km for the stupid Fitbit on my wrist to connect to the phone in my pocket, it might not work particularly reliably to exchange tokens with passersby.But I also use ear phones with cables.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
But I also use ear phones with cables.
Ear what now?
Just play your music so the neighborhood can enjoy it, too.
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@boomzilla
Of course at your age, that still wouldn't be enough for you to hear it without your ear horn
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla
Of course at your age, that still wouldn't be enough for you to hear it without your ear hornI feel the music.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I feel the music.
That's not where you're supposed to connect the leads.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
However there were concerns (from the very guy who invented bluetooth) that bluetooth connectivity is not a good proxy for physical proximity.
Oh definitely. Signal can be good for nearly 10 meters or impossibly low at three inches. It's just as consistent as the reliability of Bluetooth itself...
Or zero, because you have it disabled. In the several years I've had my current phone, I've never found the need to use Bluetooth for anything.
One. My car. (Ok, I connect to fitbit once in a while, but that's not important)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla
Of course at your age, that still wouldn't be enough for you to hear it without your ear hornI feel the music.
But it doesn't last long. Especially when that car is speeding.
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I don't Rust, and I don't WinRT - but Huh.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Seems journalists are struggling to find non-CV things to write about...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
I don't Rust, and I don't WinRT
Microsoft does Rust quite a lot, so not too surprising, really.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Funny to write about it right now when the borders are closed, so no tourists can see it. I believe it's been there for quite some time too (the anniversary was last year; though checking since when exactly) so not really news either.
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Unless I have misread the article, this particular set of signs was just erected. Prompted at least in part by the 80% failure rate of the tests that they bought from China.
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Eels in the zoo are getting shy now that they're not seeing humans all day.
Do a video chat to help:
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Pig shit is where it's at for proper stank. Though I think the citizens of Lund would take a dim view of such shenanigans from the politicians.
That's what the pig shit is for.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Or zero, because you have it disabled. In the several years I've had my current phone, I've never found the need to use Bluetooth for anything.
I now use it for three things, and there was one thing that I used to use it for (but thankfully don't have to any more).
- Wireless earphones. It's rather nice to not have wires all over, but it's bloody frustrating to be unable to use it with my laptop…
- Wireless keyboard/touchpad. Because it's convenient to sometimes use a phone (or, more normally, a tablet) like a computer.
- Some remote controlled equipment.
- (Formerly.) Moving photos from a phone to a computer, where the phone was just a bit too crappy to move them by uploading to the cloud. This was a miserable way to do it, but it actually worked…
It's not useless, not at all, but you'd better not be expecting high bandwidth.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
blame Apple for being incompetent shit kickers; if my phone using run-of-the-mill Android can do it, why can't their expensive laptop OS do it?!
Nope. I don't have Apple hardware, but I do have a pair of headphones which are just as picky. It's ridiculous.
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@dkf Yes, but those are all cases where it is expected to be, too, and where it has remained as if by inertia, because apparently better wireless comms cannot be invented. What I cannot understand us that it was shit 15 years ago and it is the same kind of shit now, when the special interest group has made 10 iterations with all kinds of clever nonsense, and it still fails to see devices (until it suddenly sees neighbor's telly through the rebar concrete wall -- but not yours, which is three feet over there, or any other phone in 50m in a moving car -- but not yours, which is right over there), then fails to pair, then fails to connect, then moves bits at a speed of asthmatic chess player in a sauna. I get that ~2.4 GHz band creates a lot of interference. Well, then fuck off that band with the next standard...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Well, then fuck off that band with the next standard...
Alas, not possible. The majority of other bands are allocated to other uses by a mix of treaties and legislation. (At least now I've moved wifi onto the higher frequency 5GHz band for normal use I'm getting better bandwidth.)
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Well, then fuck off that band with the next standard...
Alas, not possible. The majority of other bands are allocated to other uses by a mix of treaties and legislation. (At least now I've moved wifi onto the higher frequency 5GHz band for normal use I'm getting better bandwidth.)
You're in luck! If I recall correctly They™ released the 6GHz range for unlicensed use!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Well, then fuck off that band with the next standard...
Alas, not possible. The majority of other bands are allocated to other uses by a mix of treaties and legislation. (At least now I've moved wifi onto the higher frequency 5GHz band for normal use I'm getting better bandwidth.)
But Wifi works (you might run into interference problems sometimes, but if it works it works) and Bluetooth doesn't. At least as a first order approximation.
Once I've entered the WPA key, I don't have to constantly reconnect, repair, restart, or other bullshit for two devices that are both less 1m apart to be able to see each other again.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I don't have to constantly reconnect, repair, restart, or other bullshit
Unless you're on crappy hotel WiFi (which I am very happy that I am not anymore). OTOH, you don't have to do that on crappy hotel WiFi either, because it still won't work even if you do constantly (try to) reconnect, repair, ...
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Bluetooth is Discourse of the wireless world. It's heavy, pain in the ass to get working, slow regardless of hardware thrown at it, but for some reason widely accepted and some people find it's just fucking dandy.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Unless I have misread the article, this particular set of signs was just erected. Prompted at least in part by the 80% failure rate of the tests that they bought from China.
I haven't seen anything in the local news about erecting new ones and there certainly were some since last year already.
The article is mixing three things that are certainly related in the greater scheme of things, but not directly:
- The signs, which were photographed and posted on twitter recently, but exist for some time already. They were also not erected by the Prague magistrate. According to local news I found they debuted on 19th September 2019 in Ostrava, moved through several other cities and ended in Prague on 17th November 2019 (the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution) for long-term installation.
- The general anti-Chinese sentiment of the Prague city council, which lasts basically since the last elections in 2018. It is, of course, in large part affected by local politics as the previous council was seen as climbing Chinese ass and so does the president.
- The recent statements by the Prague mayor regarding the medical supplies from china not being help but business and their poor quality. Which was in reaction to some ministers of the cabinet welcoming those supplies, so local politics involved again.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
unable to use it with my laptop…
I've got some inexpensive wireless earbuds (i had some button issues with my phone earlier) and they work just fine on my Macbook
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I've got some inexpensive wireless earbuds (i had some button issues with my phone earlier) and they work just fine on my Macbook
I suspect that the OS was deciding that these earbuds definitely had to support some Apple-specific Bluetooth profile, then finding out that no they didn't, and then throwing a hissy fit and disconnecting them again, then autodiscovering these earbuds…
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@JBert said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
Not sure where The Too Much Information Thread is, so I'll document this TIL here:
Should you want to mark it on your calendar: it's celebrated on the first Saturday of May, so next year it'll be on the 2nd of May.
Another year, another WNG day past...
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First we had killer bees, now there are murder hornets turning up:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
First we had killer bees, now there are murder hornets turning up:
Maybe they'll cancel out? The killer bees declaring holy war on the murder wasps, and then they are eternally locked in an ever increasing spiral of overkill?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
First we had killer bees, now there are murder hornets turning up:
Maybe they'll cancel out? The killer bees declaring holy war on the murder wasps, and then they are eternally locked in an ever increasing spiral of overkill?
You do realize what that means for the entities in the crossfire between to factions, right?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
First we had killer bees, now there are murder hornets turning up:
Maybe they'll cancel out? The killer bees declaring holy war on the murder wasps, and then they are eternally locked in an ever increasing spiral of overkill?
So your plan is hoping that these insects are calling upon all good buzzlims to help fight a beehad? Well, good luck to ya.
Filed under: The puns - they sting
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Intel has only just revealed its Comet Lake 10th-gen desktop processors, which require a new Z490 motherboard, switching to the LGA 1200 socket. However, those boards could be swiftly cast aside when 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs possibly arrive in 2021 with a new LGA 1700 socket according to the rumor mill.
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@Gąska I hope it comes sooner than that so my next computer upgrade can skip an entire socket generation
And/or be AMD
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
Ditto... and their huge dictionary taught me vocabulary and how to write letters and cursive writing before I hit kindergarten...
I still can't write
legible cursive.Can anyone?
I can. The curriculum we used has a dedicated handwriting class up through sixth grade, and for the last year, there is an optional calligraphy class, which I also took.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Well, stop being special than.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
Ditto... and their huge dictionary taught me vocabulary and how to write letters and cursive writing before I hit kindergarten...
I still can't write
legible cursive.Can anyone?
I can. The curriculum we used has a dedicated handwriting class up through sixth grade, and for the last year, there is an optional calligraphy class, which I also took.
For arcane writing styles, mine also had a Gregg shorthand class, but I don't know anybody who took it.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
Ditto... and their huge dictionary taught me vocabulary and how to write letters and cursive writing before I hit kindergarten...
I still can't write
legible cursive.Can anyone?
I can. The curriculum we used has a dedicated handwriting class up through sixth grade, and for the last year, there is an optional calligraphy class, which I also took.
For arcane writing styles...
runic? draconic? infernal?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
Ditto... and their huge dictionary taught me vocabulary and how to write letters and cursive writing before I hit kindergarten...
I still can't write
legible cursive.Can anyone?
I can. The curriculum we used has a dedicated handwriting class up through sixth grade, and for the last year, there is an optional calligraphy class, which I also took.
For arcane writing styles...
runic? draconic? infernal?
Sexual?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Gregg shorthand class, but I don't know anybody who took it.
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@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Gregg shorthand class, but I don't know anybody who took it.
I'm left-handed but mouse right-handed. This my moused signature something like this:
My normal sig with my left hand is even less detailed.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
Ditto... and their huge dictionary taught me vocabulary and how to write letters and cursive writing before I hit kindergarten...
I still can't write
legible cursive.Can anyone?
I can. The curriculum we used has a dedicated handwriting class up through sixth grade, and for the last year, there is an optional calligraphy class, which I also took.
For arcane writing styles...
runic? draconic? infernal?
Cuneiform. Tengwar. Ogham. Quipu.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Gregg shorthand class, but I don't know anybody who took it.
I'm left-handed but mouse right-handed. This my moused signature something like this:
#polishinsidejokes