How are they even going to know if there is an airtag in someone's luggage? Are they particularly obvious on an x-ray or is there some kind of specialised detector?
Readit NewsTomdarkness commented on Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage onemileatatime.com/news/l... · Posted by u/N19PEDL2
Tomdarkness commented on Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers krebsonsecurity.com/2022/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I've always wondered: What happens if I use a paused/canceled card on a plane? Do I just get the item for free?
Yep, like this person who used that method to steal £25,000 worth of goods from airlines: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...
Tomdarkness commented on Will I Ever See the $36MM Oberlin College Owes Me? commonsense.news/p/will-i... · Posted by u/fortran77
As someone from the UK I'm a bit confused why he can't seem to get the college to pay him? If a court has ruled that the college has to pay how can they avoid this? In the UK if a company failed to pay a debt then ultimately you can apply to the court for a winding up petition which if they didn't resolve the situation the company would be liquidated by the court.
Tomdarkness commented on Tell HN: Most DisplayPort cables aren't sold with correct information · Posted by u/bloopernova
Personally with DP cables, especially if you're looking for a longer length cable or wanting to push a higher bit rate through it, then you're better off just spending a bit extra and getting a proper VESA certified cable.
Does anyone else find it weird that this site absolutely fails to mention Stripe? The word is not in the article, and the logo is not included.
Not alleging anything here but a bit curious -- I can't imagine having a discussion of payment providers without mentioning Stripe.
I wouldn't be surprised, but are they just about as close to perfection as it gets on the fraud/security front?
Yeah, on the list on the article the only "modern major payment service" I actually recognised was PayPal and Alipay. I noticed that Rubles are mentioned multiple times in the article, perhaps the author is Russian. Is Stripe even available in Russia?
However saying that I thought PayPal had suspended operations in Russia.
Tomdarkness commented on Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM github.com/dekuNukem/bob_... · Posted by u/dreamcompiler
Well, is it perhaps the case that the device would cost a ton more if consumables weren't DRM'd?
I'd say the problem here is disingenuous marketing. If producers honestly communicated beforehand that it is not really a sale, but rather a sort of pay-as-you go leasing, it would be clearer for everyone.
Even HP -- for all its faults -- have started selling honest ink subscription services and unless they DRM the printers to reject after-market refills and refuse to sell unlocked ones for a premium, I would accept it as fair.
I mean you can get pretty comparable counter top dishwashers for a similar price or even less that just use regular dishwasher detergent with no DRM features.
Tomdarkness commented on TinyPilot: Build a KVM over IP for Under $100 tinypilotkvm.com/blog/bui... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
If you're looking for a KVM over IP for a hobby project with a Intel CPU you might want to first check to see if your CPU supports Intel AMT/vPro. If you enable this then you get a built in KVM over IP without any additional hardware/software. Once setup you can connect via a VNC client.
Tomdarkness commented on Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server mtlynch.io/budget-nas/... · Posted by u/mtlynch
What is the technical upside of using TrueNAS instead of samba? If you want to optimize for control, it seems a bit weird to me to settle for an "all in one" software stack.
Not really sure the comparison is valid. TrueNAS uses Samba to provide SMB network shares.
The technical quality of Netflix originals is really high. One thing that annoys me though is for some reason despite having rigorous standards for the camera it seems a common trend through numerous Netflix Originals to use the Vantage Hawk V-Lite Vintage '74 line of anamorphic lenses. I guess it's a stylistic choice but it results is some (for me at least) annoying image distortion that can really distract from the show. They are literally described at claiming the flaws are a feature: "The Vintage’74 version has certain gentle aberrations and other characteristics that might be considered flaws by others but are welcomed storytelling tools for cinematographers"
You can see this is some example footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhbRkoeNb9U
Note the distortion and blurred top and bottom of the image.
After all, the small antenna of the dongle is now _inside_ the laptop, and very close to high-bandwidth USB data-lines.
(And possibly other sources of interference, depending on the expansion port it's connected to. If I use a right-hand mouse and the card is in a left slot, the signal would more or less have to travel through the entire laptop...)