absorber (u/absorber)

absorber commented on Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month? · Posted by u/41209

FabHK · 4 years ago

Just for the record, I don't think that South Korea is particularly cheap. As OP demonstrates, one can live there for USD 1000/month, but that really holds for most countries. While the US is in the top 5% in terms of nominal GDP per capita, South Korea is in the top 15%. For cheap, yet comfortable and safe, I'd aim around the median, eg Indonesia or Georgia.

ETA: Nomadlist suggests €1,925/mo for Seoul, €1,530/mo for Jeju Island, South Korea; €1,047/mo for Tbilisi, Georgia; €627/mo for Bandung, Indonesia.

ETA: Nomadlist has a list of places below USD 1000/mo: https://nomadlist.com/places-on-a-budget

absorber · 4 years ago

No way the estimate is real for Tbilisi. For €1047/mo you'd be living like a king there. Especially with post-Covid prices.

absorber commented on Gigabyte Brix Pro: A Compact PC for Basic Computing Needs overclockers.com/gigabyte... · Posted by u/walterbell

walterbell · 4 years ago

AsRock usually does with Ryzen, but testing is needed since these NUC-sized boxes are using laptop chipsets.

absorber · 4 years ago

It's kind of vague and hit-and-miss though, even on non-NUC systems ASRock not always supports ECC. Supposedly it's because of AMD's (lack of) clarity about the matter (according to an ASRock rep, at least)

This is the mail I sent them in January. Still waiting for a response:

> (This is a pretty technical sales question)

> I wanted to know about the ECC compatibility of Asrock Rack X470D4U > In the specifications (https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X...) it says the following:

> "*For Picasso Ridge and Raven Ridge CPUs, ECC is only supported with PRO CPUs."

> However, there is no such thing as "Picasso Ridge". There is however Pinnacle Ridge and Raven Ridge. Perhaps a mistake?

> So I was wondering what AMD CPUs had full ECC compatibility (so both detection and correction)

> Does the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 have full ECC support on that board, for example?

absorber commented on Why do drum sets have descending toms? lowvolumedrumming.org/des... · Posted by u/antibland

stdbrouw · 4 years ago

Nitpick: the "loudness war" is about mastering / compressing a recording so that it sounds louder at any given volume, it doesn't really have anything to do with optimizing things so they sound better at high volumes or a preference for loud sounding instruments.

absorber · 4 years ago

I don't know. I'd argue that if the production process is influenced by the loudness war, then it too becomes part of the loudness war.

For example, a technique of masking distortion (or clipping, rather) is adding something with rich harmonic content (a trumpet for example) to parts that are expected to be hitting the wall and otherwise distorting / clipping.

Would trumpets be there otherwise? I don't know, but I'm sure producers are aware of the limitations of digital audio and as such adapt the music to it.

absorber commented on Dutch MPs had a call with deep fake imitation of Navalny's Chief of Staff nltimes.nl/2021/04/24/dut... · Posted by u/sAbakumoff

lostlogin · 4 years ago

> Someone has gotta do a movie of this.

Starring Navalny himself... Or something that looks like him.

absorber · 4 years ago

> Or something that looks like him.

Might be unnecessary if deepfake technology is used.

absorber commented on Dutch MPs had a call with deep fake imitation of Navalny's Chief of Staff nltimes.nl/2021/04/24/dut... · Posted by u/sAbakumoff

FranchuFranchu · 4 years ago

0x0 is a really useful website.

absorber · 4 years ago

Yep, this is in my ~/.bash_aliases :

  #### Upload file to 0x0.st (The Null Pointer) - A filehosting service.
  # Usage: nullpointer_upload <file>
  nullpointer_upload () { curl -F "file=@$1" https://0x0.st ;}

absorber commented on Dutch MPs had a call with deep fake imitation of Navalny's Chief of Staff nltimes.nl/2021/04/24/dut... · Posted by u/sAbakumoff

JimBlackwood · 4 years ago

There is a screenshot: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/kamerleden-verg...

absorber · 4 years ago

Thanks, here's a direct link to avoid paywall: https://0x0.st/-mQu.jpeg

absorber commented on Dutch MPs had a call with deep fake imitation of Navalny's Chief of Staff nltimes.nl/2021/04/24/dut... · Posted by u/sAbakumoff

Deukhoofd · 4 years ago

It's the first time they actually did it and got caught. The article specifically mentioned the same actor has been in contact with politicians from Estonia, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom.

absorber · 4 years ago

Right, I was referring to this attack as a whole.

absorber commented on Dutch MPs had a call with deep fake imitation of Navalny's Chief of Staff nltimes.nl/2021/04/24/dut... · Posted by u/sAbakumoff

absorber · 4 years ago

If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time deep fake technology has been used to carry out a disinformation attack on politicians.

I wonder if the actual video conferences have been recorded. I'm very curious to see them.

absorber commented on Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose havenweb.org/... · Posted by u/mawise

absorber · 5 years ago

Not to be confused with Haven from the Guardian Project: https://guardianproject.github.io/haven/

absorber commented on Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store twitter.com/element_hq/st... · Posted by u/redsolver

feanaro · 5 years ago

It's not that resource hungry anymore. Hovering stably around 500M RSS and 8% CPU for me right now. That's with ~25 users and a lot of federated, public rooms, some of them quite large.

absorber · 5 years ago

What CPU are you running it on and how many cores are being used? Are you also in really large rooms like Techlore and Matrix HQ? Because I think I'm in all of the largest rooms (and a lot of the smaller ones)