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chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in Boeing Will Launch Starliner With Helium Leak

Launch was cancelled minutes before go.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span

Shodan also has a lot of fun searches.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025

They have all the info, so this shouldn’t even be necessary. They should be able to just send me a tax bill/refund with the break down automatically. If I want to dispute it, then I’d have to pay the big bucks to get fancy accountants to dispute. Otherwise it should just be one less thing vast majority of the people would ever have to worry about.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Why You Should Self-Host Everything

So just because they don’t know technology like you do, they should be left behind the times instead of taking advantage of advancements? A bit elitist and gate keeping there, don’t you think?

Everyone have their own choices to make, and for most, they’ve already decided they’d rather benefit from advancements than care about what you care about.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Why You Should Self-Host Everything

And here’s the reason why layman should not: they’re much more likely to make that one wrong move and suffer irrecoverable data loss than some faceless corporation selling their data.

At the end of the day, those of us who are technical enough will take the risk and learn, but for vast majority of the people, it is and will continue to remain as a non starter for the foreseeable future.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech

I think from a purely technical point of view, you’re not going to get FaceID kind of accuracy on theft prevention systems. Primarily because FaceID uses IR array scanning within arm’s reach from the user, whereas theft prevention is usually scanned from much further away. The distance makes it much harder to get the fidelity of data required for an accurate reading.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers

That’s a drop in the pond in the grand scheme of things. You just out source that out to rights management companies and absolve yourself from that obligation behind safe harbour. This is basically what they’re doing in this department. They’ve built Content ID for digital finger printing, and then invented an entire market for rights management companies on both sides of the equation.

On the other hand, 500 hours of video footage got uploaded to YouTube every minute per YouTube in 2022 (pdf warning). 30 minutes of video game content (compresses better), just the 720p variant using avc1 codec is about 443MB of space. Never mind all the other transcodes or higher bitrates. So say 800MB per hour of 720p content; 500 hours of content per minute means 400GB of disk space requirement, per minute; 500TB of disk space per day.

That’s just video uploaded to YouTube. I don’t even know how much is being watched regularly, but even if we assume at least one view per video, that’s 500TB of bandwidth in and then 500TB of bandwidth out per day.

Good luck scaling that on public budget.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h

If it goes from $100 to $1, there’s not much left to go before bankruptcy/delisting. Say hello to swaths of BBBY bag holders… oh wait, no bags left there!

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers

Good luck getting that through the system… the cost to run something like YouTube is… well, let’s just say the lack of real competitions speaks volumes.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h

They were contacted in April. Any company can fire their clients they don’t like without having to go through a month of song and dance.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h

Lemmy hates cloudflare because they are scared of alleged “privacy” concern. So much so that they’d rather side with online casinos doing literal scammy business just to validate their claims that “cloudflare is bad”. They also severely lack the business acumen to understand what’s happening. It’s shit like this that pushes me further and further away from Lemmy and more and more back towards Reddit :(

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down

WOW, 5 digits! You’ve got me beat! Not doxing myself because full name and all used for work; but I was a 6 digits UIN starting with 2 here.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards

Vast majority of those who are vocal about “ownership” are from that reddit cult. They’ll drag you down to their level with nonsense and stupidity, trying to convince you that GameStop will make them multi-billionaires. Be careful and don’t waste too much of your time on them.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards

At the end of the day, that’s just trading one spying conglomerate for another.

chiisana , 1 month ago to Technology in Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?

Given that the indices are not available locally, it’d be difficult for your own algorithm of any sort, AI or otherwise, to rank items higher/lower than others.