towerful

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Nononononono, controlling the weather is how democrats keep power.
Like when Trump redirected that hurricane (with a Sharpie), but it continued on its predicted path. Fucking democrats, man.

(I hope this is obviously dripping with sarcasm, incase not...

/s
Trump & a lot of republicans taking the spotlight are idiots. Humans can control the weather: unfortunately that's from greenhouse gasses and global warming)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

That's fascinating! You should update the Wiki on trebuchets.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet

Clearly someone has pulled a Scots Language Wiki and has been writing bullshit on that article for years

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Brollywood is an excellent pun.

British Hollywood - a portmanteau.
Brolly Wood - brolly is an umbrella in British slang.

Sorry for dissecting this frog. I just want to make sure everyone can appreciate how delicious the pun is.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As a hobby developer, I feel like I'm just gluing libraries together to get what I want.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PowerPoint actually has decent live captioning built in.
Just have a green slide, then chromakey it out.

There are plenty of web services that do a similar thing for a fee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's pretty serendipitous, actually.
The past month I've done a somewhat deep dive into LoRa for a project.
I ultimately dismissed it due to the data rates, but for simple remote controls or for sensors - things that report a couple bytes - it seems awesome.
I'm sure you can squeeze higher data rates out of it, but when I evaluated it I decided to go with a hardwired network link (I had to have stability, dropped info wasn't an option. But the client had a strong preference for wireless)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

WiFi uses BPSK/QPSK/OFDM/OFDMA modulation.
LoRa uses CSS modulation.

This is about hacking WiFi hardware to make WiFi modulated signal intelligible to a receiver expecting CSS modulation, and have the WiFi hardware demodulate a CSS signal.
Thus making WiFi chips work with LoRa chips.

LoRa doesn't care about the carrier frequency.
So the fact that it's LoRa at 2.4ghz doesn't matter. It's still LoRa.

I'm sure there will be a use for this at some point.
Certainly useful for directly interfacing with LoRa devices from a laptop.
I feel that anyone actually deploying LoRa IoT would be working at a lower level than "throw a laptop at it" kinda thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's LoRa on 2.4ghz.
It's just that chirp signals are easy to decode from a lot of noise.
And they don't really affect most other modulation techniques. I think you can even have multiple CSS coded signals on the same frequency, as long as they are configured slightly differently.

LoRa is incredibly resilient.
It's just really really slow

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The issue is with how aggressive Microsoft is about it.

Trying to download chrome? "Hey, are you sure you don't want to try Edge?".
Changing default browser? "Hey, are you sure you don't want to try Edge?".
Windows update... "We've done you a solid, because we know you want to use Edge".
I'm sure at one point, it was a warning in the security center that you aren't using Edge.
Also Teams (in sure there are others) will open links in Edge, despite what default browser you have set.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

One of those morality Vs legality thing.
For it to be illegal it seems like the system needs to change

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