Probably more like 80%. I know even some normies who go far out of their way to refuse Comcast's hardware.

It was really common when equipment rental was a separate line item. I owned my own modem and router and getting the extra $15/mo dropped paid for itself the very first year.

Carrier hardware is also just a lot better now than it used to be tbh. I don't know what comcast is doing but both ISPs in my area (mediacom and tmobile fiber) are shipping Eeros. idk about the privacy aspects on that but they are good hardware otherwise.

Yep you don't save anything using your own hardware anymore, and they impose data caps if you use their modem in pass-through mode and run your own router.

I gave up and just use the Xfinity cable modem/router/access point now. Covers my entire house and even outside deck/patio/driveway. Yes they are probably snooping on my traffic and potentially proxying their "xfinitywifi" through my cable, but I use Firefox DNS over HTTPS so they can't see that, and VPN for work.

didn't that just turn out to be basically a plagiarised copy of an existing long term open source project that the AI stole?

What makes you so confident in the results of that website?

That they only use texts they already know in their mind that it's AI. I'm sure that if I use it to pass everything posted on HN through it will give me "high confidence" unless it's badly written. People confuse correct grammar with artificiality...

On this case, the fact that SQLite is on the list.

Turn off your adblocker and you will see all the red flags.

Personal usage over months. Third party evals. Not saying it's 100% accurate but it's close enough to trust. linuxstans.com news articles are mostly ai generated, it's a slop shop.

one can make a fine gaming pc for ~$350

1660 ti, 4790k, 16gb ddr3

fwiw they donated everything they could; still not enough.

Will they learn their lesson? Find out next time!

> In NTSC regions video on DVD almost always has a resolution of 720 × 480 pixels

This always irritated me. So presumably, television content was mastered and broadcast at 640x480, and then the x axis was scaled by a factor of 1.125 to fit 720 columns?

Analog TV didn't really have a concept of fixed horizontal resolution. The vertical resolution was a discrete number of lines, but the horizontal resolution was not discrete: it was just whatever rate the analog signal was fluctuating at as the beam scanned across the line.

So in the analog days nothing was "mastered and broadcast at 640x480," it was mastered (on tape) and broadcast at 525-lines or 576-lines and the aspect ratio was not encoded whatsoever, it was purely a function of the shape of the picture tube.

So when it came time for a digital format, the number of vertical pixels had to be chosen such that it could encode the maximum rate of fluctuation of the signal within a given line, and apparently that was determined to be 720 columns. Presumably using 640 would have lost some amount of the analog source's vertical resolution. And since the displays were still analog tubes, there didn't need to be any scaling, the aspect ratio was still dictated by the picture tube (at least when watching on TV). Scaling for the correct aspect ratio only mattered if you were using a computer or a fixed-pixel display.

I guess arguably it gave you a slightly better fit for eventual 16x9 content, too.

Nowadays it is certainly annoying to have video files with non-square pixel aspect ratio but considering the standard was designed for tube TVs it makes more sense. I mean the average home PC in 1996 i don't think could even play a 720x480p video at 30fps anyway

Intriguing. Thanks for the writeup!

No it was usually (always) 720x480, or 720x576 in PAL land. Or really videosignal, but if you had to digitize it you did it in that resolution.

It's great for people who want to point and hype. Terrible for people who actually wish to play and preserve games, though.

To add some context, in this case, PPSSPP exists and is certainly no less accurate, and you can get a psp and games for a reasonable amount of money.

It's like not this represents something like a cycle accurate Cave CV1K board, which are very expensive and imperfectly emulated.

Yes, we will work on life forms undetectable to the immune system. For uh, checks notes cures. Disregard the fact that the imperial military runs our society.

;) you don't want a little goa'uld that will brainwash you?

So if some 14 year old wants to throw up a phpBB instance on his raspberry pi, he should need a license and regulators' noses in his business, like how we extinguish- erm, I mean, controlled HAM radio?

How do you differentiate?

If lawyers can't figure out the difference between a 14 year old throwing up an phpBB on a raspberry pi vs equifax, anthropic, meta, etc...idk what to tell you. Get better lawyers, it falls into "laws for hobbyists aren't working part of my comment"

Is HAM radio really extinguished? All it takes is passing a test, and the rules around it seem more valuable to sharing a public resource (frequency spectrum) than detrimental?

HAM radio is dying more from the behavior of its geriatric old guard towards newcomers than any regulation.

The lack of ability to use encryption makes most things I'd think to do on it with packet radio fall off quickly. LoRA seems to be where more digital hobbyists end up because we can do things like build out Reticulum without violating FCC regulations.

But there's still some fun stuff to be done with HAM, as long as you don't mind anyone and everyone listening in on it.

The test is easier than ever too. None of the three levels even require learning morse code anymore. I passed Technician after a few hours of study. General doesn't take much more. Amateur Extra is the hard one, but you can do most things you'd want to with General.

https://hamstudy.org

Scale. In the same way every 10 year old Timmy is not being hauled into court for pirating a few Drake songs, but major piracy organizations seeding millions of songs are, litigation and enforcement does selectively target bad actors based on how big of an issue they are.

Boomers killed ham radio, not regulation.

In the future, they're going to talk about how laypeople were not allowed to read credible sources like this due to paywalls, the same way we talk about laypeople in the middle ages not being allowed to read the bible.