da768's comments

On: Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you...

[da768]

Do you plan to take discounts into account?

Can you base usage off previous billing data for existing resources?

[rumno0 → da768]

We support custom price books - https://www.infracost.io/docs/infracost_cloud/custom_price_b...

As for usage, at the moment it's driven from a usage file - https://www.infracost.io/docs/features/usage_based_resources...

In the future, we'd like to infer usage directly from the cloud account to give the most accurate view and do right size suggestion

On: Canadian Tire Money

[da768]

Yes, you get extra eCTM rewards in all CT-owned brand stores and gas stations.

Card also has the weird quirk of allowing and rewarding bill payments (telecom, power, property tax)

On: A year of Meta's news ban in Canada

[da768]

People share links to linktr.ee pages and said page has a link to the news article. OCR would be no use unless Facebook started crawling links

On: Deep-Tempest: Using Deep Learning to Eavesdrop on ...

[da768]

Eavesdropping EMI on DisplayPort https://youtu.be/ipxi_PO8_Uk?feature=shared

How well DPCP and HDCP work against these attacks?

On: Rogers networks reliability and resiliency assessm...

[da768]

Usually smaller ISPs use the Bell/Rogers for last mile, but have their own backbone. IIRC Beanfield is completely independent, but is only available in Toronto

On: Rogers networks reliability and resiliency assessm...

[da768]

Shaw customer base was acquired by Rogers, but they weren't allowed to absorb Freedom Mobile, which went to Quebecor.

[lm411 → da768]

Shaw Mobile on the other hand, did go to Rogers.

[smnrchrds → lm411]

Shaw Mobile was an MVNO. It didn't have any towers or network infra. I don't think it going to Rogers reduced competition in the market.

[da768 → lm411]

Thankfully there's still a 3rd player running it's own mobile infrastructure.

[lm411 → da768]

If you mean Bell, they are near non-existent in these parts.

On: NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop

[da768]

Pixel 8a works just fine.

It's still using mirror mode by default. There's a Desktop mode you can enable in developer settings which works well with the NexDock hardware, but the desktop mode UI is still pretty buggy at the moment.

[solardev → da768]

Good to know, thanks!

On: NexDock turns your smartphone into a laptop

[da768]

Looks like it's finally getting somewhere in the latest Android beta, but definitely not read for production.

NexDock 360 works pretty well with the Pixel 8a in desktop mode so far

On: Company offers unofficial security patches for Win...

[da768]

Well the official system requirements for Windows 11 make a lot of perfectly good systems non-upgradable

[netsharc → da768]

Yep, as if we don't have a rapidly heating planet, Microsoft wants to add to that by adding several gigatons of e-waste (measurement is pulled out of my butt, just like Apple claiming it extracted 2204 lb of gold from recycled iPhones(1), a number which is basically 1000kg in lbs(2). How much do you want to bet this is a number someone made up, converted to lbs, put in its official report(3), and the stupid copy-pasting "journalists" are too dumb to notice or challenge?)

1) https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-has-literally-extracted-... 2) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1000kg+in+lb 3) https://images.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental...

[gruez → netsharc]

I think you're giving them too little credit. It doesn't seem too implausible that Apple keeps track of how many phones they recycle using their recycling program, and with that number they multiply that by how much recoverable gold is in each phone to get a total amount?

[netsharc → gruez]

The zdnet article and the PDF also says 189,544lb of cobalt, 39,672lb of nickel, 44,080lb of lead, 130,036lb of zinc, 4,408lb of tin, and 6,612lb of silver. Divided by 2.204 they're 86000kg, 18000kg, 20000kg, 59000kg, 2000kg and 3000kg. How conveniently round in metric, but looking like they're giving you the precise weight to the nearest lb (and numbers not seemingly pulled out of thin air) in American...

The more obnoxious thing is they're not even dividing by the precise divider, as seen on the DDG link in my original reply.

[saagarjha → gruez]

I think they're upset that someone clearly is doing measurements in tons and then doing an overly precise conversion.

[TiredOfLife → da768]

The most hilarious thing is that the LTSC version of Windows 11 doesn't have those requirements.

[nullindividual → da768]

Perfectly good systems almost certainly vulnerable to unpatched firmware vulnerabilities due to their age.

Running a system, especially portable or critical without fTPM is not wise, more so due to Bitlocker security enhancements with TPM available.

[pshirshov → nullindividual]

I still happily run a 486 laptop (T6600C) and it's even networked. No evil hackers spotted so far. For some reason can't find an fTPM module for it.

[Starman80 → pshirshov]

What OS are you on?

[pshirshov → Starman80]

FreeDOS. Works great for retrogaming, you know.

[nullindividual → pshirshov]

These anecdotes are better left for reddit as they're irrelevant to this particular discussion.

On: Using a 1965 Dutch rotary phone via VoIP

[da768]

There are adapters for handsets on Amazon, but interfacing to a phone could be harder as you have to provide DC power and deal with duplex audio on a single pair. If you're only using it as a mic, a 9v battery, resistor and decoupling capacitor might work.

An easier way could be to join the conference audio through SIP.

[jasonjayr → da768]

Doesn't the handset RJ10 have two pairs? If you skip the base, and have a sufficient amplification circuit, couldn't you just use the weighted handset to a 3.5mm connector?

[pokeymcsnatch → da768]

Coupling capacitor, not decoupling, right? You want the AC signal and want to block DC.

[da768 → pokeymcsnatch]

Yes, I stand corrected.