jyoung8607

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by jyoung8607 1mo ago
The original transition (and release of extra frequencies) was a delicate and painful process with lots of involved parties who had to spend lots of money to make it happen. Politically speaking, it could only happen if everyone involved sa
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by jyoung8607 1mo ago
Seventeen years ago, when we transitioned, the state of available and deployed equipment, codecs, and home receivers would not have permitted it. I mean sure, you could pack four streams into one 6MHz channel. They could even be "HD&qu
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by jyoung8607 1mo ago
That's already widely done in the US. If you plug in an antenna and scan for local channels, what used to be one analog TV channel on colloquially-named "channel 7" in the defined channel 7 frequency range will now be seen as
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by jyoung8607 6mo ago
If the restricted area is large, a carrier is regionally disabling for an imagery provider. If it's smaller (and therefore must move over time to follow the carrier group) as soon as the imagery provider starts refusing sales in an are
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by jyoung8607 6mo ago
I don't find that an unreasonable interpretation. Absent that paragraph of explained thought process, I could very well read it the agent's way. That's not a defect in the agent, that's linguistic ambiguity.
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by jyoung8607 7mo ago
Persistence allows the scammer free license to attempt password recoveries for every account the victim could possibly have. Other banks, retirement accounts, the victim's email account.
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by jyoung8607 7mo ago
Typo squatting is a thing, and so are Unicode homographs. The permissions approach isn't bad. I may trust Thunderbird for some things, but permission to read SMS and notifications is permission to bypass SMS 2FA for every other accou
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by jyoung8607 10mo ago
> That’s a function of the website, not the browser. That's hand-waving away quite a lot. The task changes from serving a copy of a file on disk, as every other image format in common use, to needing a transcoding pipeline more akin
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by jyoung8607 1y ago
The controllable shutoff valves are already a thing, on the market. They even measure flow rates and look for slow leaks and notify you in an app. Draining the pipes isn't that simple, and even if you did, you still have things like a
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by jyoung8607 1y ago
It's genuinely a very similar problem. The max round trip latency before polite humans start having trouble talking over each other has been well studied since the origins of the Bell Telephone system. IIRC we really like it to be unde