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Comment L4S standard adds a congestion indicator to packet (Score 5, Informative) 80

This summary should have linked the Dec 2023 article from Slashdot which actually explains a little bit more about it (and has a link to the technical paper).
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
"The L4S standard adds an indicator to packets, which says whether they experienced congestion on their journey from one device to another"

Comment Re:Maybe Tesla's concept will take off? (Score 1) 32

My favorite thing will likely be REVIEWS on the cars by purchasers. I really wish I could review my cars. There's currently no way to voice feedback to the manufacturer (and steer others away) for things that drive you nuts. For example, if you notice the Bluetooth is painful to use, or the interface is goofy.
As it is currently, the manufacturer gets none of this feedback (unless you are a famous Youtube reviewer) and neither do other customers.

Comment Re:There was a time everyone used a mp3 player. (Score 1) 90

Yeah...I think that's still the case. I have a NAS sitting around, so I just run it on there. It's my replacement for J River Media Center that I used for years. J River just never got an app that was any good, always struggled with hangs or forgetting what it was playing...

Submission + - In a world of Deep Fakes, USAA is asking customers to authenticate with voice (usaa.com)

st33ld13hl writes: USAA, a banking and insurance company, has begun notifying its customers that they can "enhance your account security" by enabling USAA Voice ID.
From letters sent to customers:

Imagine a world with fewer passwords and verification codes, where your voice becomes the key to effortless access.

Embrace the peace of mind that comes with knowing your account is protected with state-of-the-art security measures. Voice ID uses advanced algorithms to analyze your unique vocal patterns, making it secure and convenient. Feel confident in the knowledge that your voiceprint and your account is in safe hands — yours.

Your bank account balance can now be in anyone's hands that has 15 seconds of your voice

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Comment Nit: punctuation.... But for Reuters (Score 1) 48

Started commenting to say that the phrase "California based-Apple" is wrong and should be "California-based Apple"... But then I checked the freaking source and I guess Reuters needs to have someone proofread. As a side comment, I pasted the original text into a LLM and it pointed out the same problem

Comment Re:Autonomous driving is the new cold fusion (Score 3, Interesting) 23

Maybe, if Cold Fusion were a technology where we could start using it right NOW, get some amount of benefits from it (more power back than we put into it), and know that it will continue getting better and better over time.

For instance, I have a vehicle with Ford's Blue Cruise. It drives by itself, on some roads, like a 12-year-old, bouncing back and forth between the lane markings (and trying to drive off the freeway when the lane markers disappear). It constantly turns off when the road conditions change from super-simple to normal. I continually am fighting the steering (in both hands-on and hands-free mode) to keep the car in the center of the lane when I'm passing cars (it will typically try to hug the right-side lane markings, which is very unsafe when passing Semis).

Then I drove my brother's Model X with the new Machine-Learning driving. It drove from his house along unmarked country snow-dusted roads, through a town, to the grocery store and back. The only interactions I had to do was getting it out of his driveway, and parking (it did the parking, but driving around the lot was me). And, besides one minor section of road, and being a bit overly cautious at stop-signs, it drove just as well as I would have (unlike Ford's drunk Blue Cruise). The minor section of the road I felt it hugged the outside of the lane a bit too much.

Comment Re:Let me just remind everyone why I only game on (Score 1) 34

You forgot the requisite console-internet-subscription for online play. So your list should be tweaked with:

Console:
I buy internet to play online
I buy console-internet-subscription so I can use the internet I already purchased and play with others online.

PC:
I buy internet to play online

Comment Re:Protip (Score 1) 102

How does an Electrician's pay go up year after year? The long term is important as well, not just starting. For an undergrad in Computer Engineering, I got a bit higher than the average starting (for the year), and it's gone up ~14% yearly (compounded) over the past 15 years. The college I got my degree from is charges $3200/Semester these days, and my hiring bonus wiped away my $10K student loan. The point I want to make is that engineering degrees can be super cheap (as iggymanz said), and can have long lasting results. Not everyone ends up with amazing results, but I think there's a wider band of successes available with a STEM degree.

Comment Ryzen processors (Score 3, Insightful) 17

Using Ryzen processors doesn't "pretty much guarantee" it'll use windows. I have a Steam Deck and it has a Ryzen processor (Runs Linux). There's the Asus ROG Ally, which runs windows. How many other handheld gaming playpens running Ryzen are in your sample? That said, not being Valve, and creating a handheld is probably a better indicator that it'll run windows

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