noisem4ker's comments

On: They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm ...

[noisem4ker]

The only truly, audibly lousy Bluetooth codec is low-bitrate SBC. Anything better than that is going to be transparent to most ears.

The awfulness of cheap/low-power DACs, on the other hand, knows no limit.

[brnt → noisem4ker]

There is going to be a DAC somewhere, and somehow putting it in the headphones doesn't speak for quality. Power budget, if nothing else.

[Kirby64 → brnt]

It’s much easier to make a headphone output that is tailored to a very specific driver than it is to make a generic headphone driver that can drive any conceivable headphone plugged in.

On: They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm ...

[noisem4ker]

You need the DAC/amp for the built-in speaker(s) anyway.

On: Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the F...

[noisem4ker]

I noticed Teams unexpectedly started working in Firefox for me, a few months ago.

[tux3 → noisem4ker]

That's terrible. Maybe if you downgrade?

On: A Man Who Thought Too Fast (2020)

[noisem4ker]

> caffeine speeds this up, until your brain adapts to make it 'normal speed' again by extra myelination

Any more info or source on this? Thanks.

On: Visual explanation of SAML authentication (2020)

[noisem4ker]

This is probably related to another article about SAML from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036982

On: CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to U...

[noisem4ker]

Perhaps it's not sufficiently complete yet for CrowdStrike to use it, but Microsoft has been developing eBPF support for Windows since 2019:

https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows/

On: CrowdStrike CEO summoned to explain epic fail to U...

[noisem4ker]

They claim to detect anomalous program behavior within otherwise perfectly legal use of the operating system APIs.

On: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo...

[noisem4ker]

Windows supports eBPF too.

On: Eight Years of GraphQL

[noisem4ker]

> the layer in between lets you change your SQL schema

SQL has got views for that.

On: 3 reasons people are moving from Windows 11 back t...

[noisem4ker]

Doesn't the CPU capability check come back and bite you when doing major (i.e. full image) updates, though, with Windows Update refusing to proceed? That's according to my experience when fiddling with a Windows 11 install on an outdated system, at least, but it could've been some other problem.