AI is a topic for quite some while now. Mostly in the form of chat bots or coding assistants. But there’s also AI for photorealistic image generation. Emphasis on “realistic”. History Sure, we’ve had digital people for years, e.g. YouTuber Ami Yamato, or virtual singer Hatsune Miku. But these were based on motion capture and/or… Read More: TRUST. NO. ONE. »
Ever since stumbling over Cyrill Künzi’s article about the Sonicare brush head timer reset (which I’ve written about here), I’ve wondered what else is stored in the data. This is what a dump of the Mifare Ultralight NTAG213‘s memory from a white Sonicare A3 Premium All-in-One head looks like: The memory is organised into “pages”… Read More: Sonicare Brush Head NFC Data »
I had to compare multiple stream dumps I’ve collected from different places. Each file had a timestamp from when it was generated (i.e. downloaded) in it. So, even the exact same dump would have different timestamps if downloaded twice. Also, some files had embedded cover art and tags while others didn’t have any tags. To… Read More: Comparing Audio Streams »
I’ve barely touched my Switch and was running some old Atmosphère version and Firmware 19-something. As someone not that deep in that topic anymore, here are the steps I’ve needed to get it updated to FW 21 – ready for the latest and greatest games. (Mostly for my own reference in the future.) Atmosphère The… Read More: Getting Atmosphère Ready for FW 21.0.0 »
Audiophiles love their oxygen-free copper cables and expensive equipment and often proclaim that MP3 is far inferior to lossless audio. (And, that a needle dragged over tiny grooves in vinyl is the best.) Many tests have been done, but almost all of them have the issue that participants either outright knew which version was which… Read More: MP3s and Audiophiles »
Back in June 2020, The Outer Worlds was released for the Nintendo Switch. In September 2021, I’ve bought it and played it every once in a while until I finished it sometime in the middle of 2022. Despite also owning the Expansion Pass, I’ve never completed the additional quests. Since March 2025, I’m the proud… Read More: The Outer Worlds from Switch to Deck »
Here are some FediVerse-compatible alternatives to the current big player monoliths: Monolith Federated Blogger Plume, WordPress with ActivityPub plugin, WriteFreely Discourse, phpBB, Vanilla, etc. NodeBB eBay, Gumtree, Kijiji, etc. flohmarkt Facebook Friendica (with optional Bookface theme), Hubzilla Instagram Pixelfed Reddit Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin Snapchat Pixelfed TikTok Loops Trakt.tv NeoDB Tumblr Misskey, wafrn 𝕏 (Twitter) Mastodon,… Read More: FediVerse Replacements »
I’ve got an old HP Revolve 810 G3 that I use for all those weird firmware updaters and other tools that require an actual Windows with actual USB ports. Nothing else. This model was introduced during the Windows 7 to Windows 10 shift, so it is OEM-licensed for both. And I had it running on… Read More: Windows 7 via native UEFI (without CSM) »
I’ve got Pi-hole running in a Docker container on my Synology DS415+ for several years now. No issues at all. However, after the recent 7.1.1 Update 9, suddenly, my local DNS entries in Pi-hole stopped getting resolved. It always resorted to external DNSes for those. As I host a few services at home, I’m using… Read More: Pi-hole not resolving local DNS entries »
7 years ago, a buddy of mine left a review at a local mobile phone repair shop in Germany. He wasn’t quite happy, so he gave 3 out of 5 stars. That’s it. No angry text, no nothing. Just 3 out of 5 stars. A few days ago, 7 years after he left that rating,… Read More: How To Delete Bad Google Maps Reviews »