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> Companies squeezing every last penny out out their customers is no news. And Canon is no stranger.

In relation to the rent-seeking behavior of Canon they allegedly nudged a certain open-source camera firmware project not to support some of their most high-end cameras. But with Canon losing interest in DSLRs I hope the situation changes.
In case you are considering Nikon as an alternative, their Webcam Utility might be free, but it doesn't work on the latest version of macOS.

There are 3rd party utilities (paid), but I had trouble with autofocus when I tried them.

I wish camera manufacturers put half as much effort into usability as smartphone companies. Why does a camera need drivers to be recognized as a webcam at all? Why doesn't my 2000€ camera come with GPS and LTE built in? Why is the software still as crappy as in the 90ies?
I'm not literally writing" standard HTML, I'm literally writing Markdown and the tool you've yet to fully realise is generating* HTML from the Markdown I'm literally writing.
Is there a reason OP can't get themselves a $50 USB capture card and a $20 HDMI cable, and use OBS to capture the feed from the HDMI-out in the camera? Most decent capture cards also expose themselves as cameras to almost all applications. This is my setup, and it works perfectly. Nikon D7500 as a webcam. More professional setups use Atomos monitors with built-in NVMe drives mounted directly to the camera.

I generally find the camera manufacturers' in-house programs absolutely terrible. Nikon's webcam utility is free[1], but has significant limitations over the capture card setup. Likewise for Sony. Both have considerable resolution and framerate limits, and I'd rather feed a 4K 60 FPS stream into my meeting program and let it handle the compression than have an XGA 1024×768 15 FPS output from the camera.

[1]: https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/products/548/Webca...
Can confirm this approach works well for us too.
There is no reason to bend over backwards to make up excuses for bad behaviour.
Talking about solutions: Camlink.
I use it with a very outdated camera for my online meetings. Works great and gave new life to a camera that I would throw away otherwise.
> It's not like it's hard to find another job as developer...

In 2025? Haven't you noticed the massive layoffs by the big companies. Check r/cscareerquestions and read the posts from seniors unable to find a job
Actually the Super Heavy (first stage) already uses heavy CO2 based fire suppression. Hopefully not that necessary in the long term, but should make it possible to get on with the testing in the short term.
As far as I can understand that's not a real alphabet, it's an abjad (consonants only)
Bashing react today is like bashing Java in ~2010.

There are some valid criticisms of react but a lot of them want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, much like with many other mature technologies.

I celebrate people who can produce something innovative in the web development world, but at least produce something before making these grand claims while bashing what came before. Those abstractions are there for good reasons!
1991

> Each RNN tries to solve the pretext task of predicting its next input, sending only unexpected inputs to the next RNN above. This greatly facilitates downstream supervised deep learning such as sequence classification. By 1993, the approach solved problems of depth 1000 (requiring 1000 subsequent computational stages/layers—the more such stages, the deeper the learning). A variant collapses the hierarchy into a single deep net. It uses a so-called conscious chunker RNN which attends to unexpected events that surprise a lower-level so-called subconscious automatiser RNN. The chunker learns to understand the surprising events by predicting them. The automatiser uses my neural knowledge distillation procedure of 1991 [UN0-UN2] to compress and absorb the formerly conscious insights and behaviours of the chunker, thus making them subconscious. The systems of 1991 allowed for much deeper learning than previous methods.

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/very-deep-learning-1991.htm...
> Entering a password can be a lot of work if you use a strong password (and if you don't, why bother with a password?).

So does-it means you do not setup a password/passphrase for your user account?
It would likely overheat anyway hah. Old Sony cameras have the same restrictions.
This is the same logic that almost destroyed the financial system in 2008. "House prices always go up, and there is no reason to think this time will be different". Fine logic that works until it doesn't.

At best your logic works because people get concerned, and work to solve the problem. Once there is a critical mass of people unconcerned, like yourself, that think we will magically adapt and solve the problem, we're screwed.
But if they're the ones that want the building insured, it seems like it would be better for everyone if they're the ones that source the insurance.
Modern Sony cameras can be used as webcam without any software. Just plug in, select usb streaming, and done.
There are things we could do with our time...

I suppose I'm glad some people find time to do this.
Peak internet right here. I’m out
This is part of "tone mapping"[1] in high dynamic range rendering. The idea is that pixels are computed with a much larger range of values than screens can display. 16 bits per color per pixel, or even a floating point value. Then, to generate the displayed image, there's a final step where the pixel values are run through a perceptual transformation to map them into 8 bit RGB (or more, if the hardware is is available.)

This has issues. When you go from a dark space to a bright space, the eye's iris stops down. But not instantaneously. It takes a second or two. This can be simulated. Cyberpunk 2077 does this. Go from a dark place in the game to bright sunlight and, for a moment, the screen becomes blinding, then adjusts.

In the other direction, go into a dark space, and it's dark at first, then seems to lighten up after a while. Dark adaptation is slower then light adaptation.

Tone mapping is not just an intensity adjustment. It has to compensate for the color space intensity problems the OP mentions. Human eyes are not equally sensitive to the primary colors.

Some visually impaired people hate this kind of adjustment, it turns out.

Here's a clip from Cyberpunk 2077.[2] Watch what happens to screen brightness as the car goes into the tunnel and then emerges into daylight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_mapping

[2] https://youtu.be/aWlX793ACUY?t=145
Yes, except the answer is opposite to what you think. Shitty and insecure apps make more money than decent and secure ones.
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It will have atleast be > than zero, and doing it every year instead of giving it away to some overpriced CEO will it will accumulate.
So for anyone who doubted SWE-BENCH's relevance's to typical tasks, it seems that its stated 13.86% almost exactly matches this 3 successes out of 20 pilot outcome.

We're not quite there yet, but all of these issues seem to be solvable with current tech by applying additional training and/or "agentic" direction. I would now expect pretty much the textbook disruptive innovation process over the next decade or so, until the typical human dev role is pushed to something more akin to the responsibilities of current day architects and product managers. QA engineering though will likely see a big resurgence.
> has been both one of the most delightful and sad things I have learned

Reminds me of this exchange between an adoptive maternal figure and a troubled youth with low self-esteem.

> "[He] is a great man. [...] I don’t confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is... the higher achievement." She gave him a crooked smile. "It should give you hope, eh?”

"Huh. Block me from escape, you mean. Are you saying that no matter how screwed up I was, you’d still expect me to work wonders?" Appalling.

She considered this. "Yes," she said serenely. "In fact, since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same."

-- Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
yes it does. The world is full of 'another's.
The Louis Rossman video on this, which hasn't been made yet - is already playing in my head.
Subdomain enumeration API, reverse IP lookup, geoloc
Absolutely. Even getting a super sweet deal, like “$1/month” can backfire, because suddenly you are on the hook for $299 /ysatly, because the three month subscription defaults on a high premium once it’s over.

Not what would be the consumer friendly choice, which would be to charge “same as before”, i. e $0.
It heavily depends on the target audience, I'd say. Especially if it's not ubiquitous.
You can call spacetime "aether" if you prefer - Einstein himself did. It's just that it becomes redundant at that point.
BTW link is here: https://askany.me
There are land-back movements in the US. In addition, all native Americans have US citizenship. If Israel gave citizenship, equal rights, and the right of return to all those that were displaced since the 1940s and their descendents, then I imagine a one-state solution would be possible and a lasting peace could be achieved.
A7RV + A6700 here. If you plug in a USB cable, it shows the usual "usb selection screen", but it includes a "USB streaming" option. It works immediately, flawlessly, on windows and macOS. For remote shooting, there's still the "PC remote" option.

My older Sony cameras (A6300 is my newest "old" Sony camera) don't have the feature (unless you use that terrible software you mentioned) Im surprised to read that even the reasonably modern A7SIII doesn't support it. It must be one of the last models without USB streaming support.
Wow, you made me go check and Nikon still hasn't fixed the software. Supported OS:

macOS Ventura version 13
macOS Monterey version 12
macOS Big Sur version 11
> I've tried this at first in 2024 with macOS 14, which did not work.

Why not blame Apple for not providing drivers? It is pretty normal in Linux to check hardware compatibility. You mainly buy hardware with good software support.

Apple does not support this camera, so do not buy it!
Fire insurers could begin ploughing some of their take back into educating clients, helping them harden their homes, and making sure clients are up-to-date on fire codes. As the world changes, businesses should expect to have to remodel their product.
I use Feedbin (self-hosted) and it has no difficulty with displaying images.
This is an existential problem for the insurance industry and they should fight the oil industry as such.
Sonys are some of the better cameras for software, but that's a low bar. I love my Nikons for picture taking though.
I also wrote my first impressions on Devin, more focused on the user experience and analysis of its capabilities (with lots of screenshots):

https://thegroundtruth.substack.com/p/devin-first-impression...
All of those are a result of American's favorite hobby though, not maintaining infrastructure, because ooh no taxes. LA has not raised enough revenue for decades it seems. The amount of pot holes in even the most expensive neighborhoods was already to damn high.

At some point the US really needs to do bit of cultural reform so they can start paying for all that low density development and the costs associated with it. So stuff can actually be maintained.
It's just experience from a video monitoring project we made for a Telco operator - we had to pay up quite a few JPEG related tech, just to get a certification. Even despite that tech being free.

Historically video related field was one of the most patent and license encumbered. That's why AV1 exists.
So perplexing - in the interactive demos, the latency slider acts not as a network latency but more a debounce buffer? Why? Why? I just don't get it
I dont know much about Optical engineering, but this sounds super exciting. I think I meant to point to mitsuba 3, not 2.
Shameless plug, we use Mitsuba 3/Dr.JIT for image optimization around volumetric 3D printing
https://github.com/rgl-epfl/drtvam
> Why $6,2999 when the article says he payed around $900?

In the fifth paragraph:

“Admittedly, it did not cost me the $6300 from the article's title, much closer to $900. Nonetheless, everything I'm describing translates to every other Canon camera model!”
DJI is a potential backdoor.
Today I had trouble using OBS Software with my suite of old MacBooks, IPhones and iPads… I thought keeping them would be useful
Back a few years ago. This was the starship that in 2024 would reach Mars with humans, with so much space taken by crew and materials, and almost no fuel, and "10 times cheaper". And currently is an empty shell. Nice fireworks and show, but no meaningful payload yet. Not even LO. And this will be ready for 2026 artemis mission?
The question I have is why not make interoperability mandatory so both Apple and Canon have to make products that work with eachother instead of weird useless arbitrary rules?

It's like people love the horrible experience lol rather trauma than education type shit Leibniz was so beyond wrong about this smh
I don't understand the downvote. I think this hit the nail on its head.

People whine about insurances pulling out. All they want is for somebody else to pay for their risk. It's their choice to live in that area, they should bear the consequences. It's not like it is or has ever been a secret. Climate change is known for decades now. Many people just chose not to "believe" in it. Well, their choice, but now that sh* hits the fan, they shouldn't come whine that everything gets sprayed with poo.
Don't buy Canon. They've also been very shitty about third party lenses
I use this sometimes and it's a nice source of news. But, and this is an honest question, will this get eaten by something like this?:

"ChatGPT, set a daily/weekly task to give me the most significant news. Use this ranking criteria: <input criteria>"
> You earn the right to take on bigger challenges and no one in this space has earned the right yet including us.

Not entirely. We're in interesting times where products with better models can suddenly leapfrog and displace even current upstarts. Cursor won over Copilot from leveraging Claude Sonnet 3.5. They didn't "earn the right".

Improvements with models will help those with the existing infrastructure that can benefit from it. I'm not saying Devin will win when that time comes, but a similar product might find their space quickly.
Yeah, that's pretty bad business practice.

I have a few fuji cameras, and sadly their webcam software doesn't work for me, but for a cheap fix I bought a low-cost (~$10) HDMI USB capture card on AliExpress, and it works wonders.
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> Highlights from my reader sync automatically into my Obsidian vault. It's great.

Which RSS reader do you use?
Compared to the other challenges climate change poses those are fairly simple engineering problems. The Netherlands manage fine with large parts of the country below sea level.
> Software development isn’t free

Given how long digital cameras have been around (more because that says it can be done with a codebase that fits in context rather than anything about memorisation), I wonder how good LLMs are at coding this specific thing.

(I don't have a camera to try it with, or I'd give it a go myself).
Now he already has 2 views on a video he didn't make yet.
+4°C is to the upper end of projections

if it did (which is not probable) happen it'd take until the end of the century

if we were to get there the entire world will be a different place; everything will have advanced so we won't be insuring our present world with our current knowledge and current tech but a future world with future knowledge and future tech
Another failure, another few months of figuring out why this isn't working and can't stick to its flight path. They caused chaos for many commercial planes, so they'll definitely need some full reports to the FTA to know what they're doing about this, why the debris is falling over flight paths, and so on.
In northern Italy, the rebuilding of mountain villages in brick and stone after devastating fires had destroyed many of them was ordered in the nineteenth century. It's absurd to claim you can't do anything against fires and the world has become uninsurable in the 21st century and in the world's richest country, while you keep building everything in the cheapest and lightest wood. The sight of the houses burned to the ground except for their fireplace and chimney in the middle is both sad and infuriating.
At some point I feel like it just has to collapse. The thing I don't really understand is subscriptions like the one in the article, how many of those types of subscriptions are effectively dead, in the sense that yes the customer keeps paying, but aren't actually using the "service" anymore.
Those deaths are tragic, and yes, one baby was killed which is particularly awful.

For many of those dead, we will however simply never know if they were slain by Hamas or the IDF[0] (as so many were), as Israel would not allow an investigation - an evil act, made doubly evil by the fabrication of all manner of vile attrocity porn (40 beheaded babies, babies on washing lines, mass rapes etc) to gain consent for a genocidal response.

So yes, of course those deaths are terrible, but history didn't start on October 7th, you have to look at the decades of land theft, dehumanisation, torture, rape, murder and bombing at the hands of Israelis. Israel's response was to act like Israel: more murder, more torture, more rape - and on a truly unfathomable scale. Israel has wrought a holocaust upon Gaza, and the West Bank hasn't been spared either.

And no, criticising an apartheid state publicly undertaking the most foul atrocities imaginable - at industrial scale, mind - does not an antisemite make.

[0] https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hun...
Just say no to OKRs.
maybe they care more about the quality as they become managers etc. quality takes effort, maybe they don't like taking the effort but like making other people take the effort.
That's similar to how I use LLMs but what is special about cursor? The fact it applies the updates without copy pasting?
Tiktok's being banned while Meta is more or less able to do the same thing but worse. It's pretty much about who can line pockets rather than the fact that selling user data is wrong.
I had an oherwise perfectly fine Canon camera which I spent hours trying to make work as a webcam by downloading this and that and configuring this and that and in the end discovered it was not possible for some reason and got rid of the camera.

If I buy a camera again (probably won't), #1 selection criteria will be connectivity.
The penny-fucking behaviour of huge organization in parallel of pushing at you unwanted (actually obstructing) messages in various ways, email, pop-ups and tootip suggestions and advices, CI/CD pushed on the user on a prominent way are repelling. In parallel to the rubbish web presence not working reliably or at all, far from being easy for clients but usually having bells and whistles for distraction. I saved quite a bit of money thinking twice if I want to be abused by products made for the benefit of the organization mainly. Sometimes with side benefits for the user, but that is more like coincidence, side effect of addressing the organization's needs. Less and less point buying consumer products if it just makes your life similarly difficult, not better.
Interesting video, didn't know about truss plates
> our grandparents [...] woke up, put on their boots, and got to work, no excuses, no distractions, no bullshit.

And mostly, I suspect, they saw tangible results for their labour. The house got built, the dress got made, the bread got baked. Its easier to get yourself to do things when the things are there, in front of you. Nowadays many of us sit at a desk building or wrangling systems that are intangible and almost un-visualisable. I think its not surprising that our motivation can be lacking.

I'm a developer, but for me my most productive (and rewarding) day of the last year was the day I spent with friends chainsawing and chopping and carrying twelve tonnes of logs for fuel for our climbing hut. Didn't need to get in the zone for that, and at the end we knew what we'd done and it stayed done.
That is what remote kvm are for and if you do that on commodity hardware you can start a tiny ssh server starting up from an initrd. Having said that an attacker with local access could change the initrd without your knowledge so that it logs the password you enter so it is not necessarily the most secure solution.
Were you born to annoy people?

I don’t call and it’s not for the reason you suggest, but because I won’t talk to an automaton once then endure multiple calls and emails trying to sell me their offering. I’ve been down that road enough times and sales people usually go to spam.

For your information, the hidden price is often times in line with the market. They hide it so they can do market segmentation without changing the product and to gather information about potential customers.

So thank you for your most useful recommendation which changes nothing for me. I follow it for reasons other than your ill-informed assumptions.
The digital pound and the payments landscape
There are other "open" CAs that can be used for free. For example, Google Public CA, Buypass and ZeroSSL, which all support the ACME protocol though you need an account there to get EAB credentials, that then are configured in Certbot or whatever you use.
Why would a city like London or Paris burn down in a hot dry period?
> But if you have been through multiple M&A/boom bust cycles (especially with well known firms) it is not as crazy

It must be rare to have been through multiple of these events, right?
I see you're a man of culture as well :)
The "mitigation" itself is still not very safe if you're paranoid about governments or very motivated organisations. The extra step of checking PCR12 is performed by the initrd that you trust because it's signed by a private key that has probably leaked to every serious hacking corp / government. They can just boot their own signed initrd and kindly ask the TPM that will oblige.

I personally replace the firmware certificates (PK, KEK, db, dbx, …) with my own and sign every kernel/initrd update, I also unlock my disks with a passphrase anyways, but I'm on the fence WRT if it's more secure than TPM.

Yes in theory TPM key extraction is feasible (and even easy if it's performed by a chip other than your CPU https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/TPM-sniffing ) but it is harder than filming/watching you type the passphrase or installing a discrete key-logger ?
No, this is not the reason. If the camera records video for more than 30min, then it is a video camera, see the question answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34640107

In short, there is no good reason anymore, but originally this was because of EU import tarifs.
other cameras aren't?
No burglar has the resources of GM.
SpaceX Starship Flight 7 Launch & Early Failure Analysis – Scott Manley [video]
'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals luxury of Pompeii
There was an article about that the other day having to do with image generation, and while it didn't exactly create Hapsburg chins there was definite problems after a few generations. I can't find it though :/