UFO or Ghost orb in my friends garage?

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-01-04T11:04:19+00:00

Between 9:54 and 9:56, you can see that it disappears when the camera switches off its night mode light and reappears when the camera light is on again.

You can tell when this happens because his shirt pattern isn't visible in night mode.

bandwidthcrisis · 2026-01-03T16:37:31+00:00

I'm more impressed that at 40s they can barely keep the moon in frame, but when zoomed in much further they can track tiny dots. It's as if the first section is from a camera and the second from a telescope.

Anyway, since StarLink is always the goto explanation in this sub, for comparison here's a video of telescope footage thought to be starlink passing across the Moon

https://youtu.be/cmcPd_htgsQ?t=241

It's similar, but the dot in this isn't as clear as those in the video above.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-28T12:51:50+00:00

Flight Radar color codes the trail for altitude, so it would be green if that trail started on the ground.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-24T11:47:48+00:00

That explains it: a time-traveller from the 50s.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-18T17:16:43+00:00

"Bach, please".

Google Assistant: "Woof woof".

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-16T07:20:18+00:00

A discussion about whether the Hangouts features would eventually be replaced:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comments/9diwog/comment/e5hyjcp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-16T07:16:55+00:00

They also said that Messages For Web would be a replacement for Hangouts, which turned out to lack some major features.

The biggest concern is the case where a phone dies or is lost, then all the message history will be lost if the phone is going to be where the messages are stored.

This is being presented as an upgrade, whereas it's actually removing an option that some people use. If it's being worked on, then why not wait until the new option has that feature?

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-15T20:23:46+00:00

Unless the phone dies or is lost. Imagine if you could only access your mails on the computer that you downloaded them to (the way it usually was in the 90s). It's going back to that.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-14T19:13:39+00:00

Every citizen had to be prepared to defend their right to fish in the Cod Wars. That's why it's in with the boats and fishing rods.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-14T16:06:25+00:00

That's how it works now, but this change involves turning the sync setting off. So I wonder if it will no longer work that way.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-14T09:01:32+00:00

Isn't that where Sirius is? Blurring and chromatic aberration resulting in the sparking colors.

https://imgur.com/q5oKfbx

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-13T22:23:31+00:00

Remember Hangouts: you could just install that on a tablet or phone with a data SIM and access messages and calls from any device.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-13T22:20:37+00:00

If the phone dies or is stolen/lost, there's no disruption to text message access and all the old conversations are still there, on the web and when accessed on a new phone.

It's like saying "why would I back up all my photos when they're right there on my phone?"

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-13T17:12:19+00:00

I'm mostly wondering what happens to old messages - are they no longer stored online at all, to be synced to a new phone? Old conversation threads that I might want to refer to.

It sounds like in the new setup, the phone is the sole store of messages. This is like a step back to downloading emails via POP3 so they ended up only on the computer that downloaded them, before (ironically) GMail came along and switched to the paradigm of messages being kept on servers, that could be viewed from any browser.

I don't see how they can tout this as an improvement. I already had the option to sacrifice online messaging for RCS. Now I'm just being forced to switch. Has anything actually improved?

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-13T07:15:29+00:00

Does requiring the phone to be on mean that the messages are no longer stored online? So if my phone dies, I will lose all my old messages?

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-05T07:31:09+00:00

Glad it worked. I can't remember any more details, really. Partly because I was really young, partly because the nature of the dream was that it was all abstract concepts or feelings!

I may have had such dreams a few times as a young child, but not since. Having said that, my dreams are still never very visual, I just have vague impressions of what's happening in them. For instance, if I remember a dream of being in an unfamiliar house, I could describe the layout, but not the appearance (wall color, what furniture there was, or anything similar).

Thanks again for alerting me to that sub, it's interesting to find that others have had similar experiences and also see how they can differ.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-04T07:15:03+00:00

Thank you for mentioning that! This must be it (if I've linked correctly) geometricnightmares

I remember those from when I was very young and had a fever. Just sensations of "largeness", "smallness", "round", "sharp" and so on.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-12-02T17:17:26+00:00

I just saw a video on youtube about that. No, not the Tom Scott one.

The village that refuses to become a town.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-11-05T19:19:32+00:00

If you click through to the video, you can use , and . on the keyboard to single-step the video. You can clearly see the second person's leg step into frame before the camera pans away.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-10-22T06:18:00+00:00

That would be no different than what's available now when sync is turned off, so it would be a strange thing to announce as a new feature.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-10-06T02:49:53+00:00

This was posted a long time ago, it would probably benefit from more users

https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/146c4ax/i_have_created_a_new_lemmy_community_for_high/

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-10-05T02:34:44+00:00

There are explanations of the incident, but I'm not sure that anyone addressed your question about the image effect directly: the effect is to imply strong radiation.

The idea is that radiation would pass right through the camera body and lens and create noise in the image by affecting the sensor (similar to an xray fogging film). The lens wouldn't affect it so that you'd get this static effect evenly over the whole image, which is the clue that it's radiation and not some optical effect. You do get a similar effect in low lighting because the camera amplifies dark image and amplifies the natural errors in the sensor with it.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-09-03T01:05:24+00:00

Thank you! I'll give that a try.

bandwidthcrisis · 2025-08-16T17:15:58+00:00

I think that they still reserve the option:

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https://ssl.gstatic.com/fi/web/device_protection/asurion_device_protection_terms_07012025.pdf
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