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- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 4 hours ago:
Personally I’m frustrated with always having to give a working phone number to accounts.
I have no idea if I’ve been at all successful in poisoning my data but all my accounts use unique generated emails in addition to generated passwords and fake profile info. It’s just habit now.
However all too often the one piece of real data I have to give is my phone number, and that would be really useful to cross-link all my accounts for data brokers building a dossier on me.
I have hundreds of fake emails but can create at most a couple phone numbers
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 4 hours ago:
It is but only if you are targeted. I completely disagree with people who say it’s insecure because most attacks are remote and in bulk. Which your password they can login from any browser but are stopped by the SMS code.
For the SMS code they can use mostly automated social engineering to trick a certain percentage into giving it up.
However while A SIM attack may be easy enough for a targeted individual, I don’t think it scales: they have to do work that only helps with one user. It’s too “expensive” compared to automated social engineering against a million vulnerable users
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 4 hours ago:
Which reminds me: I just got a new phone and totally forgot about Authenticator apps
I was able to recover one but the other is lost and I still need to get those accounts reset
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 4 hours ago:
Banks are the web sites most likely to reject a generated password from my password generator
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 1 day ago:
Yeah, I also tried searching and rash came up as at least the same possibility
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 1 day ago:
It’s not just automatics anymore, but also
- CVTs, especially forneconoboxes that used to be manual
- electronic shifters, sort of automatic
- automatic, with more and more gears
- EVs don’t need a transmission
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 1 day ago:
Yeah I finally went over to the dark side because of bostons horrendous stop and go traffic
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 1 day ago:
Chevy Chevette. This may have been one of the worst cars built, take minutes to get up to speed and over-rev cruising in the highway, but it was also a tank that lived through 6 people learning to drive a stick and probably close to two decades.
It was also really easy to work on, but
- when I replaced the springs I found them light enough to compress by hand
- when my brother replaced the clutch he said it’s the only car he saw where the transmission was light enough to hold one handed while replacing
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 3 days ago:
It’s always money.
When I first moved to the town I live in now, I was impressed by the all new schools. However I eventually realized they replaced a bunch of older neighborhood schools with a smaller number of bigger schools. They saved money by providing a worse educational experience and making walking less likely.
We walked to my kids elementary school but the town saved money by not plowing the sidewalks in winter, nor forcing residents to. Our walk would require walking on a major street - until my ex went full Karen and made them plow
When my kids got to middle school, we were in “walking” distance so there was no bus. However that was a full mile including crossing a six lane road whose light was always broken. We ended up choosing a private school in a different town, so there were no buses nor walkability
Regional school districts are now common. More kids goto schools that are not even in their towns
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 6 days ago:
This sounds so much better than my bread machine where I have to add ingredients, press buttons, and wait four hours, but can never get a baguette
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 6 days ago:
Yeah, not drinking would be pure insanity, i could never. Imagine spending time with friends sober.
I just got off the phone with my kid at college and he was complaining that part of a group of his friends never hang out sober. It still happens.
He doesn’t drink so that’s a part of his social life he still needs to figure out, but he’s been taking exploration hikes instead: 18 miles today!
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 week ago:
I’ve always wanted one of these but really only to remind me of my grandparents house from when I was a kid
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 week ago:
As a parent, we made sure to have an analog clock in every room while my kids were growing up, and we made them prove they could read it. Still don’t work. Digital clocks are everywhere else and in many ways more convenient.
Analog clocks are an obsolete decice whose time has passed. I also tried to keep it alive into the next generation but it’s not happening. It’s time to give it up.
Let that be one of our hallmarks as we age: the last generation with analog clocks. I use an analog face on my digital watch, have analog decorative clocks and I’ll accept that my kids believe that old fashioned (they do accept the analog clock face on my old car I gave them though, or maybe don’t know how to change it)
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 1 week ago:
It’s just as likely he’ll get bored or run out of money and never finish
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 1 week ago:
No girlfriend. She barely noticed him. The ultimate incel
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
the argument of “why would you try to save your battery by not using it when it has the same net effect of less battery?” is pretty short-sighted.
The argument is
- why try to save your phone battery when it’s critical to last the day and eventual replacement is cheap?
- it’s much more important to save your car battery because you won’t miss it on normal days, you want max range available for road trips, and replacing the battery is very expensive
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
Definitely incredible but I still feel like people’s excitement is misdirected.
- they’re less energy dense so not likely to be on phones or many cars
- for cars the extra life is marginal when existing batteries already last more than the life of a typical vehicle
- much cheaper will make a huge difference in low end cars.
- but storage is the killer app! I don’t care about energy density but they’re much cheaper and will last much longer. Huge win!
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
I don’t see this as a valid comparison.
- replacement phone batteries are really not that expensive. Don’t overthink it. Is it really a problem you might spend $50-$100 in three years to replace the battery?
- car batteries are not just much more expensive but they’re also overkill. Charging to 80% is more than enough for almost everyone’s daily driving on most vehicles, so why charge more?
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
Most of these infamous early failure modes that people are afraid of are entirely possible to repair at home for a DIY guy. On a BEV I’m shit out of luck
In a BEV many of those failure modes don’t exist. It’s quite possible we’ll see them last much longer with essentially no issues
BEVs use conventional suspensions and brake systems, so failure there are likely just as repairable DIY
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
The batteries have gotten better over time, but they can still fail fairly early
Aside from the OG Nissan Leaf with passive cooling, this really seems like more of a scare tactic than an actual issue.
I don’t know about all EVs, but assuming they’re similar to mine:
- warrantees for 8 years, 120,000 miles
- solid history of batteries lasting 250,000 miles or more
- aside from accident or in the beginning, batteries rarely actually fail. The above are defined for battery health being above 80%
I’m sure it happens that a few people need to replace the battery but they tend to last beyond the full expected lifetime of most cars and the usual failure mode is to continue working with less range
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Maybe they need those booty shorts on the other thread instead of conservative trunks
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 week ago:
Let me play devils advocate……
One of my cars has the hvac controls on the screen and it’s usually fine, because it is actually smart. I only need to set the temperature and it remembers that.
For example now that it’s getting cold, I almost never need to touch those controls
- I can preheat through an app (no subscription needed)
- when I start my car, the thermostat is set to 69 (heh heh) where I last left it
- the car goes through a progression: heating steering wheel and seat first, then automatically off when the cabin temperature comes up
- the glaring problem is defroster. Aside from initial heat up I don’t know a good way to switch to that while driving. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be automatic and fails or if there is a shortcut somewhere
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 1 week ago:
I didn’t know that. I guess my “English privilege” is showing
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Cool, thanks for the detail!
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 1 week ago:
Sure there are limitations. The point still stands: an imperfect machine translation is better than no translation, as long as people understand it is.
Can we afford to allow a high bad deprive people of knowledge just because of the language they speak?
The article complains about the affect on languages of poor machine translations, but the affect of no translations is worse. Yes those Greenlanders should be able to read all of Wikipedia without learning English and even if the project has no human translators
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 1 week ago:
Is it even getting misused? Spreading knowledge via machine translation where there are no human translators available, had to be better than not translating. As long as there is transparency so people can judge the results ……
And ai training trusting everything it reads is a larger systemic issue, not limited to this niche.
Perhaps part of the solution is machine readable citations. Maybe a search engine or ai could provide better results if it knew what was human generated vs machine generated. But even then you have huge gaps on one side with untrustworthy humans (like comedy) and on the other side with machine generated facts such as from a database
- Comment on Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions 1 week ago:
Maybe they did. We’ll find out in a couple decades
- Comment on American public transit 1 week ago:
And smaller roads. The routes that are ideal for trains already have the overloaded highways that are already too big to maintain rain and cant scale to traffic: just one more lane, bro?
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 1 week ago:
I can’t say they’ve actually helped me find lost or stolen things but they’ve helped me find my keys around the house. I’ve verified they find my luggage when travelling such as when I leave it at the hotel for a day trip and my laptop bag if I have to leave it on my car
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 2 weeks ago:
And yet they never worked that way. Sure sometimes they were at the end so you only had that to use and you never could tell how many days they were like that but otherwise you try pulling it and it’s all wet. I always assumed it was Chester to just turn it around at the end than to actually get a clean roll