NeatNit
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- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 2 days ago:
That’s significantly worse privacy-wise, since Google gets a copy of everything.
Obviously, but I still haven’t gone through all the things I’ve ever signed up to and changed my email to the proton one. When I sign up to new stuff I use Proton, this is a necessary step for transition… And one that is likely to stay in place for a very long time since I’m going to keep procrastinating it.
Unless you’re using proton mail anonymously then you don’t need to consider the recover email as a weakness.
Excellent point.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 2 days ago:
FYI email contents were not decrypted or turned over to police, as far as I know Proton’s E2EE is still as good as whatever system you’re using. Proton doesn’t have the keys to decrypt your emails, it never did. What they have access to is metadata that is necessary to function when your private key is unavailable - e.g. your public encryption key used to encrypt incoming emails from non-Proton sources, or in this case, a recovery email address (I don’t know what the recovery process entails and whether it can restore encrypted emails).
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 2 days ago:
Don’t put any recovery info on Proton
About that. I’m still making the transition from gmail and currently most of my mail still goes to gmail first and gets forwarded to Proton through their easy switch process. Surely this is just as up for grabs as a recovery email, right?
FWIW I’m not likely to be investigated any time soon so I’m not worried either way.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 2 days ago:
Not really, Linux is still vulnerable and there is a mitigation but it opens a side channel attack.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 2 days ago:
This technique can also be used against an already established VPN connection once the VPN user’s host needs to renew a lease from our DHCP server. We can artificially create that scenario by setting a short lease time in the DHCP lease, so the user updates their routing table more frequently. In addition, the VPN control channel is still intact because it already uses the physical interface for its communication. In our testing, the VPN always continued to report as connected, and the kill switch was never engaged to drop our VPN connection.
Sounds to me like it totally works even after the tunnel has started.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
I’m absolutely sure this wouldn’t work but I need to know why it wouldn’t work
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
The excellent podcast That’s Absurd Please Elaborate answered this: thatsabsurdshow.com/…/005-scores-mutual-nightmare…
TL;DL: big mistake, big boom
- Comment on smh 1 week ago:
no I mean the format, lebron james reportedly …?
- Comment on smh 1 week ago:
okay can someone explain this meme? I’m out of the loop, honestly not sure I even wanna know but I have to know
- Comment on cowabunga 1 week ago:
Why have you all heard of this
- Comment on MRIs 1 week ago:
can’t unsee the circle thing
- Comment on Carnivores 1 week ago:
Would you rather leave that soil barren? At least something grows on it now!
- Comment on Megafauna 1 week ago:
Thought the title said “Magafauna”, which also works
- Comment on How does DNA decide the shape of the body? 1 week ago:
This was posted a few hours before your comment by a user named neuropean. It’s absolutely amazing!
- Comment on Microsoft and IBM make MS-DOS 4.00 Open-Source 1 week ago:
They could not care less, this is so ancient and irrelevant.
- Comment on The more air conditions in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Talk about infinite money glitch. 1 week ago:
I don’t know the answer, but it this did work it would both make the outside of the oven super cold and be so slow to warm up that it would be pointless. Keep in mind that you have to get stuff in and out so air exchange is inevitable, every time you open the door you’d be reducing the heat substantially and it would take a long time to rise back up.
Also my gut feeling is that any practical implementation wouldn’t be as energy efficient as you’d hope.
- Comment on topology 1 week ago:
The big domino is the question.
- Comment on topology 1 week ago:
I will need some context for this, I’m afraid.
- Comment on How does DNA decide the shape of the body? 1 week ago:
How is this so good hole crap
- Comment on How does DNA decide the shape of the body? 1 week ago:
I might have to read that. Thank you.
- Comment on How does DNA decide the shape of the body? 1 week ago:
By the way, in case you’d have a guess for the answer:
If scientists really wanted to, throwing all questions of ethics out the window, would it be possible to genetically engineer a person with four arms instead of two, kinda like Goro? Does our current understanding of this go far enough to make deliberate changes like that? And would that baby be able to develop in a normal woman’s pregnancy?
- Comment on How does DNA decide the shape of the body? 1 week ago:
So in the end Hox genes are probably what you are looking for.
Thank you! I will read up on that.
If leg Hox genes are expressed where fruitfly normally have antennae, you get this horror:
So, a core part of my question is what causes certain genes to be expressed in certain places in the body, and specifically how this comes about from genetics alone (i.e. not artificially in lab experiments). In my past searches I did find some info about forcing gene expression in places where it wouldn’t normally happen, which creates horrors similar to the one you shared, but I never found an answer for how this is controlled in natural development. Hox genes seem to be the answer I’m looking for :)
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- Comment on A photography depicting the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza - 2565 BCE. 1 week ago:
People calling this picture fake, but it’s obviously real because how else could this picture exist???
- Comment on Woaaaaa 1 week ago:
First sentence was a joke - hence “on a more serious note” for the next sentence. And if you think I’m using it wrong then, well, best of luck to you.
- Comment on Woaaaaa 1 week ago:
The correct way to use the tool is to lay the continent over the US.
Typical American, declaring that the US is the default country to compare every other country to!
On a more serious note, putting things side by side is the same as putting them over each other. Difference in height are not the same though, as closer to the equator size shrinks. The best way to compare is take two things and put them side by side on the equator - that’s where there’s least distortion.
- Comment on Why do cameras call it "Macro Lens" if it zooms in and is used to capture tiny objects? Shouldn't it be "Micro Lens"? 1 week ago:
Macro generally is when a lens will reproduce an object the same size on film/sensor as it is in life.
Hey that’s pretty cool. Is it really what happens?
- Comment on vengance 2 weeks ago:
Honestly though, if I read the article right the headline isn’t wrong.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 2 weeks ago:
Right, I forgot about that edge case… But at least they agree about a particular date’s day of the week, don’t they? And they’re consistently one day off. This proposed system would be inconsistently off, sometimes in sync and sometimes 3 days off.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 3 weeks ago:
Currently, everyone in the world agrees and the days of the week (correct me if I’m wrong). If it’s Monday in France it’s Monday in Finland, except a few hours due to timezones. But if a particular society adopts this system, or any system under which every year starts on a particular day of the week and is solar aligned, that necessitates losing that sync with the entire rest of the world.
A possible solution is to only use leap weeks. So every year has 364 days, but every 6 years or so (spare me the exact calculation) you track on a leap week to realign with the solar cycle. This is similar to the leap month in the Hebrew calendar - months follow the moon so a leap month is the smallest unit possible to tweak the length of a year.