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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google adds end-to-end email encryption to Gmail⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Later this year, when the feature is fully implemented, Workspace users with E2EE enabled will be able to send encrypted messages to any external email users. Instead of the message, recipients will receive a link that, when clicked, will take them to a restricted version of Gmail where they need to authenticate with the organization’s chosen identity provider to view the decrypted message. External users will also be able to reply within the same restricted Gmail interface.

  How can it be end2end then? If you don’t have some kind of public key of your recipient but they are still able to read the message once they proofed their identity, that means that the secret to decrypt the mail is stored on Google servers and/or part of the link which is send in a non-encrypted plain-text mail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. start-up unveils ‘world’s largest’ transparent organic PV window⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  windows also absorb and convert infrared light, reducing the building’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) demands

  I get the air conditioning part. If the window transforms parts of the energy into electricity, there’s less energy entering the building. But how can it reduce heating at the same time? If less infrared enters the room behind the glass, you’d need more active heating in my mind, not less. Maybe, they mean heating costs if you use the electricity for a heat pump?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The more you know!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why only US bees? Pretty racist, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anotha one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re under arrest for disturbance of law enforcement. Lay flat on the ground and don’t even dare to resist. 🚨

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should have made it more challenging

  I wanted to use the heart-shaped walnut picture to cheer him up. Share some love when you nut your bros. <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ding ding ding - congratulations, you got it. :) You’re officially the winner #7b!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These nuts are indeed not really popular but I found them in a regular supermarket in Germany a couple of years ago. As someone mentioned they’re typically almost impossible to crack, so each nut already had a small canal sawed into the side and the box came with a metal lever that exactly fits into said canal. With that preparation it was quite easy to open them.

  You can also buy them online prepared that way. E.g. here: mypilinut.com/…/noix-de-pili-en-coque-seau-xxl-29… (I don’t know this shop, it was just the first result on Google, so no clue if it’s a fair price).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There you go - challenge #7b just for you: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ding ding ding - we’ve got our winner for today. Thank you very much for participation. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Know nut November Day #7 - What nut is this?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update on my plant. Unfortunately it might be sick, it has been getting worse every since I brought it home⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t see any insects on the leaves or the soil, I’d just give it some time. Water it every 2-4 weeks. If it’s a large pot of soil do it every 4 weeks with ~0,5 liters, in a smaller pot do it more often with a smaller quantity.

  In general, it’s better to water rarely, so the top layer of soil is dry most of the time. That way, you’re making the life harder for small flys to lay eggs and nurish from the roots.

  If it keeps losing leaves, don’t panic. Mine had a severe sunburn once and dropped all the leaves. After some weeks it started to recover and grew new leaves.

  I would say, the worst thing you can do is overwater. Mine is in a pretty huge pot (80 liters) and I give it (round about) 1,7 liters of water every 6 weeks in summer and 2-3 months in winter. That way the plant has to grow deep roots to the very bottom to reach the bottom and the top layers are rather dry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to take better care of my house plants. I got this plant recently, does anyone have tips?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it got cold on the way home or reacts to the change of light / temperature between the store and your place. I would recommend to not water it too much and don’t use too much fertilizer. I have one that already survives for more than 10 years and it’s still pretty healthy despite that I don’t pamper it at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Suffering⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I go for option 1.

  In all programming languages that I know, integers have a maximum number. E.g., in C that’d be 2,147,483,647. After that, you would run into an overflow, resulting in either…

  • a crash (train stops, no more deaths),
  • death count suddenly turns negative (all people previously killed are suddenly alive again and even new people are generated out of nowhere) - until we reach the next overflow when people disappear and start dying again
  • or - if it’s an unsigned integer - death count resets everytime we reach the maximum limit

  So compared to option 2, we have a chance of stopping the death count. And even if the train keeps running, we have essentially option 2 but the same people only die very rarely. If we assume a cycle of 1 death per second and an integer boundary of 2,147,483,647, that’s just one death every 68 years per person involved. Seems more fair to me compared to 100 people constantly dying over and over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers achieve first successful communication between dreaming individuals⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe more working hours for office workers. Everyone can do another 8 hours of lucid night shift.