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- Comment on Yeasty 6 days ago:
Yeah, they really had to rise to the occasion here. Some people would have disposed of it irresponsibly, but I guess they're just bread better there, although whoever left it in the sun must have been baked.
- Comment on Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder 1 week ago:
Thanks for the analogy, that really helps to put it in perspective. I was trying to work out the number of molecules per metre that would leave you with, but either my sense of scales is off kilter or I've got it wrong.
From what I can find, there are approximately 2.5e25 molecules per m3 at 1atm. Given an 11km cube has a volume of 1.3e12 m3, that gives around 2e13 molecules per m3 per m3 released. That sounds high, have I got the figures wrong somewhere?
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 2 weeks ago:
It tracks the location of a body (or anything else that causes the same sort if interference), but it doesn't identify the person, and as such they can reasonably make the claim that this technology is privacy preserving.
Of course, as with anything that claims to anonymise data, or preserve privacy, that assertion starts to fall down when you use the resulting data in conjunction with other data sources, even if they too claim to be privacy preserving.
- Comment on In the cave 3 weeks ago:
It might not be windowless; consider midwinter, when a real window will just be a dark rectangle for most of the important parts of the morning and evening. Having a fake window showing somewhere bright and warm could help lift one's spirits if you didn't think about it too much.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 3 weeks ago:
Hmm.
/me Makes you disappear entirely except for your mouth.Promptly get stuck in a boobytrapped express elevator.
Ok, fair enough.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 3 weeks ago:
Believe it or not...straight to jail.
I've just spotted your username, I feel sure one of your relations had some sort of run in with the sysops already, and now you're trying to convince people that there can't be server reboots? Suspicious. Very suspicious.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 3 weeks ago:
No need, you just allocate users to servers depending on theie average sleep/wake cycle nd bounce the servers one at a time, when usage is at a minimum. Ever had one if those late night brain's gone blank moments? Now you know.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 3 weeks ago:
Destroying the encryption key tends to be the only reliable way to put the data beyond use. Physical destruction techniques like the obe in the article have been tried before, and iften leave the data intact, just destroying the driver side of the chips. It's not easy to retrieve the data, but a sufficiently determined and resourced oppinent can do it.
Obviously, there's no reason not to do both, for added certainty, but if the encryption protocols used in proper FDE are compromised, we have a lot more to worry about.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 3 weeks ago:
It does seem like it would be simpler and more reliable to use full disk encryption to encrypt the data before it's written, and just destroy the key if you want to nuke the data.
- Comment on What's the solution to QR code phishing? 4 weeks ago:
While there's probably no global solution, personally I use a QR Code reader that doesn't actually use the URL, but just displays it and lets me copy it to the clipboard. That way I can inspect it, and if it doesn't look right, ignore it.
- Comment on Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform 4 weeks ago:
This is excellent article on enshitification, some of the factors that can lead to it, and ways founders could think about it to hopefully avoid it. What it doesn't seem to talk about is how Tailscale intends to avoid it, now and in the future.
- Comment on Coffee time 5 weeks ago:
This is painfully true. I want to say something pithy about it, but my brain is filled with cotton wool and sludge.
- Comment on Birb 1 month ago:
Can't argue with that logic. I always knew those feathered menaces were out to get us.
- Comment on Palpable Nonsense! 1 month ago:
All right, fine. It's wok fried rice... No, wait, I see where this is going.
- Comment on Palpable Nonsense! 1 month ago:
Quite right. It's human fried rice with shrimp.
- Comment on wtf 1 month ago:
The thing is, humans are astonishingly good at conserving energy when running. We can literally run prey to death by just keeping on going when most animals run out of energy.
- Comment on Lämp sauce brother 1 month ago:
You've got this, just show her how attracted to her you are, tell her she's your sun and your moon, that she's all you think about, that the world seems dark without her.
- Comment on I don't think he's sorry 1 month ago:
That would explain the slightly dazed look...
- Comment on xkcd #3099: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump 2 months ago:
Jeeniouss!
So, heat pumps are more than 100% efficient, in that they move more heat than the energy needed to run them. Therefore, the neighbour should also install this system, creating a closed system that keeps both houses warm at better than 100% efficiency. I think this might solve all our energy needs, and global warming in one go. Tsk, to think the so called scientists have been trying to get fusion working when this solution is already practical.
- Comment on AI boomer trait 2 months ago:
Well, that's a horrifying dystopia, well done.
"the kids won't see it as weird. they'll transition straight from their parents deciding their meals to corporations doing the same" is the bit that sold it for me. It's entirely plausible, corporations would live it, and I hate it.