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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quantum teleportation between photons from two distant light sources achieved⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Quantum encryption will be “broken” the same way as conventional crypto is: side channels. It’s nice to have, but it doesn’t solve the most common attacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If money is going to be irrelevant, then he should give his all away right now. Get ahead of that curve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, is this thread under the misconception that the X360 outsold the PS3? Because that’s wrong.

  www.vgchartz.com/charts/…/Hardware.php/

  X360 did win in North America, but PS3 had a small lead globally. The PS3 was completely dominant in Japan, and had a sizable lead in Europe.

  If it wasn’t for the Red Ring of Death, the X360 probably would have won. In many ways, Microsoft’s gaming division never recovered from that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Today, we remind you that AWS isn’t the only single point of failure on the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨open source is a cult but it doesn't have to be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how cults work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume he doesn’t wipe for the same reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Android really the next big desktop operating system?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Our long nightmare of commodity hardware and open ecosystems is finally coming to an end!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s just take the W on this one, ok?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I didn't verify the headline.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Utilikilt.com?

  It’s something like Kleenex. It’s a specific brand, but got used generically. The rivet pattern around the crotch is the company’s trademark (and they’re not shy about suing others over it), but there are canvas kilts out there otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually put it at $10M, and there are specific arguments for this.

  The Trinity Study used a standard retirement portfolio and then studied its results using a sliding window starting from 1925. Let’s say you retire at 60 and expect to have another 20 years of life. This time period covers good stock market performance and bad, high inflation and low. It’s a very robust result, and the US and even worldwide economy would have to fundamentally change for it to be invalidated. (You could argue that Trump is driving things in that direction, but that’s a whole other discussion.)

  How much of the portfolio can you withdraw each year and be safe?

  The study starts with a percentage withdraw rate, which is increased by the rate of inflation each year. It then checks if the portfolio would have run out of money before the person is expected to die. This resulted in the 4% rule where you start withdrawing 4% the first year and then increase by inflation. It’s extremely unlikely that you’ll run out of money in a standard retirement period.

  If you withdraw 3% or 2%, you won’t run out of money even if you live forever.

  So let’s take a 2.5% withdraw rate. This is extremely conservative and should basically last forever. US government bond rates are typically higher than that (but not always), so we’re not even that tied to the stock market on this one. If you had $10M, take 2.5% the first year and increase by inflation each year after, you would perpetually have the purchasing power of $250k/year.

  If you have $250k/year, you can live very comfortably anywhere on Earth. This is the part where someone always chimes in “what about the Bay area or New York?”

  First, with this plan, you can live anywhere. You’re not tied to an area by a job. Maybe don’t chose high cost of living areas.

  OK, let’s say there’s family or something else that’s specifically tying you to those areas. Median income in Manhattan is $106k, and the other burrows are significantly lower. San Fransisco median is $136k. I’m quite certain you can live comfortably on $250k in those areas if you absolutely had to for some reason.

  Also, don’t forget that unlike all us working stiffs, you wouldn’t have to put another dime into a 401k or any other retirement plan. Your $10M already covers that. Feel free to spend it all on luxuries.

  So that’s the limit. We can increase the $10M based on future inflation, but higher than that is just wanking about how much you have, and there’s no reason society should respect that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Supposedly, God chose Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump as his prophets. What kind of shit ass God would chose those dirtbags? Even if he existed, why worship an asshole like that?

  At least Zeus was up front about being an asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat Control isn’t dead, Denmark has a new proposal − here’s all we know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How did Denmark end up being the bad guy in this? Volunteering for the role seems out of character, but who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, if the dealership is offering you 29% on a 7 year loan, please walk away. Stop giving in to that shit. It’s better for you, and it’s better for the rest of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a very seamless experience with Bitwarden. Pretty much “click passkey, now logged in”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the sites I’ve seen use it as the single auth source. That said, using multiple forms of authentication in a layered model only improves security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Bitwarden and it syncs it all up between devices.

  The biggest annoyance is disabling Firefox’s popovers that tend to cover the Bitwarden popovers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the root of the problem. Nontechnical people don’t use good passwords, but all the ideas we have for replacing them are only usable by more technically minded people.

  There are a variety of other reasons why passwords are bad, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pansexuality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s just say that I’m very protective of my cast iron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an abuse of a rule meant for something else. There is no reason it has to be 60%

  The rule comes from a bit of Senate procedure where you vote for “cloture”. What this is supposed to be is “we’re done discussing things, and now we should move on to voting on the legislation”. It’s not supposed to be a vote for or against the legislation itself, but rather just moving along in the process.

  Over the years, it got abused more and more to mean “a vote for cloture is a vote in favor of the legislation”. Around the time Obama started his first term, it fully meant that.

  The Senate can simply change the rule to require majority vote. It would require a simple majority vote to do so. There’s a lot of fossilized politicians on both sides who don’t want that. They know that America tends to be swingy with its votes; the party out of power now will tend to be the party back in power next cycle. They want the power to stop legislation when the cycle swings against them.

  Now, if Republicans in the Senate believed they would have a permanent majority through vote rigging, which is clearly the Administration’s plan, then they should have dropped the filibuster rule like Trump wanted. The fact that the idea was stillborn suggests that congressional Republicans don’t actually think Trump can pull it off, or perhaps that the plan wouldn’t benefit them individually, or they are somehow not in on the plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jet engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨grindr dump (in post body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and they don’t even have a clue how clueless they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the Web Became Unreadable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Several designers pointed me to Ian Storm Taylor’s article, “Design Tip: Never Use Black.” In it, Taylor argues that pure black is more concept than color. “We see dark things and assume they are black things,” he writes. “When, in reality, it’s very hard to find something that is pure black. Roads aren’t black. Your office chair isn’t black. The sidebar in Sparrow isn’t black. Words on web pages aren’t black.”

  Taylor was correct. The problem is applying it badly. You can back off from absolute black and white while still having good contrast. This is especially true for dark mode.

  The author later compares things to newspapers, which are traditionally black on white. Except not quite; newsprint paper isn’t bleached white, and I’m guessing the ink isn’t quite as deep black as it first appears, either.

  More importantly, there’s an important distinction between newspapers and computer screens. Newspapers only reflect light around them, while screens give off their own light. This means screens can be significantly brighter than the environment around them.

  That’s why dark mode works so well. It keeps the bright points on the screen to the parts you need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Killing SNAP benefits now is demanding a Blue Congress next election.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Administration’s idea is that the 2026 election will be rigged in their favor.

  Which might not work. Congressional Republicans may not be in on the plan, at least not all of them. Even if they are, they might be getting cold feet. Same with Republicans at the state level, and they’re the ones who have direct control over elections.

  Don’t rely on them falling apart on their own, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Killing SNAP benefits now is demanding a Blue Congress next election.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Political lean can be a funny thing. States move together. It could very well be that it doesn’t shift enough to pick up those extra 3 states, but if it does, there will probably be several more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Protection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but they’re also fucked if we disappear. Corn as we know it is so far removed from the native plant that it can’t spread itself around without us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨grindr dump (in post body)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You sound like the reason women choose the bear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨grindr dump (in post body)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny how I never seem to have these issues with fems and non-binary people. Even the ones who grew up masc. In fact, most of the problems there are a direct result of really shitty behavior from men and trying to cope with it.

  Instead of going “not all men”, maybe try to point out shitty behavior? Maybe one day, we can get past all this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨grindr dump (in post body)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try an experiment: go on Fetlife and setup a profile as a fem. Start collecting DMs. It might be enlightening.

  And by your own definition, you’re also the worst.

  Yes, you’re very smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try Butt Nutts Today!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that feeling. Years ago, I was really tempted to give up arguing with audiophiles and try to make money off them instead. Didn’t do it because I have too many morals.

  But I wouldn’t judge you for grifting MAGA. Make that guy with a confederate battle flag tattoo on his Fetlife profile pay up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try Butt Nutts Today!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly enough, MAGA-themed sex toys may be an untapped but highly lucrative market. Cock ring with an eagle attached? Coming to a cringy Fetlife profile near you.