

And they wonder why nobody’s buying their cars…
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And they wonder why nobody’s buying their cars…
Does the EU already have legislation demanding the age verification? I’ve so far only heard about the UK‘s Online Safety Act being effective since last week, but not about anything in the EU (yet).


Plus all the space debris (like hundreds of Starlink satellites) burning up in the atmosphere. Without searching for sources, I’m pretty confident that this isn’t good for the atmosphere either


If you get efficiency gains of around 50% (factor 1.5 from ~20% efficiency to ~30%) with the same deployment costs, this should nonetheless make it more cost-effective.


Is it only available in the US App Store? I can imagine that some people who could make good use of it don’t have a US Apple ID.


Don’t look up!
Some websites still require you to type www. explicitly.
For example, my university… Try https://tu-darmstadt.de/ and then try https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/
I find that annoying because I’m lazy 😂


I hope this article is well peer-reviewed. Otherwise this reads as if some LLM came up with the idea
Move fast and leave things broken


Users can choose it, but it isn’t the default


You could in the past (until around 1-2 years ago). I don’t know why it changed, though.
I’m still waiting for the day that I can make a full backup of my chats and save it on an external hard drive so that I won’t lose all of my message history when I lose my phone.
[…] it uses the X25519 public key… as a symmetric key, for AES-GCM.
[…] anyone that knows the public key can decrypt it.
Ouch.
There’s the research project OpenDrop from a few years ago:
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
(Disclaimer: I had a student job at SEEMOO and wrote my thesis there, though I was not involved with OpenDrop)