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Myspace and early Facebook were already a downgrade to classic chatrooms. I met with so many interesting people on chat in the early 2000s and have met with many offline as well. M…

I think the heat dissipation relative to volume of the ISS is way lower than these satellites, yet that already needs sizable thermal radiators to cool: https://physics.stackexchan…

Google just got hacked in June: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/voi... https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/08/09/google-c...

How do LLMs calculate statistic metrics like average or standard deviation accurately in such experiments?

The background of the multiple hacks that led to the demise of Mt. Gox got a nice coverage on Darknet Diaries in 2017: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/9/

Since Monday numerous customers in Hungary are getting charged by Apple Pay without any reason. It looks that settled past trnsactions are booked again by error. Even blocking your…

Totally agree. I always cry on the inside when I see those beautifully designed, symmetrical, detailed sets taken apart and tossed together to form the next ninja castle or whateve…

And this means a 10x increase in the thermistor price compared to the toaster. It cold be even as high as $2 for a piece!

I don't want to be rude, but given the average quality of material produced by big consulting companies I have encountered over my career, I'm not that surprised that GPT4 beats th…

All the big corps I ever worked for had their devices configured to go through the central VPN and proxy even for browsing. But I guess blocking $$$ corporate visitors should be fi…

Have visited the site through my self hosted OpenVPN tunnel and got 0 for both the VPN and proxy score.

The title is misleading. Only the fairly new and surprisingly expensive SMRs were taken into account, the much cheaper traditional nuclear power plants weren't. Which could be fine…

Given how easy it would be to turn in an AI generated patent claiming that you were the inventor I think this is some legal activism and the guy doesn't actually care about these p…

Being target of an investigation can have enormous costs. I've been there several times. I needed to provide ample of documents that took time to assemble and I needed to take part…

Not reflecting to this particular theory, but in general history is full of theories which were not testable at their birth, but both engineering and the evolution of the theory ev…

Not in the US or EU. However, they can still sue you in the US and due to the broken legal system there, it will cost you decent money even if they are bound to lose from day 1.

And there are 100 times more potentially fraudulent transactions than climate contributions. Humanity at scale...

Antigua. Shame on me, but the first time I hear about this country...

The article claims this is a common problem in the developed countries, not just in the USA.

Happy you. All the 3 ISPs I dealt with in Hungary in the last 10 years provided 0 firewall capability for IPv6 in their integrated router/modem. Once you start assigning the addres…

Is there anything similar in other European countries as well?

Even when I'm at home with a mouse, I tend to fall back to the trackpoint to adjust sliders or pick colours precisely in Lightroom. Trackpoints on my Thinkpad give superior positio…

I have measured this while being away for a week during winter. While there is ventilation in the building, it's off while noone is at home. Although the scenario in question was f…