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> The tl;dr here is they also don't want to have to pay to outsource their support staff, so they're paying openai or someone else instead. I don't think that's the right lens to v…

> Your face scan is now online waiting for the next data breach Completely understood, but the point is that it's at CBP or UK Border Force or Bundespolizei, and it's in the securi…

I get that this is about preventing ticket reselling, but I have a different question: Can someone explain the controversy around face scans for air travel? Governments have clearl…

As another commenter noted, this is data from the German online shop MindFactory, which could be understood as the German equivalent to NewEgg. MindFactory would probably overrepre…

The KeePass2Android app gains a bit of functionality if you use it with SFTP instead. You get the ability to, for example, merge changes in the event that there's a conflict. I rec…

> Hydrogen is a terrible battery. Best case conversion to H2 is ~80%, while best case fuel cell efficiency is ~50%. That's 40% round trip while most batteries can do 90%. While the…

> And there’s certainly no robust H supply that doesn’t include fossil fuel to create the H gas The government of Chile published a pretty clear national strategy to address this v…

Because a user sitting in the United States could be served copyrighted content by GitLab. It would likely even come from one of GitLab's servers in the US. In that hypothetical in…

> Anyone else starting to get the feeling that the idea of "base load" power was a scam I don't think it was in the past, it's just becoming obsolete, piece by piece. Each method o…

I don't have hard numbers, but I can say that spam on both sides of the ocean exist. In the US, we get a lot of SMS spam targeted at homeowners, pestering them about selling their …

> My work has 480V 3-phase for our SMT line. We have permanently-installed charge stations on that 3-phase service. Are all three phases even being sent to the electric cars? The J…

> while CCS2 can do 3-phase charging Is that at all relevant for the North American market, where no one would be using three phase power to charge their car? And is it even releva…

It's absolutely fantastic that we have so many runtimes, so quickly, to the point where we have an awesome list. However, given that the usefulness of chatbots depends more on the …

I can't recommend the long HDMI (or HDMI-over-CAT5, or long Thunderbolt) enough. The noise isolation you can achieve by doing so is unbeatable. Even moving anything short of a 1U s…

> Every household driving an F150 would appear to the grid like bring 7x houses online That assumes every household fully recharges that F-150 each day, meaning they drive at least…

The dark spot near the border with Belgium is possibly due to heavy use of Starlink after the flooding last year, and therefore Starlink is probably over provisioned there. The dar…

Artifactory does precisely this. It's particularly useful since large organizations want to minimize their risk of, for example, a Docker Hub outage preventing an emergency hotfix.…

This is absolutely valid. I do welcome diet sodas as an alternative to regular sodas, but that concerns health outcomes, not environmental concerns. This problem applies to any dri…

This is something that really needs a source, because after a ton of searching, all of the analysis that I can find refutes this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC41354…

> Anybody up for joining the "reduced-calorie segment"? In all seriousness, yes, I'm actually thrilled at the continued prominence of sugar-free drinks. We still have an obesity ep…

Cert-manager has great support for a number of providers[0] including AWS, CloudFlare, Google Cloud, and Azure. I recommend this not just for internal IP setups, for actually for a…

> Then you get to grocery stores, and you have to go to the “fancy places” to even get the baseline of quality you see in the rest of the developed world. All the chocolate is bad.…

Berlin really isn't that dense, and it's surrounded by Brandenburg, which is a whole bunch of flat, empty land. Furthermore, the rail network exists to handle extra capacity, so th…

Furthermore, if you want to return the item, you're entitled to a full refund, rather than being forced to pay for shipping for an item you didn't want.