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Pornhub has banned many videos already. It forbids and deletes any amateur video not posted by the original author (to prevent revenge porn, non-consensual porn, repost of videos s…

This sounds to me like an gigantic amount of money. I looked it up and apparently it was $136B in 2019¹ and $111B today². And Microsoft, although it is the company with the most ca…

I had an anti-corruption mandatory course in a previous job in the naval industry. They talked about drugs hidden in refrigerated containers: they swapped the insulation material o…

I'm baffled by how good minetest is now. Don't get me wrong they don't have feature parity with minecraft and likely never will. But the fact that they built the game as a voxel en…

I don't know the spread of this movement but it does exist. For example, the national electric company deployed a new generation of electric meter (Linky) which can communicate dat…

Contrary to iron, silver or gold, aluminium has to be chemically extracted. The mineral you extract aluminium from is bauxite. This chemical process was mastered so recently that t…

The lowtech magazine published this number¹: > Scientists have calculated the lifetime carbon emissions of a steel bike at 35 kg CO2, compared to 212 kg CO2 for an aluminum bicycle…

Not to dismiss your point but sometimes finding in rats do not apply to humans.

You are right I was comparing buying over the internet and talking to someone, but if I have the choice to talk to someone in person versus over the phone, I would prefer in person…

I think it is fair to test the ability of a large manufacturer to sell computer through the phone. Many people do not know what they need to accomplish their work so asking the sel…

> But they really don't. They might have familiarized at one point of time, but that snapshot is not where the world is at now. They cannot really expect that the world around them…

I think it is because Linux users tend to be more familiar with their software than users of other OSes. They chose it and they configured them, sometimes for hours. Also they may …

I think your theory is correct. Back when messages where not checksummed, the French Navy used to do exactly this and sent abbreviations three times in a row. I'm quite certain tha…

Wouldn't `cal -m 1` show the year 0001 ?

Yes, the article says that half of the people resuscitated by CPR wished it didn't happen. The linked paper explicitly says this figure is valid for in-hospital administered CPR, s…

That last part scared me! I tend to have ADB debug over USB always enabled on my phone but I'm not in any way enabling debug over wifi now I know this.

That's why developed countries tend to educate their citizen for free.

I have a cheap laptop with a broken case and a flaky screen. Repurposing it as a desktop pc with a small case like this would be really nice.

It is actually just French.

Yep, once met an hydraulic engineer who thought his wife could find leakages through magnetic fields while looking at a map of a power dam.

Although I admit it is a niche, retro computing web pages can be found unencrypted to allow access to ancient computers incapable of performing TLS computations.

Thanks!

How can I check if a connection is TLS or STARTTLS?

Isn't 465 safer since 587 uses STARTTLS and STARTTLS can be downgraded?

It depends on ship type. For example methane carriers are expected to hit 40 years of lifetime while some low-end bulk carriers are scrapped after only 15 years.