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The article mentions, but doesn't explicitly state, that they're going to be using electron beam lithography. Makes sense for their low volume and/or prototype fab goal, but I'm cu…

I think people have a heightened reaction to threats based on the CFAA for "the door was open" circumstances because that law is so widely known for being used in threats against f…

Yeah, fair enough. "Compliance" is probably the phrasing I should've used, rather than "security". I've been curious for a while about the overall taxonomy of security, especially …

I think at this point the brand reputation and software quality are a big selling point. If you're trying to build a couple of units of some embedded thing where you need to toggle…

A physical TPM with their overall high-quality software support would be awesome. I've spent far too much time messing around trying to get TPMs working over SPI or I2C to meet sec…

I can't get myself to do the battery-built-in-to-charger thing. I've always treated portable power banks as semi-disposable since they do eventually get worse and fail, and it feel…

I wouldn't be against better labeling, but I've found that I don't have to worry about it too much, day to day. USB-C has allowed me to grab one decent two-port charging brick, two…

Where I live these days, it's 50/50 heat included in rent versus not, and I have to remind my friends that literally all of the buildings they rent in are 50+ years old. And if you…

Interesting, I would've guessed that they would've forcibly been on Windows since time immemorial. Entirely unsurprised that someone would refuse to give up their workflow, though!…

I was curious to see the "Innovative DICOM Medical Imaging" section. I wouldn't have thought that Apple would be interested in niche applications like viewing radiology imaging, bu…

Seems to be the expected relatively small refresh, mostly just adding the M5? The language towards the end of the press release implies to me that they're targeting last-gen Intel …

Echoing a sibling comment, lots of landlords require it now, and the basic packages that insurers offer you as a bundle with auto or other forms of insurance are pretty decent, dep…

> But iNaturalist data is often not considered high quality enough to be publishable by itself (wide brush statement) in my field of plant conservation. As someone who recently sta…

I find this stuff really interesting, so if anyone's curious, here's a few more tidbits: GPS system time is currently 18s ahead of UTC since it doesn't take UTC's leap seconds into…

I think GP might’ve been referring to the part of Jeff’s post that references GPS, which I think may be a slight misunderstanding of the NIST email (saying “people using NIST + GPS…

Raspberry Pi seems to have been on a tear of good stuff this year. Lots of activity on both the hardware accessory and software side. I've been following their secure boot provisio…

Networking on Linux in general seems to be very susceptible to "wrong tutorial" in recent years, what with distros switching between different network control suites. So far, I've …

Yeah, if they had had more altitude, I would guess that this would have looked even more like the AA 191 crash from 1979, with the left wing stalling and causing a roll and pitch d…

The picture towards the end of the antenna in the window is funny, since I personally would be afraid someone would panic seeing it set up. Don’t like the thought of explaining a r…

I feel for the families with their reactions to people diving to the wreck, especially the fear that it could become a tourist attraction, but people being so upset at the various …

Right now, yes. You can pretty easily have a scenario where you’re talking to the agency you’re working with and they’re saying “we want to renew this, but we don’t know if they’ll…

It’ll be interesting to see if Ariane 6 can ever reach competitiveness with SpaceX on price for commercial launches, but I’m sure Europe will be happy to have their own workhorse r…

I’ve been happy to see more and more of the banking-related services that I use stop requiring that and give each other actual API access. I absolutely refuse to hand over my crede…

Given that Starship and Super Heavy are both methalox fueled, wouldn’t the combustion products in the exhaust be carbon dioxide and water?