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It’s akin to a qi charger, but also securely attaches to the phone magnetically.

Disagree. If one has physical access to your machine, they also have physical access to you. Practically everyone is vulnerable to rubber hose cryptanalysis.

It would fail, too. ‘CON’ has been a reserved name since the days of DOS (actually CP/M, though that doesn’t have direct lineage to Windows) where it acted as a device name for the…

China gets to project and grow their leadership in the EV space outside the Mainland while increasing their importance in a country that’s part of the US’s sphere of influence. Big…

Seveneves is the only Stephenson book I haven’t reread, and it’s because I don’t want to encounter that event again. I suppose I understand why he made that choice, but I don’t hav…

Do you want to catch a chair to the side of the head? Because this is how you catch a chair to the side of the head.

It feels that way because it is. Depending on the age of your partner’s Sportage, it’s a Hyundai Elantra or Sonata in a fatsuit.

Even worse, many times SUVs are built on the same chassis as cars. Honda builds both the HR-V and CR-V on the Civic chassis, the Toyota RAV-4 is a Corolla underneath, and the Ford …

It has to do with the fact that “[a]t $2.5 billion per mile, construction costs for the 1.8-mile Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway were 8 to 12 times more expensive than similar …

Matryoshka virtualization

Sockets remap pages without moving any data while pipes have to copy the data between fds.

What is dead may never die!

It’s not revenue, it’s prestige. Except in Texas, where it’s both.

The year of Linux on the laptop has yet to arrive for most of us. Windows and MacOS both offer better battery life, if for no other reason (and there are usually other reasons, lik…

I believe they mean ACME provisioning and renewal isn't baked into nginx, i.e. you have to install certbot separately and run it daily from a cron job or systemd timer, whereas tra…

There was some licensing drama[0] around BSD’s Broadcom bcm43xx driver. No idea if another driver was ever implemented as I’m not a BSD user. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/200704…

Those boxes of brand new Gillette razors are worth a fair amount too!

WhatsApp though?

I was given a 3rd gen dot at a conference and haven’t even set it up. It’s yours if you want it.

> Guess how useful this knowledge is today... But today, the useful bit is the process you learned to obtain that level of mastery.

It’s not that your audio is being amplified, it’s that the VAD classifier is poorly tuned. The noise should never even reach the recognition stage. Whisper’s hallucinations are pre…

IIRC you could use pirated games on the PS1 by first booting it off an audio CD with a lot of tracks, then swapping the disk at a certain point in the boot process.