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by Zak 1y ago
Wüsthof prints the steel it uses on the blades of many of its knives: X50CrMoV15[0], which is also called 1.4116 and 5Cr15MoV. It's not in OP's tool, but this article[1] by metallurgist Larrin Thomas includes it. His ratings are 2
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by Zak 1y ago
That's a different design; Audi uses a separate electric supercharger to fill in boost while waiting for its conventional turbochargers to spool up. Porsche is using a motor/generator built in to a turbocharger to spool it faster,
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by Zak 1y ago
> Maybe somebody could explain me why your comment is in different contrast of grey? Downvotes. Comments with negative scores are shown with lower contrast. The more negative the score, the less contrast they get.
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by Zak 1y ago
Rate limiting does not solve this problem because botnets often don't make repeated requests from the same IP address. 2FA does solve it.
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by Zak 1y ago
Porsche is doing that on a road car now. It can also act as a generator to limit maximum boost instead of opening a wastegate. https://www.motortrend.com/news/2025-porsche-911-gts-t-hybri...
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by Zak 1y ago
It reduces the attack surface area, and in theory allows more thorough vetting of apps that are eligible to use the permission without spending additional resources. I say in theory because I have the impression Google wants this to be almo
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by Zak 1y ago
> wanted to use only Go at any cost An alternate spin on this is that a project than runs on around ten operating systems would like to maintain a common codebase for its core functionality.
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by Zak 1y ago
Most of the time, when apps are caught doing something really shady, they're removed from the Play Store for doing the shady thing. A story wouldn't report that they stopped working because of a policy change, but some of these wo
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by Zak 1y ago
> No, not everyone has a fking iPhone and iMessage. I don't think iMessage solves the problem of receiving an SMS from your bank where your SIM card is inactive or disabled due to roaming costs. A VOIP number like Google Voice can
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by Zak 1y ago
Outside of services like Github where the average user is expected to know what an RFC is, I usually just see Google Authenticator supported and no mention of the fact that alternatives exist. That seems like an adequate solution.
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> With standard TOTP, now they have to worry about if the user correctly added the secret The standard flow I usually see for setting up TOTP ends with entering an authentication code. If it's not valid then the setup isn't f
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by Zak 1y ago
A viable alternative is to offer multiple 2FA options, one of which should be RFC 6238 TOTP. The author would have probably planned ahead by selecting that rather than a proprietary app or SMS.
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by Zak 1y ago
> locking yourself out of vital apps (finance/banking) My controversial take here is that Google's creation of a remote attestation scheme is also anticompetitive, intended to reduce the commercial viability of any non-bles
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by Zak 1y ago
Shady apps use file access to do tracking of various sorts and simply ingest private data that has nothing to do with their nominal purpose. Sophisticated users probably wouldn't install those apps, and certainly wouldn't agree to
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by Zak 1y ago
As I recall from a similar issue with Syncthing, using scoped storage for this has significant performance limitations.
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by Zak 1y ago
It seems to me most developers don't want to learn much about the database and would prefer to hide it behind the abstractions used by their language of choice. I can relate to a degree; I was particularly put off by SQL's syntax
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by Zak 1y ago
The backend programming language usually isn't a significant bottleneck; running dozens of database queries in sequence is the usual bottleneck, often compounded by inefficient queries, inappropriate indexing, and the like.
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by Zak 1y ago
Related to the comments there, one thing I'm quite sure of is that every battery should be user-replaceable. Most should be field -replaceable and of a standardized type, though I realize the form factors of some devices preclude the
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by Zak 1y ago
It's my understanding that availability of alternatives is a major factor in determining whether a company has market power. Someone looking for interactive entertainment has a multitude of options beyond gaming consoles, so the manufa
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by Zak 1y ago
A finding that preventing or discouraging installation of apps from anywhere but the first-party store constitutes use of market power to exclude competitors and fix prices in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act sounds like a great solut
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by Zak 1y ago
The Signal client app is open source; it's probably not reasonable to describe a modified version as "cracked". Signal does discourage the use of modified clients for security reasons, but does not actively block most of them
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by Zak 1y ago
It is reasonable to assume that the intelligence services of unfriendly countries are actively devoting significant resources to compromising both issued and personal phones of top-level officials in the US government. They would be neglige
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by Zak 1y ago
A federal court has ordered Philip Moris USA & R.J. Reynolds Tobacco to state: Smoking cigarettes causes numerous diseases and on average 1,200 American deaths every day. Freedom of speech does not prevent courts from ordering defenda
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by Zak 1y ago
> ultimately people don't have a choice -- most have to drive to get to work -- so they get used to it. I don't think the intent of gas stations displaying the taxes is to convince people to use less gas. It's to create
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by Zak 1y ago
I've seen gas pumps that prominently enumerate all the taxes included in the price, which were more than 50% in some European countries. It's a bit political for a business to call attention to otherwise-hidden taxes in the prices
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by Zak 2y ago
In noncriminal matters such as deportations, there's no right to counsel at public expense. The broader rights to due process of law and habeas corpus have generally been held by the courts to apply to immigration detention and deporta
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by Zak 2y ago
Maybe, but I think a lot of people are more acutely aware of the risks of centralized services lately, and I think BlueSky likely got a popularity boost by pretending to be decentralized.
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by Zak 2y ago
I use ACCA[0] to select my charge rate and limit. This can also set battery idle mode (power from USB without using the battery) when the charge limit is reached if the hardware supports it. I usually limit it to 60%, and charge at 500mA wh
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by Zak 2y ago
It's close , but it falls short on two points: verification doesn't tell me what the verifier is asserting about the account, and the current implementation doesn't embrace decentralization, at least in the UI.
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by Zak 2y ago
They do have different semantics, but the more I think about it, the more I think that's better. The blue check on your account doesn't tell me what about the account has been verified. It probably means you're the Steve Kl

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