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by corty 5y ago
This isn't fixable. The only solution is to make cars more expensive, because it is impossible to improve alternative transport without massively raising prices. Alternative transport will always be massively inferior in cost or qualit
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by corty 5y ago
The agricultural revolution is responsible for both low child mortality and the lack of famines. Pesticides, herbicides, artificial fertilizers and motorized farm implements are the reasons why humanity has been able to grow exponentially o
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by corty 5y ago
Yes, if it would have particle mass at the time of the big bang it would have evaporated long ago. But all small black holes do evaporate (the smaller, the faster), so if PBHs were e.g. car-mass at the big bang, they could just be the right
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by corty 5y ago
Depending on the size of it, harvest energy from its Hawking radiation.
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by corty 5y ago
The Sun also wobbles because of the planets. Primordial black holes are (depending on theory of creation and path in later life) smaller than stellar black holes, maybe far smaller, in the order of lunar mass or even particle magnitude mass
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by corty 5y ago
The electrical grid also cannot handle all-electric heating for all households, at least in Germany. France is different because of their big nuclear fleet. Very often, green energy discussions forget that doing everything (heating, traffic
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by corty 5y ago
Many trade deals contain a catalogue of legal and illegal substances under the deal, often with the requirement to make not-yet-legal ones legal under the deal.
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by corty 5y ago
Low-flow anything is especially stupid anywhere north of the alps. Wastewater systems need a minimum flow, determined back in the first half of the last century. If modern appliances, toilets and faucets do not provide that minimum flow, wa
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by corty 5y ago
There are many variants. "Don't be vulgar", but also "don't criticize" or "invent something positive to say, only then can you criticize". "Be lavish in your (insencere) praise". All this le
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by corty 5y ago
But that works in all directions. There are many kinds of people who cannot work together. I for one, despise the "lets all be friends and never say a bad word" crowd. They drive me mad and drive me to leave. I'd rather have
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by corty 5y ago
Maybe, but there are more examples along those lines that don't introduce single points of failure. E.g. very all-encompassing logging is generally good for security, and if the logs are stored in a secure fashion, there is also no sec
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by corty 5y ago
No. First, there are security measures that wreck privacy, e.g. sending all your data to some company's servers for virus scanning. Routing all your traffic through some filtering VPN provider. That kind of stuff. There are privacy mea
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by corty 5y ago
I don't know about Fitbit stuff, but LineageOS can do everything else you named. Have been using it for years. I guess other alternative Android distributions shouldn't be too different there.
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by corty 5y ago
The common values of the European Union are there, visible for all: graft through subsidies and comfy posts for you and your political allies. Tried and proven, works beautifully, all the politicians love it!
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by corty 5y ago
Office365 supports Kerberos with IMAP, which would be the proper thing to do anyways. Giving passwords to a browser or email application is wrong.
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by corty 5y ago
Denial of Service by panicing is also harmful for some processes.
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by corty 5y ago
That is a first step, but what you really want to do (and what most commercial VPN solutions are doing) is tunneling the VPN via https. Preferably with a real-looking web server at one end, so that "firewall solutions" have someth
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by corty 5y ago
No, I think not. I guess that is an area where one would miss out without updates, but on the other hand, performance is already "good enough" for most endpoints. Of course, for operating a VPN concentrator you always want more pe
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by corty 5y ago
There is no "outdated", wireguard has no extensibility on purpose. You might just have to wait for wireguard2. And security patches will be delivered in the usual Microsoft fashion, 8 tuesdays after the exploit started circulating
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by corty 5y ago
Seems you missed the "big web revolution" between 2000 and now. Corporate/school/uni firewall madness filters everything but http(s), so each and every protocol has to be somehow http(s). That is why there are almost exc
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by corty 5y ago
Nobody really needs enterprise VPN crap, that stuff does far too much weird stuff that is totally unrelated to what a VPN should do, like patch management, malware scanning, firewalling, and other useless box-ticking. What we do need is a p
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by corty 5y ago
You only need to sign the packets in the key exchange on the card. The normal payload packets are protected by symmetric algorithms based on the ephemeral symmetric key generated in the key exchange, no need (and no use) to involve the smar
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by corty 5y ago
No, you just need a signature. But an Ed25519 signature, which current commercially available smartcards just cannot do. You could be hacking something together with a Nitrokey or maybe Yubikey, those can do Ed25519 signatures. But generall
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by corty 5y ago
Yes, you are exactly right. Wireguard is a typical example of a thing I'd call myopic-cryptographer-protocol. Solve one problem in the minimal fashion that can be called proof-of-concept, do it in a maybe-more-secure way and call it do
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by corty 5y ago
Nope, can't. Storing a Wireguard key on a Smartcard isn't possible, because current cards do not support the key format and algorithms Wireguard uses. Only RSA and ECDSA on NIST curves are available on Smartcards. And "readin
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by corty 5y ago
There is still gold and ceramics. But both are of course more expensive.
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by corty 5y ago
I think both conclusions are wrong. Since this is a meta-study, drawing conclusions from the absence of null-results and the absence of clustering is prone to a lot of confounders. The article mentions publication-bias, where non-null-resul
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by corty 5y ago
And there are other neurotoxic compounds still in common use, such as mercury-aluminium-amalgam for cheap dental work. That would also confound all the simple studies. I'm afraid there can't be a firm conclusion without an in-dept
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by corty 5y ago
Almost everyone nowadays who dabbles in the social justice business. Most people are already equal before the law, do have equal chances, do get equal treatment. But that wasn't enough, so now the demand is equal outcomes, not matter i
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by corty 5y ago
It actually isn't. The fine is based on last annual turnover, not profit and certainly not future profit. Even if Amazon were taking a loss, they still would be fined this amount.

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