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by pgalvin 4y ago
Data has always been encrypted by a key, which Apple held in a HSM (hardware security module, a special “black box” for encryption keys in this case). Previously Apple could take those keys, decrypt your data, and hand it to law enforcement
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by pgalvin 4y ago
Are you sure this is correct? Apple One seems to suggest I’ll stay on the same 2TB plan I’m currently on.
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by pgalvin 4y ago
Including fiction (but excluding the scihub mirror, and comics), Libgen is actually about ~60TB. Z-Library mirrors this, and adds about ~24TB exclusive to them.
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by pgalvin 4y ago
Up to 32, for those reading who (like me) didn’t know about this limitation. https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404456942738-F...
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by pgalvin 4y ago
Blu-ray drives will report if your disc is LTH or HTL, for what it’s worth. Sony, Panasonic, and Verbatim make HTL discs.
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by pgalvin 4y ago
Sony and Panasonic are making 500GB optical disks as an LTO tape alternative for businesses (See Sony’s “Optical Disc Archive” - Panasonic has a different name for the same standard). However, these don’t really have a use for consumers. CD
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Only an undergraduate in Physics, but rest assured that there are many smart minds currently in search of this! Building bigger particle colliders is not the only solution, and there are a lot of interesting things being done with e.g. ne
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by pgalvin 5y ago
2-10 years is very different from 1-2 days though! (Not to mention solar watches)
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by pgalvin 5y ago
I have AdGuard on my phone at ~60MB, you might want to check that.
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Germany has a strong cultural and political opposition to nuclear power, particularly in their Green Party, for many different reasons that I’m not qualified to discuss. I suspect the initial cost is also a barrier to much of Europe, if onl
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Could you elaborate? Which parts of the GDPR do you disagree with?
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Apple Maps has this feature (adding a stop along a route). In iOS 14 it only lets you add one stop - they might have improved this for iOS 15.
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Whilst you have a good point for the present, it is noteworthy that medical professionals working in covid wards (and so the ones with FFP2/equivalent or better) had, in the studies I have read, consistently lower rates of infection th
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Yes, but HN isn’t made up of children. The vast majority of people here are adults, a population in which Covid-19 is a risk for a large proportion. People aren’t talking about children and saying “you’re afraid of the sniffles* (* is only
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Out of curiosity, are you in an at-risk group (age, health, etc.)? No need to disclose specifics, if you’re happy to answer.
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Six days ago would be a day after their account was hacked. Most likely a son/daughter or techie friend recommended it.
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by pgalvin 5y ago
It is widely known and confirmed by Telegram themselves that your messages are encrypted at rest by keys they possess. This is a similar process to what Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, and Facebook Messenger do. Your files with cloud service
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by pgalvin 5y ago
https://wabetainfo.com/how-to-migrate-your-chat-history-from... This is possible now (in one direction, so far).
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Fwiw, that “encryption” never used your own key or password. Facebook held the key, Google held the encrypted blob, and I doubt the extra warrant to get data from both companies was a huge hurdle. Definitely was not E2EE before.
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Helpfully given in the introduction, here is some useful context for this change in case some people miss this part: > Since 2016, all personal messages, calls, video chats and media sent on WhatsApp have been end-to-end encrypted. […] &
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by pgalvin 5y ago
They claim this is not possible under Swiss law, fwiw. We’ve recently seen that it is possible under German law, with a competitor (Tutanota) building a server-side backdoor for one user.
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by pgalvin 5y ago
No, because you assume that a 10 year old has an equal probability of being hospitalised as a 90 year old (for example). Israel has a low overall vaccination rate because they have a very young population. If you restrict the sample to just
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by pgalvin 5y ago
This is mostly a non-issue - services usually accept the current, previous and next TOTP code to account for devices having a slightly incorrect clock. I’ve never had an Android device that keeps its clock in sync, for example, so they had
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by pgalvin 5y ago
I might be wrong, but to me it was obvious they were making a tongue in cheek joke. It obviously wouldn’t end it faster.
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Sure. Garasdil was approved by the FDA in 2006 and, as this press release shows [0], continued running studies into it as a condition of the approval. They conceded that full results could not be available before approval; “While the study
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by pgalvin 5y ago
This really, really is not true. Many drug and vaccine approvals in the past have been done before the trial has run its full course. Many drug and vaccine trials have given the placebo group the real drug once safety and efficacy is clear
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by pgalvin 5y ago
For those who don’t watch the video, this was actually an internet hoax. The end credits never said this.
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by pgalvin 5y ago
The video is very interesting, I would highly recommend you still watch it. Derek has has actually made a video before about the YouTube algorithm and has polled the community several times about clickbait-ey titles. He doesn’t like them, b
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by pgalvin 5y ago
Signal requires a PIN and an SMS code. WhatsApp has the option to add a password in addition to the SMS code. There are probably others.
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by pgalvin 5y ago
That actually is what Apple (and pretty much all cloud storage) does. iCloud is built largely on Google’s hardware, hence the encryption. Of course, this doesn’t mean it is end-to-end encrypted as most people infer “encrypted” to mean, othe

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