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by upofadown 6mo ago
Note that that OEM would still have to deal with the minefield of patents created by the John Deere's of the world. I once worked for a company that had to work around an electronic circuit patent to detect a pulse. That was it, that w
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by upofadown 6mo ago
The idea seems to be that there will some sort of cascading effect if we can somehow create physical qubits with sufficient noise performance. It's this "threshold" we keep hearing about. Once we exceed threshold there is a p
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by upofadown 6mo ago
Putting on my user hat... "OK. Signal has forward secrecy. So messages are gone after I receive them. Great!" Oh, you didn't turn on disappearing messages? Oh, right, then forensic tools like Cellebrite can get them. You have
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by upofadown 6mo ago
They are an entity separate from Mozilla: * https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/
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by upofadown 6mo ago
Seems to be some misunderstanding of what bike bells are for here... A bell is helpful in a situation where a pedestrian is not aware of an approaching bike. The bell informs the pedestrian of two things: 1. That there is an approaching bik
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by upofadown 6mo ago
So this is the exciting paper: * https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28627 The new thing here seems to be the use of the neutral atom technique. Supposedly we are up to 96 entangled qubits for a second or two based on neutral a
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Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction(blog.google)
71 points by upofadown 6mo ago|88 comments
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"Privacy. That's iPhone." – and Other Things That Need an Asterisk(blog.ppb1701.com)
18 points by upofadown 6mo ago|2 comments
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Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai(bigtechnology.com)
248 points by upofadown 7mo ago|123 comments
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by upofadown 7mo ago
I can think of a case where it turned out that there was some aspect of the noise performance that made the technology unsuitable for running Shor's algorithm. So would one of the presented low noise approaches actually work for Shor&#
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Why Some Criticisms Matter More Than Others(gnupg.org)
3 points by upofadown 7mo ago|0 comments
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by upofadown 7mo ago
You can save time by first looking at the required noise performance of these schemes. From the abstract of the paper: >On superconducting architectures with 10−3 physical error rates... So good old 0.1% noise performance again. That see
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by upofadown 7mo ago
Things like freezers don't take a huge amount of power. It's definitely about things that do space heating/cooling. The traditional approach is to put your electric water heater on a timer. That way you can schedule your hot
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by upofadown 7mo ago
An interesting point. Some random measurement gets 49W idle[1] which is probably close enough. I don't constantly compile stuff or stream video. At my local electricity rate of $0.072/kWh that works out to $31USD/year. New sy
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by upofadown 7mo ago
Well it has a SSD in it now so it must have gone through at least one actual hard drive...
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by upofadown 7mo ago
This article inspired me to look and see what this computer is. Apparently it is a "AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor" from 2009. So 17 years old. It has 8 GB of DDR3 memory and runs at 3 GHz. It currently has OpenBSD on it, but
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RustSec Integrity Breach Hides Dangerous Crypto Flaw(flyingpenguin.com)
3 points by upofadown 7mo ago|0 comments
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Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla, exposes supervision problem(electrek.co)
4 points by upofadown 7mo ago|2 comments
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Small U.S. town, big company. Can it weather the tariff Blizzard? (Digi-Key) (2025)(npr.org)
62 points by upofadown 7mo ago|41 comments
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by upofadown 7mo ago
I sync up my newsboat feed reader with syncthing so I am up to date on multiple devices. I wonder if Thunderbird could be made to work in the same way...
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IMs Come, IMs Go(mov.im)
2 points by upofadown 7mo ago|0 comments
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by upofadown 8mo ago
I actually got a job for deleting code. I was fixing a problem on a contract and noticed that I could fix the problem by getting rid of the section that contained the problem. The functionality could be provided in a much simpler way. Later
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by upofadown 8mo ago
The unfortunate fact about E2EE messaging is that it is hard to do. Even if you do have reproducible builds, the user is likely to make some critical mistake. What proportion of, say, Signal users actually compare any "safety numbers&q
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by upofadown 8mo ago
There are a large number of things that the people behind this don't know about. That doesn't mean that they screwed up. It means that the law does not apply to those things.
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by upofadown 8mo ago
Canadian here... The world already know this. Having an agreement with the USA is a lot like having an agreement with Darth Vader. The terms of the deal can be altered unexpectedly at any time. That doesn't mean that such agreements ar
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by upofadown 8mo ago
Laws are designed and intended to be reasonable. I think you are using an inappropriate form of logic here. The intent of the law is fairly obvious.
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by upofadown 8mo ago
That doesn't seem to be the intent for something like, say, Debian. How would that work anyway? This would probably cover something like a Linux based Steam box, where there are different organizations providing applications.
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by upofadown 8mo ago
>This bill applies to all "operating system providers", ... Not really. >...for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store. So the OS has to pr
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by upofadown 8mo ago
Unusability is just another form of impossibility.
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Google Wants to Control Your Device(blog.jmp.chat)
3 points by upofadown 8mo ago|0 comments

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