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Re:Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common on Saturday May 13, 2023 @11:23AM (#35929254)
The researchers in this paper use an astonishingly biased "fake paper detector", requiring only two conditions to be met for any paper to be considered "fake":

1. Use a non-institutional email address, or have a hospital affiliation, 2. Have no international co-authors.

And they acknowledge 86% sensitivity and 44% specificity. It's a coin-toss which biases massively against research from outside the US and Western Europe.

This "paper" is bigoted nonsense.

https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110357278154604907

Re:TOTP Authentication with Free Software on Thursday May 04, 2023 @03:28AM (#35812381)
On the other end, I integrated TOTP into the auth workflow for a full stack FastAPI base project generator (https://github.com/whythawk/full-stack-fastapi-postgresql).

TOTP is great, but developers need to start adding it to their apps by default.

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