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Re:Make Your Electronics Tamper-Evident on Saturday August 03, 2024 @04:38PM (#41149080)
Very cool! This seems almost like physical cryptography. Maybe there is a better term for it, but I’d be very interested in other work along these lines.
Re:Make Your Electronics Tamper-Evident on Saturday August 03, 2024 @04:34PM (#41149055)
I would love to hear more about the kind of work done by people that need this level of security.

Like is the NSA covering their laptop screws in glitter nail polish? Are covert CIA agents? SOF?

Who needs this level of secrecy that would not have the physical security in place to protect the device in the first place?

Re:Foobar2000 on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @05:19PM (#41123576)
Yeah almost certainly plugin ecosystem
tl;dr; 1. Don’t have kids 2. Put a scratchpad where they scratch
you probably don’t need sql
Re:iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @07:41PM (#40723244)
Apple can’t create any software as good as Procreate. They’d need to buy them.
They took them away to give them security updates. Non-story.
Re:I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic on Friday February 23, 2024 @05:50PM (#39487160)
Wait, why are people not allowed to change their mind on something? If anything this would make it more explicit and understandable when people did change their mind on something.
Started downloading FLAC music after discovering how bad Spotify compression is even at the highest quality. I still subscribe to Spotify for discovery and convenience, but almost never use it.
Yes.
Re:256TB SSD from Samsung on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:33PM (#37094315)
But practically don’t you reach a threshold where storing that much data on one drive makes it a bottleneck and safety risk until the speed of the surrounding systems catch up?
Re:256TB SSD from Samsung on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:10PM (#37093395)
Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?
Are you sure it’s not because it’s many times more efficient than any other source of electricity “generation”?
We need more administrators, more iPads in the classrooms, and more lessons on race!

It’s clearly making education better!

Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:15PM (#34280379)
ONO Roller

An elegant little fidget/stress tool that is silent so perfect for use during meetings.

https://onoroller.com/

Genuinely curious what Microsoft products people actually like? VS code might be the only one I’ve ever heard of.
Re:Ask HN: What search engines are you using? on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:57AM (#33670635)
Yandex feels like google classic.
Re:Introducing Notion AI on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:57AM (#33625229)
Yes, I’ve been using Notion for years, but recently started migrating everything to Obsidian because it feels so much faster.
Yeah who cares if the vaccine is life threatening when I could get brain fog! I’d rather my heart stop than be low energy!
Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:02PM (#33208199)
Most F-150 owners never tow anything, and if they frequently have the need to tow, they usually go for the F-250 and above.
Re:Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation on Saturday August 14, 2021 @02:33PM (#28182923)
I know there are natural carcinogens. That wasn’t my question.

Tobacco is a plant. Cigarettes are a product made from tobacco with many “artificial” chemicals added. Cigarettes are the cause.

Re:Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation on Saturday August 14, 2021 @02:18PM (#28182819)
Aren’t most “artificial” substances more likely to be carcinogenic or toxic than something occurring naturally? Or is that just my wacky personal bias talking?
Re:Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:28PM (#27678178)
Now I have to connect to their wifi before I can see the menu? And the restaurant is expected to maintain a menu server? What is MORE practical about this?
No offense to Guido, and I love Python, but the transition from Python 2 to Python 3 is a reference point for me in terms of how NOT to update a programming language. Noone should ever be attacked, but surely someone deserves some criticism.
Re:Not Only Is the Mac Mini Outdated, It's No Longer Mini on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:38PM (#17314699)
Doesn't this all feed into the idea that Apple is ditching x86/x64 and going full ARM?

It would make sense that the Apple TV is so much more powerful considering Apple pours so much into custom ARM chip design and OS development. MacOS doesn't work on ARM, and it doesn't seem like Apple is interested in porting it. Seems more likely the new Mini, if there ever is one, would be ARM based.

Re:Pixel smartphone camera review: At the top on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @03:02PM (#12646744)
Google Photos is available for iOS as well, so not really a differentiation.

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