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0xQSL··on Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
My employer just started doing daily reauth for all microsoft logins (teams, ...). The worst thing is that it's just 24h not start of day, so it may just be five seconds before you want to join a meeting.

They haven't found the setting for mobile yet, so I might just stop using desktop teams.

0xQSL··on Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
There's "disable key expiry" per machine in the tailscale admin panel
0xQSL··on A minimax chess engine in regular expressions
less than 5 seconds to respond to d2d4 on apple a18 pro
0xQSL··on AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache
I'm not so sure about memory actually being the bottleneck for these 8 core parts. If memory bandwidth is the bottleneck this should show up in benchmarks with higher dram clocks. I can't find any good application benchmarks, but computerbase.de did it for gaming with 7800MHz vs 6000MHz and didn't find much of a difference [1]

The apple chips are APUs and need a lot of their memory bandwidth for the gpu. Are there any good resources on how much of this bandwidth is actually used in common cpu workloads? Can the CPU even max out half of the 512bit bus?

[1] https://www.computerbase.de/artikel/prozessoren/amd-ryzen-7-...

0xQSL··on Germany's solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
Primary energy consumption isn't a good indicator for this, as it also includes lost energy. If you replace a 50% efficiency coal power plant with wind or solar you'd reduce the primary energy by half but could still get the same amount of used electricity.
0xQSL··on Surpassing 10Gb/S over Tailscale
Nice improvements! I'd be interested to see how much overhead tailscales magicsock adds and what a flamegraph after the change looks like. Mostly crypto or still a lot of networking syscall time?
0xQSL··on Userspace isn't slow, some kernel interfaces are
Would it be an option to use io-uring to further recuce syscall overhead? Perhaps there's also a way to do zerocopy?
0xQSL··on OpenEnergyMonitor – open-source monitoring for energy
I was planning to build something similar with esp32 until i found the emporia.

It's a bit of a hassle to install (don't think anything can be done about that) and I didn't really like the official ui, but it works great with home assistant / esphome. [0]

[0] https://gist.github.com/flaviut/93a1212c7b165c7674693a45ad52...

0xQSL··on Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
One might be able to calibrate this by using cars in the area close to the shot [1]. Assuming most cars are driving at the speed limit

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B059'37.1%22N+93%C2%...

0xQSL··on Glass is the hidden gem in a carbon-neutral future
There are small bulges on the bottles which get worn away and allow making a rough estimate of uses. The german wikipedia link above has a a little bit more detailed explanation
0xQSL··on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
With a heat pump you'd get about 3x the heat for the same amount of power
0xQSL··on How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs
There are some benchmarks of mitigation impact on Phoronix [1]. These benchmarks are only for mitigation sensitive workloads so real world impact will be lower.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-zen2...

0xQSL··on Intel to Launch Core I9-9900KS Next Month: 5 GHz on All Cores
You can't really compare TDP and turbo clocks between AMD and Intel. [1]

The 9900k draws 168W at full load and is also specified for 95W TDP. This chip is likely going to use more. A 3900X draws 142W for comparison. (12 cores lower clocks 7nm)

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14605/the-and-ryzen-3700x-390...

0xQSL··on Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
Really? I've published an app from a hackintosh-vm running on kvm some time in the past 2 months.
0xQSL··on Show HN: Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router
It would be interesting to add cake sqm as that is the only reason i'd currently prefer openwrt/lede over this. Cake should be in mainline linux soon. (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CAKE-Qdi...)

How would one go about implementing this? Call the tc binary or reimplement tc in go?

0xQSL··on Tesla Roadster
All of the electrical systems waste more energy if you drain them faster. To drain them faster you need higher currents which lead to higher waste power. Waste power goes up with the square of the current (P=I^2*R). This is most apparent in batteries heating up due to their internal resistance. Here's [1] an 18650 lithium cells discharge graph at different currents.

[1] https://www.powerstream.com/z/US18650VCT4-discharge.png

0xQSL··on Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting
It can be used with constexpr (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constexpr) to precompute values at compile time.

Here are some videos on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwd4JLYJJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpn_5Mrrxf8

0xQSL··on Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?
I wonder if charging phone charging at 95% actually gives better battery lifetime. It leads to your battery cycling between 95% and whatever state of charge you start charging at again. If you charge up to 100% your phone will stop charging, but use power from the charger bypassing the battery therefore keeping the battery in better shape.

Charging to 80% and keeping it there by just letting the charger supply the operating current would probably be best if phones supported it.