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akino_germany··on Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
Yes, but there was no TLS cert issued that had these intermediate certs in its chain of trust at all anywhere. So why are they a CA if they don't issue any certs?
akino_germany··on 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation
From https://x.com/ChainPatrol/status/1876456092164653328 "We found that this video was never reported in our system, and our system did not flag it. This false positive was due to human error, not bots or AI. One of our analysts, responsible for submitting takedowns, accidentally copied the wrong link while reporting a malicious video."
akino_germany··on Fake chips, I got stung
But the WDC chips are made by Western Design Center, not Western Digital Corporation.
akino_germany··on Speed Test
Yes, the add-on to disable Google Analytics https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout was the problem. Never had that break a web page before.
akino_germany··on Speed Test
Your layout is broken in everything but Chrome.
akino_germany··on Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music industry waged war on the cassette
If you need a legend for the second chart, here it is:

physical music videos (yellow); CD singles (light orange); CD albums (dark orange); cassette singles (light blue); cassette albums (Carolina blue); vinyl LP/EPs (darker blue); download singles (purple); ringtone/ringbacks (periwinkle); download albums (dark purple); SoundExchange distributions (lime green); synchronization (light gray); free streaming (green); paid streaming subscriptions (dark green)

akino_germany··on Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
Then you might find namebench appealing: https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench/
akino_germany··on Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
Find out for yourself using https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
akino_germany··on Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
Given the lower amount of energy generated by coal compared to when the nuclear plants were still running, it would be more accurate to say that they were replaced by solar and wind power since they are the only forms of energy creation that increased their output since nuclear was shut down.
akino_germany··on Pixel Tablet
You can use any USI 2.0 pen you want, it just doesn't come with one.
akino_germany··on Pixel Tablet
$499 / £599 / €679 / CA$699 What are these prices? I would have expected 549€ with the conversion rate and taxes and all that.
akino_germany··on AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project (2022)
Similar data is available from Spotify via their API: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
akino_germany··on Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]
You're not the only one, Steve Jobs was also mistaken back in the 70s: https://www.theamerican.co.uk/pr/ne-Steve-Jobs-Job-Applicati...
akino_germany··on Wikipedia admin jailed for 32 years after alleged Saudi infiltration
"Administrators, commonly known as admins or sysops (system operators), are Wikipedia editors who have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions on the English Wikipedia. These include the ability to block and unblock user accounts, IP addresses, and IP ranges from editing, edit fully protected pages, protect and unprotect pages from editing, delete and undelete pages, rename pages without restriction, and use certain other tools."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators

akino_germany··on EVs are the least reliable vehicle type: Consumer Reports
So you get a new eMMC which dies in a few years again? Or did they fix the software as well?
akino_germany··on Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
TIL that it is convention in the English language to place the euro sign in front of the amount and not after it, like in most other European languages.
akino_germany··on Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought
The study, for those who have access: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysio...
akino_germany··on Unofficial firmware upgrade for Dyson V6/V7 vacuum battery management system
Could you add the resistors to the V6 board and enable the balancing?
akino_germany··on A one in a million bug in Switch kernel
Avoid high-throughput devices is even in their list of known USB issues, so they must have some idea: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberr...
akino_germany··on Update on fire incident at ASML Berlin
Extreme ultraviolet lithography, currently only used by TSMC and Samsung for 5nm production.