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alphager··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
People with 2 minimum wage jobs have even less time.
alphager··on Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]
That would be about 10-15 years after the moment it would have been wise to migrate to PQC. You won't have the time to migrate before breach when you start after ECC is broken.
alphager··on Oracle is building yesterday's data centers with tomorrow's debt
They are selling access to GPU computation. Seeking their used GPUs would flood the market with cheap competitors using their old GPUs.
alphager··on Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
Most admins on Wikipedia are competent in areas outside of webdev and security.
alphager··on AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time
Those usecases are at least 5 years if not 10 years out. They require software support which won't come until a significant part of the pc market has the necessary hardware for it. Until then, paying extra for the hardware is foolish.

This will only come if Windows 12 requires a TPU and most of the old hardware is decommissioned.

alphager··on Iran attacks RAF base in Cyprus, an EU country
The UK supports the attacks by giving logistical support to the US through the use of UK airbases.
alphager··on I fixed Windows native development
No, LTCS means the version after the end of public beta.
alphager··on The Day the Telnet Died
Telnet client is an optional feature in Windows that needs to be enabled/installed.
alphager··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
I've seen this happen with both juniors and seniors. They do come back with a working solution /for the happy path/. Because the happy path is easy. It turns out that most of the complexity sits in the unhappy paths.
alphager··on MTOTP: Wouldn't it be nice if you were the 2FA device?
The 30 seconds (+30-60 seconds to account for clock drift) are long enough to exploit.

TOTP is primarily a defense against password reuse (3rd party site gets popped and leaks passwords, thanks to TOTP my site isn't overrun by adversaries) and password stuffing attacks.

alphager··on A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021)
Fun fact: one of the researchers removed any reference to this from their publications page: https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~kjlu/
alphager··on NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew
That's a "needs to be in the OR in 6 hours" situation; no way they waited several days for it.
alphager··on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
It was founded to make world war 3 impossible /through/ trade. By intertwining the economies of countries that considered each other hereditary enemies (Erbfeinde in German), it sought to make war too costly to consider. Humanitarian values are a core part of what became the EU.

That's one of the reasons the EU has had so many political problems with Hungary and Poland in the last decade: their drift to authoritarian forms of government (including weakening the judiciary in Poland) didn't impact trade at all. Nonetheless, it went against the humanitarian values.

I'm no EU fanboy (there's plenty to criticize), but regarding chat control and surveillance, it's important to see from which part of the EU institutions the push comes: the council. The council consists of the governments of the member states. It's not the big bad EU trying to force surveillance on the innocent countries; it's the governments trying to push domestically unpopular surveillance through the EU. The directly elected EU parliament has so far always prevented this push.

alphager··on Pebble Round 2
Is the situation with Rebble solved?
alphager··on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
Grow large enough and you hit the limit pretty fast. NAT complicates things.
alphager··on Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
They cancelled that effort. They tried to create their own software company but shuttled that effort and are back on the "integrate the different vendors" bandwagon.
alphager··on European Majority favours more social media regulation
Not just social media. Amazon misusing is monopoly powers is also smack in the middle of the target.
alphager··on Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Disbanding the EU is an official goal of the new US security strategy.
alphager··on It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
No
alphager··on UniFi 5G
AVM is great for single-owner use with sub 20 devices.

Unifi is great for small IT companies providing network services to tens of costumers. Being able to manage everything remotely (and even batch things for all of your customers) is great.

alphager··on Autism should not be treated as a single condition
It's not a disease, it's a disability.

As someone with a diagnosis, I would add several sensory issues (for me it's noises, multiple conversations at the same time, stickiness, physical contact, whole categories of food and several others) and several social issues to your list of superpowers.

Seeing it purely as a positive is insultingly reductive.

To be clear: I would not take a cure if it somehow got invented, but it /is/ limiting in a multitude of ways even in the best cases.

alphager··on 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
Typical for Spanish speakers
alphager··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
Covid does long-term brain damage.
alphager··on Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
That's just not true. I'm in Europe and all of my routers allow me to disable unattended updates and most don't enable it by default.
alphager··on Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
Name a few.
alphager··on New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
Cancers have had extremely effective new treatments developed for in the last ten years.

Depending on the type of cancer, we now have cures or treatments that stave off death for years.

My wife has a rare type of cancer with not much research thrown at it, and even her type of cancer went from a median time of survival measured in months to several years.

alphager··on I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
> I ordered an extra server today from Hetzner. It was available 90 seconds afterwards.

Back when AWS was starting, this would have taken 1-3 days.

alphager··on US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
That's not how the EU works. As an example take the Mercosur treaty: it has 4 parts. The first post is straight up trade rules, an area that the Eau member states delegated to the EU. This part was directly valid once signed.

The other three parts all concern areas not delegated to the EU. To become law, all three parts have to be approved by the EU parliament and the EU council (which consists of the heads of the executives of the member states) and the local parliaments of the member states. Depending on local law, even regional parliaments have to approve it (Belgium is such a state). The final implementation of Mercosur is not expected before 2028.

alphager··on AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
Why do you think public cloud is worse for the environment than a private dc? I'd expect the larger dcs to be more energy efficient.
alphager··on Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
1) he literally wrote a blog post complaining that London sucks because there are too many non-white people there. We're not talking about someone who is a bit conservative; we're talking about an explicitly racist person.
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