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311 karma · joined May 21, 2010

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/richi; my proof: https://keybase.io/richi/sigs/SkAiY_DL_X6Wsx4CosdRx9iXMlahvQMEjYqD88140U8 ]
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richij··on Toyota CEO: "Our ammonia engine is the end of EV's" [video]
Local fire service is on record saying car zero was a Diesel Range Rover (not even a hybrid).
richij··on Study Finds Hybrid Work Improves Mental Health Compared to Remote or In-Office
Could someone please edit the headline to include "(2022)"?
richij··on Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold
2013 called. It wants its anecdata back.
richij··on Project IDX: An experiment to improve full-stack, multiplatform app development
and what if my natural reaction was, "Fuck Microsoft"? What then?
richij··on Facebook to unmask anonymous Dutch user accused of repeated defamatory posts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940387
richij··on Facebook to unmask anonymous Dutch user accused of repeated defamatory posts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940387
richij··on CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago
also on that page: "Confirmed: July 31, 2023"
richij··on “Typo leak” exposes millions of US military emails to Mali web operator
No they're not.
richij··on Thousands of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims of Hack Tied to China
flagged: Story is from 2021
richij··on Some models of Gigabyte motherboards download firmware updates insecurely
via WPBT/DXE
richij··on The Lost Album of the Beatles review – deeply researched what-ifs
You had me at "their disco phase."
richij··on Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password
On the contrary, it _is_ 2FA: One factor is something you have (the phone) and the other is something you are (your biometrics). You need both to log in.

The difference here is you're allowing your phone's enclave to store the magic secret, instead of your human memory.

—If you're authenticating with a PIN instead of biometrics, it's still 2FA.

richij··on The Disappointment of 5G
Wider bands, lower latency, less congestion, the promise of switching off legacy in the future (with SA)
richij··on The Disappointment of 5G
Nope. Less than $20/month gets me unlimited 80/30 4G/LTE using a single 15 MHz band. If I got a 5G/NR modem, I could get unlimited 200/30 for the same price.
richij··on Google Authenticator cloud sync: Google can see the secrets, even while stored
I think Mysk just described "sync the secrets to your Google account." E2E would rather imply that there's a second E, but that's not the use case here.

If you already have a second E, just use the QR export/import feature.

richij··on Moderate Drinking Has No Health Benefits, Analysis of Decades of Research Finds
Oh no!

Anyway …

richij··on No More Mr. Nice Guy: GitHub Demands Developers Use 2FA
I have nine accounts set up in GA and I've used it often for a few years. I've never seen any sort of behaviour like that.
richij··on How to explain the Monty Hall problem to a disbeliever
There seems to be an error in the headline. It seems like it's missing a word.

> How NOT to explain the Monty Hall problem to a disbeliever

FTFY.

richij··on The world’s first modern airliner
Americans rewriting history again, I see.
richij··on Does hand-washing or wearing masks slow down the spread of respiratory viruses?
Bangs head on desk. Cochrane is asking the wrong question (or, at least, too narrow a question).

This meta-analysis looks at efficacy of masks to protect the wearer. Whereas the primary need is to catch infected droplets before they infect someone else.

richij··on Interesting subtitling of a video from the 1950s
The original is from an installation at the People's History Museum in Manchester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCAyUxY0Cm0
richij··on DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer
90 ms. So much.
richij··on DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer
The blurb makes it crystal clear that it's talking about location or situs. In other words, regulated by EU regulations. The TLD is specifically for sites that are "in" the EU (as opposed to being "by" te EU).
richij··on Why the FAA System Crashed and Why It Could Happen Again
My gosh this is awful. A factual error in almost every single graf.
richij··on UK: Excess deaths in 2022 among worst in 50 years
You missed one important entry point: 111 can refer you to an Urgent Care Unit. There are growing numbers of these in town centres and hospitals. It's basically an extra GP resource.
richij··on How to Make Kubernetes Secrets Truly Secret
HashiCorp Vault?
richij··on Financial operations struggle with interoperability, open source and the cloud
Not been an easy journey? You can say that again
richij··on Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too
And nothing of value was lost
richij··on Amazon is not paying balance on closed affiliate account
You violated policy by framing. That's a scummy thing to do. You did not "earn" $10,000. Amazon owes you nothing.
richij··on Signals in Prod: Dangers and Pitfalls
Oh get off my lawn, kid. It's not signals that are dangerous; it's removing code that's dangerous. You thought it was redundant, but it turned out you were wrong.
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