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Comment · 9 days ago
> "There were no end entity certificates issued"

Isn't the problem that anyone can/could issue end entity certificates with those certificates as "parent"?

Comment · 9 days ago
Google has decided to stop trusting certificates with dual purpose (server and client) and managed to negotiate a decrease in the maximum (SSL/TLS) certificate lifetime because certificate revocation doesn't work.

We've had to rework part of our application and certificate use because of this.

Comment · 9 days ago
What I hear is that he is saying that the SSL/TLS business is only a small part of their overall business and that they can close that part down as a result of the loss of reputation for that this has rendered.
Comment · 11 days ago
Yep, but I'm inclined to say he went full "Jurassic Park" on that one.
Comment · 16 days ago
Love the site.

>I'd love to hear what break

One bird got "stuck", midair, between the trees for a while. I clicked it two or three times and then it flew to a branch.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
There's people here devaluing this because "AI probably built this page". To me this is a perfectly valid use of AI; "Hey I got this set of data points, give me a page with these 'extractions'". The page layout is the least interesting part of the page, it's the data points that should be of interest, then again this is where I think the page is lacking.

"1k real browser viewports" (page says 751 data points) tells me it's a quite small sample size to draw the amount of conclusions they draw. Now this is me guessing but I think it might be people actually visiting their site. Probably in the quest for viewport size, this might be why a whopping 6 percent of visitors appear to be visiting with their browser in full screen mode, and almost as many from a device with an 800x600 resolution (I can hear the device owners friend asking "man, what resolution are you running that thing at? Go to this site and check!").

AI report on actual data, not a problem. Low quality data to actually run that report on, now there's your problem.

Comment · 1 month ago
I managed to watch 14 minutes of the Gamer Nexus video (on my computer) before going into the living room and disconnecting the network cable, OMFG. If there's no legal consequences for LG for this I'll be surprised. I'm in Europe, not counting on the US for this, trust me.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is an interesting problem (for mathematicians and a few more of us) and I'm sure Matt Parker will cover this in a video soon and I'll love his explanation.

But for a mechanism to ship in a physical game? Big dice are difficult and expensive. Printing a deck of card that has the number 1 (or 0) to N on it will always be cheaper and has solved the problem for at least N up to 52.

Comment · 2 months ago
> Barry Marshall's story is so iconic...

More so for him and his collaborator having dinner each year when the Nobel prizes were announced in anticipation of the call from the Nobel Prize Committee. Legends.

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
As others have hinted at LLMs aren't really made in a way that makes them likely to play video games (CS/Halo and such) well. I wonder how they'd fare "against" text based adventures like Zork (which they'll no doubt have ample knowledge about) and newer text based adventure games (which they'll know less about).
Comment · 6 months ago
Sometimes called "high instructional value".
Comment · 7 months ago
I had some print or poster on my wall in my childhood bedroom in Stockholm. For sure no original but reproductions were, as I remember it, readily available when I grew up.
Comment · 7 months ago
My previous work provided laptop had a touchscreen and I miss it (for the record, the screen didn't fold 180). It was useful about once a week and I completely forgot about it the rest of the time.

Two primary use cases. Sitting on the train with the laptop in my actual lap it was often more convenient to reach for the screen instead of the trackpad, especially when I had someone sitting next to me on the right and I didn't want to stab them in their ribcage with my elbow so I could reach the trackpad. Second use case was often scrolling while reading, for some reason (phone-scrolling-indoctrination I guess) it felt natural to scroll using finger on screen.

The screen was never my primary pointing device but it was always an option. I think it was annoying a handful of times during the two years I had it, you point at something on the screen and end up clicking something.

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