kamilner
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Comment · 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure most portable ACs sold in Europe these days are R290 (propane) which has a GWP of about 1/14th of CO2, so for those that's no longer much of a concern.
Comment · 2 years ago
I do the same as the poster above, fastmail supports it directly and makes it very easy to manage. All you have to do is bring your own domain (they'll even manage your DKIM/SPF records etc as necessary if you want).
Edit: Apparently you can also purchase a domain directly through them if you prefer, although you have to be a paying customer for 7 days first https://www.fastmail.com/how-to/email-for-your-domain/
Comment · 2 years ago
> Excess deaths actually seem to line up better with the vaccine rollout than with the initial viral outbreak.
This seems to be a bizarre statement. I can't speak to other countries, but at least in England the widespread rollout of vaccines (just beginning in January 2021) only started at the end of the final major spike in excess deaths.
It's simply not possible for excess deaths to line up better with vaccine rollout than with the initial outbreak, because both major spikes in excess deaths were before mass vaccination rollout.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/excess-mortality-wi...
Comment · 2 years ago
NIST does not refuse hybridization, they will be publishing guidance on hybrid schemes in the draft of SP 800-227 at the same time as the final standards. They don't impose it though, because at a large scale it's more efficient to run just (fast) ML-KEM instead of (fast) ML-KEM + (slower) ECDH, which more than doubles your computation time for what they see as no benefit.
Comment · 2 years ago
Huh, that's somewhat surprising given bergamot fruit is not all that expensive. We may be spoiled in the UK but you can buy Earl Grey with real bergamot oil for a reasonable price here https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/brew-tea-co-earl-grey...
Comment · 2 years ago
I've even seen buskers in London with a machine set up so you can tap your card to tip.
Edit: apparently this was a thing even back in 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/27/busking-joins-...
Comment · 2 years ago
Generally recycling aluminium is incredibly cheap, especially if it's just a solid block without the regular potential contaminants, although I don't know what specific alloy they're using. If it's something like 6061 then it's especially easy to recycle, afaik, because it's very low in silicon and iron.
Do you know of any large tech companies that have more environmental ethics? I'm not sure Apple is good about it, but sadly I don't know of any better.
Comment · 2 years ago
There's a throwaway comment in here about the earth's magnetic field affecting CRTs and turning the TV upside down, is that actually true? I would have thought the earth's magnetic field would be incredibly weak in comparison to the deflecting coils.
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting. uname -a reports x86_64, and lscpu also reports x86_64, although perhaps that's just the kernel being patched to lie about the architecture.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not sure how OrbStack does it, but it can run a fully x64 Linux using Rosetta with quite good performance.
Comment · 2 years ago
I regularly use Orbstack to develop for x64 Linux (including kernel development). It works transparently as an x64 linux command line that uses Rosetta under the hood, so performance is reasonably good.
It can also run docker containers, apparently faster than the normal docker client, although I haven't used that feature much so I'm not sure.
Comment · 2 years ago
RCS has no end-to-end encryption in the standard, though. That's a non-standard google messages extension. I think a better example would be the cross-device messengers like signal/whatsapp/etc.
Comment · 2 years ago
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-10-06-new-analysis-shipping-e... is the most recent example I can think of, not being an expert in the field.
Comment · 2 years ago
If you mean RCS, end-to-end encryption is not part of the standard, it is a non-standard extension supported only by the google messages app https://support.google.com/messages/answer/10262381?hl=en