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  • I've nothing against the page having more technical farther down the page... I've done that with some computing articles that I'm qualified to talk about - simplify the description for the layman, put the technical description underneath...

    Math nerds just don't.

  • Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer
  • There's a lot of misinformation in this thread. Sure, they broke 22-bit RSA encryption. But here's the thing - that's proof that a suitably large quantum computer can break any size RSA encryption in the same amount of time it took to break 22-bit RSA encryption.

    Because of the way the annealing process works, it's a known-time process, no matter how many inputs or q-bits are used. We don't have the ability to create a computer with sufficient q-bits to break anything more than 22-bit at the moment, but current estimates are that in 10 - 15 years we will have enough to break 1024-bit.

    And it'll take the same amount of time as this 22-bit process took.

    And that basically means we need new encryption processes within 10-15 years, that are quantum safe, or all our encryption is belong to whoever has these quantum computers.

  • MechWarrior 5: Clans - The Invasion Begins Now - launch trailer
  • Got it on GamePass yesterday. It runs like a dog, and that's on a 10-700k with 64GB ram, 3070 and a Sabrent Rocket 4 nvme. Even dropping to 1080 and low still hovers around 30 - 40fps with random dropouts to <10fps in 'complex' areas. Given this system can run God of War at 4K Ultra (With DLSS Balanced) at 30fps, or Black Myth: Wukong at High at 50 - 60fps, I'm going to say it's not the system at fault...

    Wait for a few patches, the performance is currently not up to spec. Which is sad, because the introduction got me super hooked and I want to play more.

  • I'm Greganent?
  • Aw, crapitalism will break because line cannot always go up.

    Cry me a fucking river. Humanity is a cancer, and we need to be about half our current population. Yeah, we're not gonna like it when we drop that population. Our kids, my daughter, are going to have it fucking tough. But if we want to survive long term... We gotta stop.

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    Ana Akana
  • Not that much... Gold flake is about £15 for a pack of 30 2" square sheets of gold flake for cake decorations.

    Gold can be beaten to hear a few hundred atom thickness without becoming completely destroyed (https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/JeniferVilfranc.shtml).

    1oz, which is about £1,200 give or take, can make 300 square foot of leaf. This photo shoot... Isn't that expensive.

  • Hmmmm
  • I'm academia? How about Wikipedia, an encyclopedia that should be written (at least at synopsis level) clearly and for the casual reader. However, anything mathematics related and... Fuck you, you don't know how to calculate an integral? Git gud, scrub.

  • Bitwarden, Dashlane, 1Password and others have joined together to make passkeys portable
  • In one sentence, you say, "just use a password manager", on the next, "not really an improvement if you need extra software". I'm not sure what argument you're having, but neither one really addresses what this article is about.

    This keeps the passkeys in the password manager (I use dashlane, it rocks, and synchronises the passkeys just like the passwords), but this new protocol allows you to change and export the passkeys to other password managers, preventing vendor lock in and allowing for transfer to another password manager.

    Hope this clarifies things! And everyone should use a password manager of some kind; we should expect whatever site we're using to be hacked, and the only way to be safe is to have a unique password per site.

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    Anyone else here find clothed titties more attractive than naked ones? Or feel this way about other clothing?
  • I'm a fan of lingerie, transparent and sheer clothes, and (in the right weather) thin sundresses you can see through when the light hits just right... Those are to get the motor running, the nudity is for when everything is up and running.

  • Traditional “Kibin” from Ukraine Tatar. Served with chicken stock.
  • Visually, at least on the outside, it looks something like a Stottie, Oggie or Pastie from the farming/mining areas of the UK. I always find it fascinating to see the convergent evolution of this sort of food - edible with one hand, hot and filling, with a crust that can be discarded if hands are filthy, or et if not.

  • Brightness of first Chinese broadband constellation satellites alarms astronomers
  • And that's because SpaceX at least try to minimise pollution (both light and radio). Not successfully, but it's minimised.

    The Chinese don't give a fuck, just like they don't give a fuck who their toxic rockets land on when launched over their own people.

  • [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse
  • It was a term coined to describe the step-by-step process modern tech platforms go through:

    1. be good, get customers, grow
    2. get large enough to corner market, concentrate on profits
    3. get large enough to move to politicise their approach, drive out competition through aggressive tactics, and lock in consumers
    4. drive more profit through dark patterns and ensure nobody wins but the stakeholders

    It's specifically that, and there wasn't a word that described that process previously, as it's only something that's possible in a modern, "web scale" worldwide platform.

  • How the seasons work in the UK
  • The summer and autumn had been so wet,
    In winter the corn was growing yet,
    Twas a piteous sight to see all around,
    The crops lie rotting on the ground.

    -- Gods Judgement on a Wicked Bishop, Robert Southey, c. 1790

    Based upon a legend about a real person from ~900AD or so.

  • Is it technically possible to make a client version of this software?

    So I'm looking for a new client, specifically mobile, that's FOSS, easy to use, allows for browsing communities on other instances easily (not just searching for instances, but actually viewing the list of instances, etc).

    I'm a dev, so happy to put some legwork into it myself. So my question is - technically, is the UI tied to being run on an instance "directly", or could it be detached, electron- or atom-ified and put into an app?

    I can do the work, but before starting I'd like to know :⁠-⁠)

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    Proper Propagation - sh.itjust.works

    I love this concept and think it really has legs as a fantastic RPG idea...

    My comment on the original post: It takes the *humanity *out of *alien/foreign/different *races. If done properly, you can easily conceptualise different views of the world. Something like the sort of thing John Scalzi has done with his works - let’s work through how a different viewpoint actually works and then work out where the jagged edges are - all of a sudden, the different races are fighting with each other because they see the world diferently and don’t communicate properly so they assume all of the others think the same way (because they can’t concieve of anythign else without looking that far into it) and boom you’ve got a realistic world with in-built fracture lines…

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    Self-hosted CM4 NAS - I have questions; sources, ideas and answers appreciated

    So I'm looking to build my own CM4-based NAS appliance. I figure that I've got the time to build it, and it'll be cheaper, more powerful and more capable than an off-the-shelf appliance (such as a QNAP or Synology device).

    I'm looking to use it for self-hosting, probably 2 - 4 SSD's to run it (Happy to spend the money on the drives, as I can spread that out over time)... will likely start with a relatively cheap 2tib 2.5" SSD like the Crucial BX500 and scale up as I go...

    I'd like a relatively neat box - something like the Argon EON. I'd like to use the CM4 because it's got the PCI-E so you can use a relatively full-speed ACPI interface to the SATA ports, which rules out the Argon EON (Except, possibly, as a donor case). I don't have a 3D Printer, but I'd be happy to purchase a printed model from a makers group or similar. I'm happy to actually build up a unit (setting up fans, etc.) but I've no soldering experience whatsoever.

    Software-wise, I've already got a RPI4 which I've been playing around with... Seems pretty good, and I had pi-hole running on it for a while (until SD card unreliability took it down).

    Does anyone have any experience with a build like this? Any advice on what cases to use, what hats for the PCIE-to-SATA work best? Anything at all, really, that you'd advise?

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