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  • Whats something new thats actually good?

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  • I think that the TinyTapeout concept is super cool (https://tinytapeout.com/). In the past, it was not really feasible to design and manufacture a semiconductor device as a hobbyist... Unless maybe an extremely wealthy one.

    Now, we have open source design tools, open process design kit, and the ability but small part of a manufactured wafer.

    There are also now multi-project wafer runs for photonic chips at reasonable prices for startup/academia. I think these developments are pretty cool.

  • "Why is your phone in airplane mode?"

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  • Thanks a lot for the examples! I have been looking through these, and, as far as I can tell:

    1. In SSL stripping, the site would appear to your client as HTTP, not HTTPS. If that's the case, I think SSL stripping is blocked when using 'HTTPS-Only' mode
    2. For DNS spoofing, the visited site would show up as insecure because they would not be able to generate a valid certificate for the target website

    I still have not had the chance to look into leaky metadata. But, generally, I think metadata issues can in part be addressed by not generating much metadata.

    Probably the biggest vulnerability is the captive portal. There is no way to verify you’re connecting to an official Starbucks router. I think that when connecting to a public router it is wise to assume that it is malicious.

  • "Why is your phone in airplane mode?"

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  • I'm curious about an example that comes to your mind as you say this. In your view, what is a privacy risk associated with public WiFi use that is not easily mitigated?

  • Do you use a dishwasher or wash dishes by hand?

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  • By hand. We are only two people, and we usually clean after we cook/eat. When one is cleaning only 2 plates + a pot/pan at a time, it is easy to use little water. Spray of soap, metal scrub, sponge scrub, and then turn the tap on to rinse for a few seconds. Utensils get individually scrubbed and then all rinsed together for a few seconds.

    Maybe when we have kids a dish washer will make sense.

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  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • I have been happy with my Garmin. It is functional without having to connect to anything, and data can be easily exported to a computer for more advanced processing. It is a handy GPS receiver that lets me monitor heart rate and log running metrics.

  • i hate myself and i want to die lol

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  • Woah! Congratulations!!! 🥳 🎉

  • What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?

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  • Hopefully the English language is developed and Rick Astley gets to make his song before anyone figures it out!

  • A major airline is going to make you pay to recline your seat

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  • I'd rather pay for preventing the front passenger from reclining into me.

  • What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?

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  • I would take a portable CD player, place a CD with Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up on it playing backwards, hook up solar panels, remove the ability to shut it on/off, and set it up a circuit that will:

    • As the device solar charges, keep it off until some voltage threshold is exceeded
    • Once the voltage is high enough, start a random timer (8 - 100 hours), so that it is not immediately obvious that the sun activated the device
    • When the timer ends, turn the music on on repeat mode
    • Sometimes turn the music off at random, and then turn it on again at random after a long delay, so that in some cases you can have turn 'ON' events without the device being exposed to the sun
    • When the voltage drops below a low threshold, turn the device off until it is charged again

  • What’s a big mistake you made in another language?

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  • I speak spanish natively and at during uni I would hang out with a group of Brazillian friends. I would speak a mixture of portuguese and spanish with them.

    The mom of one of these friends made a Brazilian dish for us (Feijoada) and asked me how it was as it was the first time I tried it. I answered that the dish as 'exquisito', which in Spanish means delicious (similar 'exquisite'). She seemed somewhat disappointed and upset by my response so I probed a little and found out that 'esquisito' in Portuguese actually means 'weird'. She thought I was calling her dish weird tasting. I found quickly enough to clarify, but I did feel bad about making her fell that way... She was very excited about sharing her cooking and she thought I called it weird.

  • (EU) Cheap Prepaid SIM with little to no top up requirement?

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  • No worries! If you need me to test something with it I can this week, just let me know

  • (EU) Cheap Prepaid SIM with little to no top up requirement?

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  • I am currently near Cologne in Germany. I placed one of these LycaMobile SIM cards from NL and it activated automatically. It does recognize that it is connected to the German network and roaming, and still activates data and assigns a phone number.

    So, it seems to work fine

  • PM Carney attempting to speak Spanish using his recently acquired French skills

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  • Would you buy a Smart Glass in the foreseeable future?

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  • The use-cases that I see advertised are not things that I do in my day-to-day. I usually place my phone on a drawer or leave it in my backpack - I definitely don't want it on my face.

    So, to me, smart glasses feel like an uncomfortable gimmick at this point. Maybe there is something amazing about them that has not yet clicked with me, but for the time being I don't see me buying one of these for the foreseeable future.

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    Did anyone else not even know who Charlie Kirk was!?

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  • I also did not know of him at all. I did know who Ben Shapiro is. This week has been an educational one: I have learned about Nick Fuentes and 'groypers', Candace Owens, and that the change my mind meme guy is called Steven Crowder (I first thought it was this guy when I saw the video of Kirk).

    The US political commentator that I do watch some times is Hasan, but not too often. The US lore goes too deep and moves too quickly, hard to keep up.

  • PM Carney attempting to speak Spanish using his recently acquired French skills

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  • Jajaja, al menos lo intentó 😅 Un 8 por el esfuerzo!

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  • What is the most obscure fact you know?

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  • Yeah, I'm still looking. This is the closest I found so far

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    The Pager

  • Photography @lemmy.ml
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    Tree and door

  • Entomology @mander.xyz
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    Macro shot of a European Hornet (Vespa crabro)

  • Entomology @mander.xyz
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    Ant drinking from an extrafloral nectary

  • Mycology @mander.xyz
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    A travelling-wave strategy for plant–fungal trade

    www.nature.com /articles/s41586-025-08614-x
  • What's this Plant? @mander.xyz
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    Some nice little bromeliad from Yucatan

  • Mycology @mander.xyz
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    Verticillium sp. (I think)

  • Entomology @mander.xyz
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    Bird poop caterpillar

  • Tor - The Onion Router @lemmy.ml
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    Does pointing a ".onion" url to a clearnet site benefit TOR users?

  • Botany @mander.xyz
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    Many plant names are offensive: botanists will vote on whether to change them

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-024-02337-1
  • theNetherlands @feddit.nl
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    The 3.5 GHz bands have been allocated in the Netherlands

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Rethinking open source generative AI: open washing and the EU AI Act

    dl.acm.org /doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3630106.3659005
  • sustainability @lemmy.world
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    Extending the Sustainable Development Goals to 2050 — a road map

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-024-01754-6
  • What's this Plant? @mander.xyz
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    The Netherlands

  • Botany @mander.xyz
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    Unveiling nutrient flow mediated stress in the plant roots using on-chip phytofluidic device

    arxiv.org /abs/2403.04806
  • Science @mander.xyz
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    China promises more money for science in 2024

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-024-00695-4
  • Mycology @mander.xyz
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    Quantitative pathogenicity and host adaptation in a fungal plant pathogen revealed by whole-genome sequencing - Nature Communications

    www.nature.com /articles/s41467-024-46191-1
  • Botany @mander.xyz
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    Genetic control of thermomorphogenesis in tomato inflorescences - Nature Communications

    www.nature.com /articles/s41467-024-45722-0
  • Mycology @mander.xyz
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    A puffball from Denmark

  • Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse @sopuli.xyz
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    Norway’s approval of sea-bed mining undermines efforts to protect the ocean

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-024-00104-w