This is cool and it looks pretty, but what is the actual use for such a display? Today we look at 3D models on 2D screens by rotating them, using a mouse or similar input device, which works perfectly fine.
"The power adapter often can't provide sufficient power to spin everything up at boot, and needs the battery as a buffer" Do you have any proof for that? It sounds very unrealistic to me. These days there aren't even…
The main advantage of using YouTube with an account, is being able to see what's new from all your subscriptions. To get rid of the annoying stuff, I added this to my uBlock Origin filters: www.youtube.com###comments…
> meaning 6 figures Pringle cans being sold every year, if not 7 The article states "three million cans are made across Europe every day". That's 10 figures annually in Europe alone.
I know. But then you are buying hardware again. And the good quality stuff is expensive.
I agree that the price / functionality ratio is much better in modern times. But a significant drawback, which I didn't see mentioned, is that most of those nice hardware buttons, knobs and sliders are now tiny, obscure…
This reminds me of Cory Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread (https://craphound.com/category/unauthorizedbread/), where poor people have to rent "subsidized" apartments and in turn are forced to use the pre-installed household…
Nevermind - I might be mistaken. You need to enter the 9 digit number AND a URL. Probably the secret is then loaded from that URL. In the past, I must have used the QR code (I thought I used the number). Here is a…
[...] with really long key so brute forcing it is not feasible at all. When setting up MFA for a Microsoft Azure AD account, they use a 9 digit code as the secret, which you can either enter manually or by scanning a QR…
What confuses me is that TOTP is usually referred to as "something you have" (the app on your smartphone, with the secret), as opposed to "something you know" (your password). But the TOTP algorithm and the current time…
This is cool and it looks pretty, but what is the actual use for such a display? Today we look at 3D models on 2D screens by rotating them, using a mouse or similar input device, which works perfectly fine.
"The power adapter often can't provide sufficient power to spin everything up at boot, and needs the battery as a buffer" Do you have any proof for that? It sounds very unrealistic to me. These days there aren't even…
The main advantage of using YouTube with an account, is being able to see what's new from all your subscriptions. To get rid of the annoying stuff, I added this to my uBlock Origin filters: www.youtube.com###comments…
> meaning 6 figures Pringle cans being sold every year, if not 7 The article states "three million cans are made across Europe every day". That's 10 figures annually in Europe alone.
I know. But then you are buying hardware again. And the good quality stuff is expensive.
I agree that the price / functionality ratio is much better in modern times. But a significant drawback, which I didn't see mentioned, is that most of those nice hardware buttons, knobs and sliders are now tiny, obscure…
This reminds me of Cory Doctorow's Unauthorized Bread (https://craphound.com/category/unauthorizedbread/), where poor people have to rent "subsidized" apartments and in turn are forced to use the pre-installed household…
Nevermind - I might be mistaken. You need to enter the 9 digit number AND a URL. Probably the secret is then loaded from that URL. In the past, I must have used the QR code (I thought I used the number). Here is a…
[...] with really long key so brute forcing it is not feasible at all. When setting up MFA for a Microsoft Azure AD account, they use a 9 digit code as the secret, which you can either enter manually or by scanning a QR…
What confuses me is that TOTP is usually referred to as "something you have" (the app on your smartphone, with the secret), as opposed to "something you know" (your password). But the TOTP algorithm and the current time…