How would they get past the other factor, the password?

If you’re gonna say “SMS can be used to reset the password” then it starts to sound like you’re complaining about insecure password reset processes, not 2FA.

Sometimes the identity of the messenger is important.

Twitter was super easy to set up with the API to periodically tweet the output of some automated script: a weather forecast, a public safety alert, an air quality alert, a traffic advisory, a sports score, a news headline, etc.

These are the types of messages that you’d want to subscribe to the actual identity, and maybe even be able to forward to others (aka retweeting) without compromising the identity verification inherent in the system.

Twitter was an important service, and that’s why there are so many contenders trying to replace at least part of the experience.

Yeah, Spotify is trying to force the same thing with a similarly muddled interface.

YouTube Music is still worse, though, in that it’s also tied to YouTube the video hosting service, plus a music streaming service, plus a podcast streaming service.

Legacy nodes (known in the industry as “mature” nodes) remain in use after they’re no longer cutting edge. Each run teaches lessons learned for improving yield or performance, so there’s still room for improvement after mass production starts happening.

I will add that nodes don’t stay still, either. A 2025 run on a node may have a bunch of improvements over a 2023 run on that same node.

And Google’s jump from Samsung to TSMC itself might be a bigger jump than a typical year over year improvement. Although it could also mean growing pains there, too.

Well, by the time the Pixel 10 comes out, it’ll be 2 generations after the iPhone that used a SoC from TSMC’s 3nm node (the A17, used in iPhone 15 Pro, launched September 2023). I’d imagine it’ll have caught up some, but will still behind while Apple is presumably launching something from TSMC’s 2nm or A14 node at the same time.

Instances don’t actually own the copyright to comments. The poster owns the copyright and licenses it to the instance. Which lets the instance use it, but not sublicense to others.

I think that it’s foolish to concentrate people and activity there even further, it defeats the point of a federation.

It defeats some of the points of federation, but there are still a lot of reasons why federation is still worth doing even if there’s essentially one dominant provider. Not least of which is that sometimes the dominant provider does get displaced over time. We’ve seen it happen with email a few times, where the dominant provider loses market share to upstarts, one of whom becomes the new dominant provider in some specific use case (enterprise vs consumer, mobile vs desktop vs automation/scripting, differences by nation or language), and where the federation between those still allows the systems to communicate with each other.

Applied to Lemmy/kbin/mbin and other forum-like social link aggregators, I could see LW being dominant in the English-speaking, American side of things, but with robust options outside of English language or communities physically located outside of North America. And we’ll all still be able to interact.

When they say modules, does that mean mainboards?

They mean each part. Here’s their store for individual parts.

This announcement includes a new display, so anyone with the old display can swap out their old one for the new one. People can swap out batteries. Keyboards. Touchpads. It’s a modular design so that each module can be swapped out if broken, or if there’s been an upgrade the user wants.

Our data centers and backbone internet/Tier 1 internet providers are basically the best in the world. The US Department of Energy maintains a network with 46 Tbit/s connections between its labs.

Yes, but an absence of a proof of the positive is itself not proof of the negative, so if we’re in the unprovable unknown, we’re still back at the point that you can’t prove a negative.

Yes but can you prove by evidence that there is no milk in my cup, if I won’t let you look inside?

I don’t think the First Amendment would ever require the government to host private speech. The rule is basically that if you host private speech, you can’t discriminate by viewpoint (and you’re limited in your ability to discriminate by content). Even so, you can always regulate time, place, and manner in a content-neutral way.

The easiest way to do it is to simply do one of the suggestions of the linked article, and only permit government users and government servers to federate inbound, so that the government hosted servers never have to host anything private, while still fulfilling the general purpose of publishing public government communications, for everyone else to host and republish on their own servers if they so choose.

In 2003, there were very few websites where what you saw depended on your login information. For the most part, the entire web was a bunch of stateless pages where what you saw at a URL was what I saw at the same URL. There was no real opportunity for interaction with sites in the browser (anything like that required a browser plugin to run java applets or flash/shockwave content).

RSS was such a game changer in that it really did change the way people consumed content. I could load a blog and it would only show me the posts I hadn’t already read, instead of naively showing me the whole thing. Suddenly there were states, and things could be marked as read or unread.

And when someone realized how to combine RSS with actual audio or video media, that was the first real semblance of “on demand” content where anyone could press play on current, timely content at their own schedule. DVRs had basically just been invented, and cable on demand content wasn’t widespread yet. YouTube didn’t exist, and the best place on the internet to watch a trailer for an upcoming movie was apple.com, where they used movie trailers to try to persuade people to download QuickTime to play those videos.

So yeah, automating a download to your computer to automate pushing content to your iPod was a huge step forward, and basically sold itself.

I happen to use YT Music despite it sucking because I already pay for YouTube premium, and it seemed dumb to pay for Spotify or Tidal instead. Plus I hated what Spotify was doing by trying to combine music and podcasts into a single app. So naturally, a few years later Google is combining music and podcasts into a single app.

Client side scripts for automatically downloading episodes published through RSS, and then copying it to your iTunes library, where it would update your iPod the next time you connected it to your computer. This was long before mobile internet so iPods could only be updated by plugging into a computer with iTunes installed.

Don’t forget, it’s 3+2 years from release date, not from when you purchase. I think that makes a pretty big difference, especially if you’re price comparing current midrange phones versus last year’s flagships.

Apple’s strategy of releasing 7 years of support for phones also allows it to sell last year’s phones as a discounted model. You can go on Apple right now and buy a brand new iPhone 12, released almost 3 years ago, and still count on getting 4 years of updates.

I wonder if research into sonic boom physics could translate over to high speed aerodynamics generally, to include the useful models for high speed trains.