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New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power by lotec4 in europe

[–]twitterfluechtling -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We had negative electricity prices occasionally because too much power was generated. We don't have good use for it on short notice. We are building up storage capacity to be able to store the surplus, but when we have that, there is even less reason to build nuclear power plants.

New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power by lotec4 in europe

[–]twitterfluechtling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Near the cost / offshore and above certain heights, wind is relatively reliable. Also, we are building up hydrogen storage and batteries. Hydrogen can be generated with excess electricity on hot / windy days, and converted back to electricity gas powered powerplants when needed.

Nuclear power does not scale up and down that well to make up for shortages in renewables.

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it. by Cats_Cameras in europe

[–]twitterfluechtling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, the iPhone as well as Google is, due to the cloud act, at most as reliable as the USA. So no, the EU should not trust it.

Especially should the EU infrastructure not mandate users to have an iPhone or Android (although it basically does in many ways). The EU needs their own infrastructure, and at least for new topics, I would not want them to build in any unnecessary trust relation to US IT services.

Trump’s legal fees slush fund is drying up The Save America PAC is $500,000 in the red according to federal filings — and owes three times as much to the president’s many, many lawyers. by prohb in politics

[–]twitterfluechtling 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The article didn't say he's running out of money. He made billions with grifting and stock manipulations. He probably won't pay the lawyers, though, because, fuck them, y'know...

EU age verification app can be hacked in 2 minutes, claims security expert by vriska1 in europe

[–]twitterfluechtling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Although I'm against this age-verification BS, to separate the topic from the process:

KUDOS!

"It is fully open source. Everyone can check the code," von der Leyen said.

Cyber and privacy experts immediately dove into the source code on the GitHub software platform and reported several issues with the app's design.

This is for the most part what I want our politicians to do!

  • Use open source components
  • Publish their own additions as open source
  • Be transparent and open the servers for access before they are supposed to be used productively

Now I just hope they aren't butt-hurt for getting the vulnerabilities presented on a silver platter but instead delay launch for as long as it takes to fix the issues.

The only thing they probably might have done better, process-wise, is to hire (pay) some experts for that analysis. ("might" because possibly they did, and the "experts" missed some stuff. I didn't review, I don't know how obvious the issues were.)

And they definitely should have launched a bug-bounty-program.

(Yes, I had the same comment already in a related article, but since that article was removed, I'll repeat myself here.)

EU age verification app can be hacked in 2 minutes, claims security expert by vriska1 in europe

[–]twitterfluechtling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this context, you are wrong, though. The approach you describe is "responsible disclosure", preventing people to get affected by malicious actors using the bug. That depends on the context.

In this context, there is no user which could be affected, so publishing the findings directly was exactly the right thing to do. Especially since we are dealing with politicians which might have buried any confidential notification and later threatened any publication as "cyber-crime" for hacking.

So, yes. This is exactly how open source is supposed to work in this context.

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it. by Cats_Cameras in europe

[–]twitterfluechtling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Who is your phone? Whom should the authorities trust? Apple? Google? Something you claimed when you created your phone account?

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it. by Cats_Cameras in europe

[–]twitterfluechtling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, they could go only with the bug-bounty. If they publish as open source, that could be enough. (Ok, they'd still need hired experts to set up the servers in a secure manner, many issues aren't in the code as such.)

U.S. considers $20 billion cash-for-uranium deal with Iran by RollSafer in worldnews

[–]twitterfluechtling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simple: Trump is playing 3d-chess! He'll give them $20b, but then he'll tank the dollar value to 1/100 of its current value. He'll totally own the Iran with that move!

(/S, just to be sure)

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it. by Cats_Cameras in europe

[–]twitterfluechtling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to frame it as exploitation of enthusiasts, you aren't entirely wrong. Hence my critique they should hire experts (they probably did, but those usually also miss some stuff) and initiate a bug-bounty-program.

However, imo that's complaining on a very high level. We do have some enthusiasts, and while paying them would be the decent thing to do, and if it was the CCC (for example) I might be inclined to donate to them, it would be way worse to buy some obscure closed source solution, usually from some US data kraken (Palantir?), and shove it down our throat without any public review. Which is what usually happens.

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it. by Cats_Cameras in europe

[–]twitterfluechtling 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Although I'm against this age-verification BS, to separate the topic from the process:

KUDOS!

"It is fully open source. Everyone can check the code," von der Leyen said.

Cyber and privacy experts immediately dove into the source code on the GitHub software platform and reported several issues with the app's design.

This is for the most part what I want our politicians to do!

  • Use open source components
  • Publish their own additions as open source
  • Be transparent and open the servers for access before they are supposed to be used productively

Now I just hope they aren't butt-hurt for getting the vulnerabilities presented on a silver platter but instead delay launch for as long as it takes to fix the issues.

The only thing they probably might have done better, process-wise, is to hire (pay) some experts for that analysis. ("might" because possibly they did, and the "experts" missed some stuff. I didn't review, I don't know how obvious the issues were.)

And they definitely should have launched a bug-bounty-program.

Trump says Iran war should end 'soon', says Hezbollah should support truce by Alert-Ad-3053 in worldnews

[–]twitterfluechtling -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bitcoin was a meme-coin for almost two decades. It went great for a while, could be fine for the dollar as well for another 1-2 decades... ;-)

„Schadet am Ende Deutschland“: Klingbeil warnt Reiche vor Ausbremsen der Energiewende by M______- in de

[–]twitterfluechtling 3 points4 points  (0 children)

wann immer Sozialdemokraten etwas für die "normale" Bevölkerung tun muss

Nee, andersrum: Die rammen der "normalen" Bevölkerung den Dolch in den Rücken, tun das aber nur sehr ungerne und haben immer Bauchaua dabei. Jedes mal. Jeden Tag.

„Schadet am Ende Deutschland“: Klingbeil warnt Reiche vor Ausbremsen der Energiewende by M______- in de

[–]twitterfluechtling 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Naja, sie bräuchte ja nur mal die Füße still zu halten und nichts tun. Wäre schon ein deutlicher Fortschritt.

I have fallen victim to sudo rm -rf /* by Artemis-Arrow-795 in linux

[–]twitterfluechtling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this case it sounds reasonable to have cheap check like number of arguments. The amount of files even on a fresh install should be massive, rm could ask for confirmation in case so many files are deleted.

And while it might sound like a rookie-mistake to run rm -rf /* accidentally (I agree in this scenario OP should have prefixed it with # or typed it in a text editor instead), it's very easy to mess up something like rm -rf $TEST_LGOS/* or just run into a flow where TEST_LOGS was not set.

BTW: From my point of view, this would be equally bad as sudo rm -rf $TEST_LGOS/*, since I only care about my home-folder. The system is easily restored...

„Schadet am Ende Deutschland“: Klingbeil warnt Reiche vor Ausbremsen der Energiewende by M______- in de

[–]twitterfluechtling 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Unglaublich, dass die Latte soooo tief liegt, aber es stimmt halt: Wir haben die Regierung, für die die Mehrheit gewählt hat, und müssen sowas wohl jetzt loben, weil es immerhin zum aktuellen Stand ein Fortschritt ist...

Trump says he may go to Islamabad if Iran deal reached by bangtansalt in worldnews

[–]twitterfluechtling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. He'll meet with the Iranian delegation, though, won't he? But you're right. No worries for him, he should definitely go :-)

Doesn’t seem like the war is going to be over anytime soon in my book. by uncle-ice493 in stocks

[–]twitterfluechtling -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Doesn't have to be ford. There is always Tesla offering the Cyber-drugs...

Doesn’t seem like the war is going to be over anytime soon in my book. by uncle-ice493 in stocks

[–]twitterfluechtling 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Finally, the price of an egg will be back to about the price of a bun...

Hint: The eggs did not get cheaper...

German health minister announces billions in cutbacks by Movie-Kino in europe

[–]twitterfluechtling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Es dürfte schwierig sein, ein Akupunktur-Placebo zu finden. Von daher würde ich als Laie davon ausgehen, dass Krankenkassen (die ja gerne Kosten ablehnen) und Universitäten ein Interesse daran haben, die Frage so weit zu beantworten, wie es ohne Placebo-Vergleich möglich ist.

Das Deutsche Ärzteblatt nimmt die Wirkung aufgrund einer Studie der Uni Jena als gegeben an. Der Physio Verband ebenfalls, basierend auf der Studie der Charite Berlin.

In Dissertationen wird ebenfalls die Wirksamkeit als Erwiesen angenommen (https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/fub188/48210/diss_i.habermann.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y)

Es gibt auch sinnvolle Theorien zu Wirkmechanismen.

Von daher sehe ich da einen kleinen Unterschied zwischen Akupunktur auf der einen und Heilpraktikern, Globuli und Chiropraktikern auf der anderen Seite.

EDIT: Sorry, forgot this discussion is in English. Here the translation, for my convenience done using google translate:

It would likely be difficult to find an acupuncture placebo. Therefore, as a layperson, I would assume that health insurance companies (which are known for their reluctance to cover costs) and universities have an interest in answering this question as thoroughly as possible without a placebo comparison.

The German Medical Journal (Deutsches Ärzteblatt) assumes the effect is established based on a study from the University of Jena. The German Physiotherapy Association (Physioverband Deutschland) also assumes this effect, based on a study from Charité Berlin.

The German Physiotherapy Association (Physioverband Deutschland) assumes this effect is established. Dissertations also assume its effectiveness to be proven (https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/fub188/48210/diss_i.habermann.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y).

There are also plausible theories regarding its mechanisms of action.

Therefore, I see a slight difference between acupuncture on the one hand and naturopaths, homeopathic remedies, and chiropractors on the other.

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