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  • Tape is also difficult to steal. The machines to read the tapes are expensive and uncommon, a tape reading machine requires no internet connection, meaning it can’t be subject to man-in-the-middle attacks, and the physical storage devices can be secured and guarded when not in use.

    This fucking idiot is gonna lose the plans for our nukes, isn’t he. Just like when he disabled half of twitter because he physically yanked a server rack out of the building without knowing what it did.







  • Oh no, a sales platform that takes a cut of revenue.

    Valve isn’t a charity, and they provide very good services for what developers pay.

    Devs don’t need to host download servers, they don’t need to staff customer service reps, they don’t have to set up banking infrastructure or worry at all about handling payments from hundreds of different banks across hundreds of countries.

    It’s not like valve takes 30% and sits on it. They put that money to use.




  • A rocket is not fundamentally new and hasn’t been for almost 100 years.

    Rockets perform correctly when they deliver their payload to the correct orbit.

    You can calculate the energy density of fuels, the efficiency of your engines at various atmospheric pressures, and determine the payload size you can deliver with your engines and fuel. Blowing up rockets for “tests” is so 1950s. We have whole college programs on rocket design. We have desktop computers more powerful than anything available in the 1960s, and NASA managed to design the Saturn V, a rocket of similar size to starship, with the computers of the time and fucking slide rules. The Saturn V had its problem, but each rocket managed to deliver its payload and perform its part of the mission without blowing up.

    Your comment is classic tech bro. No understanding of real engineering principles and only a desire to shove some shit out of the door as fast as possible.







  • I love when superstitions are obviously something some parents told their kids because the parent didn’t want a lot of noise after a holiday.

    “No, no chores today it’s bad luck, if you make too much noise someone could die” they say holding their head in their hands.

    “You have to be quiet and go to bed early on Christmas Eve so that Santa can bring presents” 30 minutes later the parents are quickly shoving presents under the tree.

    And kids will just run with that and not question why cleaning in the days after new years is bad luck, although they tend to figure out the Santa one pretty quick.




  • Zron@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldThe Paper Passport Is Dying
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    I mean, you never owned your passport, ever.

    If you look at the very first page, it says “ property of the US government” and then there’s some blurb about tampering being a felony.

    Same thing for a diver’s license. You don’t own it, your state does.

    I do agree that moving to digital identification is a huge mistake. It’s too easy to lose access to a digital device or account. Or have it spoofed in some way. I’d much rather have a physical ID that won’t run out of battery or have a glitch that makes accessing it impossible for an unknown length of time.