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Cake day: October 13th, 2021

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  • toneverendstoLinux*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    TPM chips invented in ~2004 were widely feared because they enabled this capability, but until now they have been primarily used only in corporate networks and for BitLocker hard drive encryption.

    […] Cloudflare has already shown it is possible for websites to use it to verify the humanity of a user and skip CAPTCHAs on macOS. What happens when Windows gains that ability? Linux users will be left out in the cold […]

    On an extremely paranoid note, will our government or a large corporation require a driver’s license for the internet, with a digital attestation binding a device to your digital ID in an unfalsifiable way? […]




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    2 years ago

    Need some sources on your numbers, but taking them at face value, a few points:

    • 1600km is avoided in no time. (You don’t need to ride 1600km to avoid driving 1600km, but it’s only 3-9 months of short cycling trips).
    • Your car can still be used by someone else, saving the production of another car for that time (removing the relevance of considering the embodied energy of the car before switching to bicycle).
    • The sooner your 1 car is sent to scrap, the sooner it can be melted down into tubing and parts to make 100 bicycles.