[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The short version:

This means that you reset your password with a 32-character long generated password, which is saved in your vault, PlayStation saves a 30-long password and then you use the 32-long password to log in, which fails because it isn’t the same.

That password prompt should be scorched to earth.

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I tried Luks and BTRFS more than 6 times leading to a script error each and every time.

This was actually my experience also, so I went back to a manual install to just get it done. I think the archinstall script won't get any configuration of device-mapper/LVM right (including disk encryption with cryptsetup). The disk encrypt setup had even more hoops to go through than just LVM.

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Splitting water and keeping the H2 converts the energy into chemical energy. The oxygen is just dumped into the atmosphere, which is a loss of efficiency I think? What I know, H2 is the highest form of chemical energy there is.

Some processes require burning, or cannot be electrified otherwise. It's these where the hydrogen is needed directly. I think hydrogen is a source material that should be mostly be converted into other chemicals. Etc. methanol and ammonia are more easily storable, unlike diatomic hydrogen which can slowly diffuse through a metal wall, enbrittleling it. Clean ammonia production could replace a giant mass of fossil fuels.

Here is an another rabbit hole: most of your body's nitrogen is from ammonia and the fertilizers made from it.

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

It might be cheap now, but I'm fearing the December - February i.e. the coldest part of the year when the price can get salty. Especially when/if the OL3 (or any other) plant trips offline, the price will bump up a lot.

The good part of having excess eletricity is that doing a "electric-kettle" district heating becomes feasible. So instead of reducing the (windmill) production, it makes sense to dump the excess generation capacity into district-heating. (which has large capacity to store the heat)

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago
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A greentext moment:

Decide to listen sweet sweet psytrance.

Playlist only available on Spotify.

Don't like non-free software. (a fucking 1TB disk full of free)

Try make the account anyway.

Somebody else has registered your email.

Request to recover password.

The request arrived at my mail box. Freaking out. No memory of why, when or how.

Listening sweet sweet psytrance.

(Still freaking out.)

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

I once helped a person with their computer. They complained the they cant save the their photos. Well, their onedrive was filled to brim with crap, while the local 1Tb disk was empty because they had zero idea how storage and folders work. I had to explain her there is literally 1000x more fast disk space available, so please dont save into onedrive.

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago

The backdoor has existed for a month at least. Yikes.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Maybe not in a flashlight, but the scientific industry would be very pleased with them. Sterilize water and all surfaces in a second? Flash with 200nm light.

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 63 points 6 months ago

This was an yet another glorious episode from veritasium.

I hope we get well past UVC LEDs. (i.e., shorter wavelengths) UV LEDs are already available. Unfortunately, this progress will stop before X-ray light. With +1 KeV energy, you pretty much must blast off the electrons from the atoms to emit X-rays, which an x-ray tube already does. Or by peeling off a piece of scotch tape.

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Any new battery technology news needs to be taken with a grain of salt. They are highly likely over-hyped and the actually realized products will have more problems than the current established tech initially.

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

Quantum computing is going to make it possible to solve problems that normal computers simply cannot do.

Most of these are optimizing problems like "compute the best solution to traveling salesman" or "find a molecule that binds to this receptor".

On normal computers solving such problems "perfectly" takes^exponential^ amount of computing time vs. the size of the problem.

Quantum computers are going to chop down that exponential thing a little, so we can see the results before the sun burns out. The reason QCs are theoretically able to do this is that each added qubit improves the machines performance exponentially.

However, the qubit state is so fragile that we need hundreds of them to make a single "stable" logical qubit that can do operations repeatedly. What the quantum computer uses as qubit (photons, super-conducting wire) is irrelevant as long as the system can do useful work.

Because of the fragility, the results are gathered using thousands of runs on the quantum machine and measured statistically.

We are not quite there yet to solve any useful sized problems.

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Based on the article the satellites are not staying 100% on their intended spectrum spec and are bleeding some unintended interfere noise. I hope the starlink cloud doesn't interfere so much that it excludes possibility of some research. On earth, if you transmit even slightly out-of-spec radio signals, the government agencies will get mad and really really fast.

ELI5: Low earth orbit is becoming over crowed "FM radio station", with regulation lacking who can broadcast and at what frequency.

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