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Yep, I clicked verify experimentally and all they wanted was my work email and a code they sent to it.

Of course, that works probably because my work has a linkedin account so they know what the official domain is for it.

I guess they'll spam that email but it's not like I care. I already receive spam offering me subcontracting services so I guess it's published somewhere.


Hey can they ask their coding agents to support 3D secure, so I can pay with EU emitted credit cards on the few US sites I'm interested in?

That's for the Stripe customer to configure. Stripe itself has supported 3DS since ages ago.

Edit: also you'll find a pretty common sentiment among US website owners is that the new API that supports 3DS is overcomplicated and they want their 7 lines of code create-a-charge-with-a-token back. Screw the Europeans because they only care about US buyers anyway.


Well it's not like I buy many physical goods from US companies (and amazon US is fine, even handles customs for me).

Keeping my subscriptions to Asimov's and Ars Technica is becoming a pain though because ... Stripe I guess. Ars staff even confirmed it.

A Revolut card works fine, local banks' cards deny the charge by default and if you're lucky they call you and ask if they should allow it.


Well, hope no one tries to deploy overlocked Raspberry Pi hardware in production... especially for kiosk style applications where they're in a metal box in the sun.

They're unstable enough at stock if taken outside an air conditioned room.


The post is about a microcontroller that sips a fraction of a Watt under sane conditions. Cooling its CPU cores is not a problem for real-world applications. You have to bypass the internal voltage regulator crank up the voltage even more before heat becomes an issue.

This is about the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (based on the RP2350), not the original Raspberry Pi.

And is it better with bad cooling?

It's better with absolutely no cooling. It doesn't even consume (and thus dissipate) 100mW flat-out.

Maybe they should have branded it differently …

They did, it's the Raspberry Pi Pico (as opposed to the Raspberry Pi) as a dev board or the RP2350 (as opposed to the BCMXXXX) as a chip.

Yes.

Yes, and some of them can't even be turned off or made to ignore your variable names and acronyms...

... but think how much "engagement" a "security expert" would get out of this!

But how is that different from your usual SaaS using 3 kinds of intrusive analytics packages at the same time?

It's been a while since I browsed anything without an ad blocker.

Do you still get ads for the exact thing you just bought for a week after buying it? :)


It's efficient ... for amazon ... because most people won't bother.

If you work in a team, email is limited to the people you cc: while a convo in a slack channel can have people you didn't think of jump in* with information.

See the other point in the article about discouraging one on one private messages and encouraging public discussion. That is the main reason.

* half a day later or days later if you do true async, but that's fine.


I am neutral in this particular topic, so don’t think I’m defending or attacking or anything.

But aren’t mailling lists and distribution groups pretty ubiquitous?


But - from the people you actually want to get to contribute - emails come with an expectation of a well thought out text. IMs ... less so.

I've been working across time zones via IM and email since ... ICQ.

I'm probably biased by that but I consider email the place for questions lists and long statuses with request for comments, and for info that I want retained somewhere. While IM is a transient medium where you throw a quickie question or statement or whine every couple hours - and check what everyone else is whining about.


I have now been roped into talking more about a topic I have no interest in and am completely ambivalent to… :/

But clearly, thats cultural.

If you keep your eyes on the linux kernel mailing you’ll see a lot of (on topic) short and informal messages flying in all directions.

If you keep your eyes on the emails from big tech CEOs that sometimes appear in court documents; you’ll see that the way they use email is the same way that I’d use slack or an instant messenger.

Thats likely because its the tool they have available- we have IM tools that connect us to people we need (inside the company)- making email the only place for long form content, which means its only perceived as being for long form content.

But when people have to use something federated more often, it does seem like email is actually used this way.


I don't understand. Shouldn't we just task the "AI" agents to improve themselves?

What's that about years of experience? That's obsolete thinking!


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