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Comment Re:Unpossible!11! (Score 4, Insightful) 61

The irony of all the climate change deniers claiming we would have to destroy our economies to address it, and now Trump is actually trying it. Meanwhile the commies are turning it into an economic boom with massive increases in both manufacturing and cheap energy to power the manufacturing.

Comment Re:How long until the scams begin? (Score 1) 17

You are forgetting that the alternative to a passkey is a password.

Passwords can be stored in a password manager, where they have the same protections as a passkey. Or they can be stored in your brain, which will result in you either re-using them or forgetting them.

Therefore passkeys are the better choice, because they avoid things like stupid per-site limits on password complexity, have more bits of entropy than most websites allow in a password, and are overall a better experience for the user, while being at a minimum equally secure as passwords.

And if you don't want too allow them to be exported, get a hardware security key like a Yubikey and store them on there. Or just don't authorize export from your phone (it needs you enter your unlock password/biometric, apps can't just take the data).

Of course, you can still use 2FA with a passkey. You can even use a password as one of your authentication methods.

Comment Re:Just get a real camera already (Score 1) 41

That's what I mean, yeah, a mirrorless. But I haven't found any that really seem to meet my needs of being compact, decently wide, good in low light, and good on auto. Maybe one of the Sony alpha series, but looking at phone like the Honor Magic 8 Pro and the coming 9 Pro, I'm not convinced that it is worth it.

Comment Re:ecurity by obscurity (Score 1) 33

it just takes one smart fellow to tear the camera apart and extract the key

So it's about as secure as other protected keys in smartphones, such as the ones use to encrypt the flash memory. Or in other words, it's very secure and only well funded government security services are likely to have the resources to do it.

Comment Re:Just get a real camera already (Score 1) 41

I have been thinking about getting a DLSR for years, but stick with a phone. Carrying a DLSR means one more thing to pocket, one more thing to charge. They are also harder to use, and while they do have better sensors and optics, the actual photos are often no better, or only marginally so, compared to a really good phone.

I wish someone would make a DSLR that was compact and as easy to use as a phone. I'd be interested in that. Fixed lens would be okay, I'm not going to carry a second one anyway. Even just a USB dongle that used the phone for all the processing and for the view screen.

I am disappointed that Google has abandoned high end cameras and is now only a B+ compared to other flagships. iPhones are off the table because they aren't Android and are made by Apple, but when I do upgrade my Pixel the cameras will be the deciding factor on which device I get.

Comment Re:Chasing a trend (Score 1) 94

I'd like a folding phone, but there are two issues holding me back.

1. Fragility. The inner screens can still be damaged by a fingernail.

2. Cost.

I feel like the cost is at least partly down to poor design decisions. I don't need a camera under the outer screen and under the inner screen. An array of high end ones on the back is enough, and if I need to take a selfie/video chat I will just open the phone up and use the front screen.

Comment Re:81 remote code execution? WTF? (Score 1) 62

Nah, it's just the result of them using AI tools to find vulnerabilities. The thing to be worried about is that nobody is publicly throwing as many AI tokens at Linux and other critical open source code. I say publicly because I'm sure privately many security agencies and criminal enterprises (but I repeat myself) are doing it.

Submission + - August joint hottest month on record as climate change and El Niño drive he (bbc.com) 2

AmiMoJo writes: August was the joint-hottest month ever recorded, tying with July 2023, according to the EU's climate service.

The record was driven by a combination of climate change and the rising influence of El Niño, pushing heat into the atmosphere across the Pacific.

Temperatures for the month were 1.65C above pre-industrial levels — surpassing the critical 1.5C threshold agreed by countries to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.

While a single month above 1.5C does not mean it has been permanently crossed, it shows a trend towards breaching that limit.

The month also capped western Europe's warmest summer, with high temperatures pushing the season past the deadly heat of 2003.

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