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  • Why smaller attack surface? Bigger attack surface. For an attacker is way easier to hack a single developer and publish a malicious APK on their GitHub (or alternative) rather than hosting malware on the official fdroid repository.

    The first just requires a phishing email (trojanize a random Dev with poor opsec, get his apk signing key and his browser cookies) while the second is way more complex (get full access to fdroid build servers)

  • i don't think that there's no check at all. There's either a server side check or a digital signature to verify, or both. You can trick the train ticket check (here they don't even scan the qr code, they see the screen on the phone and continue) or the lazy airbnb landlord, but that can be done also today

  • and they accept that as a valid id? I mean in a store ok, but a public official? It's incredibly easy to make a fake screenshot

    the digital version of id cards are glorified qr codes: they scan it and their device downloads from the government servers the official version. Or, for offline usage: the qr code contains all the data, signed with their key, they check if the signature is valid

  • why on their website they still link their (now abandoned) xitter account instead of the active bluesky account?

    edit: their xitter account is dead, right? The latest post that it shows without log in is from 2022

  • it's a number that i pulled out of my ass but yes, it's about annualized failure rate. If the average battery breaks after 9 years, then it means there would be a lot of free replacements under the 8 year warranty. Like for hard drives they give 3 years warranty but it's normal to assume that it lasts 10-15 years and not break immediately after 3 years (exception: [western digital inserted a timebomb[(https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/13uyk41/wd_red_pluspro_issue_drive_being_markd_as_warning/) to mark their drives as faulty via SMART as soon as the warranty is expired)

    for the mitsubishi imiev most batteries are still working (different chemistry from modern ones) even if the last ones have been made in 2013

  • I'm not surprised at all.

    Almost all automakers are offering a 8 years warranty on the battery. That means who made the battery (=the one that would ultimately pay the bill if it lasts less than 8 years) is expecting an average of 15 years or more

    Can you say the same for a normal engine? After 8 years it will start to give lots of problems. Oil leaking, compression problems, dirty injectors, and so on

  • The challenge didn't ask to disable ipv4 but it was (jokingly) daring people to expose all ports to public to see how long the system would last before being exploited by bots. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously 😆

  • the reason OP was thinking of doing this, was saving disk space and avoiding buying another hdd. So if it's a 1:1 full disk image, then there's almost no difference with the costs of raid1. Setting exclusions, avoiding certain big files, and so on. In this case he's talking about restic, which can restore data but very hard to do a full bootable linux system - stuff needs to be reinstalled

  • Even with free labor I can't see how it's cost effective once you consider the price of shipping a cheap and perishable good like a tomato

    In Sicily many tomatoes are picked by immigrants paid 200 euro per week (70 hours weeks), that's almost slavery; because it's cheaper to transport the wholesale price paid by the factory located in Europe should be similar to tomatoes grew by slaves in a desert 3000 km far from the nearest port. Unless the purees factories are located there.

    Edit: I investigated more on the issue and learned that it was concentrated puree that was imported, with long shelf life, and that the company already had issue some years ago with the Italian food inspectors which seized many stuff, and then was photo evidence of Chinese concentrate barrels in that Italian factory

  • It's magic, it can automagically solve any unrelated problem. He claimed that tariffs would lower child care costs (of course the ramble doesn't specify how it would lead to lower child care costs because I definitely can't see it leading to countrywide tuition-free public kindergartens like in many European countries)