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KeepassXC is free, open source, and supports passkeys. You can locally store your encrypted password vault wherever you like, and transport it between devices using physical media if you like (or self host your own personal storage synchronization server and sync your passkeys between devices like that).
No need to be a part of an 'ecosystem' to use a password manager or passkeys.
Of course. I was just pointing out that their claim about the lack of portability across devices was untrue.
Passkeys do *not* do that. I use 1Password to manage my passkeys and they are all synced across all my authenticated devices where I installed 1Password.
Well, a national ID number isnt usually publicly available info, even if it can be obtained by the US government through illicit means.
But yeah, it does sound that way, but certainly not clear cut to me what the situation is. I.e. does the agreement involve clauses about what to do if this is abused? Do we have a way to detect if theyre using this on non-travellers? Etc.
What's unclear to me here is this: under this new scheme does the USA get access to the biometric data of people not travelling to the USA?
In most German cities (and even many villages), district heating is a rather common utility offering. There's pipes everywhere to move around the hot water to people's homes, and the water is typically heated by the waste heat from gas plants and waste heat from factories (though increasingly being supplemented with giant heat pumps).
This isnt some novel thing in Germany, selling excess heat from some energy intensive commercial proccess is pretty standard. The local district heating operator probably took care of almost all the infrastructure for them.
Bonds are not the same thing as stocks.
So you are confirming that I'm right in my assertion that the reason you aren't bothered by the Ukrainian refugees in Poland is that you don't see them diluting the racial purity of Poland?
The Americans who fetishize Poland do it because of their concept of it being 'racially pure' while having a growing economy. They don't particularly care about Ukrainians because Americans don't recognize any racial or ethnic difference between Ukrainians and Poles.
There are fees that need to be paid to make a freedom of information request (fees which they also want to jack up), and if an NGO offers to pay that fee so that a native German citizen can make the request, it could be construed as foreign interference.
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I think the article just has poor wording. They went through a raft of different, unrelated reforms already, and this is part of the next set the CDUs want to get through.
Maybe, but the more problematic part is disallowing NGOs from submitting information requests. Multiple previous corruption scandals in Germany were exposed exactly because NGOs themselves were allowed to submit these information requests (and pay for them).
Lol, what on earth makes you single out Poland as the single western country not in decay right now?
This hasn't been voted on in the Bundesttag yet, let alone the Bundesrat or Bundespräsident.
Worth noting that this is a push from the CDU who are leading the government, but their coalition partner the SPD has already come out pretty strongly against this, so it's rather unclear if this would ever actually go through (not to mention challenges from constitutional courts). The CDU cannot unilaterally push through legislation without the SPD.
The SPD has rolled over for the CDU in the past on things, but they've also blocked things they thought were important enough to block, so it's really anyone's guess if this go through (I personally wouldn't bet on it, but I'm sure a bunch of dour pessimists will come explain to me that it's a foregone conclusion and I'm naive).
I don't buy this as an explanation for the gap in the actual silicon's performance.
Nvidia's chips lose very little performance when they're severely power limited. In fact, that's why Nvidia's Professional versions of their GPUs are typically running at under two-thirds of their consumer equivalent's power draw.
Nvidia's cards are primarily designed for their professional applications where the power consumption is lower, and then they just juice up the consumer cards deep into the territory of diminishing returns just so they win some benchmarks.
On a performance-per-watt basis, Apple is still behind an Nvidia card with the juiced up power consumption, and when you dial back the power draw, Nvidia cards are miles ahead of Apple's silicon for performance-per-watt.
I guess I just don't really buy your argument, because if their CPUs had turned out poorly, you could have applied the same argument to their CPUs instead of the GPUs.
Another user though pointed out that they didn't actually design the GPU until the A11, so perhaps it really is just a lack of in house experience.
Ah I see, good to know.
I mean, yeah sure, we should wait and see what actually comes out, but I'm not sure I really see much reason to be skeptical.
Blackwell came out in 2024 on n4p. This article is claiming that Apple hopes to get into the same ballpark of performance as a Blackwell GPU with an M7 Ultra, which at the absolute earliest would release in 2027, but more likely 2028 or 2029, and would consist of two absolutely massive M7 Max GPUs stapled together, for a total die area bigger than a 5090, but on a smaller more advanced node.
Honestly, if they can't release something that big by 2028 that's at least competitive with a 5080, it'd be extremely embarrassing for them.
The iPhones had GPUs too. As far as I'm aware, the GPU design in the M-series chips are directly descended from the iPhone GPU in the exact same way the CPU is.
Really just depends on what the market looks like in a year or two. If things stay on the current trajectory, then yeah, they won't sell this. If the AI market gets spooked and sells off, it might be available.
Whether or not this thing is commercially available though, they basically have no choice but to at least keep up the R&D spend, or they'll be even further behind once RAM availability eventually eases up.
It's pretty interesting that Apple was so quick to get to industry-leading status on their CPUs, but their GPUs are still in a state where they won't match Nvidia's GPUs from 2024 until at least next year, and will need a significantly bigger chip to do so.
Similar story with Qualcomm but to a lesser degree (both on the CPU and GPU side). I wonder why that is.
Lack of priority? Legitimately harder problem to solve? Experience from mobile scaling to desktop differently than CPU experience?
Vienna was under occupation for 10 years but was never partitioned. There was mostly free movement of people and goods between the zones.
The reason "many people dont know" about that is that it didnt happen.
You just made it up.
It comes up anywhere that youre working with data that has some sort of correlation structure.
In image processing, the SVD makes it possible to talk about all the rich spatial correlations in the image, and pick out the strongest ones and discard noise.
This is also why it's so ubiquitous in compression algorithms, and of central importance in stuff like quantum information.
everywhere except Apple products now
Yikes. I guess we'll find out in a couple months that Fender had replaced their legal department with ChatGPT 3 or something.
This is extra bizarre to me, because for most purposes German law doesnt operate on a system of "legal precedent" the way countries which adopted the UK model do.
Am I missing something about Germany following a precedent system for patent/copyright or something, or is this even dumber than it sounds?
Pah! Nonsense. What could possibly be worse than Weimar Germany or Tsarist Russia?