I meant you could recreate some of the "in person collaboration" crap by actually encouraging people to communicate while working from home.

I think some of that could be recreated by having "for fun" discord/teams/slack channels. Maybe throw in some company sponsored game servers or something.

Of course some managers would have to ruin it though. "You must share between 2 and 4 pet pictures a week, spend 1 hour exactly in the open voice channels and place/destroy a minimum of 10,000 blocks on minecraft a month."

I thought we mostly weren't providing M1's due to fairly extreme fuel usage and maintenance requirements?

I imagine it is covering stuff like the "security" features that stop you from replacing a component that is serial number locked, not user data encryption.

Isn't any attack that we don't have the computational power to test going to be theoretical?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biclique_attack

Technically then AES is "broken" using conventional means but only barely.

Looks like the last time they had to worry about it was around the 386->486 transition.

Picometers would be the next logical step which means they probably won't use it.

If I remember correctly it was not long after they went public.

Private corporations have a lot more opportunities to not be evil than public corporations do. They absolutely can be evil, but there is less outside pressure to be so.

A legitimate use of the technology in theory is something like Google Analytics. You can learn how users interact with your website and make improvements based on that.

You can also decide what demographics to spend your advertising budget on if you know what to look for.

A trustworthy company would only actually store the variables necessary for that function and whatever supplemental variables the site owner requests you track. Some being necessary due to how site navigation often works.

Of course we are talking about Facebook and post "don't be evil" Google.

Sounds like it is the code that allows them to track site usage data was used without considering the consequences... Probably not legal but not necessarily malicious intent.

Our three phase tends to be 120V/208V when talking about residential and small business which results in things like stoves running slightly cooler due to the lower voltage.

I think for residential they just run two phases to each apartment though.

Our electric stoves and ovens tend to be 240v too once you get into multiple burners.