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My Dev One is going fine, except it seems to have stopped charging from USB-C, on either port, whether the machine is turned on or off.

Fortunately I still have the original barrel charger.

I've tried a couple of different USB chargers that work fine with a mac, and I've checked that the firmware is up to date.

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas? Some posts on the web seem to say the hardware for charging from USB can just fail, which would be a shame because I'd guess it's on the motherboard and the machine is fine in other ways.

Question for anyone with a Taycan, especially the CT:

Do you ever find the front scrapes on ramps or driveways, or that you need a lot of care to avoid scraping? I guess they all have air suspension and you can raise it if you need to?

https://www.reddit.com/r/filecoin/comments/ridb41/filecoin_news_33/ "was developed to... ward off some of the heavy criticism the network has received over its energy consumption."

OK let's do the math. https://filecoin.energy/ estimates 140MW of power used, with an upper bound of 390MW. Let's take it at face value, even though some people here might think coiners are not always scrupulously honest.

https://storage.filecoin.io/ says there's currently 23PiB of data stored, which sounds like a lot, and in some ways it is. But these days there are 18TB drives

Until recently I'd assumed Chia was a storage coin like Sia, Filecoin or Lbry: a slow, buggy, unreliable, insecure and expensive would-be competitor to S3 and similar object stores. Oh, and also priced in crypto, so dramatically unstable prices.

Users care about speed, reliability, security, and cost in file storage, so these systems see very little real use. There are two niche audiences: (1) those who want to store content that'll be taken down elsewhere (child abuse etc) and (2) nerds who are enthusiastic about decentralization for its own sake, even when it makes the product worse.

The fact that it's not a useful product is reflected in ridiculously low user adoption. For example [Sia

Real world applications any minute now...

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/microsoft-is-shutting-down-its-azure-blockchain-service/

Dfinity's current docs and public statements seem ambiguous on whether compute nodes are trusted to run user apps correctly and confidentially.

Dfinity is proposing that app developers take a big step away from the current situation where they have a direct contract with an IaaS/PaaS provider who promises to ensure the physical and logical security of the infrastructure. As an app developer, I want some strong assurances that my data, my code, and my users' data has confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Dfinity seem to want to treat DCs more like miners, that get paid if they produce consensus results but otherwise have complete autonomy, and they are not assumed to be tr

I've been reading the Dfinity whitepaper and dev guide and I have a few questions.

(btw all the "read full answer" links in dfinity.org/faq are broken.)

In a nutshell it seems that developers build canisters containing Wasm code plus application state. The code actually executes on computers provided by third parties, somehow arbitrarily chosen by the Dfinity framework.

It seems like whoever is offering the datacenter will be able to observe inputs, outputs, and internal state of the actor? This seems to rule out using it for any application that stores or manipulates non-public information, like personal or corporate data, or any application that holds credent

Lately I've been really liking the look of the 3-series touring. I don't have kids or a dog, and sometimes I move bulky things around, though not really all that often. When the F10 F30 comes out I'll be tempted to trade my E46 coupé for a 335 touring. What do you think?