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  • This has been happening to me the past few weeks, so I tried turning off app notification sign-in, and the attacker switched to entering passwords until it locked my account.

    The only way to unlock it is to reset the password, and MS won’t let me keep my old one … why can’t I use the old one again, especially if I recently changed it already?! The attackers clearly don’t know it, but now they can make me go through the effort of setting a new password every day until I enabled app notification login again.

    And then they just switched back to MFA phishing again. The attacker has even stopped bothering making the login request look like it’s coming from the same country I live in.


  • They’re typically used in real life situations, for example, when trying to figure out whether their coworkers are like-minded. Once they know they can get away with it, though … I have a few coworkers that will talk right-wing talking points practically non-stop. Another coworker and I have considered reporting them to HR, but all that would do is put a target on our backs; or at best, get them to silently hold a grudge against us. And it takes a lot more than office drama to get fired where I work.








  • The numbers aren’t too difficult to verify.

    I found this Canadian government web page that says it’s roughly 8.9 kWh, so that checks out.

    Looking at the fuel efficiency table on that same website, it looks like OP used a reasonable average fuel efficiency of 30 mpg or slightly under 8L/100km: 4 miles / 30mpg = 0.13 gallons, or 0.492 liters, so their claim of half a liter of gas also checks out.

    The cheapest commercial energy in the US appears to be in North Dakota at $0.0741/kWh, so using $0.05/kWh was very generous.

    The average Netflix user watches about 2 hours per day, or 60 hours per month.

    Just in an attempt to be a bit more accurate, let’s assume the individual user’s television and internet router use about 900W, so we’ll use a final number of 8kW for Netflix’s power use per user.

    8 kW * 60 hours= 480 kWh

    And the cost of all of those kWh at $0.05: 480 kWh * $0.05 = $24.00

    Or, the cost in the least expensive state in the US: 480 kWh * $0.0741 = $35.57

    National average is $0.14/kWh, so unless Netflix was serving everyone out of North Dakota and Texas, their average cost per user would be much closer to $70 per user.

    OP’s numbers were definitely already accurate enough for the point. Basically, there’s no possible way Netflix needs that much electricity to serve their users.







  • Microwaves can generally reach up to nearly 3/4" in water. If heating 8oz in a glass, that should still heat the water evenly enough, since the microwaves will still mostly pass through the glass.

    Heating in shorter increments and stirring in between should help avoid breaking the glass, and heat the water more evenly. If you take the time, it should be identical to kettle boiled water. That’s why people prefer a kettle to a microwave, it’s much faster and far less effort.

    But the sister also performed that experiment in the worst possible way, why did she microwave the actual tea bag?!