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Luca B

@lucabarbera

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Engineer, passionate technologist, petrolhead and geek. When struck by nonsense, I deliver championship grade ranting.

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2020-08-19 14:56

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lucabarbera

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RE: Why Too Long Passwords Won't Boost Your Security

Great article. I myself have written a series of articles about password theory (among which Dispelling modern myths about passwords and How hackers are cracking your passwords) and also explained the

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lucabarbera

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RE: How to scan documents using the notes app on iPhone

It is nice that Notes finally has a built-in option for scanning, but I recommend using Microsoft Lens as it is vastly superior and has a broad array of features, including automatic skew, perspective

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lucabarbera

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RE: What does the restriction on the iPhone 13 ProMotion feature mean?

You may want to update the article, as the restriction described therein does not exist. Apple has shared documentation that explains how developers can fully enable faster ProMotion refresh rates for

lucabarbera

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RE: How to properly store a password in the Database

Interesting article. You may want to have a look at some additional information I wrote about the same topic one year ago, .

lucabarbera

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RE: Why Should You Choose a Hybrid Car?

Hi, engineer here with years of direct experience on automotive. While interesting, this post contains several imprecisions and mistakes that should be considered for the sake of correctness. Albeit

lucabarbera

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RE: Freezing Time: Chronovisors

Love the article. By the way, Google Maps has a "chronovisor"-type function where it is possible to select a different point in time for the same location and see how it looked like back then.

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RE: September 15, 2021. Early Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine May Reduce COVID-19 Pneumonia Progression

"Repeating what other say" would be an opinion, but finding and bringing sources that expose factual scientific research is not. Scientific research and sources: US National Institutes of Health,

lucabarbera

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RE: After Facebook, Xiaomi Launched Smart Glasses

To be precise, Xiaomi calls this a "device concept" - which means it's not a real product.

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RE: September 15, 2021. Early Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine May Reduce COVID-19 Pneumonia Progression

RE: September 15, 2021. Early Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine May Reduce COVID-19 Pneumonia Progression

The study linked in this post is outdated and the information contained therein have been proven wrong in several follow-up peer-reviewed studies. FDA cautions against use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine

lucabarbera

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RE: Do you use True Caller?

I have been using the free version of TrueCaller for some time, but it was not very effective in my area (I live in Europe). Spam filtering databases tend to be more or less effective depending on specific

lucabarbera

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RE: Tobii 4c Eye Tracker Demo

RE: Tobii 4c Eye Tracker Demo

There are some neat tricks one can do by leveraging eye tracking, and head tracking as an extension. Check this out for instance:

lucabarbera

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RE: Commodore Format (July 1995)

Really fascinating. Too bad 1995 was well past due date for the C64 and the world had already moved on - at that point not only to 16bit, but even past the Amiga/ST era and well within PC compatibles.

lucabarbera

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RE: Hints That Suggest You Are Ready for Change in your Life ..

The biggest fear for a human being is to die, and that event is inevitable. Once a person realizes that, it should be obvious that fear is just an obstacle in our mind holding back from realizing a person's

lucabarbera

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RE: Getting Started with Trading - An Overview.

"Listening to the news" is not necessarily a bad thing: one must be aware of market trends and ongoing developments to make educated guesses and informed decisions. I would suggest it is more

lucabarbera

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RE: WhatsApp Getting our Data or Not|| The Mystery of WhatsApp and Privacy

That is totally correct. The concept of free as in "free beer" outside of Open Source freeware invariably entails giving up something in return, otherwise it is not sustainable. There's a reason

lucabarbera

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RE: Reasons You are Never Productive After a Long Day

A brief and perfectly on-point article on several reasons that cause low productivity. Good value content, keep up the good writing 👍

lucabarbera

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RE: Top 100 Most voted Posts on Hive 2020-12-09

Proud to be listed here. Thanks for the shout @hiveshout!

lucabarbera

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RE: Finite Element Methode : CivilFEM

69 words? This is not even an article, but a waste of bandwidth.

lucabarbera

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RE: HOW TO MAKE READING INTERESTING FOR KIDS.

Good article. As a former bookworm and avid reader, I acknowledge the importance of reading since childhood - it forms the foundation of culture and cannot be overstated.

lucabarbera

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RE: China's SIlk Road; Will China Become Economic Power?

Last time I checked, China is already a successful economic superpower. And the Coronavirus pandemic did not significatively erode their status (which cannot be said of several Western countries).