NGram
@NGram@piefed.ca
- Comment on The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies 5 days ago:
The author's take is a bit baffling to me. Trying to apply the US constitutional amendments against a foreign government institution to protect a US company is dumb. Those amendments strictly apply to the US government. As long as the company provides services in the UK, they are subject to UK laws on those services. If I start shipping firearms from the US to the UK it'd be perfectly reasonable for the UK to stop those packages at the border and destroy them. Network packets don't just magically transcend borders.
The reasonable consequence of noncompliance is to block the service. Yes, that's essentially paving the way for a national internet filter like China's Great Firewall, but that's why we have to fight the entire law not just the enforcement of it.
The Online Safety Act is horrible and a nightmare for so many reasons, but arguing it's unenforceable on the grounds of being in a different country is just blatantly wrong.
- Comment on [Eurogamer] Pokémon Legends: Z-A review 1 week ago:
a joyful proof of concept
Wow that's a sad thing to say about the second game in that (sub)series. Even the first should've been more than a proof of concept. It would be excusable for a $20 early access game on Steam to be a tech demo of this calibre, but not a $85 (CAD) game. It does interest me enough to consider eventually picking up a used copy do dump to my Steam Deck, which is about the highest complement I can offer a Nintendo game.
- Comment on A Flagship Smartphone With Kill Switches? Meet the Murena-Powered HIROH Phone 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, so did I. I've got a Fairphone 4 which has midrange specs and a flagship price. But that wasn't my point; the article is wrong, the specs are not flagship territory.
Paying more for less is stupid, but paying more for things that others don't value so highly (e.g. a headphone jack, privacy, ethical production, durability, etc.) is actually smarter than buying the popular thing.
- Comment on A Flagship Smartphone With Kill Switches? Meet the Murena-Powered HIROH Phone 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully it sells better than the other phones on the market with hardware switches (e.g. PinePhone).
the phone is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 8300 SoC, paired with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of internal storage. These specs place it firmly in flagship territory
That's not a flagship processor according to MediaTek; it's in their "premium" category (8000 series) which is one step down from their "flagship" category (9000 series). The RAM and storage seems possible to get on decent midrange/high-end phones in the USD $600-700ish range too. I found the Vivo V60 and OnePlus Nord 4 with similar specs pretty quickly. The Hiroh phone is definitely priced like a flagship though.
Now, I'm not saying flagship specs are really worth it these days (except maybe camera stuff), but this is definitely not a flagship phone.
- Comment on How Time Flies 1 month ago:
This is the first time I've seen someone suggest PowerTools specifically to waste energy lol