NGram

@NGram@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend Battery Packs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Regulations limit the total battery energy you can carry on board, which would be measured in Wh. Usually the limit is 100Wh though some countries/airlines have different regulations for total vs individual capacities (e.g. max 200Wh total but each device cannot be over 100Wh).

  For regular Lithium-Ion cells which are usually 3.6 to 3.7V, 100Wh is around 27 000 mAh. Always check the battery cell voltage though, since it's pretty easy to claim any mAh the company wants since it's not really a measurement of anything tangible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s necessarily incompatible with what I suggested. They could just leave the backup servers offline until they’re actually needed which shouldn’t cost them anything (or at least not much; some cloud providers charge for a VM’s storage usage regardless).

  Assuming that Signal’s servers were designed by competent engineers, the engineering cost to make a change like this shouldn’t be that bad. Though judging by Whittaker’s comments, that may be a bad assumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloodlines 2 is losing a drinking buddy as spinoff Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt plans server shutdown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So when are they releasing the servers for us to run?

  Since I’m reasonably sure they won’t, anyone interested in writing a server emulator?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is true that there really isn’t another cloud provider that they could choose. All of the other cloud providers (major and minor players) are prone to the same sort of systemic failure. But it isn’t true that they didn’t have another choice.

  The solution to service failure is redundancy. Making the redundancy as different as possible makes it even more resilient. In this case, that would be having redundant servers on other cloud providers which can be used in the event that the main one fails. Even better if they can use all of them simultaneously to share the load and let failover happen more gracefully.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the first time I've seen someone suggest PowerTools specifically to waste energy lol