Zak

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

An interesting additional dimension here is that people with ASPD usually don't respond to negative consequences the way most people do. That might impact their ability to use imagining what their emotional state would be in a situation to understand how it would be for others.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago

Tried this; continued to see no ads for anything at all. Am I doing it wrong?

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that Emirates explicitly uses attractiveness as a hiring/promotion criterion for flight attendants. That goes beyond what I usually think of as privilege.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I use Matrix, and I've moved some conversations with people I met in public rooms there to Signal because it kept failing to transfer keys rendering it unable to decrypt messages. I haven't seen that in a while so maybe it's fixed, but I haven't been using it for one-to-one conversations lately.

Unfortunately, I've found most people have a lot of resistance to adding another messaging app. I don't really understand why that is, but it's true. Asking someone to install a messaging app when I'm their only contact who uses it and they have another way to contact me has a success rate near zero.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe. The bad actor here seems to be the government of China, and the linked page says:

The individuals most at risk include anyone connected to: Taiwanese independence; Tibetan rights; Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in or from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; democracy advocacy, including Hong Kong, and the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

I can imagine them casting a wide net.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (5 children)

What is this? A Twitter post?

Just about. JWZ is known for his cynical hot takes on tech in general.

I don't think any of his complaints are invalid, though his conclusions are uncharitable at best. Making a communication tool that's both reasonably secure and sufficiently palatable to people who don't know how to use computers to achieve broad adoption is a hard problem with no perfect solutions. If he has a better idea, well... he's a skilled and somewhat famous programmer; he's better equipped than most to implement it.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

A temporary stay by one justice does not create a legal precedent. Whatever the full supreme court rules in this case will create a legal precedent.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My answer to a crappy ISP router is to turn off its WiFi and plug my own into ethernet.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Each participant is sent a separate copy of each message encrypted with their own key.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

A problem is that some sites that don't need cookie banners use them anyway due to a poor understanding of the law and excess of caution.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Well... sort of.

Batteries perform differently under load. A battery that delivers 10Wh under a 1W load will probably deliver less (and get warmer) under a 10W load. Power supplies also perform differently under load, and DC-DC switching power supplies perform differently based on the output voltage. Generally, a larger voltage conversion and/or a higher load is less efficient. There's also going to be some base power consumption in the circuit, so the most output power is probably achieved at some sort of medium load.

To make things more fun, batteries are usually tested under constant current, not constant power. The increasing current as the battery drains of a constant power load will result in less total power, and constant output power often means increasing input power as the battery drains.

In short, the real world is complicated. Giving best and worst case Watt-hours could be a reasonable approach.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd be a little concerned about safety. A manufacturer or distributor that's willing to lie so blatantly about capacity might also be willing to sell cells that failed QC.

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