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[–] heftig@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A recent Technology Connections video mentioned people are configuring chargers to 48 A when they're using 14-50 "50 A" sockets that are really designed for 40 A continuous current. Or they're using aluminum wiring without corrosion protection, or not abrading the oxide layer.

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kelvin decided that we should use a scale based on what atoms feel like is the the full range of sensible temperatures, with that range set to 0 through NaN (exception thrown).

There's actually a theoretical maximum temperature.

The mathematically perfect scale goes from zero to one T~P~.

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If ever Firefox actually starts to disgust me and not just disappoint me, I'll stop maintaining it and look at forks.

But it won't be Librewolf, because the default settings are just a cargo-cult of self-contradictory "privacy enhancements" without any sane threat model that make the browsing experience much worse for little gain.

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This is a nonsense comparison as these features serve completely different purposes, while only having in common that advertisers currently use user tracking to achieve the same.

Topics data-mines your browsing history for information about your interests and reveals this information to advertisers in order to improve ad selection. It's meant to replace ad networks tracking each individual user's visits to connected websites and building that profile themselves. Since this is, in a way, much more powerful than tracking cookies, Chrome has a scary dialog asking for it to be enabled, and I don't think we'll be seeing it in Firefox. "Using different links" cannot replace user profiling at all.

PPA doesn't provide any new capabilities to advertisers. It's a privacy-preserving way of measuring ad campaign success that is currently done by ad networks tracking individual users from ad impressions to conversions. "Using different links" is also defective, as advertisers need to connect ad impressions to conversions even if they are not immediately connected through a click on the ad.

If these features become generally available, this reduces the leverage advertisers have on legislators to prevent tracking from being outlawed. Mozilla will be hoping Chrome picks up PPA.

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago

Healing won't work without copies (RAID) available. However, scrubbing regularly can also allow your drive to detect and correct errors before they become irreparable.