GigglyBobble @ GigglyBobble @kbin.social

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Sure, let's test the waters and keep deniability. It's called a weather balloon.

I'm pretty sure one of the multiple extensions I use to make Youtube watchable has a memory leak, because I do end up having to restart it periodically.

It's an extension, so has nothing really to do with the browser. That's on par with one star reviews on Amazon because the package was delivered damaged.

Ha, good one! Got me interested, how the standards bodies handle something like that. Found this in the Wikipedia article for byte:

The unit symbol for the byte is specified in IEC 80000-13, IEEE 1541 and the Metric Interchange Format[10] as the upper-case character B.

In the International System of Quantities (ISQ), B is the symbol of the bel, a unit of logarithmic power ratio named after Alexander Graham Bell, creating a conflict with the IEC specification. However, little danger of confusion exists, because the bel is a rarely used unit. It is used primarily in its decadic fraction, the decibel (dB), for signal strength and sound pressure level measurements, while a unit for one-tenth of a byte, the decibyte, and other fractions, are only used in derived units, such as transmission rates.

Somewhat disappointing. "There's a conflict but it's fine".

But there is also nothing contradictory or wrong with the unit MB.

And I didn't say that. Admittedly, the constraint "If the image size is defined as binary" probably could've been expressed better (I'm not a native speaker). File sizes are usually calculated in binary units (at least by Windows and the Linux distros I know - even though Windows continues to claim those are megabytes and Linux adopted the standardized units) and I'd bet that's the case for file.coffee, too.

Oh, well, I'm pretty sure we're not really disagreeing anyway. So let's conclude with the obligatory relevant xkcd.

No.

Where's the contradiction? Yes, it's just a different prefix but it results in a different number. What I meant to adress is that very often people write MB/megabytes (10⁶ = 1,000,000 bytes) but actually mean MiB/mebibytes (2²⁰ = 1,048,576 bytes). RAM vendors possibly most prominently.

Well, acshually, bit doesn't have a metric symbol and 'b' is defined as barn. So Mb would be a megabarn.

Edit: And to be even more nitpicking: If the image size is defined as binary, it should be MiB (mebibyte) since "mega" is defined as base 10.

Not sure what they're trying to show though.

You also can render a human driven car immobile but standing in front of it and have a buddy come up from behind. And what does that prove other than you're asshole? I don't see how this activism is different.

Do you Google every news if it is actually new? Are we on a news site here?

don’t discredit the whole paid ecosystem

You know that I didn't. I explained why I'm not interested in their service, so why do you try to convince me so hard? Do you get provisions or something?

Yes, but kids that age like video games and will push boundaries. So I doubt even the best education could have prevented that.

To hackers hacking is far more fun than anything some school/uni/employer can come up with (until they're old enough and realize a criminal record isn't worth it).

If you’re not paying for it, you are not the customer, but the product.

While that's generally a good way of thinking to stay alert, it's not a dogma. It discredits the whole, vast FOSS ecosystem, most prominently the Linux kernel, or services like Wikipedia that don't sell your data and rely solely on community contributions and donations.

DDG finances itself via non-personalized ads that aren't very annoying. They won't become a trillion dollar company that way but can get by.

body builder who won awards

Nice way to downplay his accomplishments. He is considered as one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Ridiculous pricing (unless you pick the Ultimate plan for 25 bucks a month you pay per individual searches), the "Why do we need an account" link leads to 404 and "example searches" that totally aren't curated.

Yeah, I'm gonna pass. DDG is great anyway. The only times it doesn't really find what I want, Google doesn't find shit either.

They said it late in the pandemic too: we may be tired of that virus but unfortunately it doesn't care and it is not done with us.

That and the other good thing: no distro will make decisions that are even in the ballpark of insanity of those by big tech corps.

Emphasis on medieval though. Muslims can drive lambos, they can also arrive in this millennium on other topics.

Oh, come on, that's not gay! How would you fence with limb dicks?

"Lit up like a Christmas tree" - yeah, at 4 µSv per hour. So you'd have to swim there for just about 4000 hours to get the equivalent of a full body CT scan.

Not really. The article basically says "it's very different and we have no clue how it will behave".