Zak @ Zak @lemmy.world

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That's one I used to hold until I went looking for studies on how smaller doses of alcohol impact a person's driving ability. What I found was a linear, dose-dependent response with no real hard cutoffs. Driving is dangerous enough; there's little benefit to making that worse by drinking beforehand.

I might be OK with a reduced penalty at .08, but I'd like to add a slap on the wrist at an even lower level.

Predicting the emotional state of other people without experiencing that state yourself (even if in a semi-detached way) is not empathy. Sympathy is probably a better description.

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.

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

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.

I use Matrix, and I've moved some conversation 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Powerbanks are where it's most problematic. They're usually reporting the capacity of the battery cells in mAh. Those cells will be at 2.8-4.2V during operation, but the powerbank outputs 5V, or in modern powerbanks some higher number. 5000 mAh at the 3.6V average of the cells during discharge is certainly not 5000 mAh at the 9V it's giving to my phone.

It's not going to give my phone 2000 mAh @ 9V or 18 Wh as the math would suggest either because it's well below 100% efficient. I'm not sure what's reasonable to demand in terms of advertising here since efficiency will vary with output voltage and output wattage.

I guess they could still lie about watt-hours

Your battery illustrates that; 9.9Ah * 3.7V is, indeed 36.63Wh. Buying anything without trust in the seller or verification by a third party is a crapshoot.

A couple of them.

• I review flashlights and occasionally other everyday carry gear at https://zakreviews.com/
• I share photographs and very rarely words at https://zaktakespictures.com/

Both have RSS feeds and associated Mastodon accounts. It's also possible to follow the latter directly with ActivityPub software that allows following users (not Lemmy). I might put up a third and talk about programming and tech.

And I think we’d all agree a sophomore dating a college student would be pretty imbalanced.

I was a college student at 17, but I think you had a larger age difference in mind. I do think we can all agree there should be laws against adults sexually exploiting teenagers.

Yes, though legally that's a bit of a grey area. It's only really entrapment if law enforcement or informants entice the offender to commit a crime they weren't predisposed to commit. I imagine it would be an uphill battle to convince a judge or jury of that when it comes to meeting minors for sex.

The decoys were careful so that it would never even be a question.

There's a significant distinction between servers that are actively malicious as you're describing and servers that aren't fully compatible with certain features, or that are simply buggy.

Lemmy, for example modifies posts federated from other platforms to fit its format constraints. One of them is that a post from Mastodon with multiple images attached will only show one image on Lemmy. Mastodon does it too: inline images from a Lemmy post don't show on vanilla Mastodon.

I'll note that Lemmy's version numbers all start with 0. So do Piixelfed's. That implies the software is unfinished and unstable.