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@peter The AIristocrats!

@mcc Clearly the first rule of Egg Club is you do not enter Egg Club.

@cmansley @masek Note that for $15,000, this tester goes up to 12.8g per data lane. Thunderbolt 4 is around 25g per data lane, and 5 is around 50g per data lane. Even the really good testers have trouble fully testing them.

@oschonrock @PeterSommerlad @cstross This gets at a particularly dumb part of “banning VPNs”: the VPN is just the transport mechanism the proxy service uses.

No, we’re not a VPN, we’re a SOCKS proxy.

No, SOCKS is banned now, so we shut that down. We do offer a QUIC proxy, though.

And so on.

@Aurimas @Em0nM4stodon What’s most irritating about this to me is companies which ship security-only updates, but only to weird versions of the product. For example, Microsoft has LTSC versions of Windows (e.g, Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC) which get security updates at the same time as the mainstream versions for *ten years*, and they don’t get any feature updates! They’re already doing the work of porting fixes around, they just don’t let the mainstream versions take advantage of it.

@slothrop @mcc There are two major ways to make the crispy kind, and both are doable at home. You can steam the rice (e.g, in a pressure cooker) then bake it until it pops, or you can cook the rice as if you were going to eat it, dry it out, then deep-fry it.

Both methods are a lot of time and effort for a relatively small result, but it’s possible.

The higher-pressure-than-you-can-get-at-home method is for a softer, spongier type.

@me @0xabad1dea Clearly by not allowing all children everywhere to pet Odin at all times.

This is also a crime against dogs, by the way.

@SecurityWriter A while ago, some authentication token application asked me if I was enjoying it.

Nobody would use this application of their own free will. It’s only ever used because your workplace or bank or whatever puts it in the way of doing what you actually want to do. The best rating they can ever hope for is “inoffensive”. And interrupting me further to ask for a rating *makes it offensive*!

@IronManIV @jwildeboer Unfortunately, a lot of the cost of a car is the frame and body, and techniques which have dramatically lowered the cost of entry have also dramatically increased the cost of repair. Unibody construction is simpler and cheaper (and lower-rattle, etc.) than body-on-chassis-on-frame, but if it bends in a collision, good luck straightening it out and restoring it to spec strength.

@jpaskaruk @jwildeboer Early hybrids did have battery longevity problems. The first few Prius versions used a big, heavy NiMH pack which could store around 0.8 kWh (exact capacity differed over the models). It lasted around seven years before showing significant degradation in capacity, manifesting as steadily declining fuel economy.

They switched to lithium batteries a while ago, and those are both lighter (and “Lightness makes you [more efficient] everywhere.”) and longer-lived.

@npt_writes @jwildeboer It depends on the car. Most now reserve some capacity from the top for longevity reasons. That is, the vehicle only charges the pack to 90% of the pack’s nominal charge, and calls that 100%. This both helps the actual capacity to degrade slower and hides the degradation for a while.

Plug-in hybrids also typically reserve about 10% of the capacity for KERS, which similarly keeps the charge above the minimum.

@david_chisnall @jwildeboer With cars being so expensive to repair, EVs get totaled by insurance pretty readily. With the cells lasting so long, there’s very little demand for used EV batteries. As a result, they tend to be really cheap from junkyards.

I was recently looking up how much a replacement battery pack for a particular hybrid costs. Turns out it’s about $1800 for an 11 kWh pack, but while looking I also found a local wrecker selling a 75 kWh pack from a Mustang Mach-E for about $3k.

@NebulaTide Disk encryption is one of those things where a simple mistake with a new tool can cost you the whole system and all of its data. It would take a *really* good reason to get me to risk moving something which already exists.

There is unlikely to be much performance difference or security difference, so I would just stay with what you know works.

@forst @lffontenelle Why would the camera not be static? When a vet or tech is trying to catch cute kitten or puppy videos, they’ll prop their phone up against a wall and start recording. This obviously yields a completely static camera, and it’s why the camera is basically on the ground.

The lighting also looks real to me. Vets use bright, diffuse lighting, which results in shadows exactly like that.

Not saying it can’t be fake, but neither of those things looks like evidence.