Kushan

We have faster charging speeds with lithium today, 800v cars that can charge at 300KW+ have been on the market for half a decade, BYD has launched cars that can charge at 2-3x that speed. The charging infrastructure is the bottleneck there, even if all new cars could charge at those speeds it wouldn’t mean much because hardly any chargers can support it.

Besides it’s almost moot, most EV owners aren’t charging via fast chargers like you would fill up an ICE car, they’re charging at home at much cheaper rates and only using fast chargers for particularly long trips.

Sodium batteries are real though. You can buy them today, their big promise was that they would be cheaper than lithium batteries because sodium is abundant and readily available whereas lithium is a rare mineral. Then lithium prices fell through the floor and the value proposition failed, at least for now. They’re also not as energy dense, which is probably what will hold then back from EV use for a while yet, but the claim around being safer holds up.

I’m not entirely sure what the “maintenance burden” even is on a tech that hasn’t changed in decades.

Only because of current RAM prices and artificial scarcity keeping those prices high.

300GB of RAM shouldn’t be that expensive. I have 1/3 of that in my server (bought years ago). If it wasn’t for the AI bullshit, 300GB would be fairly reasonable to buy in a couple of years time.

To be fair, not to defend the CEO at all but when this story first broke it was so wild that you knew someone had to be making up some serious bullshit but it was just so out there, it could have been either side.

Why anyone decided to pick sides is beyond me, this is why courts exist.

The main argument against bsky is that they’re still holding all of your data, unless you self host your own server.

I don’t actually see how Lemmy is much different. Most users are not self hosting on Lemmy either, you’re trusting your data to a 3rd party. The main difference seems to be that there’s much more centralisation on bsky.

I think it’s entirely reasonable to be wary of any service, be ready to delete your account if it goes to shit or whatever it is you need to do to feel safe.

But right now, I like blue sky. I’ve had far more positive interactions on there than I ever had on twitter (even before musk took it over), the lists feature that lets you pre-emptively block entire swathes of dickheads is a game changer (I just block one group, anyone Maga) and I’m having a good time.

I expect I’ll get downvoted for this but honestly I don’t care, the world has gone to shit far too much for me to give a crap about what internet strangers think over my own health and wellbeing and right now I’m having a good time and will not apologise for it.

The second that stops, I’ll be leaving bsky.

“You don’t need to form your own opinions, just let people on the internet tell you how to think”

From the paper itself:

We had a video-conference and numerous email exchanges with Bitwarden. At the time of writing, they are well advanced in deploying mitigations for our attacks: BW01, BW03, BW11, BW12 were addressed, the minimum KDF iteration count for BW07 is now 5000, and their roadmap includes completely removing CBC-only encryption, enforcing per-item keys and changing the vault format for integrity. On 22.12.25 they shared with us a draft for a signed organisation membership scheme, which would resolve BW08 and BW09. At our request, to maintain anonymity, they have not yet credited us publicly for the disclosure, but plan to do so.

I didn’t look at the response to other Password managers, but the gist here is that the article is overblowing the paper by quite a bit and the majority of the “issues” discovered are either already fixed, or active design decisions.

HDD prices have been creeping up for a while now. I noticed this as I was looking to add more storage to my server, checked prices late last year, figured I’d hold off a bit longer, checked again a few weeks ago and they were much higher across the board. Also a lot less stock for higher capacities. Took the plunge, bought enough storage to get me through the next few years.

Glad I did as the drives I bought have continued going up in price. This article just confirms it for me.

Intermittently going down seems appropriate for a NSFW instance.

No, saying things like “My Irish everything instinctively shivered.” is.

Yeah it’s annoying because the pubs are generally decent for the price and have a varied menu (good for a wide variety of tastes), but Tim Martin actively campaigned for Brexit and even started putting pro Brexit propaganda in the pubs both before and after the referendum.

ITT: a bunch of people not actually answering the question asked and a load of casual racism about Irish folk.

Been boycotting Wetherspoons (a popular chain of pubs in the UK, owned by a Brexit supporting prick) for over a decade now.

I’m guessing it’s the latter, they need to keep accidents to a minimum if they’re ever going to get broad legislation to legalise them.

Every single accident is analysed to death by the media and onlookers alike, with a large group of people wanting it to fail.

This is a prime example, we’ve known about the human intervention for a while now but period people seem surprised that those people are in another country.

It’s not really the same thing today as it was 15 years ago. It also hasn’t been running continuously that whole time. They regularly stop experimenting to build new extensions onto it.

I visited the LHC back in 2019 and at the time they were expanding it even then.

Superior technology does not necessarily mean a superior product. History has plenty of examples where the inferior technology won out because the majority of people don’t care about having the best or most advanced technology, they want the easiest, cheapest and (most importantly) lowest effort.

To be clear, I don’t think digg is a superior product either, I’m just saying that how good the tech is matters far less than people want to believe. What truly matters is the implementation.

The only drawbacks to having actual security cameras is when you trust your data to a 3rd party known to use your data for evil.

If you record things locally, there’s really zero drawbacks.