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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Damn. I had to look up the SI prefix scale to make sure i got this right. 100 microwatts would be 0.1 miliwatts. If they truly do end up releasing a 1 watt version of this battery, it would be fucking perfect for meshtastic nodes. Currently, the most common radios used in those nodes transmit at 22 dBm, which is about 150 milliwatts. In client mute mode, the radio by itself transmits one packet every six to eight minutes on average. A 1W battery should constantly run the node without ever having to charge it or, even if not, only have to charge it extremely rarely. I’m not sure how long it takes to actually transmit a packet, but assuming it takes a minute per packet, which I think would be incredibly unlikely, then it would transmit seven times per hour if it transmitted every five minutes and would use about 21.4 milliwatts. As efficient as the NRF-52 chip is, I suspect it is the thing that’s taking up most of the power.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Powell sees tariffs raising inflation and says Fed will wait before further rate moves⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I actually watched the speech and one bit I found to be quite interesting is that he said if the two sides of the Mandate conflict they will deal with the side that is out of whack the most. So if unemployment were to massively increase, they would cut interest rates and accept a slightly higher inflation to bring the unemployment down. And if inflation went crazy and the jobs market was only slightly affected, they would raise interest rates until the inflation came back down.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Another example would be Home Assistant. Why exactly should my device have to connect to the internet and communicate with a cloud server somewhere that can be shut down only to communicate with my phone back at my house? With Home Assistant, my device communicates locally with my Home Assistant device and my Home Assistant device communicates locally with my phone. No internet required.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
About that last sentence about software support determining the future of risc-v. It will overtake x86 (eventually) just due to the nature of OSS. At first OS platforms arent as good… Until suddenly they are. Ask Apple. When the iPhone first launched, it was a million times better than Android. And yet now they are totally on par with each other. And Android has the edge in a lot of cases.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, i meant GB/s. Thanks for pointing that out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Oh good point. 14.9GB/s
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Run meshtastic on it
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I wonder why they’re not using TB/s like 14.9TB/s
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
And cars get far to hot already
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, okay. So I’m guessing that means like the car might turn on and run the air conditioner for a few minutes every hour. Just to cool itself down. That’s what it seems like anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This might be a dumb question, but I think it’s worth asking anyway. How do they deal with the interior of the car getting as hot as a fucking blast furnace? Because if you leave a regular car out in the sun, it becomes like a fucking blast furnace when you open the door. Heat like that can actually cause interior damage, like cracking dashes and stuff. So if you have to leave this car out in the direct sun to charge, how do they avoid this problem? Like, I’m imagining you go to work, and your car is sitting in the work parking lot directly in the sun for hours a day. And it’s collecting power to drive you home, but it’s also massively heating up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creator of HaveIBeenPwned Data Breach Site Falls for Phishing Email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Okay, I’m sorry, but that’s just kind of ironic.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Ugh. This fight is never ending. I feel like after a while you just get totally burned out of fighting and have to pass it on to others.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PeerTube, the Fediverse’s decentralized video plattform, from the perspective of Elena Rossini, italian filmmaker, photographer and activist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
In theory, yes. Blue Sky does run on a federated model. In practice, no. If the Blue Sky Corporation died, it would be gone. If I remember correctly, all direct messages go through them no matter where you have your home data and such.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qualcomm has complained to antitrust regulators in the EU, the US, and South Korea that Arm is hurting competition by restricting access to its tech.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Invest in making Risc-V better then
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PeerTube, the Fediverse’s decentralized video plattform, from the perspective of Elena Rossini, italian filmmaker, photographer and activist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I hope to be able to use PeerTube more in the future, but at least for now. I can’t find the kind of content that I want to watch. I would like to see stuff similar to Android Authority and 9-5 Google. Kind of like how @android@lemdro.id created their own instance and community.

The way I see it, no PeerTube instance is ever going to replace YouTube. That would just be far too much data to store and far too much bandwidth to serve. But I figure there would be topic specific instances such as Android Authority and 9-5 Google on an Android specific PeerTube instance.

Things like Sneed Mobile Tech and Tech Life Channel talking about cellular networking would be on a PeerTube instance dedicated to network technology, and so on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PeerTube, the Fediverse’s decentralized video plattform, from the perspective of Elena Rossini, italian filmmaker, photographer and activist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
In the article, she mentions that the app store version and the Google Play Store version have really strict moderation and are extremely limited due to Google and Apple policies. I actually ended up asking her whether the fdroid version had the same limitations on Mastodon. Although the above comment says it does not. So that’s at least encouraging.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo vs Ladybird.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I can understand that. There’s one Gemini browser I like on Android called Buran (fdroid), but it hasn’t been updated in several years, and there are some accessibility things with it while using the Talkback screen reader, which makes it somewhat annoying, and I don’t think it will be updated.

Also, there is no way to put in a Socks 5 proxy, so I can’t browse onion capsules with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
And opinions are like assholes. You have one and so do I.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
There is enough gold in the world for everybody to have an equal amount. You can divide gold down to one one thousandth of an ounce of gold with current technology, which is plenty small enough to work with.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t give the government money at all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You can’t fix that problem. The fact that there is a big pile of money there means that greedy people will attempt to get their hands on it. No matter what. So the only way to fix that is to not have the big pile of money sitting there to begin with.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
If you absolutely must have taxation, then have state taxation. Because I don’t see the state of Texas declaring war on Pakistan.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t use a money they can print. Use gold.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
There are these things called homeschools or small community schools. Also, if you are a D-I-N-K type family, why should you have to pay for somebody else’s children?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Parents should be allowed to homeschool their children, not send them to government-funded indoctrination camps. Also, if you are a D.I.N.K. family, why exactly should you have to pay for other people’s children?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Can’t fund the military without taxation. If you told citizens to donate to support a war effort halfway across the globe that has no impact on their daily lives, they’d be absolutely certain to do it. /s. Now, coerce them with the threat of being thrown in a cage, or at the barrel of a gun, and that’s different.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
So you enjoy killing people. Got you. Because that’s what your tax money is used for. To fund wars halfway across the globe. For people you’ve never met and who have caused you no harm.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Taxation is theft, so not paying them is fine by me. But if you’re going to do so, you probably shouldn’t be shouting about it on the internet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo vs Ladybird.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Considering the road Firefox is going down, I am very happy for any alternative, so I’m looking forward to both of these. But I’ve also been playing around with the Gemini protocol, which looks really neat, although it’s very simple.