Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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  • Batteries catch fire. Very large ones, or many cells together can mean a very hot, very dangerous fire, with the occasional violence of a cell bursting.

    Being in close contact with something like a phone when that happens would cause burns, but they don’t “explode” with very much force. (Relatively speaking. You wouldn’t get lethal fragmentation for example, I don’t think)

    The note 7 batteries didn’t really go boom in the way an actual explosive does, though the reaction is a sudden and fast release of thermal energy, its not that much energy in terms of explosive devices.

    So no. You can’t “hack” a phone and turn it into a bomb using just the hardware that is already inside. You could start a fire, and that could be deadly, but as an explosive device the battery in most phones is not that potent.



  • This is a very, very bad idea.

    SSDs are permanent flash storage, yes, but that doesn’t mean you can leave them unpowered for extended periods of time.

    Without a refresh, electrons can and do leak out of the charge traps that store the ones and zeroes. Depending on the exact NAND used, the data could start going corrupt within a year or so.

    HDDs suffer the same problem, though less so. They can go several years, possibly a decade, but you’d still be risking the data on the drive but letting it sit unpowered for an extended time.

    For the “cold storage” approach you should really be using something that’s designed to retain data in such conditions, like optical media, or tape drives.




  • I know it’s an unfortunate reality for anime fans to be lumped in with pedos, and I shut it down the best I can wherever I find it. How the fuck did you get to an interpretation where I’m perpetrating that kind of thinking?

    I absolutely think that is the intent and I find those communities to be gross and have them all blocked.

    If you think every anime fan is into that crap, you are very sorely mistaken,

    How can you hold those two views simultaneously? Those communities aren’t small, are you saying their entire userbases are the worst of the worst?

    and if you don’t, you are using inapplicable generalizations to make a point and that’s just deceptive.

    What? If you think this, you’re wrong, if you don’t, you’re also wrong? Which is it?

    Are you saying that I’m pushing the idea that NONE of them are pedos, as if I’m ignoring the probability that at least some of them are?

    And it’s hardly “wierdly defensive” of me to speak up when I probably created most of the communities you’re shitting on.

    And as that creator, I can straight up tell you, it’s not the “intent”.


  • That’s not an algorithm.

    An instance simply receives updates from all the communities to which at least one user on the instance has subscribed.

    Instances do not send updates to every other instance on the fediverse, only the ones where there are users that follow the content in question.

    That still means the differences will be small, as every reasonably sized instance is going to have at least one subscriber to every reasonably sized community.