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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/That_Sis_Kisser on 2025-10-30 21:45:38+00:00.

Is this feasible at all?

My idea is to have a battery of 112 Li Ion cells in series, ending up with a nominal voltage of about 414V. This is apparently how car batteries are configured as well and it's the easiest for an EGS002 inverter.

Charging however is quite difficult as stepping up to those voltages is not trivial.

The idea is to have a charge pump circuit on every single cell. 2 mosfets for charging, a capacitor, 2 mosfets for discharging. The capacitor would charge from a 4.2V supply and discharge into the battery.

The mosfets on the battery side can be controlled with optocouplers. The gate voltage is provided by cells further up in the chain so the gate always has at least 12V on it.

Is this a bad idea? Things that come to mind are the mosfet losses. Essentially the on resistance counts 4 times per cell but usually the rDS on is in the 20 mOhm range, so 80 mOhm per cell.

Balancing is much easier this way.

Perhaps a compromise that charges several cells in series and watches the balancing could work too if efficiency is the biggest reason against this.

I'm aware of the safety considerations.

A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive reviewed by the Guardian.

The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the Pentagon’s national guard bureau, sets thresholds for the size of the quick reaction force to be trained in each state, with most states required to train 500 national guard members, for a total of 23,500 troops nationwide.

As if the federal government can dictate to the states what to do with their national guard absent a federal emergency disaster relief effort (read as federal dollars flowing into the state for disaster money). Until then, they remain in the states' control. The pentagon taking over riot control is an overstep of police powers that are reserved to the states via the 10th Amendment. Additionally:

There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

• Commander William Adama (BSG)

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/lurker_bee on 2025-10-30 21:22:13+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/ControlCAD on 2025-10-30 20:02:36+00:00.

Original Title: 'Keep Android Open' Campaign Pushes Back on Google's Sideloading Restrictions | Free Android app store F-Droid asks users to lobby government regulators to take action. Google says the move is needed to reduce the risk of malware infecting Android devices.

The fossilised remains of two dinosaurs locked in combat have unleashed a fresh drama, suggesting diminutive specimens thought to be Tyrannosaurus rex teenagers could instead be separate, smaller species.

Food banks have already been contending with higher food prices and increased need. Administrators say demand will skyrocket if federal nutrition benefits stop in a few days because of the government shutdown.

"The average household that we see receives about $350 per month, which roughly translates to about $44 million worth of SNAP benefits that will be gone from families," she told NPR. "There is no way that we alone can make up for a $44 million food budget shortfall."

Dubbed Ao-Solar Extender, the roof-mounted vehicle integrated PV (VIPV) concept has a fixed 300 W component and a 200 W component that stows away for driving to generate in the extended position a total of 500 W, according to the company.

Original title (SV): Regnmannen (Rain Man)

A grumpy widower's life changes when he finds himself at the center of an event that could bring rain to his drought-stricken village, altering his relationship with his daughter and the community.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1324241-regnmannen

I just released v0.4.0 of Ktor Panel.

Ktor Panel is a lightweight, customisable admin interface generation library for Ktor servers. Ktor Panel provides a simple way to manage database entities through an intuitive and secure interface using minimal configuration.

Official docs: https://ktor-panel.readthedocs.io/

Please leave a GitHub star if you find it useful!

Doesn't have to be strictly movies, TV shows also!

My favorite one was the trailer for Ready Player One, with Take On Me but with orchestral music added. Wished it had a proper release.

Also, the Shrek 2 Funkytown version with the fanfare intro.

Continuing Zenk Space’s departure from the majority of China’s commercial space sector, Zhihang-1 will not be recovering its boosters and instead flying the engine section. After first-stage flight, the engine section with the four YF-102’s will separate from the stage before inflating a heat shield to decelerate back through the atmosphere before softly landing under parachute for recovery. Once on the ground the engine section will be collected, inspected, and installed on another first-stage to fly again.

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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/green_flash on 2025-10-30 19:00:41+00:00.

Brave Software, the company behind the browser of the same name, was founded by Brendan Eich. He's best known as the creator of JavaScript from his days at Netscape Communications, and he was later the co-founder of Mozilla. He remained at Mozilla Foundation and its for-profit segment, Mozilla Corporation, well into the 2000s. In 2014, he was appointed as CEO of Mozilla Corporation, which immediately caused backlash from at least a few people inside Mozilla and many people outside the organization.

Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It's because he donated $1,000 in support of California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California's state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Eich wrote a blog post defending himself in 2012, when the donation was initially discovered, where did not apologize and denied the donation made him a bigot:

Here's a bonus fun fact: one of those early investors was Founders Fund, which is operated by billionaire Peter Thiel. He's a regular campaign donor to far-right political candidates, and said in an essay that "I no longer think that freedom and democracy are compatible." He also keeps funding libertarian “seasteading” ships designed to function as independent cities in international waters (think BioShock), all of which have failed miserably.

Brave was also caught up in a privacy scandal in 2020, when it was revealed that the browser was adding affiliate codes to some URLs typed into the address bar. For example, typing in “binance.us” would add Brave’s affiliate link to the end, allowing Brave Software to collect revenue from signups or purchases. An official blog post called that “a mistake,” and the functionality was later turned off. That should have been enough to swear off Brave as a privacy-centric browser forever, considering the entire point of affiliate links is to collect data about the user and traffic source. For example, when you click an Amazon affiliate link in a web article, the publisher can see the exact products you purchase in the timeframe the tracking cookie remains active (which is currently 24 hours).

other sysadmin communities and downdetector are reporting outages worldwide to the admin portals such as admin.microsoft.com and portal.azure.com.

No impact to user-facing services, yet.

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The original was posted on /r/sffpc by /u/DrawerHairy5544 on 2025-10-30 18:49:35+00:00.