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Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches (arstechnica.com)
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[–] megane_kun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago

Not too sure if they outright lied, but I suppose we can say that they used the change to make their drives seem larger!

That's why I wished computer people had used a prefix system distinct from the SI ones. If we're measuring our storage devices in yeetibytes rather than gigabytes, for example, then I suppose there's less chance that we've ended up in this situation.