Say KBytes, not K or k in the Globe interface

On https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/ED8385A265F54A3AAB0D4DD419A01856628F8EAE it tells me my advertised bandwidth is "199.71 KB/s".

Somebody out there will think you obviously mean bits. No amount of capitalizing the B will make this person hesitate.

The best answer we've found is to say "199.71 KBytes/s".

Also, the graph down below has "k" which I guess means KBytes too?

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No! There's a very similar discussion in #9920 (moved). I still disagree about writing "KBytes" instead of "KB" for the reasons stated in that ticket. To be extra precise, it should be "kB/s", not "KB/s". That's also why the "k" in the graph is correct. For more details see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units

If everybody in the world knew what a kB is, we wouldn't have the constant fights over the torrc config lines, the man page lines, etc.

There are two camps in the world -- those who think things are obviously and always measured in bits, and those who think things are obviously and always measured in bytes. And they repeatedly refuse to realize that the other camp exists.

(It seems Jeroen hijacked #9920 (moved) with a diversion about MB vs MiB. I will continue to pretend such distinctions don't matter here.)

I'm all for making things as clear as possible. But using a unit that doesn't exist ("KBytes") when there's a standard unit that exists ("kB" or even "KB", though the latter hurts a little) seems wrong.

How about adding tooltips to Globe? Pretty much everything on the Globe details page could use some additional explanation. The tooltip here could be the same as the one Atlas uses: "Bandwidth that the bridge is willing and able to provide in bytes per second".

Replying to karsten:

How about adding tooltips to Globe? Pretty much everything on the Globe details page could use some additional explanation. The tooltip here could be the same as the one Atlas uses: "Bandwidth that the bridge is willing and able to provide in bytes per second".

Here's a build that adds tooltips on relay and bridge detail headlines:

http://globe.rndm.de/canary/index-11280.html

The text was copied from Atlas. Does this fix the issue?

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Username: rndm

Looks good to me! I'd say wait for a reply from arma for a day or two and then merge. Thanks!

Oh, and how do you feel about changing "KB/s" to "kB/s" to be consistent with the standard and with the graphs?

Replying to karsten:

Oh, and how do you feel about changing "KB/s" to "kB/s" to be consistent with the standard and with the graphs?

Sounds good, I changed it.

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Username: rndm

Is this issue fixed with ​http://globe.rndm.de/canary/index-11280.html ? If so, I'm going to merge the issue branch into master.

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Username: rndm

I think it's fixed. Feel free to merge to master. Happy to deploy a new version whenever you have one. Thanks!

I released ​https://github.com/makepanic/globe/releases/tag/v0.4.6 which should fix this issue. If everything is ok, feel free to close it.

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Username: rndm

Looks good to me. Thanks! Closing.

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closed

mentioned in issue #11349 (moved)