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"Polarsteps is a popular travel planning, tracking, and sharing app that automatically plots your route on an interactive world map using your phone's GPS. It functions as a digital travel diary where you can add photos, videos, and stories, letting family and friends follow your journeys in real time."

for people like me who dunno about this secret, seems basically like Travelblog.org with few extra features

> article about how traveling nowadays needs to be documented and is about experience as much as your feeds... I... felt old.

this has nothing to do with nowadays really, people were documenting their travelling and sharing it with family/friends since invention of camera, personally I take photos to serve as my memory, not really to share them, I may share them through whatsapp private chats with my parents and maybe 1-2 friends who could find them interesting, in past I've had travel blog/diary as well, but certainly didn't visit any place or take any photo for my readers

> I often saw hordes of Chinese tourists (but there are of course simply a lot of Chinese people) take turns in front of a waterfall (on flip flop or even heels), have some pics taken and go back to the bus.

Japanese were doing this decades ago before Chinese, it's just that Chinese now have money (unlike Japanese who can less and less aford to travel abroad) and there is lot of them, so they just replaced Japanese doing this superfast photo tours (at least in Europe)

> I also visited food-markets and saw food stalls with large lines of people, where as some had hardly any people waiting, I ask: Why this stall? "It's popular on Chinese social media"... One by one they snapped a pic as the cook made their meal, and waited for >30 mins to do so.

again, nothing new, Lonely Planet guidebooks had same effect in past and for me they were pretty good list of places to avoid for accommodation/food

> Wow 5 weeks in Malaysia, you could have done Thailand, Vietnam, etc, etc as well!" Well yeah but I like to take some days to explore and not rush and get to know a nice restaurant and eat there again and rent a scooter or bike and drive around a bit.

5 weeks for mainland Malaysia is really a bit much, KL needs few days to city sightseeing and enjoy food, cameron highlands few days to do hiking, penang again few days to enjoy food, history and hiking, perhentian islands few days to snorkell and enjoy beach and you cover pretty much everything without repeating same stuff, <2 weeks in very very laidback pace for these 4 locations considering Malaysia is compact and there are cheap/fast air tickets/buses, I also don't like to rush, but not everyone has months long vacation or gap year to travel so people wanna see as many places as possible, so I can understand them, I spent travelling around SEA around year, but still can't imagine spending 5 weeks in row in Malaysia or basically any other country besides China (not in SEA, but neighbor), I would get bored

been there during Nyepi and would strongly recommend everyone to avoid Bali during this holiday, but overall whole Bali ain't interesting (better go to Lombok, Java or elsewhere anyway)

I was prety much imprisoned in my guesthouse room and I was not even allowed to switch on the light, when I turned on light the owner came to tell me to switch it off, so you are supposed to sit in your room in dark

in general it is supposed to be holiday about ghosts going around island so with empty streets they can't see people, but it's interesting that these ghosts are somehow unable to see policemen or journalists taking photos of empty streets, so much for all people being equal, they should stop this nonsense or tourists should vote with their wallets and don't visit Bali and then they can enjoy their hypocrisy

is there some hackable watch with MIP display for this price and without brick dimensions as watch in article (basically hackable new Amazfit Bip)?

I wish there was something like this for China where you could see normal street life live, but for obvious reasons that's impossible.

shame it is such a low quality, one would expect 720P be decent, but this is practically unwatchable due to heavy compression, likely the most famous place in Japan and they can't afford Full HD webcam with proper bitrate?

I really doubt that, I recommend checking Bulgarian supermarkets, one of the poorest EU countries, yet their dairy products cost like double or triple the prices in Czechia, 3.5% milk you can buy here in promo for 0.4EUR, same in BG would cost double or triple in promotion, same with cheese/yogurt, heck even vegetables/fruit are pretty much same as Czechia with much lower purchasing power, Croatia and Slovakia expensive as well, it seems smaller the country, lower the competition, higher the prices, regardless of the salaries

huge dimensions comparable to bricks sold by Garmin, key new know when Casio will produce something with F-91W dimensions

if I have to choose between used Amazfit Bip for 15-20$ or pebble time 2 with worse (bigger) dimensions, worse battery life (even compared to 5+ yo Bip battery) and not even built in GPS for 200+ $ it's pretty easy choice

pebble PR team enjoy downvoting me

and as someone who want dumb watch you have tons of options compared to someone who just want small watch with notifications which will last at least one month and have real AOD

no such thing besides old Amazfit Bip and overpriced pebble time 2 exists, everything else has either no battery life or looks like brick on wrist (greetings to Garmin and Casio)

so much for Chinese eating dogs, it's way more prevalent in Korea than in China, even if you wanted dog meat in Beijing you have the best odds finding it in Korean restaurant

personally was never interested in dog meat, tried snake, didn't like, ants/crickets meh, bush rat is OK probably better than frog, donkey already better than pork, but my favorite is (Sichuanese) bullfrog, such a shame we don't eat them in Europe, amazing combo of great fish like meat with easy bones like chicken

shame it doesn't have notifications, otherwise it would be perfect

so I guess I'm staying on my third Amazfit Bip since Pebble Time 2 has insane price

Hoven means Excrements in Czech (in 2nd case)

So when IKEA had Hoven sale - Doprodej Hoven (Excrements sale), people were amused

https://www.lidovky.cz/byznys/ikea-narazila-s-nazvy-vyrobku-...

so much for "Every possible product name is carefully checked to avoid undesirable meanings in other languages"

some media say OD

https://people.com/hayden-panettiere-suffered-apparent-overd...

anyway my comment was about poor parents, not cause of death

"Her brother, Jansen Panettiere, died suddenly in February 2023 from cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) coupled with aortic valve complications, his family said in a statement at the time. He was 28."

Parents losing both quite young kids in span of 3.5 years, hard to imagine.

he would be in same issues with Samsung and not giving the password

let's blame the tool, not the person using it, I assume you also think cars kill people, not the the people driving the cars...

you can do that on any modern Android phone, just install Shizuku + Canta and "uninstall" whatever Google app you don't like

Thanks for your great work, I didn't notice who I am talking to.

Though it doesn't help even on official extension page in both Chrome web store and Microsoft edge add-ons store there is no clear screenshot showing this (tools dashboard after clicking More button few times), if there was clear screenshot of actual advanced/"More" UI with Element zapper/picker, users like me wouldn't have such stupid questions/assumptions and it would be clear from get go.

Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) have been essentially locked out of the American market, despite many experts viewing companies like Xiaomi and BYD, which currently sells more electric vehicles than Tesla, as pace setters in the industry.

But you won't find Chinese EVs in hardly any U.S. car lots. They're not illegal to sell, but they are too expensive to import. EVs arriving from China are subject to an 127.5% tariff tax, according to Forbes. That means that the price of a single vehicle more than doubles the second it enters the country.

Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous ride-hailing service, doesn't seem to care. At least, it thinks the cost of importing the vehicles is worth it. In fact, Waymo has imported 3,200 Zeekr cars from China since 2024 through the Port of Los Angeles. That includes 2,600 units this year alone, as the company looks to expand its robotaxi fleet.

In the spring, Waymo rolled out Zeekr robotaxis for the first time in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. Waymo calls the vehicle the Ojai. The car model is known as the CM1e in China.

The rollout in May also coincided with the release of the sixth iteration of Waymo Driver, the company's proprietary driving system. Waymo said it expects thousands of Ojai robotaxis to hit the road by the end of the year.

Why Waymo is paying the high tariffs

According to reports, Ojai robotaxis offer Waymo an opportunity to bring autonomous vehicles to market more cheaply than they have in the past.

The company's Jaguar I-Pace robotaxis can reportedly cost upwards of $200,000 to retrofit with its technology. Despite being heavily tariffed, Ojai's are actually cheaper.

Ojai robotaxis cost an estimated $38,000, according to U.S. import declarations cited by news outlets. After 127.5% tariffs are applied, the price skyrockets to roughly $86,500. Then hardware and software is equipped, which Forbes estimates costs $25,000 per unit to install.

At well over $100,000, that's still cheaper than Waymo's Jaguar I-Pace robotaxis.

Are Waymo's Ojai imports legal?

Waymo isn't breaking any laws by importing EVs from China. Tariffs don't make it so that you can't import goods from abroad. They just make it more expensive, so overtime businesses may decide that the price isn't worth it.

However, before Ojai vehicles arrive in the U.S., they are stripped of any sensors and computing systems. Chinese vehicles are strictly forbidden from collecting data on American roads.

Waymo adds its own technology to each vehicle at a factory in Mesa, Arizona. Its latest Waymo Driver 6 features fewer sensors than the previous iteration, making it more cost efficient, while improving driving performance in severe weather conditions and improving high-resolution vision, according to the company.

In the past, Waymo's robotaxis have run into issues like its vehicles driving into closed highway work zones, running red lights, and even striking pedestrians.

Despite this, Waymo recently received approval to deploy its fleet across a larger part of California. The California Public Utilities Commission gave Waymo permission to triple the size of its service area, including the license to operate in San Diego and Sacramento.

no offense with their narrative, but the picture - Shipwreck has become visible due to Danube’s low water levels - actually shows MORE GREEN than year ago if you don't focus on the river, look at alla reas around, everything is greener, such a fail BBC

btw. I don't deny many areas are dryer and more yellow than last year, but when looking at satellite pictures you should also take into consideration WHEN was the harvest, logically if harvest is earlier due to hotter weather the whole country will look very different from space and it doesn't say much about whether country is dry (though this is of course unrelated to some French palace photo which obviously ain't farm field)

that's all nice, now tell it to Americans, Chinese, Indians and most of the developing world, EU residents won't fix a thing besides ruining their economy

people are not going to die over hotter weather, at least not if they won't resist adapting to it instead of trying to change it, I would say it's easier to different climate/weather than trying to change it

why are they fucked? you can just switch to plants grown previously further down the south, you can already now grow figs, lemons, etc. for instance, let alone tomatoes/peppers

so I can click with cursor over element I don't want to remove it same way as in uBlock Origin?

because without UI manually editing the filter is not an element picker.

I'm unable to find any screenshot of ubol, all I found is some switch between protection levels and all answers I've found in Google to this question say there is no element picker and not going to install it since all my browser still support uBO

1. Vivaldi supports uBlock Origin, if you consider Firefox a "major browser" then sure also Vivaldi and Brave are major browsers

2. while I use uBlock Origin on phone (Firefox) and desktop (Vivaldi), it's overrated, AdGuard works under MV3 AND unlike uBlock supports element picker, so if I was on browser not supporting uBO I would switch to AdGuard since I can't live without element picker

France's top court on Friday blocked a bill banning social media access for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of expression, a setback for President Emmanuel Macron who asked his government to rewrite the legislation.

"By prohibiting minors under the age of fifteen from accessing certain online services, the law inherently requires every person, even an adult, to prove their age before accessing them," the Consitutional Council said in its decision.

"However, by failing to specify the conditions and limits under which such proof must be provided, the legislature has not established the legal safeguards necessary to ensure compliance with these requirements," it added.

French lawmakers had approved a ban on social media access for children under age 15, becoming the first in Europe to follow Australia, whose world-first ban barred access to platforms including Facebook, TikTok and YouTube for under-16s in December.

TLDR French top court tries to protect adults French gov wanna spy on, good decision

nuclear is safer (per deaths per TWh installed) and more reliable than solar or wind energy though

"The data available on fatal falls from height would indicate that rooftop solar power is several times more dangerous than wind power or nuclear power (0.44 deaths per terawatt hour each year compared with 0.15 and 0.04 deaths respectively)"

https://osha.europa.eu/sites/default/files/E-fact68.pdf

"Government (South Korea) data reported 28 worker deaths during solar installation projects from 2020 through the first half of 2025 (about 5–6 deaths per year on average)."

https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20251015163100530

nobody forces you to keep AI Camera switched on, I disable it as one of the first things when opening camera on Xiaomi phone first time, just swipe up from top and tap on AI Camera and you are done, I don't speak French so would be really interested how was their Xiaomi phone set, but I would bet my money they had AI Camera (and possible also Super Moon) enabled

> Jack Ma is as scummy as the American tech elite, The whole 996 work schedule was from his companies.

doubt that, 996 has long tradition in China (even in Huawei, at least for young interns), heck even their schools were pretty much 996 up recently and most small businesses operate more like 997 closing only once a year for Chinese new year

not true

1. people losing income/jobs because of AI see it differently, you can even find videos of regular chinese talking about their daily life and how they see AI

programmer's view - has to make food delivery to make money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJZFUEQebbI

this one is more about regular life than about AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba_iwcFmxE8

2.it helps AI content in China needs to be marked, so pretty much every Chinese ad now contains AI mark, which become quite pointless since AI is used absolutely everywhere

3. but yeah, people can see it more positively since technology is more regulated and less used for milking customers

pretty sure even Xiaomi can do it, just disable stupid AI Camera and/or Super Moon, one of the first things I disable in camera on all Xiaomi phones (wife and me both have Xiaomi 13t and 13 respectively), don't forget also to disable Beautify (switch to Original) for selfie camera and don't remember what is the default selfie mirroring setting, this is very common issue with all brands they are not displaying real sides in selfie photos (real right hand becomes in photo left hand)

real for onsite viewers

enhanced with fake for rest of the world

I don't like it either

This exercise should help save lives. In the end, everyone involved was probably just glad it wasn't an emergency. During a large-scale exercise involving more than 250 emergency personnel in Thuringia, an ICE fire was simulated in a tunnel. Every second counted. But the first emergency services did not arrive until two hours after the emergency call. An expert: „If this were real, everyone would have been dead long ago.“

A true horror scenario on the rails was to be trained: a burning ICE train stops in the 1320-meter-long Sandberg Tunnel between Nuremberg and Erfurt. The fire spreads. 100 passengers, some seriously injured, are stuck. „The final boss in the tunnel is time“, said Marc Stielow, fire director in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior, on site. And for a long time – nothing happened.

Rescuers only arrive after two hours

The first blue lights did not appear until two hours and seven minutes after the train driver called 911. The plan was for rescue workers to arrive at the tunnel within 10 to 25 minutes. But how could this happen?

Why the fire departments didn't come for a long time

According to initial findings, the alarms were passed on far too late. The train driver made the emergency call at 10:15 a.m. as scheduled to the Railway control center The portal „Insüdthüringen.de“ reports that the railway Rescue control center Central Thuringia, however, was not informed of the „emergency“ until 30 minutes later. And then it is said to have taken another 30 minutes for the fire departments in the area to be alerted. There were delays after that too. A fire department expert drew a devastating conclusion at „Insüdthüringen.de“. „If this were real, everyone would have been dead long ago.“

Interior Minister Maier (SPD) watched

The exercise was anything but a small firefighter rehearsal. More than two years were planned. The debacle took place in front of Thuringia's Interior Minister Georg Maier (59, SPD).

Daniel Baumbach, spokesman for the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior, on BILD: „Yes, there was a significantly delayed arrival of several tunnel base units. Something went wrong during the alert.“ What exactly will be evaluated by experts in the coming weeks, Baumbach continues. „An exercise is designed to uncover sources of error so that it works in an emergency.“

Even more mishaps during large-scale exercises

And also in informing the population there was Breakdowns. Warning messages should actually be displayed via the Nina and Katwarn apps. However, according to those responsible, the information did not reach all users.

TLDR during train fire in tunell drill it took German emergency services more than TWO hours to reach affected train and even then they could not get inside the train, departments also used FAX to communicate between each other during this emergency (info from other articles)