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ciceryadamon Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air

Because many people commute to Luxembourg from Germany/Belgium/France. AFAIK the cross-border commute complicates things.

ciceryadamon Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes Support (SG)

So finally somebody made the Opera face control from 15 years ago a reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkNxbyp6thM

ciceryadamon Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail

Tell me you are an American, without telling me you are an American.

You can reach a children's park on foot or by taking public transportation, so ideally there's no need for a parking lot right next to it.

ciceryadamon Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store

I don't think that most of Brits are "doing the needful". Indian English has plenty of expressions that are exclusive to India.

ciceryadamon Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host

Check out rose anvil on YouTube, the guy cuts boots in halves to check the build quality, and has some good recommendations

ciceryadamon Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

In all but my first job there was no such lady. It was my responsibility to book my own travel, mostly through some clone of Concur.

ciceryadamon Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle

Sugar is not only addictive and harmful, it's also a preservative. It's cheap to add and provides longer shelf life.

ciceryadamon I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century

For example check Eisenhower drive in La Quinta, California: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YdaSTfX9YwrXmU1MA

ciceryadamon The only tourist in Moldova

also try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borovi%C4%8Dka

The difference between gin and borovicka is that gin is usually a neutral tasting alcohol that gets the juniper berries macerated in them, but borovicka is vapor infused during the distilling process.

One of my favourites is https://www.zufanek.cz/en/product/borovicka-juniper-spirit/

ciceryadamon Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map

Also here: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offens...

ciceryadamon Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36870/ssh-1.html from man page: It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network.

ciceryadamon Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

Regarding Jebrains - both owners have renounced their Russian citizenship and are now citizens of Cyprus: https://www.forbes.com/profile/valentin-kipyatkov/ Plus the HQ is in Prague, Czech Republic: https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/05/27/russia-puts-the-...

ciceryadamon Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

SSH was a replacement for RSH, not telnet.

ciceryadamon Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx

I stand corrected, thanks!

ciceryadamon Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx

Newest arch package is just over 4 months old - Last Updated: 2023-10-09 03:25 (UTC): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/authelia

ciceryadamon VirtualBox KVM Public Release

See the Oracle org chart for reference: https://www.unix.com/what-is-on-your-mind-/240815-org-charts...

ciceryadamon AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

Yep, NextDNS supports custom domain lists.

ciceryadamon Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays

SRE teams are Oncall 24/7/365

ciceryadamon Cloudflare is experiencing elevated 5xx responses

It's fixed, at least for us.

We had a bunch of 530 codes returned on our endpoints, although Cloudflare says that they implemented a fix at 22:39 UTC, we don't have an increased rate of errors since 22:10 UTC.

ciceryadamon Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell

Also, psychology. It's easier to drop by the hotel bar/restaurant when you have a 50 dollar prepayment that you can spend.

ciceryadamon How to draw software architecture diagrams (2022)

I quite like https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/

ciceryadamon A BART seat-slashing gang that was part of an upholstery racket (2019)

> My parents lived in an apartment

Most of the apartments are in multi-story buildings.

ciceryadamon Nuvem, a subsea cable to connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the U.S.

Not really south, it's just a bit north: Ponta Delgada - Latitude: 37.7333 Longitude: -25.6667. Lisbon - Latitude 38.71667 Longitude -9.13333. It is the exclusive economic zones of Portugal that are in the path of the cable: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone_of_P...

ciceryadamon Chili Oil Notes

It's pretty shelf stable. I have one opened sitting on my shelf for three months and it still smells/tastes good.

ciceryadamon Chili Oil Notes

There's another kind of chilli oil, pressed from Hungarian spicy paprika/capsicum seeds: https://rubinpaprika.com/magolajok/fuszerpaprika-magolaj-csi...

It has a deeply nutty flavor and the spiciness is a bit sneaky, but it's a great addition to finishing oils.

ciceryadamon Confessions of a Netflix DVD Dead-Ender

Ability to filter out already watched entries would be a massive improvement.

ciceryadamon Google fires 31 massage therapists as part of layoffs

ExxonMobil Prague Corporate office has onsite massages: https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/locations/czech-republic/ou...

Afaik you can have a 30 min session every month for free. Over here it's not that unusual of a perk to have even for non-IT desk jockey jobs.

ciceryadamon Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch

I'm using a Logitech G604 at work, I have 15 buttons of keyboard shortcuts on it.

ciceryadamon What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames

Polynesian expansion to Eastern Islands and Hawaii wasn't a small feat.