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> 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN

> Bluetooth 4.2, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), onboard antenna

Oof ... BLE 5 has some huge improvements over 4.2. BLE 5 stuff has been on sale for almost 10 years now ...

Hopefully this gets a refresh soon.

I had an appliance delivered from Home Depot, and after it was installed, the person mentioned he had Meta glasses on. I didn't realize the whole time he was wearing them in my home, because I didn't know what they looked like. I felt uneasy.

> the bluetooth libraries across different devices (particularly in Android land) has me concerned

At Google IO 2026 there little discussion of core improvements to Android as a platform. It was mostly AI related, nothing about Gabeldorsche etc, which I find more interesting.

Another part of the problem is our lax regulatory "anything goes" environment which puts no guardrails on how AI can be used / abused. For example, eventually nearly everyone needs healthcare, and the idea you might be denied by AI or fighting AI to get a claim accepted is unpopular.

Not much, it seems

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentime...

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to dylan.gr. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

It is a naive and suboptimal implementation, they even describe it in the link you posted

"We have now approached the problem again by refining our low-memory detection and tab selection algorithm and narrowing the action to the case where we are sure we’re providing a user benefit: if the browser is about to crash."

I would prefer FF to be more proactive in unloading tabs way before "its about to crash" to keep system level memory pressure lower. Firefox is the main memory hog on my M1 mac.

Chrome can do this, there is no reason we should be stuck with "manual tab unload" and "unload when the browser is about to crash".

I am using an extension, but that just reinforces the argument: they could be doing much more here.

Indeed, I am using something similar "auto tab discard".

I disagree, there is low-hanging fruit Firefox is leaving on the table. The main thing that comes to mind is tab unloading. They don't unload tabs automatically like chrome can.

I was pleasantly surprised at the tab unloading settings under "memory saver" in ungoogled-chromium.

"High Performance Browser Networking"

I wish there was an update to this book, reading it a while back I think it covered some proposed HTTP/2 features but definitely not HTTP/3.

Many of the issues discussed had to do with TCP itself.

Perhaps the reasons are not technical. Perhaps it has more to do with jurisdiction, not being physically dependent (or susceptible) to any physical state.

After a few years of Kotlin, I recently ran into what I consider to be some shortcomings here as well, with respect to returning errors. As we know, Kotlin does not have checked exceptions. Ok, but ...

The KEEP for Result<T> goes into details, but basically there are a few ways of handling return values + errors:

1) throw exception if something goes wrong

2) return null if something goes wrong (stdlib XXXorNull)

3) Use Result<T> in some cases, its error type is not paramerized and catches CancellationException

4) Use Arrow if Result<T> doesn't meet your needs

5) Return Sealed Classes / Interfaces with all the possibilities.

Right now, I am going the Sealed Class interface route, but its such a verbose pain in the ass, so I only use it at certain levels of abstraction (like from a Repository, or library API, etc).

The code I needed to write was calling into okio, and it was not straightforward to figure out what kinds of exceptions would be thrown by the JVM layer underneath (docs just say IOException, but sublasses can be thrown).

Its sad to see they still haven't figured this out. Rich Errors was mentioned a year ago but its not even in preview yet. Its also not clear how it will work with Java interop.

Another data point

"New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses"

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/kevin-o-learys-9-...

I wouldn't be surprised if they use this as an excuse to open up public lands for extraction.

Its probably best to talk to your doctor about a CAC score. I don't know if its possible to tell stable vs unstable plaque yet, but a higher CAC score may benefit from aspirin.

And regarding (memory) performance, chromium has the "memory saver" settings for unloading tabs. I don't understand why mozilla thinks its acceptable to require users unload tabs manually. Who even does that?

The amount of NAC used in male mice was 400 mg/kg/day. The human equivalent dosage using FDA body surface area scaling method (for 60 kg adult) would be a total daily dose of ~1,946 mg.

> now i have free credit monitoring

Might not even matter ...

"TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB."

https://www.propublica.org/article/credit-report-mistakes-cf...

Try oat groats, this will have the lowest GI. You can cook them like rice, even in a rice cooker, using the same technique ... for a firmer result use less water and cook for less time. You can start off with roughly 1:1 ratio of oat groats to water. I do .75 cups oat groats to 1.25 cups water.

> PayPal’s stock has plummeted over the last year as it faces slowing growth and mounting competition in the digital-payments market.

What is the mounting competition? Does Paze factor into any of this?

> Citrini Research on Sunday published a report on Substack laying out hypothetical scenarios for how developments in AI could disrupt certain parts of the economy. Stocks that were mentioned in the report tumbled on Monday.

That report is here https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

Yep, its the far right.

The Heritage Foundation (Project 2025, far-right, anti-climate) is working with the Heartland Institute (spreading climate science denial across UK / EU) / Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC, Jordan Peterson)

They do not like EU rules that hold US firms accountable to climate laws.

https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/10/donald-trump-uk-eu-maga-sl...

Unfortunate, just recently I read

"Influenza vaccination is associated with significantly lower odds of myocardial infarction (MI), according to a large meta-analysis published late last week in BMC Public Health."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vaccines/new-analysis-l...

I would like to see them provide -AI-free builds ... just to be sure.

> Note the paradox here: one of the principles of training is to stimulate the body, to “wear it out” at a given moment in time in order to trigger the physiological processes that will lead to improved capabilities, the fight against fatigue… and, ultimately, increased resistance to physical stress.

A somewhat recent paper:

Systematic review and meta-analysis of antioxidants with or without exercise training improving muscle condition in older adults

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12491480/

Seems to imply that as we get older, antioxidants might help the body recover from exercise. More specifically, antioxidants may help resolve exercise induced inflammation in adults aged over 55 years.

So it seems that, yes, as you get older, its easier for the body to wear down, but this can be mitigated somewhat.

Android doesn't use JDBC.

DuckDB has experimental builds for Android ... I'm wondering how much work it would take to implement a Java API for it similar to sqlite (Cursor, etc).

Yes, I noticed this too. I ran a lot in high school / university, and for some reason we mostly ran on the roads. In my late 20s a doctor told me my knees sounded like they were "65".

I read a book my Michael Colgan at the time, and he mentioned training athletes on the trails as much as possible to reduce injury, so I gave it a try ...

That was 25+ years ago. At first people looked at me strange, like I was running from an animal. But its common now, and I'm still running on the trail, and knees seem OK.

Yes of course, you can still trip, step on a snake, etc, but its a different kind of injury. You are adapting gait and balance constantly which is nice too.

Running on the trail is much more interesting, with constant change, ups, downs, variations. Whereas running on grass / asphalt I can go into autopilot mentally and start ruminating, this is harder on the trail and I am more in a state of "here and now".

I'm ignorant of mesh technologies, but can somebody explain to me why they are using MQTT in their stack? Topics and pub-sub over TCP doesn't sound like a mesh-y kind of thing. Does it work well in this context?

The Vitamin E / NAC relationship are interesting. As far as I understand, there needs to be a balance of anti-oxidants (C, E, Selenium, etc). To make it worse there are so many formulations of Vitamin E you can buy (tocopherols, tocotrienols, etc). Sometimes its hard to tell from the studies what forms exactly were being used.

You may also find this interesting:

"NRF2 activation is a predictor of poor clinical outcomes in lung cancer. Given the widespread use of NRF2-inducing compounds such as resveratrol and sulforaphane, these findings raise important concerns about their safety in individuals at risk for or living with cancer."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-025-01736-0

Many people eat high-sulforaphane containing foods for health benefits.

And finally from last week https://newatlas.com/diet-nutrition/vitamin-c-air-pollution-...

This was about 1000mg / day for humans.

I agree wholeheartedly. The app is unusable and unstable. I had to delete collections from the web because they were getting corrupted in the app.

One thing I notice is that it simply does not render many code snippets well, especially when using the "page" (vs "continuous" scrolling). I don't get the impression they are doing QA on rendering quality. Not only external publishers, but O'Reilly books themselves! I also had a lot of problems reading Manning books in their app.

Rendering e-books properly is a pretty big table-stake thing.