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dbcooper··on Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
I'm running it on a device with a Qualcomm SM8635 Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset, and it just crawls. The UI is very unresponsive, and page load times are terrible.

For youtube background play Brave is much better.

dbcooper··on Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
Firefox for Android is some of the worst software I've ever used. A lot of extensions won't work in it, and even Edge Canary is far better with them. It is extremely slow, and the UI is horrible.

I'm running it on a device with a Qualcomm SM8635 Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset, and it just crawls. The UI is very unresponsive, and page load times are terrible. It also has to reload the page if it was running in the background and you switch back to it.

dbcooper··on Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos
Does this work for videos flagged as age-restricted, or paid subscriber content? IIRC, yt-dlp needs to be passed browser cookies to do so?
dbcooper··on Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8
You can use nextdns for DNS adblocking.
dbcooper··on Protein signatures may one day tell brain diseases apart before symptoms
Overview publication:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03834-0

dbcooper··on Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent
Anyone have a spare invite?
dbcooper··on Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
Cosmic Text (Cosmic DE) might do this on the GPU via swash. It has subpixel rendering.
dbcooper··on I'm Wirecutter's water-quality expert. I don't filter my water
>Why you should trust me

Absolutely zero mention of qualifications. If you do not have a chemistry/chemical engineering degree, or something closely related then why would anyone want to bother with your verbose writing?

dbcooper··on Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research
The "infrastructure" is terrible software called Editorial Manager. It doesn't have any document annotation or collaboration features. It merely allows documents to be uploaded and downloaded, and is a pain to work with.

The peer review process is almost entirely coordinated by unpaid associate editors. They make initial manuscript assessments, solicit reviewers, and moderate the review and response process.

"journal staff moving papers through the peer review system" may happen at a small number of prestige journals such as Advanced Materials, but for most Q1 journals it is all volunteer work. That is the business model that makes companies like Elsevier billions.

dbcooper··on Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research
Peer review is not supported by publishers. Many editors are unpaid too.
dbcooper··on China's Clinical Trial Boom
Delivery vectors for nucleic acid have really progressed too. Peptide design and screening (also high throughput tools in general) have developed and led to great advances in peptide conjugates, such as peptide radioligands.
dbcooper··on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
WhichYear 4/20/25 4939 pts (top 1%) 1⃣ avg. years off

2⃣ 1⃣ 1⃣ 1⃣ 1⃣

whichyr.com

dbcooper··on Feral pig meat transmits rare bacteria
♫ The cattle all have brucellosis, We'll get through somehow ♫
dbcooper··on Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects
Yeah, halflife of GLP-1 is about 5 minutes.
dbcooper··on Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows
Perhaps they can fix the extreme slope angle of italics on some sites next.
dbcooper··on 'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system
Article is from January. Has the study now been published in a journal?
dbcooper··on Vintage digicams aren't just a fad. They're an artistic statement
Michael Mann achieved remarkable results on Collateral and Miami Vice with the Sony CineAlta HDW-F900.
dbcooper··on Chinese pebble-bed nuclear reactor passes "meltdown" test
I remember that article. An older friend had worked on fluidised-bed reactors at Tsinghua in the 1990s, and I sent it to him.

Using helium indicates a problem with kinematic viscosity of cooling gases? Nitrogen would be non-reactive enough, I assume?

dbcooper··on Paper mills: the 'cartel-like' companies behind fraudulent scientific journals
Recently I've noticed new scam journals with "Austin" in their name.
dbcooper··on Show HN: Quilt – Powerful RAG UI for Document QA
Are you able to integrate analysis of figures such as charts? I'd really like to be able to extract data such as differences between data points (absolute and relative, with correct units), and analyze trends.
dbcooper··on Void captures over a million Android TV boxes
I never got mine working as a chrome cast target. Does that work now?
dbcooper··on Linear, symmetric, self-selecting 14-bit molecular memristors (2023)
What's wrong with Research Gate?
dbcooper··on Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
What are the best upscalers for MPV these days?
dbcooper··on Is Cultivated Meat for Real?
Talk to anyone who has real experience in biotechnology and mammalian cell culture, and they will point out that this fantasy. The epitome of ZIRP. You should regard any companies in this space with extreme scepticism, and look for signs that they are scams.
dbcooper··on Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans
>Across all aquatic ecosystems, from streams and rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and ponds to estuaries, coasts, and the open ocean, dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations have rapidly and substantially declined in recent decades. Lakes and reservoirs have experienced oxygen losses of 5.5% and 18.6% respectively since 1980. The oceans have experienced oxygen losses of around 2% since 1960 and, although that number is smaller, it represents a more geographically and volumetrically extensive mass.

>For example, the midwaters off of Central California have lost 40% of their oxygen in the last few decades.

As the oxygen carrying capacity of water is very low, an increase in temperature, that increases the overall consumption rates of organisms near the surface, could cause large magnitude changes in DO concentrations.

dbcooper··on Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans
Gas solubility in water decreases pretty strongly due to the gaseous phase being more entropic (in governing thermodynamic potentials the entropic term is -T•∆S). Unfortunately this is unavoidable with rising temperatures.
dbcooper··on Mimicking the cells that carry hemoglobin as a blood substitute
Oxygen has very low solubility in water, which decreases with temperature. Haemoglobin binds iron atoms, which bind oxygen molecules, allowing storage of oxygen by the protein. IIRC, this increases the oxygen carrying capacity of blood approximately 60 to 70 times.
dbcooper··on Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
>Why build a new browser in C++ when safer and more modern languages are available?

>Ladybird started as a component of the SerenityOS hobby project, which only allows C++. The choice of language was not so much a technical decision, but more one of personal convenience. Andreas was most comfortable with C++ when creating SerenityOS, and now we have almost half a million lines of modern C++ to maintain.

>However, now that Ladybird has forked and become its own independent project, all constraints previously imposed by SerenityOS are no longer in effect. We are actively evaluating a number of alternatives and will be adding a mature successor language to the project in the near future. This process is already quite far along, and prototypes exist in multiple languages.

dbcooper··on Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers
>The 19 journals were all previously owned by Hindawi, an Egyptian publishing company with a portfolio of about 250 journals that Wiley purchased in 2021. A Wiley spokesperson acknowledged that some of the journals had been impacted by fraudulent studies, but attributed the closures to other factors, such as low submission rates.

Hindawi is well known as a publisher of complete junk. No one takes any of their journals seriously. Baffling that Wiley would accept the risk.

dbcooper··on GPT-4o
question for you guys - is there a model that can take figures (graphs), from scientific publications, and combine image analysis with picking up the data point symbol descriptions and analyse the trends?
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