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elktea··on ZFS is mysteriously eating my CPU
Love the look of all the tools netflix have at their disposal
elktea··on Firefox: Performance in Progress
for some reason I thought XUL was dead and gone, with the UI now coded in html and js - wonder if they can further improve loading by removing XUL in the futre
elktea··on Implement window.{alert, prompt, confirm} removal from cross-origin iframes
What's a legit use for this?
elktea··on Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked?
Interestingly here it's the wealthier inner-city suburbs where lead paint was commonly used when the houses were built.

Advice seems to be leave it alone unless it's flaking.

elktea··on Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
Does anyone know what the browser usage stats are for HN?
elktea··on Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5741187/sql-injection-th...

It's still not safe

elktea··on Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox
Can't an ISP just respond with NXDOMAIN for use-application-dns.net and force Firefox to use their resolvers?
elktea··on TCP Fast Open? Not so fast
Timely, I just updated our pdns recursors to the latest version yesterday and was staring at that config line. I think I'll hold off for a few months.
elktea··on State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
speaking of UI inconsistencies - why did the author of this page thing it was a good idea to hijack my page up/down buttons. come on man.
elktea··on Grafana 8.0
Agree, that would be nice.

I use the weathermap as a standalone app with the following custom datasources:

https://github.com/amousset/php-weathermap-zabbix-plugin https://github.com/lodpp/network-weathermap-prometheus-datas...

elktea··on Grafana 8.0
Prometheus's language PromQL is pretty inscrutable and the alert manager is very bare-bones. I find the entire project is pretty user-hostile wrt documentation and examples actually.
elktea··on Drunk as a Lord: the Regency Bottle Men
It's been shown (in rats) that saturated fats are protective against cirrhosis and unsaturated fats (linoleic acid in this case) are required for liver injury.

Might explain why some people can drink like fish and have perfectly healthy livers while others suffer badly.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2915600/

elktea··on Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
> No one needed to die for you to eat it.

Except all those animals + insects that once inhabited the fields

elktea··on Mozilla Firefox update is making me abandon Chrome – Here's why
I personally found the new tab style odd at first, but I think it's grown on me.
elktea··on IPv6 Fragmentation Loss
what box is that?
elktea··on Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store
anyone using this site that still uses chrome, why?
elktea··on Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?
> You can potentially BGP hijack a domain (via DNS)

domains and BGP don't really interact, can you explain what you mean?

elktea··on Spain to launch modest trial of four-day working week
Do you think this will reduce jobs? I think it would do the opposite
elktea··on WinSSHTerm: A Tabbed SSH Solution, Combining PuTTY/KiTTY, WinSCP and VcXsrv
Does it do a list of saved sessions like SecureCRT or mRemoteNG?
elktea··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
The protein you get from meat is a different collection of amino acids than the protein you can get from plants or soy.
elktea··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
Fibre isn't a nutrient though. It's waste. We have a very low capability to ferment it verses other apes.
elktea··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
Humans can't eat livestock feed or grass though.
elktea··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
I'm comparing it by ... comparing the nutrients in each. There are lots of examples of nutrients in meat that aren't found in plants (carnitine, b12 etc) and even more where the type found in plants must be consumed in far greater quantities and converted to a form we can use (retinol vs beta-carotene, DHA vs EPA/ALA etc)

Millions of vegetarians doesn't mean meat is suddenly less nutritious.

elktea··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
The popular crusade against meat is one of the more misguided. Meat provides far more nutritional value than any plant and the environmental impacts have been greatly exaggerated. See below:

Regarding carbon: "removal of livestock in the US would only lead to a net GHG reduction of 2.6% in national emissions. Similarly, removing all dairy would lead to a reduction of just 0.7%. At the same time, both transitions would create domestic deficiencies in critically limiting nutrients [White & Hall 2017; Liebe et al. 2020], which is not unexpected given that Animal Sourced Foods are valuable sources of essential nutrition [see elsewhere].

and methane: "As argued above, this is not wishful thinking as there is still ample potential for mitigation of biogenic methane in global food systems. Moreover, the global cattle population has not been increasing during the last decade, making its contribution to global warming debatable [Shahbandeh 2020]. It is, however, true that methane has nonetheless been suddenly increasing since 2007. Yet, this can be ascribed to a multitude of potential reasons, incl. geological and fossil fuel emissions, wetlands, rice farming, and landfills [Gramling 2016; Nisbet et al. 2016; Alvarez et al. 2018; Rasmussen 2018; Etiope & Schwietzke 2019; Malik 2021], or a decrease in hydroxyl radical levels, the main sink for atmospheric methane [Turner et al. 2017]

https://aleph-2020.blogspot.com/2019/06/greenhouse-gas-emiss...

elktea··on Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture
wow, if you're still using chrome it might be time to re-asses that.
elktea··on Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture
technically impossible, firefox would be forced to pretend to be another browser.
elktea··on How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
"The 2014 iPhone 6 was “the poster child” of this transformation, according to a person involved in the product’s development. While the device had complex internal components and a larger screen, it dropped the diamond-polished edges and the precisely cut glass parts of the back of the iPhone 5 and 5s, which had been difficult to produce."

well, that explains why the iPhone went from such a unique design to generic plastic android. Glad the 5-esque design is back for the 12 series at least.

elktea··on Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon
Happily, firefox defeats this.
elktea··on An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode”
try this out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
elktea··on TP-Link Archer VR1600V V2 Super User Password Cracked
Yes, agreed technical people are fine. Most users struggle with basic setup so it's a win for them. Personally, why would I do anything hostile that generates support calls?
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