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hbossy··on Wind-Powered Cargo Ships
Wind has had a hard time competing with cheap heavy fuel oil—the toxic sludge that refineries have no other use for. What will happen to that fuel if they stop buying it?
hbossy··on Human urine sensing and deep learning-assisted cancer screening
How long will it take for it to be commercially available?
hbossy··on Turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer (2022)
Getting a cheap NAS.
hbossy··on The Future of Thunderbird
>A renewed attention to usability and accessibility is now part of our daily development process, guaranteeing easy discoverability of all the powerful features, as well as full compatibility with assistive technologies to make Thunderbird usable by everyone.

ah yes, that logorrhea of corporate speak surely means the project is heading in right direction.

hbossy··on HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card expires [video]
You used to be able to buy budget version of Casio scientific calculator and use pencil to draw a wire on PCB to turn it into fx-991EX. The only thing missing button labels.
hbossy··on Do we live in a society without a counterculture?
Thousands of sad frogs, wojaks and other memes. The fringe fashwave music videos. Greentext stories with their weird rules as whole new literary genre. It's obvious there are real artists spending days and hours making them, but posting any of these things on mainstream cultural outlets gets you banned. How this is any different from independent filmmaker being shunned out of cinemas for his extreme take on coprophilia in the 80'?
hbossy··on Do we live in a society without a counterculture?
Taking established media and making it a LGBT story is has been pretty much mainstream for long time. We live in a world where all major corporations put rainbows on their logos for a month every year, just to meet the expectations of general audience.
hbossy··on Do we live in a society without a counterculture?
So the author realized he is consuming only the mainstream culture and concluded anything other is too hard to notice, therefore not a counterculture?
hbossy··on I almost bought a scanner
It could be Firewire controller chip getting probed by software for kind of MAC or ID for authentication and licensing.
hbossy··on Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop
If you are going to sell margarine you can't make it more expensive than butter.
hbossy··on What happens if you plug two USB-C laptops into each other using a USB-C cable
Plugging Dell Vostro 15 5510 into Thinkpad L580 starts charging on Thinkpad and shows a bunch of `[104408.050983] usb usb2-port1: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?` messages in dmesg on both machines.
hbossy··on Londoner solves 20k-year Ice Age drawings mystery
Someone who hunts at night. My grandpa could always tell which lunar phase will we are at, despite never having periods.
hbossy··on First LNG tanker arrives at Germany's new floating terminal
Except for the country that control seas.
hbossy··on How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook?
Especially if it's BLE. Commercial sites are full of tags that advertise their MACs. Phone app reads this and use it to deduce where you are. You can try something similar yourself with WiFi using Google geolocation API.
hbossy··on Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic “forever chemicals”
I wonder how harmful are waterproofing sprays like this: https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/water-repellent-re-activator-s... they are incredibly effective in keeping my shoes dry but seeing people using it on national park trailheads makes me a little nervous.
hbossy··on Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
Spotify did get worse. It used to have build-in Genius lyrics / trivia display for currently playing song. This feature and recommendation system actually convicted me to pay for it over using youtube as main music player. It is no longer available.
hbossy··on Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on
My banking app takes this to extreme - it loads loan ads directly in place of "show payment authorization code" button, replacing it. Clicking it is not only loads chrome overlay with advertisement, but results with marketing phone call a few minutes after you close it.
hbossy··on Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan
A lot of American products have strong scents that are not really liked in Europe. Old spice started really aggressive advertising campaign a few years ago here. They had frequent and obviously high-budget commercials in TV and stocked middle shelves in popular stores, but no one wanted to buy it. People say it simply stinks. It's another Hershey chocolate.
hbossy··on maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
It gets really annoying when you are trying to search for some specific term in English and google keep guessing that you wanted something that sounds similar in your native tongue.
hbossy··on How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA
How do we know it's not some other, vaguely related environmental factor? For example pesticides carried by dust bowls would surely take more impact on states that got a lot of unemployment during that time.
hbossy··on Researchers successfully convert methane gas into liquid methanol
You have excess of said fuel in the first place. It's better to sell 1/2 of your stock than flare all of it.
hbossy··on Too Much Internet

    Somehow, despite being on Twitter 870 hours a week, 
people write stuff like this and then act surprised when their candidate is not elected president.
hbossy··on New asteroid strike images show impact 'a lot bigger than expected'
I bet they were all disappointed because if there were no significant effect the next logical step is to allow the team try again with nukes.
hbossy··on Our eyes can change colour throughout our lives
My eyes have been shifting from brown to green for some time now. They started identical do my sisters dark brown by look completely different in our late 20'.
hbossy··on New Text and Array Functions for Excel
All they need to do is implement Google Sheets ARRAYFORMULA().
hbossy··on NASA can now reliably produce a tree’s worth of oxygen on Mars
Various navies have been doing this for decades but it's all classified submarine technology.
hbossy··on Texas bans 10 banks, 348 investment funds over fossil fuel policies
Isn't that what all environment-related polices are?
hbossy··on Advantages of CRT over LCD
Even worse when your grandparents couldn't hear it and thought it's perfectly OK ta have TV buzzing 24/7 in the background.
hbossy··on Using your phone as a software development platform
Bluetooth keyboard and ssh client of your choice. Leave your work computer at home and ssh into it from anywhere. It works best for Vim enthusiasts, but nano is just as good.
hbossy··on German digital signage ban prompts confusion
Actually they are as you need to maintain some base load on a grid.
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