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hettygreen··on Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design
I'm sure this is just an isolated incident and we won't see anything like this happening in the future.
hettygreen··on Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
Is there any counter measure for this?

Hardcore hearing protection?

Noise cancelling headphones?

Handheld sound insulation "shield"?

hettygreen··on Gravel Map
I'm in the process of planning a 6-8 day bike tour and wanting to keep it on gravel roads as much as possible. I've done about 150 days of bike touring in the past on paved roads, and I'm done rolling the dice with my life now that apps are so addictive that drivers can't help scrolling while operating a moving vehicle.

Gravelmaps has been a huge help, so has google maps using street view to check for gravel or if necessary the width of the shoulder. Even on side roads that haven't been streetview'd you can still check it at intersections to see.

The planning is VERY time consuming though, lots of permutations of routes to get between 2 points when the goal is to stay off paved surfaces each with various tradeoffs. It would be VERY cool if gravelmap let you input a start and end point and gave you a best route suggestion. Or even if google let you select gravel only.

hettygreen··on My Life in Weeks
This was epic, thanks for sharing!
hettygreen··on Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab
with required NSA backdoor of course.
hettygreen··on CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop
I bought my sawstop shortly after my partner started working in the medical field, where they'd see saw related injuries or amputations come in weekly.

Saw was expensive, yeah.. but they hold their value on the second hand market, if you ever even see them for sale.

I had a cabinet maker over last week, after he noticed my sawstop he showed me his 2 partially missing fingers.

The company also isn't playing games, the saw is beautiful and a lifetime purchase.

hettygreen··on The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory
They were probably expecting these to fail a few months after the warranty expired.
hettygreen··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
Yes, this data is for American and Canadian companies to collect and sell!
hettygreen··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
This article on hackernews reads the same as "Advancing Theorem Proving in LLMs through Large-Scale Synthetic Data" would on conkernews.
hettygreen··on Turn your Android phone into a modern ham radio transceiver
if it requires swapping out "all the RF hardware", why not keep the 2M repeater at this high level site and add your new repeater adjacent to it?
hettygreen··on An e-waste dumping ground
Here's the actual site on google earth:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/mjCvuMaUaZ3154eD9

There's a river that runs through the e-waste garbage dump, straight into the ocean less than 1 Mile away.

hettygreen··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Imagine what they could do with the battery in an electric car..

thankfully the security on vehicles is so good that a hack like this would be impossible eh?

hettygreen··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
Am I missing something? The ambiguous ones are neither blue nor green, they're just cyan.
hettygreen··on Batteryless OP-1
Synthesizer manufacturer here. It's really disappointing to see the message "IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOUR WARRANTY IS GONE, SORRY" printed on the inside of the OP-1... super helpful guys.

On the inside of the synths we make, there's a link to a documentation repository. If people are desperate enough to remove screws, why not help them?

hettygreen··on Yesterday's Pixels, Today
I like the trick of rendering in a small resolution and then scaling it back up without anti-aliasing and stuff. I wonder if there's any way to do chunky pixel static websites like that just using CSS in the same way?
hettygreen··on What the hell is a luminiferous theremin?
What part # is used for the TOF sensors? The PDF schematic shows nothing...
hettygreen··on Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?
Canadian here, I let my entire back yard grow wild for 7 years. My neighbor was mad about it "because of ticks" and if the town found out about it, they would have come and mowed it and charged me for the "service" plus a fine.
hettygreen··on I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
Fake.. only one video clip where the hat disappears when it falls and then reappears on the guys head just as he re-emerges from view.
hettygreen··on Udio – AI Music Generator
Thank god someone's done this! I was getting sick of listening to music made by passionate individuals that spent their lives honing their craft.
hettygreen··on The Flipbook Experiment
Spoiler alert: it takes 2:07 until someone draws a penis.
hettygreen··on EVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprint
Don't ruin it for me!

I only read the headline and was feeling justified purchasing 3000 pounds of globally mined steel, aluminum, rubber, plastic, graphite, copper, nickel, manganese and cobalt.

hettygreen··on Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth
For those that remember the James Burke show "Connections", he also did a program called "After the Warming" that's staged like a documentary that takes place in the future after humanity has solved the global warming crisis.

In that show, policy makers use a computer simulation of the world to quantify the limits that they set on emissions, and all of the nations in the world come together to make it happen and look back on this age as an important lesson.

I believe there's a low-res VHS rip of it available somewhere if you search, which gives the whole thing an eerie feeling of discovering an alternate-reality documentary.

hettygreen··on The built environment and the determination of fault in urban pedestrian crashes
I was waiting for Chinese food and watched as a Left-Turn light went green for cars at the same time the Pedestrian crossing light turned "OK to cross".

The waiting car sped up, made it's left turn right into the crossing pedestrian. Pedestrian died in the hospital and I never ate my Chinese food.

How can that sequence of traffic lights even happen? For the pedestrian to get the OK, she must have hit the crossing button - system knows a person is there, why give cars the OK to turn right into her, leaving the responsibility on the driver to see and yield?

hettygreen··on A writer skewered the Formula One scene, then her article vanished
This article is like nothing I've ever read before. In a time of algorithms and social media bubbles, something like this is a breath of goddamn fresh air to be honest.

I've been an F1 fan for years, but also someone who presumably cares about the environment and has concerns over the growing wealth-gap. Those things are hard to reconcile just to be entertained.

hettygreen··on Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]
I started following this guy making the MMX (second verison of this machine) around the same time I was designing and prototyping the most complicated project I've ever worked on.

Tuning in every week and seeing him make progress, or run into a failure and then eventually overcome it kept me motivated with my own personal project. In fact I was even racing him, trying to finish mine before the MMX was completed. The internet is full of b.s. influencers telling you to be motivated, but Martin and the Marble Machine definitely kept me going and kept it fun.

hettygreen··on Video Game Module for Flipper Zero
It better not be able to play Grand Theft Auto
hettygreen··on Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV
Are there issues with these factories? environmental? safety?
hettygreen··on Let's make the indie web easier
if only there was an easy markup language that one could use to make websites...
hettygreen··on Wikihouse: Open-Source Houses
There's an episode of Grand Designs (great show) where some people build an entire house by bringing a CNC machine onsite and banging out pre-fab wall sections exactly like this and connecting them in place.

Here's the full episode: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hsxwd

It's pretty cool to see, but in the end it seemed like way more effort than nailing some 2x4's together.

hettygreen··on The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (2021)
How do people find links on the darkweb?
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