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interloxia··on The locals don't know
Lots of touristy and proper hiking in the Blue Mountains. I like the cliffs and waterfalls loops at Wentworth Falls.

Random blog with photos https://www.walkmyworld.com/posts/wentworth-pass

Rent bikes and cruise the Olympic site. Or cut through briefly to the Cooks River and ride to the beach.

Walk through the glow worm tunnel in the mountains or find someone to take you canyoning. Eeevblog has a video. (Not public transport friendly)

Walk through the the coal terminal at Balls Head.

Walk the start of the Great North walk. Or the length of the Royal national Park (Bundeena to Otford).

Bike/walk the Seven Bridges loop.

Go snorkelling / swim the various rock pools.

Swim at the North Sydney Olympic Pool (if they finish it).

Visit Cockatoo Island / picnic on some of the small islands in the harbour.

Go up the pylon on the bridge.

interloxia··on Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
Examples.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/24/apple-maps-ads-what-to-...

How to advertise in Google Maps

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/16388390?hl=en

interloxia··on OpenTrafficMap
Even our tires blast out IDs.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/exploring-the-privacy-risks-of-tire-...

interloxia··on The Joy of Folding Bikes
https://global.brompton.com/s/article/What-Is-The-Recommende...

What Is The Recommended Maximum Rider Weight And The Recommended Maximum Load?

Rider + load 110kg-130kg(G line)

interloxia··on North American English Dialects
The video call sequence in 2001 from 1968 comes to mind too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwo6JpMceg

interloxia··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Vodafone cable's cgnat struggles. I went v6 for home so that at least the v6 sites and my own connections avoid the congestion.
interloxia··on The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)
"Chat generate a blog post on paxos but explain it through Mad Max: Fury Road"
interloxia··on Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies
I don't know but it cooencideds with the start of satellite monitoring.

Half a century of satellite remote sensing of sea-surface temperature (2019) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003442571...

I haven't looked but there will probably be references somewhere explaining the dat sources.

interloxia··on Car Seats as Contraception
3rd percentile for boys at 12 years old. https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/cdc-charts.htm

In NSW the guide is the person should be > 145cm which is somewhere between age 9 and 14 for girls.

https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/parents/child-ca...

interloxia··on ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
Not quite as I understand it. At the low end, a couple of panels, yes. Beyond 960W of panels you will still need an an electrician rather than just the Schuko plug.

It's not clear to me why, for example, 2kW of panels which are also limited to 800W need need the special plug.

Hopefully I'm wrong!

"With a standard Schuko plug, a maximum of 960 watts peak is allowed on the DC side, regulated by DIN VDE V 0126-95. With the Wieland connector, a special feed-in socket, the limit increases to 2,000 watts peak. Anyone wanting to operate a system with up to 7,000 watts of module power will need a permanently installed feed-in socket, thus entering a range that is technically possible but also more complex to implement."

https://xpert.digital/en/balcony-solar-up-to-7-000-watts/

interloxia··on Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods
Tourism oxymoron "This content is not available in your region"
interloxia··on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
TV/streaming devices. Amazon's launched in 2014 and GoogleTV in 2010 according to wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_TV_(2010%E2%80%932014)

interloxia··on Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships
Further enlightenment that never isn't the only answer even if it feels that way. People change and new friends can be made.

It helps to know who you are, what you want, and what you can do about it.

interloxia··on Battle of U.S. rail barons: Merger is setting the industry on a collision course
Wikipedia had a map of their networks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_merger_between_Union_...

Another copy of the linked article.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/battle-of-the-rail-b...

interloxia··on Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships
Selfless effort. Be willing to ask for help with something, anything, even if you don't need it.

I can cut down a tree. But it's fun with friends.

I can do bad home renno but it's an in to keeping up with friends with a quick photo of the latest win/fail on signal /whatever floats your boat.

Because they're friends they might just say yes.

It's OK to ask them how they're going. Sometimes they will reply sometimes not and that's OK too.

interloxia··on Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
It's a bit off topic but that didn't sound right to me.

According to the following it was a reduction but yes near zero in the context of total emissions. A few hundred million tonnes reduction ain't nothin none the less.

"plummeted from more than 1 000 Mt CO2 in 2019 to less than 600 Mt CO2 in 2020, in the context of the pandemic.

In 2023, aviation accounted for 2.5% of global energy-related CO2 emissions, "

https://www.iea.org/energy-system/transport/aviation

interloxia··on How the Strait of Hormuz closure affects global oil supply
I like a good Sankey diagram for origin/destination flow Visualisation. It would be even better if the diagram was interactive.
interloxia··on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
For me it's stress -> bruxism (day and or night) -> tinnitus.
interloxia··on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
As I fall asleep the blackness of what I see suddenly disappears. I would describe it exactly as the absence of sensation.

Unfortunately my mild tinnitus doesn't stop at the same time.

interloxia··on Simple screw counter
I tried that the other day when when my kid rebuilt a 3 in 1 set. I couldn't justify 7€ shipping for a 10c part so that the baby orca could have it's dorsal fin. My kid didn't care. I was disappointed.
interloxia··on OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)
Adding a few avoid road markers might help.
interloxia··on Museum of Plugs and Sockets
The Rozetkus-1 power strip is neat.

https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/UnknownSpecimen.html https://www.artlebedev.com/rozetkus/1/

interloxia··on Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage
Try the coffee quick settings tile to keep the foreground app open and the screen on.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.muellerma.coffee/

interloxia··on SynthID: A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI
Ask for a coloring page and an inverted version.
interloxia··on I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”
The task is language understanding. The tool is amazing. Pianos are amazing. The task is to create music. The process is to transform movement to sound. They don't understand music.
interloxia··on “Car Wash” test with 53 models
My three year old failed. Unfortunately she was also unable to explain her reasoning.
interloxia··on Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU
The link says that the three year connection is for "people born or adopted abroad on or after December 15, 2025".
interloxia··on Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need?
And the flicker. It was pretty bad on most screens.
interloxia··on Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
A different explanation that rings true to my experience is that people are drawn to confidence rather than a desire to be abused.

Toxic abusers and high school garbage are good at signalling strength despite their poor character and choices.

interloxia··on 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
Would vacuum bagging help?
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