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lodeon Wind turbine blade transportation challenges

Strange how an article from IEEE (who should be interested of exact measurements) opens with the size unit "more than a football field".

Many articles and news broadcasts do this, even though a football field size is not standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-coherent_units_of_...

lodeon Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

Here it's Cloudflare the CDN, sitting in front of Anna's Archive, that's doing the blocking. The DNS resolver used doesn't come into play.

(Case in point, I am using Google's DNS, yet still encounter the block when accessing from a Belgian IP.)

lodeon Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

When accessing from Belgium the link is blocked by Cloudflare:

Error HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

In response to a legal order, Cloudflare has taken steps to limit access to this website through Cloudflare's pass-through security and CDN services within Belgium

lodeon Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy

https://archive.is/2025.07.17-234516/https://www.theinternat...

lodeon The Secret Group Chats Where the Rich Score Seats on Private Jets

https://archive.is/pKQtY

lodeon Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

Grok, the xAI chatbot, went full neo-nazi yesterday:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-p...

lodeon Infinite Mac OS X

> Oh also the + button didn't do full screen as today, but... it did... something. I never understood the point of the + button.

When I first came from Windows I was confused about this as well, but once I got the hang of it, it became the most logical thing to me.

The green + button zoomed the window to the minimum window size that showed the full content. (For example, one page in a word processor or one slide in presentation software.)

lodeon The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer

Doesn't look like it, picking a random domain from this list gives the same result as from 1.1.1.1:

  dig bs.to @1.1.1.1
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  bs.to.   164 IN A 190.115.31.20


  dig bs.to @193.110.81.0
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  bs.to.   300 IN A 190.115.31.20

lodeon MTR: 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool

Traceroute is easy to be misinterpreted, because it does not have insight in underlying networks like MPLS, which could be the cause of issues.

https://movingpackets.net/2017/10/06/misinterpreting-tracero... (discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474043 )

lodeon Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

This is the organisation that has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize:

https://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/

lodeon France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved

Discussed here in 2023 at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37647467

lodeon Meta Quest 3S

You can "Decline optional cookies" and browse without being logged in, at least in Europe. (Just tested in a private window, FB/Meta is only allowed in a separate container on my computer.)

lodeon NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025

Here is the full article - sorry about that, should have used this link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/boeing-starliner-...

lodeon Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour

My feelings exactly. I first got drawn to editing OSM instead of Waze because of local Waze volunteers acting like mini dictators (locking the map for people under a certain level, leading to inaccuracies like wrongly labelled construction in my own street which I could see with my own eyes but could not edit), not being an unpaid worker for Alphabet was a nice bonus and the reason I stayed in the long run.

lodeon Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour

I try to add up to date opening hours for every business I frequent in OSM. These are available in Organic Maps (successor to Maps.me), even offline.

Google does seem to have the upper hand for special cases like public holidays sometimes, but even those can be added in OSM.

lodeon The FBI ran a cell phone company for criminals

Indeed.

I never understand why criminals are drawn to those kind of services instead of just using end to end encrypted apps like Signal.

lodeon Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

I am running a hypervisor (https://blogs.vmware.com/arm/2023/12/15/esxi-arm-fling-1-15-...) on my Raspberry Pi 4. Rock solid.

Currently running virtual machines: * Home Assistant (https://home-assistant.io/) - with USB passthrough of USB stick to read out my digital electricity/gas meters, Zigbee and Z-Wave * Homebridge (to allow my Eufy video doorbell to work with Homekit) * Pihole

All are running from iSCSI storage served by my Synology NAS.

I am running an older Pi (3) on demand in my garden as a client for my media server to play music on garden speakers.

lodeon Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server

Tons of great tips in this thread already.

For cheap virtual machines/virtual private servers there’s options beyond the $5/ish a month at Digital Ocean/Vultr:

* many of them offer starting credits for new accounts * lowendbox often has offers for VMs as cheap as $20 a year * Scaleway Stardust is super cheap as well. The web interface never shows them in stock, but I have always been able to create them via their CLI tool.

What will definitely help is look for a community (there’s multiple great subreddits that are welcoming to beginners). Don’t be afraid to ask questions, even if they may sound obvious. That’s the best way to learn!

Good luck, and enjoy!

lodeon Paris preserves its mixed society by pouring billions into public housing

It looks like the New York Times changed it. The title in the <title> tag is the same as this post, in the article header they changed it.

lodeon Are We Watching the Internet Die?

One way I’ve approached this is that I’ve stopped being an unpaid worker for the mega corps… so rather than submitting corrections to Google/Waze/Apple maps I try to use OpenStreetMap consistently and provide as much data as I can. (Such as opening hours of nearby shops.)

I know that companies use this data as the basis for commercial offerings and I am completely fine with that, but I know that the data will always be available for free as well. As a side note, in general I’ve found the local OSM community to be much nicer than the local Waze admins.

lodeon We’re opening up access to Gov.uk forms

> Wish there would be more like this from other governments.

There is:

Argentina - https://argob.github.io/poncho/

Australia - https://gold.designsystemau.org/

Canada - https://design.gccollab.ca/

Czech Republic - https://designsystem.gov.cz/#/

Estonia - https://brand.estonia.ee/?lang=en

Flanders - https://www.vlaanderen.be/digitaal-vlaanderen/onze-oplossing...

France - https://www.systeme-de-design.gouv.fr/

Germany - https://styleguide.bundesregierung.de/sg-de/

Greece - https://guide.services.gov.gr/

Italy - https://developers.italia.it/en/designers/

Netherlands - https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/achtergrondartikelen/het-nl-...

New Zealand - https://www.digital.govt.nz/standards-and-guidance/design-an...

Singapore - https://www.designsystem.tech.gov.sg/

Switserland - https://swiss.github.io/styleguide/en/

United States - https://designsystem.digital.gov/

Ukraine - https://diia-en.fedoriv.com/

lodeon Tesla (TSLA) tumbles on price cuts, “appreciating asset” dream going away

My cat gets more valuable (to me) every day.

A car, not so much.

lodeon Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style

> Of course OSM can't be updated with up-to-the-minute opening hours at all.

Of course it can. I regularly add opening hours of businesses I frequent on OSM, including special cases like public holidays.

lodeon Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings

There's a high resolution (30,000 × 23,756 pixels) picture of it on Wikipedia [1] - thanks to the Google Art project [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-...

[2]: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-starry-night-vin...

lodeon An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

This is what I've been looking for for such a long time.

The maximum speed that can be configured using the built in tools for both mouse and trackpad is way too slow for my liking.

In the past I used MagicPrefs to do this, but that sadly doesn't work anymore. This is the first time I'm able to do this again, and with a free tool too! Thanks a lot for submitting this.

lodeon Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

David Pogue went down with the same vessel last year for CBS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29co_Hksk6o

"I couldn't help noticing how many pieces of the sub seemed... improvised."

lodeon Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

the wreckage of the Titanic is in their area of responsibility:

https://sarcontacts.info/contacts/rcc-boston-1st-district-57...

lodeon Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

> I doubt a tourist submarine, or really any submarine going to this depth, has multiple compartments

Indeed, from their website: https://web.archive.org/web/20230613051805/https://oceangate...

"Is there a bathroom on the sub?

There is a small toilet located in Titan’s front dome – it doubles as the best seat in the house. When the toilet is in use, we install a privacy curtain between the dome and the main compartment and turn the music up loud."