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m_eimanon My House

I think in Sweden it's illegal to not have a listed address. If you're homeless you'll get your local city hall's address as your listed address, IIRC.

m_eimanon M1 Icestorm cores can still perform well

Saving watts means lowering fan RPM, meaning less noise. And that's a big priority for many.

m_eimanon Facebook “transparency report” turns out to be anything but

So you're saying we should keep using Facebook (making them money) and we should also do the policing Facebook doesn't want to do - for free?

m_eimanon Apps supporting account creation must also offer account deletion

I know you’re asking just to be contrarian, but here’s how:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208504

m_eimanon Working over 55 hours a week associated with higher risk of stroke, heart attack

I kinda do this, but with a slightly different schedule: 7 hour days Monday to Thursday, on Fridays I alternate between 8 hour day and no work. This sums up to 80%.

m_eimanon A game that almost died during Covid and how I made it an app

The comments here along the lines of "there's already a game like that" are a bit annoying.

I'm pretty sure that you can say the same about just about any game created today, and somehow people still make new ones and sometimes they get lucky and have their game become popular. What's the point of dumping on someone's work like this?

m_eimanon Google banned almost 120k spam developer accounts in 2020 for the play store

How many of those account hadn't been created if it cost $99 to make one?

m_eimanon Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards

I’m waiting for the Nordic layout K1 (brown switches) to appear to try a mechanical keyboard for the first time, good to hear their build quality is acceptable (been reading some online reviews, and some people seem to have issues with Keychron boards).

m_eimanon Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols

I probably mean ”soak” or ”handwash” rather than wash; I’m sure there’s an instructional video somewhere on the net.

m_eimanon Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols

If you wash the sweater in conditioner and lukewarm water you can (carefully) pull it into its original shape. #lifehack

m_eimanon Zenreader: A 4.7" E-Ink RSS Reader

There’s also Inkplate: https://inkplate.io/

m_eimanon Firefox 88.0

Isn’t this something that Twitch could/should fix?

m_eimanon Apple can own I/O to own the universe

most people don't care either

There's the slight problem of having no practial way of knowing which set of headphones will work properly; even most reviews skip these crucial details and just talk about the "warm sound" etc.

If the headsets were marked with things like "kinda works as long as you hold it right", "works ok as long as you have a Samsung phone", "works flawlessly when paired with both your phone and your computer at the same time" at the time of purchase, I'm pretty sure people would let it affect their choice.

That's one of the benefits of staying within your ecosystem of choice; if it doesn't work properly Samsung or Apple can't blame it on someone else - it's their problem to fix.

m_eimanon Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface

pfSense might have a lot of features, but the UI is terrible in all possible ways. They should stop letting their programmers "design" the UI; dumping the raw database into an HTML table is not a good user interface.

m_eimanon Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor

A lot of applications, perhaps a majority, use analytics and send data data to eg Google or Microsoft whenever you run them.

m_eimanon Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing

Enable resources from the origin domain by default, and any Reasonable(tm) web page should have no problem with this.

m_eimanon Cookie Consent Speed Running Game

It’s about time someone fined them a handsome amount for their deviousness.

m_eimanon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

Having username+password+sms is strictly safer than having username+password.

To require the attacker to know your phone number and do costly and/or time consuming things to get access to it means moving from "script kiddie re-using username+password from leaked user databases" to "targeted attacks".

Sure, it's not Safe(tm), but it's a big step up from just username+password.

m_eimanon Bitcoin may be optimally positioned to become preferred currency for world trade

No.

m_eimanon ISO 8601: a better date format

Many developers do not. Especially month views tend to be hardcoded.

m_eimanon ISO 8601: a better date format

While on the subject of time, could you Americans pretty please stop believing that the week starts on Sunday? It's just as wrong as your date format.

m_eimanon Is soy a key driver of deforestation?

If you select meat marked with (certain? most?) eco labels the animals are mostly fed grass or similar.

I tried finding the English page corresponding to https://www.wwf.se/mat-och-jordbruk/kottguiden/ekologiskt-no... but failed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

m_eimanon Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

There are lists available, e.g. https://edlists.org/

When the EU was debating the REACH regulations there was a big push to move to a "don't sell or produce it until you can prove it's safe" stance, but AFAIK it was significantly watered down before an agreement was reached.

https://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/reach/reach_en.ht...

Then there's the problem of "chemical cocktails", where combinations of chemicals are more dangerous than each chemical by itself; this gets a lot of media space, but is even harder to research than individual chemicals since just about everything gets mixed up in various concentrations in nature.

m_eimanon Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

That movie is terribly depressing, and terribly good.

m_eimanon Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

There's a big difference in the amount of leakage from the plastics when it's cold vs when it's heated - so a good step is to put whatever you're heating on a plate before you put it in the microwave (or oven, or…), rather than heating it in the plastic it came in.

m_eimanon Is soy a key driver of deforestation?

Or at least select meat from local sources who aren't fed soy beans. And prefer chicken over beef. Preferrably also eco-friendly meat.

m_eimanon The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem

Which is why you spend a lot of time maintaining the ”power cable streets”, whatever that is called in American.

See https://www.slu.se/globalassets/ew/org/centrb/cbm/bilder/for...

m_eimanon Apple Platform Security February 2021

There’s also the iCloud key-value store they can use.

m_eimanon Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint

I already have a taste of this on my gaming computer: GOG Galaxy, Steam, Epic Store, EA Store, … All of them wanting to auto-start and waste resources in the background. It's just a waste and a hassle.

And every one of them manages to lose my logged in state and force me to log in again every time I start them, apparently that "Keep me logged in" checkbox is just for show.

Do I sound bitter? It's because I am.

m_eimanon WebKit Quirks

Conceptually I'd say that clicking a link and then clicking Back should be the same as right-clicking the link and opening it in a new window, and then closing that window.

But it wouldn't surprise me if "web apps" makes this hard for some reason.