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ooboeon Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

I have to agree with this. I have a Miele bagged canister and my partner has a Dyson bagless canister. The Miele is superior (often significantly) in every measure, including price. Granted I do have to buy bags but it'll take decades of bags to negate the price difference.

ooboeon Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass

Several mechanical properties are discussed in the published paper:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/5/eabd7342

ooboeon Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass

Dang, missed that.

ooboeon Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass

Just watching that now. Nile Red is using an older process. The process described in the article is a new method published 2 weeks ago that is much simpler and leaves most of the lignin in the final product.

ooboeon Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass

Publication here:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/5/eabd7342

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd7342

ooboeon Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more

Global Foundries had capital issues and decided to pull the plug on their 7nm process in 2018. I wonder if they regret that now.

ooboeon A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests

Jane Goodall has made the provision of supports and options for local people one of the core parts of her conservation efforts for chimpanzees and other wildlife.

ooboeon Firefox 84.0

Donate directly to Mozilla/Firefox?

http://donate.mozilla.org/

ooboeon Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape

In many developed countries with universal health care, alcohol is significantly taxed in part to contribute to health care costs. Canada is one example and, as a result, alcohol is generally much more expensive than in USA. This despite the large volumes and purchasing power of the provincial liquour boards (as private sales are limited, to varying degrees according to province).

ooboeon Linux Bash vs. Windows PowerShell

Are there different versions of PowerShell? 'ls' has always worked for me. 'ls -al' does not however, and that does feel a bit violating.

ooboeon The facts around Zoom and encryption for meetings/webinars

In the Jitsi thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758131) also currently on the front page, someone from Jitsi mentions that they do have a way around this and that they don't decode the video on the server:

"We use a technique called simulcast. It consists on making every participant "work a bit harder" for the good of the bunch.

That is, every participant sends 3 separate video resolutions to the server: 720p, 480p and 180p (this may change due to bandwidth constraints). Then the server will only forward the approopriate layer to each other participant. So, if you are only seeing me in a thumbnail it will only forward the 180p layer. If I become the active speaker (or you choose to pin me to the large view) the server will immediately switch to forwarding the 720p layer."

So s/All/Not all/. Note that Jitsi does not claim to have e2e encryption.

ooboeon Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (2018)

That's odd. My experience with Firefox on Windows is that I can't get audio to work with Zoom. Jitsi, on the other hand, works perfectly though there is a small yellow box that warns me that I should use a "fully supported browser"

ooboeon Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users

Yes there are:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/umatrix/?src=...

ooboeon Google suspends some business with Huawei

Or YALP, Aurora, or AuroraStore.