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out_of_protocolon Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

1) they do protocol sniffing, and any inconsistency (including statistical) gets you blocked 2) "white list mode" which engaged sometimes (poorly implemented atm), means nothing goes outside of country at all (means 99.9% of everything is broken). They really want to become North Korea soon

out_of_protocolon Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses

> How are you suffering equal heat stress from being submerged in moderately warm water

by the rules of this universe, you can't survive being submerged in 40C water for a prolonged period of time (even 37C would kill you as well), because humans produce heat and if you can't dispose of it you'll overheat and be dead soon enough

out_of_protocolon Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses

Humidity is the key, Finnish style sauna is low humidity+ high temperature (85-115C is OK i think), while Russian banya-style is low temperature (60-80C with high humidity). Both of them produce about the same load on a human

out_of_protocolon H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means

* VP9 where AV1 is not available (default YouTube codec, almost universally hardware-supported). Also universally supported .webm is vp9+opus - which mostly used as modern .gif

out_of_protocolon H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means

VP9 works well too and more supported (default YouTube codec)

out_of_protocolon Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

Do note that in current economics 32GB of RAM alone will cost something like $400

out_of_protocolon macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

> This is a configurable setting.

Give me pointers please. Getting same headaches every day. Clicking on icon in dock, closing some window produces random results every time, across many, many apps

out_of_protocolon UUID package coming to Go standard library

v7 exposes creation date, and maybe you don't want that. So, depends on use-case

out_of_protocolon Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series

fps getting increased but latency does not improve, and what's what important

out_of_protocolon Choosing a language based on its syntax?

> its differentiation from Elixir is purely syntactic.

Well, there's also standard library, Erlang one is very messy while Elixir one is very consistent (and pipe operator - `|>` - enforces order of arguments even in low-quality 3rd party code as well, making whole language more pleasant to work with. Same goes for utf8-binary string everywhere and other idiomatic conventions

out_of_protocolon Animated AVIF for the Modern Web

1. It's VERY common, sometimes pretending to be a .gif file. Many major image hosters are serving .webm even if users upload gif files.

2. AVIF is not a codec but a container. Webm also can contain AV1 video (but usually contains VP9). Also, difference between VP9 and AV1 is not that huge to be noticable on small gif-like animated pictures

out_of_protocolon Animated AVIF for the Modern Web

Why .avifs when we have .webm already? Seems like overcomplicated replacement for already existing de-facto standard.

out_of_protocolon Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11

>Windows 7 was effectively just vista but enough time had passed that the required hardware to run it was easy to get a hold of.

Not really, Windows 7 had a lot of work poured into it, fixing Vista issues. Even first public betas of W7 were more polished than any of Windows 8..11 releases. That includes work on minimal amount of "noise" notifications, driver issues, speed, design etc

out_of_protocolon Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid

Any favorites for "ebook into an audio book" process? Both model and software

out_of_protocolon Chromium Has Merged JpegXL

https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-and-the-pareto-front

Oldie goodie article with charts, comparing webp, jpegxl, avif, jpeg etc. avif is SLOW

out_of_protocolon Chromium Has Merged JpegXL

- avif is better at low bpp (low-quality images), terrible in lossless

- jxl is better at high bpp, best in lossless mode

out_of_protocolon Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold hands-on

This is only second device in such form factor (first one from Huawei was long time Chinese exclusive) so, for now, there is WoW-factor baked in. Something to impress billion-dollar CEOs and the like. Give it a few generations to reach general public

out_of_protocolon Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results

You also need a VPN, otherwise you'll get results in local language anyway

out_of_protocolon Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries

Any data on index size for big tables? Comparison (with ms/megabytes) vs trigram regarding size/speed?

UPD

> Biscuit is 15.0× faster than B-tree (median) and 5.6× faster than Trigram (median)

> Trade-off: 3.2× larger index than Trigram, but 5.6× faster queries (median)

out_of_protocolon Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns

There's usually 1 or 2 spots for NVMe drives, but that's it. If you want more, fall back to SATA

out_of_protocolon SQLite as an Application File Format

Also, tested .zip vs .tar vs sqlite vs file system. Of this bunch, sqlite was the most compact format with minimal overhead.

out_of_protocolon New attacks are diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel

Not your keys - not your computer

out_of_protocolon Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28

Technically speaking, you can run anything on anything since stuff Turing complete. Practically speaking however....

E.g. i have half of macos games in my steam library as a 32-bit mac binaries. I don't know a way to launch them at any reasonable speed. Best way to do it is to ditch macos version altogether and emulate win32 version of the game (witch will run at reasonable speed via wine forks). Somehow Win32 api is THE most stable ABI layer for linux & mac

out_of_protocolon Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28

Yes. Still, there are ways to do it anyway, from Dosbox to WineVDM. Unlike MacOS where having even 32 bit app (e.g. half of Steam games that supported Macos to begin with) means you're fucked

out_of_protocolon Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28

Windows 95 was released... well, in 1995. In 2025 you can run apps targeting W95 just fine (and many 16-bit apps with some effort)

out_of_protocolon Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius (and why AVIF can't pull it off)

There's way more than one rust implementation around

- https://github.com/libjxl/jxl-rs

- https://github.com/tirr-c/jxl-oxide

- https://github.com/etemesi254/zune-image

Etc. You can wait for 20 or so years "just to be sure" or start doing something. Mozilla sticks to the option A here by not doing anything

out_of_protocolon Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage

18650 are everywhere from hand tools, drones and vapes to Teslas and scooters. High energy per cell (up to 3600 mAh * 3.7V ~= 13Wh) and fairly cheap

out_of_protocolon Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js

Definitely, Phoenix is way more streamlined than Django/Rails. Even if you jump to other language/framework, it'll teach a lot how to built stuff due to good defaults and project structure. Also simpler too. I remember spending hours trying to figure out how to use specific method and where is it coming from in Rails. In Elixir/Phoenix there's very few "import"s in use (single file you can inspect and modify), non hidden state. You see Foo.bar("some argument") and you know you don't need anything else to understand what it does. Rails is very magical in this sense, Django as well, a bit

out_of_protocolon Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

They need DRM thing ASAP. Next step would be to auto-fail every device without hardware TPM module (including Win11 with bypassed TPM requirement). "This software wont run on this PC" "this movie won't play" etc

out_of_protocolon My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod

Big bonus of the Revision - it is available directly on Steam - just install original & Revision, play. Everything else needs manual intervention