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romseb··on Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
While that may be true, nobody knows how much time will pass between crest and trough. It could take days, years, decades, centuries.
romseb··on Intermittent Fasting Completely Reverses Type 2 Diabetes in Study
Unfortunately, the abstract does not contain any information on the specific window of eating. Can someone with full access shed light on this?
romseb··on Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
If you start fresh, https://ffprofile.com makes it easy to create a profile file without the bloat.
romseb··on Fastmail Down?
Fair enough, but at that point it was already down for at least 15 minutes for me.
romseb··on Fastmail Down?
As always. At this point, status pages seem to be only useful for previous issues.

The beta interface still seems to be working for me: https://beta.fastmail.com/login/

romseb··on Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans
What if humans manage to deflect an asteroid in a few decades that would otherwise kill off 95% of life on the planet?
romseb··on KDE KTrip – helps you navigate in public transport
You are right, it's a heading of a pane.
romseb··on KDE KTrip – helps you navigate in public transport
Looking at the screenshot, I wonder where the asymmetry stems from. The word "Details" is not centered in the window. The spacing between the forward/backward buttons and the hamburger menu is different than the spacing from those buttons to the word "Connections". That's why I often find UI elements of KDE so cluttered even since KDE 2.
romseb··on Reverse engineering Xiaomi air purifier NFC stickers
> This will significantly decrease the waste footprint from a whole filter.. to just a sticker

I don't think I understand which problem this solves. I can turn on my Xiaomi Air Purifier with or without a filter. It's just a fan. Is this about a new version that does not work with an old filter?

romseb··on Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
While this gets rid of the animation itself, the transition to the workspace takes the same amount of time.
romseb··on Locutus: A platform for building decentralized apps, from the creator of Freenet
I think it's legitimate to first use well-known platforms where people are already registered, especially in such an early development phase.

This has not much to do with dogfooding.

romseb··on Birds make better bipedal bots than humans do
Or Star Wars' AT-ST.
romseb··on Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only make it worse
Can you elaborate on how free speech has been weaponised by those in power?
romseb··on E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi
Install the "Handwriting" plugin on the human component. It's slow, but works reasonably well.
romseb··on Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat
Google Meet's noise cancellation is very good. It was noticeable by all employees when we switched it on.

> In the past have used Jitsi, had some good and some bad experiences with it, but mostly it works well.

Just to be clear: Did you use Jitsi or Jitsi Meet? Also, Jitsi Meet supports end-to-end encryption while almost no other solution does.

I remember Tox being very unfinished when I tried it a few years ago. Glad this has changed a bit.

romseb··on Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat
I don't know exactly, but it must be pretty low considering my home server can handle it without much of an impact to CPU/RAM.
romseb··on First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta
Another solution would be to boycott all websites where you encounter obtrusive ads. This leads to me getting sucked back into the parts of the internet that got me hooked originally in the 90's like underground cultures.
romseb··on Google turned me into a serial killer
Yes, I have seen the deletion fetish on Wikipedia first-hand many times. It made me stop contributing to it.
romseb··on Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat
I was looking for an alternative to Google Meet for a constantly open meeting room where we can share ideas and screens and spend the lunch break. Ideally, this would've been Slack with discord-like voice channels where you can drop in and out and see if a participant is online. They promised this feature [1] last year, but it did not land.

What we tried and their pros and cons:

1. Google Meet:

* ○ Excellent noise suppression only if you are on one of their higher paid plans like Enterprise or Business Plus

* + Statistics on participant activity (how often did they enable their mic/camera, bitrate, etc.)

* - Overheating on MacBooks

* - Room will be deleted if nobody is joined for X days

* - Real full screen for screen sharing not possible

* - Proprietary, needs a paid plan

* - Forget about privacy

2.Zoom:

* - Proprietary, no privacy, security vulnerabilities

3. Teamviewer:

* - Needs a separate software (otherwise a worthy competitor to Google Meet)

4. Mumble:

* - Others in this thread have already laid out why it is not being used more: UX, setup wizard, no echo suppression, finicky push-to-talk

5. Discord:

* - No privacy

* - No encryption

* - Focused on gaming

* + Interesting feature for screen sharing: You can select if you want readability and low frame rate or high frame rate and low readability

* + Voice channels

6. We now ended up with a self-hosted k8s instance of Jitsi Meet (they host their own at [2]) which works great:

* + Open source

* + Latency and call quality is phenomenal

* + sharing screens of multiple participants works like a charm. Sharing a screen in Google Meet takes 5 seconds or so, in Jitsi Meet, it is immediately.

* ○ Echo suppression is not as good as Google Meet's

* + Unique features like synchronized Youtube player (which automatically mutes all participants)

* + End-to-end encryption

* + Recordings

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/7/21505519/slack-instagram-...

[2] https://meet.jit.si/

romseb··on Google turned me into a serial killer
Suggestion: Create a new Wikipedia article with the same Name, upload your own profile photo onto it and put a Disambiguation (Programmer/Hacker) in it so that Google will associate it correctly.

Alternatively, add a drawing of the rapist to the original Wikipedia article.

Interestingly, for me, another Hristo (german principal investigator) appears on the right side when I google the name.

romseb··on Do we believe in UFOs? that's the wrong question
There is no need for a condescending tone.

I referenced von Ludwiger's work because he is in possession of raw radar data, for example from Switzerland.

If you just want to scroll through a short selection of radar-visual cases, start here: http://www.ufoevidence.org/Cases/CaseView.asp?section=Radar&...

romseb··on Margaret Mead on Aliens – “They're just watching what we do”
I also really liked the optimistic quote at the end of the article:

“Do not doubt that a small group of thinking people, active citizens, can change the world. Moreover, this is the only way it has always been,” – Margaret Mead.

romseb··on Do we believe in UFOs? that's the wrong question
European cases are for example detailed (in German) in:

Unidentifizierte Flugobjekte über Europa. Wissenschaftliche Beweise durch Radargeräte, optische Sensoren und militärische Luftraumüberwachung. Mit 4 Tabellen und einem Katalog der über Deutschland gesichteten UFO-Formen. ISBN 10: 3776621109

romseb··on Do we believe in UFOs? that's the wrong question
You speak about videos, sensors and tracking. But there are many cases over the past decades where radar records match what multiple eyewitnesses observed simultaneously: Physical objects performing maneuvers not possible with human technology.
romseb··on I study UFOs – and I don’t believe the alien hype
There are a lot of cases where there is visual contact at the same time.
romseb··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
Download link has been down for at least months now.
romseb··on Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs
Original story would be https://www.extraordinarybeliefs.com/news4/navy-ufo-radar-da...
romseb··on Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
There are benzene-free sunscreen products on the market and J&J could sell such products, but instead they decide not to in order to make more profit.
romseb··on Fast, Open Source Search
Good observation. Except if you type very fast, then it's all pure "cake" entries again.
romseb··on Fast, Open Source Search
Why is it that the demo search on the right gives a different result if I delete the word "cake" and type it again?
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