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jurf

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Google blocks sitemaps served from github.io

github.com
2 points·by jurf·3 months ago·0 comments

KineStop: Car Sickness Aid

play.google.com
2 points·by jurf·3 months ago·0 comments

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jurf
·5 days ago·discuss
If you’d like to take a look at how one of the older Victorian mechanical signal boxes on this map (still) work, I can wholeheartedly recommend Tom Scott’s recent video on signalling in Britain [1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/omYfLDlt-MA
jurf
·25 days ago·discuss
I love coffee on ice in summer, but I think that’s a different category, like ice cream.

I would rather have room temperature coffee than a cold brew usually though. I just did not have good luck with it so far
jurf
·25 days ago·discuss
I don’t understand, you say it’s a myth and then said it’s better when warm?

Regardless, I would say it’s an objective fact that good coffee is ruined at room temperature. It still tastes fine, but no where near as good.

What especially irks me is that they could have just heated the stuff in a microwave [1] to 50°C and have a much better test.

[1] https://youtu.be/yqgKlqAUM9g
jurf
·25 days ago·discuss
Yes, but the test was at 22°C, which I wouldn’t consider warm. And it’s too cold for the differences to be even perceptible well, making the test flawed. Disregarding the fact that it’s also much colder than people use to drink coffee, making it even harder to distinguish for non-experts.
jurf
·25 days ago·discuss
> Both espresso samples were served at 22 °C to ensure a fair like-for-like comparison […]

> It is noted that espresso is normally consumed hot and has transient sensory attributes that are temperature- and time-dependent. Hence, serving espresso at 22 °C will alter its sensory characteristics.

This is a weird test, coffee get’s so much worse when cold. So people can’t distinguish between two bad coffees.
jurf
·29 days ago·discuss
I mean what is that, three bananas?
jurf
·last month·discuss
I always assumed it was because of SSO redirects
jurf
·2 months ago·discuss
I think it’s more about layers of defense being always better than relying on a single point of failure.

IIRC those bugs could only steal data, not do remote execution. If you did not store even the encrypted passwords in memory, getting the password/key to them compromised would still keep you safe, or at least upgrade it to a timing attack.
jurf
·2 months ago·discuss
I wonder if this show is the ”Connections” in “Technology Connections” [1]. I can’t find a reference on it but I wouldn’t be surprised.

[1] https://youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections
jurf
·2 months ago·discuss
Yeah because Meltdown and Spectre [0] weren't a thing.

[0] https://spectreattack.com/
jurf
·4 months ago·discuss
That seems like it would be hard to see, even for the person sitting right in front of it.
jurf
·5 months ago·discuss
My university also taught best practices alongside that, everytime. I am very grateful for that.
jurf
·5 months ago·discuss
I get a choice, at least in the EU. Admittedly you need to scroll down a bit on mobile, which is not clear at first.
jurf
·5 months ago·discuss
Finally. It was the reason I was always reluctant to buy something from GOG.
jurf
·6 months ago·discuss
This at the same time super cool and really disappointing, as I've been carrying around this idea in my head for maybe ten years as a cool side project and never got around to implementing it.

However, there might still be room for competition, heh. I always wanted to do this on the _entirety_ of Unicode to try getting the most possible resolution out of the image.