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1e1a··on UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM for localization by matching altimeter measurements to a terrain map
1e1a··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
I never want my new chats contaminated with information from previous sessions for this exact reason.
1e1a··on Measure internet censorship
Would be cool if it also measured the latency and throughput across many different protocols to detect deviations from net neutrality.
1e1a··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Or navigate to the link without waiting for however long it takes for Google's redirect endpoint to respond.
1e1a··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
I've just checked this again using a google account where search result pages are still following the old behavior: It looks like the 'href' attribute is the direct link, and the 'ping' attribute is the /url redirect link you are referring to. So it looks like it is actually sending me to the direct link, it just also requests /url at the same time in order to log the click. This means the user was not waiting for the logging/redirect request to come back.
1e1a··on Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results
Oh that is true, I forgot they changed that.
1e1a··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
JavaScript being disabled - Google was already sending analytics pings when search result links were clicked on, using JS.
1e1a··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
It looks like it isn't yet rolled out to some users, try with a different browser session.
1e1a··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Direct URLs in Google search results have been replaced with redirect URLs in the form of www.google.com/goto?url=<opaque base64 string>.

The base64 data appears to consist of a very basic protobuf structure, containing a long string of bytes in field 2 which presumably identify the URL.

Sometimes, these redirect URLs take a perceivable amount of time to load, which is very irritating.

1e1a··on iPhone Duo
It's still folding in half, so you can have have one app taking up the whole screen, or two half-screen apps, all with the same aspect ratio.
1e1a··on iPhone Duo
From Apple's diagonal measurements [1], it looks like the screen is actually a few mm off from the closest ISO 216 sizes.

d = 7.58in = 192.532mm [1]

d^2 = w^2+h^2

Unfolded:

h = d/sqrt(3) = ~111.1584mm

w = h*sqrt(2) = ~157.2017mm

Closest ISO 216 size: A6 (105x148)

Folded:

D = 5.36in = 136.114mm [1]

H = D/sqrt(3) = ~78.5855mm

W = H*sqrt(2) = ~111.1366mm

Closest ISO 216 size: A7 (74x105)

[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/specs/

1e1a··on NIXI has killed the "Dot In" domain name (2025)
In case archive.org does not work: https://archive.today/irgSq
1e1a··on Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
Interesting observation: As soon as you right click on a link, it switches from that to https://www.google.com/url?...
1e1a··on South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones
Interesting video on the topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NLmd5vL0zmk
1e1a··on Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages
Tracking outages as well as any changes in API response time across these providers could be interesting.
1e1a··on GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet
Wouldn't RTK help mitigate this, as the base stations would also be affected by the atmospheric disturbance?
1e1a··on Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga
if you add that, it would also be great if you used real frames from each movie for the FilmGuessr game, so that one could guess the location without knowing anything about the film.
1e1a··on European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
(2025)
1e1a··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
Plus, as soon as the user clicks on one of these optionally filtered elements, the service will know how exactly what browser is filtering.
1e1a··on France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
It is FttH (fibre to the home)
1e1a··on The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
Interesting, it does definitely look like the ground is just a mesh. Also, it looks like apple maps has actually recently started using some sort of splatting - I wonder if their implementation is entirely splatted, or if it is this exact weird combination.
1e1a··on The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
it looks like this is using some sort of triangle splatting
1e1a··on Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes
This is what I originally thought this project was intended for, the name is confusing. I suspect it might not work as well with actual physical redshift, as that multiplies the frequencies by some factor (which would change the frequencies and spacing between the RGB channels), instead of merely selectively dimming the green and blue channels of a display, as the nightshift/redshift features do.
1e1a··on The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener
I have printed GT2 teeth on a prusa mk3s+ that mesh perfectly
1e1a··on Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
This is often called Push broom scanning.
1e1a··on An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
Why do you need to send the samples over USB?
1e1a··on India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
this is Skyroot Aerospace
1e1a··on Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
The accessibility checker in Chrome/Firefox devtools would immediately flag this.
1e1a··on Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
This feature could be potentially be activated whenever the page is hidden (eg. by pressing the home button), although it would be very annoying for regular users.
1e1a··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
I read a paper a while ago (which I have failed to locate) which used around binary masks, each in front of a single photodiode, as input to a neural network, which estimated the number of people in front of this effectively ~9-pixel "camera". The binary masks and NN weights were trained at the same time. Presumably, something like this could be used to detect lack of driver focus in a far less invasive manner.
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