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Boltgolt··on Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
Is it "pre-crime" if it activates once you are speeding? Surely we can agree that is a crime
Boltgolt··on Detect Migrating Birds with a Plastic Dish and a Cheap Microphone
It would be, if it wasn't just a "plastic bird-feeder cover" as the article suggests
Boltgolt··on Postzegelcode
IIRC the first envelope scanned at a sorting facility invalidates the postzegelcode immediately, any envelopes using it after that will be handled like they had no postzegel at all (receiver has to pay)
Boltgolt··on Greece introduces the six day work week
How about others in the EU bailing them out when they found out you actually can't just increase spend forever? Grexit would have been certain bankruptcy
Boltgolt··on OpenAI Acquires Rockset
At what point is a comment just an ad?
Boltgolt··on YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads
Definitely geo ip, if you listen to a lot of podcasts it might be worth it to only download them through a VPN from a very small country: Very few companies advertise there so there are no ads to inject, effectively having adblock
Boltgolt··on Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions
Although it will break on <picture> elements and any element with a background-image of course
Boltgolt··on On the trail of my identity thief
A second factor (like 3-D Secure) is required by EU directive in the whole block for online payments. For in person payments having access to the card and knowing the code already satisfies the 2 factors, and checks are extremely rare and have been for decades
Boltgolt··on Sucked feet first down the tube (2010)
Luckily for him there wasn't, a grate would have sliced him to bits at that pressure differential
Boltgolt··on Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
The EU enforces a bunch of them, including no more than 0.2% fees on card purchases, no cellular roaming fees and no fee for in-EU money transfers.
Boltgolt··on CSS for printing to paper
You can force remove the URL and page numbers on the printout by setting the @page rule padding to 0
Boltgolt··on In 2024, please switch to Firefox
Websites want all the real visitors they can get, webapps are not quite as concerned with that. I remember the Microsoft Silverlight days
Boltgolt··on Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution
> The prices will apply to vehicles weighing more than 1.6 tonnes with a combustion engine or hybrid vehicles, and more than 2 tonnes for electric vehicles.
Boltgolt··on The Stroad
Interesting, so you don't think that separating different kinds of traffic (through traffic and local traffic) would inheritly also be better for car drivers?
Boltgolt··on D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect
The EU limits the processing fee to 0.2% of transactions, which solves a lot of the problems with taking cards as a store. Why can't the US? The only downside is less benefits on your credit card because you didn't indirectly pay that 2.8% extra on everything you buy
Boltgolt··on nic.funet.fi: Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990
Looks like an decoding error for the Finnish special characters
Boltgolt··on Phishing domains tanked after Meta sued Freenom
A failure in the US maybe, but in countries like The Netherlands it's weird if a Dutch site does NOT have a .nl TLD
Boltgolt··on Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline
In what cases is it unwise to rely on rowid over a id field?
Boltgolt··on The Erasmus Network
Rare to see a comment this bitter. Either way, under Erasmus+ anyone studying a university level course can apply
Boltgolt··on IKEA Redesigns Its Bestsellers
For many types of furniture there are different price points at IKEA and you can pay for more quality. For bar tables for instance, you can go for a TOMMARYD and have a cheap flimsy table. But if you have the budget to spend over a hundred euros more you can go for a fully wooden NORDVIKEN.
Boltgolt··on The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained
A basic tier for "students learning code" starting at $100 a month? Delusional
Boltgolt··on All of the World's Money and Markets in One Visualization (2020)
Because it's a visualization. The data is presented in a way where its easy to compare multiple values as they all have the same scale.

A table is just raw data so then it's not a visualization. And for bar charts: I don't think showing the derivatives and silver on a log scale chart makes them very easy to compare.

Boltgolt··on UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years
The core problem is too much nitrogen absolutely destroying the native plants in Natura 2000 areas that always had very low nitrogen levels. You can be the most knowledgeable farmer in the world but that won't change the fact that intensive nitrogen (ammonia) emissions will annihilate the native plants in these protected areas, let alone outside them.
Boltgolt··on Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
Disabling javascript breakpoints usually does the trick. Devtools detection is often done by having a `debugger;` statement somewhere and timing of it triggered
Boltgolt··on ‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin
This comment started off well and then just took a nose dive at the end all of a sudden
Boltgolt··on Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose access to the original
You don't think "you deserve it" is a little harsh?
Boltgolt··on Password generator doesn't generate new password in the same session
All private tabs share the same container and it is only thrown away when you close them all. Otherwise you would not be able to move tabs between private windows for instance
Boltgolt··on Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?
Firefox also opens a gmail tab for me when I click on a mailto: link actually
Boltgolt··on AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of stealing from luggage
Airguard is an open source app that can detect both Tiles and Airtags in the background: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.seemoo.at_t... Works quite well, has notified me of tags that are on a train with me quite a few times.
Boltgolt··on Researchers: World can reach 100% renewable energy system by/before 2050
"results worse than the disease" by what measurement?
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