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aembleton

3,683 karma · joined March 26, 2014

Website at https://blerg.net/

Email: arthur at the url above

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Interests: Climate Tech, Cycling, Hiking, Outdoor Activities, Programming, Remote Work, Running, Technology, UI/UX Design

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aembleton··on There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him
Maybe Fabrice Bellard could be a candidate.
aembleton··on Prism
Maybe Open AI will sell you 'Lens' which will assist with sorting through the submissions and narrow down the papers worth reviewing.
aembleton··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
No need to restrict it then
aembleton··on Skip is now free and open source
> you're always going to be competing with "I could build this myself"

Even more so these days with agentic coding

aembleton··on A Social Filesystem
Why would we need to store the createdAt value in a file? The filesystem already stores this information. We could just store the text which would mean no Json would be needed.
aembleton··on Just the Browser
Firefox also had it when it was called Firebird, and I'm sure Mozilla had tabs.
aembleton··on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout
It definitely generates useful amounts of power, especially in the summer. The problem is that we still need gas plant, and the distribution infrastructure ready for the rest of the year when it isn't so effective.

In the last year, 2.11% or 308 MWh of our electricity came from solar: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/GB/12mo/monthly

By way of comparison, that same source shows Germany generating 2.16% (527 MWh) of its electricity from solar so its pretty similar: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/12mo/monthly

aembleton··on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout
OpenStreetMap (the DB behind this map) is incredible. It has so much useful information inside it.
aembleton··on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout
I would say 10% of the homes in my estate in Derbyshire have rooftop solar. We haven't gone for it yet because I still think the cost is too high. It might work out when electricity gets even more expensive.
aembleton··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
EVs are typically heavier than ICE cars so will cause more tyre wear.
aembleton··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
They're probably not downloading every svg each time they scrape the site. Probably focused on scraping the text.
aembleton··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
Could be added to the llms.txt proposal: https://llmstxt.org/
aembleton··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
If your bank has a website.
aembleton··on Eat Real Food
Even the original margarine (before the invention of hydrogenation) is more processed than the best bread and butter.

To quote from Ultra-Processed People:

Mège-Mouriès took cheap solid fat from a cow (suet), rendered it (heated it up with some water), digested it with some enzymes from a sheep stomach to break down the cellular tissue holding the fat together, then it was sieved, allowed to set, extruded from between two plates, bleached with acid, washed with water,warmed, and finally mixed with bicarb, milk protein, cow-udder tissue and annatto (a yellow food colouring derived from seeds of the achiote tree). The result was a spreadable, plausible butter substitute.

aembleton··on Open Infrastructure Map
You can update the data in Open Street Map. Theres a lot of incorrect data in there, but it can only be as good as the data thats been entered.
aembleton··on Open Infrastructure Map
I know there's one in Bruges, which is mapped on here: https://openinframap.org/#13.22/51.21001/3.22418/A,B,I,L
aembleton··on Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com
https://imginn.com/

Use this extension to setup a redirect https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/redirector/

aembleton··on Vietnam bans unskippable ads
I'm imagining a world where ads on screens generate enough revenue to mean that rail and bus services are free. It would be annoying, but free public transport would also reduce car volumes improving transport for all.
aembleton··on Vietnam bans unskippable ads
With enough humans, it starts to look like a machine
aembleton··on During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
Thats brilliant. For example: https://pure.md/sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_p...

Now the favicon (5.92KB) is larger than the article (5.16KB). Much better than the original (4.11MB)

aembleton··on Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
> needs to be redone every page visit

Have you got an example of that?

aembleton··on Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
Surely the abuse is caused by your browser showing you the slide in.

python.org might be asking your user agent to do it, or it might be asking a third party to do this; either way the interpretation of how to display that is down to the user agent. I don't see any popover/slidein but I'm running uBO which is probably blocking this. I do this because I don't want the 'abuse'.

aembleton··on Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
You could have also run Chrome just for the few sites you play videos from.
aembleton··on I'm a developer for a major food delivery app
Or option (c), they offer their drivers less for the job for 5 minutes to see if they'll take it anyway; if not then they pay a more reasonable amount.
aembleton··on Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
Testing the response.
aembleton··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
Under our eyes
aembleton··on Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free
Yes, and AI
aembleton··on Unifi Travel Router
If my phone has a VPN to my home server, then it should all be encrypted.
aembleton··on Unifi Travel Router
> But notice how you just did a much better job of explaining what this thing does without using any jargon at all.

There was plenty of jargon and acronyms like LAN and SSH. You're just used to those ones.

aembleton··on 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results
I still think the Rio Karma looked good and it had a good interface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Karma

I've still got it somewhere but the HDD has died.

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