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ahakkion Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML

The spec on <p>:

"The start tag is required. The end tag may be omitted if the <p> element is immediately followed by an <address>, <article>, <aside>, <blockquote>, <details>, <div>, <dl>, <fieldset>, <figcaption>, <figure>, <footer>, <form>, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, <header>, <hgroup>, <hr>, <main>, <menu>, <nav>, <ol>, <pre>, <search>, <section>, <table>, <ul> or another <p> element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is not an <a>, <audio>, <del>, <ins>, <map>, <noscript> or <video> element, or an autonomous custom element." [0][1]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-p-element

ahakkion KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

they should rebrand it as Konnekt.

ahakkion Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end

That's a bit harsh.

The recovery partition has some value. But in an OS reinstall scenario Windows.old is a much more helpful feature.

However, these features won't used by someone installing Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC Evaluation (Evaluation just means that it's 90 day free trial version). This is because to aquire the non-trial version of the OS you must either be willing to license Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC from Microsoft, or crack the activation. If you crack Windows you do not need the 90 day free trial! And any company which has institutional knowledge of what an LTSC edition is, is capable of running the 90 day trial in a non destructive way (pro tip: put your new OS on a new drive and keep your old drive in a drawer).

Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC is the best version of Windows 11 I have ever tried, no contest.

ahakkion Hypervisor in 1k Lines

I guess because it's a risc-v hypervisor and the author expects you to run it on an x86 machine.

ahakkion US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

IIRC the US-UK CLOUD Act Agreement extended the jurisdiction of each parties warrants onto the other parties territory.

I have not looked at the US-EU agreement.

ahakkion Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows

Maybe this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chur

ahakkion Debanking (and Debunking?)

From the same Wikipedia article:

> It was later revealed that Farage's account was closed in part as Coutts felt that his beliefs and values did not align with theirs. In an internal dossier, Coutts wrote that he "is at best seen as xenophobic and pandering to racists" and considered a "disingenuous grifter".

ahakkion Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

I guess that would be an NPU combined with LPDDR. Basically any Windows Copilot Plus approved device.

ahakkion Apple is still limiting the iPhone 16 to slow 24-year-old USB 2.0 speeds

Wrong! Tons of "regular users" want to transfer their image library from their phone to their PC. This is usually dozens of GB of data. Very often the tranfer (from iphone to cheap windows laptop via oxidized cable) is not even completly successful.

My usual recomendation for these people is to buy icloud storage ($$$$) and sync the images over the web, because this is faster an less error prone.

EDIT: therefore the average amount of times anyone who buys a non pro iPhone plugs it into a computer with the intent to transfer data to it is almost 0

ahakkion YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup

https://web.archive.org/web/20160107114945/http://www.moolen...

ahakkion Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile

Only if you assume that the supposed advanced ancient civilization oxidized large amounts of fossil hydrocarbon.

ahakkion Tesla stock drops 29% in first quarter as global dominance wanes

They were better.

ahakkion Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports

With it's current limitations, the only application for Mercedes' solution I can think of is during heavy traffic on highways. But calling it "not usable" does seem a bit harsh.

Of course if you prefer, move fast and brake... maybe

ahakkion No, SAR Can't See Through Buildings

That science guy has a good sense of humor.

ahakkion Seoul's full cafes, Apple store lines show mass testing success

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

shows a significant drop in caseload. There might be herd immunity effect if you assume a death rate of ~0.2%.

ahakkion Apple introduces new $399 iPhone SE with Touch ID and 4.7″ screen

No these features are not available in the Xs and 11(pro) as they lack the necessary hardware to recognize the force you apply to the screen. They simulate some of the features by opening the same menu after a long press, but that's not the same thing.

ahakkion Apple introduces new $399 iPhone SE with Touch ID and 4.7″ screen

You can switch between Apps by hard swiping from the left edge. You can move the cursor and make text selections by hard pressing the keyboard. You can preview links in safary without having to long press. You can open additional options in control center (flashligh brightness, timer duration etc). You can hard press a song, and without lifting ur finger select what you want to do with it in less time than the newer models take to even show u the dialogue.

3D Touch was a great feature.

ahakkion Apple introduces new $399 iPhone SE with Touch ID and 4.7″ screen

Does it supprot 3D Touch? I love that feature. It's the reason I never moved on from the iPhone 7.

ahakkion Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)

IIRC from high school biology, the melanin in the upper skin layer absorbs the sunlight thus preventing it from going any deeper into the skin.

ahakkion Suspicious Discontinuities

Charitable contributions can be deducted from taxable income in a lot of places.

ahakkion German banks are hoarding so many euros they need more vaults

both the weimar era hyperinflation and hitlers rise to power were caused by the conditions of the versaille treaty.

ahakkion German banks are hoarding so many euros they need more vaults

what simple mistake did the weimar republic do that caused a hyperinflation? I thought it was primarily caused by a massive reduction in the supply of goods following the versaille treaty without a corresponding reduction in monetary supply. At that point there really wasn't a lot the government could do to stop it.

Zimbabwe faced similar problems after disowning their most productive agricultural providers, reducing supply.

ahakkion German banks are hoarding so many euros they need more vaults

not really tbh https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

ahakkion Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data

The post office doesn't have a copy of all the snail mail I sent and received over the past years. Gmail definitely does.

ahakkion Hacking Your Keyboard

Yes, I was really hoping to get something other that AHK. SharpKeys is much more stable to the point of where it pretty much "just works". It doesn't need a daemon running in the background.

ahakkion Hacking Your Keyboard

Is there a way to achieve this on Windows? This sounds very convenient.

I used Randy Rants SharpKeys to remap CapsLock to Esc, but I don't think the double mapping is supported.

ahakkion Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens

A 737 Max without MCAS doesn't have linearly increasing stick forces as AOA increases. This is a FAA requirement, so the 737 MAX can't be approved without the MCAS system, regardless if it could be flown by a trained pilot.

ahakkion S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US

> 4% real rate of return (pretty modest)

Citation needed. My savings account has been paying 0.1% for about a decade now. They just introduced a new 0.0% rate on deposits over CHF 250'000 :)

ahakkion A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016)

You get a single emoji on HN 🧡

ahakkion A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016)

> apparently HN limits the number of emoji per post, I originally included several.

I am surpeised HN allows any emoji an all. Pretty sure they have been totally banned in the past. It seems like the orange heart is now (or has always been) whitelisted. 🧡🧡🧡