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enon The End of Handwriting

As I am mainly left-handed, I learned to like writing with a nice wooden pencil, like Faber-Castell, and a sharpener. Then, if it is something serious and if it is possible to use a felt pen, I use Staedtler or Faber-Castell felt pens in different sizes. I hate ballpoint pens.

enon All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

The saddest thing today is to realize that I can't use Firefox without extensions on privacy/security.

enon Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker

The risk of sleep apnea increases with age, as well as the morphology (small neck, ...) or neurological problem: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1513/pats.200709-155...

Obesity sleep apnea ≠ Age and morphology sleep apnea, the first can be cured by weight loss, the second is a lifelong "disease" (except surgery that does not last).

enon Detection of radioactive iodine at trace levels in Europe in January 2017

As someone said below, this incident took place 2 weeks ago in a non-nuclear part. And half-life of iodine-131 is 8 days.

enon Detection of radioactive iodine at trace levels in Europe in January 2017

Many installations in Europe and neighboring countries are allowed to reject iodine-131 in the air. From Nuclear power plants (nuclear power stations, nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, etc.) to medical field (isotope reactors, nuclear medicine, waste incinerators, etc.).

source : http://www.criirad.org/balises/CRIIRAD_170214%20_I131_Europe... (french)

enon Detection of radioactive iodine at trace levels in Europe in January 2017

9 mBq/m3 mesured for Fukushima (France, Valence). IRSN reports 1.5 µBq/m3 (gaseous + particulate fractions) or 0.31 µBq/m3 (particulate) for this event.

enon Detection of radioactive iodine at trace levels in Europe in January 2017

The releases of January 2017 are 10,000 times lower than those observed (in France) following the Fukushima incident[0]

CRIIRAD[1] believes that the meteorological conditions (and air pollution actually in Europe) and (legal) authorizations of iodine-131 releases by the industry are the cause of this event which could have passed unnoticed[0]

It is an unimportant event.

[0] http://www.criirad.org/balises/CRIIRAD_170214%20_I131_Europe...

[1] http://www.criirad.org/english/presentation.html

enon My fight against CDN libraries

Maybe not the best solution, but for the js CDN of Google, I'am using a self hosted mirror with this list https://github.com/euh/googleapis-libraries-list

Unfortunately in HTTPS, I need to bypass HSTS protection and for Firefox it's annoying (I don't know for Chrome).

For the fonts I tried to create a self hosted mirror too, but Google does not offer to download exactly the exact fonts they host.