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hollander··on Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer
You may need to save it, but you can rotate just one page in Preview and keep the rest in its original position. I also like that you can click the title in Preview, edit it, change the location, without having to close the document.
hollander··on Michelin Airless
I use nitro oxygen in my tyres. Pressure problems are gone.
hollander··on A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way
Waiting for the James Webb telescope to take a peek!
hollander··on Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
1. Use Firefox

2. Use Edge for Meet or any other situation where Firefox fails.

hollander··on Nuclear waste is a solved problem
> Maintaining waste for hundreds of years is feasible, and on a whole different scale than a 30,000 year storage plan.

Maintining nuclear waste for 500 years is not feasible. I agree that it's on a different level than 30.000 year, but we cannot predict what happens in the next 50 years, let alone the next 500 or 1000 years. The thought experiment is real simple. Look back 500 years - there is no comparison. I'm still afraid that there will be some kind of destruction of society, and who is going to take care of this stuff?

hollander··on Inkscape 1.1.1 Is Released
Not open source but affordable without subscription model: Affinity Photo. They have more tools. Windows, Mac and iPad, not Linux sadly.
hollander··on AirGuard: Protect yourself from being tracked by AirTags and Find My accessories
You can remove the speaker
hollander··on Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light?
That Google link doesn't work.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5001

hollander··on FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
Evernote...? Windows support, and Linux support in the browser. The Linux apps are bad. But I hate the new design and still use the legacy version on macOS. I'm looking for a replacement, but I have thousands of notes in Evernote, and it won't be an easy move.
hollander··on Volkswagen ID.3 Bursts into Flames in the Netherlands
What amazes me is that they put out the fire. I thought that when these batteries catch fire, they can burn for days and it's impossible to stop it.
hollander··on JPG vs. RAW: Get it right the first time (2009)
Yeah, the time that Bill Gates said that you only needed 6MP... ;-)

I wonder if that advice was correct, but I have no way of proving my gut feeling that the D40X was the better choice in most situations.

hollander··on iDOS 2 will be gone soon
You can delete Youtube and open it in Firefox, if you want in a private tab.
hollander··on 112 Gripes About the French
It's prejudice vs logic and wisdom.
hollander··on Breathing exercise lowers blood pressure better than working out, medication
YES, but will it work?
hollander··on Breathing exercise lowers blood pressure better than working out, medication
Probably but maybe not as powerful as a specially designed device. It's not as controlled, and you can get sloppy more easily.
hollander··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?
Facebook was the place for newsletters for me. I didn't do much on a personal level, but it was an OK place to follow stuff.
hollander··on To boost your intelligence, learn how to self-soothe
It's generally acknowledged that IQ measured by well known IQ tests like the WAIS are fairly consistent over time. You may score a few points lower or higher, but it won't change much. Training can help a bit, but only so much. Health issues, mental problems, stress, tiredness, drugs or alcohol can all influence your score, mostly in a negative way. So I suppose that influences like these are filtered out of this research. They are interesting to research, to see what their influence is, but to study the consistency in test results over time, they should be left out.
hollander··on To boost your intelligence, learn how to self-soothe
Maximizing or optimizing your potential would be a big win. This is what education for the poor is about. In an unstimulating environment, children don't grow up to their potential. There is so much to win here, not only for these children and their families, but for the society in general, not only financially but also mentally and socially. People feel better, have better health and have the money to pay for healthcare. Not in the least, it's a win against crime when you have a better alternative.
hollander··on Ask HN: How can I move away from engineering?
You give us very little information. Why do you want to change? What are you doing right now? What are your interests? What hobbies do you have? What directions are you thinking of?

I did move away from IT after a burnout. I did volunteer work during that time, and since a while I'm working there. It's not IT related, but of course I'm the IT guy there now. No problem btw. It's a small part of the job and I like doing it.

Was it worth it? I don't know, it's too early to tell. I'm considering going back to IT, but in another role, one with more human interaction.

hollander··on ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
You can rightclick a link in your email, copy it, then paste it in the browser bar, remove the unwanted stuff. A lot of work, especially if you need to do this many times a day.
hollander··on ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs
If a site doesn't work, open the link in a private tab. Usually that works, unless you have all these addons working in private mode as well of course. But I only use them in normal mode.
hollander··on Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps [video]
If you have some kind of overlay screen you can have both worlds. But I was still under the impression that E-ink was the only option. Today I learnt about transflective screens. I hope they catch on. I would buy it.
hollander··on Gnome 40 Introducing Headless Native Back End, Virtual Monitors
ELI5 please. What is a headless native back end? These articles seem to be written for people who already know that it exists and what it is. How does that virtual monitor work?
hollander··on Ask HN: How can I become a better listener?
I have the same problem, and haven't solved it. I have a book tip: Deep Work by Cal Newport. It's about attention and focus. We're distracted too easily by the well known things: email, smartphone, and the many tasks we have to do each day.

Solution: there is no easy solution.

hollander··on Someone is hacking the hackers
It could very well be law enforcement doing this, just to encite a war between different groups. Didn't they do this with drug gangs in Colombia?
hollander··on Philly scientist behind COVID vaccine tech was demoted by UPenn
> Penn officials declined to comment on their relationship with Karikó, previous or current. “We are unable to discuss specifics about faculty or staff employment matters,” spokesperson Stephen Maccarthy told Billy Penn.

Privacy is the such a convenient and perfect excuse for institutions to cover up their mess.

hollander··on The Conspiracy Theory Handbook
Please make this available as EPUB.
hollander··on FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System
How about the biggest: Android?!
hollander··on ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'
I hope they will complain about this with the EU. Maybe the EU can stop this nonsense.
hollander··on Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
Definitely not in the EU. It changed 5 or 8 years ago, but before that is was not encrypted.
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