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juntoalaluna··on In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults
decentralising your fuel production and to a lesser extent distribution is not easy either though.
juntoalaluna··on Apple Watch Series 12
Battery life on Garmin’s is genuinely terrible as soon as you have music running though. Less than the apple watch.
juntoalaluna··on Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements
Ah, ok, but so does the official government website. I'd never heard of Scores on the Doors until yesterday.
juntoalaluna··on Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements
I think the food hygiene ratings are a regulatory thing - https://ratings.food.gov.uk - places are required to show their stickers by law.

I'm not sure how the Scores on the Doors website, which is at least related to TripAdvisor, fits into all of this...

juntoalaluna··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
No one is confused if you can the UK a country, or if you call England, Wales, or Scotland a country.

You might get a tedious person saying something like "actually, Wales is a principality".

juntoalaluna··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Insane.

Over the last year, wind - mostly offshore - has generated more than 35% of electricity here. Gas is down to 27%. It's really, really good. And it looks cool.

juntoalaluna··on Can you see three trees?
The article links to the Tree Equity Project (https://uk.treeequityscore.org/map) which has pretty detailed measures for London. Some very central areas do go as low as 2-3%, but they are probably the exception rather than the rule.
juntoalaluna··on HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund
because they want people to trust them and continue to use their services. being a shitty business to deal with will eventually bite them, its not like they are the only choice.
juntoalaluna··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
Apologies should never have if attached to them.

You see it a lot with politicians "I apologies if I offended anyone" etc. Its not an apology at that point, the if makes it clear you are not actually apologetic.

juntoalaluna··on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
I can’t reply to zugzug underneath (is there a maximum comment depth), but it feels pretty obvious that the US President is a very legitimate target in any war with the US. Maybe the most legitimate target.

Good luck trying to get them though.

juntoalaluna··on Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
This is not why imgur have left though, they didn't want to comply with Data Protection laws.
juntoalaluna··on Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads
I confirm I will never buy a Samsung fridge.
juntoalaluna··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
Its also not true.
juntoalaluna··on Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
I don’t think you can judge the final battery implications or whether it runs smoothly from the Developer Preview, they often have significant bugs.
juntoalaluna··on Waymos crash less than human drivers
My impression from the internet is that the US is particularly weak on this - people talk about tickets for DUIs like it's not a big deal.

In the UK you get a minimum 12 month ban, an unlimited fine (which are based on income and have been quite big in the past (Dec of Ant and Dec got an £86000 fine). I don't think this approach is uncommon in Europe.

juntoalaluna··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
I really like my HomePods and have had zero issues.

Siri is not smart, but plays music, sets timers and turns off lights just fine, and that’s all I want.

juntoalaluna··on My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation
It's not a machine, it's just a new drill bit that cuts a hole.
juntoalaluna··on DOGE 'Audits': A Mask for Corruption, Not Efficiency
Soft power is an undervalued thing that is hard to build.

It's hard to quantify how much the US benefits from promoting (what was previously) its values in other countries.

I bet its more than the $40m (or, to put it in perspective, 12 cents per citizen) that this list adds to.

juntoalaluna··on DOGE 'Audits': A Mask for Corruption, Not Efficiency
Randomly destroying things without actually understanding why they are important is a very short term view on reducing waste. Fixing things if/when they go wrong is going to be expensive.
juntoalaluna··on Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer
The interesting thing isn't that they've factored a 22-bit number, the interesting part is that they've done it with quantum annealing - obviously factoring 22-bits is easy!

I've got no idea of what is actually said in the paper (it is in Chinese) - there was a little bit of discussion on it a couple of days of days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810563

juntoalaluna··on Pixel Watch 3
FWIW, I never ran out of battery with my Apple Watch. Charging it was part of my routine.

I changed to a Garmin this year (started to do ultra marathons) and I've run out a couple of times because I just don't remember to charge. Especially when using GPS and bluetooth audio with it massively bumps up power consumption (which felt less like the case on the Apple Watch)

Still prefer the Garmin, but just saying that I don't think battery life is the huge feature that people think it is.

juntoalaluna··on Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
Your app is my favourite Mac app.