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longitudinal93··on Clues to disappearance of North America's large mammals 50k years ago
It's the same story in Australia. Several large slow creatures that disappeared shortly after the arrival of humans. I think trying to pin the blame solely on the weather is simply because it's much more in sync with the "stewards and custodians of the land" narrative that is currently so fashionable.
longitudinal93··on Framework's modular laptops (and mainboards) now come with Meteor Lake-H options
The wonderful modularity of the platform allows options like upgrading the mainboard on your laptop and re-purposing the old into a desktop or media server.
longitudinal93··on Pedestrians 'twice as likely' to be hit by an electric or hybrid-electric car
I think he's referring to the noise automakers were forced to add to be broadcast anytime the car is moving at less than 30km/hr. This happened in 2020.
longitudinal93··on Show HN: Adblock for Podcasts
Thank you for AntennaPod. It's a wonderful app.
longitudinal93··on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes
And not just all who were killed but everyone who has died since Oct. 7
longitudinal93··on Telegram founder claims Signal has a US government backdoor
Of course he doesn't have a source for that
longitudinal93··on Boeing engineer tells senate about 'manufacturing shortcuts' [video]
Great list. Have to throw in a shout out to Dawson Knives - a family business producing some very fine sharp things.
longitudinal93··on Ask HN: Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?
It's not meant to be a replacement for Dropbox but rather for Google Drive + Google Docs + Google Photos, all of which is fine by me as it's been working well for me as a replacement for all of those since 2020.
longitudinal93··on SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine
Been running thieves the default on all my devices for the past year and I couldn't be happier. Have only had it choke twice and it just needed to be updated to be back in business.
longitudinal93··on Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week
Matrix will do all that
longitudinal93··on Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
Not directly related to this but I once was forced to deal with risks of trichynosis from undercooked bacon (long story) by drinking copious amounts of whiskey, after finding some old research which suggested the method. Bit of a hangover the next day but fine other than that.
longitudinal93··on Google asks me daily for my location to improve connectivity even if I say no
Replace your launcher with one that isn't tied so explicitely into Google (I use Rocket launcher), then replace Chrome as your default browser (I use Firefox). Finally in your new default browser set your default search engine to something besides Google (I run my own instance of SearXNG) .
longitudinal93··on Keep your home powered during an outage? Try a big battery that lasts 3 days
The problem with the Generac solution as that there's still a 7-10 second gap between the grid failure and the generator coming online.
longitudinal93··on Ask HN: Best way to store, index and categorize audio recordings
EasyTag is a great, free program for adfingvmeta tags to audio files.

https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.EasyTAG

longitudinal93··on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?
Bitcoin Lightning is entirely suited to this use case
longitudinal93··on The Downward Spiral of Technology
I'm delighted with the touchpad on my new Framework. By far my best experience and I've been running Linux as my daily driver on laptops from Sony, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, & Purism for over two decades.
longitudinal93··on More Californians are driving EVs, making public charging a potential nightmare
And much better for the longevity of the batteries.
longitudinal93··on Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away from petrol vehicles?
It's all about the gear
longitudinal93··on Privacy Badger: A browser extension that learns to block invisible trackers
Why not Unlock Origin plus Privacy Badger for a 3 prong approach?

And I'm failing to see how Unbound replaces Pihole on an Opnsense router. I use Unbound on my Piholes in order to "leak" to TLDs rather than my ISP.

longitudinal93··on Google offered Netflix a sweetheart deal to pay just 10 percent on Google Play
Won't it display properly in VLC?
longitudinal93··on Ask HN: Did printing stop working for anyone else on Ubuntu 23.10?
Can you disable the snap and install the .deb?
longitudinal93··on Ask HN: Where do you get your health news?
Podcasts; especially Andrew Huberman, Peter Atria & ZDoggMD.
longitudinal93··on OpenAI Signals That It'll Destroy Startups Using Its Tech to Build Products
Notifications were copied from Android, which itself copied them from the open source ROM community.
longitudinal93··on Citing Hamas, US Wants to Treat Crypto Services as Suspected Money Launderers
Just because it may have come out of a lab doesn't mean it was created as a bio-weapon. It could have been genuine scientific curiosity or gain of function research meant to give us a leg up on a potential pandemic.
longitudinal93··on Estonia's capital made mass transit free a decade ago. Car traffic went up
So the real story is free transit led to massive economic growth which in turn led to increased car ownership.

The lesson for planners and government here is clear: combine free transit with measures to make it massively more incovenient and expensive to own a private automobile.

longitudinal93··on Press Reviews of the AMD Ryzen 7040 Framework Laptop 13
It must be possible to upgrade the fan, no?
longitudinal93··on Vitalik Buterin's Twitter account hacked to promote crypto scam
Don't discount the possibility of an inside job by someone at X.
longitudinal93··on Media Hoarder – THE media front end for data hoarders and movie lovers
I'm in the habit of just stripping off the (to me) extraneous bits of the typical filename (codecs, source, release) and just leaving the title name, year and video quality in the file name. I've never had Jellyfin choke on fetching the correct metadata.
longitudinal93··on Toyota to restart Japan production on Wednesday after system failure
Except in the case of the i3 which has, by far, the highest reliability and lowest maintenance costs of any BMW ever produced. No wonder they discontinued them!
longitudinal93··on Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
I miss some of the real communities that were there but I haven't been back. I may try Lemmy or go back to RES and a desktop browser.
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