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Media companies spend untold millions on new content, and yet the acting and writing on a comparatively obscure and low budget British TV series still occupy a place in my psyche many decades later.

RIP Mr Keating.

There's been several reports of people getting referred to secondary screening because of them.

I wish this thing looked more generic so the TSA won't confiscate it.

That was over 20 years ago? And there were half a dozen Qwest executives who were profiting from insider trading on inflated revenues that started in 1999, long before the NSA incident in 2001. I remember it clearly because I had the misfortune of being a shareholder in that dog.

Pickleball has a disproportionately high injury rate for people over 40. You'd be far better off taking up the gym or yoga.

China's problems with PFAS are substantially worse than the US.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398603137_Global_in...

Seeing all of the archived documents from the 50s and 60s is very cool. But unfortunately everything else I looked at was a giant nothingburger.

Some of the new videos were already identified as imaging artifacts a while ago.

Last time this was discussed the consensus was Brave does not block it. Brave's fingerprinting protection does not include extensions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904361

My first job at college was wrangling campus email, both X.400 and SMTP. As the article points out, SMTP won out because it was simple and developed in the open, not buried in standards committees, and SMTP code was widely available. It was the Cathedral and the Bazaar hypothesis playing out in real time.

Just seeing that X.400 notation is giving me bad memories!

Absolutely, Johan is one of my all time favorite composers and as prolific and talented as he was, it's terrible that we will never hear new music from him again. :(

This is a nice idea. I don't remember the last time I walked through an airport without noise cancelling earbuds and my own music playing. The noise level definitely adds to the stress if you are a frequent traveler.

This is my current favorite airport album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orph%C3%A9e_(album)

IMHO the top ten countries on World Happiness Report are primarily those that are good at expectation management. The Nordic countries always rank well because culturally they manage their citizens expectations in life so as not to expect too much (cf The Jante Law). Australia and New Zealand have similar cultural drives where being too successful is seen as a negative. The US does not - if anything, US culture is the polar opposite of expectation management.

When walking through the CPH airport with one of my Danish colleagues, they would always roll their eyes at the "Welcome to the happiest country on Earth signs" and point out that Denmark was ranked #1 in SSRI use in Europe.

It doesn't seem like it given the form factor. From what I understand, Google let their own hardware efforts die and handed off new Coral hardware to third parties.

They announced this Synaptics coral board last month, but you can't buy it anywhere AFAIK. I'm guessing it's going to be a lot more expensive than the original hw.

https://www.synaptics.com/products/embedded-processors/sl261...

It seems like the best authors - JG Ballard in this instance - are somehow resistant to modern biographers. Even the least worst Phillip K Dick biography (Divine Invasions) is over 30 years old!

How is your identity tied to the purchase if you are using contactless payment (e.g. Apple Pay) that produce an anonymous DPAN?

No. Apple refurbishes and reuses the majority of trade-in phones. They recycle a small fraction. None of it ends up in landfills. In my case, they aren't paying me hundreds of dollars for my old phone to throw it in a landfill.

I trade the phone in for the new model as God and Steve Jobs intended.

The S5 was IP67 rated but only if the USB port flap was sealed. Modern phones like the S24 and iPhones are IP68 rated without covers.

As someone who spends a lot of time outdoors in the rain, giving up superior IP68 water resistance for a replaceable battery that I'll never replace will be a downgrade for me.

The examples show Android devices. How does Webloc track iOS devices given Apple doesn't allow unique IDs and allows the user to disable the ad ID? I wish these articles would go into a bit more detail for the technical reader.

See point 7 at https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

They responded on the Chrome store.

Hey William, thanks for flagging this! We were experimenting with analytics to help us identify crashes and improve stability. We've rolled this back in v2.1.17, which is now live and being rolled out. Going forward, we'll ensure any analytics collection is clearly disclosed. Thanks again!

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/json-formatter/gpmo...

I do the same. Minor correction - it's no longer Vudu, it's now called Fandango at home. You also have to watch out for expiry dates on the codes. US only.

Paramount and Lionsgate are the only studios which don't participate IIRC.

Up to one third of that $99m goes to attorneys. Named plaintiffs get $25k each and class members get what's left over, which could be anything from $50 to $5k according to ChatGPT.

I wonder if they'll throw in free credit monitoring with that?

According to Wikipedia, the DEA gave him immunity on additional charges in return for pleading guilty and running a sting against his associates, but before the DEA knew about the murders.

I read whatever version of this book was available to download in 2020 and really enjoyed it. Some very original ideas. I didn't find the writing clunky, and I read way too much.

Oracle laid off 491 people in Seattle this week.

I think that's the point. Nobody in the 80s or early 90s understood how quickly it would grow by 1995.

McKinsey estimated the global market for cellphones would be 900,000 units in 2000.

They were off by 100 million.

Even until the 90s some telcos believed that cell usage would never eclipse landlines which would remain the base of their business. It sounds ridiculous today because cell numbers outnumber landlines almost ten to one and have been dominant for over two decades.

They said the same thing about cell phones vs landlines back in the day. Based on Starlink's revenue doubling year on year, and a six fold increase since 2022, I don't think anyone really knows what the upper bounds for global access is yet. And traditional telcos are usually limited to a region whereas Starlink is global. Just the top 20 global telcos alone are almost $2 trillion in market cap and $1.35 trillion in revenue. Starlink has captured less than 1% of that revenue to date.

5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) is already part of the 5G standard. It's not a replacement for terrestrial carriers, it's an expansion that enables devices to be always connected and select the appropriate terrestrial vs satellite connection transparently. ~75% of the land mass on Earth has no cell coverage, ~90% if you include the oceans. It's the same transition in theory that we had from landlines to cell towers.