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rbx··on Vijayanagara – The Last Emperors of South India [audio]
Epic History TV.

Napoleonic Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91OmO2YMiDM

rbx··on FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
Well, personally I use Firefox. Although I do have a suspition that Google has found some way of keeping Firefox experience on mobile inferior in some way. Just speculating.
rbx··on FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
Would Google also be able to negatively influence such an app if the app was a PWA? Publishing PWA on Play Store might still lead to the same outcome, but what if it is just an independent PWA and is "installed" through the phone's browser? Of course you would loose some discoverability though, but are there other disadvantages? (provided the app is even feasible as a PWA)
rbx··on U.S. Fed accepts $756B in daily reverse repo operation
the banks have too much cash and not enough collateral (typically bonds). The FED lends them the bonds for one day (reverse repo) so that their books look ok at the end of the day.
rbx··on Firefox Release 89.0
There is also browser.compactmode.show set to true that will allow compact density. Unfortunately that won't reduce the padding around bookmark entries. For that can go to https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/
rbx··on Firefox Release 89.0
Setting browser.compactmode.show to true in about:config allows for setting density to compact again. But unfortunately the padding around bookmark entries remains huge.
rbx··on Is that ship still stuck?
Apparently, the ship drew a giant penis before getting stuck: https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/cargo-ship-drew-penis-before-g...
rbx··on German draft proposal would subsidize smaller firms to enter 5G market
Wild speculation: this draft proposal would favor smaller chip makers that have been acquired by China. https://www.datenna.com/china-eu-fdi-radar/
rbx··on Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtd7UzLJHrU Comparison with the 40k display here. Apple doesn't come very close. Sure it's much cheaper. But then why compare.
rbx··on YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them
I switched to watching youtube through firefox+adblock on android a while ago.
rbx··on SpaceX Software Team AMA
Do you think SpaceX customers look at tweets and the current outrage of the month when they are looking for a rocket to launch their satelites with?
rbx··on I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
i guess there's always someone on the other side of the globe. So a reasonable time for where the majority of your audience is is the best. Unless you wanna go all out and make it timezones dependent.
rbx··on I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
When sleep is a good way to boost the defences against infections [0], motivating people to stay up until midnight might not be the best idea. Perhaps change the update time to an earlier hour.

[0] https://youtu.be/wlbM6VVkVZM

rbx··on Cheap zinc/manganese battery being developed commercially
Zinc is very important in the diet and its deficiency is very common. Our food is already becoming scarce in zinc, potentially needing supplements from mined minerals. But these are not projected to last very long either [1]. This doesn't make me very excited for using it for batteries at all.

[1] https://www.iatp.org/documents/scarcity-of-micronutrients-in...

rbx··on Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999)
Many times if GIF is converted to video it will ruin the pixel art, or in some cases even produce bigger file [1]. I get the efficiency argument for conversion to video, but in some cases it is a no-go. There should always be an option to not convert to video.

[1] https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6403

rbx··on Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (1999)
with GIF i can easily right click it and do a similar image search. Does something like this exist for video?
rbx··on Show HN: Bookmarklet to view full size photos from Google Images
I am missing the point why this bookmarklet is needed. You right click the preview image that google gives and either 'Open Image in new tab' or 'Copy image address', or even 'Save Image'. Actually Googles change makes it easier to handle images, since you get directly the original in the preview view, instead of some cached version... what am I missing?
rbx··on Design of a low-level C++ template SIMD library [pdf]
also worth mentioning here is Vc - portable, zero-overhead C++ types for explicitly data-parallel programming https://github.com/VcDevel/Vc/ (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p021...).
rbx··on Call options used to bet that Bitcoin will go over $50K next year
Can bitcoin be "damaged" by quantum computers?
rbx··on [dead]
https://status.github.com/graphs/past_day
rbx··on 0.0% of Icelanders 25 years or younger believe God created the world
The difference is how we arrived at the realisation. Big Bang is by scientific method, looking to be improved or proven wrong. And God is through stories that somebody just made up.
rbx··on Swisscom Hits 1GBps Mobile Data Transfer in European First
So GBps or Gbps? article mentions both. Don't think first one is even a thing...
rbx··on Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10
kb3075249 - "...adds telemetry points..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3075249)

kb3080149 - "...Telemetry tracking service..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080149)

kb3068708 - "...Telemetry tracking service..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3068708)

kb2976978 - "...performs diagnostics on the Windows systems that participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2976978)

kb3021917 - "...Telemetry is sent back to Microsoft..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3021917)

kb3035583 - "...installs the Get Windows 10 app..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583)

kb2952664 - "...ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2952664)

rbx··on [dead]
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081384
rbx··on Drop Dropbox
Seeing the comparison to Eich is ridiculous tbh.

Do I want to drink a beer with Eich? Looking at his donation record - no. Will his contribution improve the Mozilla product? Looking at his history as a technologist with Mozilla and JavaScript - probably yes.

Do I want to drink a beer with Rice? Looking at her career history - no. Will her contribution improve Dropbox? Looking at her career history - can't imagine any positive effect, probably negative, especially in the privacy area.

Definitely going to try some Dropbox alternatives now.

rbx··on 404 - File not found
If it was just a block of text, I would probably skip over most of it, but this running line thing is a cool idea to try and make the reader read every sentence. Not knowing how long the actual text is also helps a lot. There should be some browser plugin which does this to texts!