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The Vivaldi build I have locally explicitly mentions "Extended Stable channel (may also include additional security patches)" on its "About" page.

Reading the github blog post "If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements, your preference has been retained—your choice is preserved, and your data will not be used for training unless you opt in."

If you're worried about prep time, I've been taking the approach at https://www.hippressurecooking.com/pressure-cooker-oatmeal-h... of cooking steel cut oats pot-in-pot in my Instant Pot.

As a single guy, I just cook the oats in the bowl that I intend to serve them in and, since it's basically water just water in the base of the instant pot, there's not much cleaning required. The oats cook without manual intervention during the cooking process.

It takes a bit of time, but in theory you could set up your instant pot on a delay timer and wake up to freshly-cooked steel-cut oats.

I'm eager to see this become more widely available, at least once such spaces can be shared. Not yet available to me, but hopefully soon.

Are they? Where have you heard that?

Recently Calibre was updated to convert things to kepub when loading to Kobo devices - see https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/calibre-update-convert-k... - but I haven't anything about Kobo itself doing anything to improve this.

Have you never gotten an error about something being unavailable in your region on Youtube?

I wonder if 3rd party camera firmware will become more of a thing - e.g. https://www.magiclantern.fm/ or https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK

A working-poor friend also used to buy steel-cut oats, to eat breakfast for pennies.

Weirdly where I live steel-cut oats are the pricey ones even thought they're processed less than, e.g., rolled oats. That said they do need to cook longer than rolled, so wondering if energy cost might make those a bit more expensive.

Don't have access to the published version but draft at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.09423 mentions ping RTT at 0.23ms.

As someone frequently at 150ms+ latency for a lot of websites (and semi-frequently 300ms+ for non-geo-distributed websites), in practice with the latency QUIC is easily the best for throughput, HTTP/1.1 with a decent number of parallel connections is a not-that-distant second, and in a remote third is HTTP/2 due to head-of-line-blocking issues if/when a packet goes missing.

I've been hoping to Spotify to go out of business since they went and took Rogan's podcast and a few others as Spotify-exclusive. Not always a Rogan fan, but he's occasionally had some interesting guests. However the Spotify experience was so bad I abandoned podcasts that required me to use their client.

(Suppose I should think of dialing back my Spotify hate a little now that apparently in the renewal they're no longer keeping Rogan as Spotify-exclusive)

(Netflix, Spotify and YouTube all blessed me with "all your downloaded content is gone" experience on long flights).

I've definitely had Netflix region-lock most of my content when I made the mistake of briefly switching on wifi to find my connecting gate at some airport. Apparently even though the content was available at my starting point and at my destination that didn't apply to the connecting country.

Have yet to hit that with Youtube, and I really hate Spotify so avoid using it.

- Doesn't randomly disappear after 6 months when I started watching the series because some license expired.

A few days back Prime lost both of the two series that I was in the middle of watching at the start of February. Super-annoying!

There's always stuff happening in the world of flight - It's occasionally interesting to peruse the Aviation Herald (https://avherald.com/) to see just what's happened recently.

One thing to note from https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/the-gender-pay-gap-is-no... is this when comparing same-sex and opposite-sex couples:

"the impact on earnings for the birth mother is [almost identical in both family types](https://www.ifau.se/globalassets/pdf/se/2016/wp2016-08-does-...). Meanwhile, the nonbirth mothers in the lesbian couples show a similar earnings pattern to fathers in the heterosexual ones"

Am I the only one who saw almost-exclusively-vertical-format video and thought "I'll pass"?

Thus far I've been using Namecheap and wasn't aware that Cloudflare even operated publically as a registrar.

Even now, after googling, I found https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-cloudflare-r... but am still unclear, e.g., what I'd pay for it. Moving to cloudflare does seem to require using their DNS server for the domain in question according to https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/get-started/tran... but would be nice to be able to get a quick answer to a question like "what do you charge for a 1 year .com or .net registration?" without having to sign up for an account.

When a post includes a paragraph like this I'm not sure that I'd say the person is actually running their own single-person Mastodon server:

I use masto.host for Mastodon hosting, and it’s been great so far. I have nothing interesting to say about what it’s like to operate a Mastodon instance because I know literally nothing about it. Masto.host handles all of the server administration and Mastodon updates, and I never think about it at all.

In addition to that it seems that they've opted for the top-end package, which seems like it'd be overkill with just a single-user onboard.

That said, seems like there are some pretty significant Mastodon limits even if you let someone else do the heavy-lifting.

When you think of a pumpkin you'll likely envision a particular type of squash, but if you buy canned pumpkin or eat a randomly purchased "pumpkin" pie you're unlikely to be eating the type of squash that you envision.

As per https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/what-is-in-canned-pum... the company responsible for 85% of the world's canned "pumpkin" doesn't actually use the type of squash you're likely envisioning (and links the FDA docs allowing a variety of squash to be labeled as such: https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...), and the type of squash you're likely envisioning having a fairly mediocre flavour relative to the alternatives.

In a sense I think you're both completely right and completely wrong in different ways.

Actors are featureless blobs that all look the same

I consider this to be mostly a positive. I'm interested in following stories rather than watching the N+1th Actor X movie.

It’s cool to maintain a blog, even it’s only from the technical perspective.

I do run a blog, but having to ensure that it gets patched in a reasonable amount of time is to me the one significant drawback of the process.

I'm really not looking forward to the next time I'm forced into a major-release upgrade (deadline is early 2025 given that I'm running Drupal 7).

If they'd just give me a feature that gives continuity of play between devices I'd pay the full monthly price without blinking.

What specifically are you looking for? e.g. was watching a video on my computer, powered that off, opened youtube on my phone and the video I was watching was most recent thing in youtube history there with my position in the video tracked. Similarly I can use my phone or laptop to control Youtube on my TV. Seems like what you're looking for is already mostly here.

(I've been a Youtube Premium subscriber for the last year or so thus far).

I think that safety claims re: nuclear are a bit oversold by some, but when the alternative is increased deaths from particular emissions from burning fossil fuels I still find myself leaning nuclear.

e.g. Germany having decided to accelerate its nuclear powerplant shutdowns gets estimated (https://www.nber.org/papers/w26598) at leading to around 1100 additional deaths per year.

"Jessica deserves so much credit for the success of YC but she's far too humble to make a big deal of it herself."

It seems to me that one reason for her success is that's she's able to exist in the limelight. Give her a higher profile and I'm not sure that the her approach as described in PG's post would work as well.

I'm not convinced that everyone wants much attention - I know that I don't.

Jessica Livingston's own words (https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-sound-of-silence)

"""Not surprisingly, the juiciest targets for this sort of willful misinterpretation are organizations and people who are successful. They have power, and power makes them both interesting and envied; I teach founders they all have to be prepared for this as their startups grow.

In my blog post, "Subtle Mid-Stage Startup Pitfalls" I said:

       You can't prevent yourself from being a target. It's an automatic
       consequence of being successful. So the best you can do is react
       in the right way when people attack you. To some extent you have
       to resign yourself to letting people lie about you.

Might as well link Jessica Livingston's post at https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-sound-of-silence

Its' start: """ I recently heard one of the more interesting insights about Silicon Valley I'd heard in a while. It explained something I’d wondered about for years.

But I can't tell you what it was.

There's too much downside in sharing any opinion that could easily be misinterpreted online. Even facts are dangerous to share if they don’t align with what people want to believe.

There's a lot of concern about "fake news" lately. That is a real problem, but there's also the opposite problem: true things that aren't being said.

Some of the most useful things I've learned about startups over the years are also things I'd never share publicly. Not because the ideas are necessarily controversial in their own right, but because anyone could twist them to seem controversial if they were sufficiently motivated to. And when that happens I immediately regret having said anything. It's a massive distraction. I have two young kids, and I have hundreds of startups to keep track of. I don't have time to fight with people who are trying to misunderstand me. """

I'll admit to being quite skeptical of the iPad and was wrong about that.

That said, despite owning a Quest 2 and eagerly awaiting the Quest 3 release, nothing in this headset particularly appeals to me. (Am mainly into rhythm games and am guessing those wouldn't be nearly as fun without the haptics in into other headsets' controllers which this seems to lack).

For me Beat Saber is that game. With mods and community-made songs/beatmaps which can be quite intense

Some people seemed hesitant to trust Meta due to it's Facebook account requirement (now removed), but for me their behaviour with Beat Saber is one reason that I'm kinda hesitant to trust them going forward.

e.g. Beat Saber has an update appear and all your mods stop functioning for a bit until verified to work with the new release. (From what I recall on the Quest version trying to mod results in some warning messages that stuff like this might result in your account getting banned, though I've never heard of them actually doing this to Beat Saber players). i.e. it's annoying and cumbersome to do, needs to be repeated for each update, and you're threatened with having your account banned (though I suspect that they'll continue to not follow through with those threats).

They'd also previously promised they were gonna add custom level support on Quest (e.g. https://twitter.com/BeatSaber/status/1182645623683727360) but despite tweaking stuff like this multiple times in 2019 that support never materialized.

Net result is that I'm mostly a Synth Riders player and tend to advise people purchasing a headset to avoid Beat Saber when looking for rhythm games.

(Synth Riders, Audio Trip, Boombox all allow custom songs out of the box and Pistol Whip finally has that scheduled for release this month - https://twitter.com/PistolWhipVR/status/1664037754550771717)

I was a little surprised that they actually released an Apple Silicon version for it just a few months ago (https://support.aspyr.com/hc/en-us/articles/12168615035405-H...) in spite of its age.

My friends with a Quest are often delayed from joining VR play sessions due to some silly business requirement like an expired login or system update.

Finally in the v53 Quest firmware release notes BTW: "When you shutdown your headset, you will now have the option to update apps before the headset powers off. This will help minimize the number of app updates that you have to complete the next time you want to jump into a VR app or game."

(I think the Quest has some big firmware issues - I'm personally most annoyed about my Quest rebooting instead of shutting down if connected to my desktop when I've explicitly selected the option in the Quest menu to power down. Sounds like one of the ones annoying you may be getting partially resolved though).

since Google lost interest in VR

It seems like there are some really simple things that it could do to improve some of its other VR stuff with an incredibly tiny amount of effort, which is one thing I find really depressing about Google here.

e.g. in Youtube VR, just give me a tab to find VR180 videos (which I find can be nicer than flat screen as long as they're high res) as opposed to only showcasing VR360 videos there (which I usually find annoying as I'd rather watch sitting down and for such would then need a swivel chair).

Showcasing VR360 in Youtube VR but making it fairly difficult to find VR180 films (though filtering search results is at least an option) sometimes makes me wonder if any of the Youtube VR dev team were/are actually real-world VR enthusiasts.

it's a very hypothetical black swan type situation. I don't think it's a sensible use of resources to prepare for a badly understood phenomenon with uncertain probability.

That really depends on how much you'd need to spend I think to prep.

There was a US commission evaluating the threat of an EMP attack (http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf) which seems to suggest that radiation-hardening transformers for such an event would also seem likely to protect them from failing due to geomagnetic storms.

The additional cost for radiation hardening:

New units can be EMP-hardened for a very small fraction of the cost of the non-hardened item, e.g., 1% to 3% of cost, if hardening is done at the time the unit is designed and manufactured. In contrast, retrofitting existing functional components is potentially an order of magnitude more expensive and shouldbe done only for critical system units.

For that sort of overhead I think that it's justifiable to require it of new transformers at least.