astronads
Re:Is 'bra doping' a thing at the Tour de France Femmes?
on Monday August 03, 2026 @11:07AM (#49156785)
Informative article about how padding bras positively impacts aerodynamics for cyclists. The relentless pursuit for optimization and the evolving rules for the sport is an interesting dynamic.
Re:Valve explains why it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:22PM (#48765437)
It’s a shame because the mediocre hardware specs lend itself to a cheaper companion device for people who already have a vast steam library and a powerful gaming PC.
I would have impulse bought this for $750 to play my backlog of indie games and older AA/AAA on the couch, with a nice small form factor, very quiet machine, and hdmi cec to control my tv like a console.
Instead, I’m going to be scraping together some old parts and putting steam os 3.8 on it. Kudos to valve for giving this option to us officially, and I plan to support them with a hypothetical steam machine 2 in the future when prices are more sane.
Re:Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinat...
on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:42PM (#46394877)
Yeah, the machine elves rabbit hole is interesting for sure. I hope a lot more rigorous science delves into both mushrooms and DMT
Re:Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinat...
on Friday December 26, 2025 @12:09PM (#46393958)
It is interesting how the hallucinations consistently represent tiny people/elves to the mushroom consumer, even across geography/culture.
I wonder what the brain is doing…
Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Re:IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
on Thursday November 06, 2025 @09:29AM (#45835632)
The solution is home assistant [0] it lets you manage and control all kinds of smart devices with a lot of customizable, hackable things. And it runs locally, so if you buy the right types of devices that don’t phone home to the cloud (or you shitcan their internet access) you can fully manage your own system.
Re:How Old DOS games actually sounded (if you had money)
on Friday October 10, 2025 @01:28AM (#45535596)
This guy is a little annoying in the intro but this is a genuinely informative and in depth look at how different sound quality was in this earlier computing era based on your sound card hardware. You’ll likely learn something, I know I did.
How Old DOS games actually sounded (if you had money)
Re:The Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed (2013)
on Saturday August 30, 2025 @08:15PM (#45079181)
No paywall: https://archive.is/xrhez
The Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed (2013)
Re:The Two Towers MUD
on Saturday July 05, 2025 @03:29PM (#44474941)
Anyone out there still playing MUDs? Any good ones to recommend?
The Two Towers MUD
Re:GM says new battery chemistry will enable 400-mile range EVs
on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:52PM (#43975707)
Plenty of people would greatly appreciate charging times much quicker than 20 mins. People without large families taking long breaks, apartment dwellers, etc. would
Super Nintendo Architecture – A Practical Analysis
Re:Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress
on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @06:51PM (#42131550)
You’re making some assumptions here and I suggest you broaden your mindset a bit. First of all, at least according to testimony under oath, they are not avoiding detection and there is a plethora of high resolution imagery and sensor data, they just keep it hidden and highly classified. I get that there isn’t a lot of quality stuff coming from civilians, but we don’t know the UAP intentions or quantity. They could be just trying to observe us without freaking us out or interfering with us en masse, much like we observe animals in nature ourselves. They may only be interested in subtly monitoring our military assets and nothing else. There could be any other unknowable reasons. They may not perceive existence the same way as us, they may not have the same 5 senses or see in the same spectrums, they may not have emotions or a completely different thought process.
They also may not be light years away, but rather ultra terrestrial or interdimensional or time travelers or they use wormholes to “teleport”. We just don’t know, but the possibilities are not constrained to just your “incompetent but competent” paradox.
Edit: you may find this article thought provoking: https://jdmadden.substack.com/p/naturalizing-without-demytho...
Re:Samsung's EV batteries with 600M/1000KM range, 9min charging and 20...
on Sunday August 11, 2024 @09:54AM (#41216157)
A ton of people live in flats, apartments, condos and other shared housing that do not provide home charging capabilities. Just because it’s not a big deal for you and your situation doesn’t mean it’s the same for everyone else.
Re:McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:38AM (#40704986)
Please share more about this!
Re:Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' O...
on Saturday January 20, 2024 @11:10AM (#39068963)
The downside, other than the obvious maintenance/reliability concerns of an aging vehicle is safety. Modern cars are much safer in crashes than 20+ year old cars. [0]
What sucks though is that basically every modern vehicle egregiously violates our privacy [1]
[0]https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
[1]https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions
on Thursday January 11, 2024 @08:55AM (#38952183)
This is good and realistic advice. Companies exist to make profit and returns for their investors/shareholders and ultimately they will do what this necessary to make that happen. Layoffs are just another (unfortunate) business transaction.
I was once in a meeting with an SVP who was going over what he was going to say in an upcoming all-hands meeting. He kept referring to employees as “resources” and I told him he should call them people or team members as resources was dehumanizing and made it sound like we’re just line items on a spreadsheet and pawns on a chessboard. He looked at me and said you’re right - that is how they look at things, but thanked me for reminding me of his audience. He was candid with me only because I was also high up in the org.
Companies are not your friend. The people above you in the org are not your friend. You are not special or different or immune or safe. Ultimately, you do have to look out for yourself. If a company is able and willing to terminate your job for financial reasons, you need to be willing and able to terminate your job for financial reasons too - on your own terms and with a better higher paying job lined up. It’s just another business transaction. Loyalty is dead. Act accordingly.
Re:Twitch has updated their policy to loosen their stance on sexual co...
on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:48AM (#38641904)
Of note, they have streamlined and consolidated their policies around this to make it easier for streamers to know what’s allowed and disallowed.
Streams marked with certain labels will not show up on the home page, but with the new policy a broader set of sexually suggestive content will be allowed on the platform.
This submission links to an article summarizing the changes. The full policy is here: https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Community-Guidelines?lang...
Twitch has updated their policy to loosen their stance on sexual content
Re:Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @10:28AM (#38191771)
There’s evidence that constant unwanted noise can negatively impact our health: https://archive.ph/5mvYQ (nytimes)
I don’t mind visiting cities, but I certainly would never live in one.
Re:Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts...
on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:34PM (#38051145)
They don’t have an inherent right to exist or be profitable. If the EU agrees this violates GDPR then they will have to adapt or die.
Re:FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
on Monday October 16, 2023 @10:34AM (#37900398)
And it costs more than the amount of revenue my viewing of ads generate them.
Re:The Tantalizing, Lonely Search for Alien Life
on Sunday July 16, 2023 @07:39PM (#36752516)
I don’t believe anything one way or the other, but the whistleblower who testified under oath to congress and prompted this legislation (among other whistleblowers still anonymous) he mentions non human intelligence and bodies. His name is David Grusch, you can google for some interviews with him if you’re interested.
Re:The Tantalizing, Lonely Search for Alien Life
on Sunday July 16, 2023 @05:46PM (#36751711)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senators-move-require-relea...
https://thedebrief.org/the-uap-disclosure-act-of-2023-what-w...
There will be a public congressional hearing on this aired within the next two weeks.
Re:Reddit Kills Awards and Coins
on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:37PM (#36716347)
Apparently from inspecting the Reddit app APK, they are planning to allow rewarding contributors monetarily (probably with crypto)
https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-contributor-program-...
This will likely turn Reddit into a (even bigger) cesspool of karma farming spam/bots and bullshit AI posts now that they can make a quick buck off it.
Re:How Ancient Astronaut Theorists Faked a Hindu Nuclear Explosion
on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:34PM (#36365856)
I found it interesting to see how (mis)translation and biased researchers were able to put forth a false narrative, and for decades thereafter many took it at face value and continued to share the faulty information. It wasn’t a topic I was expecting to encounter today, and that’s why I’m sharing it!