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Re:Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar in $11.57B deal on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:05AM (#50272274)

The link didn't work for me.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-agency-app...

US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5 billion acquisition of Globalstar By David Shepardson October 27, 2026

Re:German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying' on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:27AM (#50219542)

A strong social expectation otherwise you might not get your mail. Something that they are more mindful of than perhaps anywhere else.

Re:German court calls Google aerial imagery 'spying' on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:18AM (#50219503)

I presume he doesn't want the photo at all but restricting access is the compromise.

If he cared he would go after his local authorities.

https://www.geoportal.hessen.de/

I think he should put a large visible artwork in the yard, a blue port inspired creation, and then seek compensation for aerial photography on copyright grounds.

Re:The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:00PM (#50121058)

"A Brief History of Kīlauea’s Southwest Rift Zone"

After Dark in the Park Program in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park

The Hawaiian Volcano Education and Resilience Institute

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HF8gHPhF6MQ

Re:Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket ... on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:11AM (#50057606)

Freeze the Controller, Defrost the Food: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Danfoss Refrigeration Controllers Amir Zaltzman / August 9th, 2026

https://claroty.com/team82/research/freeze-the-controller-de...

Re:The people holding up the internet on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:07AM (#50002670)

And Gijs Kruitbosch / Richard Ziade/Chris Dary/others? who gave us reader mode.

Re:New York City should carefully measure a new tree on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:14AM (#49951772)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiidk%27yaas

Kiidk'yaas, also known as the Golden Spruce is an example.

The article conveniently links to a list of individual trees.

Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:14PM (#49899698)

It would have been neat if they cooperatively updated the board meeting deck using the sensory activity board. The giant dial is similar to our Tonieplay.

Re:Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:58AM (#49488186)

View of the World from 9th Avenue is an illustration by Saul Steinberg that served as the cover of the March 29, 1976, edition of The New Yorker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...

Re:Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:42AM (#49488110)

Reminds me of Hyperbolica from Codeparade. And Mercator Extreme!

https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1256230/Hyperbolica/

Spherical Geometry Is Stranger Than Hyperbolic - Hyperbolica Devlog #2

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9GAyJtuJ0

Re:An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:03AM (#49345798)

I want some sort of hybrid paid for by my fastmail sub. Something like a first party gpg on the happy path for anyone who uses fastmail and a wasm/whatever (if possible) web app link for keen buy not willing to pay email recipients.

I.e. my friends who are willing to share keys now and then but not actually pay for the service.

Otherwise I'm stuck with signal asking for donations forever / waiting for something to actually replace email.

Re:Latest Airbus Single Aisle Aircraft Innovations on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:19PM (#49042803)

They do? It's a common upsell for 50-100ish per flight leg.

Re:Latest Airbus Single Aisle Aircraft Innovations on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:14PM (#49042764)

The back reclines. The bum and legs don't move. My knees usually only just fit. When someone reclines their seat usually presses on my knees. Those few cm matter.

Sometimes the seat design is such that my knees block the recline. If I'm unlucky it sucks.

Re:Latest Airbus Single Aisle Aircraft Innovations on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:00PM (#49042647)

Up to about 15 years ago, Sure. Now you're mostly out of luck unless you pay.

Re:Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Wor... on Thursday July 23, 2026 @10:21AM (#49022094)

Sometimes. My Bosch washing machine died young due to cheap bearings. The AEG dryer had soldering problems and the German dishwasher's time light projector died slowly.

https://www.elektroda.com/rtvforum/topic3652484.html#1966024...

Re:Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:46AM (#49004645)

"I felt like I may be uniquely equipped to make this problem much more complicated than it needed to be."

Worth it!

Re:Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:53PM (#48996494)

Or all of those feet in BC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discover...

try botany:

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3CBOpT2-NRvoc2ecFMDCsA

Re:Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand on Sunday July 19, 2026 @03:56PM (#48971211)

I love clearing cookies.

Re:An Engineer's Guide to USB Typе-С on Friday July 17, 2026 @11:06AM (#48948284)

My old Sony xz2c's USB C port wore out after about three years use. About the same length of time they bothered to update Android. :/

Re:I'm a USB-C Maximalist on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:18PM (#48913085)

Philips knows how to penny pinch. Don't buy the more recent low end models.

Their kid's app has been great.

Re:Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:04AM (#48906226)

How about the us citizen who is a permanent resident in Germany? German family? Business partners?

Re:GPT‑Live on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:26AM (#48841728)

Any feedback from different locations or cultural groups?

One group's expectation of interruption for pleasant conversational flow can be just as off-putting as another's expectation of patient silence.

Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-H... on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @05:08AM (#48730208)

Also .net.au and .com.au are not available for personal use.

Re:Kids Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:04AM (#48715798)

That's how we end up with stolen generations of kids taken from parents.

It was bad and suggesting state violence for lack of compliance with your world view is bad.

Re:Using Home Assistant in a botanical garden on Monday June 29, 2026 @02:34AM (#48715613)

"No vendor sells you a product for that gap, because the gap spans two vendors. So nobody can cross-examine the building. Including you, who owns it."

Power monitoring is surprisingly effective. Open data is better but a few shelly/whatever devices works even for dumb devices.

Re:Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are goin... on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @09:03AM (#48644362)

I would argue that my old 4790K with dual channel ddr3 19200, at 10x power, is similar or better. That box lasted way longer than was reasonable.

Re:Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the she... on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:08AM (#48640998)

My kid has a Fisher-Price Kid Tough camera. It's excellent for us but the pictures are so bad even the kid is disappointed.

It would be fun to repace the guts with something like this project but a long boot time is a deal breaker.

Perhaps the software can be optimised or a DIY friendly pi pico project is the way.

Re:Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Start... on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:47AM (#48627054)

Where possible, I believe it's our duty to educate those who know or care little about how their devices work. Unfortunately stats aren't persuasive for my family, but they might be for some as a starting point.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/victims-identity-th...

Victims of Identity Theft, 2021

October 2023, NCJ 306474

https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/vit21.pdf

Re:U.S. kids no longer reading for pleasure on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:15AM (#48503160)

Here are our top ~500 English picture books from Open Library that my kids liked enough that we've read at least twice.

The quality of the scans are usually poor and occasionally pages are missing and many have been removed. It's been great for us.

https://openlibrary.org/people/duiznwudidj/books/want-to-rea...

Re:Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux ... on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:23AM (#48473690)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_flux_motor