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Works for me, Firefox 152.0.4 on macOS 27 beta3.

I don't agree with "the west forgot how to make things", it moved supply chains for cheap consumer goods to asia, but in the B2B space a lot of things are manufactured in Europe: c…

Well, these numbers are averages between people living until old age (65+ years) and high infant mortality. I don't think most people keeled over when they reach 25 years...

Office for Mac 2008, when they shifted to a new codebase, was pretty good for a while, just slooooow.

Airline-like comfort, and airplane-like noise. It's surprising how much noisier the Shanghai Maglev gets once you approach 400kph.

Large parts of the OS are open source though. Not just the Linux kernel and userland, but also some specific things: Sailfish: https://github.com/sailfishos Android layer: https://…

Mediatek is a taiwanese company and the Dimensity 7100 platform includes the cellular stack.

This explains a lot, American microwaves have these settings for different types of food etc, it seems most people throw something in and just 'nuke it'. European microwave ovens o…

Sure, however as explained further in this thread the BFI approach is new as opposed to the courser Zigbee RSSI-based approaches of Hue MotionAware.

Thank you for adding this context of this particular research, I do see that it relies on MU-MIMO information, which does rely on more powerful WiFi infrastructure than the basic E…

Yes, you won't be able to do this on normal wifi traffic typically either, you need to send specific packets at a high enough rate (in between normal internet traffic) in order to …

I was shocked to find that even electronics that are collected in Europe seem to be shipped to Africa, set on fire, and at most, metals are collected from the ashes, including trac…

Verizon has a security feature built around this, https://www.xfinity.com/hub/smart-home/wifi-motion Philips WiZ bulbs: https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us/explore-wiz/spacesense Al…

What happens is that a large body of water (pun intended) has the ability to absorb and reflect wifi signals as it moves through the room. For this you need to generate traffic and…

With the age of retirement (in europe) steadily increasing, and the workforce getting older, the typical corporate position of rejecting older candidates will need to change, if on…

Local news sources[1] show that the unions and works council are outraged. That's only a start. [1] Source: https://www.ed.nl/binnenland/vakbonden-woedend-na-keiharde-i...

What’s more surprising is the fact that the seem comfortable letting go of 1700 people with knowledge of the company and processes. Dutch government stepped in last year to help fa…

One of the most startling differences between Chinese and European cities is the lack of grafitti in China. I wonder if it's explained by laws, norms, enforcement?

The TiO2 will likely rub off and need regular replenishment. Also, the alternative here, sensor-operated or button-operated automatic doors are already widely used. I wonder who th…

When I was young and having access to internet (but pre social media) I loved looking into these theories, prompted by Discovery Channel's "Quest for the lost civilization" and stu…

It would be amazing if they could leverage the container system, but instead of goods, there'd be battery containers they could just plug in to the ship. You could even charge a ba…

I used ChatGPT to figure out what's going on here, and it told me this is a 'neo-Marxist critique of the nation state'.

Reading the blog post the Marxist sentiment was creeping in, and then I also saw actual Marx referenced in the footnotes.

Without spoiling too much, this is a major theme in Dan Brown's latest novel 'the secret of secrets'.

Northern Europe had a very similar facility, a large "underground city" in The Netherlands near Maastricht, being used as a command center / information hub in NATO for the airspac…