California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
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Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#2Photography of the surfers seems to be an important aspect of the scene. It’d be interesting to read a story about that.
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#3This site needs to be banned from HN. It's borderline spam employing every trick in the book to maximise your pageview.
Clickbait title, interstitial ads, floating vid, back jacking, newsletter, notification...
When I open the page it's only a third that's content -- and that's only the clickbait title.
What garbage...
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#4I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California.
But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads.
wow
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#5>riding (surfing) a world-record-shattering 108-foot-tall wave.
That is rather wild.
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#6I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California. But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads. wow
FWIW, I use noscript and had no issues. Granted there were some blank spots which I guess where ads.
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#7Photography of the surfers seems to be an important aspect of the scene. It’d be interesting to read a story about that.
The underground rock formation that generates the Mavericks waves is actually pretty small. Photographers, rescue jetskis, and onlookers on small boats can be on very calm water, while surfers they're watching are riding a 100 ft wave just a few meters away.
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#8I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California. But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads. wow
FWIW, I use noscript and had no issues. Granted there were some blank spots which I guess where ads.
Yep, I've found blocking at at the dns level more convenient since I'd otherwise have to install script blockers per web-browser. I'm very happy with nextdns
I wanted to add that every time I use the internet without a blocker, it's so depressing to realize this is how a lot of people, mostly older, experience the Internet. Very sad as someone in the industry.
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#9Photography of the surfers seems to be an important aspect of the scene. It’d be interesting to read a story about that.
It’s how the size of the waves is calculated. They talk about it in the first season of the 100 Foot Waves TV show mentioned in the article. Video from several angles is analyzed using the surfer or another known object for scale.
It’s not easy to measure ocean waves unless you have a jetski riding right on the crest or a LIDAR system on shore which is expensive.
Re: California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record
#10I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California. But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads. wow
Though The Chronicle is pretty bad, it is generally what I see when I surf without a Pi-Hole (or choose your fave ad-blocking tool). And, yeah, I honestly don’t know why people put up with it. I offered to put a Pi-Hole on my parent’s network. Mom wrote code for 30 years, she can handle the minimal intervention needed. Nope, they turned me down, they’re fine with things the way they are. First thing they did with that new TV was connect it to the Internet, too. For some folks, the slightest inconvenience is apparently enough to sit and look at ads all day.
Which reminds me that I need to pull a RPi off the shelf and provision another Pi-Hole for the camper now that there’s a Starlink attached. I’m not paying by the byte to have ads delivered.