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New comment by Bric3d in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"

Bric3d — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:10:49 +0000

Someone stole my fairphone 4, then threw it on the ground. So it seems like i'll keep it a while longer

New comment by Bric3d in "Show HN: Pause – weekly curated 1:1 coffee matches for London professionals"

Bric3d — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:02:00 +0000

Cool idea, Just a heads up, your google single sign on isn't very descriptive

> Grant permission to Platform [in progress]

> This will allow Platform [in progress] to see:

New comment by Bric3d in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"

Bric3d — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:18:43 +0000

I did not know about it, but it's actually linked in the LLM friendly doc [1]. Seems like some rules around being able to use parsing tools such as regex, and general formatting.

[1]: https://llmstxt.org/

New comment by Bric3d in "Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky"

Bric3d — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:34:12 +0000

Likely using the "discover" or "popular with friends" feeds, not sure why one would do that to themselves on either bluesky or twitter.

New comment by Bric3d in "Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?"

Bric3d — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:20:30 +0000

Well that's due to the bank being liable for people falling for scams, sadly as long as the banks have to pay for people's mistakes they will have to do this no matter the payment method.

New comment by Bric3d in "Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine"

Bric3d — Fri, 23 May 2025 09:03:52 +0000

From what I understood the main ecological issue with wind turbine are more due to the blades than the tower, I wonder if they're doing something on that side.

New comment by Bric3d in "Pakistan's 22 GW Solar Shock: How a Fragile State Went Full Clean Energy"

Bric3d — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:17:17 +0000

The file name is "ChatGPT-Image-Apr-4-2025-03_25_23-PM-800x445.png", so yeah, sure seems like it.

New comment by Bric3d in "Icelandic turf houses: Laufas, Glaumbaer and others"

Bric3d — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:54:08 +0000

+1 on blue lagoon, was way too busy to be enjoyable when I went, there's plenty of smaller hot springs around which are much nicer.

New comment by Bric3d in "The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory"

Bric3d — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:31:15 +0000

It leaked when they removed them, it's a common issue with these capacitors and part of why people replace them.

New comment by Bric3d in "Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal"

Bric3d — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:34:43 +0000

The human drawings on the crystal are actually the same as the ones on the voyager 1 disks.

Edit; the human drawings were on the metal plate, not the disk.

New comment by Bric3d in "How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it"

Bric3d — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:40:07 +0000

And also that he viewed the UK as a pawn of the US.