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New comment by MrMember in "UN backs new map showing Africa's true relative size with US alone in opposition"

MrMember — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:05:36 +0000

Is it a more accurate map? It more accurately represents the size of Africa but there are distortions in other places that aren't present in a Mercator projection.

New comment by MrMember in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

MrMember — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:01:25 +0000

It's a ubiquitous dark pattern. Instead of having a "Yes" or "No" option it's now "Yes" or "Ask Me Later."

New comment by MrMember in "The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized"

MrMember — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:06:36 +0000

Olden Era is really good, it's kind of a spiritual successor to HoMM3.

New comment by MrMember in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

MrMember — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:53:40 +0000

Auto GCAS is a genius system. It only takes over past the point where it's physically possible for a human to react to a situation because that's the only system that fighter pilots would accept. It will not take control unless the plane would crash if it didn't.

New comment by MrMember in "Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality"

MrMember — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:39:28 +0000

Just from the base ingredients they still look fine.

>cream, skim milk, cane sugar, egg yolks, ground vanilla beans, vanilla extract

Compare that with Ben and Jerry's which lists sugar water third on their ingredients list and water fourth.

New comment by MrMember in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

MrMember — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:33:23 +0000

Very few people use old.reddit, I believe it's like 1-2%.

New comment by MrMember in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

MrMember — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:05:24 +0000

I used to read the games site Rock Paper Shotgun. At some point they decided they were going to block everyone who blocked ads. There were ways around it but the writing had gone downhill so I chose to stop reading it entirely. A few months later I saw they had issued an apology for serving malware through their ads.

I will never, ever, under any circumstances stop using an adblocker.

New comment by MrMember in "Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment"

MrMember — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:23:41 +0000

Yep, I use a soda can and have never had any issues.

New comment by MrMember in "EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why"

MrMember — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:57:25 +0000

I spent a lot of time playing Eve and it's without a doubt the greatest MMO I've ever played but I would never play it again. It will happily eat up as much time as you want to give it. I wouldn't be happy if I wasn't playing it for 8+ hours a day and I can't do that anymore.

New comment by MrMember in "Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k"

MrMember — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:12:34 +0000

I remember seeing a house for sale in Detroit that basically said you were on your own. No power, no water, and emergency services would not respond to your calls.

New comment by MrMember in "Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii"

MrMember — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:25:06 +0000

I watched a YouTube video about four women who rowed across the Atlantic, it's really good. I couldn't imagine doing it solo.

https://youtu.be/6SYHamnHqU8

New comment by MrMember in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

MrMember — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:18:45 +0000

They train for it. When people who have ejected talk about it they basically say it's automatic. Things go south they pull the handle on instinct.

New comment by MrMember in "The Oscars just banned AI from winning acting and writing awards"

MrMember — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:07:13 +0000

The Oscars are 100% vibes based. It was only very recently made a requirement that the judges actually watch the movies that are nominated.

New comment by MrMember in "What did you love about VB6?"

MrMember — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:29:31 +0000

It was insane how powerful the debugger was. Very intuitive to use too.

New comment by MrMember in "A programmable watch you can actually wear"

MrMember — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:31:29 +0000

The Garmin Instinct 2 is around $200 and will last several weeks on a charge even using the GPS regularly. Without GPS use I wouldn't be surprised if it lasted a month.

New comment by MrMember in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

MrMember — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:28:29 +0000

Github hijacks '/' and it's really annoying, it gets me all the time.

New comment by MrMember in "Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply"

MrMember — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:17:54 +0000

Ten years ago the FAA was disqualifying candidates because the didn't say their worst subject in high school was science and today they're struggling with recruitment. Seems like a catastrophe of their own making.

https://kaisoapbox.com/projects/faa_biographical_assessment/

New comment by MrMember in "Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008"

MrMember — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:08:15 +0000

Office is now the "Microsoft 365 Copilot App." It's ridiculous.

New comment by MrMember in "The next generation of electricity is almost here"

MrMember — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:30:05 +0000

We will always need some form of baseline power. Solar, wind, and other renewables are an important component of overall power generation but we still need something capable of generating power 24/7/365, in all weather conditions.

New comment by MrMember in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

MrMember — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:07:23 +0000

The training is also not run particularly well. There's a single facility in Oklahoma that every prospective air traffic controller has to go through. I had a friend in college who graduated in the early 2010s with a four year degree in air traffic control. He waited several years for the FAA to tell him he could start training, a spot never opened up, and he moved on with his life and did something different. It's broken on a pretty fundamental level if we have a shortage of air traffic controllers but also people who want to do it can't get in.