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New comment by abrowne in "The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood"

abrowne — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:30:35 +0000

Wildfire smoke will be the big question there. It's started to be bad for a week or two a year in Minneapolis, and is only worse the closer you are to the boreal forest.

New comment by abrowne in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

abrowne — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:58:06 +0000

Next gen of the Razr Ultra at least, according to another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363702

New comment by abrowne in "Western Sahara"

abrowne — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:47:54 +0000

And related to what happened in Ceuta recently. "The Moroccans orchestrated a similar cross-border influx in 2021 in retaliation for Spain’s allowing Western Sahara President Brahim Ghali, whose nation Morocco claims for itself, into the country for medical treatment." https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ceuta-spain-morocco-...

New comment by abrowne in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

abrowne — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:15:51 +0000

Agreed. If they really want to get ahold of me they'll leave a voicemail.

But I feel like I have to answer when my son is at school/camp.

New comment by abrowne in "The AI Aesthetic"

abrowne — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:39:47 +0000

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-hemingway/the-sun-a...

New comment by abrowne in "Firefox 153.0 Beta"

abrowne — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:09:15 +0000

I prefer the Firefox PDF viewer personally, and now that it can do all this I uninstalled the default Ubuntu PDF reader recently. It made me think and I uninstalled the image viewer app too. For both I'd rather use Firefox.

New comment by abrowne in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

abrowne — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:34:27 +0000

Was your bookshelf stained from sliding them out? Ours was all red on the bottom edge.

New comment by abrowne in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

abrowne — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:30:49 +0000

All good deadpan deserves a downvote?

New comment by abrowne in "Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further"

abrowne — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:11:49 +0000

I think that's true, but energy efficiency is only one potential benefit of epaper displays, and not one that is a goal with this product.

New comment by abrowne in "Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further"

abrowne — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:54:35 +0000

> Touchscreens on your wrist suck so bad.

I don't mind myself, and especially in winter with mittens on I can – and often do – use my nose :-D

New comment by abrowne in "Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further"

abrowne — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:00:44 +0000

Bangle.js 2 (https://banglejs.com/) also has a transflective LCD. It's very fun product with a great community.

Bangle.js 3 is being discussed: https://github.com/orgs/espruino/discussions/7341

New comment by abrowne in "Boot Naked Linux"

abrowne — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:50:32 +0000

Or they meant 2010s?

New comment by abrowne in "Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case"

abrowne — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:59:03 +0000

Bankman won't be Fried

New comment by abrowne in "Europe's largest Copper Age tomb: children's bones show ancient health crisis"

abrowne — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:49:40 +0000

Source article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187998172...

New comment by abrowne in "MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production"

abrowne — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:24:44 +0000

I agree with your comment generally, but note that Dell's $699 competitor they announced this week has has a slightly larger screen than the Neo with similar resolution and brightness but better color coverage.

New comment by abrowne in "What Is a Dickover?"

abrowne — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:54:52 +0000

I can't imagine browsing the web without user stylesheets. (I guess I can, but I don't want to.)

New comment by abrowne in "What Is a Dickover?"

abrowne — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:39:34 +0000

Any site I visit regularly gets a user stylesheet via Stylus that I use to hide anything like this.

New comment by abrowne in "Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

abrowne — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:31:08 +0000

I know that if you want `fd` (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) you need to `apt install fd-find` and which installs the binary `fdfind` (!).

New comment by abrowne in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

abrowne — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:02:15 +0000

Hearing this in the news reminded me of William Langewiesche's great piece in vanity fair about the cause: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...

New comment by abrowne in "Vivaldi 8.0"

abrowne — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:28:48 +0000

Sustainable means those sources of income will continue, not that they are positive for users.