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New comment by joecool1029 in "No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record"

joecool1029 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:45:58 +0000

Believe it or not at least 40 million tons of it ends up in the Amazon basin each year where it does have an effect on the plants there: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/1/1/014...

It goes elsewhere too, as expected.

New comment by joecool1029 in "Eating Fruit Skins"

joecool1029 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:08:58 +0000

>I think we can assume that apples and cherries are OK to eat. Apple pips are fine and why on earth would you want to crunch through a cherry stone.

Black cherries (prunus serotina) I ate a whole bunch of during late summer. Much smaller than the Prunus avium (sweet cherry) which ripens around early June here. Allegedly the fruit does contain the cyanide producing compounds but without the enzymes. The catch is if you chew the pits (or eat the leaves/stems) it is poisonous. Poisons a lot of horses and other livestock: https://horsedvm.com/poisonous/black-cherry-trees

New comment by joecool1029 in "Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine"

joecool1029 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:59:52 +0000

This only appeared to happen with Safari on my end. Edge and Firefox didn't appear to have the back button hijacked here. Maybe some browsers do block the behavior now? (or maybe ublock origin blocked it, I'm not sure)

New comment by joecool1029 in "Will There Be a 7G?"

joecool1029 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:02:20 +0000

ATT did a lot of this, android has a ‘feature’ they utilize to inflate the signal bar: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

New comment by joecool1029 in "Trezor's email provider has been breached"

joecool1029 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:59:44 +0000

I’ve complained upstream to them before about their (lack of) security processes making downstream distro package management more difficult: https://github.com/trezor/trezord-go/issues/293

New comment by joecool1029 in "Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study"

joecool1029 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:04:55 +0000

I'm wondering if caffeine was accounted for in this. One thing I seem to recall is peppermint tea has some inhibition of CYP1A2. I notice it's missing from the wikipedia page now, so maybe this was a flawed study or something... figured I'd mention in case anyone else knows.

At least this study says the activity was reduced, not significantly though: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02786...

New comment by joecool1029 in "Adafruit USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer"

joecool1029 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:25:06 +0000

There were some higher profile products that left this out like the original revisions of the raspberry pi 4.

New comment by joecool1029 in "Telegram Removed from App Store"

joecool1029 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:38:58 +0000

still appears if you are in their testflight beta… weird

EDIT: apparently restored to appstore according to various sources.

New comment by joecool1029 in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

joecool1029 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:48:15 +0000

Been moving all my domains to them for a couple years now. Happy so far with them and they handle some of the harder tld’s to find a registrar for.

New comment by joecool1029 in "Linux 7.1"

joecool1029 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:17:35 +0000

It’s good. I packaged it in my gentoo overlay and have been using it for a couple months, none of the weird issues ntfs3 had.

New comment by joecool1029 in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

joecool1029 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:48:19 +0000

> vaultwarden is great, but password managers are security critical software that need consistent maintenance and constant updates.

You’re acting like this isn’t the case already with vaultwarden? (and it’s easier to host as well, making for easier updates) https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/releases

New comment by joecool1029 in "New Nginx Exploit"

joecool1029 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:30:07 +0000

lighttpd still around too, on 1.4.82, not too much changed there.

New comment by joecool1029 in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

joecool1029 — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:53:32 +0000

To expand a little on this, Zelle and debit card transactions are covered under Regulation E: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/100... . So there’s a codified procedure for disputes, it’s just a little less consumer friendly.

New comment by joecool1029 in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

joecool1029 — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:05:30 +0000

> Aren't you choosing to ignore something very specific specified in that article?

Of course not, did you ignore the lines right after? “As we have moved towards broader access it has not caused problems, which we take as a good sign. We are now looking to do this more broadly.”

The announcement is from 9 years ago. I already mentioned they ignored the robots.txt for my own blog.

New comment by joecool1029 in "EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant"

joecool1029 — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:11:25 +0000

> There's Supreme Court precedent establishing that this isn't the case.

This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Martinez-Fuer... or is there newer now?

> ACLU itself had backed off it, last I checked

They did, the current page greatly narrows the scope of their border-zone guidance to the SCOTUS case I linked before: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

New comment by joecool1029 in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

joecool1029 — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:30:46 +0000

Which they don’t respect. I’ve had it for my blog for years and they still added it to wayback machine, see my last comment for their official announcement of the ignore robots.txt policy, it is not new.

New comment by joecool1029 in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

joecool1029 — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:29:09 +0000

No, archive.org does NOT respect robots.txt. You need to reach out to them directly and ask your site not be included: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

New comment by joecool1029 in "Ted Turner has died"

joecool1029 — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:12:31 +0000

#4 largest private land owner in the US: https://landreport.com/land-report-100#top-100

Wonder what's going to be done with it now that he's dead.

New comment by joecool1029 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

joecool1029 — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:36:13 +0000

Hard to believe it's over 10 years since they first started pulling crap like this by downloading a binary to listen for 'OK Google' (including on chromium builds): https://lwn.net/Articles/648392/

New comment by joecool1029 in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

joecool1029 — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:33:09 +0000

Not sure that's citric acid doing that, it's probably bromelain, which can be used as a meat tenderizer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain