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New comment by tau255 in "RepRapMicron"

tau255 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:05:58 +0000

Do you have any links/sources about that Wyler Inclinometer you could share?

How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC

tau255 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:13:38 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.scrt.ch/2026/09/22/how-one-twitch-chat-message-became-code-execution-on-a-streamers-pc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852143

Points: 67

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New comment by tau255 in "Sunday is your last sure chance to visit the Academy of Natural Sciences museum"

tau255 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:15:24 +0000

https://archive.is/Bz5Kp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Natural_Sciences_of...

Sunday is your last sure chance to visit the Academy of Natural Sciences museum

tau255 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:15:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inquirer.com/news/academy-natural-sciences-closing-last-day-20260924.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838547

Points: 5

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New comment by tau255 in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

tau255 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:48:01 +0000

This sounds a lot like trickle down economy. It did not really help anyone other than capital owners.

New comment by tau255 in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)"

tau255 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:44:10 +0000

Due to Partitions of Poland a lot of of territory was under Prussian influence for over a century - that had to have some culinary effect (other than forced germanization).

Sony Drops Studio Canal Movies from PS Store

tau255 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:21:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/psvideocontent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701881

Points: 1

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New comment by tau255 in "Vivaldi 8.0"

tau255 — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:25:49 +0000

Vivaldi was only an option until Google removed any real way to run adblocking extensions from Chromium source. If there was a fork of Chromium allowing Ublock Origin to run it could be considered but as it is now there is no real point to consider Vivaldi or any other Chromium based browsers if you want real ad blocking.

Used Vivaldi and it was always slower and more clunkier than Chrome/Chromium but it had its advantages. The team behind it was old Opera team and tried/tries to bring that feel back to the browser with some success. I had been user of old Presto based Opera, the Blink version wasn't really what I looked for and the change of ownership was really questionable.

New comment by tau255 in "Scott Adams has died"

tau255 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:53:48 +0000

That Eastern European immigrant is a result of centuries of feudal slavery. The serfdom of population east of Oder meant lack of freedom of movement, mandatory free work for the lord and the clergy, great poverty and no education. Lord could decide about life and death of their serfs and killing of serf by a different noble was just resolved as part of the business with a fine/repayment. Serfs were just another commodity in lords property, the further east, the worse serfs were exploited.

Despite XIX century reforms dismissing serfdom in some regions, generational poverty of peasants kept them in serfdom like conditions up until end of WW2. And even after WW2 you could end in Ukraine with forced exports of food resulting in genocidal famine.

That Eastern European immigrant has family history of half a millennium or more in slave like conditions.

New comment by tau255 in "What you need to know before touching a video file"

tau255 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:34:12 +0000

Thunderbird has no modifier shortcuts too.

New comment by tau255 in "LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis"

tau255 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:27:58 +0000

I used SciDavis a lot and before that tried QtiPlot. When I had a chance to I used Origin. SciDavis was clunky and had some issues (liked to crash) but it worked well enough for what I wanted. Had some problems with setting plots styles, maybe it was just me but it wasn't obvious how to copy style between plots.

Tried LabPlot recently and had issues with csv import with datetime data not really recognising date and time series format even after using advanced import options and setting it myself manually. Tried to find some solutions, the LabPlot manual website is just a bunch of youtube videos [1]. That is really not helpful, I am not browsing manual to be forced to watch clips of what I already tried. Developers really need to think about making traditional manual.

There is also a AlphaPlot, a more or less alive fork of SciDavis. Still have its own issues but still has the same issue with yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss.zzz dates. Other than that it is a useful bit of kit.

But when I want to do some batch processing and generate multiple plots, automate and have it reproducible I go with gnuplot. The learning curve is steep, but after writing gnuplot scripts few time you just have a personal template and know relevant parts. It is really good.

All in all I am glad there is an opensource movement in this area. It is always better to have more options.

1. https://docs.labplot.org/en/2D_plotting/2D_plotting_xycurve....

New comment by tau255 in "Exploding Cucumber"

tau255 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:09:04 +0000

I have found some footage of the seedpod exploding [1]. It seems that Impatiens parviflora is invasive species that propagated from botanical gardens in Europe. One research [2] states it can shoot seed up to 3.4 meters.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QUzag5u7Pi0 [2] über Impatiens parviflora Dc. als Agriophyt in mitteleuropa, L Trepl - 1984

New comment by tau255 in "Exploding Cucumber"

tau255 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:18:13 +0000

A plant with similarly exploding feature is Impatiens parviflora [1]. It is quite easy to spot in the wild in Europe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impatiens_parviflora

PayPal use on Steam is currently unavailable in my currency. Why?

tau255 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:08:48 +0000

Article URL: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/731C-13C7-7D04-A11E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44885803

Points: 4

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New comment by tau255 in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

tau255 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:55:29 +0000

It is not really US-centric. VISA and Mastercard actions resulted in delisting content in all the markets globally. Steam and Itch.io pulled games from all regions, Manga Library Z was hit in Japan, Patreon and Stripe are pressured globally. Suggesting to boycott VISA and Mastercard if you have an alternative is valid.

New comment by tau255 in "Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic"

tau255 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:16:53 +0000

You can do that with pihole, if you set it up to keep the logs. Just adjust dhcp settings so your devices get its address as DNS server.

New comment by tau255 in "The PETG adhesive test [video]"

tau255 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:00:40 +0000

I think Ponal Holzleim Super 3 he tested is PVA based wood glue. MSDS states it based on polyvinyl acetate dispersion.

New comment by tau255 in "The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)"

tau255 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:33:03 +0000

Light fixtures were designed for incandescent bulbs. Even with advent of fluorescent bulbs and now LED based bulbs little has changed with how light fixtures are made. Old style tungsten bulbs had no problem with high temperature, fixtures trapped heat - hot air rises up and is kept inside. Components of LED bulbs like electrolytic capacitors have known life expectancy based on ambient temperature, even high temperature ones (105degC series) degrade fast when in such conditions.

Another problem is that manufacturers overdrive components. To make bulbs cheaper they just use few more mA of current, that makes LEDs run hotter, more smoothing is needed and caps get hammered by switch mode power supplies.

Without changing light fixtures to be open, allowing circulation of air nothing really can be done for standard e27/bayonet bulbs. I have personally experienced this and had clearly seen the huge difference in LED bulb lifetime between light fixture - glass globe with hole in the bottom (no air vents at the top) and another one that was just a bowl with open top. Never had to change a bulb in second one versus 5-6 changes in globe one.

New comment by tau255 in "XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.""

tau255 — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:18:52 +0000

3 letter intelligence agencies.

The Science of Foam [video]

tau255 — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 16:19:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KhKlHNlP4Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37968110

Points: 2

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