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New comment by xaldir in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

xaldir — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:48:21 +0000

I was thinking the same thing.

Simple sugars and highly processed foods tends to affect the gut microbiome.

I guess "more ressearch is needed".

New comment by xaldir in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

xaldir — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:45:08 +0000

> Not allowed in EU.

I'm surprised, I know for a fact that some stores definitely have the ability to do that on their hardware.

New comment by xaldir in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

xaldir — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:51:13 +0000

And they even put a nagware in it to point you to the new notepad. Oh MSFT.

New comment by xaldir in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

xaldir — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:44:31 +0000

No, no, no, Emacs is a pretty good operating system, it just lacks a good text editor.

New comment by xaldir in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

xaldir — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:28:44 +0000

Maybe it's just a PR stunt, maybe not, we'll find out in due time.

The thing is, there has been a lot of announcement like that in the past, but when the dust settles, you find out that every other ministry just signed another contract with Microsoft, so yeah.

The DINUM (the state agency behind these tools) just try very hard to be relevant, but in the end, the ministries are relatively autonomous in their choices.

New comment by xaldir in "Ecosia: The greenest AI is here"

xaldir — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:42:49 +0000

It goes well with their greenwashing "search engine" (API to bing and google).

New comment by xaldir in "DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model"

xaldir — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:44:31 +0000

However, Holywood might like the idea of producing an endless stream of content/music/movies/etc. with little human intervention.

New comment by xaldir in "A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away"

xaldir — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:40:16 +0000

Could a gladiator win such a fight? I guess with a long reach weapon like a pilum, the gladiator may have a chance but it would be a hell of a fight.

With a gladius or any other short range weapon, it's just a fancy execution.

New comment by xaldir in "A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away"

xaldir — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:35:19 +0000

Most of the time it was not the church that did the execution. The church was more an expertise if you will and delivered the suspect to civil authorities with a judgement. The civil authorities then did what the law called for.

New comment by xaldir in "A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away"

xaldir — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:31:33 +0000

I doubt that. Big predators don't quit fights even when mortally wounded.

New comment by xaldir in "Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life"

xaldir — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:10:38 +0000

For a time it was a new market, full of potential growth. Then it got mature, every one who wanted one had one and given the nature of the device (low cost/low performance) it wouldn't need to be renewed for some time. Some manufacturers went upmarket (bigger and more powerful devices for more money) blurring the line with their entry level laptops. It wasn't a recognisable market segment any more. At some point, the market must have both shrunk too much and merged into other segments for anyone to care. Mobile devices ate their lunch too I guess.

New comment by xaldir in "How refrigeration changed our food"

xaldir — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:38:55 +0000

It's better than days old refrigerated food, but not equivalent to freshly picked.

I grow beans in my garden. French beans and broad beans are quite good frozen, perhaps amongst the vegetables that tolerate the freezer the most. Very happy to have those out of season. But there is no comparison possible with the fresh stuff.

New comment by xaldir in "How refrigeration changed our food"

xaldir — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:32:07 +0000

Unfortunately no.

The cold degrades some molecules involved in the flavour of the fruit.

New comment by xaldir in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

xaldir — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:03:54 +0000

As someone who started it's career in a thinkpad only shop

Indeed, old thinkpads were designed to survive a coffee spill on the keyboard and they did, and various drops (with spinning rust as storage and cfl backed screens)

And when you achieve to break some part, it can be easily swapped. Oh and the documentation for that is available and very detailed.

New comment by xaldir in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

xaldir — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:47:52 +0000

0% chance of this happening, but I like the idea.

New comment by xaldir in "Unofficial Windows 7 Service Pack 2"

xaldir — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:46:03 +0000

XP 64 was kinda good but crippled by poor driver support and thus stability issues.

New comment by xaldir in "The polar vortex is hitting the brakes"

xaldir — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:30:32 +0000

>look at what China is doing

China needs everything it can build and more. It's not much the what but rather where, when and how much that is crucial.

New comment by xaldir in "Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable"

xaldir — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:59:22 +0000

There is indeed a difference between specced for "incandescent bulbs wont start a fire" and "it's warm enough to cook the electronics of your led bulbs"

New comment by xaldir in "Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options"

xaldir — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:34:54 +0000

Big talk. Let's see if it will survive another media cycle.

New comment by xaldir in "For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower"

xaldir — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:21:04 +0000

Moped going 20+kph are regulated need registration and can't ride on sidewalk, there are ebikes weighting more than moped and going faster.