Local and regional eSIMs for travellers - Airalo

HN recommendation for roaming / international esim

Simple turnip cake [lo bak go] recipe - Cook Simply

I really want to make a turnip cake.

Easy white bread recipe | BBC Good Food

Delicious. Though I was a little o_O when it described the concept of preparing the bread one day before and leaving it in the fridge overnight to be a "great timesaver". No time has been saved. In absolute terms some time has been wasted. Reality is a construct. Your perception defines your world.

wwmm/easyeffects: Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications

Apply various effects on-the-fly to Linux audio using Pipewire.

This was great. Someone on a meeting had random high-pitched noises and I could, on the fly, add an equaliser to attenuate all frequencies about 11 KHz -- minimal impact on voices and noise disappeared!

SaltyBet - Twitch

Twitch stream that plays bots off against each other in the Mugen fighting game. Been going for ages (decades?)

EFIStub - Debian Wiki

Set up for grub-less Linux booting using EFI stub plus debian hooks

One Hundred and One Monochrome Mazes : John Vaughn / IBM : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Game of the day. It's so monochrome it doesn't work with colour graphics adapters.

What’s inside popular disposable vapes? Let's open and take them apart!

The activation mechanism is a microphone, which is pretty interesting.

What does the Cerebellum Do Anyway? - by Sarah Constantin

HN

Understanding SameSite cookies

One key annoyance is that from 2016 to 2019, omitting SameSite meant SameSite=None. From 2019 onwards, omitting SameSite meant SameSite=Lax. As of 2023 (https://caniuse.com/same-site-cookie-attribute), Safari and Firefox use the pre-2019 behaviour.

The Quiet Man (video game) - Wikipedia

"Exhausting and miserable time". "Spectactular disaster". But the Imogen Heap accompanying song is quite sweet.

Intel iAPX 432 - Wikipedia

Capability-based, OO-focused processor in 1976

iea-vs-reality-photovoltaics-2018.png 551×455 pixels

Thick black line: solar energy capacity added in gigawatts over time. Other lines: international energy agency predictions. Note exponential reality vs flat prediction, what, 10 times in a row?

Is YouTube anti-adblock fixed yet?

Browsing Youtube; didn't realise I was in the middle of a fight between some youtube exec and half the Internet.

The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding — Ridgeline issue 170

"Magical Japan" articles are so 90s but this one on takkyūbin is very well written (hn)

... except that takkyūbin is apparently a trademark and the generic term is takuhaibin (again, the fine pedants of hn)

LIGHTNESS by Italo Calvino : Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity curated by Kathleen Forde : EMPAC Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center : Troy, NY USA

to read, related to claire-louise bennett quote

Increasing storage size - UpCloud

Trustworthy and Useful Tools for Mobile Phone Extraction : Horizon

TUT-MPE, RIME

aff4/pyaff4: The Python implementation of the AFF4 standard.

RIME related forensic data format

CASE Community | Home

RIME related forensics data format

Communications barriers slowed the inrush of the sociopaths into whatever was hi... | Hacker News

“You might be surrounded by interesting countercultures and not even know about it: whatever properties save them from instant commoditization also keep you out.“ from “is counterculture dead?”

Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop

Some clever things here: attach the probes to a random SPI flash because it's on the same bus as the TPM and its pins are bigger; overwrite sticky keys with cmd.exe for a simple admin shell without login. (hn)

4 ingredient oat milk that doesn't separate - sarah bassett

There's no avoiding the fat component.

Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth blog

the world which crowned React king, in many ways, no longer exists.

Creamy courgette pasta recipe | BBC Good Food

Delicious

List of Hollywood-inspired nicknames - Wikipedia

Olivewood sounds nice.

Building a Chromium-based web kiosk using Yocto/OpenEmbedded | Thomas

that's what I'm doing

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know | Slate Star Codex

Apparently to treat delayed sleep onset you should take it 7 hours before you want to sleep.

Yoshi (genus) - Wikipedia

There's an extinct species of sabretooth cat called Yoshi obscura.

Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe | Waterstones

Queer Greek god sex? Don't know, it was a rec.

Homeobox - Wikipedia

A homeobox is a DNA sequence, around 180 base pairs long, that regulates large-scale anatomical features in the early stages of embryonic development.

Something many people don't know about instant noodles: You don't need to cook t... | Hacker News

You can just soak instant noodles, and also regular pasta. No boiling required!

How to make oat milk recipe | BBC Good Food

I am making my own oat milk. I have ascended.

Create a Palette - Coolors

coat-light colour scheme

Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning & AI risk (June 2023)? — LessWrong

Hofstadter now thinks that LLMs are the future of not just AI but the world

How James Cameron Put Down A Mutiny On The Set Of Aliens

"This has been a long and difficult shoot, fraught by many problems, but the one thing that kept me going, through it all, was the certain knowledge that one day I would drive out the gate of Pinewood and never come back, and that you sorry bastards would still be here."

Download Carbon Copy Cloner | Carbon Copy Cloner | Bombich Software

Random opinions on the best way to perform mac backups

Mary's homemade sausage rolls recipe - BBC Food

puff pastry sausage rolls with thyme

Roasted pepper, beetroot and feta tart recipe - BBC Food

This was bloody good. No need to deskin the peppers: cut them smaller and cook them for less time.

Roasted deskinned peppers have the mouthfeel of slugs.

Like 1984, Black Mirror isn't a dystopia because of technology, but because it's... | Hacker News

On Apple's VR headset: "Like 1984, Black Mirror isn't a dystopia because of technology, but because it's in England. If you leave I expect everything's fine. Also solves being converted into Cybermen for the 100th time."

Sukeroku - Wikipedia

The graphic motif is based on the symbolic purple Hachimaki, red and white coloring, and crest from the costume of "Sukeroku," one of the "Kabuki Juhachiban". Sukeroku's chic appearance fascinated people and he was called "the most handsome man in Edo". (uniqlo)

Sinilink PCIe Computer Remote (XY-WPCE) Configuration for Tasmota

remote control power switch I'd like to flash

ADA12F电容触摸ic封装脚位和功能描述图-阿达电子-阿达电子

Tank Mouse touch pad

wxPython 4.2.0 builds with Python 3.11 but can't find wx._core · Issue #2297 · wxWidgets/Phoenix

consarn it

explain this css font-size: min(max(1em, 1.3vw), 1.3em);

The scientific reason kimchi is best made in earthenware onggi - The Washington Post

Let's make fizzy kimchi!

FastChat

Various LLMs

OSDev.org • View topic - VGA colors in 80x25 text mode?

This is some bullshit. Text palette registers 0-7 map to VGA palette registers 0-7, with the exception of register 6 which maps to VGA palette register 20. Registers 8-16 map to registers 56-64.

Apple Keyboard - ArchWiki

Everywhere: Oh, you can use setxkbmap to swap alt and super keys

Dark corner of Arch wiki: Oh, unless you're using an Apple keyboard in which case you need to set a sysctl and update the initramfs!

A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies by William Ernest Henley - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry

poem from jess