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glaucon commented on Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight airbus.com/en/newsroom/pr... · Posted by u/pyrophoenix

bparsons · 19 days ago

There was a very large CME ten days ago. The NOAA scale had predicted a high likelihood of disruptions, and had specifically suggested that spacecraft and high altitude aircraft could be impacted.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation

https://kauai.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/CMEscoreboard/prediction/de...

glaucon · 19 days ago

FWIW the "industry sources say" line on the incident is that it occurred on 30 October[1], so further back than ten days ago but of course there may have been other CME incidents at that time.

The European Agency Aviation Safety Agency [2] instruction describes the characteristics of the incident but not the date.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/28/airbus-issu...

[2] https://ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2025-0268-E

glaucon commented on Built a Pomodoro timer for ADHD brains: always visible progress bar · Posted by u/raoarjun4

glaucon · a month ago

I don't have ADHD but I would find that useful (I'm not a mac user so your implementation is not for me).

I have used pomodoro timers that have a sound (for instance a clock ticking) and that's a useful way to be reminded. Unfortunately the ones I've seen to date have a reasonably limited range of sound configuration options, generally a one second tick. I would prefer to hear a quiet sound every thirty seconds, I'd also be interested in the option of a voice announcing, say, every five minutes elapsed.

glaucon commented on Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes corporate.ryanair.com/new... · Posted by u/teekert

ranger_danger · a month ago

I think with these kinds of ideological issues, all one can do is vote with their wallet. Nobody is forcing you to fly Ryanair, there are other choices, and if you don't like their practices, don't fly with them. If enough people do it, then they might change their ways, but if their 80% number is accurate, you're probably just stuck not flying with them anymore and nobody else is going to care but you, unfortunately.

Not trying to be rude at all... you said their goal is not yours, so that's why you choose not to do business with them. Every business can't please everyone at the same time.

glaucon · a month ago

> I think with these kinds of ideological issues, all one can do is vote with their wallet

Needs to be viewed in the light of the distinctly un-open market in which airlines operate. There are only so many airports, and only so many slots. I might wish to start another airline which customers may use an open solution but the reality is that incumbents have a massive moat around them. No market, that I know of, is perfect but air travel is an unusually distorted one.

glaucon commented on Time to start de-Appling heatherburns.tech/2025/11... · Posted by u/msangi

fwip · a month ago

If you resize the window to a narrower width, it will wrap more normally.

glaucon · a month ago

A bit weird that it's necessary but thank you for pointing it out.

glaucon commented on Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 apnews.com/article/denmar... · Posted by u/c420

rsolva · a month ago

Banning personalised ads would solve a lot of the underlying incentives that drives the attention grabbing economy today.

Increasing the age a few years for when young people are allow to make accounts on social media is not going to make a large difference in the big picture of things, and do not address the core problem that is the collection and abuse of massive amounts of personal data.

Upping the age limit a few years is a compromise that big tech can live with. Here in Norway, we've had a 13 year limit for years, but most parents have not cared so far and help their kids register at a much earlier age anyway. This is changing though, as more people realise the downsides of addictive and manipulative apps fighting desperately for our data and attention.

It is frustrating to see how unwilling we are to address the economic incentives that causes the biggest harms.

glaucon · a month ago

> Banning personalised ads

I'm in favour of anything that tries to address the appaling effects of social media, but as long as there is advertising that will, surely, be some sort of personalisation. In the past you bought a magazine about, say, gardening, and all the ads were about gardening. The advertisers were betting that most people reading a gardening magazine were interested in gardening products, the ads were, to some degree, personalised.

If online 'personalised' ads were banned how would personalised be defined ?

glaucon commented on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is heise.de/en/news/Archive-... · Posted by u/Projectiboga

Aurornis · a month ago

> They pardoned the Silk Road drug lord to go after a copyright infringement-lord instead?

The president’s pardons are not popular with the FBI and law enforcement. The FBI is not happy about doing all of the work to prosecute people only to have the president override it for political reasons.

glaucon · a month ago

> The president’s pardons are not popular with the FBI and law enforcement

Well if they don't like it I'm sure he would be happy to start a bidding war.

glaucon commented on Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers restofworld.org/2025/data... · Posted by u/ohjeez

brikym · a month ago

The same thing happened here in NZ with AWS. The job creation stories is almost always bullshit. Down here in NZ the govt subsidizes an aluminium smelter which uses 13% of the national electricity just to provide 3,000 jobs. In the media headlines 3,000 jobs seems quite measurable and impactful compared to many customers overpaying for electricity by an mysterious undetermined amount. It's obvious which way the politicians are going to lean.

glaucon · a month ago

> Down here in NZ the govt subsidizes an aluminium smelter which uses 13% of the national electricity just to provide 3,000 jobs

I'm not in favour of giving the smelter owners a sweet deal but I believe there is some nuance which is lost in your comment.

When you say subsidize I assume you're talking about the price the smelter pays for electricty (I'm not aware of any direct subsidy).

Until about 2022 the transmission lines out of Manapouri heading north could only handle a part of what Manapouri could produce, other lines headed towards Tiwai Point to feed the smelter with the balance of Manapouri's output. This meant that negotiating electricity prices with the smelter owners was tricky because it was perfectly clear that there was nowhere else to take the electricity. In the past five years more capacity has been added to allow electricity from Manapouri to reach the National Grid and so, I presume, this significantly dilutes downward price pressure from the smelter.

glaucon commented on Roc Camera roc.camera/... · Posted by u/martialg

bborud · 2 months ago

The people who buy these cameras would probably be better served by upgrading their phones. Phones are good enough cameras for this use and they are infinitely better at processing.

As a long time hobbyist photographer I can understand buying cameras because they have a certain appeal. But I have to say that I honestly do not understand why someone would spend lots of money and then not want to take advantage of the technology offered.

I think shooting to JPEG and using film profiles is kind of pointless. If you want to shoot film, shoot film. Imagine you have taken a really good picture, but it’ll always look worse than it could because you threw away most of the data and applied some look to it that will date it.

I do understand that a lot of people think these cameras are worth buying. And that they are selling well. But I can’t understand why.

glaucon · 2 months ago

> The people who buy these cameras would probably be better served by upgrading their phones.

I'm sorry if this too far off topic but I routinely go to use my phone's camera and the ambient light level is so high I can barely see what I'm intending to photograph, and I certainly can't see the on-screen controls.

I've seen hoods intended to over your head and into which the phone fits and this would, I assume, resolve the issue but by comparison a point and click with a 'proper' viewfinder (perhaps with the rubber surround some used to have) would be a very good solution by comparison.

glaucon commented on Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state scottrlarson.com/publicat... · Posted by u/trinsic2

wazoox · 2 months ago

Teams works in Firefox on Linux perfectly fine for me.

glaucon · 2 months ago

Sorry, I've only just seen your response. Are you able to share your screen using FF on Linux? It's been about eighteen months since I tried so perhaps things have changed since my experience.

glaucon commented on Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state scottrlarson.com/publicat... · Posted by u/trinsic2

throwaway2037 · 2 months ago

I would also say that the desktop version of Microsoft Outlook is much better than the web app. Can you even drag and drop emails to attach them from the web app? I never tried it. (It always bothers me that I cannot do it in Gmail. Attached emails are so common in the business world.)

Also: Almost all replacements for Excel are much worse, and incompatible with existing VBA macros that run a lot of HR, accounting, budgets, and other support functions.

Regarding Teams desktop app vs web app: Is there a big difference? I don't have experience with the web app.

glaucon · 2 months ago

| Regarding Teams desktop app vs web app: Is there a big difference? I don't have experience with the web app.

I seem to recall : it would only work on Edge; and you couldn't share your screen in the web environment.

I say "only work on Edge" but, to be fair, it's possible I may not have tried Chrome as I never use it. It didn't work on Firefox.