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kjakm commented on National Geographic now recognizes The Southern Ocean nationalgeographic.com/en... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

kjakm · 5 years ago

Could somebody who understands this stuff explain it for me?

I'm pretty sure I've heard of the Southern Ocean before. It also seems a little fishy that this is being heavily promoted by the magazine that (presumably) these 'Nat Geo cartographers' work for.

Is this a PR stunt? Is there an official body that classifies oceans?

Edit:

I guess this bit of the article explains it. There is no new ocean, it's been recognised for a while.

"'The Southern Ocean has long been recognized by scientists, but because there was never agreement internationally, we never officially recognized it,' says National Geographic Society Geographer Alex Tait. "

kjakm commented on Vivaldi 4.0 vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-... · Posted by u/0x49d1

ACS_Solver · 5 years ago

I want to offer Vivaldi some praise, I switched to it as my main browser a few years ago, and it's been great. I had to look for a new browser when Firefox (that I had used since the Firebird days) kept breaking my settings and plugins with their updates. After yet another Firefox update I wasn't able to restore the browser to how I want it to be, so I tried Vivaldi.

I'm not even a big fan of the original Opera, but love Vivaldi's features such as easy screen splitting between two tabs and one-click actions to disable images or apply certain filters to a page. Picture-in-picture and pop-outs for media are also great, periodic tab reload is occasionally very useful.

Ideally I'd like to use a fully FOSS browser, but my patience with Firefox ran out, and Vivaldi is Chromium + custom open-source parts + closed-source UI layer. Good enough for me, though not ideal.

kjakm · 5 years ago

I hadn't even thought of tab tiling as a feature I might need until now. Just took a look and seems incredibly useful!

kjakm commented on Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR alias.dev/report... · Posted by u/mehdim

capableweb · 5 years ago

Have you tried emailing hn@ycombinator.com and it got denied? Or what you mean there is no easy way to request the data deletion? AFAIK they don't scrub the comments but if you request it, your username will be replaced with [deleted] for all your comments.

kjakm · 5 years ago

I remember trying that with an old account a few years ago (suggesting your solution of just hiding the username) and was denied. Maybe things have changed since then though.

kjakm commented on Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor axu2.medium.com/solved-by... · Posted by u/seam_carver

arvinsim · 5 years ago

This is definitely news to me. Why?

kjakm · 5 years ago

Have a scan through the homepage. I often find the same few people posting broad questions over and over again to generate engagement. On top of that I feel most of the article titles tend to be click bait. I have come across one or two really good articles but they are very much the exception.

kjakm commented on How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix matrix.org/blog/2021/05/1... · Posted by u/daenney

hyperman1 · 5 years ago

I was also curious, so I found this:

https://edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2021/bavarian-dpa-...

The core: ... transfers of personal data to the U.S.- were not lawful.

So the problem is that an US company cannot be GDPR compliant, because that conflicts with US law. Which sucks for mailchimp but makes sense.

kjakm · 5 years ago

A US company can be compliant. They just have to host EU user data in the EU.

kjakm commented on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? · Posted by u/wyldfire

syrgian · 5 years ago

I bought a few of them to try them out and I'm disappointed currently. I tried to make them switch temperature automatically through the day, and nothing is working. I've only found people saying that there's no way without custom scripts that attempt to change the temperature continuously, which is very surprising. (I've only done an hour of research and tried around 3 different methods).

Only one of the lights, which uses a dimmer switch, changes automatically, but only if I turn it off and on again.

Other than that, the quality of the light is good.

kjakm · 5 years ago

The latest version of iOS/HomeKit has 'adaptive lighting'. You select that colour option and it will modify the temperature automatically throughout the day. You have very little manual control over it but sounds like what you might be looking for.

kjakm commented on Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip reuters.com/business/glob... · Posted by u/garraeth

halfmatthalfcat · 5 years ago

For me, it's because the hype isn't around the technology (which is the interesting part and for the most part, why we're on HN), it's around the speculation. From the outside, looks like a bunch of gamblers constantly getting each other off on whether their bets will make them millionares.

It's just...sad...at a level.

kjakm · 5 years ago

A fair opinion to have. I feel every HN thread on crypto now though dissolves to negativity (without any substance) + toxicity really quickly.

kjakm commented on Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip reuters.com/business/glob... · Posted by u/garraeth

RivieraKid · 5 years ago

Same. I hate the arrogant stupidity of the crypto cult.

kjakm · 5 years ago

As someone with no real opinion on crypto the arrogant stupidity of the anti-crypto crowd (really prevalent on HN) is also quite tiring.

kjakm commented on Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together blog.google/technology/re... · Posted by u/ra7

mcbutterbunz · 5 years ago

I would wager a guess that its due to lack of competition. Apple Maps only works on iOS. DDG is great but the search results aren’t. Does YouTube even have a competitor?

I don’t think you’re a curmudgeon at all. Circa 2008, Google was innovating in a lot of different areas that were very valuable to the average user. The ROI on these services has gone way down.

kjakm · 5 years ago

NB: Apple Maps also has a dedicated Mac app.