out-of-ideas (u/out-of-ideas)

out-of-ideas commented on Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas iopscience.iop.org/articl... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

defrost · 8 months ago

Archivers work fine for myself: https://archive.md/qUlES

There's also a direct PDF link https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5295/ade17d/... that also prompts for captcha (unless you arrive there via the web version)

Looping redirects on archive.XX urls often traces back to the use of Cloudflare DNS resolver .. the archive folk have some beef with Cloudflare over (?) handling privacy (?) and loop redirects on connections that arrive via that path.

It's a new captcha type for myself also. Interesting as it requires spatial reasoning and a bridge of understanding between text request and objects in images - although it falls to the usual farm of human captcha solvers.

out-of-ideas · 8 months ago

nice, well i am using quad9; archive.org had 503's too (edit: lol i wonder if it did complete for me but somehow something else caused a loop - i never went to the search prompt afterward)

out-of-ideas commented on Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas iopscience.iop.org/articl... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

gerdesj · 8 months ago

I've just been presented with a captcha thingie asking me to select all things that can be picked up by a pair of chopsticks described as "the tool in the image"

Fuck off.

Then that vanished and another even more vapid effort appeared.

Fuck off.

If you need to piss around with this sort of nonsense, you probably shouldn't be entrusted with a website.

out-of-ideas · 8 months ago

i clicked the url and saw that first very weird looking captcha - then immediately closed the tab

looks like the archivers have trouble with it too; reminds me of the behavior of a virus with all the redirects lol

edit: for those with custom filterlists via ubo:

- ||iop.org

out-of-ideas commented on Give footnotes the boot – alternatives to footnotes on the web jakearchibald.com/2025/gi... · Posted by u/jaffathecake

bshacklett · 8 months ago

Ugh, this has become a huge issue with text editing controls. More and more, I find that content gets unloaded once it’s out of the editor’s viewport, making the browser’s built-in search fail.

out-of-ideas · 8 months ago

xkcd standards; why use the standard search feature when you can build a new search feature per page per website ! new shiny, ooo weeee ooo

personally, i blame javascript

out-of-ideas commented on Give footnotes the boot – alternatives to footnotes on the web jakearchibald.com/2025/gi... · Posted by u/jaffathecake

JadeNB · 8 months ago

I've always enjoyed the to-me graceful experience of coupling each link to a footnote with a return anchor, so that you get the (to olds like me) familiar experience of footnotes without the pain of navigating to the bottom and then forgetting where you came from. My memory is that Daring Fireball, among many other sites, does this. (I just checked, and it does. Here's the most recent article that uses a footnote: https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/apple_app_store_policy_up.... Here's the reference to the footnote: https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/apple_app_store_policy_up.... And here's the footnote itself: https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/apple_app_store_policy_up.... This does require some special handling if you refer to the same footnote multiple times, but, if you really need to do that, the solution could be as simple as having the second reference be to a new footnote that immediately refers to the old one.)

out-of-ideas · 8 months ago

i prefer them laid flat out too - grinds my gears when there is a wall of text, then trying to use the browsers built-in-search to find a text i remember but cannot find due to some hover/click-element that only displays text sometimes. though - i do not mind a list of sources at the bottom nor embedded within a bracket or w/e - there are many standards

(i guess what is worse are pages which re-invent the wheel and re-implement text-searching, like [gitlab i think], where the browser search is broken as its only displaying a sub-section of text at any given moment and browser search fails unless you scroll a page down and find again)

out-of-ideas commented on YouTube: Robotic translation annoys users and cannot be turned off heise.de/en/news/YouTube-... · Posted by u/doener

_Algernon_ · 8 months ago

So at this point, to use YT you need:

- Ublock origin. - Sponsorblock. - DeArrow. - Youtube no translation

At what point do we collectively decide to no longer patch over enshittified bullshit?

out-of-ideas · 8 months ago

we need a yt deshitter for (maybe one exists?): when mousing over the seek-bar, the time displayed goes from the time where im hovering over, to a huge-chunk of the bar displaying 'most replayed' in several areas (not just one, which "most" implies)

out-of-ideas commented on Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM downtowndougbrown.com/202... · Posted by u/zdw

dclowd9901 · 9 months ago

Having been at this long enough to have put Easter eggs of my own into works I've done, I can say that the biggest issue is the lack of stomach for introducing a possible failure point to the software for little more than shits and giggles, especially when software has gotten so complex and big. That and who has the time to build silly stuff at work anymore. I feel like we're constantly at 120%.

out-of-ideas · 9 months ago

> I feel like we're constantly at 120%

sounds like a great way to burn out. if you do not take care of yourself properly, how are you expected to take care of anything else?

edit: oops late reply, but oh well

out-of-ideas commented on Games Run Faster on SteamOS Than Windows 11, Ars Testing Finds games.slashdot.org/story/... · Posted by u/austinallegro

out-of-ideas · 9 months ago

ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381144

out-of-ideas commented on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/_JamesA_

spartanatreyu · 9 months ago

There's little point benchmarking a debloated windows 11 since:

1. There is no standard debloated windows 11 to compare against since Microsoft adds more bloat each month.

2. Users aren't going to be running a debloated windows 11 anyway

out-of-ideas · 9 months ago

and 3: its also windows 11 on the handheld - its not comparing a desktop (edit- or many desktops for that matter) with steamos on it vs some windows. (though i can see somebody debloating 11 and dropping it on the device - why not?)

> We then installed Windows 11 on the handheld, downloaded updated drivers from Lenovo's support site, and re-ran the benchmarks on the same games downloaded through Steam for Windows.

out-of-ideas commented on The Mathematics of Juggling [video] youtube.com/watch?v=0FSWz... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

out-of-ideas · 9 months ago

very interesting; for those that made it to ~43mins in, i think this is "negative siteswaps" video mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Q4UhyajC4 ( and some more info here: https://juggle.fandom.com/wiki/Impossible_Siteswap_Animator )

out-of-ideas commented on Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost update.botghost.com/... · Posted by u/exists

throwaway7679 · 9 months ago

> NEITHER DISCORD NOR ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE APIs, API DATA, DOCUMENTATION, OR ANY DISCORD SERVICES.

The existence of terms like this make any discussion of the other terms look pretty silly.

Their policy is simply that they do whatever they want, and that hasn't changed.

out-of-ideas · 9 months ago

> Their policy is simply that they do whatever they want, and that hasn't changed.

yup! and don't forget they can change their policy whenever they want too

also they rank D on this site: https://tosdr.org/en/service/536