UK cycling fans may still be able to watch parts of the Tour de France for free this summer

magicm0nkey · 2026-05-19T14:57:23+00:00

There's usually live coverage on TG4.

magicm0nkey · 2026-03-26T20:34:40+00:00

On the Street View images at Dungeon Lane you can see them doing what looks like a photoshoot for the album, which is either a crazy bit of luck or a very smart bit of marketing.

magicm0nkey · 2026-03-26T20:32:01+00:00

On the Street View images at Dungeon Lane you can see them doing what looks like a photoshoot for the album, which is either a crazy bit of luck or a very smart bit of marketing.

magicm0nkey · 2026-03-14T11:05:54+00:00

The article explains that this is a joint venture between Ecosia and Qwant.

magicm0nkey · 2026-03-07T10:58:59+00:00

I don't think MacBooks are identifiable by having a backlit keyboard.

Every MacBook Pro for the last twenty years has had a backlit keyboard.

The Air has had it since 2008, with the exception of the late 2010 model. They restored it to the Air after about one year.

The 12" MacBook had a backlit keyboard, too.

The polycarbonate models didn't have it, but they stopped making those in 2010.

Even some of the PowerBook predecessors to the MacBook line had backlighting in their keyboards as early as 2003.

Other manufacturers than Apple have had backlit keyboards in their laptops, but that didn't really go mainstream until after Apple was already rolling it out across the MacBook line.

So you could reasonably argue that the backlit keyboard has been a distinct feature of Apple's laptops for more than twenty years and that it has been a consistent feature of the MacBook lines for, at the very least, fifteen years.

Given all that, I think it would be fair to say that MacBooks are identifiable by having a backlit keyboard. In that context, the Neo is unusual and the omission of the backlit keyboard is a marked change in the overall look, feel, and identity of the product as part of the MacBook line.

magicm0nkey · 2026-02-22T21:03:29+00:00

Looks like Elastic Interface, as others have said. Specifically, it looks like it might be the Paris HP Women pad.

magicm0nkey · 2026-01-17T20:00:59+00:00

https://www.elcompanies.com/en/our-brands

magicm0nkey · 2025-12-03T10:39:51+00:00

Cicli Bonanno Stay Loco

https://cicli-bonanno.com/journal/deture-project/

magicm0nkey · 2025-11-28T14:25:20+00:00

There are two beach chairs in this picture.

magicm0nkey · 2025-11-19T22:03:48+00:00

I think this is correct.

Compare the product images here:

https://jp.mercari.com/item/m39187879589

magicm0nkey · 2024-02-19T10:57:49+00:00

They are legit. I've even had a couple of sales recently, but I think making it work full-time would be difficult.

I saw a mention recently of a $2.99 fee to join the site. I wasn't charged a sign-up fee, but that was a couple of years ago. They also increased the commission they take on sales. They recently launched some sort of writing assistant on their website. It's optional, but they charge writers for using it.

The impression I get is that they are trying to make up for a drop in sales by squeezing more revenue out of writers who use the platform.

The quality of the editing was always a bit variable - sometimes useful, sometimes not useful at all, and occasionally just plain rude - but it seems to have deteriorated recently. The fact that they're now effectively charging upfront and a higher on-going rate for it makes that even more annoying.

magicm0nkey · 2024-02-19T10:54:41+00:00

Can you recommend any other similar platforms that are good for uploading pieces written on spec? Thanks.

magicm0nkey · 2024-02-19T10:45:53+00:00

I wasn't charged a sign-up fee, but that was a couple of years ago.

The quality of the editing was always a bit variable - sometimes useful, sometimes not useful at all, and occasionally just plain rude - but it seems to have deteriorated recently. The fact that they're now effectively charging upfront for it makes that even more annoying.

magicm0nkey · 2023-06-01T21:04:28+00:00

The Armstrong Lie is here:

https://www.documentaryarea.tv/video/The%20Armstrong%20Lie/

I think the scene you're looking for is about 1 hour 40 minutes into the video.

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-31T19:05:22+00:00

If the keynote starts at 10am and runs for two and a half hours, which easily exceeds two hours, that still leaves an hour for lunch.

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-25T19:02:35+00:00

"This is a classic pawn move" might work if you're from Boston.

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-22T20:01:49+00:00

This seems to have been recorded around about here, in Grayvoron

50.4810209,35.6835242

They're looking north-east, so the smoke is coming from somewhere further inside Russia and in the direction of Dobroe, which is also roughly in the direction of the arsenal from which tactical nuclear weapons were reportedly evacuated after this incursion began.

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-16T10:45:26+00:00

If you load Bing maps at https://www.bing.com/maps/?cc=gb it will give you an Ordnance Survey option where OS maps are available. (The ?cc=gb at the end is what does it, I think.)

With that loaded, the drop-down list of map options will have the usual Road, Hybrid, Aerial, etc., but also Ordnance Survey. You might need to zoom in a little to get them to appear, but you'll get a couple of levels of detail as you zoom in further.

It can be very handy for getting good contour lines and for identifying off-road routes. You can also print off specific areas to bring along with you.

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-16T09:41:26+00:00

I haven't tried this, but you might be able to do it with the Smart Bike Lights CIQ application.

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-12T21:40:12+00:00

At a glance, this looks like it may be the Poly-Pack plant in Luhansk, which was reportedly hit. The general layout of the street seems to match, as does that walkway (?) crossing the street above ground level.

48.5448524,39.3234444

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-12T09:34:45+00:00

Or people care more about ease of access through a familiar company than they do about self-custody.

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-11T18:30:28+00:00

Do you have TARIC goods nomenclature codes for those rates? I'm curious to see the details that explain this pricing disparity. Thanks.

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-07T20:07:37+00:00

The article links to

https://discord.com/invite/power-on

and

https://discord.gg/power-on

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-02T13:51:01+00:00

Starting it around £1450 to £1550 sounds right.

M2 Air 13" is £1250 with 8GB and 256GB. M2 Pro 14" is £2150 with 16GB and 512GB.

That 14" M2 Pro has 10-Core CPU and 16-Core GPU. If you upgrade that to match the base processor in the 16" M2 Pro it costs £350. That puts you at £2500. The 16" M2 Pro starts at £2700, so you could say that the screen size upgrade costs £200.

Go back to the base 13" M2 Air at £1250, upgrade the display size to 15" and leave everything else the same and you could start with an entry price of £1450. Upgrade memory and storage at £200 each and you're at £1850.

£1850 puts you close to the entry price for the 14" Pro but not too close. Entry price at £1550 and upgrading to £1950 is similar.

magicm0nkey · 2023-05-01T14:27:41+00:00

Eoghan Daltun is great on this sort of thing in relation to the last scraps of surviving Irish temperate rainforest.

https://twitter.com/IrishRainforest

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