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Ask HN: How to prevent search engines from indexing certain pages of my blog?
Hello HN,

there is a very annoying law in Germany that says you basically have to put your name and address on your blog, no matter what the content is about.

You can't even make it a .jpg to prevent automated data crawling. Courts have ruled against it because it interferes with software that visually impaired people use.

Fines up to 50k Euros are possible.

So now I'm wondering how I can make it the least likely my blog will show up when somebody searches for my name?

Apparently a noindex metatag like this helps?

<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>

The reason I'm asking here is because the sites that discuss de-indexing pages are concerned with SEO, not privacy issues.

Does anybody have any other thoughts on how to achieve maximum privacy without breaking this law?

All input is appreciated.
I wasn't aware that you couldn't own flats.
Personally instead of using soap as part of the seasoning process, I pour a bunch of Morton sea salt into the pan and a little bit of water, and abrade it that way with a sponge. It also has the benefit of creating a lovely matte finish at the end of the seasoning process. I've also found the seasoning process works better at each iteration this way.

It's also how I clean the pans if I have to.
Where can we see it?
Listerine Ultraclean floss is made of PEBAX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyether_block_amide
Well, there is also the method of seasoning cast iron cookware.
ICE cars are made from steel. BEVs are made from Lithium and literally require acid poured through mountains to collect, along with child labor in the Congo to collect cobalt.

Iron / steel is mostly recycled today and incredibly cheap and efficient. A steel engine very well would have less of an environmental impact than Li-ion production.

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The pro-battery crowd needs to start recycling batteries and improving the environmental impact of that technology.
Is this even a real point?

Yes, we should take new chemicals and study them for a significant time frame prior to extensive global use. The bar can be set higher.

Don't conflate social science with hard science.

Social media is great at steering populations, generating useful propaganda and generating useful profiles of individuals....
Why would governments want to restrict that?
Of course if you do theory you barely have to work more than 4 hours a day can be counterproductive unless you are embarking on a Lurie or Grothendieck style project and work 12 hour a day.
The running theme underlying this post is having a clear, purposed vision for the company and tying everything that happens to that vision.

Providing a vision is the most important task for the management and leadership of a company. It permeates their conversations with other leaders who continue to spread it down.

The open questions mentioned in the article shouldn't be taken literally.

> What’s the soonest we could get this done?

> What would you need to get this done tomorrow instead of next week?

> What would we need to do to get twice as many customers? Ten times as many customers?

These are focused questions whose answers reveal the critical pieces needed to achieve the vision.

They strip away all the redundant and nice to have features leaving the core of what is truly necessary to build. That becomes the team's focus.

The questions are a thought experiment exercise that help inform and empower teams to say no to and ignore unnecessary work in the short term in pursuit of the vision.

Other parts of the article are about culture:

> Elevate each cross-functional partner you work with

When you work with excellent people, you want to be excellent too. We see this in every aspect of life - people with physically active friends tend to be more physically active, people with ambitious friends tend to be more ambitious etc etc.

And what is culture but the manifestation of vision and will.

Leaders and managers who incorporate these principles are the ones I want to work with. They are passionate, discerning, ambitious, and empathetic. They are rare but lead to a culture and work that feels gratifying.
> It’s very difficult (if not impossible) to prove chemicals are safe.

Yes, but it's certainly possible to rule out entire classes of harms by asking the right questions before putting a product on the market. Maybe 100% safe is impossible but 99% is still a pretty low bar/standard when it comes to health/pollution risks.

The problem is in the current situation, corporations push toxic products on everyone that they either know to be toxic or really don't want to find out. Then we wait for people to get sick and die, then finally after it becomes a too big scandal for corporate PR and government regulators to pretend they didn't see, they start to maybe study the problem and issue guidelines.

This timeline is so broken and we see the same thing in the medical world where substances we'd known to be harmful for years/decades kept on being marketed and prescribed to unknowing patients. I personally have no faith in governments (who created or benefited from these abuses), but if you're a believer in regulations, the bare minimum they can do is publish 100% of toxicity claims/studies without any delay from submission (public inbox).

This could help in that whistleblowers are often coming forward with such claims (such as the EDF nuclear whistleblower lately) but it's hard for them to find a platform, and for the public to get informed.
Seems legit to me.

Using an Onyx BOOX with Termux, terminal lag is not perceptible. The lagged updates look like packet jitter to me.
Physics.

Routers can only handle so many routes, so their operators set floor values for size of route they'll generally accept.
Three is absolutely a Malthusian segment of the environmental movement, that would like for there to be far fewer (or no) people at all. I assume that's what they meant by "death cults" above.

If you're going to deny its existence outright, do you have something to back up that claim?

The fact that corporations have willfully committed these actions over the years, and lobbied to continue doing so doesn't mean that there isn't some concerning elements of the environmental movement. It's not a black and white situation.
Is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?
I believe that we learn by applying and adapting the models implicit in things we already know to new situations. The older we get the more models we have for forming the foundations for new ideas. Beginning a new learning project might benefit from asking ourselves what is this like, how is it similar, and how is it different. Keeping this model in the back of our minds as we learn may help.
This also aligns with my experience, especially with tomatoes.
Could be the classic nagle / delayed ack interaction. Or shoddy wifi.
Random violent crime is the issue here, not domestic violence between people who know each other. Dallas has different demographics; its crime rate comes from that.
Uhm, how exactly is or was COVID-19 an existential threat (to humanity)?
Sometimes we find out we were wrong about the safety of a substance.

Radium used to be sold in patent medicine tinctures because it wasn't considered dangerous. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
> and nowadays Sheets, because it’s free … in my professional life

It isn’t. For pro use it’s by and large the same cost as O365, $12/user/month if you get a usable plan. (Both offer a $6/user/month plan, but on MS side that doesn’t have desktop apps, and on Google side it doesn’t have storage.)

// As of 1 August, all the grace periods for Workspaces expired. There remains a three month no charge period from your individual cutover day, and then a year of 1/2 price.
If I had to place a bet right now on who the future will judge was the Darwin of our time, I would bet on Marvin Minsky.

This Split-Brain post asks "What if I’m not the only person in my head?". IMO this may be the most fascinating question to work on today.

Minsky answered it IMO conclusively in his Society of Mind (1986), just as Darwin answered the question "Where do species come from?". There is no "you", but a collection of agents/resources inside your brain. The details are still being discovered by the great work of folks like Hawkins, but Minsky's theory seems like a bullseye.

Split-brain is on the right track, but the N is a lot higher.
I never ate much meat but I do eat fermented-only dairy. I got my bloodwork done and I am iron deficient. I am taking the bisglycinate salt which is completely unnoticeable on my stomach. I'll have it retested after a course of 5000mg elemental iron equivalents (about a month). My mood noticeably improved after checking and correcting my blood vitamin and iron levels.
Cardiovascular exercise takes more energy than it gives at the beginning but your body will get less easily tired further down the road. So yes, activities can give energy.
Germany never had energy independence in nuclear. Yes, Germany has/had plants, but nothing like enrichment etc. The reason is geopolitics: Germany started two world wars, and noone wanted to have a postwar Germany capable of building nukes.

That link between nuclear proliferation and nuclear energy production is sadly often missing from the discussion here. No country builds nuclear reactors only for the energy. It's always for the nukes. Nuclear energy has always been expensive and has been massively subsidized since inception.
Or spray it down with Pam or something.
I heard ;-) … the adobe software runs better when the cloud crap is not installed.
The genuine adobe software installs a load of cloud sync something and it crippled every pc I had.
Even ultra beefy machines with 16 threads, loads of ram and gpu power.
If I remember correctly somewhere around 100,000 euros.
Well, it is a rather small river and the first major conglomeration is Ostrava with a population of 900,000 and a shitton of heavy industry to this day.
On the other hand still having some non-offshore industry (DE, CZ, PL, etc) has many advantages too. Especially in the coming years.
Agreed - surgeries too. Between waiting for the anesthesia to work itself out and the body recovering from the shock of it, it can be a wallop to the energy reserves. Recently slept like 20 hours a day for a day or two after a comparatively mild one.
Yes, I have already written an email regarding this. I wanted to know more about how people here safeguard their accounts when it comes to bruteforce attacks.
That's what I thought ... 8 years ago when I started using this website.
Absolutely, the best thing would have been to actually follow a specific, unique product. We tried for one and a half years to get the company where we bought the pedometer to cooperate with us. It was impossible. But we managed to get the company to tell us which route they used in most cases.
> I feel powerless to make an impact.

Sadly, we are.

This system is broken beyond repair.

I'm not holding my breath for humans to fix this.

I have my money on an alternative.
Exactly. Low-tech and repairability are the only way forward for humanity... all other scenarios end up in painful dreadful collapse. But our tyrannical overlords are ideologically opposed to this conclusion because it's a path of degrowth and sharing economy which is fundamentally contradictory to capitalist doctrine and interests.
I got shocked.

Picture of testing device showing the current flow from a cable: https://ibb.co/YbqtgVX

Anything attached to the macbook port is causing shock on the exposed parts while it is plugged into that charger.

I wouldn't call it safe. If you read some of the bottom answers, they also elaborate on the same topic. Furthermore, I don't live in UK and there can be different electrical standards in terms of wiring.

I don't face this issue while using the grounded charger hence it is limited to apple charger which I double checked for missing ground support.
Around where I live, there are large residential areas with no sidewalks at all. It blew my mind when we first moved here. I still don’t understand the reasoning behind it. Some of those areas are in the hills with winding roads, it’s pretty scary walking there, having to be constantly on alert.
Geez, you need psychotherapy.
Words do not bleed.
"Right to security" thinking got us mass incarceration. Most progressive places are backing off of that one now. Perhaps 25 years ago.

Food is an excellent model for what I'd like to see around housing: extremely mature and sophisticated commodity market, government thumb on the scale of abundant and stable supply at low prices, subsidies for people whose incomes are genuinely below the cost of efficient production.

To the extent that food is a human right, it is incredibly important that we have GMOs, large-scale factory farms, global supply chain, etc. Food being a human right would make it all the worse to insist on only socially-optimal production: everything local, everything organic, everything vegan, community meetings to argue about who deserves to eat. But that's exactly what the "housing is a human right" crowd fights to preserve and entrench for housing.
This is my 4th or 5th go at attempting to bootstrap a product with a 9 to 5 (and now kids), the "stick to your framework" advice is very good. It's a lesson that I learned the hard way.

Such a tendency to make excuses and say "well I am doing professional development as well" or "this is also a learning exercise" -- well maybe, but also, if you ever want an actual product to see the light of day, you eventually just need to live with the stack you chose and go for it.

My goal now isn't to use the latest cutting edge stack, and keep it updated to be even more bleeding edge.

My goal now is to have something that I can say is "legacy" and needs updates.
I don't think "the war on fats" is to blame for the rise of PFAS-based nonstick pans. Have you actually tried using both? A world of a difference

Also, vegetable oils are incredibly high in omega-6's which compete with omega-3's for the same enzymes. In general the literature suggests we should be consuming about a 4:1 ratio for Omega-3's to Omega-6 fatty acids. Corn-based oil, for example, has a 1:60 ratio

I think avoiding excessive vegetable oil intake is still a good idea
Can't SIP just be turned off by using root?
So you can sign an NDA and away all your findings on their product as they gatekeep the bounty? I don't think so.
We have the same 12” cast iron skillet and every word is true.

Sometimes people mention rust and it’s true as well. We washed it many times in dishwasher and it’d rust. But then scrape it with a scraper, oil it and heat it until oil polymerizes - voila you’ve your pan good as new.

Oh and if you need to cook tomatoes, get enameled cast iron skillet - you’re not going to go back ever to non-stick.
My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole
It's definitely possible I'm doing it wrong. There are so many reasonable-sounding articles I've read over the years about smoke points and food-safe flaxseed oil and temperatures and ventilation so you can season for H hours for each seasoning coat...

When everything is working, cast iron seems great: quick brush off, slight bit of oil to rub in while it's still warm, done. When a spot of rust appears, or large spots on the interior become matte while the rest is shiny (or the reverse), or you're using it as a dutch oven and burn a steak, well, that's when the nightmare begins. After several weekends of attempting to get that smell out and get it re-seasoned, I gave up, left it in the leave/take area of my then building, and bought a new one. But I haven't used that one much, because I know it's only a matter of time until something happens and I am faced with the whole process again.
well... we all enjoyed unsustainably cheap rides and unsustainably high pay. Nobody forced us. We are just sheep.
An interesting test case would be the aalib demo, bb:

https://sarata.com/manpages/bb.1.html

Here videoed off an emissive display: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WubDqdV2r9k

And what seems to be a direct screen capture: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JFFJYJ6QkME

I'm also curious as to what display damage high-speed refresh causes, and what reasonable guidelines at avoiding this might be. I have an Onyx BOOX Max Lumi, whose display is excellent, and do very occasionally watch video. (More often I'll simply play the audio via mpv in Termux.)
Konsole does HTML export and the HTML is simple/editable (only inline styles, insignificant whitespace removed, output as-shown, not as-generated, so e.g. a progress bar is just a single line of text, not however many times it was updated).
The Rise of Lonely, Single Men
> Sure, IPv4 blocks have reputation

IPv4 blocks are actually useful. If you run a datacenter it makes sense that you'd try to get something bigger than a /24. Why you'd care about having a 4 digit ASN I don't understand... easier to remember?
If you can, put a robots.txt in your site's root folder. e.g.:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /impressum/
>>Millions upon millions. Roughly every server that has ever been sold. We're not only talking about consumer Windows here.

We kinda are if we are talking about a comparison with MAC...

Further if your position is windows needs to block this for piracy reasons due to server sales, anyone buying an enterprise server 99% chance they have a EA, MPSA, or some other licensing agreement already and are not using Rufus to create their Windows 11 USB Keys to install of windows

Pointing to the Server market is just a weak as the defense using MAC...

>Microsoft would prefer people to use their fancy Media Creation Tool instead of downloading an ISO. The Media Creation Tool replaces both the ISO download and Rufus; it's much easier to use and I can see why Microsoft would direct users to it.

I dont think that is it at all, this a classic hallmark of legal trying to find something to do, or some one in marketing wanting people to see all of the ads for Office 365 and other services before downloading the ISO
I take your point, and now I am trying to decide if the effectiveness of empirical verification, in developing a robust consensus for conclusions so verified, is itself empirical evidence for preferring such conclusions, in domains where such verification is possible?
https://archive.ph/6yYVB
I'd settle for what's already here and it's too late, but stop this industrial madness right now without further delay.
Also high CO2 in working and sleeping areas. Basically any older building without HVAC and with upgraded (double pane) windows.
Music to listen to while programming (2009)
The early internet, no, but scammers soon came and still use the internet heavily. Ever heard of email spam and phishing? Still enormous. We have filters that help a lot, but it's still a huge problem.

eBay came into existence to try and allow people to buy and sell over the internet without getting scammed. I still got scammed by an eBay seller in the early days. Everyone did. But eventually their reputation system worked and buying and selling on eBay is pretty safe.

Just a couple of examples, but if you think just a little you can remember various frauds and scams, ponzi schemes, personal information harvesting, etc., etc., that all make heavy use of the internet
You mean there was a point where you could trust a business that broke local laws repeatedly and never had a profitable business model?
Oracle should buy both and ruin them.
It's kind of funny that doing so would have been easy years ago; but the easier it is to just transition to IPv6, the harder it is to drive up the price of IPv4, as decreasing supply of IPv4 at this point will just drive down demand. Yes, you're "making IPv6 take off" in some sense by doing so, but not in a positive-feedback loop; more in a negative feedback-loop, where the market ends up in a new equilibrium state where nobody is switching.
The problem is that most electronic components are RoHS today. So getting these into other devices will mean loss of RoHS certification, and that is something a lot of companies don't want right now due to the environmental movement. Many use that as a selling/marketing point.

I'm hoping for other superlattice materials to become available.
Of course. It's like honey, it never goes bad.
No it doesn’t. It’s a BS answer and a good reason to stay 56 miles away from such a company.
I've been running my car on E85 all year, US sourced ethanol.

But yes, US gasoline is also sourced from the US primarily. (Texas and Alaska). With a terminal at Brent / Arkansas.
FWIW Safari's homepage is also sold to the highest bidder, currently Google. The price was $15B for 2021.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...
Nothing in science can be "proven". Proof only exists in mathematics and logic. You can't prove something is safe, but you can provide evidence that it is unsafe. And generally the best evidence for something being unsafe is unfortunately only available after something is in widespread use because then the links to cancer, birth defects, or whatever can be found. There are lesser forms of evidence based on testing on animals and cell lines than can be done before the widespread use, but these have a lot of both false positives and false negatives.
Newer chemistries like LFP do not use rare earth metals and have far higher cycle times.

It is true that building an EV in the first place does embody more carbon, but the payback time is not that long (under 15,000 miles with a clean enough grid and under 50,000 even on the dirtiest grids). As the grid and supply chain decarbonizes that embedded carbon of manufacturing will also drop.

An EV gets cleaner as the grid you drive it on decarbonizes. An ICE vehicle will emit for its whole lifespan and will get worse fuel economy and emit more particulates, SO2 and NOX as it ages.

Anyone who claims EVs will save the planet is deluding themselves, but electrified transport needs to be one of many, many steps we take to decarbonize.
Great but I want the same deal for the coal and gas companies that produce electricity, make them responsible for every ton of CO2 they emitted and make them responsible for removing it from the atmosphere.
I'd say you might get your wish in about five years, after present patents expire. There will doubtless be new developments, but present devices are absolutely sufficient for e-book reading and most web surfing / tablet tasks, even at monochrome and modest 0.5 -- 16 Hz refresh or so. Higher-quality display is slower to refresh, though almost all instances are well under sub-second.

Colour displays are slower as I understand.
A basic windows 10 install takes up 32GB of disk space.

Funny that Linux distributions aren't just shipping a local dictionary to protect their users privacy.
As usual, it’s success at the cost of increased user hostility. The company doesn’t care, because increasing the stock price is the only thing that matters to them, their board, and their shareholders. But it does make the lives of users worse. Companies get locked into licensing fees, students are put under ever increasing financial pressure.

It’s just another example of “only stock price matters, we don’t care if users like us.” It’s a wild success if you own Adobe stock, and feels exploitative if you don’t.