the craziest thing about this is:

> The Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Leon Theremin,[7] best known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.

Huh. Makes sense actually, both are induction-at-distance audio devices.

Most browsers have a reader mode. Firefox has one built in, I just click the icon to at the right end of the URL bar and it does it nicely for me.

That's the upper end of US salaries for engineers, it's definitely not the median. But in general US, tech salaries are higher than every other location. If you can swing it remotely, it might be worth it for you.

which part seems unbelievable to you?

mapbox studio will let you custom design layers, but i haven't gotten very far into it so i can't speak to the level of control you get.

Once again, XKCD[0] proved to be right

[0] https://xkcd.com/1172/

Thank you sir. I had to laugh so damn hard. It‘s such a nice parody about these discussions in the kernel which I actually love. I would appreciate if more software producers would stop breaking or removing features because they think in percentages of users who will be pissed etc. on the other hand it can become quite silly.

I had a good laugh thanks again :)

This is surprising to me because it wasn't that long ago (~3-4 years) that I bought an XPS developer edition and it was $100 cheaper than the windows version. At the time, I assumed that was just the cost of the windows license.

Same here

There's also a FOSS version called foam https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

Another two good Foam-like VSCode tools are Markdown Memo (https://github.com/svsool/vscode-memo) and Dendron.

I personally prefer vscode-memo to Foam. It doesn't have a graphical view, but there a couple other things it does really well, especially its (optional) support for flattened wikilinks to hierarchically organized notes.

Seconded. I've been using Foam for some time now and it's been great. Since it's all VS Code, it's also very hackable

> Also PSA, if you use Bluetooth with your car, your city transport department is tracking you. Best of luck opting out of that or even finding who to contact.

Can you say more about this? I've never heard of it.

Houston does it. They have bluetooth trackers on all the highways. They use it for determining congestion based on how often you can ping the same address. Keeps pinging? Gridlock. Pings once, traffic moving.

I wander if anyone has any proof it's being stored for future use or used for anything but general traffic data.

Not sure what they’re pointing to, but TPMS tracking is possible as well.

https://youtu.be/TDYoo7TGNcw

Sure, here's the one I've had experience with: https://addinsight.com.au/

They put powerful bluetooth sensors on poles or in roadside cabinets. They're pretty cheap to deploy so have become widely used.

Pretty much if you have two bluetooth devices talking to each other, you can be tracked by your bluetooth mac address. (Same as wifi networks and sniffing with wireshark etc)

Or if you have a device pinging with a non-random mac (ie your car).

If you've got an iphone and it's not actively being used, you get a random mac, no problems.

Here is a slide deck from DEFCON on it: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2022/DEF%20CON%2022%20pre...

Why not put all this info on the site?

That's a great suggestion, we'll work on getting this added to our list of FAQs.