Mastodawn

★ What Is a Dickover?
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover

What Is a Dickover?

dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.

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Barnaba SQ5BTU Mar 14

Lady Laura

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Barnaba SQ5BTU Mar 12

My throw bag needed some repairs today. Got it from aliexpress for about $10 (sold as "pamyem" brand). It only took ~100 throws for it to end up like this. "fixed" it with some thread and silver tape, might last another 100 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Barnaba SQ5BTU Oct 28, 2025

Julian Oliver Oct 27, 2025

A low-mass analog folding reflector has been developed for use by those lost at sea to alert orbiting radar satellites.

A very clever design, it could be described as an origami electromagnetic flaregun for satellite signalling.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/577018/our-changing-world-sar4sar-the-folding-floating-search-and-rescue-device

Our Changing World: SAR4SaR - The folding, floating search and rescue device

It's foldable, floats, and can be detected by satellites - and it's being developed by local researchers who started with origami prototypes.

RNZ

Barnaba SQ5BTU Oct 8, 2025

Hi everybody, happy to be here! Thanks to the mod team for the very quick review process

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