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I moderate a few hearing health forums. From time to time I see people saying they got into this and damaged their hearing / caused tinnitus.

"Bombshell"!? Really? Surely this is not all that surprising to people who are paying attention.

Is using certain colouring for your products and then charging a premium for it actually gender inclusivity? It doesn't seem so to me but I am not expert.

I am however left handed and I will say that many of Logitech's "ambidextrous" products are not really so and off the top of my head I can think of no product of theirs which is authentically designed specifically for use by left handed people. So I don't believe the company really cares about inclusivity.

Could anyone recommend a broad scoped evaluation of current compression / archiving formats / algorithms which explores their various merits and failings?

The intoxication from drinking having taken naltrexone is profoundly different than just drinking alcohol alone but it does satisfy the urge to drink, until one day you're able to just walk away from drinking. I never really felt the urge to drink without it while I was using naltrexone.

I still have an unfinished box of naltrexone which I kept because I was sure I would start drinking again and wanted to have it at hand. I just looked at it, it expired in 2013 and I've yet to use it at all since I quit drinking in '09 or '10 (I forget exactly, it's been a while).

Yes, I used the Sinclair method but there are multiple therapies which use naltrexone and I don't think the Sinclair method is obviously better than any other.

I quit drinking after more than 25 years of problematic drinking by taking naltrexone just before drinking for 3-4 weeks. Given my prior experience with alcohol and trying to quit, it was the easiest thing I've ever done.

I urge people who have a problem with drinking and wish to quit, who for whatever reason do not feel that 12 step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous are right for them to find a doctor who is willing and able to prescribe naltrexone and have a serious discussion with them. Had I had access to it and known it was effective as it is I probably would have been able to stop drinking 20 years sooner than I did.

Consumers are already paying the price for the decades long anti-competitive, anti-consumer, anti-worker, monopolistic, and manipulative practices of the Big Tech firms.

That makes two of us. Pity because it does seem pretty interesting.

This submission, confuses the terms "site-admin" and "subreddit moderator" and for an account that is over 5 years old, that's sorta surprising.

The assertion that "A reddit admin is abusing their privileges for their personal beliefs" is baseless.

/u/tempMonero123 is not shadow-banned. All their recent comments, except for the ones they themselves deleted, are live.

Random works for me. Perhaps it's the platform being used. I use Firefox on a Linux desktop. Maybe it's just that Random shows us our deepest desires, I wound up at /r/CPM

This account has made only two comments in /r/bayarea, which they acknowledge to have deleted themselves. There is no sign whatsoever that they have ever submitted anything else to that subreddit at all, even on 3rd party archives.

So from what I can tell, either this person is using a platform with bad error detection in a place with a suboptimal network so their comments & posts are never making it to Reddit at all... or all this is just made up.

thanks for the info!

Does anyone know just how much of the total functionality of Mycroft is actually running on the Raspberry Pi? I asked this question four years ago on Reddit (I'll paste the response below) and now I wonder if things have changed, particularly with regard to speech to text.

There are several ‘layers’ to a voice assistant;

Wake Word - that detects when you are speaking to the device. This is local to the device and we use PocketSphinx.

Speech to text - that detects what you say to determine Intents - we currently use a cloud service for this

Intent matching - this is done locally using our own open source software - Adapt and Padatious

Skills - Intents then match to Skills. Some Skills require internet connectivity.

Text to Speech - We use our own software called Mimic for this, it’s local to the device.

From time to time I do spend time with Haiku in a VM. To be honest, it's not a fantastic experience... though I want to emphasise that I don't mean this as any sort of insult or slight to the dev team of Haiku. I suppose the reality is that it's pretty amazing they've gotten as far as they have, without being able to freely use the source code from BeOS, which in my opinion is hugely disappointing because no one was willing or able to anything with it in a proprietary or commercial sense.

I view the collapse of Be as story about the many failings of the broader tech industry and the irrationality of the dot com bubble and not in any way an indication of the technical merits of the BeBox or BeOS.

Anyway, Haiku as it is today is kinda like what BeOS was back then but obviously incomplete in several really important ways. Meanwhile the world has moved on and I do everything I used to do in BeOS (and more) with Linux. Though I do wonder what BeOS might look like now had they not collapsed back then.

Not only that but he manufactures and sells lock picking equipment and consults on physical security. There's nothing part time about LPL's lock picking any more.

This happens to me a lot too.

The first one that really stuck in my mind is BetaMax and I suppose the collapse of Be, makers of the BeBox and BeOS, was the most discouraging... though I've seen a lot of other brands & companies I liked fail.

I moderate a few subreddits over on Reddit and spam purporting to be offers for black market drugs of abuse which use messaging services like Wickr & Telegram have been a problem for years.

Worse, it's shockingly difficult to convince the site admins of Reddit to decisively act on this sort of content, even though it's explicitly against their site-wide policies. I suppose this is probably the case for every site which hosts user submitted content and an upper management focused on easily produced metrics like "number of posts & comments per time unit".

Most of the time when I see someone who ostensibly not cripplingly stupid do or say something that by all accounts is, in point of fact stupid, and then later on I come to learn of a fuller picture of the whole ordeal it turns out that the stated goals and motivations were not actually the true goals and motivations. I see this in politicians pretty often.

Anyway, I figure we should all suspect that the actual goal of this charade is not simply "to acquire Twitter" and motivation is not "to protect free speech" or "solve Twitter's bot problem" or whatever.

Thanks!

I don't suppose anyone could recommend a good text-to-speech for Linux?

Command line is fine but it would be much better if it could trivially take clipboard content for input. The last time I looked I found stuff that wasn't that great and was pretty inconvenient.

Recently a friend showed me this, which I thought was pretty nifty: CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation)

"Back in the 1960's and early 70's Bell Labs made some very sophisticated educational kits available to high schools and colleges. Designed for classroom use, they included wonderful manuals written by some of Bell Labs best minds. One of these kits, introduced in 1968, was CARDIAC: A CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation."

https://www.mikesmakes.ca/1960s/cardiac

This is an interesting piece but why is there some sort of redirected url used instead a normal one?

That seems like a dark pattern itself.

I have long wished for an AMD based Raspberry Pi like device... or at least something of vaguely similar size and capability. Though I have to say at $368 this doesn't seem very appealing.

This should have (2018) added to the title.

Also, I'd be interested to see more recent info.

Given the extremely strong negative reaction to alcohol that patients who are taking Disulfiram experience and given that this is apparently the sole effect that alcohol abuse cessation treatment using it relies on, it is my belief that the treatment is unconscionable and inhumane.

I quit drinking after more than 25 years of problematic drinking using naltrexone (The Sinclair Method) and, given my experience with alcohol, it was the easiest thing I've ever done.

I urge people who have a problem with drinking and wish to quit, who for whatever reason do not feel that 12 step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous are right for them to find a doctor who is willing and able to prescribe naltrexone and have a serious discussion with them. Had I known it was effective as it is I probably would have been able to stop drinking 20 years sooner than I did.

I bought Minecraft when it was just about to go to beta and I changed over to a Microsoft account a few days ago. I can't say it went smoothly or that I am happy about it.

Lately when I have time to game I've been messing around with Veloren instead: https://veloren.net

Thanks!

This is region locked. Why do the Americans need soldiers in hospitals? Are these some kind of special medical unit or something?

I believe that "low skilled attack" also includes the ability to search the internet and watch a video. There are literally thousands of videos on YouTube with demonstrations of low skilled attacks using improvised tools.

For example I made a shim and opened a lock I own in less than 30 minutes after watching one of his videos that featured a similar lock. I had never opened a lock without a key before that day, don't have much use of two fingers on one hand, and my toolbox fits in a kitchen drawer.

For your list of common low skill attacks which have widespread effectiveness I would also include shimming, hammering, and cutting. Also in the case of locks with electronics associated with them, strong magnets.

It wasn't (he used to be lawyer) but he's won lock picking contests, apparently has a gargantuan collection of locks some of which he habitually practises on, and these days runs a company that sells lock picking tools (though I have no idea if that's his only gig).

Anyway, if you watch all / most of his videos the near constant refrain running through them isn't "with finely honed skills and the right hard to find speciality tools it's easy to open this lock" (though he does do that). Instead it's: "it's easy to open this lock with no or few skills, no or little practice, with trivially found, improvised, or purchased tools, using exploits that have been known in the lock manufacturing and locksmithing industries for decades or centuries".

That in turn is his point in this keynote. These exploits have been known in the lock manufacturing and locksmithing industries for decades or centuries and yet many, perhaps most of the locks that people can buy in stores, still have those flaws (which are easy and inexpensive to eliminate in the design and construction process).

I feel like this comment comes up every time LPL is discussed outside of his context and I think it discounts the hundreds of low / no skill attacks he has demonstrated which apply to many, probably most, of the locks with recognisable name brands that are for sale in brick & mortar stores.

It took me 30 minutes to make and use a tool that he demonstrated using on a lock similar to one I own and most of that time was spent rummaging around my place trying find stuff.

Lastly, I think you got taken advantage of by a locksmith out to sell more locks and keys.