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egberts··on Merlin Bird ID
great for identifying drone sounds.
egberts··on I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it
What is amazing about my spinal-meningitis-induced-by-high-body-temperature partial hearing loss is tinnitus is more there.

Decades later, after taking one pill of Zyban (to help quit smoking, Wellburtin-class), I lost the rest of my hearing in less than 30 minutes … permanently, but tinnitus went like mind-deafening.

7 years later, I opted for cochlear implants: and what do you know, tinnitus is barely there, almost gone.

not sure how to explain this, but it is largely gone, this tinnitus. I suspected that natural background noise is keeping this feedback loops (tinnitus) from mainfesting in my auditorial part of the brain.

Hearing largely restored in terms of jumpy crescendo yet fuller-spectrum, but dang, I hear farther than ever did before, like in Jamie Sommers of Bionic Woman.

I still operate in a high-stress environment of frontline cybersecurity, yet am more calmer and more responsive.

Highly recommended, unless you value your musical skill over tinnitus.

egberts··on The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters
I do enjoy dual-PK-certificate authentication in my homelab: one by equipment, and one by user/group.

Only misgiving is that the key management issues have worsen only for the key administrator(s). But it is a viable and sustainable AA model because there is the most important security component: instant denial of a user and/or a equupment.

egberts··on New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations
Ummmmm, E2E on a JavaScript-infested website?

No thanks. Just, no.

egberts··on CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
I've been had. Good one.
egberts··on Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says
Interesting that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella issued the Alhambra Decree to kick the Jews out ot Spain shortly after Christopher Columbus, a Sephardic Jew, reached the Americas.

This was even after the Jews heavily funded the Spaniard military in the conquest of Gibraltar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Decree

egberts··on CORS Is Stupid
Still a bug in Firefox.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644503

egberts··on CORS Is Stupid
I know that CORS is stupid.

It took a CORS expert from W3C to answer this convoluted CORS question.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62289103/same-origin-req...

egberts··on “Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”
And Ingo probably had the greatest heads up over the rest of us by having his new kernel perform the fastest iterative kernel rebuilds, probably using all permutation of kernel option settings for rebuildings.
egberts··on “Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”
How can We respond if We are allbusy building his branch before we can meaningfully respond in kind.
egberts··on “Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”
I’ve embarked down this same path with GCC 2.7.4 from a … while … back.

Ingo is on the right track.

I’ve always thought that this stuff should have been dealt with by the GCC (in form of pre-cached header files).

So sad that it is a thorny issue to this day (for large scale projects); so glad that this issue is now alive so it can be dealt with once and for all.

I envision some type of *.ho filetype to hold these quasi-compiled headers for the next build iteration.

egberts··on Ask HN: How to Move on from Google?
These folks got a precise alternatives of many non-big tech choices plus their recommendations.

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives

egberts··on No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018)
I’ve always thought that the Roman dodecahedrons were like a badge of government finance ministry activity and were carried exclusively by tax collectors traveling far from Rome.
egberts··on SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has extensive but incomplete escape of Pfizer BNT162b2
Found it

https://www.ahri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MEDRXIV-2021...

egberts··on SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has extensive but incomplete escape of Pfizer BNT162b2
Original link

https://www.ahri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MEDRXIV-2021...

egberts··on [dead]
Someone is going to have to be brave enough to login and see if their private repositories got cloned as well.

I have no private repo. It would suck if that too got cloned.

egberts··on World’s Top Beef Supplier Approves Methane-Busting Cow Feed
With the lesser methane production of the largest cattle pen, this Kettleman City, California, the land of millions of shit, can smell a bit better and that its nearby city of Los Banos (The Toilet) will be less of a wry joke.
egberts··on What Is the Most Free TLD?
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/239535273909285486/
egberts··on Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?
Polling for all processes is the technique used by some educators’ quiz/test/exam program.

Zoom is probably footholding their place as to be able to inform its educator whether their students’ behavior are acceptable or are cheating.

Most probably.

egberts··on Has the Drug-Based Approach to Mental Illness Failed?
Lost my hearing totally within 2 hours of taking Zyban.

Tinnitus is all that I hear nowadays.

egberts··on Linux Kernel Defence Map
Because a kernel is not a user-land?
egberts··on Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?
except if the key to its encrypted-at-rest hard drive is not used to do encrypting/decrypting on same CPU as it’s hard drive (that being, done remotely)
egberts··on Show HN: Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS
Not nitpicking, but i had to reread “JavaScript based” several times before it finally clicked as “JavaScript-based” or based on Javascript (style).

Nicely done.

egberts··on New poo, new you? Fecal transplants reverse signs of brain aging in mice
so sayth the citation-free article.
egberts··on Scientists read 14,000 research papers to write the IPCC climate report
Yeah, I read some 100s climate change whitepapers by universities’ graduates.

And a very few deal adequately with the compensation of suburban/urban expanding sprawl and their inherent heat radiance that introduced bias from some 7,200 temperature reading stations which existed before 1972.

egberts··on Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks
It’s nigh time to fork the ElasticSearch API.
egberts··on NYU Researchers Studying Disinformation on Facebook Cut Off
so Facebook is asserting that advertisers have more privacy rights than its end-users.
egberts··on Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
Soviet Apple sees you.
egberts··on Longer days on early Earth may have set stage for complex life
Wut? Like tidal-locked orbit of the Moon, doesn’t a planet eventually get rotational-locked over eons?

If so, doesn’t that imply that Earth rotation is getting slower as time progresses?

what did i miss? Earth’s orbit is spinning faster now than back then?

egberts··on Video Fingerprinting
There’s been talk about how the brain downsize images for memory retention as well.

This article would make for a great refresher into the inner mind.

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