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interloxia··on Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)
“Contrary to popular belief, the core problem in dyslexia is not reversing letters (although it can be an indicator),”

I always assumed the visual processing limitations were part of the issue with the reversal/transcription problem. A sort of neurological sequencing disorder swapping out the correct visual sense with a mistake. Xerox style. One that the dyslexic font wouldn't help with.

If that's apparently not dyslexia, or part of their spectrum, what is it if it is a processing disorder that remains into adulthood?

They come across rather dismissively when their own links, as far as I clicked at least, were less firm. I do appreciate that visual aids hawked to parents are not going to help for this issue either. I would like a name for the thing which is so importantly not Dislexia.

interloxia··on Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users
CVE-2025-54957 critical rce in Dolby audio processing is a worry.

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2025...

interloxia··on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
"Wait, user compliance scan identified location traces associated with participitation in community groups prohibited by EasyLife Health™ policy update 2025-12-06b. Recommend to annul contract."
interloxia··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
Note that some tinkering may be required for modern cards on old systems.

- A UEFI DXE driver to enable Resizable BAR on systems which don't support it officially. This provides performance benefits and is even required for Intel Arc GPUs to function optimally.

List of working motherboards

https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI/issues/11

interloxia··on Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse
They could sell custom ubikeys/whatever. Kids love Tonies. A custom USB stick/NFC/air tag would be "easy" and profitable.
interloxia··on Eating stinging nettles
Apparently some of the nettle family have edible berries.

Jared Rydelek's channel is about eating exotic fruits. It's a bit long winded but pretty neat to see the unusual fruits from around the world.

A recent video has him eating a berry from the Gympie gympie/stinging tree/Dendrocnide moroides from the nettle family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEio_yDEc8

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

interloxia··on Google Pixel's most dangerous bug: failing to call 911
They could add it to the WiFi calling warning notification that emergency calls are unavailable. It even has a do not show again button that fails to dismiss or prevent the notification.
interloxia··on Disable AI in Firefox
It looks like it should be possible to use a local model with a custom prompt.

Selecting text and having a action with a custom prompt/tool without needing a browser extension might be nice. It need not even be a llm.

https://nilsheuman.github.io/TIL/2025-04-17-custom-firefox-a...

interloxia··on The Birth and Burial of Evolutionary Science in Australia
The article covers a lot of issues. Identity, rights, and the legacy of past wrongs are tricky. Some of which are acknowledged but a bit too down played in this article in my opinion.

Personally I don't understand cultural copyright.

Controlling names of things or places is one thing but then I see the abc claiming that there can be ownership of the story of past sea levels.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/about/raymond-ingrey/sy...

"Sea levels were about 100 metres lower than today which means that all of Sydney Harbour, all of Gamay (Botany Bay) and all the land east of today’s shoreline as far as the edge of the continental shelf – was dry land."

"This story is the intellectual cultural property of the Knowledge Holder(s) above. Read our ICIP protocol"

"The cultural material featured on Deep Time cannot be reproduced or used without the permission of the appropriate knowledge holders and the ABC."

interloxia··on Fastmail desktop app
Imho horrible is too strong. They could be better.

Recently they let through a phishing attempt against their own service. It was clearly not from them (to me) and didn't have a green dot or whatever. I was surprised and a bit disappointed that I had to see it at all.

I like their service.

interloxia··on Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions
Not the author. I built one of these years ago and had fun finding and using sounds from radio aporee.

https://archive.org/details/radio-aporee-maps

https://aporee.org/maps/info/

interloxia··on I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
Amazon music has gap problems today. In 2025.
interloxia··on Answering questions about Android developer verification
Not really though. That's not how apps are usually installed on Android outside of Google's control.
interloxia··on EU age verification app not planning desktop support
https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-confirms-wed-nov-...
interloxia··on Ryanair's new check-in rules as physical boarding passes to be scrapped
https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-confirms-wed-nov-...

"confirmed that it will move to 100% digital boarding passes from Wed Nov 12th"

"from Nov 12th passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass but will instead need to use the digital boarding pass generated in their “myRyanair” app during check-in to board their Ryanair flight."

interloxia··on Gemini in Chrome
Thanks for the suggestion. It supports multi-lingual typing which in a requirement for me. I haven't checked other keyboards for a long time so perhaps that has become more common.

The integration with whisper is nice too.

interloxia··on Gemini in Chrome
Federated Learning of Gboard Language Models with Differential Privacy

It's not nothing, but it's something. And, at least on my phone, it's not obvious if it can be turned off.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?lr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Fe...

interloxia··on Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats
In related news please note that the Big Potato in Robertson Australia has been painted and is now the Big Babe in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the making of Babe the movie.

https://robertson.nsw.au/bigpotato.html

interloxia··on Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.

Which is what Internet Archive has as their latest scrape too.

The previous scrape worked: https://web.archive.org/web/20250906155345/https://www.roads...

interloxia··on Linux phones are more important now than ever
Windows with power toys and android have it too.

The Penny supermarkt app on android disables both screenshots and text selection with the error that it is disabled by admin.

interloxia··on Serverless Horrors
Someone at a community group I'm in messed up playing with Azure through their free for non-profits offering^. We were out about 1.2k€. Not huge but huge for us.

Encouraged by comments on HN over the years I had them ask support to kindly to wave it. After repeating the request a few times they eventually reduced their bill to <100€ but refused to wave it entirely.

So even without shaming on social media, But it probably depends. It's worth at least asking.

^The deal changed about six months ago.

interloxia··on Try Apertus
"Trained on 15 trillion tokens across more than 1,000 languages – 40% of the data is non-English"

70B and 8B

https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509

https://github.com/swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report/blob/9d4b0fb...

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/09/pre...

interloxia··on What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness
I did a little reading about Hemianopsia and came up with a very simple test about 15 years ago. It was a simple winforms app. One could write it/vibe code it very quickly in just about anything.

The test was run seated at a desk with a 24'' monitor. I drew a small square in the center of the screen on a back background and created a regular grid of dots which could be subdivided. Each small dot at random was briefly shown and I recorded the time it took him to hit a key. The defaults were .5 to .8 seconds and an off time from .75 to 2.5 seconds on a 7x5 grid with subdivisions for the areas he had trouble, but it's long enough ago that I don't remember what settings he preferred. The sample file I have to hand has 140 dots.

I set it up so that he could customise the number of columns and rows and the number of subdivisions to target his vision loss without having to spend too much time where it didn't matter. The outputs were a grayscale image of the reaction times and the reaction time values. It was helpful to preview all the dots before starting the test.

The main issue with the test was to keep it relatively short. If it took too long he found it boring and caused a bit of eye strain.

If I were to write it again I would to move the center square occasionally throughout the test, and then offset the test grid from that location. Unfortunately he didn't have much time and it eventually became a bit stressful to know the rate of progression of his disease so he/we let it go and I never tried to ease the eye strain issue.

> "walk to the right" on sidewalks and such, I prefer to stay as left as I can on a path." Visit Australia for a mostly keep left experience (at least in the past) :)

interloxia··on What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness
Do you also track /check your field of view?

A long time ago I made a simple tool to check my father's visual field changes due to cancer. At first he found it interesting to track his condition. Unfortunately it accurately tracked his condition and he, in my option wisely, stoped using it.

All the best managing and tracking

interloxia··on Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?
I guess requiring a transport subscription to get the ticket, via app or smart card, is rather analogous to the topic of adding friction to the undesired path.
interloxia··on Pixel 10 Phones
For Australia, it needs to be on a whitelist.

https://isthisphoneblocked.net.au/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-03/brand-new-phones-unab...

interloxia··on AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Mass-delusional events remind me of the dancing plague.

Reading the article, or having a good model rewrite it, substituting with the dancing plague is surprisingly grounding.

A model spat out for me an interpretive dance version of the first example. It remained hard to read.

interloxia··on 'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court
Are the instructions to make the machines still safe?
interloxia··on It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
Have a look at folding@home. Client and data could be less than 10mb.

https://foldingathome.org/

interloxia··on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House
Checks have become more stringent. The first few search results I clicked didn't indicate other changes/requirements.

This was the first search result for me.

https://www.visaverge.com/greencard/uscis-issues-green-card-...

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