lfam

Could you link to the story about the discovery of its instruction set? That sounds really interesting but I can't find it.

I use a set of plain text files in a directory that is synced between all of my machines. This is flexible and basic enough that it can be adapted to any use case or productivity system as necessary. When I need a more specific workflow, I can develop something on top of it. Staying with plain text and having reliable file sync is just a foundation.

I access the files with a fluid interactive interface and full text search provided by Notational Velocity / nvALT (http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/), for when I'm in a graphical environment, or my own NV-inspired shell script(https://github.com/lfam/n) for when I'm in a console. My primitive script has Bash and Zsh completion and gets out of my way pretty well... could be improved a lot, though.

I use Syncthing (http://syncthing.net/) to sync this directory between my devices. Syncthing is a FOSS decentralized file sync program that works on Linux, OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, and Solaris. Plus there is a work in progress Android app. I recommend it highly if you are looking for a FOSS alternative to Dropbox or BitTorrent Sync. It works right now which is saying a lot compared to its competitors, and it is truly decentralized (no server / client architecture like Seafile).

If anyone here is an Android developer, they could use your help, especially with the filesystem.

I've been meaning to explore org-mode. Maybe next time I take a long plane ride.

There are many places in the US that allow gambling off of Indian reservations. There is even a casino near downtown here in Philadelphia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_casinos_in_the_United_S...

Yikes. That link crashes Iceweasel (Debian Jessie) for me.

All the places I have lived built before 1940 had thick enough walls that I never ever heard my neighbors through them. The materials make all the difference.

That link failed on my mobile device. Try this link instead: http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-03/dominos-l...

How does this site break the "back" button in my browser?

Apparently, if you have good cookies you get an easier captcha

find accessibility: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html

Yes, I'd really like to hear their perspective on this. I listened to a screen reader once and found it very difficult to understand as well.

Yes, the goals of the reCAPTCHA project are to filter out bots and to digitize the text of the world (not necessarily in that order).

The mission statement of the reCAPTCHA project is "Protect your website from spam and abuse while letting real people pass through with ease."

I don't think anybody is passing through the audio captchas with ease. Nor are they helping to digitize anything.

I think that the use of captcha's as a reverse turing test was always secondary for reCAPTCHA anyways. If someone can write software to solve the visual captcha's, that is a great accomplishment. Once that is accomplished, we will need a new type of reverse turing test. Perhaps we are approaching that point.

I'm interested to hear the perspective of users with a visual impairment on the audio captchas.

Psychotic and almost impossible to solve. I tried an audio captcha recently on a whim and I was bewildered.

I think any site that uses reCAPTCHA must not have any regular vision impaired users.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhFLC8ZZQeM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNVcIogEXOo

FreeBSD offers an embedded version called nanobsd that seems to use the same update "philosophy".

It's actually nanobsd.sh, a shell script by Poul-Henning Kamp. So, that IS open source, although I doubt it's GPL ;)

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nanobsd