I bought a Biostar J4125NHU motherboard and put it in a small case with two 2.5 HDDs and two SSDs and am using it to download shows and movies from a Usenet provider and stream them with Jellyfin.
The motherboard was a huge pain to work with, and I had to return two (!) units; I made the third one work. The first two would not boot in the same configuration.
I made a fortune database from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. You can go "fortune /path/to/meditations" and get a random paragraph from the book. But you need to build it first.
Totally off-topic, but while reading this I was thinking "that is exactly what I would say". Then I saw your username... it looks like we share not only a taste for monitors but also a surname!
Mortal man, you have lived as a citizen in this great city. What matter if that life is five or fifty ears? The laws of the city apply equally to all. So what is there to fear in your dismissal from the city? This is no tyrant or corrupt judge who dismisses you, but the very same nature that brought you in. It is like the officer who engaged a comic actor dismissing him from the stage. 'But I have not played my five acts, only three.' 'True, but in life three acts can be the whole play.' Completion is determined by that being who caused first your composition and now your dissolution. You have no part in either causation. Go then in peace: the god who lets you go is at peace with you.
I find the idea frightening but at the same time soothing: life is something one returns, like anything else one could have, one day it will no longer be there; it needs to be returned.
I had a suspicion that this was Mac-only from the looks of the site and docs, but after some clicks I gave up trying to find out; reading comments on HackerNews was faster.
Periodically searching this list for purchasable domains seems like something scammers would be very very interested in. Honestly, apple should be making sure every one of these URLs goes to a live website and that the website is still exactly the website they intended it to be.
One of my old domains is on the list. It was a relatively popular blog years ago, once it expired it immediately got picked up by a spammer. This list is garbage.
So I guess the question is, what is the alternative?
The only realistic option I can think of is some combination of:
• Make autocomplete operate on a blacklist instead of whitelist, with a more limited goal of only removing e.g. known porn sites.
• Make the list of potential matches machine-generated, without human intervention. (Aside, are we sure the current list isn't just the 250K most-visited sites on the internet, or something like that?)
Either of these would remove culpability since it's no longer a curated list. And yet, would that make it more safe in a meaningful way?
Why should Apple avoid autocompletion of porn site domains? That’s an area rampant with scam sites, especially similar domains. Plus “everyone” looks at porn so the benefits would be widespread.
If Apple wants to protect users then autocompleting porn site domains seems like the place to start, not avoid.
The absence of porn domains raises the question of Apple’s intent.
> Why should Apple avoid autocompletion of porn site domains?
Because if I’m sharing my screen on a business call, and I start typing something into my browsers’s address bar, I don’t want it to autocomplete something nsfw which just happened to share the same first letter.
There's no such thing as "machine-generated, without human intervention". Even something as seemingly simple as "most-visited websites" involves measuring choices. (Fundamentally, this is indeed about responsibility. Until a non-human gets some form of citizenship, they have none.)
Furthermore, we now know that in practice "machine-generated" seems to be even worse, because too many people are fooled by the "the machine did it" 'excuse'. (Like you seem to be doing here ?)
Billions in quarterly revenue doesn't allow Apple to solve the halting problem. I can't begin to imagine how they would do what you're suggesting. They need to detect when a website changes in kind, but ignore day-to-day changes or normal UI revamps.
I'm honestly unclear on how you can't see how Apple could solve this with billions. It is definitely a "throw money at it" situation, no question.
Moderation is a hard problem because it isn't just a matter of someone filtering between the polite posts and the less polite posts, it's a matter of filtering between the polite posts and the content that will sear your soul, no joke.
But that's not what this is. This is just, is the website still there and look correct? With the correct software setup it's roughly a person-month by my estimate to gets eyes on every site in the list.
(Though most people usually don't set write this sort of software very well, making someone laboriously click this, scroll around some, click some more, click a tiny radio button, click the tiny submit button, wait for the next thing to load, etc. It'll be longer & more work with this style. Someday I hope to have the chance to write some sort of classification program and implement the UI I've wanted for a while, which amounts to "right -> ham, left -> spam", and everything as pre-rendered as I can get it before it gets to the human. I'm sure some people out there have done something like this, but it makes me honestly sad how few I've seen.)
There is a service called Visualping that basically does this. It takes a screenshot and sends you a “diff”. You can set it and say by what % things need to change.
They could use a similar tool plus human review to maintain the list.
The maintainer can be blunt at times but from that to saying he's a "dbag"... there's a stretch.
In my opinion he's one of the most expedient OSS maintainers I've seen, and has a great deal of patience with entitled users who expect him to basically do free work for them.
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Although I haven't experienced this first-hand, my partner has T1D and I can see her reflected in everything you say. I'm hoping for a near future where technology paliates some of the dread of living with T1D. Some lines of research, such as implantable insuling-producing islets [1] seem promising, at least to someone without the chops to judge what's going on.
The primary problem with those types of treatments is you have to be on immunosuppressants, or the immune system just kills the cells again. That type of treatment is typically not recommended unless the patient is already on immunosuppressants, or has extreme hypoglycemia unawareness, or extreme needle phobia. Immunosuppressants are typically considered a worse outcome than properly treating T1D with insulin + CGM.
For the same reason, sometimes T1D's will get a pancreas transplant if they are also getting another required transplant that will require immunosuppressants.
I think the best hope in the next 50-100 years or so is continued development and improvement of closed loop systems. Eventually we should get to a point where highly sophisticated closed loop artificial pancreases can automate much of the process away. This will improve treatment and long term health outcomes, but will still require a fairly significant level of maintenance and oversight on the part of the patient (or their parent). There's a lot of really promising work being done there.
I've been following the press about closed loop artificial pancreases closely, too. Currently, the open-source solutions there are require using insulin pumps that are pretty big and for some, that's not a choice they're ready to make. I too hope this tech continues to advance quickly.
The AndroidAPS works with many Omnipod models, and with DanaRS or Accu-Chek insight which are all quite small pumps.
If you have the knowledge, I can highly recommend doing some research and try looping. I've been doing it now for three years. Time in range is about 92%, A1c always 5.8-6.0%. 80% of the stress is gone. Life is better.
But, it's not accepted therapy and you have to do lots of research to learn how to use the systems. For me it has worked like nothing else. I got my life back after 21 years of suffering with T1D.
The Omnipod 5 just received FDA approval, and looks really cool. I'm going to wait a bit and see reactions from other diabetics, though, before I jump onboard.
Oh, sweet! It looks like it's not out yet in Germany. You can get the Omnipod Dash here. It does look like it's going to be available soon, though. Will keep an eye out, thanks for the tip!
Pumps aren't implants, you replace them regularly. They are a massive improvement in care for many people, but they do not remove the daily toil of managing diabetes. Personally, I found a CGM to be even more helpful than a pump.
Closed loop artificial pancreases are the future, but they will still require a large amount of attention and management by the patient.
Indeed. I am not diabetic, but a close friend is, and I have observed all of the effort and uncertainty that goes into it.
My friend got a new high-end closed loop system, and it's so much better than the previous pump. There's still a long way to go before it's truly an artificial pancreas, but my friend already has much higher quality of life, and the tech is still improving.
Insulins that themselves react to blood sugar levels are another interesting path. Not that they could ever do the entire job, but they could lend some first-order stability.
The motherboard was a huge pain to work with, and I had to return two (!) units; I made the third one work. The first two would not boot in the same configuration.
I set up the box with NixOS. Here is its flake: https://github.com/fnune/bilbo
The NixOS experience was fun!