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by elric 1y ago
The accessibility field is pretty mature, with useful and thorough guidelines like WCAG. But many people in the software industry either ignore accessibility completely, or think it's "only" about the blind, slap some alt tex
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by elric 1y ago
Different processes happen during different sleep stages. Typically people go from light sleep to deeper sleep stages (slow wave), to REM in a cyclical pattern. We go through each of the stages roughly every 90 minutes of "quality slee
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by elric 1y ago
You would think that a company that's making some 50 billion in profits every year would be able to find something useful to do for those 14k people.
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by elric 1y ago
Two things: 1. Too much deep sleep might not be desirable. 2. Sleep staging by activity trackers is generally pretty inaccurate. Garmin is no exception.
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by elric 1y ago
Yes, because in 2025 every business is FAANG scale and has a dedicated SRE team and a SecOps team to manage all the secrets foo. (/s, obviously) Different people have different experiences and work on things in a very diverse scale. Th
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by elric 1y ago
> Or have people redefined what they consider to be "close friends"? I suspect that you've hit the nail on the head. It would also be interesting to see numbers on churn. How long do these many close friendships last? Do t
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by elric 1y ago
Thankfully open source software is not subject to that, so FOSS password managers should be fine. Doesn't mean that other forces won't try to tear them down, however.
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by elric 1y ago
Reading these comments, I'm happy to see that I'm not the only passkey skeptic.
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by elric 1y ago
Heh, I'm working on a blog post about this very topic. Passkeys are ... weird. There's a lot of potential for gatekeeping, where websites can indeed require you to use device-bound passkeys through device attestation, and where be
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by elric 1y ago
Death by a thousand cuts. TPM, secure attestation, age verification, DRM, and probably more things I'm forgetting right now.
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by elric 1y ago
Sardine is great. I recently used it to automate some backups from a webdav share. No complaints whatsoever :-)
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by elric 1y ago
> "doesn't work on a man that looks more like an injured smurf than a human" What the actual fuck is up with this statement? Human faces are complex, there are so many different cultures and all kinds of complex body modif
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by elric 1y ago
I've written on this before, but I have an extensive collection of "at" scripts. This started 25+ years ago when I dragged a PC tower running BSD to a friend's house, and their network differed from mine. So I wrote an @
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by elric 1y ago
Note that if you already have an Obsidian vault, suddenly jailing it might break things. Obsidian stores a bunch of state in ~/.config/obsidian which will no longer be valid. And amusingly/frustratingly, the GTK file picker d
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by elric 1y ago
It's very ironic that we seem to be getting "agentic browsers" before we got browsers that are actual "user agents". Browsers have become slaves to the websites they render, ostensible in order to protect users. But
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by elric 1y ago
Are we talking searching the URLs and titles? Or the full body of the page? The latter would require tracking a fuckton of data, including a whole lot of potentially sensitive data.
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by elric 1y ago
That seems like a naive take. If any of your local VMs are internet connected and are compromised, side channel attacks could be used to exfiltrate data from other VMs or the host.
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by elric 1y ago
Are there any such solutions that can adequately protect against side-channel attacks (à la rowhammer, meltdown, spectre, ...)? I mean protecting local file access and network access is pretty easy, but side-channels and VM escaping attacks
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by elric 1y ago
The more I see shit like this, the more I want to pursue my little fantasy job of starting a factory that builds dumb devices. A simple microwave. A simple dishwasher. Stuff that isn't connected to any garbage cloud and just works. No
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by elric 1y ago
That sounds like a teaching problem instead of a tooling problem. Snark aside, I think there's value in teaching the basics first (e.g. compiling stuff with javac) before moving on to using magic to hide the complexity.
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by elric 1y ago
That sounds unlikely. AFAIK both Eclipse and Netbeans have had pretty good debuggers since the early days, probably around 2002ish.
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by elric 1y ago
It could well be that. An MRA and MRV could confirm or rule out those suspicions. If the damaged vessel can be found, it might be treatable by stenting. Check out whooshers (dot com) or /r/pulsatiletinnitus for two supportive comm
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by elric 1y ago
Stress and "posture" are certainly big contributors. Any kind of pressure on the veins and nerves around the ear can cause tinnitus, which includes the muscles in your neck, many of which attach to your shoulders. Sitting at a des
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by elric 1y ago
My tinnitus gets louder when I press my jaw/cheek, but no amount of neck/jaw therapy, exercises, or dry needling has made any difference. The scans and hearing tests are not useless, they help rule out the nastier causes of tinnit
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by elric 1y ago
Do you experience any side effects from the donation?
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by elric 1y ago
I visited a surgical museum once (somewhere in Scotland IIRC). They hade a mock "robotic assisted" sewing setup. Basically you look into a microscope and have to use two manipulator arms to tie a knot. I've never struggled so
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by elric 1y ago
Meanwhile intel seems to be doing a big bunch of nothing much. And AMD seems busy playing house with OpenAI to catch up to nvidia on the GPU front. Now if only Apple would sell these for use outside of their walled garden.
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by elric 1y ago
Same shit is happening in Belgium. We need extra transmission lines to connect the offsore wind turbines to the rest of the grid, and to improve grid stability in general, but NIMBYs have been campaigning against this for years.
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by elric 1y ago
Yeah I wondered about that myself. And I wonder if radiation therapy might not have the same potential issue? But maybe there's something in the way they perform the treatment to reduce the risk of that happening? Not sure.
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by elric 1y ago
If I interpret the article correctly, the ultrasound energy does two things: it effectively destroys the cancer cells by overheating them, and it physically breaks apart the tumour. Your immune system can further break up and get rid of dea

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