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by escapologybb 8y ago
Using Dasher at this very moment to write this very comment, I absolutely love it and would be lost without it. are useless dictation software for the bulk of my writing for the web, emails, coding etc as you might imagine that makes it s
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by escapologybb 8y ago
Thank you for the nice words. :-) Not sure why you're being down voted, this is a perfectly normal view and probably one I held myself. But you would be surprised, life has a way of wanting to persist. You never really know how you&#
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by escapologybb 8y ago
I will, I will keep trying to set a terrible example as often as I can. :-)
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by escapologybb 8y ago
Hey guys, quadriplegic Hacker here. Yes, truly terrifying situation but becoming quadriplegic does not mean an end to spending inordinate amounts of money on technology and owning more Raspberry Pi's and you're willing to admit to
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Voices of millions of UK taxpayers stored by HMRC(bbc.com)
1 points by escapologybb 8y ago|0 comments
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by escapologybb 8y ago
Hello, Fortunately, like most Quads I have some movement below the level of injury. If you're that way inclined, here's a YouTube video of the amount of positive control I have over my body below the neck (My Range of Movement [1
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by escapologybb 8y ago
Hello, if anyone from this team is reading this and needs a quadriplegic geek with experience beta testing would massively benefit from this technology. Let me know. This could make my life 3.7 million percent easier. Seriously.
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UK’s Dixons Carphone admits huge data breach(bbc.com)
90 points by escapologybb 8y ago|60 comments
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The Case of the Phantom Caller(gimletmedia.com)
27 points by escapologybb 8y ago|5 comments
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by escapologybb 8y ago
I was genuinely surprised When they did something is cool is this chose to do it with Mezzanine, Blue Lines is probably one of the best albums ever written in my not very humble opinion. That was truly groundbreaking.
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Fair enough. My apologies, when I looked at the link I didn't notice it was for a particular region and not the UK. You are absolutely correct.
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by escapologybb 9y ago
^ This. Here, have an Internet hug: {huggle}. This is going to save me literally seconds over the course of my lifetime, and as one with absolutely no patience with how slow computers are this is the best thing I've learnt this week.
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by escapologybb 9y ago
To be honest, it looks like a great service and I think the name has probably made me look on it with a more favourable eye as it doesn't seem to have been a deliberate insult. But rather an unfortunate translation between languages,
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Interesting, I always equated pills with "munted" but those other permutations always meant something very different. Maybe it's a regional thing in the UK?
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Weird, it seems I can reply to you directly. Does anyone know why the "reply" button wasn't instantly available to me? Here is my response again in case you are getting notifications and don't see my edited reply: &quot
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Probably unnecessary nitpick, but here goes: the actual derogatory term is "Munter" rather than just simply the word "Munt". For example, I saw [INSERT NAME HERE] and they were looking like a total Munter. when it is use
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Hello, if anybody on this project is reading this then you really really need my help. I am quadriplegic and this looks like it would make my life about 14.3 million percent easier (roughly). My email address is in my profile and I beta te
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by escapologybb 9y ago
^This. As a teenager growing up in the UK I played cricket for my school and a local team, and when I was about 14 I had the "pleasure" of facing roughly four balls bowled by the Legendary West Indies cricketer Viv Richards[1] whe
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by escapologybb 9y ago
This is mildly off topic but regarding clickbait titles, does anyone have any good idea how we can stop them? Because everybody hates them, but everybody clicks on them. Seriously, I hate the way BBC News has turned into a clickbait night
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Mildly off topic but I was a postman for a few years and the advice you linked to will get you almost all the way. Next time you get a letter that isn't for you put a big circle around the label, then put a cross through the circle.
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Luck and Stanislav Petrov, amongst other reasons. Which is utterly terrifying. I still find it amazing that Stanislav Petrov was fired from his job a few days after averting nuclear Armageddon, I think he was chiefly because he didn'
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by escapologybb 9y ago
It's not totally out of the question but from what I can see it would be prohibitively expensive after a while, whereas an upfront cost for some low-cost networking hardware that would then get its Internet connection from my home rout
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by escapologybb 9y ago
I had never heard of either of those two technologies but I would definitely do some googling now, thanks for the tip. I would rather avoid a 4G hotspot attached to my wheelchair for a couple of reasons, chief among them is the data costs w
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Thanks for the link, I will definitely get in touch with them. Paying for the equipment isn't the issue I don't think, it's the expertise and looking for.
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Here's a quick question I hope somebody can shed some light on. I live in a small-ish town in Yorkshire, probably a couple of miles square and was wondering about the feasibility of using these little devices to create a mesh network
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Hi, I guess I really didn't articulate my point very well at all, sorry about that. I think I was trying to articulate that solving one disability problem for one type of disability almost always has applications for people with other
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by escapologybb 9y ago
Sorry, I didn't actually address your point in my rush to be sarcastic. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. You are absolutely correct and I think that quadriplegics can be used as a kind of Patient Zero for accessibility purposes, in that i
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by escapologybb 9y ago
I don't think they were being sarcastic, were they? Or am I hopelessly naive and operating under the Principle of Charity? ;-) /sarcasm [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity Edited to add:
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by escapologybb 9y ago
> Damn, and no VC went into that huge market?! Tell me about it, I have money too! You make the products and I will buy them, as will other disabled people. It's a huge untapped market, it really is and only Apple seems to be payi
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by escapologybb 9y ago
This. I'm quadriplegic and the Amazon Echo has revolutionised my life for the better, I made a big full comment on the other thread on this topic on the front page right now so I won't repeat myself. But I'm a pretty good r

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