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  1. Comment on Has anyone here tried bone conduction headphones? in ~tech

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    I got these sleep earbuds and am pretty happy with them. I use them with a bluetooth adapter, but they are super tiny and don't dig into my ears if I roll over.

    I got these sleep earbuds and am pretty happy with them. I use them with a bluetooth adapter, but they are super tiny and don't dig into my ears if I roll over.

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  2. Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 3 in ~sports.american_football

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    Ha! TIL. Humans sure are weird. Thanks for sharing this fact.

    And if you're reading this and thinking "Rooney? Mara? Rooney Mara? Like the actress?" Yeah.

    Ha! TIL. Humans sure are weird. Thanks for sharing this fact.

  3. Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 3 in ~sports.american_football

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    The concussion stuff started to sour me on football in general, then I was pretty much done after they pushed Colin Kaepernick out over the kneeling thing. I know the league is not a monolith, but...

    The concussion stuff started to sour me on football in general, then I was pretty much done after they pushed Colin Kaepernick out over the kneeling thing. I know the league is not a monolith, but eventually the system allows or encourages too many choices of money over principles.

    I think we turned on the super bowl last year because my daughter wanted to watch it. I did enjoy it, but generally I don't encourage it. It helps that the montessori school crowd doesn't oullnhee the other way.

    My daughter plays basketball, so watching WNBA and women's college basketball has felt like a better way to enjoy sports these days. We started calling the men's league the MNBA.

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  4. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I really like it! In especially like the way the drive bay acts as a base. I haven't built a pc in ~20 years (laptops are pretty dang powerful these days), but this makes me want to. I think I...

    I really like it! In especially like the way the drive bay acts as a base.

    I haven't built a pc in ~20 years (laptops are pretty dang powerful these days), but this makes me want to. I think I would add an cube frame around it to really define the space it takes up.

  5. Comment on Bitnami’s August 28th bombshell: The end of free container images as we know them in ~tech

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    I hit this at work a few weeks ago. At least then, the aws public ecr still had all the images cached and tagged. It was relatively straightforward for us to pull the ones we were using then tag...

    I hit this at work a few weeks ago. At least then, the aws public ecr still had all the images cached and tagged. It was relatively straightforward for us to pull the ones we were using then tag and push them to our own ECR registry, then update our image references. But, we were already using AWS and ECR so YMMV.

    Obviously that is only a short term fix, but it takes it from "oh shit" to "we'll get around to it" and also gives you some time to wait and see how the community responds.

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  6. Comment on What words do you recommend? in ~talk

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    I had a colleague who often used the word perseverate, and I like it! I'm prone to linger over things I should move past, and it's nice to have a word for it.

    I had a colleague who often used the word perseverate, and I like it! I'm prone to linger over things I should move past, and it's nice to have a word for it.

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  7. Comment on What words do you recommend? in ~talk

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    Thanks for the links. I had never seen the latter. Pretty interesting to get a window into the way risk is thought about in the intelligence community. Slightly different than the safety community...

    Thanks for the links. I had never seen the latter. Pretty interesting to get a window into the way risk is thought about in the intelligence community. Slightly different than the safety community and quite useful.

  8. Comment on What words do you recommend? in ~talk

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    MIL STD 882E (see p12) uses Frequent, Probable, Occasional, Remote, and Improbable

    MIL STD 882E (see p12) uses
    Frequent, Probable, Occasional, Remote, and Improbable

  9. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    Hmm, I still couldn't find it in all the places Google said to look for it, but I did find a few articles about it being removed in newer android versions. Apparently BuzzKill is a way to do a lot...

    Hmm, I still couldn't find it in all the places Google said to look for it, but I did find a few articles about it being removed in newer android versions.

    Apparently BuzzKill is a way to do a lot to customize notifications (with Tasker). While reading about it, I came across this comment which seems like the opposite extreme. It would drive me crazy:

    I use it to announce notifications aloud in chosen voice. I download mp3 clips of the announcements I use regularly, like "Message from your wife" or "(name) is at the door" from eleven labs. Also, I have files for every hour of the day I'm awake to announce the hour. Then I trigger those with Buzzkill.

    I guess it takes all kinds.

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  10. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    I do remember seeing some different vibration patterns, though I did a cursory check now and didn't immediately find them, so maybe they got removed in an update? What I remember was that the...

    I do remember seeing some different vibration patterns, though I did a cursory check now and didn't immediately find them, so maybe they got removed in an update?

    What I remember was that the patterns were predetermined, though maybe you could still find ones that map to morse code. Not sure my leg would be sensitive enough to decode it though :)

    I have always thought it would be cool to have a belt that briefly vibrates every time you are facing north. It would be like an extra sense that helped you maintain your sense of direction, especially indoors. So if I had that, maybe it could also be a pattern vibrating ringer.
    Assuming the motor is in the small of your back, the conversation would be: "Dad, your butt is going off again, could you please answer it."

    But if my phone is any measure, embedded compasses are nearly worthless. So for now I will just dream.

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  11. Comment on Automation for android, preferably FOSS in ~tech

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    I don't use anything myself, though I did recently set up KWGT to make a custom random slideshow widget. Pretty neat, but I don't think it's what OP would want for their use case. Fwiw I think...

    I don't use anything myself, though I did recently set up KWGT to make a custom random slideshow widget. Pretty neat, but I don't think it's what OP would want for their use case.

    Fwiw I think Tasker is in the camp of "good closed source things that don't try to take too much". When I looked for my original comment, I think the app cost $3.85. And I know it's been around since at least the late 2000's.

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  12. Comment on Wallet voting in ~life

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    I wish there were more of this thinking in the world. We hold ourselves individually to a high moral standard while a corporation takes all it can with no regard for any morality but the virtue of...

    I wish there were more of this thinking in the world. We hold ourselves individually to a high moral standard while a corporation takes all it can with no regard for any morality but the virtue of profit.

    You robbed a guy on the street? That should be a crime. You robbed a corporation? You should get a medal and teach a class.

    14 votes

  13. Comment on Automation for android, preferably FOSS in ~tech

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    I think the go-to for android automation is Tasker. I haven't used it in a long time, but setting actions to be triggered by an event and modifying phone settings were the core functionality, so I...

    I think the go-to for android automation is Tasker.

    I haven't used it in a long time, but setting actions to be triggered by an event and modifying phone settings were the core functionality, so I think it should do what you mentioned.

    14 votes

  14. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    I assume they were talking about the caps lock button. That's the one I've heard many people talk about reassigning, since THERE'S RARELY A GOOD MODERN USE CASE FOR IT.

    I assume they were talking about the caps lock button. That's the one I've heard many people talk about reassigning, since THERE'S RARELY A GOOD MODERN USE CASE FOR IT.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    All I can say is that 1) I'm glad whoever is behind neal.fun doesn't work for Google and 2) I hope no recaptcha product managers see this.

    All I can say is that 1) I'm glad whoever is behind neal.fun doesn't work for Google and 2) I hope no recaptcha product managers see this.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    Same. I had no patience for it when it was a book either.

    Same. I had no patience for it when it was a book either.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I have noise canceling headphones that I use for meetings at work, and if I take them off for ten minutes, they turn themselves off. Their passive isolation is pretty good, so sometimes I'll put...

    I have noise canceling headphones that I use for meetings at work, and if I take them off for ten minutes, they turn themselves off. Their passive isolation is pretty good, so sometimes I'll put them on and not notice they are off. When I start a zoom call, it's pretty annoying because I have to do the "oh, I can't hear you, is it you or me?" routine, followed by actually connecting the headphones, which take about a thousand years (not really, but it seems so while people are staring at the screen waiting on you).

    So with the help of Claude Sonnet, I built a gnome plugin that monitors for new zoom windows and sends a dbus notification to a system service. The service checks to see if the bluetooth device for my headphones is connected, and if it isn't, it sends a desktop notification to remind me.

    For what it is, it has a lot of moving parts, but it seems to be reliable. It didn't take long to set up, and it has a decent install script so I should be able to reuse it.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    Yep, sorry. I had a long, frustrating day and you got something that should have been directed elsewhere.

    Yep, sorry. I had a long, frustrating day and you got something that should have been directed elsewhere.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I set up some websites using Astro for static site generation hosted on Cloudflare pages (small nonprofit) and we were comfortably in the free tier for hosting. The integration to auto build when...

    I set up some websites using Astro for static site generation hosted on Cloudflare pages (small nonprofit) and we were comfortably in the free tier for hosting. The integration to auto build when the github repo is updated is pretty great.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    I guess it wasn't clear from my post, but these are the notifications I chose because they have value to me. I have a ton of apps with all the notifications turned off so I can engage with them on...

    I guess it wasn't clear from my post, but these are the notifications I chose because they have value to me. I have a ton of apps with all the notifications turned off so I can engage with them on my terms.

    2 votes