Don't Touch Ya Face
donttouchyaface.com
donttouchyaface.com
I think it's really hard to strike capture the tone of software in written descriptions of those pieces of software. Coding projects that are programmed in an experimental and light-hearted way can end up being spoken about in somber tones that lose that sense of fun and playfulness.
Especially:
> My dude, I can barely make a website, much less a mini NSA.
As an author writing like this you are leaving yourself vulnerable. It shows that you have fuzzy, opionated and possibly irrational thinking, which is very easy to criticise. This is unlike our typical dry and academic writing where we remove ourselves and personality from our prose. I am guessing that this vulnerability is what makes you feel foolish when you write this way.
I've also been told that this style is not great for non-native speakers.
How many times did you touch your face testing it?
- Too many.“What you do, mate,” replies the bushman, “Is lift up your horses tail, and kiss him straight on the bum.”
“And that fixes your chapped lips?!” exclaims the tourist.
“No,” replied the bushman, “But it stops you licking them.”
> Why does it open in a new tab with a different URL?
> Setting up websites is hard and I got frustrated and you're not paying anything, so...
I'm not sure how it pays for itself - after all, every byte served has to go through their servers, and running a service like this I can imagine a lot of illicit content gets posted too (requiring a lot of admin time).
Why not just use github/lab pages?
Also terrifying... I mean, it's google... after all - Pretty sure my android device knows when I'm touching my face when it's turned off.
result:
I really felt this.
To get me to help them with their math homework.
Plus, it's all front end, so it's not hidden!
> 9. I looked up your code because you don't know how to hide it and have made my own cloned app for some reason.
> - Nobody liked you in high school, I'm sorry you had to find out this way.
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A simple beep is all we need, people. Also it seems more accurate than the others few linked here it seems, the face part is more narrowly detected, the other two went off whenever my hand was in the frame at all for some reason. This one only beeps when I actually put my hand on my face. (Not to be super critical of toy projects)
pre-made models
hand and face detection separately
training the algo yourself
and it felt like the last one was the strongest (which is what we released). The one we built is as strong as the training you give it—it shouldn't be going off if your hand is at all in the frame.
I'm fortunate I can work remotely. Social distancing is a thousand times easier for me than stopping nervous habits, include touching my face. I suspect such actions are on the interface between conscious control and reflex actions.
I suppose the authorities should still keep telling us to stop doing but I think planners should pretty much assume this is not a barrier that's going to stop the disease.
Does it work on black people's faces? I can have a hand on my face but it would still predict otherwise, it seems like I have to go out of my way to obstruct my face for it to pick it up, and even that with a lot of false negatives.
Find a clean object with a well-defined handle. Use the non-handle end of the object to touch/scratch/adjust/manipulate your face. Clean the object regularly.
Working from home, I've designated a kitchen cooking spoon on my desk for this dedicated task. Plastic appears to better than wood, as it is more-readily cleaned and does not absorb facial oils.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
Do your own due diligence on this one, but a few years ago I think it was reported that, surprisingly, wooden chopping boards are better than plastic ones (which had been assumed to be better as they're less absorbent, etc.) and actually combat bacteria.
Given Covid19 is reported to - unusually for a virus - last up to a week [check a proper source!] or so on hard surfaces then maybe in this situation wood might also be better???
>"A study by the Food Research Institute in Wisconsin (Ak et al. 1994a and b) compared wooden and plastic boards and came to the surprising result that wood possesses substantially better hygienic characteristics than plastic. After contaminating different cutting boards with bacteria, significantly fewer viable bacteria could regularly be recovered from wooden boards than from plastic boards. These results were confirmed by Gehrig et al. (2000) in a recent study investigating hygienic aspects of wooden and plastic boards regarding the risk of food contamination. Previous studies assumed that the detected reduction in bacterial numbers on the wood surfaces is caused by an antibacterial effect of wood based on several physical and chemical properties of wood. The porous structure and hygroscopic characteristics of wood could remove the water needed by the bacteria for their vital functions and multiplication and thus kill them (Kampelmacher et al. 1971, Schulz 1995). In addition, substances present in wood (e.g. polyphenoles) could be responsible for an antibacterial effect (Willaman 1955, Biswas et al. 1981, Laks and McKaig 1988, Field et al. 1989, Schra¨gle and Mu¨ller 1990, Scalbert 1991, Mu¨ller et al. 1995)"
>from DOI 10.1007/s00107-002-0300-6, "Wooden boards affecting the survival of bacteria?"
Viruses have a lipid outer layer, but no metabolism of their own. Sometimes dehydration will break the capsule, sometimes it won't.
Soap is usually quite effective due to saponification physically destroying the virus's capsule, fwiw.
A plastic spoon is probably pretty smooth so easy to clean.
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com is awesome and it looks super easy to use - but any tutorials if you wanted to learn it the harder way via OpenCV or Darknet?
I found this tutorial from fast.ai but haven't been able to check it out yet: https://course.fast.ai/videos/?lesson=1
Also, after washing your hands with soap, viral counts should be so low that there isn't a danger of infecting yourself anymore, so the situation where you sit at your laptop isn't especially dangerous IF YOU WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE USING IT (and possibly wiping the keyboard down with a wrung-out cloth that was soaked in soap water).
This is a crisis. We have to work things via defense in depth and hope that it is enough. So we wash our hands, isolate, wear masks where available, and we don't touch our face.
Please don't try to finesse a pandemic just to seem smart on the internet. No one knows whether you're right or not.
Seriously, just don't touch your face.
Here's hoping they become acceptable.
- Washing hands and not touching face is inconclusive but it makes sense to keep up the hygiene. That's not the primary means of how this virus spreads.
- Virus primarily spreads via airborne means, simply by breathing (not even coughing or sneezing) is enough. It stays suspended in air (you can imagine the negligible weight of a 0.1um particle compared to the fluid mechanical forces from circulating air).
- N95 masks (contrarily to the popular myth) are the most effective means of stopping the spread. Shortage of masks for hospital workers is an orthogonal issue.
I urge everyone of you to watch this interview and to be more informed.
"Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 is plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to days," researchers wrote in the study's abstract.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/03/11/Coronavirus-can-...
Obviously touching your face won't decrease your chances of catching coronavirus (or any other disease), but the reason this strain is wrecking so much havoc is because of how transmissible it is, especially through simple breathing. The implication being, if you get it on your hands, you've almost certainly already breathed it in.
The world will be a better place.
Start wearing a bracelet or something else to give yourself a little reminder when you are reaching for your face. I have no idea whether bracelets themselves are germ traps, of course.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-10/how-south-east-asia-i...
It's still a brilliant idea and I love it, regardless of its limitations.
https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr/status/1237413723658055680...
LOL - the FAQ is worth the price of admission
Regarding washing hands, I've found that if I do that too much then my skin (starting on the back of my hands) tends to dry out and flake off. Certain kinds of moisturizing soap are less bad at this, but I don't choose what soap is available except at home, and it has led me to find other solutions like the above.
Edit: this may be a potential vector for reinforcement learning
Maybe train people not to touch their face and in higher risk situations (think public transit with lots of touching or bigger group events) add a mask as another layer of protection and a reminder.
And if Ya Cougha ina Public,
I Beata Ya to Deatha ina Alley.
Poe's law disclaimer: ;-P
This website has misconfigured certs and because of that my browser blocks it. Chrome is corp IT-managed and has no opt-out, whereas Firefox lets me accept the certs, but it's ultimately been blocked by our DNS/firewall for the same reason.
I really hate SSL. The majority of informational sites do not need it. I understand that it doesn't protect my privacy, but it doesn't frankly matter that I'm accessing an informational page about Coronavirus. If people are willing to give up their privacy to adtech platforms like Google and Facebook, the information about what websites you read is already out there.
I feel like Google has just created a deeper moat by pushing for SSL.
People complain about Kubernetes, but that's infra for large orgs that you shouldn't opt into unless you need it. SSL is being forced on the small guys who can't handle the complexity nor automation. It's not fair.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.donttouch...
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=lzdmsmujepoc2...
2: How does a greater penetration of HTTPS help Google's moat specifically? To my understanding, all the vendors are pretty much pushing in the same direction.
Maybe you are a victim of a man-in-the-middle attack right now and the "stupid warnings" you're blithely clicking through are informing you of this.
However, if the proxy is occasionally dropping requests or replacing them with one of those stupid "log on to the proxy here" pages, then the chain discovery will fail randomly and you'll get these issues.
It's also common in environments where the security trolls have blocked HTTP (as in, TCP port 80) because they think it's "insecure", but this just causes X.509 issues like this because it uses only HTTP and never HTTPS for CRLs, OCSP, and intermediate CA certificate downloads.