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Ruthalas

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Ruthalas··on Goodreads is terrible for books – why can’t we all quit it?
Thank you!

I am especially excited that they have an import feature.

Ruthalas··on Goodreads is terrible for books – why can’t we all quit it?
Do you recommend the instance you are on? I am looking to join, but the English speaking instance list was smallish, and I was having trouble choosing.
Ruthalas··on Goodreads is terrible for books – why can’t we all quit it?
What is a sea-lion attack in this context? I haven't heard that one before, and it's not the easiest to search.
Ruthalas··on I would rather see my books get pirated than this
Can you direct me to some of these? Perhaps some you recommend? That sounds interesting, but I don't know where to find such content.
Ruthalas··on Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app
For those into this sort of thing, check out Oleg Dolya, who's been making map and building generators for a long time. His work is very impressive!

https://watabou.itch.io/ https://www.patreon.com/watawatabou

Ruthalas··on Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal
Though this is relevant in the USA, not Italy, confirm whether your state has single or dual party consent laws for recording prior to implementing this if you want to use it in any sort of legal proceedings.
Ruthalas··on PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web
You can manually tag photos and identify people, though the UI flow is not the most convenient. (I've been trying it put for a couple months.)
Ruthalas··on To save money on insurance, drivers agree to intrusive monitoring technology
The problem with that is that it assumes both that the people giving the score are good, unbiased actors who agree with your assessment of what is appropriate, and that bad actors will be unable to game the system.

Even in a well-designed system, both of those will be suspect.

Ruthalas··on Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans
Do you have a suggestion for an alternative?
Ruthalas··on Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans
I can second the recommendation for QKSMS, it's simple and reliable in my experience.
Ruthalas··on How I installed TrueNAS on my new ASUSTOR NAS
Is this first-class/native support? Could you provide a link where I can read more?

I am interested in this, but came up empty the last time I looked into it.

Ruthalas··on Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to
This is likely less the case when the pressure differential is ~480 bar.

Failure is going to occur on the order of fractions of a second at those huge pressures. (Fortunately?)

Here's a pressure vessel failing at only 1 bar:

https://youtu.be/Zz95_VvTxZM

Ruthalas··on Infantilism as a norm (2018)
Can I ask which translation of Journey to the West you read? I've been planning to read it, but there are a lot of options.
Ruthalas··on YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
In contrast with the sibling post, I do exactly this- support a wide variety of YouTube creators on Patreon.

I then use adblock and sponsorblock on YouTube. It seems like a good balance to me.

Ruthalas··on Compromising Garmin Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and Its MonkeyC VM
I can also vouch for Gadgetbridge being a great option.

I use it with a MiBand 6.

Ruthalas··on Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost
If you feel like chatting with others who also archive YouTube (and other) content, consider stopping by my discord server: https://discord.gg/rgBHGm9mTC

We maintain a central list [1] of content that various members have archived, so that when content is removed from YouTube, people can direct inquiries to contributors who have archived that content.

It's a small way to keep track of what things have been successfully archived, and sometimes direct efforts to preserve specific content.

[1] https://tinyurl.com/v4rpe9w

Ruthalas··on Universal Speech Model
Another open source option is espeak[1], though it isn't substantially better than flite, in my experience.

[1] https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak

Ruthalas··on Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu
That was an option in windows 10, but is not present in windows 11 (last I checked anyway).

It's very important to me. :/

Ruthalas··on Medieval Arabic surgeon Ibn al Quff's account on surgical pain relief
Abstract:

This is a review of Ibn al Quff's account of surgical pain relief in his surgical book Al Omdah, in which he mentioned the word anesthetic (Al moukhadder) and the involvement of physician (al tabbaaee) to give mixture of drugs to prevent pain in a surgical condition to relieve the patient from pain or to make surgical management possible. Hich indicated one rare occasion to such description in Arabic medical texts. Methods of administration of these drugs were inhalation, ingestion and by rectal suppositories. The drugs used in anesthetic sponges include all the drugs that are recorded in the modern literature of anesthesia. They are as follows: opium, mandrake, Hyocymus albus, belladonna, Cannabis sativus, Cannabis indica, wild lettuce. The anesthetic sponge, mentioned in many references as an inhalation method, may be of symbolic value to surgery.

I was unfamiliar with "wild lettuce", but apparently its secretions are somewhat similar in effect to opium.

Ruthalas··on Binance halts deposits and withdrawals for customers in the UK
Possibly "Law Enforcement"?
Ruthalas··on Russian aircraft collides into US unmanned system in international waters
According to the article:

>Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner.

That seems more intentional than a simple fly-by anyway.

Ruthalas··on Russian aircraft collides into US unmanned system in international waters
At least according to the article:

>Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner.

That could be argued to be more intentional than just faffing about.

Ruthalas··on Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos
It's not trolling.

They are ads, and I also would prefer a tastefully blank screen with none of them.

Just to add support to that post.

Ruthalas··on Amazon removes books from Kindle Unlimited after they appear on pirate sites
May I ask what the service is? Feel free to use the email in my profile if you don't want to post publicly.

I'm in a similar bind.

Ruthalas··on TikTok just dropped a new realistic beauty filter
Applying makeup in such a fashion would be for the express purpose of 'making significant changes to [your] look'.
Ruthalas··on A Lost Hiker’s SOS Signal Sparked a Wildfire. Now He Must Pay $300k
A lot of very expensive gear, or indeed a small plane might be less expensive than that fine.
Ruthalas··on Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity
That's fair. (Though I certainly haven't argued it either way previously myself.)

I do think it makes your statement that cannot, "be linked back to you personally", a little less absolute.

Ruthalas··on Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity
Correct me if I am wrong, but it's going to be tied to your IP address.

So it will be tied to a unique identifier.

Ruthalas··on Zantac’s maker kept quiet about cancer risks for 40 years
Any of those marketplaces you'd recommend?
Ruthalas··on Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s
It has the potential to be contaminated with salmonella, and they felt mitigating that risk added enough value to counterbalance the loss of the bloom.
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