dsp_person

Cutting off visual and audio distractions is very 101 for what goal though? We aren't doing homework or taxes. In one situation it may be "distraction", in another it may be "stimuli" and enjoyable. ADHD people like to stim. In this situation I think the visual stimuli were good.

I thought the emojis and animations and stuff were great. Good job.

> I doubt the author has a grasping of ADHD

Do you? It can be hurtful to tell someone they "aren't ADHD enough".

First line of the article:

> I was diagnosed last year & wasn’t able to find an affordable, quality ADHD coach

ADHD people might like the animations, emojis, and colors, and might not read a long boring plaintext article linearly from start to finish. Everyone has different preferences though...

Personally I didn't find anything confusing or distracting about the article, and I felt like I could jump between random sections that look interesting (where the colors, emojis, and animations draw me in to different topics).

Very cool! Have you seen music mouse [1]? I wonder in what ways this intonation keyboard concept could be mapped into a 2d touch interface, maybe with some ideas from music mouse. But if it's just a single XY pad, I guess it becomes just a piano again but with tuning presets? Or maybe 2 pads could be used...

[1] https://teropa.info/musicmouse/

When I booted normally with the concatenated image (ensuring removing the original microcode img from the grub.cfg initrd command), I booted and I confirmed the microcode loaded with (dmesg | grep microcode).

Then switching to ZBM, while it did boot with the concatenated image, I didn't see microcode loaded in dmesg.

I was looking at using this for my arch zfs-on-root setups, but I've instead just been hacking on /etc/grub.d/10_linux and /lib/initcpio/hooks/zfs to get the boot menu setup I want with grub. I like the simplicity of it this way with less dependencies (especially otherwise needing to use AUR for the zfsbootmenu build or use the pre-built binary blob).

One concern I had with zfsbootmenu was I couldn't figure out how to load microcode. With kexec, zfsbootmenu can only load one image and late loading microcode may be "dangerous" [1]. I don't know practically if that is a real security issue or not. I tried cat'ing my images together as below, but it still didn't work for me:

  mv initramfs-linux.img initramfs-linux.img.orig
  cat intel-ucode.img initramfs-linux.img.orig > initramfs-linux.img

[1] https://docs.kernel.org/arch/x86/microcode.html#why-is-late-...

I found on arch linux, LXD is a pretty great option for running VMs (--vm option) without root, being able to immediately execute commands or get a console, and is a good qemu-based alternative to virtual-box-focused Vagrant.

```

lxc launch ubuntu ubuntu-vm --vm -c security.secureboot=false

lxc exec ubuntu-vm -- /bin/bash

```

Vagrant also kind-of fits the description, but I've been looking for an alternative due to it's libvirt support being iffy (the plugin breaks often or has issues compared to the virtualbox provider, also not many official image providers).

Here's one option I came across recently that's pretty nice and simple, using virsh and cloud images, and making it easy to spin up a VM and ssh into it. [1]

One use case I'm looking for is to provision system images including ZFS pools/dataset, and not sharing the host kernel module.

[1] https://earlruby.org/2023/02/quickly-create-guest-vms-using-...

Love seeing the live app come up first thing without needing to register, log in, etc.

Oh I remember now I was actually looking at spirulina for omega 3.

Seemed hard to find numbers, but one source said 331mg of EPA per gram of Spirulina platensis (https://www.ripublication.com/ijac16/ijacv12n4_05.pdf).

Was considering what it would be like to eat like 6 grams of spirulina for 2g of EPA, versus that in one teaspoon of fish oil (high EPA type).

But got stuck on the B12 blocking stuff. I wonder if your point is true that there's enough redundancy it doesn't matter. It would be nice if it was easier/cheaper to get bloodwork to do some experiments with this kind of stuff.

I was looking into algea/spirulina for B12, but found some sources indicating it is not a bioavailable form of B12, and also prevents real B12 from being absorbed.

I'd be interested to know any counter research to this.

> almost all algae revealed vitamin B12 analogues instead of the real thing. Analogues are not only ineffective, but also potentially dangerous. Most researchers have consequently dismissed algae as a B12 source and recommend natural B12 supplements as a safe alternative

> In order to properly understand the discussion about the B12 content of algae, it is important to first take a closer look at analogues. Also known as pseudo B12, analogues are molecules which are so chemically similar to real B12 that they bond to the same transport molecule. In contrast, however, they have no vitamin effect on the body whatsoever. This is detrimental to health, as only real B12 that is bound to this specific transport molecule can be used by the body.

https://www.b12-vitamin.com/algae/

My biggest gripe with undo is in cases where it's unclear what undo will do if anything, and the action is file or email related without a clean redo option.

Thunderbird - oops I just keymashed and did a bunch of random shortcuts. OK great I can Undo infinitely with no indication of what emails are being moved or undeleted, etc.

Windows Explorer, Dolphin etc - undo can be pretty opaque unless you already know what it is that is being undone. And there isn't a redo!

> Of course that tree requires a navigation system for users to pick their way back through the undo-redo history, leading to all sorts of complicated user interfacery that nobody has time to deal with.

I would LOVE the complicated user interfacery to be in all applications to show at least the list of actions! Image editors are great at this.

Subluminal warp drive only needing positive energy seems like cool method to get around conservation of momentum (remember EmDrive?). I wonder if it could be used at very small scales with lower energies for some applications.

Another interesting reactionless drive within possibility:

> "Swimming in spacetime" is a general relativistic effect, where an extended body can change its position by using cyclic deformations in shape to exploit the curvature of space, such as due to a gravitational field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive#Movement_wi...

yup see rincebrain's first reply where nearly every word in the sentence is a url to a different encryption issue

> [I recommend](https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/11679) [not using](https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12014) [native encryption](https://www.illumos.org/issues/14003) [until it gets](https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12270) [a fair bit](https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12439) [more polish](https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12418) [in the future](https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/11983) ([I'm only so hopeful](https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T86620b1082ed9...)).

Unfortunately this knowledge isn't wide-spread, and as far as I see the zfs devs seem to NOT recommend using encryption right now without accepting the risks of dataloss

Really enjoyed Dragon's Egg about life on a neutron star.

> The adults of the star's most intelligent species, called cheela (no flexion for gender or number), have about the same mass as an adult human. However, the extreme gravity of Dragon's Egg compresses the cheela to the volume of a sesame seed,[2] but with a flattened shape about 0.5 millimeters (0.020 inches) high and about 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) in diameter. Their eyes are 0.1 millimeters (0.0039 inches) wide. Such minute eyes can see clearly only in ultraviolet and, in good light, the longest wavelengths of the X-ray band

> By humans' standards, a "day" on Dragon's Egg is about 0.2 seconds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg

I've enjoyed using pyp[1] with fish to make some nice one-liners

For example, custom history command to make early commands at the top, scroll to the bottom, and show the date and command on the same line

function hist; history -t -R | pyp '["\t".join(pair) for pair in zip(lines[::2],lines[1::2])]' | less +G; end; funcsave hist

[1] https://github.com/hauntsaninja/pyp

cool this seems handy, but when I try my chrome://inspect/#pages only contains a small subset of tabs out of the few dozen windows I have open. Any tips?

Hmm, fwiw I think all my boxes with NoMachine have GPUs as well, that may make a difference in the quality for encoding/decoding.

If I go full screen it's hard for me to distinguish local vs remote, even watching videos, other than occasionally can see video compression artifacts per the connection quality.

Do like that I can blank screen on login, lock screen on logout, similar to RDP, unlike xrdp and others where it's a new session when you connect, you can't resume a session locally (e.g. work half in office, half at home, same session).

> I also don't understand why someone would want to give you their encryption passphrase. A service like this should just take encrypted sends, and send them back when requested. I don't want my plaintext anywhere other than my own hardware.

it can, see raw sends: e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25148494

NoMachine works great here. Enable screen blanking setting or not depending on needs.

Interested to try this! Previously I subscribed to SkedPal (https://www.skedpal.com/) for awhile but thought it was too expensive to stick with it.

I'm thinking of a similar approach with text files and collections of other file types like pdfs, images, etc as you note.

For tags, there are some packages for tagging I've come across like TMSU [1], taggo [2], dantalian [3]

I'm thinking of tagging by just having a tags folder with a txt file for each tag. You could just stick the path to files you want to "tag" in there. Then if desired, have a script to create a bunch of symlinks for a browsable tag file structure. Maybe even have some custom grep code to find specific keywords in my notes and "tag" them automatically

[1] https://github.com/oniony/TMSU [2] https://github.com/xeor/taggo [3] http://darkfeline.github.io/dantalian/

Any info?

Wanna-be artist here. I'm making art as a creative outlet and motivation to build new tools in the areas of audio and computer graphics. It's side projects outside my engineering job. Am making some money on custom plotter prints, but not enough to cover costs.