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Also just dropping a Winamp-like app I use on the Mac, it has quick access to AU Audio Units, which I like:
https://github.com/kartik-venugopal/aural-player
UPDATE: Oh, the developer discontinued it.
I do observe their workflow and tools as some sort of vibe check every few years, don't agree on everything; they don't seem to favor solutions that seek to remain stable over time, but also aren't full tinkerer experimental. They also avoid the design-experimental part, kind of like the weird yet productive nadir, like tools that resemble the AmigaOS times.
The Obsidian comparison was a cheap shot, compare to Vim? Come on. I wonder where does this person stand on other stuff like Vivaldi or Brave. Or notetaking apps like Affine or Anytype. Or Reflect, Recall, Rewind. Or Screenpipe. Whatever.
Companies pushing for this already have all the onboarding flows there. Big 4 and legaltech firms already lobbied for. Banks through their smaller fintech outlets, mobile service providers and pretty much any service you could externalize ID validation that used to be in person, are ramping up adoption.
They are applying it across the board to anything that allows user-generated content under your real name, to prevent impersonation/fraud. Why do they do it with other non-essential services, like social media that doesn't take payments, I'm not sure. But there's indeed regulatory pressure across the board, which will give way into more surveillance down the road.
But it got better, and I'm in a better place now. It felt like I'd never get there; always tiny improvements but not quite there. Last year I finally felt the burnout gone. I stopped being so cynical. My life was better already, but still my mind was not quite there yet.
Now just this year I've rekindled my curiosity, using my free time again for little projects, not leaving piles of unfinished stuff around the house, it's something that's even noticeable from the outside - the little things. So now, moving forward, I take it easy, forgive myself, try again and don't subject myself to unattainable benchmarks.
About your second paragraph, I agree and I wasn't validating the bro part, just that I read about Emsam once. I guess it's mostly influenced by the popularity of performance enhancers in general, be it wakefulness enhancers, stimulants, etc. People are always trying to find "the edge", without the tradeoff, basically chasing a mirage.
Maybe a neglected topic in this theme has been the acetylcholine pathway. Cobenfy, for example, has been approved for treating negative symptoms of schizophrenia and it's not a classical drug in that space.
I've seen stories of ebay/paypal account closures for people who were <18 at the moment of signing up, getting honored a decade later. Not sure about if your multiple accounts had anything to do with it. I think I'll avoid making any changes to mine, except shipping addresses while travelling.
Honestly I just avoid them these days, they promoted too hard their full service international shipping for US sellers, which was always much more expensive than standard USPS, and really slow, but it handled the whole customs thing if your package ever got caught, because the custom duties were pre-collected. Still unreasonably slow, considering most of the time the packages were weeks in the US bouncing around before even leaving, whereas something coming from China or Europe, which used to take 1.5 months a decade ago to Chile, now get to the door in as little as a week.
I collected so many interesting things, blog posts, articles, papers, I learned about many authorities in their respective fields because of that, and mapped who's who, which has been valuable. But the AI itself is so convenient, and search engines (and the state of the Web) sucks so much now, that the time saved just by starting from an AI with search capabilities is worth it.
I'm downsizing my personal wiki, keeping my zotero collection only with the best or most serious papers, culling the small effect size / speculative stuff. For fun stuff, hobbies and nostalgia, blogs are still valuable. Youtube is better than ever. But as far as huge note systems, nope. The only thing that stays growing so far is the browser bookmarks collection, separated by YEAR-SEMESTER, then topics inside. Topics that stay permanent staples in my life, not one-off projects or casual dives, go outside that hierarchy, into folders with actual categories.
Maybe the only thing I'm missing to sort and keep checking the frequently, high signal blogs and news sites, is some sort of Netvibes revival clone. The RSS reader with its typical e-mail layout doesn't cut it for me. Netvibes' layout was great because it was a table grid for each feed.
And as far as joining all of that into one super dashboard or app, I couldn't come up with anything after years, and every attempt at syncing collections of data from different domains in a unified interface, meant simply more clutter in the long run. Keeping it simple worked for years.
The proposal they put together missed several deductions he qualified for, ignored a lot of info he had sent, and was full of basic mistakes.
In the end, he scrapped their work and filed everything himself. I asked if the IRS ever came back to him about it... so far, no issues.
Percussion massage gun with the sharp tip, aimed at the trapezius and levator scapulae. Those muscles can refer tension right around the ears. Targeting them can calm things down fast, especially if your tinnitus is posture or tension-related.
Not medical advice.
The real issue is that healthcare in the US has no functioning market and no effective regulation: prices are arbitrary, patients only see costs after the fact (even if you insist cash on something simple, the itemized bill takes forever), and insurers mostly exist to extract value. Both major parties keep allowing this to exist.
In other countries (even with hybrid social systems, multi-payer, etc) there’s at least transparency and accountability. You know what you owe upfront, and regulators monitor excessive price disparities. Differentiation is allowed, but it’s still regulated.
Do you really believe UHG's 6% profit margin? US Insurance is basically private equity draining cash through inflated bills, with providers and insurers passing the buck while fleecing patients.
For those with unilateral tinnitus that seems influenced by neck stretches or TMJ issues, try sleeping on your back or on the opposite side to avoid pressure on the affected ear.
Also, consider getting an MRI to check for possible causes; in my case, a vascular loop was found contacting the vestibulocochlear nerve inside the internal auditory canal.
While I consider my case largely managed, it still flares up a few times per month, usually triggered by irritation or inflammation (allergens, getting sick, poor neck posture, loud music for hours)
That was the final blow, yup. But the web was still a clunky mess of plugins, broken standards, and browser-specific hacks.
Google pushed to make the web better. And through Chrome they helped bring WebKit to multiplatform: I still remember I couldn't even get rounded edges or nice typography support across platforms, only in Safari.
It wasn’t until Chrome took off that the rest started paying attention.
edit: On a second thought, as a dev now, I look at React, Angular, all these mega frameworks... and wonder if we're just patching over problems big tech baked into the modern web. First point still stands tho.
The progressives' attempts to make it even more complicated, which btw started with them outright wanting to outlaw personal firearm ownership, all failed. And now that the rising crime has people crying out for order, plus their dismal approval ratings, they will be voted out this December for sure, they stand no chance.
What helps is how you framed the idea that the act of taking something by force IS the violence, which is what we’ve been trying to get across here, something that most people are indifferent to, until they experience an attack to their personal safety. Mindsets have shifted here in the last five years.
Subscriptions linked to any of these cards fail to renew, so it seems this works differently from renewed cards you receive when the original is expired or about to expire.
Maybe this is just how banks treat cards in my country, but have you seen this work elsewhere?
I read about a case once of someone tricked into answering a work e-mail, for their employer located in their home country while in the US for vacation, and for that they denied entry to this person. Honestly I'm not sure what I'd say in this case.
It seems that points of entry used by the typical traveler that enters through them, are better as they are more familiar with the local situation. If you are the odd one there, you might get singled out as they try to make sense of your story. So I'd prefer entering through an international airport close to where I'm going, than say, by car from Mexico. For now, I'd avoid entering through the south by car, but I don't think the same applies up north.
For your case specifically, threeseed already shared good guidance. Make your trip make sense to outer observants, don't offer them unnecessary avenues of questioning, and keep documentation and contact numbers at hand.
I put a test ID never used outside, and months later, I see a login attempt from Jamaica (from Apple's privacy takeout export, the media services log). Since I tested several of those apps on the machine, I won't give names because I have no way to prove which one was.
The makers of these tools, are usually eastern european or chinese, but they are incorporated somewhere else.
Then there are the corporate-backed efforts from Bytedance, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei which are sometimes published here and make the news, several frameworks and engines.
Some projects only have a read-only mirror on Github, because all the work is done on their local alternatives like Gitee, or scattered around other places.
And well, anywhere you go a lot of software is disposable; integrations, widgets, things tailored to the local market, and so on... so that's probably why we don't see as much. I mean, it pales in comparison to the amount of culturally impactful software made back in the 80s and 90s, both in Europe and the US. But all things considered, I think they are catching up, and the traditional language barrier is breaking down, as in, I'm seeing more collaboration out in the open.