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I don't know who the provider is, but the attack was almost certainly not targeting the provider, but a site hosted on their platform. Many hosting companies upsell their customers into stuff like providing Cloudflare DDoS prevention. The target site was probably something political or controversial. I work at a hosting provider and we deal with this type of thing constantly.

That's fine, but bodybuilding is recreational with the exception of a very small number of people who are professional bodybuilders. Human beings don't _need_ to have 200g of protein per day. Assuming you're not a professional or don't have a job where large muscle mass is an absolute requirement, the excess protein intake is something you _want_ so that you can enjoy your hobby.

To be clear, you should continue to eat as much meat as you want - it's your life! There are tons of advantages to strength training and bodybuilding, and I am not trying to diminish any of that.

But what I can't agree on is that it's ethical to consume that much daily protein unless you truly need it. That level of meat consumption has very real impacts - it is literally unsustainable for a significant number of people to consume excess protein entirely from meat.

"Need" and "want" are different things.

I live at ~64 deg latitude in the USA (Alaska) and 100% agree with everything you said. The timing of sunset has such a profound effect on when you consider the day "done". In Dec it's painful to haul myself outside at 5 or 6 PM since it's "night time" already. Meanwhile in June, at 11PM/23:00 when it's still bright out I have to remind myself to home and go to bed so I'm not a tired wreck at work the next day :)

I think what's fascinating about it is the daylight changes you experienced in the 20 deg latitude change you experience from Orlando to Seattle are dwarfed by the changes from a ~15 degree latitude change from Seattle to Anchorage. By the time you're getting close to the pole, you can see huge differences in solstice minimum/maximum sunlight by moving just a few hundred miles north or south.

I grew up here, so it's "home" so to speak. Well, technically my childhood home was a few hundred miles further south than where I am now (Fairbanks, Alaska). It's definitely an extreme climate to live in, but there are a ton of things to do outdoors, and although the daylight changes are very extreme, the excessive summer daylight makes that part of the year truly amazing.

I do think the extreme polar opposites in daylight and temperature for summer and winter solstices contribute to people here being a little...unbalanced. But for a lot of people, the unique landscape, low population, and abundance of outdoor activities make it worthwhile.

I live just a couple hundred miles south of the arctic circle, and personally I hate the time of year where we "accelerate" into the equinoxes (equinoxii?). The rate of change is just too fast and too disruptive, and you _really_ see its effects on people. And then DST comes in and makes it even worse.

The difference as you climb in latitude is really shocking. Even just another 3-400 miles south of here, the rate of change is way less severe.

Anyway nice work and cool article! I've done some of these rough calculations myself before to plot out the change just to verify that I'm not insane for hating this time of year, and you did a way better job than I ever did :)

Not sure if you're familiar with it, but Glove80 which the parent comment you were replying to is very similar to Kinesis boards (concave keywell, staggered columnar layout, etc.) but leverages a lot of the open source stuff like ZMK firmware that Kinesis doesn't support https://www.moergo.com/

Edit: nevermind, I just learned that the advantage360 pro uses ZMK as well. Either way, they both seem like great options for people who prioritize the ergonomics over aesthetics :)

Slowly but surely, desktop Linux is developing an ecosystem of quality of life applications like this that make using common peripherals and stuff on Linux not feel so bad.

Some of my other current favorites are:

- CoolerControl (https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol) - fan control/curve designer/temp sensor overview tool. Seriously awesome tool!

- LACT (https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT) - AMD GPU tool for overclocking, etc. Anything you would do with the radeon app on windows

- BoatSwain (https://flathub.org/apps/com.feaneron.Boatswain) - Elgato StreamDeck tool

It's never too late to get started! Also, if you're keen to try M8 before investing, you can make a "headless" M8 from a $30 teensy board, but you have to use it via a web emulator. If that sounds intimidating in any way, it's really not - there's no enclosure, no soldering, and no real configuration other than just flashing the teensy with a GUI app.

https://github.com/DirtyWave/M8Docs/blob/main/docs/M8Headles...

I've been using M8 for ~4 years now, it's an amazing and fun way to make music, and I think it gels for a lot of people who aren't traditionally trained in music.

Lemmy is probably the closest thing you'll find in activitypub/fediverse https://join-lemmy.org/instances

https://lemmy.world/

the second link goes directly to the largest instance. It has all the same federated interoperability features that Mastodon or Bluesky have, but with a thread/topic format instead of a microblog format.

I've used gpt4 pretty extensively while learning Japanese to have a written conversation partner, ask clarification around grammar, or to translate native content for me and explain it. I've validated a lot of the answers it comes up with, and although it hallucinates occasionally, it doesn't do so on the same points consistently. I'm going to encounter a lot of my vocabulary and grammar hundreds or thousands of times, so even if it's incorrect 1% of the time, it's not a huge problem.

As with most LLM use cases, it's best when used to augment an existing workflow that reinforces it. In my case, I already have an whole setup where I'm using anki flash cards for vocabulary and grammar study, some curated human-written resources for learning grammar, and native language content for reading and listening immersion. GPT is really helpful to be able to quickly get a sentence level translation and each word translated, and full descriptions of the grammar points at work in the sentence. It saves me a lot of time over working with a dictionary and juggling grammar resources, vocab, etc. I can ask it follow-up questions, and even switch straight into trying to use the grammar/vocab in an example sentence of my own right on the spot. I seriously think I'd be way worse off if I didn't have access to an LLM throughout the process.

Trichinosis is incredibly common in Alaska's bear population. As with any kind of game meat, thoroughly cooking to recommended temps is highly encouraged. Plenty of people get away with eating undercooked meat for years, but you don't have control over the randomness of what an animal you hunt was exposed to. Trich is no joke and can seriously injure you.

https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=disease.muscle2

> All bear and lynx meat should be considered possibly infected.

I've done more 30min-2hr sub-zero F bike rides here in interior Alaska than I can count, as well as many 5+hr rides for things like races and backcountry trips. Some of the coldest days are at -30F or -40F. I use a simple wool balaclava as well, and it works great.

The author here seems weirdly obsessed with the idea of "breathing cold air" resulting in heat loss? While breathing cold air isn't necessarily pleasant, in my experience, if you're actually _exercising_ (raising your heart rate to say, 120 or more?), then even down at -30 you very quickly run into the opposite problem. You're generating a _ton_ of heat from exercise, and you're sweating your ass off. Most of the time I end up periodically pulling my face covering off to help cool down.

I'm not above trying one of these, but it feels a bit like a solution in search of a problem. Maybe I'm underestimating the difficulty of the average bike commuter's ride, and they're not regularly getting their heart rate elevated? But I can say that in 5-10 years of winter bike commuting, racing, and backcountry travel, almost everyone I see is using a balaclava, despite these things having been around for a while.

There's a credit and statement in the footer of the page:

> Muhammad Ali™; Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights: Muhammad Ali Enterprises LLC

> Photos by Neil Leifer © ABG-SI LLC

Yeah, very weird. They have a sample prep tool that converts existing samples to the correct format, and obviously the internal sampling records to that rate.

Sorry in advance for the long comment but I've spent a lot of time thinking about this because I want to be able to continue doing this line of work until I retire without completely wrecking my body.

A little background: I've been doing 8+ hours of programming and often a few more hours of chair time (gaming, personal work, whatever) after work for about 15 years now.

When I started, I could sit on/in anything. On a really long day I might feel some discomfort or slight back pain, but nothing major. Starting 3 or 4 years ago, that changed.

If I sat in a chair without back support, poor ergonomics, or a bad seat, I got quite a bit of pain. I'm not sure how much of that I should attribute to weakening core/supporting muscles from the heavy amount of desk time vs. the natural effects of aging, but it was obvious that something was causing me pain where I hadn't previously had it. Throughout my whole programming career I've stayed active – at 35, I'm only 10lb up from the weight I was at through my late teens, lifting as well as cardio for exercise, etc.

Once I noticed I was having pain, I started an (unfortunately very expensive) journey to find a chair that agrees with me. By this point I had been working from home for 3 years and I was sitting on a $50 generic office chair that I knew was at least part of the problem that caused me a lot of pain.

The first new chair I tried was a Steelcase Leap. I'd had one at a previous job and remembered liking the armrests and back support a lot. I sat it in for about a year, but the seat pan was literally as hard as a rock, or otherwise cursed and was literally a huge pain in the ass. However, the back support was great and I knew I was on the right track.

I sold the Leap (luckily not at too much of a loss) and then tried an Autonomous Ergochair Pro. I liked the back support on that chair a lot as well, but likewise found the seat to be super uncomfortable. I sold it a few months later.

The last chair I tried (and the one I finally kept) was a Herman Miller Embody. I knew from enjoying the back on the Leap chair that I liked the idea of a flexible-backed chair that could move with my spine and allow me to stretch, but the Embody ended up being the choice for me because of the seat. I'd tried other mesh seats in the past but they always had kind of a "hammock" feeling. The only way I can really describe the seat on the Embody is that it feels like all of the "suspended" feeling of a mesh chair, but with none of the "hammock" effect where you feel like you're sitting in the middle of a bowl. The seat is basically invisible for me to sit on. On long days I don't have any pain, and I honestly feel like I'm able to work more effectively without being distracted or uncomfortable from pain.

The other thing I did was just try to sit _less_. Getting a standing desk along with a nice chair has made a world of difference. If I'm honest, some days pass completely without me standing at all, but having the option there is great when I need it.

The biggest downside is that erognomic setup stuff can be insanely expensive – all said and done, I've spent probably 3k on it. But compared to the amount of time I spend working, and the amount of money I make _from_ that work, it's all worth it to me. If I want to keep doing this shit for the next 15 years, I need to be able to do it without pain.

I hope you find something that works well for you!

Great work! I've made a few jank theory practice apps for guitar and pedal-steel guitar, and know exactly what you mean when there's that impulse to start to automate things that are really just too subjective.

> Needless to say, I never really learned to play ukulele…

Funny you say that, I actually do think making the tools made me better at the instruments. Being forced to sit and seriously consider things like the most optimal way to change chords is the kind of music theory that I always struggled to think of in the moment on the instrument.

They don't support wireless charging from phone to airpods. That would be great, and is available on some android devices. This was referring to being able to charge your airpods or watch by plugging them into your phone with a cable.

I really hope that activitypub and the federated web end up becoming the technologies that "win" out of all the nonsense that is "Web3", but the wildly successful monetization of traditional web platforms and the "different-but-more" monetization of the crypto-obsessed vision of Web3 are nearly impossible for platforms like Peertube and Mastodon to effectively win out against.

Damn! This is seriously great work. I've built a couple shitty react apps for my own use to visualize the fretboard (namely https://github.com/porkloin/progression-roulette-mk2 and https://porkloin.github.io/triad-practice-mk2/ if anyone wants to use an objectively worse version of what OP is sharing :P).

I've considered trying to consolidate them into something a little more general purpose and usable, but I'll honestly consider just using yours and perhaps even paying to unlock some more features after I use it a bit more. I'm an engineer by day job, and as much as I love building my own tools and feel like I learned a lot about music theory in building my tools, I would really like to just spend my guitar time actually playing rather than doing _more_ coding.

Thanks for sharing, and great work!

For this exact reason I think we're going to see a lot more development of DE-specific tiling window management solutions, like Pop Shell, PaperWM, Material Shell, etc., are doing for Gnome. They all just leverage the Gnome Shell extension system, but are inextricably dependent on Gnome.

Don't you know? That's krapp the genius!

I was actually really excited to see this project pop up, because I am on a tenkeyless keyboard and so I can't use the built-in mouse keys functionality. It's funny that so many of the accessibility features in Windows are really opinionated and can't have their keys rebound. Mode switching to HJKL-as-mouse is just a preference for me, but I could imagine there are types of mobility disabilities where repositioning your hands any time you want to emulate a mouse could be difficult and frustrating. What's the point in MS making great built in tools that can't be modified to your own use cases?

That's certainly true, but I do feel like there's a sweet spot in the 2005-2010 area where most "critical" safety features (improved airbags, traction control, ABS brakes) are almost certainly present, but none of the modern safety features that fall more into the "augmented sensory" category (merge/blindspot detection, early braking), which I'm happy to compromise on. I drive a 2007 SUV which does everything I need it to do and I'll probably continue to drive similar vintage vehicles until I finally switch to an EV when the charging infrastructure in my area has finally gotten off the ground.

I live in a very rural area of the US, so I probably have an over-representative sample, but mostly folks I know who own one (myself included) view it at as an essential piece of backcountry safety equipment. If you spend 1 or 2 weekends per month in areas without cell signal (even recreationally, as is my case), it quickly becomes worthwhile even just as a means of emergency communication for people to contact _you_, not to mention the ability to call for rescue if you're unfortunate enough to have an accident where you need to be medivac'd.

There's a difference between "hustle" and "hustle culture". Most reasonable people don't hate people who work hard. That's their prerogative.

"Hustle culture", or the expectation that anything less than "hustling" is invalid or invaluable is what people hate. They don't hate people who decide that they want to devote their spare time to a new startup, personal project, or whatever, just the (rather common) attitude and culture of people who subscribe that lifestyle.

> If I want to transport music notation between software programs, I have MIDI for that, which does a good job of capturing all elements of a performance (keys, timing, velocity, pedals, aftertouch, etc.) These types of notation formats almost always fail to achieve MIDIs precision across all the aspects of a performance.

Well put. A lot of these feel like the wrong tool for the job, and I have a really hard time understanding why you'd want to track pitch data in a format like this when, as you say, DAWs exist and midi tracks can be moved around between them.

The only time these types of projects make more sense to me is when they present opportunities for discoverability or non-linear sequencing that can result in new or interesting ideas. For example, the Orca Sequencer used in this demo vide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe8wE0sx31Q) is an example of a tool that folks use as a synth-agnostic sequencer that takes advantage of a non-linear format to create music that you might not in a DAW/piano roll. Or at the very least, makes you take a wholly different route to get there.

Projects like Alda, however, make less sense to me since they are squarely pointed at linear-workflow music tracking, which is such a saturated space that it's hard to come in with a new format that doesn't just feel like a more painful way to do what a DAW can let you do.

It's a combination of nostalgia for a (largely imagined) bygone era of handheld devices, plus the fact that two relatively famous boutique hardware manufacturers/developers are involved (Panic! and Teenage Engineering). People will buy this for $180 for the same reason people still buy TE's OP-1 synthesizer for well over $1k when there are more feature-rich devices available for half the price or less. They're paying for the design, the ecosystem, the aesthetic, and to some extent, as a "lifestyle" purchase.

Very fair point - they do have jobs. I certainly don't mean to diminish the legitimate work of people doing social media, etc. It is work. I guess my point more broadly was that there are certain types of celebrity (sports, acting, music) which take a lifetime of dedication to a craft, which at least to my mind is more justifiable than folks who become famous on reputation/relationship/inherited status alone.

But of course, now that you have me interrogating my own biases, that's also true of someone like Lebron James. What other reason does he have to perform well on the court other than to maintain or improve his celebrity? Is he fundamentally different than someone like Kim K? I usually would say yes, but I'm not entirely sure now. I'm sure you're right that to some extent gender comes into play. The ways by which women become famous are scrutinized much more than the ways that men become famous, and that is pretty fucked up. I still believe that the "job" of celebrity has a lot to do with being mirror/punching bag for society, but I think the way in which I said it probably fell into some gender bias issues.

Your points are really good ones, and I appreciate you saying it!