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synkariuson Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times

It is sad, but there is not nothing we can do about it.

synkariuson Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents

Along these lines, I am experimenting with a two-tiered system where I use Proton's sieve filters to create a sender/cc/bcc whitelist for personal emails (which alert my phone) and a non-Proton collection of burnable aliases for everything else (which do not alert my phone). It doesn't solve the problem completely, but it is mitigating it pretty well so far.

synkariuson Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s

It's on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Pandaemonium-1660-1886-Machine-Contem...

synkariuson Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://explosionduck.com

Mostly covers various software side projects I've worked on over the years, or concepts related to them.

synkariuson 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf]

That whole chart seems off.

synkariuson Automate writing changelog using ChatGPT

I'm also using Firefox for Android. For me, it's not flickering but there are lots of skipped frames on the initial scrolling animation.

synkariuson US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]

That's true about rights inside the US border, but in context, this thread was talking about non-US citizens in their home countries when said countries are being pressured by the US government.

I could have been clearer there. I can see why you replied as such.

synkariuson US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]

Citizens of other countries have no rights under the US constitution.

synkariuson Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI

It would. I wonder how this compares with Kaldi, one of the two open source speech recognition engines that Dragonfly currently supports.

synkariuson Law Enforcement Is Accessing Locked Devices

If you are in an environment in which someone else can physically access your device (like an airport), don't bring it with you. For example, when traveling abroad, use a cheap alternate cell phone.

synkariuson Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

This is like the Avast spyware story: once you break trust, it's really difficult to get it back.

synkariuson HSBC, Goldman Rigged Metals’ Prices for Years, Suit Says

What problems qualify as "my" problems versus someone else's problems? Also, if there is nothing wrong with the world, why are you defending your opinion here? Doesn't doing so imply that you perceive opposing opinions as flawed or inaccurate enough to be worth debating? If so, whose problem is that?

synkariuson What If Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set?

Could you give an example of how to be proactive as such? I agree that being prepared is good, but I don't personally know enough about old-age care / geriatrics / Social Security to really be in favor of or against any particular policy changes.

synkariuson Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself

I concur. I got a Leap Motion, hoping to use it to replace some or all mouse function. It's a fun toy but not much else.

synkariuson Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself

Regarding the first line of this comment, though voice strain is something to look out for, if you speak correctly[1], you can minimize your chances of damaging your voice.

[1] http://www.mainespeechtherapy.org/content/4021/Voice_Disorde...

synkariuson Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself

I use the word "bark" too, albeit for a different purpose. I think that sort of spec selection is just a habit that you naturally get into when creating a lot of voice commands.

Incidentally, I've learned a bit of Korean, and it's caused me to notice that Dragon recognizes words which don't end in multiple unvoiced consonants more easily than those that do. (For example, "taze" is better than "taste" and "pad" is better than "pact".)

synkariuson Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself

Like the author of the article, I've been making the switch to programming by voice. At first, the delay was really jarring, but you get used to it.

You're also completely correct about how when you speak a chain of commands, one of the commands in the middle getting messed up can invalidate the rest. That happens a lot. You learn to speak in shorter chains, and also to make the commands phonetically distinct.

That said, both the delay and the inaccuracy problems can be greatly ameliorated by a fast CPU and a good sound card. I don't have any benchmarks, but I have noticed the difference since upgrading.