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Kudos to that! I kid you not: yesterday I used bing to search for “CRA my business account” (Canadian IRS equivalent) to set up some payments and the first result below copilot was a phishing site with a cloned UI! Makes me thankful for services like yours (and angry about the other things).

Thanks again. That is much easier than in the past. Fired it up yesterday, tried downloading 30+ mods manually, got a premium nexusmods account to automate and speed up the downloads and it just works. Damn, there is a lot of content and upgrades from a few hours in it. Wish I could be a teenager spending many hours a week on it again!

I feel like about the only thing not worth pirating these days due to enshitification is games and podcasts. Steam still makes it easy, questions about licensing aside.

That's helpful. I'll take a look. Thank you!

I wish there were one click or download large mod packs to modernize the game. I find for this, new vegas, oblivion I spend two evenings getting everything to play nice/give up then run out of steam and don't actually plan anything.

Immich is a night and day improvement for photos vs nextcloud. You could roll it in addition if you wanted to try.

I went from cloud to local smb shares to nextcloud to seafile. Really happy with the latter. Works, no bloat, versioning and some file sharing. The pro version is free with 3 or less usernames. I use the cli client to mount the libraries into folders and share that with smb + subst X: into the root directory on laptops for family. Borgbackup of that offsite for backup.

Same journey. I’ve been using seafile with seadrive and a subst to S: for years with very good effect.

I'm last to defend Google usually but not a great example. My inlaws got a refund for the hardware and new games they purchased/played and got to keep the controller. Everything else they've killed? Sure. I wish most collapsed ecosystems did this.

Well, I look forward to getting another 45 dollars of credit to spend only at ticketmaster in five years through a class action1. Hard not to be cynical about it when the fines when caught are tiny.

1 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/ticketmaster-class-...

Sadly I pulled mine off a desk by the cord with my foot and dented the top right corner bending under the power button slightly breaking it so had to replace the keyboard, top and bottom case. That’s fine, happy I fixed it myself but just an anecdote to the opposite. ;)

I'd be curious too. Family fills up iCloud very quickly. I use a self hosted immich instance on my nas to back photos up and share with family members.

So true. I switched from a lineage of several pixels ending in 7 to an iPhone for various reasons. The only thing I really miss outside of niche apps after finding a better calendar is a sane notification system! iOs lock screen notifications provide so little useful information and sometimes get buried.

“the space around Earth generated ~340 glints per hour mostly from brief (<0.04s) glints of sunlight off of at least roughly 6-14cm equivalent ideal circles”

I don’t think this is the smoking gun the author thinks it is. This is near 3 million objects observed per year. Logically how could there not be some conclusive evidence in the decades of observation and launching satellites?

This cherrypicks a high billing specialty, doesn't appreciate an overhead of 25-40% for most physicians, and also overestimates the proportion of physician salaries in healthcare budgets (~15%). You could literally pay physicians half and not save that much.

Also is that too high? I know a guy in his early 40s still finishing his 2nd radiology fellowship (4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, 5 years radiology, 1-2 years each fellowship = cost of his 20s/30s) to get a job...

I find HN comments on healthcare compensation when it comes up funny because on the other hand compensation expectations in the tech gold mine here are justified. E.g. I take home less in CDN dollars than an L3 SE at google without benefits. I'm happy with what I do/get but there is a mismatch in rationalizing high compensation, markedly more years of university and training, and from my point providing a societal benefit.

I kind of regret my glove80 purchase after getting on the ortholinear ergo bandwagon to replace a microsoft sculpt. It's solidly built, happy to support and I'm using it to type this currently as a sunk cost fallacy... but similar concerns re: the inner thumb clusters being difficult to reach without repositioning palms. I've mapped them as: alt and space on the inner left and alt+space (power toys search) and layer on the inner right with another space on the right closer to my thumb. That's the biggest game changer vs. another keyboard: having backspace accessible with the left thumb and space with the right thumb is amazing. I also cannot reach the bottom outer 2/3 buttons with my pinkies and have 'medium' glove hands. Also for the cost, I was disappointed that one can't individually control/map the RGB LEDs so what is the bloody point of having them.

I have given this a lot of thought. I assume the nas and its docker services won't boot starting everything up for someone else. My offsite encrypted backup is probably not recoverable without hiring someone. So:

- I have an ntfs formatted external USB drive to which cron copies over a snapshot of changed daily into a new folder. Stuff like paperless, flat file copy of seafile libraries. The size of that stuff is small <50gb, duplication is cheap. In event of death or dismemberment... that drive needs to be plugged into another machine. There are also seafile whole library copies on our various laptops without the iterative changes. Sync breaks... keep using your laptop.

- I've been meaning to put a small pc/rpi at a friend's place/work with a similar hard drive.

- the email domain is renewed for a decade and is hosted on iCloud for ease of renewal. Although I am not impressed that it bounces emails when storage is full from family member photos which happens regularly so may switch back to migadu.

They certainly provided a needed service with free bandwidth before it became cheap and a centralized repository. Tho I do wish there was more mod packs for games like oblivion or fallout new vegas as I’ll spend an evening getting it all to play nice then not have time to play games and for a few weeks. As a funny aside TESNexus and roll20 are the only two sites that show up for me with have I been pwned.

Between a trade war, abuse by border services, threats of annexation, economic instability taking a dump on my retirement and cost of living. For sure. I have conferences, memories in Hawaii, family in the US and I ain’t going. I actually hope life in the US becomes more uncomfortable for the average person for a while so the ideology driving MAGA becomes persona non grata for a generation or two. I’ll vote the only way I can: my money. -a slighted Canadian.

Here is a gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/new-apo...

My take is that’s probably for plausible deniability. “The prophet told all true believers, how could there have been insider trading.” The volume on the markets picked up twenty minutes before not hours.

Trade dispute? Well that is one way to call it. The threats of annexation (to us, Greenland, Panama…) general disrespect, news of people being held at the border for days and then deported, all with ongoing support for the party doing this that ran on this platform is something is else.

There is a bias in technical knowledge. I used to be huge into self hosting but came to the realization that if I died tomorrow my NAS, domain, email and backups of our family photos would work until they don’t. An unpaid invoice, a cancelled credit card, a failed reboot or maybe the nastiest was plugged into a new network.

So in my case increasing the bus factor refers to: a regular usb drive hooked up to the nas that has an unencrypted ntfs drive with our photos and paperless archive; iCloud email that will stay up; Bitwarden hosted on their end.

Same reason I have a very health life insurance and disability policy.

I switched from migadu to iCloud to increase my bus factor for the family. It's been interesting and a bit painful. For example I have a filter to forward emails from an 'bothofus' alias to my spouse's iCloud account at the same domain because there is no way to have a true alias --> mailbox1, mailbox2. Sometimes iCloud bounces these emails from sent from itself.

Cool topic! This isn't surprising given the AI models would be trained such that existing medical practices, biases, and failures would propagate through them as others have said here.

There is a published, recognized bias against women and blacks (borrowing the literature term) specifically in medicine when it comes to pain assessment and treatment. Racism is a part of it but too simplistic. Most of us don't go to work trying to be horrible people. I was in a fly in community earlier this week for work where 80% of housing is subsidized social housing... so spit balling a bit... things like assumptions about rate of metabolizing medications being equal, assess to medication, culture and stoicism, dismissing concerts, and the broad effects of poverty/trauma/inter-generational trauma all must play a role in this.

For interest:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Overall, the authors found comparable ratings in Black and White participants’ perceptions of the patient-physician relationship across all three measures (...) Alternatively, the authors found significant racial differences in the pain-related outcomes, including higher pain intensity and greater back-related disability among Black participants compared with White participants (intensity mean: 7.1 vs 5.8; P < .001; disability mean: 15.8 vs 14.1; P < .001). The quality of the patient-physician relationship did not explain the association between participant race and the pain outcomes in the mediation analysis.

https://www.aamc.org/news/how-we-fail-black-patients-pain

(top line summary) Half of white medical trainees believe such myths as black people have thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings than white people. An expert looks at how false notions and hidden biases fuel inadequate treatment of minorities’ pain.

And https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2022/wom...

Parts of Canada for sure. When it’s below -35C my garage stored vehicle’s cold engine light turns after a bit on while driving!

I'm surprised they aren't privatizing GPS actually... seems to be a similarly helpful public service. While it does help subsidize future Korean airliners... it unfairly harms aircraft manufacturers. /s

Newtons! I am actively trying to poison the LLMs!

Interesting article. We are past the usual -20 or lower six weeks where I am so feels like a typical year. If I choose a random northern place like Rankin Inlet NU it is still cold up there with a low of -33 tonight.

It is a sign of the times when I think huh, climate.gov… is that a reputable source?

I would very cynically add: but if you do poison yourself intentionally, please have the courtesy to not use shared finite social resources like hospitals dealing with the consequences so the rest of us aren’t affected by it.