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I remember seeing a video of a blind woman using them, in combination with some earbuds, so she could get her surroundings described to her, as well as have objects she picked up described. But you’re right, glasses with discreet cameras on them, aren’t necessary for a situation like that - Something more overt would be fine for that use case.

Perhaps it’s Manam? Their island has a volcano, but they use a land-sea axis for directions:

Manam, like most Oceanic languages, primarily uses an absolute reference directional system, even on a local scale, (as opposed to many European languages which primarily use relative reference systems). This system is oriented on a land-sea axis. However, Manam’s system is unique because it has taken on a circular nature, becoming intrinsically linked to the geography of the island which is almost perfectly circular. Below are the directional terms associated in Manam:

llau ‘toward the sea’

Auta ‘toward the land’

Ata ‘to one’s right when one is facing the sea’

Awa ‘to one’s left when one is facing the sea’

The Wikipedia article doesn’t specifically phrase it as “towards/away from the volcano” , but Reddit posts linking to the Wikipedia article phrase it like that.

Midwifery.

https://archive.md/JQWEd

It’s the marketing department at Gaomon who contacted me. Here’s the relevant excerpt:

I need to apologize, as I spoke with our technical team again today, and we have decided not to move forward with the Linux driver project at this time.

We carefully reviewed the project you shared with us (https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors). While we appreciate the initiative, we found that this is primarily a Wacom-led project, and the potential impact for GAOMON would be quite limited. Even if we added support for our devices, the system would still show the device as a GAOMON model, but the overall setup would display Wacom branding.

The feature is harder to turn off than traditional app timers, too, many of which can simply be ignored. Instead, Pause Point requires a phone restart to turn it off, Google says, which also makes you think before disabling it.

Is that a common feature of third-party apps? I don’t recall hearing about that before, when reading about these types of apps.

Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.

Personally, I disagree with the first and agree with the latter. I have a Nest Hub, and there are no ads on that. But I would still urge the redditor and myself to get acquainted with Home Assistant instead of bothering with the offerings from Google and Amazon.

Does that mean that you use qutebrowser? If not, it might just be right up your alley. I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about it.

I would recommend https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ for reaching out directly to your country’s representatives.

I used it today to make a template, that I could then edit to fit my writing style, and send from my own email provider really easily, because the site also let’s you copy the email addresses of your representatives in one click.
But the site will also let you send a pre-made message with no effort really needed from you. I just had some time and energy today, so went the extra mile.

I also really like how it tracks the stance of your representative, and you can read their response to the issue. Most of my country’s representatives are currently on vacation, but I did get an answer back from one of them, which was pretty cool (Very informally written, with an included “Sent from my iPhone” signature, hahaha).

Is it on purpose that your account has the bot tag on? Made me do a double take, when I saw your comment, haha.

I love to stumble upon Rhiannon Giddens in the wild. I love what she did with the Drops, but her other work is also so interesting.

When no one has saved a snapshot yet, it asks me if I want to, and I tell it yes, and then it creates a snapshot, and I can see the site. Is that what you mean, when you say it fails? That you have to say yes to it making a snapshot?

I’ve had really good results with using archive.is - Just throw that in front of a link with a forward slash and you’re good to go.
Like archive.is/https://example.com

Never had an issue yet. There was one time where a page looked a bit weird on my phone, and I couldn’t see the very last paragraph of the article. But enabling desktop mode in my browser fixed it.

That’s what I usually end up doing! So I’m glad to hear that.

I didn’t consider that, but I think that’s a really good point. It makes sense to me, because I could see myself applying that kind of logic. Makes the 30ish min. rule make more sense.

That actually makes a lot of sense, when you think about it like that. I appreciate your contribution to science, by accidently burning yourself regularly and noting the results ;)

Y’know, that’s a good way to put it, and exactly the kind of point I needed to see, in order to put it into perspective.

I’ve read that thing about running water before, and I’ve always wondered - is it really expected that you run the tap for 30 min.? I know it’s for the good of the skin, and super important, but I always struggle with running the tap for that long.

I hate articles like this so much. ChatGPT is not sentient, it doesn’t feel, it doesn’t have thoughts. It has regurgitation and hallucinations.

They even had another stupid article linked about “AI blackmailing developers, when they try to turn it off.” No, an LLM participates in a roleplay session that testers come up with.

It’s articles like this that makes my family think that LLMs are reasoning and intelligent “beings”. Fuck off.