I really don't to use an app and I don't buy mindfulness in the slightest so for me, I write down important things that are nagging at me at the end of the day or standout negative events etc in a little diary I keep in my bag so it's where even I am and I can keep track of these events
Apart from that, I take time to do things that are in no way related work so I go to the Cinema with non-IT people, I joined a cycling club where the only rules are that you're not allowed to talk shop or politics and we just trundle about talking about all sorts, what ever really.
Outside of that, I try and integrate exercise into my day so like, get off a bus stop early to work or cycle instead of talking the bus when it's not to cold or wet.
At the end of the week, I get off early to see my therapist and we just shoot the shit really and talk about all sorts, or sit in silence. I don't get the process, but it works whatever it is for the most part. As long as I'm not stressed, things generally aren't terrible, but they ain't always great either
There can be overlap between methods doing CBT and mindfulness and I need to record my thoughts so I can have an honest conversation with my therapist.
Like maybe I should have been clearer with that specific sentiment because what I really have an issue with isn't the Hindu idea of mindfulness but with a company provided mindfulness program or say the hundred million dollar Headspace App mindfulness idea. I'd personally be deeply uncomfortable with giving that kind of deeply personal information over to anyone but my therapist who treat my data as health records and does everything on paper
These people tend to be extremely online, I am skeptical blocking a couple websites will change their overall behavior or ideologies. I suspect they'd just make a different website.
I don't frequent either boards. I am just stating that people like this dude were booted out of 4chan. Is 4chan hateful? No idea. Haven't visited it or plan to.
Wait... Windows 10 allows applications to control radios...
So couldn't you go past some site doing a driveby, Chrome get's control of the Bluetooth radio and then the site can just go Bluesnarfing against nearby devices?
Or say have an extension in Chrome that gets control of the radio and you can use the control of the radio and go sniffing for data like I don't know messages or health data sent between phones and smartwatches?
>This is why reading is over. None of my friends like it. Nobody wants to do it anymore
Yeah, when I was a kid I felt that way too... Mainly because 99% of what was available to me and my friends was boring and none of my friends like them either...
Fast forward 20 years, and I read between 50 and 80 books a year in either paper, my Kindle or some form of audiobook and I get them in topics that I want to read, not just the small selection of books my small town library had...
Like when I was a kid my library had no books on anything related to computing except one which basically was a guide for 4 year olds in how to type... They had little on history and most of it was Irish history, given that it was Ireland and there's nothing wrong with that, but when your interest is elsewhere in history and with more technical elements of history like weapons development, you're not going to be satisfied.
I grow up, I get access to all the technical books I could imagine on computers, I get access to esoteric books tank design and novels about things that are interesting to me and I'm reading at a fair rate.
Give me what I want and I'll read and I bet it the same with her son. Give him books him and his friends will like and I bet they'll read too! Try something like comic books, that's what my brother got into as a kid when we visited the US and he went from not reading to lots of reading really fast.
The problem isn't literature, the problem is access to it
My blog is hosted on a bare metal Scaleway toaster for 2.99 a month and runs great for a small personal blog. Might be nice to have more firepower for a small business that has a steady ingress of users, but for me, it's been great!
The three most helpful things for me as a dyslexic are;
1. Highlight the text I'm reading. That text is HORRIFIC when highlighted so I can follow what I'm reading
2. Make my window thinner so my eyes have less travel distance from left to right. It's harder for my eye to wander to other lines etc
3. Line spacing! For the same reason as above.
This site doesn't do 3, 1 has overlapping font with highlight making it harder to read and I think does a poor job of 2...
Like this honestly makes me feel like I'm a kid again and my mam is telling me something she read in some stupid magazine that's taking advantage of her desire to be a good mother. She wants to help me but the advice in the magazine about curing dyslexia with Angostura bitters isn't going to work and feels like a cruel joke played by whoever wrote that article... Just like that incident, there was ZERO evidence and the about section of the site has ZERO evidence as to whether any of this works
This is pretty basic at the moment and it's terrifying. Yeah, it has an MS Sam feel to it, but as the tech improves and we know it will, you could use a service like this to put words in someone's mouth. Think about how you could trip up a CEO or a Politician by playing some random clip that they never said. When that gets into the Zeitgeist judgments will be made in the court of public opinion devoid of facts or real evidence. You could destroy democracy or people's lives with technology like this
I actually have somewhat of an opposite opinion on this. As HN readers and being "in" the cutting edge front of tech, we know that things like this is possible (I first learned of this seeing Adobe demo it a while ago), but this is not mainstream knowledge yet.
The sooner we can get to a point where everybody knows stuff like this (voice impersonation) is possible, the sooner we can avoid real damages (of courts mis-judging with an impersonated voice recording as accepted evidence).
Yes, we lose an entire area of evidence that can be used in court (all voice recordings, possibly), but the tech was going to get here sooner or later and it was going to be a problem we'd have to deal with. I'd rather be at a place where everyone knows voice recordings are unreliable, than actually having harm done because of impersonated voices because people didn't think it was possible.
I don't think the tech will improve fast. I've been watching speech synthesis since the 80s, and progress hasn't accelerated over that time.
Speech synthesis is one of those 90% problems - when you're 90% done, you find you only have 90% left to do.
This level of synthesis is relatively easy. Getting to the 'Can reliably pass for the real thing" level is going to take a huge amount of extra work.
It's not even about computational power - it's about the sophistication of the models, and their ability to parse words into phonemes correctly with some knowledge of social and linguistic context.
"Good enough for some applications" - like phone switchboard systems - is a simpler problem. Virtual impersonation is very much harder.
I was pretty impressed by fake Obama's voice. Obviously it doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, but I think if I heard it playing in the background, I could be fooled. And the biggest giveaway was occasional weird intonation rather than the timbre of his voice. All they have to do is make it to where you say a sentence, and it matches your intonation with the other person's voice.
Individual impersonators are not the threat. It's the glut of impersonators that will present the real challenge. It would be very helpful to see a study done with these platforms as they mature to determine what percentage of the population is more easily fooled by these.
For example, as an individual with hearing problems, I may not be so easily able to determine a synthesized recording from an actual recording - for a short period of time. With longer recordings it may become more obvious.
Yes, but imagine a human impersonator who has infinite time to take requests from anyone and generate free recordings of any person with a substantial online audiovisual presence.
