We have built a new device. The device is a ring with a button and a microphone. Pressing the button initiates recording of your voice captures voice via the built in microphone and saves it on your phone.

I think it would take a lot of heavy software to process and index the voice notes for the claim "Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain" is honest

"""Leaked documents [1] obtained by SOMO reveal how, under the pretext of the now-near-magical concept of ‘competitiveness’"""

I was a bit disappointed when I clicked the the link called "1" following leaked documents I got a short note on the document, but apparently no link to the document.

So I scrolled dow to the bottom figuring the number and link was a reference to the appendix but that did not appear to be case.

Similar link looking numbers appear to work the same way.

This is highly accurate. Presently its a whole set of entirely different diagnosis make up "the spectrum".

They even eliminated "Asperger" and then just folded that into the spectrum as well.

I sometimes think about two women sitting on down on a bench. Once says a bit uneasily "my son, well he is on the spectrum" The other responds with "Oh I know what you are going through my daughter is also on the spectrum"

At this point neither has any idea whatsoever about what the others experience is like.

One may be highly functional, socially awkward and doesn't think like normal people and processes sight and sounds the same. I find myself moderately down this path.

The other may be non verbal and violent.

If you have met one person with autism you have met one person with autism.

This is true for anything else and no argument against the current diagnosis.

There are people with Covid that ended up in the hospital and people with Covid who barely had any symptoms. Both have Covid.

Autism doesn't work from "little autism" to "a lot of autism". One person can have strong sensory issues but decent social skills. Another bad social skills but not sensory issues at all. And care needs can change over your life, they are not fixed.

The crucial difference is that we know the etiology of COVID and so are justified in treating those two people as having the same disease. Autism is much more complicated because we don't have a thing to define it other than a bunch of disparate symptoms.

It might turn out like if we treated the cold, COVID, tuberculosis and lung cancer as the same thing because they all involve coughing.

We know that autism has a strong genetic link.

Furthermore we employ differential diagnostic and check whether your symptoms could be better explained by another condition. You don't just diagnose people with autism because they have a few symptoms.

Furthermore autistic people can generally relate to each other. Even if two autistic people show very different symptoms there is often a feeling of belonging together.

It is always possible that we will learn more in the future and maybe we will have other diagnosis criteria or discover some people currently diagnosed under autistism would fit better under something else.

However the current diagnostic criteria for ASD is the current state of our scientific knowledge. A lot of clinical research is baked into it.

> It might turn out like if we treated the cold, COVID, tuberculosis and lung cancer as the same thing because they all involve coughing.

Well there are 200 different viruses that cause the common cold. We lump them together because they all involve coughing.

Basically all cancers are unique, even for the same type of cancer. Again, these are lumped due to shared symptoms.

Tuberculosis is caused by 9 different species of bacteria, but these are at least related species.

Covid is basically exactly the same disease as SARS, just caused by a particular strain of coronavirus, though that strain divereged into multiple ones that now produce quite different symptoms. In addition to SARS, other coronaviruses are among those 200 that cause the common cold.

Diseases are historical groupings that someone at some point thought would be useful, nothing more.

> normal people

We usually use the term "neurotypical". Autistic people aren't abnormal, the are different.

Who is "we".

If "we" are autistic people, then I am part of "we" then "we" is in error since I don't use term "neurotypical"

Perhaps you should say "I usually use the term "neurotypical"

"Neurotypical"/"Neurodivergent" does the same thing, it just specifies the domain of abnormality. It is still better than "normal", but the difference is of degree rather than kind.

If you are specifically distinguishing autistic and not-autistic, "allistic" is more specific than "neurotypical" (one can be neurodivergent and not autistic) and also avoids any implication than one side is normal and the other is not. (Unfortunately, there is no very good direct replacement for "neurotypical"/"neurodivergent", but one can minimize the impact of that problem by not using them when the real concern is about presence or absence of a particular trait that is within the broad array deemed "neurodivergent".)

I'm autistic and abnormal.

I know several people who struggle with migraines carry tablets of grape sugar and if taken early they do say it helps a lot.

(Note: FOR SOME, not all, probably a small minority could be all)

I find it a bit odd that they seem to have gone from having OpenBSD as the standard and are not moving to FreeBSD and Ubuntu.

I an not sure what role these computers that may transition to Ubuntu do, there are probably good reasons, I wish he had expanded on it.

The computers that moved from OpenBSD to Ubuntu were our local resolving DNS servers. These don't use PF and we also wanted to switch from our previous OpenBSD setup to Bind, where we were already running Bind on Ubuntu for our DNS master servers. The gory details were written up here: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/UsingBindN...

We may at some point switch our remaining OpenBSD DHCP server to Ubuntu (instead of to FreeBSD); like our DNS resolvers, it doesn't use PF, and we already operate a couple of Ubuntu DHCP servers. In general Ubuntu is our default choice for a Unix OS because we already run a lot of Ubuntu servers. But we have lots of PF firewall rules and no interest in trying to convert them to Linux firewall rules, so anything significant involving them is a natural environment for FreeBSD.

(I'm the author of the linked-to article.)

Why do you say OpenBSD stopped "supporting bind"? You mean they don't include it in the base system anymore since the switch to unbound?

I mean.. It's one pkg_add away. It's a weird constraint to give yourself if that was the problem, considering you absolutely had to install it on your replacement ubuntu servers.

The short version is that we wound up not feeling particularly enthused about OpenBSD itself. We have a much better developed framework for handling Ubuntu machines, making it simply easier to have some more Ubuntu machines instead of OpenBSD machines, and we also felt Bind on Ubuntu was likely to be better supported than a ports Bind on OpenBSD. If everything else is equal we're going to make a machine Ubuntu instead of OpenBSD.

For a while I worked for a company that was doing some shady and unethical things, but just within the law.

I took em a while to understand how things worked and when I did I found a different job.

Now this enterprise I left, could never have done what they did it was not for the developers that made it possible.

When we talk about the giants on social media, it it us, the developers who make it possible for them to do what they do.

If you are frustrated about how they are not being stopped from doing what they do, encourage people to leave. They money is great, but doe sit make it worth it?

From the other side, let us say that the US shut down Meta and the rest of the social media beasts, how many developers would be out on the street?

Watching news coverage I am amazed if many are able to get their phone working (as in not broken by the war) and charged.

people in palestine have been tweeting, posting to ig and tik tok throughout the entire conflict

Perhaps that is an indictment of the news source you take in.

oh good Slack embedded inside my editor. Just exactly what I have always wanted.

When it comes to writing tool the trend has been strong that people want distraction free writing with no interruptions.

Seems like code editors are going the other way on speed.

I wonder at what age they start getting upset that they dont have what all the other kids have. The peer pressure on conformity I think is still strong. thought not explicitly stated.

I have seen older children cry that they dont have an iPhone or they dont have the latest iPhone, or in a different region, that they dont have Android and of course the latest Android

These were older than 7 to be sure, but not sure when it starts.

you can set your kid up to be independent and a FOSS influencer but I dont think that always works.

> I have seen older children cry that they dont have an iPhone or they dont have the latest iPhone, or in a different region, that they dont have Android and of course the latest Android

Just to be clear the solution to this is not to buy them the latest phone every year. You’re describing consumerism, not parenting