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ex-Apple, ex-Yahoo, ex-Digg, ex-NASA(JPL & Ames), “i like pop music”

Previously @Bryan

Kubernetes fanboi

Honolulu, Hawaii

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Recall for #Linux
(Was unable to test on my #macOS)
From the developers:
Are you forced to work with Linux?
Do you miss the convenience of #Microsoft spying on you and keeping track of everything?

Fear not! This amazing tool will bring back all those great Windows Recall features that you have been missing:

🌲 Stores all you sensitive data in an convenient, easily accessible database
⏲️ 24/7 screencaptures of everything you do
🥳 Image to text conversion with OCR
😇 Index and store everything your friends tell you over chat apps or e-mail; if it's on your screen we've got you covered!
Did a friend once share confident information with you, but has since forgotten all about the shamefull details? No worries, you got that info!

Forgot about that website you visited 3 weeks ago, late in the evening while drunk? Yup, we stored that!

https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux

Remember life before we all had digital mapping systems in our cars and phones?

Thomas Guide and small maps from #AAA. I kept 3 in my car: Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, and Orange County. When I was headed to San Diego, I’d make a mental note to borrow someone’s or stop at AAA for a map of the grid I needed.

I also had a laminated map of the entire freeway system in Southern California. It would fold up into a (maybe) small 3x5 card. It was one of the free maps AAA would provide if you knew to ask for it.
#preGPS #ThomasGuide

TiVo was always kind of a stupidly run company. I remember getting a dual-tuner dual-cablecard box back in 2007 and it came with a stupidly small 120GB hard drive. If you paid them an enormous amount of more money you’d get a tiny bit of more space. I bought a 1TB disk and voided warranty installing it. Went from “120 hours” of storage to practically never deleting a show once recorded.
https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115379216211928038

Looking at my cheap “neck & back massager” warnings (first bullet point). Is “invalids” a term used nowadays? 🤔

 The image shows the instruction pamphlet or product guide for the AMZPONY Neck & Back Massager. The top section has the product name and description in black text: “Ease tense muscles, Relieve pain, and Soothe soreness. Your perfect remedy for relaxation and fatigue relief.” Below the text is an image of the massager, which is black and shaped like a U or collar to fit around the neck and shoulders. It has two long arm straps that hang down, with a small control panel featuring three visible buttons on the right strap. The background is a plain off-white color.
The image shows a page from a user manual for a massager. It has two sections: "Suggest Usage" and "Warnings." The "Suggest Usage" section includes illustrations showing recommended application areas: Shoulder, Neck, Back, Waist, Abdomen, and Thighs. The "Warnings" section advises users with certain conditions to consult a doctor before use, including pregnant women, children, those with broken bones, chronic illnesses, heart problems, skin conditions, or anyone using medical devices like pacemakers. It also notes that it is not recommended for people who are unwell or not advised by a doctor to use it. Notable is the use of the word “invalid” for those with illness.

Always admired how Steven King is able to push out so many books with so many weird habits. From cocaine to pop music on loops. Just amazing.

“Stephen King Played ‘Mambo No. 5’ So Much His Wife ‘Threatened to Divorce’ Him: ‘One More Time, and I’m Going to F—ing Leave You’” #StephenKing
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/stephen-king-wife-threatened-divorce-mambo-no-5-1235714923/

Are your #prescription drugs unaffordable? Do you have a friend in #Japan? If you want real name-brand drugs for cheap they can be ordered in Japan and delivered to a Japanese address. Flights can be cheaper to Japan than the costs of medicine...

Can order months of medicine at a time and Japanese customs won't hold anything in international mail. You can take 3months of medicine across border back to US. I've never been stopped but you should have prescription handy just in case. Also keep receipt if they want to collect a tax.

I've done this for Jardiance and some other medications. Jardiance costs $1,800 for 3 month supply (with insurance!!) in the US. I can just order about 4months of pills for ~$80 in Japan (or Korea for $60 - but that is more complicated). Comes in same exact bottle as it is in US - made in Italy.

The websites in Japan just require a Japanese issued credit card and address (sometimes a visa gift card will work - but better to have a Japanese friend order).

Some of the websites: https://bestkenko.com https://osakadou.cool (they block non-japan IP and VPN subnets). More can be found online.

Reference on Reddit as well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/s/BfY9iikz2F

Feel free to ask any questions or boost for others.

I think I still don't know the at-protocol as much as I should. Still prohibitory expensive for anyone to just own their own instance of bsky/at-protocol data repo. Processing the firehose of data will cost me $30/month but how much to store and query this data? Seems like this blog post really glosses over where this data is kept and at what expense.

https://overreacted.io/open-social/