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- Comment on How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup? 1 day ago:
Let’s try this a different way…
How do you want to indicate something should be retained? What is the single, physical act you want to perform to tell the operating system “this thing needs to be captured”?
- Comment on How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup? 1 day ago:
The screenshot folder itself is certainly not limited to just screenshots. Any file you can save can be kept in there. To my mind, the “entry point” is “saving a file to this particular folder”, regardless of the specific method used to do the saving. The screenshot is just an extremely convenient way to do that.
I just thought of a way to improve this technique with Tasker. Tasker can work with the clipboard, edit files, and take a screenshot. So, you could set up a gesture to trigger a task in Tasker. Tasker can then take the screenshot, dumping it into the folder. Tasker can then check the clipboard; if there is text in your clipboard, it can prepend it to a single “TODO.txt” in your screenshot folder.
Linux could be configured much the same way, using shutter and xclip to capture the screenshot and clipboard, respectively.
- Comment on How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup? 1 day ago:
What always got me personally is exactly that — over time I’d end up with multiple “entry points” depending on context (screenshot, chat, browser, notes…).
So long as you’re manually processing everything, screenshots work for all of that. You can take a note in any text box anywhere, and screenshot it. Chat message? Screenshot. Browser? Screenshot. Notes? Screenshot. You can even take a photo and then screenshot it to capture it into your workflow.
I have Shutter (apt install shutter) on my desktop, and I’ve changed the Print Screen key to shortcut to “shutter -s”. This lets me capture an area of my screen with one button (and a mouse drag). Bam, more screenshot.
The downsides of screenshot are obvious, of course: Extracting the text from the screenshot is a bit of a pain in the ass. If you really want to keep the same entry point, though, you could setup a script to OCR newly captured screenshot/photos to extract the text. An OCR-friendly font might make that pretty reliable.
Now I want to improve my setup…
- Comment on How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup? 1 day ago:
On my phone, my Screenshot folder is syncthing’d to my desktop, so most of the time, capturing something in the moment is as simple as dragging three fingers down my screen. My Camera and default Download folders are also syncthing’d, so just taking a picture or saving something from a browser has it captured across my devices.
I also use Tududi, which has Telegram integration, for the quick note. Taking the note is just a matter of sending a message in Telegram, which is available on all my devices. Signal’s “Note To Self” feature is also useful; I trust it more than Telegram for sensitive data. In Firefox on my desktop, I have “Automatic Tab Opener” (Browser extension) pulling up my Tududi inbox every hour, reminding me to actually deal with the notes I have previously taken.
- Comment on How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup? 1 day ago:
Syncthing functions as a sort of decentralized Dropbox or Google drive, by keeping folder content synchronized across any number of devices. I haven’t tried the iOS clients, but android, Linux, and windows work great.
- Comment on YSK that you can look yourself and your family up on unclaimed property page for every U.S. state you’ve ever lived in – often you find money you didn’t know about 1 day ago:
I was in real estate. We collected earnest money from a particular buyer, and held it in an escrow account. The deal fell through, and we were required to return the money. However, the buyer ghosted us. We couldn’t reach them to return it.
Our escrow account is audited by the state. We have to account for every transaction to or from that account. If we don’t have paperwork to justify the transfer, we could get fined or have our licenses revoked. We didn’t have paperwork for this buyer, so we had no legal authority to do anything with this money.
Any account with any business can potentially have the same problem: a legal obligation to transfer money to a known person, but no way of actually completing the transfer.
The solution is to transfer the money to the state’s “unclaimed funds” division. When the state audits our account, we can show that these funds are the state’s problem, not ours.
The funds I’ve found were from a couple class action suits where I was apparently a member of the class. It amounted to tens of dollars. They were apparently filed long after I had moved, but I had never updated my address with the defendants.
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 days ago:
You aren’t understanding my point.
My point is that you can continue toimport and sell the exact same physical device, just with a little change in marketing, and possibly software.
My point is this: Once you have acquired the device, there is fuck all the FCC can do about you converting your “ham radio” back into a consumer-grade router.
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 3 days ago:
This only applies to routers.
It’s not widely known outside the ham radio community, but part of the 2.4GHz wifi band overlaps the 13cm amateur radio band. If you turn off 5GHz wifi and lock the 2.4GHz AP to Channel 1, it qualifies as a ham radio, and can be sold as a ham radio instead of an AP/Router. You do need a ham radio license to operate it as a Ham AP, but you do not need a license to buy a Ham AP.
If the end user wants to turn on 5GHz after the fact, there is not a damn thing the FCC can do about it.
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 5 days ago:
At that time, a cross would have carried about the same meaning as a noose.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
Yes. And I am being serious.
When JD Vance has a Congress that will back him (which he will have in 10 months), he, and a majority of the Cabinet, can invoke Section 4 of the 25th amendment. He can declare the President incapable of performing his duties, and step up to the plate. Congress then has the opportunity to decide whether to support his coup, or reinstate Trump to the presidency.
To be successful, he will have to immediately blame Trump for attempting to block the midterm elections, and appoint a special prosecutor to look into the full scope of Trump’s numerous, unadjudicated crimes.
For (most) of the next 10 months, JD Vance will have to continue to appear to support Trump’s presidency, and Trump will have to continue his own Trumpiness.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 week ago:
But once we get approval to for thermonuclear detonations in the middle east, we can modify the plan. We don’t need to dig a new canal if we just blow up any Iranian sites capable of attacking ships in the strait.
- Comment on A.B. 1043’s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone 1 week ago:
These age gates don’t achieve their stated objectives.
What they will do is allow “KidGroomer dot com” to request an age signal from a visitor. When that signal indicates the visitor is an adult, they can provide an app designed to inform parents about how to protect their kids online.
When that signal indicates the visitor is a child, they can provide an app for connecting kids with their local van-driving puppy owner and purveyor of free candy
Perhaps having your OS announce a user’s age to anyone who asks is a big fucking problem.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 week ago:
The UK uses single phase to the house. This is provided via one 240v hot and a neutral. Their final distribution transformer bonds one side of the output coil to ground and use it as a neutral, which makes the other side of the coil 240v relative to that ground.
The US uses split phase to the house. This is 240v provided via two opposing 120v hots and a common neutral. Their final distribution transformer is almost identical to the UK version: end to end, they have a 240v output. The difference is that instead of bonding one end of the output coil to ground and using it as a neutral for the other end, they instead bond the center of the output coil to ground and use that as a common neutral for both ends.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 week ago:
Not just solar - most grid-scale generators have this problem. “Black start” is the search term you want to look for, and Practical Engineering has a good video on the subject.
Basically, only a relative few grid generators are actually capable of black starts. The rest need the grid to be already functioning before they can tie in and start producing.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 week ago:
Ohio does something like that. We have separate contracts with a heavily regulated grid operator for distributing power, and our choice of generation companies for providing power.
The grid operator does our metering and billing, but forwards our generation charge to the provider we select.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 week ago:
Are you saying that electrical power should only be provided by government entities?
Should you be allowed to plug in a solar panel and provide power back to the grid?
Are you a government entity?
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 week ago:
The “natural monopoly” of electrical power is only on the distribution, not the generation of that power. It is reasonable for various generators to compete against each other to meet grid demand.
You should be able to push power back onto the grid. You should not be limited only to taking it off the grid. If you can put more on than you remove, you should be compensated for your generation at the market rate.
- Comment on Betting on nuclear Armageddon means you don't think it will happen. 2 weeks ago:
I’m actually wondering how payouts for poly market works I’d assume it would be proportional to how much you bet versus everyone else. Probably whole range.
docs.polymarket.com/concepts/positions-tokens
When someone starts an event, there are initially no shares to be had. You can pay $1 and buy both a “yes” share and a “no” share from Polymarket. This is called “splitting”. You’re splitting your money into shares on both sides of the event.
Presumably, you want something more than breaking even. So, you keep the side of the bet that you want, and you offer to sell the other side of that bet.
You could offer your “no” shares for $0.25 each. Someone can give you $25 for them. Now you have 100 “yes” shares that will be worth $100 or $0 in the future, and $25 cash. You could offer your “yes” shares for $0.80 each. Someone else might buy them from you at that price, giving you $80. You are now out of the market, with a total of $105 back. This is “trading”.
After a hard day of trading back and forth, you find yourself with good positions on both sides of the bet. You have 200 “yes” shares that you paid $80 for, and 100 “no” shares that you also paid $40 for. You can take 100 yes shares and 100 no shares, join them together, and sell them back to Polymarket for $100. This is called “merging”.
Finally, you can wait until the event occurs. Let’s say the outcome was “yes”. Your 100 “yes” shares are now worth $1 each, and can now be traded at that price. This is called “redeeming”.
- Comment on Betting on nuclear Armageddon means you don't think it will happen. 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t want it to happen, you bet “yes”. You bet “yes” as hard as you can, so that the only way the insiders can make any money is by betting against the “yes” consensus, and refusing to blow up the world.
It’s a bribe/protection racket with extra steps.
- Comment on Snapchat told an Australian mother it would not delete her son’s account because his listed age was 25 2 weeks ago:
Amanda said while the government had promised the ban would make it easier for parents, “the reality of trying to enforce them has left me feeling that the burden has been pushed back on to families”.
I fully agree that some of the burden of age verification has been returned to the families, and I can only hope that the rest of the burden is soon returned to them as well.
The rest of the response I want to give here would violate 3, 4, 5, 7, and probably 1.
- Comment on Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses. 2 weeks ago:
Backing out of a parking space, you must yield to traffic within the lane of traffic However, you are on the wrong end of the vehicle to properly observe traffic within the lane. With restricted vision and attention focused on the maneuver, you are also burdened with deconflicting traffic that has the right-of-way over you.
Backing in, you begin the maneuver from a lane in which you are already established. You have the right-of-way over that lane until you have completely departed that lane. While you are distracted and focused on the backing maneuver, conflicting traffic is legally obligated to avoid you.
“Backing in” exploits “right-of-way” to improve safety for both you and your fellow travelers.
- Comment on My glasses 2 weeks ago:
That’s an occultist.
An opthalmologist is an appointed official who investigates complaints by taxpayers against government departments.
- Comment on My glasses 2 weeks ago:
Comment refers to the girl’s eyeglass prescription, not a ranking of her attractiveness.
Based on the distortion visible in her glasses, her prescription is approximately -1.00 to -1.50 diopters. Severely nearsighted prescriptions would cause the wearer to appear to have much smaller eyes; farsighted prescription would cause the eyes to appear larger.
- Comment on don't let your memes stay dreams 2 weeks ago:
The masses don’t spontaneously self-organize for the purpose of giving one person all their power. That requires external coordination by the entity receiving that power.
Without that entity driving them, the masses don’t yield their power. That entity is ultimately responsible for what it has convinced the masses to do.
- Comment on don't let your memes stay dreams 2 weeks ago:
Without the powerful people in question, the apathy of the masses wouldn’t be a problem.
- Comment on Assuming an average value of $500k per-house, a millionaire could own two houses and a billionaire could own the entire neighborhood 2 weeks ago:
It’s easier to implement as a tax credit. You’re entitled to a 90% rebate on the property taxes for the home you live in, perhaps a 50% credit for a home you own that a family member lives in, and no rebate for additional properties.
One major benefit of this is as soon as a lender initiates foreclosure proceedings, the taxes owed on the property go through the fucking roof. They are motivated to work with you on the loan.
- Comment on Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated 2 weeks ago:
The designated subject for your personal protest is the richest person within 20 miles of you.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This is why probability needs to be taught, and taught properly. This line of logic clearly demonstrates the problem.
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Your expected return from not playing a $5 ticket is exactly $0.00.
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Your expected return from playing a $5 ticket is approximately $-4.99
“Gaining Zero” is vastly preferable to “Losing Five”.
If you can occasionally afford a $5 ticket, you can occasionally afford to buy shares of an index fund. You’re still gambling, but your expected return is positive.
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- Comment on Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now. 3 weeks ago:
Worse, they’ve grown up on a steady diet of media telling them that “if you say the wrong thing” to a girl, “she’s going to accuse you of something,”
There’s a big problem with the premise of this argument.
The article accepts this “steady diet of media” as fact, but implies that it only affects “guys”.
If there is, indeed, a “steady diet of media” saying this to a guy, then that same “steady diet of media” is saying the same thing to a girl: “If a guy says something wrong, it is reasonable for a girl to accuse him of something”. Girls are hearing the exact same message that guys are hearing.
If that “steady diet” actually exists, then the guy’s concerns of accusations are valid, and he should be praised for ensuring he doesn’t “say the wrong thing”.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 3 weeks ago:
Suppose Microsoft adds this capability to Windows, and you edit the registry to disable it. How is that any different?
By allowing the end user to change it instead of locking it down, they are not making a good faith effort to comply, and they lose their liability protection. To maintain their immunity, at the very least they will need to prohibit Californians from disabling the feature.
Canonical is prohibited from adding comparable terms.