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So, today Katy and I had to go to the jewlery store for her rings' semi-annual warranty inspection. They've changed to a new electronic system, and they needed me to show them an email that they had sent (which was somehow different from the email they'd sent to Katy). Problem is, I'd already archived it, so it wasn't on the mail server any more and I had to SSH into my machine at home to read it in gnus... in a terminal... on my phone... that's a tiny font so it can accommodate an 80 column display.
The lady at the counter, who'd understandably never encountered this setup before, proceeded to pinch to zoom, which did succeed in increasing the font size, but left the text she needed to read off the bottom of the screen. She then got very frustrated trying to scroll it... because terminals don't work like that.
Yes, my setup is janky and weird, but it works for me, okay?
Pretty sure my ISP's been rate limiting specpfic traffic again. Connecting to a VPN shouldn't increase my connection speed. I suppose it could be a weird routing issue, but this is far too regular an occurrence.
This has been my experience with Northeastern University (Boston campus), and I never considered they could be throttling traffic, it always looked more like dropped packets, and so I assumed it was a problem with their Wi-Fi/lack in fiber, combined with how UDP is a bit more robust to dropped packets
I'll see if I still have some data on that after a nap
You have just gotten back to your dorm after three back-to-back classes, but your day is not over yet. You still have a bunch of work to get done, so you fire up your laptop and try to sign into Canvas. But something is wrong.
@almonds off topic, but I am reminded of the time I failed to get the campus printing software working on my Linux laptop. I gave in to using cups to print to the printers visible on the WiFi. When I talked to the university IT department about how I could pay for the pages, they laughed and said I should enjoy my free printing!
Just woke up: there's no difference (p = 0.45, n = 10) between eduroam and NU's own Wi-Fi, but using a WireGuard VPN is about 20% faster (160 vs 130 Mbps)
How to get prescribed ADHD medication in the Netherlands, a guide based on real world success:
1) spend over a year repeatedly trying to tell the GP that it’s not going well and you need help. This will not cost you money, only your precious finite time on this earth. It helps if you have a husband to drag you to the doctor when you’re at your lowest and argue with them
2) finally get escalated to a psychologist who takes a few months to be sure there’s definitely something wrong. She will recommend the GP to prescribe ADHD medication
3) Your prescription mysteriously disappears into the system. After several attempts to follow up that take months, and several confused phone calls from your psychologist to the GP, it turns out the GP refuses to authorize it because *shrug* reasons. Maybe if a psychiatrist also signs off on it?
4) You attempt to get an appointment with a psychiatrist. Every psychiatrist in the Netherlands is booked until 2034.
5) Finally, after a dozen rounds of pleading and nagging, you get a mysterious phone call from an unknown number. They give you an address and tell you to be there at 7 in the evening.
6) You find yourself at the door of a historic art deco mansion in the most exclusive district of Amsterdam. There is absolutely no indication that this is a medical practice. You ring the doorbell. Nothing happens. You wait nervously, and try again.
7) The door creaks open. An elderly man wearing crocs stands before you. He silently bids you follow him up a winding staircase to a parlor filled with a thousand thick and aging books in every tongue of the earth and perhaps a few also of the angels. They concern prophecy, and music, and poetry, and the apocalypse.
8) In a thin whisper of a voice barely to be heard, he asks your name, and where you were born. He slowly, very slowly, so slowly that you think you have died and this is purgatory, types this into a computer. It is in his lap because his desk is covered with strange devices beyond identification.
9) He tells you the prescription will be ready for pickup tomorrow.
amused by how many people are replying/quoting with, like "yeah it's the same here, it sucks" without commenting on the visitation from the angel attempting mortal guise
Oof that sounds rough 🙁 most of my (Dutch) friends have similar stories of various bureaucratic reasons to block getting help faster. I hope this is behind you!
yes it really helps to turn up to your GP with two diagnostic labels in hand (gained in the UK at some emotional cost) and all you need is the rubber stamp from the local system. (It would have been nine months to wait for the specialist clinic, but I got a cancellation appointment after four…)
Point 4): either dutch people don't want to become psychiatrists, or there is something rotten in the tulip fields. Also, for a country (that used to be) so liberal on drug usage, this is borderline kafkaian
Ah yes, I have the Belgian variation where the neurologist (I went directly to a specialist) believes this is just anxiety, prescribes the lowest dosage possible then immediately gives up medication when it doesn't work and sends their patient to an ADHD-specialized psychologist to just accept the condition (to be fair, acceptance is part of reducing ADHD-fueled anxiety).
In Germany my mom got my diagnosis as a child and somehow I only needed to go to a neuro psychiatrist, fill out a form, get an EKG and then I got my meds. I have no idea how hard or easy it is to get that if you haven't been diagnosed yet.
Now my biggest hurdle is to get a new prescription because i have to go in person and the doctor is only there at very inconvenient times. And because it is classified as a narcotic I HAVE TO do it myself.
I have a different story and I'm stuck elsewhere in the timeline. 1) Go to GP, GP refers you to the own practice's mental health support employee (GGZ ondersteuner) 2) Filling in an online survey 3) Said support employee saying "you only have a score of 5 out of 6 for ADHD on the preliminary screening, I don't see a point in referring you for a formal diagnosis, you'll wait for ages and I don't believe in medication anyway"
that’s fantastic news, I know exactly how much this must mean to you having been through my own ADHD diagnosis and then prescribing battles with the NHS in the UK about 15 years ago.
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That's very similar to how it works in Australia. Except instead of the prescription apparently getting lost in the system because the doctor refuses to prescribe, the doctor can't find you in the database because you've never been prescribed anything that requires government approval, so they prescribe you two valium for which you don't need approval, but gets your name in the system because it's dangerous, so then they can prescribe what you're actually approved for.
As beautifully portrayed as it is, this seems somehow unrealistic. An encounter with the Dutch medical system that doesn't feature being fobbed off with paracetomol?
I was lucky enough to be able to make use of my italian prescription here and convince my GP to prescribe me the same medication in the netherlands. however, switching to lisdex from medikinet was months and months of constant appointments which included a lot of pointless ones where we achieved nothing, some that led to getting my dose of medikinet halved, some that led to getting proposed to switch to xr+ir, and some that led to getting reverted to ir multiple times a day. the first time I tried to convince them to switch me over I had given up before I got anywhere, the second time I had enough stashed medication to be able to make it. I guess the moral of the story is that persistence is the only way to achieve anything medically in this country and that the only accepted currency is time x_x
I managed to get a psychologist's diagnosis of ADHD in Germany in a walk-in session, no appointment, completely by luck and partly because the online form he usually gives as a preliminary is in German, and I don't down German very well, so he did the assessment then and there in English. That was in 2022.
Since then I've made a few attempts at getting a referral from my GP to bring to a prescribing psychiatrist, but I have yet to find one who is taking new patients and the German medic system is confusing to me.
Also, I'm anyway a bit nervous about taking those medications because I've a history of addiction issues with meth/amphetamine...
@confluency This sounds very close to my experience. Especially the 'all psychiatrists booked up' thing. Even with a pre-existing diagnosis, it took 3 full years to get into the queue for getting a medication prescription.
Does ADHD centraal still exist? It was a private facility that did a kind of 1 stop diagnosis and medication shop, but was seen as purely money making and medically dodgy. I never went but did recommend to parents of already diagnosed kids a few times. 1/2
Fun fact, once you are diagnosed with autism or ADHD in the Netherlands, you need doctor to approve your driving license when it comes up for renewal. Was big shock. Much pissed.
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EDIT: I agree with the majority! I'll use this to attempt to convince the powers that be to improve the situation in some way, as best I can. Thanks folks!
Does autoplay of a muted video in the background of a website bother you? Like as a decorative/design element behind the content.
If yes, let me know the effect it has and how it makes you feel (in the moment, about the website, about the company, etc)
Answer honestly (idk why you wouldn't but I feel compelled to say that)
boost so I can get more data pls
Yes, autoplay bothers me in this case (95%, 553 votes)
No, I don't notice in this case (4%, 27 votes)
580 voters. Poll end: yesterday, 8:21 PM
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@dyani 🫠 My server doesn't support polls so I can't vote, but I'll comment. I use older devices. The web is already so bloated that it frequently brings my browser to its knees. Video is usually unnecessarily burdensome on older hardware when it's already juggling so many other things.
I don't mind it being there, but let me decide if I want to play it.
@brooke Right, when I started my own reply, I was thinking of bandwidth as well as distraction. Then I myself got distracted researching just where motion detection starts (in the retinas, like I'd thought) and forgot about the bandwidth issue. (And also ran out of characters.)
Anyway, yes, it wastes bandwidth in addition to the distraction! Thank you for reminding me.
My pet peeve regarding website video seems to be the little box of a video that you never started nor want to pay attention to, that follows you as you scroll down the article.
If I had started the video and it decides to follow me around it's not a problem.
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That said (reading some comments made me understand the original idea better) animations are generally distracting and having like a short video clip just for the sake of making the site feel "alive" is not a good idea imo.
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it's a very quick shorthand to communicate "I don't care about your internet bandwidth or your attention self-moderation. It's about what *I*, John Q. Website, want."
It's the easiest thing in the world to wait for a cue that the user specifically wants the video to play, and the website *knows* they don't have that consent, or they wouldn't have muted it. They know. So it's about seeing how far they can push boundary they're aware of.
I frequently get visual migraines... when things move around on a website I am incredibly annoyed and more often than not as soon as something moves I close the site.
For me it's an accessibility thing, and it makes me feel like the company doesn't give a shit about people tbh.
why waste my bandwidth for something meant to be a background piece, also just quite a potential to cause motion sickness or losing track of words depending on visibility of it.
It's like getting car sick and very distracted from what you came to do. The worst offenders are video loops under forms people have to fill out, this includes login screens.
I find it distracting and I feel rushed. I think good sleek and simple design gives a far better impression, and if there are videos I can then choose to watch, I am more likely to linger
It doesn't really bother me personally if it's purely aesthetic (attention-grabbing popover bullshit is another story), but if I were going to do it I would be aware of the fact that it *would* bother plenty of folks. So if I were doing it for some reason I'd at least gate it behind a check for whether the user has the prefers reduced motion setting in their browser.
I find it distracting, like with anything else that is at the edge of my perception trying to get my attention and that I haven’t activated, when I’m trying to do something.
In the case of video it also kind of shows a disregard for my situation. I could be under a phone data plan that I didn’t want to waste on random video streams. @sindarina
adhd-hardmode unlocked. But maybe the website in question wants to distract you from looking too closely at the provided information and just "click yes already!" In that case: good design choice.
If I am okay health wise, and at my computer, I am annoyed, since I have video play turned off in my browser.
If I have a migraine, it may mean I have to go lay down in a dark room instead of at least reading.
On my ipad is worse. I often use my ipad in the dining room, and I don' know what that video is, and don't want other people to see it thinking I approve of it. (Sorry too many in game ads have been XXX rated lately).
I have often left sites if they have a video, especially if the video pops out and follows the mouse around the screen.
Unless I am on a physical therapy site, or YouTube, I am almost never looking for video.
Ten degrees of vision, hearing loss, and migraines do that to you.
it would mostly make me feel like I wasn't expected to simply view/browse the site, but load something more bandwidth-intensive like a web application. Certain webapp sign in pages do this.
I usually have all sound off anyway unless I'm actively listening to something, so I probably wouldn't notice. But when I do (because I'm working with the headphones on, for instance; my work involves music typesetting and arranging) I'm NOOOOOOO!!! As bad as having background music in a talk video.
Oh, and autoplay *always* bothers me. Even when I do want to hear the sound I want to explictly turn it on myself. And things on a website shouldn't move unless I made them move (for instance by pressing a button). Gratuitously moving objects are distracting and annoying.
Muted is better than not muted (looking at you, news websites) but unless you're a video site and I went looking, autoplay is still bad manners.
I find it annoying at best, distracting and frustrating at worst, like the site owner feels they have to rattle something shiny at me instead of allowing me to focus on the text block I came for.
If I can't close the autoplay video or make it stop, I have been known to either leave and find the information elsewhere, or locate its DOM element and block it programatically.
it's annoying because it's distracting. I find it to be disrespectful to how my attention works. It being deliberate makes this worse: the actual content I'm there for, is secondary to the engagement the website is trying to have with me... which isn't anywhere close to the engagement I'm trying to have with the website.
Yes, it bothers me because there's *motion happening*. Our eyes are literally hardwired to detect motion (like, there are cells *in the retina* that detect motion before the impulses even make it to the brain!). That makes motion very difficult to ignore.
If I wanted to watch a video, I'd have clicked on something that looked like a play button. If I didn't do that, I don't want the site playing video. It pisses me off, and if I can't make it stop, I'll just leave.
i dont want anything to autoplay muted or not UNLESS its a video watching site and I explicitlyclicked the video. I also do not i want the video to follow me as a I scroll.
If the article is text based, keep the video optional
it's annoying to restart then video when you actually want to watch it. Furthermore like others said it's a waste of bandwidth (especially on mobile) and hardware resources.
I'm still of the mentality that Shockwave Flash videos and their modern equivalents (like this example) are to be used exclusively for either trolling friends or as punishment
The message I get is that the owners probably intentionally use two spaces to park their BMW at Trader Joe's, and honestly think that people will be sympathetic to their plight.
It's distracting, it pulls my eye towards it instead of what I'm actually looking for, so I find it irritating. If there's a way to pause it I always do, otherwise I try and scroll further down so I don't have to see it.
frustrated, annoyed, Yet Another Thing that I want to turn off but cannot.
I would avoid the website unless forced.
The only exception that I've come across are well designed pixel gif loops in a background, where the movement is limited to usually a corner of the screen, maybe some things like a shooting star rarely, and not distracting, just fun. Doesn't have to be pixel art specifically but that's what it mostly is.
But specifically muted videos have never been a good experience. I also get frustrated that I have been loading /that/ on my machine. Sometimes it lags the entire webpage, too.
i usually immediately close the page. Elements like that are viscerally uncomfortable to me - they're intensely distracting; they make it fucking impossible to concentrate on the actual content; and I feel great resentment towards the company and the designer for having inflicted this on me when I was just trying to access information that I, presumably, needed.
It's a huge insult to anyone with adhd or on a low-bandwidth connection.
it's super distracting and annoying. I find it overwhelming in a sensory way and kinda invasive in the attention grabbing way, while it also usually doesn't actually provide any useful information. Just making it harder to get to the info I actually want to see.
It consumes bandwidth, often enough to make the page load painfully slowly
If I am on a metered connection (e.g. mobile data), it consumes my data to load something I don't want
If I cannot make it stop, it feels like a violation of consent
For all these reasons, I am immediately frustrated if I encounter autoplaying video of any kind, and most often close the page and don't attempt to view it again
Such autoplay videos makes it basically impossible for me to use the website. Best case scenario (from website point of view) is that I get very annoyed and find a way to stop the video. Worst case (common) is that I just close the page right away.
My browser is set up to tell the website that I don’t like/deal well with motion (via the CSS reduce motion property) so there is no excuse for that kind of behaviour.
PS I consider it a severe accessibility problem with such videos.
Depends on the context, of course — I don't want any autoplayed animation on a page when I'm trying to read — but in most cases, yes, I find it annoying.
When I visit a "regular" website (not a video platform), I expect the front page to be mostly text and still images, possibly orienting me towards videos on other pages. I expect to have some text to read. Having a video automatically play in the background, even muted, is very distracting and is likely to make me lose focus and therefore lose interest in the website.
I actively despise anything animating in websites. Marquee may be the maximum I'll tolerate but preferably not. I will edit your DOM to remove whatever animating crap you add. If it's too much I'll declare your website toxic waste and never try to visit it, and recommend others to not use it either.
Hi @dyani, it's so distracting and it makes the page loading too slow. I have often trouble to read afterward. Concerning my feeling about the company, it looks like as a company with an aggressive marketing approach
autoplay of any kind feels massively intrusive. It'll monopolize my attention, interrupt what I'm thinking, and won't allow me to focus on much else until I've found a way to turn it off. But then I'm pretty sure that I'm autistic.
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Mostly annoyed by it slowing down the browser or sucking bandwidth, but it's not conducive to reading, either. It's okay as a preview when the video is the point of the page, though.
Having an autism spectrum disorder, I find it quite hard to filter out motion, especially at the edges of my vision, so it just distracts from the actual content of the website I presumably want to look at.
i have all autoplaying videos blocked, audio or not (except for a whitelist), so i cant really comment. alzhough i suppose zat answer should tell you all you need to know about my feelings on zhe matter
Unexpected autoplay is like a jumpscare. Then I'm scrambling to stop it or close it somehow, unless for some reason I decide to watch it, in which case I'm struggling to figure out how to go back to the beginning because I'll have missed a few seconds trying to understand what's happening.
yes it bothers me because (as far as I know) even small movement like a video playing will negate lots of power saving features. So it will keep the CPU and or GPU busy and eat battery slash power while it's visible. Plus accessibility concerns
I usually make freakishly barren web pages for print-friendliness. My worst pages look like income tax forms, but they load fast and run great
Oh! Also, since video is Big, a background video will either waste your server's bandwidth, or 🧵
It's distracting and makes me think that the designer didn't think about accessibility. I guess there might be some cases where that's not true but in most cases I would assume flashy was more important than quality content.
A cynical attempt to appear more creative and unique than it really is. A site that puts user experience and efficiency as less important corporate gloss and algorthmic performance. Untrustworthy.
echoing the many sentiments here of feeling distracted, wasting bandwidth, wasting system resources. i generally wish the web was more plaintext overall; so much can be conveyed with so little, and things begin to feel like they’ve lost direction quickly. a lack of conviction. and all of that adds up to feeling disrespected, and like i’ve entered a space where the owners, the people responsible have no real vision for what the space should be.
Absolutely not bothered unless it is an advertisement. Also, sometimes I’m okay with audio at the same time as I scroll. It just needs to smoothly mute/unmute as one video is out of frame and another is in.
In a perfect world, the autoplay will have subtitles so I can read some content without having to unmute.
Anyone complaining should just be directed to tuning their browser settings to ignore autoplay.
I don't like it b/c it's distracting. And it slows down my browser and eats cpu time, which affects battery life. Also, it consumes a chunk of bandwidth which is an issue in some situations.
It's distracting, and it makes me think that the website's owner cares more about making the site look like it has a high production value than about efficient communication. Unless the website has a specifically artistic purpose (e.g. it's an in-browser video game or a humor site or something), I generally am accessing the site with a specific purpose in mind, e.g. looking for particular pieces of information or filling out a form. A background video does nothing but distract me and possibly slow the page's load time.
I feel similarly about that thing some news sites started doing a few years ago, where scrolling down on a long form news article plays an animation rather than actually scrolling. It feels like a gimmick that just disorients me and makes it hard to "find my place" again if I have to pause reading and come back to it later. (Here's an example of what I mean from The Onion: theonion.com/the-best-books-to…)
even muted, this uses a ton of extra system resources, slows the whole browser down, and generally disrupts the operation of the site. autoplay on the web, in any form, is inextricably linked to a history of abuse, scams, spam, ads, and other toxic content. no responsible site creator would want their work linked to this, and it smacks of corpo scum who think they know better than the user.
playing a video uses my device's resources and bandwidth, and causes a deliberate distraction to direct my attention. these are things that should NEVER be done without explicit consent. ever.
It can be a migraine trigger for me, or trigger a very specific medical effect that I can guarantee almost nobody else would have. But the migraine trigger might be more widespread.
I honestly hate it because if I visit a website for written content, I don't want to be bothered by a video (muted or otherwise). I use extensions to block this garbage...It tells me a lot about sites that choose to try to evade my blocking software.
That they are SEOmaxxing peeps who don't care about my desires, CPU, or bandwidth. They want to grow into a massive digital presence to snuff out any competition. Its nasty behavior.
I regard it the same way I regard in-game ads that don't default to muted. More often than not, I'm in a public place when I'm scrolling (or gaming) on my phone, and I don't like disturbing those around me with sudden, unexpected blasts of noise, especially in the restroom.
Also, for the record (and PLEASE pass this along to others in charge of such things), I consider videos/ads that cannot actually be muted as a hate crime.
So, when I notice a video is playing, muted, I have to do two things if its some content I want to see - I have to unmute AND rewind. I see this so often on news sites where I am more often than not visiting specifically to see the video.
If its just some design element, then it is entirely a distraction from actually reading the content. Especially if its playing behind the content in some way to make the content difficult to read.
having spent months at a time in countries where data is incredibly expensive and also very meagre it makes me want to: scream, pull hair, break bones, vomit, find the perpetrator and punish them slowly, painfully and with disgusting infections. It shows a total disrespect for anyone who doesn't have privilege, which shows that the designer is a nasty turd. YMMV
additionally my ADHD and autism will be screaming so loudly in my head because of the distraction, that I will never remember why I am looking at the website
if something on a page moves without me initiating it, then I'm highly likely to just close that window and never come back. I will probably never think highly of that organisation again.
Anyone not respecting a user's "prefers-reduced-motion" preferences when present these days is making a deliberate choice.
it makes me completely unable to focus on the website. I am forced to deal with the video (either by watching it, or far more often trying to close it as soon as possible) before I can perceive any of the website's content
it bothers me when I'm using an #epaper screen, because that doesn't handle videos well. (But then, it also doesn't handle certain websites with too much in-between grey)
Not quite what you asked but on a related note, I am bothered by muted autoplaying of regular videos, regardless of which screen I'm on, because of the environmental impact (transmitting so much data, etc.). But if it's just a short loop as a decorative element and I'm on a regular screen I think that'd be fine/fun
I find motion very distracting and annoying. I wouldn’t be able to use that page because I would try to pause the video, realize it can’t be paused, and not be able to focus on the content at all
my parents always have the TV on in their house, and even if it was decidedly something I don't care about, it kept me distracted — and it hasn't changed in the 25 years since moving out of my parents' house
anyway, i think i just got distracted thinking about why get distracted by moving images, so you got a TMI.
yes, for two reasons: if I don't want to watch it, it is distracting; but if I want to watch it, in many cases I would want to unmute it, at least to make sure if I'm not missing something from the audio, so I need to do two actions (unmute and play again) instead of just playing the video.
Dislike it entirely - website should focus on reading of content and maybe static pictures, nothing should move unless I request it to do so. I definitely think a lot less of any company that does this -- I'll also include animated and moving backgrounds in this judgement.
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Outside of the needless use of my resources, I also get easily distracted by movement, so having a site always "singing and dancing" in the corner of my eye would bug me.
any background movement is distracting to me (the battery/power drain arguments do not hold much water because JavaScript on such websites usually eats more CPU than hardware-accelerated video codecs)
@brooke I am dyslexic and find moving continually images behind or around content I am trying to read make it very hard to keep my etes focussed on the text.
the visual distraction is a big part of it; also gives the website more of a flavor that spells “the content you came to read isn’t valuable to us”; and then there’s the technical aspect where video might play muted most times but whether it actually is muted gets influenced by so many factors out of the user’s control - it’s gonna blare some time.
yes, I don't like things drawing my attention to them unnecessarily and movement is a pretty effective way of doing that. It would be a constant source of (not particularly severe but still noticable) stress and make me want to avoid looking at the website.
I can't tell for sure because I don't remember ever visiting a web page doing that, but I think it would annoy me, just like muted autoplaying sidebar videos do.
If pressed to add animations to your UI elements, you can help the people who disable autoplay by making it so your website is still readable even without animations.
I love how the weather went from needing to wear a winter jacket over top of a sweater to needing to hook up the air conditioner in a span of like two days.
@datenwolf @ZenHeathen Not sure if you say it for Palantir but these objects are not inherently evil in the silmarillion and are in fact created by an elf
Exactly. Every shiny new technology gets sold as magic before people understand the risks. Radiation then, AI and other tools now. Innovation is great, but guardrails matter.
the thing is, radiations wasn't that poorly understood. factory bosses worked out that it was harmful when lots of their workers who were exposed to it a lot kept coming down sick with the same symptoms. they just surpressed the information for as long as they could, because people finding out would be bad for business
just like how fossil fuel companies were the first to discover global warming and made sure to proactively spread misinformation about it
Did we learn our lesson? I did research on dental radiography (a.o. panoramic images) There is still an enormous misuse of radiation in medical and dental practice. It’s an easy way of making money and therefore a triggering factor. The radiology rate should be $ZERO and included in diagnostics.
@JohanDiederik Panoramic dental x-rays are equal to about 4-hours in an aircraft at 30,000’. Radiation treatment after a mastectomy is a rust colored burn that goes through the ribs to the edge of the lungs.
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I always remember the old copies of "science" magazines from early 1900, with ads selling radioactive elements to eat and feel "healthier"! 😱 Still isn't enough, as I heard some years ago of people drinking colloidal gold and silver, for a presumed "healthy" effect 😱
Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)
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@bebna I have seen that and like that a lot. From the new cars my favorite is a BMW neue Klasse 3er. I could see getting that and replacing the antenna connectors just with resistors.
I am not sure if I would want an old cat just with electric motors.
Definitely do not want a modern car, irrespective of driveline because of data collection issues.
I'm using a PinePhone as I do not like the data collection issues, walled gardens and other issues such as data sovereignty associated with Apple or Google's offerings so why on earth would I want a car with CarPlay or Android Auto in it?
Or the car manufacturers own version of such things?
Or closed source engine and brake management systems? Or always on internet access?
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@the_wub I don't want the data collecting, the always on, the constant monitoring so in case of an accidents the manufacturer can proof is not his fault.
I would prefer open source on the software but especially when it comes to stuff like engine management that's not very high on my list.
I like the accident detection and alarming but if buy that third party and just put that on the car.
Also, I usually gets cars when they are at least 5 to 8 years old and take them to third party mechanics, so I don't have a warranty and I don't get software updates from the dealer and from a software point of view my car is basically unsupported at that point anyway. How much functionality are they going to change anyway? They probably aren't going to keep improving anything important over a decade, unless they can charge me for it like drift mode or something.
Sure, security updates are great, but so is running a car offline so that it can't be remotely unlocked or started by a hacker who gets into the company's cloud infrastructure, or just pays an employee like happens now with mobile company sim jacking.
The new Behind the Bastards podcast on "AI" as an historical bastard is 👍👍👍
They mention that they go after art & writing because they're the 2 most common things people share on the internet, and thus the best for convincing regular people that it's "doing something"...
Very interesting analysis of the hype & marketing of shatbots [sic], worth the listen!
"Just remember that you're all illegals and I'll report every damn last one of you!... and the fact that I've been breaking labour laws by hiring you while I'm at it!" #monsterdon
I love that this guy's evidence for this theory is "some guy told me this story." This is of course #monsterdon so I know he's actually right, but you can't blame anyone for not buying his story.
I've been down a YouTube rabbit hole working on improving my art. I've always been somewhat decent at replicating something I can see, but when I have to draw something from my head, the poroprtions always looked kind of off.
I've watched a bunch of videos by a couple different artists, but I've found this one who has a whole channel teaching in a way that seems to work for me. My anatomy drawing (which has always been my Achilles' heel) has rather vastly improved in a remarkably short period of time, and I've been happy with the progress... at least until I compare them against the artist's examples. Hers are way better.
Then I have to remind myself: I've been at this a few days. Of course the professional artist is going to do a better job than me.
My lousy depth perception strikes again. I was putting my glasses in the ultrasonic cleaner and was trying to fish a cat hair I saw on the surface of the water. It wasn't in the water, it was stuck to the power cord that was hanging in front of it, about 15-ish cm away.
My doctor has a fancy new on-line booking system. Trying to set myself up an appointment to follow up on some blood work, but the system tells me he's booked solid for the next two months and won't even let me look at the schedule beyond that.
I guess I'll have to call the office to book the old-fashioned way.
Well, the first thing I notice about this movie is that I used to work for the company that did the closed captioning. I'd recognize their style guide anywhere. 🙃 #monsterdon
@R.L. Dane 🍵 The immediate telltale sign is that every time there's a change of speaker, the caption group starts with hyphen, space. Whenever I see that, I find that every other rule from their style guide is followed as well. You usually don't see that.
I think they were looking for a human. I'm not sure why they decided that searching the woods at night was the best plan to find their proposed target.
The Wolf: Jimmie, lead the way. Boys, get to work. Vincent: A please would be nice. The Wolf: Come again? Vincent: I said a please would be nice. The Wolf: Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick. Jules: No, Mr. Wolf, it ain't like that, your help is definitely appreciated.
TIL that ed(1) requires me to escape (, ), {, }, <, and > in a regex to not use them as literal characters. This is the exact opposite of what I would expect.
Yes, like I said, in basic regular expressions those characters only have special meaning when escaped. In extended regular expressions, they have special meaning unless escaped.
Both types of regular expressions are well documented in the latest Single UNIX Specification from The Open Group. Older versions of SUS are available from Debian contrib (or non-free?).
This is your regular reminder that the large tech companies are pretty evil. Also anyone wearing those glasses needs to have a good think about their lives and what they are doing.
"We take them seriously. Photos and videos are private to users. Humans review AI content to improve product performance, for which we get clear user consent."
I mean, it's right there on page 165 of our 172 page Terms of Service. I don't know what more you want from us. 🤡
Just got a letter in the mail that our healthcare information may have been compromised in a potential data breach. The hospital was very adamant that it wasn't their system that was compromised, but the systems of a third-party contractor used by the province.
Dear government, I take great pains to secure our personal systems. Can you please stop authorizing deals to hand over our sensitive information to sketchy third-party contractors without our consent? It's your responsibility to vet them. You don't just get to wash your hands of it when they inevitably screw it up.
Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
Somehow the drawing seems more attractive than the real thing. I love Krita but I used to stick to vector and Inkscape was my favorite, but then I started to play with a pen in an AOC screen and Krita shined to me.
@Krit To be honest, I've always been a little intimidated by Krita. Sooo many tools and buttons and widgets and options. I look at the work of @David Revoy, and think, "I could never do that!"
Then I finally just started playing with it, and it's actually not half bad.
Am I doing things the "right" way? Probably not. In fact I'm doing things I know my high school art teacher forbade back while I was in school. When he gets into my head though, I just tell him, "shut up! This is a digital medium and the rules are different."
Here's the question: should I do the artwork on the shirt too, or should I just leave it blank? It's a bit of a pain, but I feel bad wasting all the work I did on the guidelines.
So as much as I love #Krita's assistave tool that smooths out my lines, I'm finding that with this fine detail work, it's easier to turn it off and just carefully draw by hand than it is to fight against the tool.
I guess it's about knowing what is and isn't the right job for the tool, right?
Me: I don't like that gap in the line art between my arm and the shirt. I'm just gonna make my arm a little wider to close the gap so I don't have to deal with it.
Katy: You know, when most people doctor pictures of themselves, they do it to make them look skinnier.
@Aeon Yeah, I couldn't decide which way I wnated to take it, which is why I decided to do both. This is one of the things I like about digital art. That's not an option I'd easily have on a physical medium.
Why is it that I always find some stupid little line or two that I forgot to draw when I go to colour? The bucket fill tool is a harsh mistress. Also, because the lines are anti-aliased, the bucket fill tool is not a silver bullet. I had to manually touch this up in a lot of places. Still better than colouring everything by hand though.
The decision to add the art to the shirt definitely complicated the process, still the finish line is within sight.
As a side note: the limitations of my artistic talent, and the art style I'm using makes my beard look significantly fuller than it actually is. 😅
The checkered pattern on the wall behind me is acoustic panelling, which I'm hoping to make more evident when I do the shading and highlighting. That's going to be tedious AF to do.
Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
Have you been testing adjustments to the Spread and Grow Selection options for the Fill Tool? I think limiting the Threshold value might make the tool more forgiving about the tiny missing lines.
Got some shading done, but I still have to figure out what to do about the acoustic panels on the wall. I haven't even really attempted that yet. I have some ideas about how I might try to go about this, but despite any appearances to the contrary, I really have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just kinda making it up as I go along. #krita #drawing #art #cat
The only thing I think is bad about the shirt artwork is that the text is not in a position it can be easily understood. Other than that it looks good to me. If you are using anything other than a mouse you will probably get things better setting accurately the brush dynamic options. Also I believe Krita has a threshold setting for the smooth. Those are just my views and opinions, not meant to mess up your way of doing things.
- eating the opponent's pieces while they aren't looking - the "pawn on a string" trick - putting the opponent's pieces upside down so they can't identify them as easily - hiding monopoly money up my sleeve - playing on a very slight incline so the pieces slowly slide off the board - knight dupe glitch - arbitrary code execution via pawn placement and null piece reference - bribing the opponent with a $20 bill to throw the match - putting worms on the board - putting superglue on some spaces so the opponent's pieces get stuck - cheating - intentionally underdeveloping residential spaces to keep demand high, ensuring steady population growth over time - bringing an atari 2600 and a copy of video chess so i can just copy its moves - using nucelar pressure to secure a draw - threatening the opponent's family
I know it's a little late to cash in on the #caturday points, but here's another drawing I did of @Benny in #Krita. This time, in addition to cell shading, I also threw in some highlights. Also, this time his rear end isn't featured.
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I cannot under emphasize the trouble I will face later this morning if I cannot face my landlady with the funds to pay my rent; or I have to do without some critical services because they were cut off due to lack of payment.
Sorry again for the begging and spamming. I'm simply up against it HARD this morning.
Still $1,000 short.
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I HAVE UNTIL THE END OF THIS AFTERNOON TO FINISH PAYING MY RENT BEFORE I GET EVICTED; AND THE PAST DUE BILLS ARE PILING ON!!
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