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Don't forget to check out Libby. Plug in your library card and you can check out audiobooks for free.

Thanks for sharing! It was great to read more about it.

I really love that you can play around without creating an account. Kudos!

I'm on Emgality, and haven't noticed any side effects at all.

Honestly the worst part of it has been getting special approval from insurance; sometimes they don't cover much of it but right now the manufacturer provides a savings card that brings it down to $35/month.

I've suffered from migraines all my life. It worsened as I've gotten older. One day long attacks turned into three day long attacks. Then turned into five day long attacks. I've taken various preventatives and abortives over the years to varying success. It runs in my family so I never thought to see a neurologist for them. A couple years ago I had a bad string of them and my medicine wasn't really touching it, so I finally decided to see a headache specialist. The doctor very quickly got me started one of these anti-CGRP medications.

Almost immediately, I dropped to 0-1 attacks a month, and when they do happen they are both less painful and my other medicine knocks them out fast.

Literally life changing.

Sounds like the fake emails were from "subscription bombs". Bad actors will bulk sign up targets to flood their inboxes and hide worrying notifications like security alerts.

https://www.spamhero.com/support/125230/I_am_being_attacked_...

I use to work on a newsletter service and we had to combat this constantly.

My dad is a high school math teacher. When I was growing up, there was a few years that he had a computer lab in his classroom. He named all of the computers after mathematicians: Archimedes, Bernoulli, Gauss, Euler.

That made an impression on me, so I followed a similar pattern when I started having my own devices to name: Erdos, Newton, Pascal.

Since then, I've settled into my own naming scheme, themed to women pioneers of technology:

My phone is named Lovelace after Ada Lovelace. One of my servers is named Hopper after Grace Hopper. My laptop is named Kare after Susan Kare.

My wife's naming scheme for her devices are space themed: Nebula, Luna, Io, Ganymede.

When we have shared devices, we sort of merge the schemes into space themed scientists. For example, our Apple TV is named "Copernicus", which I found a fitting name since the world revolves around it when it's on.

Very cool. I've been trying to learn Spanish off and on for years, and this was super easy to try. Love the fact that you can use it without even signing up.

I wonder if you could look into partnering with some existing language tools? I might also look into telling schools about it directly, to help speed up the word of mouth.

Really love the way you handled the demo.

It is cold. And I think it's harmful to infer that the people that fall for these are stupid. It does nothing to help the situation.

If the prevailing thought is that you're stupid for falling for a scam, then the victim is less likely to share and inform, and then education does not spread. All it does is make them feel awful, which is not helpful and just even more hurtful.

I think we have to come at it from the angle of the scammers are tactical and that it's okay if you are a victim. It sucks, of course, but no blame necessary on the victim.

I know someone who got a similar message from her priest asking for gift cards. The scammer got a hold of the church directory and used that to send out messages. The person thought she was doing a favor for her priest and wanted to help; it is not her fault that the red flags weren't as strong as they should've been. Not everyone operates on suspicion mode.

I know another who was almost a victim of the the sobbing phone call: "Granpda, I'm in jail! Please send me bail. Also don't tell anyone!"

These types of scams target emotions and kindness. That's how these people operate in the real world. It's not that these people are stupid, it's more that they are unaware and not sensitive to the red flags.

Perhaps they used OCR on the newspaper to generate the text.

Sounds like an opportunity for a Dashboardle. Choose from a directory of wordle clones to favorite, and the Dashbordle will cycle you through each of your daily puzzles. No need to visit each of them individually and no forgetting any.

peacock - change the workspace color

I was looking for this exact thing the other day. Thanks for the tip!

I work in VR when I'm not in meetings. I use Immersed for it. I love it.

The text readability isn't perfect, but it's fine and usable. (Others don't consider it very usable, which can mean either they didn't spend the time to figure out the ideal setup for them or it's simply not usable for everyone yet.) There's a lot of after-market customization that help tremendously: better headstrap, upgraded facemask, prescription lens covers.

We're definitely in early adopter territory. It takes tinkering to find the best setup for yourself. Some people don't have the time or desire for that, some people just don't find something that works after trying it out. It's not sustainable for widespread adoption yet, but it'll get there.

It's improving every day as the Immersed team is adding new features along with the Quest opening up APIs. For example, right now you cannot see your keyboard. Most users get by with touch typing. You can bring in a VR version of your keyboard that is calibrated to the position, but it's pretty finicky. Quest is opening up an API soon for what is called "passthrough", which will allow the user to see the camera view outside of the set. Once a passthrough keyboard feature is implemented in the Immersed tool, I believe it's going to be a significant feature that will make it even easier to work in VR.

This gave me an idea for a fun experiment...

Take the future word list, and each day use tomorrow's word as much as can be naturally fit into normal conversation.

Then see if all of my friends start to score better, since they were primed.

(I am too protective of spoilers to actually do this, but still.)

In my experience of trying to calculate accurate click and open analytics, defining a user agent tells the software that they may want to exclude them and gives them an easy way to do it.

Some bots use a user agent that looks like a normal browser, so you have to try to determine patterns based on timing of events, IP address, and other data. If the request has a custom user agent, all you have to do is exclude the datapoints that have that user agent on it.

I personally always appreciate the bots that have custom user agents.

What do you mean "email whitelist"?

It just doesn't work in Safari.

Fun game.

I accidentally bought five cats and then had to take care of them all!

What about a Discord server?