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New comment by djur in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

djur — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 06:13:09 +0000

They've also sold personal massagers that were used as (and sometimes quietly designed as) sex toys for many years, too.

New comment by djur in "Continuous Glucose Monitoring"

djur — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:51:01 +0000

Stelo is basically just a consumer packaged version of the Dexcom G6, and in both cases they warn you to use a finger stick to verify unexpected readings. But finger sticks can be really inaccurate, too. For many diabetics it's not a life-or-death matter (only 1 in 4 type 2 patients end up using insulin), and the important thing is the trend over time.

I've personally found my CGM to be really useful in understanding the effect of diet, sleep, stress, etc. on my blood glucose, like the OP says, but you definitely get some weird readings sometimes. Yesterday a new unit told me that my blood glucose dropped below 70 for 2 hours. It definitely didn't! After a while it got itself straightened out in time to scold me for eating some corn chips.

New comment by djur in "A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)"

djur — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:37:30 +0000

What fad theories are you thinking of?

New comment by djur in "Journalists wary of travelling to US due to Palantir surveillance"

djur — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:49:04 +0000

Maybe you should consider this evidence that gay people aren't a "protected class" in the first place.

New comment by djur in "Journalists wary of travelling to US due to Palantir surveillance"

djur — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:46:34 +0000

No. Freedom of expression is a human right, not a privilege of citizenship.

New comment by djur in "Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial"

djur — Thu, 29 May 2025 01:57:13 +0000

Yes, you can get infections from poorly maintained CPAPs (or respirators -- are those a scam, too?) but that's not going to spread to your whole family.

New comment by djur in "Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial"

djur — Tue, 27 May 2025 05:33:07 +0000

I was in the hospital for a month and was specifically prescribed BiPAP while I was there. I was completely unable to tolerate it and the technicians sent up to adjust it for me did not know how to access the clinician settings -- they just fiddled with the patient-facing controls, which are very limited. These were people who I am sure have lots of experience working on respirators and oxygen, but at least three different people clearly had no idea how to begin adjusting a ResMed BiPAP. Eventually, I was strong enough to get out of bed and adjust the settings myself, and finally I could get a good night's sleep.

That is to say that I agree: basically nobody outside of sleep clinics seems to know how they work, and even they don't provide much more expertise than you can get from publicly available information and tools.

New comment by djur in "Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial"

djur — Tue, 27 May 2025 05:17:54 +0000

Your claim is that CPAP gave this person a _communicable_ chest infection, which was then cured by herbal medicine? How could that possibly happen unless your local distilled water supply was contaminated with tuberculosis bacteria?

New comment by djur in "Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial"

djur — Tue, 27 May 2025 05:14:07 +0000

1) People who are not fully awake often do things for no clear reason -- I regularly wake up finding that I have no memory of removing my mask after 2-5 hours.

2) If you're prone to nightmares, waking up with something covering your face that causes bizarre sensations when you try to breathe through your mouth or speak may disturb you enough to tear it off.

New comment by djur in "The world of Japan's PC-98 computer"

djur — Sat, 24 May 2025 18:28:56 +0000

And there similarly was a market for relatively low-budget and/or pornographic and/or copyright-infringing computer games in western markets, it's just that people today find weird old ecchi VNs with anime art more interesting than weird old strip poker games with digitized photos.

New comment by djur in "CivitAI Policy Update: Removal of Real-Person Likeness Content"

djur — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:59:20 +0000

People making money off of something doesn't make it not a disaster, obviously. Within the past month crypto's biggest headline has been its use in bribing the US president.

New comment by djur in "Some novelists are becoming video game writers and vice-versa"

djur — Sat, 10 May 2025 06:03:51 +0000

Feist didn't write the game, however.

New comment by djur in "Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea"

djur — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:08:43 +0000

How is the law targeting men? As far as I know, it's just as illegal for women to create and possess deepfake porn.

And, again: you do not need deepfake porn to have love and happiness, even an illusion of it. I personally think better of men than to think that a fake nudie pic of the neighbor's wife would be the keystone of their mental wellbeing. If anything is misandry, it's thinking of men as a bunch of sex-crazed gremlins.

New comment by djur in "Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea"

djur — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:05:00 +0000

1) Sukarno had less to worry about than a schoolteacher (like in the article), perhaps. Teachers can get fired for even a hint of scandal. 2) Victorian men loved porn, prostitution, etc. The "prudishness" of the Victorian era was enforced on women. Deepfakes are just part of the same long tradition of women being deprived of sexual agency and autonomy.

New comment by djur in "Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea"

djur — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:56:07 +0000

I read it as "garbage like [described] in this article", not an attack on the article itself.

New comment by djur in "Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea"

djur — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:54:14 +0000

How is that "misandry"? Do you think only men are lonely and deprived of sex? Do you think only men fantasize about people they're attracted to? How did men survive so many years without synthetic porn of the woman at the office? Producing deepfakes, even for personal use, is irresponsible. Men can use their imaginations.

New comment by djur in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract"

djur — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:28:50 +0000

I don't think there's any reason to believe that Trump is mentally competent to understand what's happening here or engage in any kind of meaningful negotiation.

New comment by djur in "NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University"

djur — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:05:53 +0000

The weaponization of antisemitism is especially repugnant coming from an administration that hires people like this:

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5319995/kingsley-wilson...

New comment by djur in "Open-Source Is Just That"

djur — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:55:49 +0000

It doesn't fail to meet the OSI's definition of open source. As you elsewhere conceded, the "blessing" in the SQLite source doesn't have legal weight and doesn't violate the OSD. Public domain software has always been considered open source. For instance, the Debian project, famous for their exacting standards for free software, accepts public domain software:

https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Public_Domain

As they mention here, it is theoretically possible that code dedicated to the public domain might still be encumbered in a way that makes it not open source: "we are unaware of a case where a jurisdiction has upheld a copyright claim to a work which has been dedicated to the public domain everywhere".

New comment by djur in "Open-Source Is Just That"

djur — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:28:54 +0000

The OSI has approved a public domain dedication, so clearly they accept public domain software as OSD-compliant:

https://opensource.org/license/unlicense

An advisory blog post warning people not to assume that "public domain" code is actually unencumbered is not the same as saying that actually public domain code is not open source.