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New comment by sriacha in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

sriacha — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:44:12 +0000

'A Paradise Built in Hell' by Solnit is a good read about it

New comment by sriacha in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

sriacha — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:51:52 +0000

Another very interesting possible benefit of ibogaine not mentioned in the article is potential for treating TBI.

from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41883580/:

>Longitudinal analyses assessed cortical thickness, subcortical volume, and predicted brain age (pBA), estimated from T1 scans. pBA was significantly reduced at 1 month relative to baseline (-1.3 years). Cortical thickness analysis revealed post-treatment increases in 11 regions. Subcortical analyses revealed significant volumetric expansion in 8 regions. Magnesium-ibogaine therapy was associated with increased cortical thickness, subcortical expansion, and reduced pBA at 1 month.

New comment by sriacha in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

sriacha — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:39:56 +0000

Not really "horribly unsafe", it seems that with proper prescreening and magnesium supplementation cardiac risk can be safely managed. I was looking into this a few weeks ago.

However there is certainly a lack of data, and facilities doing treatment now are probably incentivized not to share adverse events.

New comment by sriacha in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

sriacha — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:01:57 +0000

I think its important to state that "bonk point" is different based on if your metabolism is adapted for carb vs fat burning.

If always training with high carb loads, you will bonk rather quickly going on a long ride without any compared to if you train fasted or more fat adapted.

New comment by sriacha in "Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins"

sriacha — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:40:02 +0000

Interesting, but doesn't seem to be much evidence they depended on natural occurring fire.

Here is a nice report: Fire-Making in Tasmania: Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence , Gott 2016: https://sci-hub.su/10.1086/342430

New comment by sriacha in "Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins"

sriacha — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:07:02 +0000

from the paper: "The consideration of fire ecology data and various factors involved in the complex process of fire ignition, combustion, and behavior, in relation to the GBY paleoenvironment and archaeology, enabled the rejection of recurrent natural fires as the responsible agent for burning (Alperson-Afil, 2012)."

New comment by sriacha in "Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins"

sriacha — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:06:04 +0000

>It's been extensively documented among modern human groups.

Do you have some sources? A quick search doesn't pull up much evidence for current hunter-gatherer dependence on natural fire regime. Or you mean anatomically modern humans?

New comment by sriacha in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

sriacha — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:42:55 +0000

Wow. What is your total capacity and range with that setup?

New comment by sriacha in "Neurons outside the brain"

sriacha — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:23:14 +0000

See Michael Levin.

New comment by sriacha in "My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)"

sriacha — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:24:12 +0000

You can keep your file current structure/workflow and just use immich as a viewer and search engine, read only.

New comment by sriacha in "Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees"

sriacha — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:12:06 +0000

Not sure that's valid; in my experience Samsung phones are fairly repairable* and have spare parts available worldwide. Guessing Fairphone parts are much more limited.

* probably much more fiddly than a fairphone though

New comment by sriacha in "Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years"

sriacha — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:00:57 +0000

Hah, was just about to write that. Also recommended.

New comment by sriacha in "How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones"

sriacha — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:55:03 +0000

Has there been any significant use of decentralized mesh communication networks in Ukraine in the last years?

New comment by sriacha in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

sriacha — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:12:12 +0000

beautiful

New comment by sriacha in "Huntington's disease treated for first time"

sriacha — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:20:00 +0000

How did you live differently knowing it was a possibility? It must have always been a shadow lurking nearby?

New comment by sriacha in "Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old"

sriacha — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:56:23 +0000

I think that might be the easiest, or even one with 3 buttons and volume knob.

New comment by sriacha in "Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old"

sriacha — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:31:32 +0000

Any tips for setting up a smartphone with a macropad as mentioned? I like this idea but worry it introduces a lot of complexity for the non-smartphone literate population.

Regarding the cassette player, in the US the 'National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled' has a player with an excellent simple interface, using cartridges for each book: https://blog.library.in.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/isl-t...

New comment by sriacha in "Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old"

sriacha — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:28:11 +0000

Does anyone have suggestions for an simple audiobook/music player like this for the elderly and or those mild dementia? It should have large, tactile buttons, simple play/pause interface, volume control (ideally knob), and be able to read from sdcard or usb/

- I've used the Relish 'dementia radio' [1] before. Its a radio with support for reading from usb, but has no memory so useless for audiobooks. Very overpriced.

- The 'National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled' has excellent cassette type players [2], but they only take their cartridges. Ideally something this format but supporting usb/sd card

- Another comment [3] here suggests a smartphone with a macropad. this could work. they also built a custom solution.

[1] https://relish-life.com/en-us/products/relish-radio [2] https://blog.library.in.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/isl-t... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818639

New comment by sriacha in "Finland is painting deer antlers with reflective paint (2014)"

sriacha — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:19:13 +0000

Doesn't feeding them contribute to even more deer overpopulation and human habituation?

New comment by sriacha in "Making a smart bike dumb so it works again"

sriacha — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:19:02 +0000

I wouldn't mind seeing some legislation that forced compatibility between different ebike systems, especially battery DRM....