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New comment by vidyava in "Become unbannable from your email"

vidyava — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:00:59 +0000

Even having a Gmail address doesn't make you immune from someone putting in the wrong address.

I made a throwaway/spam account with a silly name back in ~2007, and then in ~2015 someone established a fairly successful company with that name. I now regularly get job applications, tax documents, and employee timesheets to my email. They even signed up for the service that controls their website with my email.

I keep waiting for them to contact me about taking over the address, but as far as I can tell they don't even realize they don't control it.

New comment by vidyava in "How to Write the Worst Possible Python Code (Humor)"

vidyava — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:22:50 +0000

Serious question, but what is the best practice for keeping n-dimensional arrays organized/labeled? Pandas? Xarray? Converting everything to netcdf before using it?

New comment by vidyava in "They see your photos"

vidyava — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 13:56:50 +0000

If you're using a browser with heavy anti-fingerprinting capabilities it will upload a randomized canvas image instead of the intended image, and you'll get a lot of descriptions of pictures of wavy lines and no people.

New comment by vidyava in "Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox"

vidyava — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:04:34 +0000

I also switched over a year or so ago and find it a significant improvement with one notable exception: in TST when you hover over a collapsed tab group it would show you a list of all tabs in the group while Sidebery doesn't. Similarly when closing a group Sidebery doesn't show all of the tabs that would close, just the total count.

I submitted a feature request a year ago but got no traction, and now I just expand and re-close groups before mass closing to double check if I need anything.

New comment by vidyava in "Milk watcher"

vidyava — Mon, 27 May 2024 02:26:51 +0000

My first thought was gut hook knife, but if it's especially question mark shaped it could be a "rescue knife". They often have a backwards facing cutting edge for seatbelts and the like.

Example: https://eknives.com/microtech-combat-troodon-rescue-otf-tool...

New comment by vidyava in "Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job"

vidyava — Fri, 03 May 2024 12:47:09 +0000

I've found that WhisperX with the medium model has been amazing at subtitling shows containing English dialects (British, Scottish, Australian, New Zealand-ish). It not only nails all the normal speech, but even gets the names and completely made up slang words. Interestingly you can tell it was trained from source material with dialects because it subtitles their particular spelling; so someone American will say color, and someone British will say colour.

I can't speak to how it performs outside of production quality audio, but in the hundreds of hours of subtitles that I've generated I don't think I've seen a single error.

New comment by vidyava in "How to delete your data from data brokers"

vidyava — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:53:48 +0000

What I wish I had, and maybe someone here knows of something that fulfills the role, is a means of providing erroneous information about myself to data brokers. I'd like to insert some fake addresses, wrong phone numbers, made up familial relationships, etc and let that propagate, rather than go through all the hoops to try (largely in vain) to have the information removed.