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New comment by zeagle in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

zeagle — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:31:35 +0000

I would really disagree as a physician that's used a lot of random crap stethoscopes when I don't have one or in an iso room. Those disposable ones are different in what they pick up, some findings are louder others not detectable. Sure I can pick up some stuff like rubs and systolic murmurs but you aren't going to get more subtle findings like diastolic murmurs and fine crackles. Probably a combination of certain frequencies responding and also me being used to mine.

New comment by zeagle in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

zeagle — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:28:52 +0000

My first stephoscope lasted about 10 years until the tubing became brittle and started cracking. It's the oil on your skin that does it apparently. It went through a couple diaphragms and I lost an ear piece but used a replacement one.

New comment by zeagle in "Blurry iPhone Text Picture Problem: Is There an Easy Solution I'm Missing?"

zeagle — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:13:12 +0000

Interesting the first comment on the post suggesting a Android phone. Ironically I went the other way and switched to an iPhone because it did a better job of text than my pixel 6 or 7 due to spherical aberration scanning receipts and I got fed up. Then stuck with the ecosystem. I guess grass is just always greener on the other side from small compact cameras and optics on these devices. Best solution seemed to be 2x zoom with a bit of distance.

New comment by zeagle in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

zeagle — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:17:41 +0000

Yeah and they could hire a professional driver or a engineer and IPO for billions a life sized driving AI powered crypto robot too. Look, like clearly google + ctrl-v scripting or running an one click deployment exe on your computer on a whim is different than physically ordering/picking up something and then installing it into a vehicle?

New comment by zeagle in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

zeagle — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:30:13 +0000

Simplest example: a driver could probably disable attentive driving checks by pasting a script in from a web search in a few minutes. Nothing like an inattentive 3750 lbs weapon.

New comment by zeagle in "AirPods Max 2"

zeagle — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:53:11 +0000

Exactly. Look at something like the Sony XM5s that have a defective design that breaks in a light wind. There a class action against them for the crap they pulled and refusal to warranty. Not that I’m bitter at them or anything.

New comment by zeagle in "FrameBook"

zeagle — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:53:11 +0000

I would imagine battery life would be poor vs an eReader. In case you seek the same: I used a boox onyx (12"?) and OK overall. Issues IMO were the display is very fragile & did it in in the end despite a case and pocket in the bag, color was a bit of gimmick, most importantly the resolution was not good enough read journals/PDFs/stuff like the guardian weekly via libby crisply without zooming in... but the rest was decent. I switched to a kindle scribe I got for 1/3 the price after but it can't read the guardian or anything like that unfortunately like an android tablet. So just a bulky eReader with meeting notes there. If it even just showed my daily calendar I’d be happy.

New comment by zeagle in "FrameBook"

zeagle — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:50:35 +0000

This is pretty impressive! I'm always impressed with what one can 3D print to fit commercial products into a previous case! Modifying to fit the larger webcam module, battery in that way was neat too. Does the display connect via framework's cable without modification? I have an old motherboard running headless I was thinking of resurrecting but if I need to hook up a USC-C display.

New comment by zeagle in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

zeagle — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:08:30 +0000

I'd take that election atmosphere and then recognize Canadians are living in a charged environment with cost of living/quality of life/economy changing and uncertainty. Many Canadians see Trump & his with the de facto support he has (in that nothing has been done about it despite posturing) as a threat and root cause of much of it. Not all of that's true or due to him or the US. But it means nobody down there will meaningfully protect Canada with his threats/economic war if they can't even block his domestic chaos. Folks are happy to see other folks and appreciate visitors but they also recognize a threat. Just like in America. So agree why publicize foreign political views.

Perhaps in the white vs black experience lens that most of my US friends seem to see every world conflict through to relate to their own history (wild conversations about Middle Eastern politics there being racial), it's like wearing something racially inflammatory to the wrong neighbourhood. If one's blowing $$,$$$ on bespoke fly in tourism you can probably get away with it with a polite topic change as tourism keeps food on the table, but park a Trump sticker on a residential street I'd be surprised if even in the nicest neighbourhood there isn't some damage to it. Likely from a teenager goofing off with friends in the current environment.

To the second individually most Americans are nice in my experience, if you are seen as a person and not anonymous in the crowd. I've had a family member get a rifle leveled at them for stepping over a property line in the US where clearly they weren't seen as a fellow human... what can I say to that or the normalization of it.

New comment by zeagle in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

zeagle — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:43:22 +0000

No, most people recognize a government isn’t reflective of individual people and are kind. If anything you’ll be more likely to be let in on the road if you are in the wrong lane assuming you don’t know where you are going. Having said that I wouldn’t wear/sticker political messaging, namely Trump and MAGA given current realities, but really of any type.

New comment by zeagle in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

zeagle — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:23:10 +0000

Is it different on Windows from MacOS? I have AI features disabled on firefox 148.0 and my options on an image are a reasonable list of Open Image in New Tab, Save Image As..., Copy Image, Copy Image Link, Email Image, Set Image as Desktop Background..., Take Screenshot, Inspect Accessibility Properties, Inspect (Q) and two related to extensions that are my choice (Block Element..., Bitwarden). For links I get the Open in (...) options. If I enable AI features I get one extra menu. And very niche to disable print.enabled so you can't print from your browser?

New comment by zeagle in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

zeagle — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:27:30 +0000

That’s a perspective I hadn’t considered. Although the whole thing stinks of middlemen extracting all the profit between producers and consumers e.g. ag sector by the laws won’t catch up or even force integration. Thanks!

New comment by zeagle in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

zeagle — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:30:34 +0000

For sure. There are many billions and brilliant engineers propping up AI so they will win any cat and mouse game of blocking. It would be ideal if sites gave their data to IA and IA protected it exactly from what you say. But as someone that intentionally uses AI tools almost daily (mainly open evidence) IMO blame the abuser not the victim that it has come to this.

New comment by zeagle in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

zeagle — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:10:09 +0000

I mean why wouldn’t they? All their IP was scraped for at their own cost of hosting it for AI training. It further pulls away from their own business models as people ask the AI models the questions instead of reading primary sources. Plus it doesn’t seem likely they’ll ever be compensated for that loss given the economy is all in on AI. At least search engines would link back.

New comment by zeagle in "Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?"

zeagle — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:08:01 +0000

It was ServaRICA as someone else suggested. It was a Black Friday hybrid VPS deal from a few years ago, looks like they still have comparable stuff on their site. For the cost I would generally assume anything important needs to be duplicated in case the company folds or a fire unless you pay them for such a service. (I don't have any vested interest in suggesting them.)

New comment by zeagle in "Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?"

zeagle — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:53:53 +0000

That's funny. I kept getting a -$100 bill from a credit card for a few months after closing it. Eventually called them and suggested they can send me a cheque instead of a bill next time for similar reasons...

New comment by zeagle in "Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?"

zeagle — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:12:53 +0000

Until recently I had a 4gb ram 80gb ssd+2tb hd VPS running debian in a Montreal data centre with a real use 700 mbit pipe to my city with a budget provider for the equivalent of $80USD/year. When fio speeds were slow they moved me to a less crowded server. I gave it up as don't need it and moved my personal sites back to NFS for peanuts a year and services to my NAS. The pricing, offsite storage for my backups, Canadian sovereignty, lack of perceived complexity with a big provider was all attractive. I'm a physician with a tech hobby and last serious tech work was in the LAMP days with perl and php. Trying to think of learning about AWS and screwing up usage based billing was daunting!

New comment by zeagle in "Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home"

zeagle — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:47:06 +0000

That's really fair. I think of my donations and support and usually higher than I would want to subscribe for!

New comment by zeagle in "Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home"

zeagle — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:02:22 +0000

That sounds a lot like a newspaper subscription. I subscribe to my local (physical) paper once a week for this reason.

New comment by zeagle in "10 Years of Let's Encrypt"

zeagle — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:04:41 +0000

For someone who runs a small personal website and uses LE to secure this + some web exposed services, could you explain how this is different/better than acme-dns-certbot?