SamDc73

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Building in EdTech (talimio.com)

Website: https://samdc73.com Email: [email protected] (remove all the fours)

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Comment · 9 hours ago
that's really cool, I don't know if it's possible to add `Return YouTube Dislike` integration to shows the dislike counts. API (OSS): https://returnyoutubedislike.com/docs

and this one might be tricky but SponsorBlock integration also? to auto-skips sponsor segments and introsusing crowdsourced timestamps. API: https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/API_Docs

Comment · 9 hours ago
> It's 100% pure nerd content

well some might use it to listen to Rick Astley's Music

Comment · 2 days ago
I wish they can offer LLMs though an API with some good privacy (not a UI) since i can't come across any
Comment · 2 days ago
> although they had their own brush with bullshit not too long ago.

can you elaborate?

Comment · 15 days ago
compared to the US, SA salaries are quite low
Comment · 15 days ago
Gallup's question is: "Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move permanently to another country?"
Comment · 15 days ago
China isn't even mentioned as a destination at all. more people migrated to India than did to China ....
Comment · 23 days ago
Three things that helped me with my circadian phase (to certin extend)

1) Melatonine 300mcg 5-6 hours befor desired sleep time 2) 10k lux light for 30m when waking up 3) Nobeltin (nootropic) it enhances clock amplitude, so I do get less sleepy during teh day and more sleepy at night ..

things taht kind of helped but find hard to keep: Keto (I feel less sleepy on Keto, and easier to fall a sleep but it's been a while since ive been on keto)

Comment · 26 days ago
if they keep a tap on you, how long before that data gets used for ads or sold to an ad agency?
Comment · 1 month ago
I alwasy thought they would be aquired by Vercel or maybe Anthropic but didn't see this one coming
Comment · 1 month ago
nextdns.io might be an option

https://adguard-dns.io/kb/general/dns-providers/ have a list of options that some of them have ad blocker

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
What i did (been doing it for like 5 months so far) is keep track of my day (just using Logseq just type in things like: "5:00 -> 5:30 checking Email" and such .. for the whole day, but i found that when i'm not home there will be some gaps, and that I usully fill back form memroy at the end of the day (which leads to maybe some gaps?)

usully what I do I track (in the md file) day by day: my mood, what I eat, do, play, nootropics, waking up time and all that) and the goal was to see any trends (was planning to do it for like 1-2 weeks but then turned out to in a way keep me gorunded and more aware?) (the last 3 months logs md file was 5k long)

I tried to have a Hermes agent that I talk to throught telegram (had some cron jobs to check in multiple times a day) and some script to pull things like browser data and other data points to see time spent on certain things, and it would generate an md report at the end of the day for that day, but idk, it misses a lot of things (like it hard to tell how many hours I spent on X or Y and such reltative to other day and/or the break down of tasks and such).

for the md file I do upload to Claude or such and then try to find correlation (I dont tend to read it back my self), I did find out that lactose give me bit of a brain fog (that was never too strong that I could tell it's lactose directly) and that when on caffine I tend to think I achevie more than what I actully did (among many other thigns here and there), I also have smart ring data taht I also upload to claude too.

I do use habits app (been using it for like ~5 years but with some gaps.

My main thing that would make me use somethig external is if it pulls data form various sources directly into the logs. like browsing history, sleep data, location data, phone usage hisory, spotify, tempreture, air quality, water drank (Idk maybe usign some smart water bottle or something) and such (althougth it might be iatrogenic)

Comment · 3 months ago
But he had business agreements with companies that are doing that (Palantir).
Comment · 4 months ago
Honestly this reads like a badly-written propaganda that relies on no messured statistic.

From okla's Speedtest Global Index:

Fixed broadband (median download): US: #9 306.86 Mbps Switzerland: #10 300.70 Mbps

Mobile: US: #11 205.71 Mbps Switzerland: #42 118.93 Mbps

the "25 Gbit" is top tier prodcut that while avablie in the US (sure not the whole country) it's not sometinhg the avg in both coutnries actully buy/use...

> why Switzerland has such fast internet at a reasonable price

also on prices the per 2023 (couldn't find any newer resoruces) [2] 100 Mbps in the US seems a bit cheaper in the US than swizerland (but the diffrnece is honestly neligable to begin with)

> Every home gets a dedicated 4-strand fiber line. Point-to-Point. Not shared. Not split 32 ways.

form a quick serach, this seems to simply be not true, FTTP coverage is 50% in swizerland (comapred to 69% in europe) and 27% in rural areas (compared to 58% in rural europe) per 2024 [3]

> The United States prides itself on free markets

boradcam is one of the most regualted/restricted markets in teh U.S (for better or worse) so it really isn't really free market ...

Local governments grant the cable/telecom franchise and levy franchise fees up to 5% of gross revenue (Cable Act 1984, 47 U.S.C. §542). Entrants also need government-controlled pole and right-of-way access; pole/permit fights are what stalled Google Fiber. And ~16–17 states legally restrict or ban municipal broadband.

Section 301 China tariffs (10–25%) since 2018 (Trump) hit optical fiber, routers, and network electronics. Biden's 2021 Infrastructure Act (IIJA) also restriected using some certin chinesse technology when buidling internet infrastructure.

[1] https://www.speedtest.net/global-index

[2] https://www.picodi.com/us/bargain-hunting/internet-prices-20...

[3] https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/57c...

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