No! It’s much better to face these enemies with legionnaires and auxiliaries!

I think they meant that in Sweden they removed the cancer labels? Here in the States (California specifically) at least, General Snus (made by Match) simply has the warning “may cause mouth cancer.” Camel Snus on the other hand has no cancer warning at all just “may cause gum disease and tooth loss.”

Like you said regulation is the final say in whether it’s on the label or not but these two warnings seem like the States (again at least CA) are taking the harm reduction into consideration as the labels aren’t as severe as they are on dip or cigarettes. Sorry if this is incoherent I’m typing on a phone while being talked at by a toddler who says he’s seen bigfoot.

Yea! I’ve skimmed through a cuneiform dictionary and saw so many words that made me wonder how anyone could possibly sight-read it without accidentally mistaking things haha.

It’s crazy to think scribes would have still been learning Sumerian at the time; the wiki page says it was found around mid 1st century BC and at this point the Assyrians and Babylonians had shifted to almost all Akkadian and Aramaic (iirc) and Sumerian would have been a rare thing to study (Ashurbanipal had bragged about having studied the language as if it was a rarity for anything other than perhaps royal priests) but maybe it was still being used in the South even that late?

Thanks for sharing, very cool!

Edit: If it matters, I may have misattributed the linguistic boasting to Ashurbanipal; in hindsight I think it was his father Esarhaddon…I feel like I recall reading that he may have been educated in priestly duties and letters because he wasn’t expected to have succeeded his father Sennacherib.

No I don’t. I imagine it wouldn’t really be worth it on mobile. I also realize that was the point of the og post, but I had to respond when I saw someone else mention it 😂

So just as a caveat, I imagine Tridactyl would really mostly be appreciated by those with a modal, and specifically Vim inspired mentality; its mission, after all, is to bring vim-like bindings and workflow to Firefox. This is mostly to say, it may not appeal to you otherwise (but who knows!)

If you are already familiar with how key bindings are set in vim you’ll hit the ground running. In fact, many keys are pretty intuitive since they match vim, eg, scrolling up/down is controlled with j or k.

I may not use every single function built into Tridactyl everyday, but as a person who likes to reduce his reliance on a mouse, I can easily navigate both a page and the web at large entirely with my keyboard. Typing f puts a hint at every link that you can follow by typing the letter in the hint. ]] or [[ can auto increment pages on forums (eg going from page 2 to page 3). I can quickly traverse my history, bookmarks, etc with a command prompt that can also access nearly every feature of Firefox. I often use a binding to pin tabs or close them, etc.

On a regular day that might be all I do.

On the other end of the spectrum, I’ll give a more extreme example. A friend needed help with his company’s wordpress site. They had a couple hundred articles that needed a uniform change. While there was probably an easier and smarter way of doing it, I used Tridactyl (with a healthy dose of pyAutoGui) to automate it. I made a couple of commands in Tridactyl to do things like open certain links as new tabs, navigate to each tab, open the WYSIWYG editor for each page, locate particular text, delete and replace it), save, and move to the next tab and repeat. I was able to do this with about 10-15 articles at a time…I got paid to press a couple keys, walk off to do something with my kid and come back to check on it from time to time (I added in fail-safes for when it needed manual intervention). Admittedly, this did go beyond the scope of Tridactyl, but it was an invaluable part of the whole deal.

Another time I was doing a data entry job and needed to transfer both the hyperlink of, and several pieces of info, into a spreadsheet. It occurred to me that it would be nice to grab the URLs of all the pages I had open at once instead of manually going to each tab copying the url, alt-tabbing to the spreadsheet and pasting just to alt tab back to FF going to a new tab copying the url and so on.

The creator of Tridactyl helped me write a command that allowed me to open as many tabs as necessary, and copy to the clipboard every URL of each tab open from the one I was on until there were no more tabs, each separated by a comma to easily paste into the spreadsheet. Saved me so much time and carpal tunnel.

Ultimately, describing a few things I’ve used it for is a disservice because if you ask the next person, they’ll use it completely differently.

Fellow tridactyl enthusiast reporting for duty!

It has been a game changer, especially with repetitive work tasks

Noticed this too and it’s annoying as ferk. It’s messed up many a queue between my wife and i

So, your first thought might be for enhancing clarity using techniques like compression and limiting to give the calls a consistent volume and avoid spikes that might bust an ear drum.

This is partially true; I run all these calls through a compressor and limiter for that reason, though I am not encouraged by my employer to be obsessed with making the calls pristine…after all they are done on regular phone lines over regular phones (viz., not on nice microphone) and as such you can’t exactly get Hollywood sound; you actually rarely useful data below 175 hrz and what is audible above 2500 us usually very useful when boosted (it becomes very essy, harsh, and hissy)

As a second consideration, many publicly traded companies, needing to carefully word their situations to their shareholders, will record two versions of their call and which one gets aired is dependent on news or other factors that come between the call and the airing of the call (could be a matter of hours, or a matter of days). This is also true to an extent and happens from time to time.

A third consideration you might have is, throat clearing, coughing, rummaging of papers. I’ll tell you…the MFS have the driest mouths and lip smack louder than a firecracker. They also don’t seem to realize if they shuffle papers next to the phone it will pick it up.

But no, even that is not the main reason.

The main reason they need to pre-record is because they can’t read. They can’t read simple sentences. I’ve picked a sentence out at random, and knowing nothing about their insane vernacular (we had fantastic EBITDA margins that gross outstanding for the coming tailwinds that outshine our core foundation pillars and drivers of growth) I was able to read them without messing up.

And yet they…will frequently have to read the same sentence 2-10 times. I’m not kidding. Most of these CEOs are fucking imbeciles and mean ones at that. They can barely read a sentence without fucking up. It sometimes takes me an hour to edit together a 15 min call.

On rare occasions it’s because they care. I’m under NDA but I’ll just say I have worked with a certain publicly traded meat-alternative company that has a lot of re-recording and edits but it’s because their CEO (seems to me) very passionate about what he’s doing and agonizes over the right word choices even up until the moment of recording. Props to him. He’s taking pride in what he does and can actually read a full sentence.

Other people on the other side of the spectrum can’t even be bothered to read their script before they show up and don’t know how to pronounce their own product names.

TL;DR: I am mostly there to make sure I have a clear pronunciation of every line of the script, take notes on where there are errors, and edit the script together to make a coherent whole at the end without any gross factual error. I do a little bit of processing to get rid of throat clearing, make the volume consistent.

Audio engineer and composer. I do music for a lot of little indie games and short films, etc. and then I also mix music, and edit audio for corporate earnings calls.

Like as in you traveled across the country to see them? If so, that sounds fun. I’ve driven across 3-4 times (assuming you mean the US) and it’s been a lot of fun each time.

It would be really great to see them for me this time since they are playing with the Descendants (the two were my introduction into punk music)!

Yea I just saw that in my feed. I’ve never seen them live (though I hear they suck live 😜) so I should def try.

One of my favorite songs of all time. I revisit it once a year or so but have to be careful because as much as I love it, it can put me in a dark place. I’ve urged a lot of friends to give it a listen while paying attention to the lyrics but that seems to be quite a commitment for most people 😂

I haven’t looked thoroughly because at the end of the day I have like …another 2 years of airvpn credit and I’m happy enough with them that I could make a separate server for a website…maybe with the rock pi 5a I bought that I haven’t touched. My current server is mostly for media and…uhh…sailing, as well as syncing devices (sync thing), running a telegram bot, etc. I could use the pi for more public stuff. And not use a VPN.

If you find a solution though, let me know!

I’ve been using it for probably 5+ years and it’s been great. I wish I could port forward to incoming 80 in my server so I could run a site while it’s up, but at the end of the day I can always run a site elsewhere.

That aside, it’s never gone down on me, the speeds are fast, it auto-connects to the best server available, and they run lots of promos.

Mf wizards never die

So you might be interested in this. I think it’s geared towards realtime jamming though. I’ve never used it but the same dev is the creator of the DAW Reaper. I’ve heard it’s limited but I think it handles the latency issue pretty well.

Now, reaper itself is very extensible. You can script in it with Lua, eel, python, or c++. Someone a year or so ago brought in the ability to make network calls, and I believe there are people working on collaborative tools but I’d have to go back and look through the forums/discord to see what the state of it is. I have a friend who started making a very ambitious collaborative plugin but I believe he has stopped the project.

I’ll see if I can dig up any info on it if any one is interested!