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Alberta wishes it were part of the US.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I vaguely recall Bruce Schneier saying that there is good evidence that the NSA cannot crack certain encryption methods. At the time, RSA was on the list. Maybe common methods mean roll-your-own corporate encryption, but it's my understanding that GNUpg and similar software are safe.

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Folks, I need a hobby. I'm a C programmer who has lost his passion for programming, it seems. I've decided to try to spark my passion again by going back to the basics, perhaps by creating a programming tutorial Wikibook, for modern applications.

The trouble is, I cannot decide if I should make C or Rust my programming language of choice.

I use C all the time, and have barely any experience in Rust.

Do I go with ol' reliable and risk being outdated in a few years, or go with the new language and risk being too niche and unpopular?

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Calgarian here. Can confirm.

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Hey everyone, I'm going insane due to a lack of creative project. I've written an app already but I haven't gotten around to publishing it yet. I'd like to know what kind of apps you'd like to see created for mobile Linux. I prefer easier, bite-sized projects over particularly large ones, but I'd love to hear your ideas nevertheless.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Damn. I know this life. I don't wish it on anyone, except those who exposed me to it...

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For me, I really want to see a time-sink game be made for mobile Linux phones. I'm working on something like one, but I'm not confident in my approach.

How about you guys? What do you want to see made?

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As the title asks. I'd like to make this place the go-to libre culture forum, since so many others are dead.

A definition of libre culture, surely. I was thinking of keeping the rules sparse and broad, the usual "don't be rude" rules, but I was also thinking of adding a list of the kind of posts that are allowed here, such as memes and support requests, to help stimulate activity. If those kinds of posts aren't desired, I can make dedicated communities for those kinds of posts anyways.

What do you guys think?

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Hey everyone, I've decided to create this subforum as an attempt to strengthen discussion around libre culture on Lemmy. Most libre culture subforums are fairly dead, with few having more than one post in just the last year.

I'm going to do what I can to make this place as active as possible.

Let's get the ball rolling! Post your memes, favourite apps, libre software support questions, libre software you wish existed, and everything else related to libre culture!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I don't disagree. The pulse oximeter support is not very high on my priority list to be honest.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh, no haha. That would be pretty neat though.

I think you'll come to understand and appreciate it once I implement it. The crux of the app is that it mostly is responsible for tracking data over multiple sleeps, both subjective and objective. As a mere data tracker and interpreter, it doesn't "beat" a wristband monitor, it actually complements them, because they can be paired together, but this is a feature that wont be added until later on.

Depending on the wristband, in my experience, the data isn't always reliable. The Pinetime is much better than it used to be. Some wristbands track more than just pulse even, also tracking oxygen saturation, which is very handy.

Step one is just tracking useful user-provided data points. Step two is respiration tracking via the mic, by far the most useful feature in my opinion. While it's only one metric, and it can be messed with, and the quality isn't always perfect, the amount of inferred data is huge. Step three will be getting the accelerometer going, which I don't think is too useful for me, but it's a highly requested feature. The trick isn't to strap it to yourself, but to let it rest on your bed with you. The phone moves when you do. You may also put it in your pocket, but I don't think I'd recommend that because you'll definitely want to keep it connected to a charger. The (sum of the absolute value of the) little jiggles it'll detect can always be scaled up and down, or weighted differently on a per-user basis. Step four, getting paired hardware online. Step five, (with extra funding), might involve actually researching the hardware and techniques used in sleep analysis, building a type whatever-I-can-afford DIY kit, and optimizing how well the app works overall when working with clinical data/hardware.

One last thing, if you don't already own a smartwatch and cannot afford one but want to track sleep data, but you do own a mobile Linux phone, then it makes far more sense to either track your metrics yourself via pencil and paper, or plug some data into a tracking app.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I think I understand, I'm not aiming for perfect here. I will never expect to get the results as dead accurate as an actual clinical type 1 polysomnographic session. That being said, so much can be inferred with so little data to go off of.

Some sleep trials use portable machines nowadays that the user wears to bed at home. While they're equipped with objectively better sensors, it's hard to lose hope in my app. I know this has been done before, there are paid apps for polysomnography for Android. Typically they'll have oximeters at the worst and the same equipment as a type 1 at best. With our phones, the goal isn't so much to diagnose as it is to evaluate changes over time, and alert us if something seems likely.

I'll definitely think about bluetooth pulse oximeter support, but please keep in mind that I'm hacking away at it for less than minimum wage.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Never feel sorry for not donating. Take care of yourself first before taking care of others.

Thank you very much!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much, you're too kind!!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What you really mean is a fully free software e-book reader with copies of fantastic public domain works as provided by Project Gutenberg?? I sincerely agree!

Y'know, I'd sure be willing to reread The Great Gatsby!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the truest and most correct answer, but it comes with a huge drawback!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Awh, self esteem is important little man, don't beat yourself up!

All or nothing thinking, also known as “Black-and-White Thinking,” is a common cognitive distortion that manifests as an inability or unwillingness to see the shades of gray, or the more complex picture. In other words, you see things in terms of extremes – something is either fantastic or awful, you believe you are either perfect or a total failure.

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