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Re:Boards of Casio on Friday September 25, 2026 @10:45AM (#49845398)
The original author of the patches (oliveoil22) is on the KeyOsc forum, if you're interested: https://forum.keyosc.com/topic/2293-casio-cz-101-the-90s-key...

Disclaimer: I'm an admin there.

This reminds me of Benford's law[1]

"Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading digit is likely to be small."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

Re:BrainGPT turns thoughts into text on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:10PM (#38674332)
Aside from all the horrific implications, this enables something very cool: two-way telepathic communication.

Think your message, think "send", hear responses via earbud. With voice cloning, you even get the message in the sender's voice. Totally silent and invisible to outside observers.

Re:AWS us-east-1 down on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:59PM (#36317223)
If you're having problems accessing the console, the workaround is just to use a different region, eg:

https://ca-central-1.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

This assumes you don't actually need anything from us-east-1, though :)

Re:Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:36AM (#33163860)
Another podcast has already been doing deepfake celebrity interviews with ai-written scripts (but with a humorous tone) for a few months:

https://m.soundcloud.com/jn2022

They're all hosted by a fake Lex Fridman. The Elon Musk ones sound pretty convincing.

Re:Microsoft Validation OS on Friday July 15, 2022 @10:22AM (#32108492)
Is it? The Pixel 6 has a SAR of 1.4 W/Kg.
> I've never had COVID but I did get the mRNA vaccines + booster.

> my heart goes into light arrhythmia all too frequently. It used to be maybe once or twice a year I'd notice 1-3 seconds of "off-beat" heart pattern. All of of a sudden it's a few times a week. I'm also getting older (entering mid 30's now)

This is my situation exactly, starting a few weeks after getting my second booster (Moderna). I've read enough anecdotes and news reports to believe there are many people dealing with this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/myocarditis-ottawa-mrn...

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/she-thought-she-wa...

It gradually improved (enough to stop waking me up), but I still get a lot more "off-beats" than I used to. Got my third booster recently (Pfizer), so far no major regressions.

Re:AWS Console Unavailable on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:33AM (#28841000)
It's working if you use a regional endpoint: https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

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