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A post on Slashdot says that Merlin patched the CVS in March. Merlin also patched the EOLed RT-AX56U, which Asus isn't providing an updated firmware for.

Language in Thought and Action by S.I. Hayakawa Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff and Johnson The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker Tao Te Ching (…

Despite the costs starting to creep up as my sites start taking up more space and bandwidth, I continue to host my sites and register my domains on NFSN because of the geek/DIY/lib…

Since the start of the pandemic I've been self-hosting a Jitsi instance on Linode for my hypnotherapy business -- partly to transmit high-bitrate audio, partly for privacy and part…

For Canadian equities, especially mining stocks, ceo.ca seems to have a lot of knowledgeable participants. Otherwise, maybe a Bloomberg terminal, though it's out of reach for most …

Hypnotism and applied life philosophy from a humanistic/naturalistic perspective: https://www.youtube.com/morpheushypnosis

In some ways yes (inward focus, suspension of analytical thought, nonjudgement of the feelings or memories that arise), but in other ways no. Hypnosis doesn't usually incorporate t…

It's also that meditation is usually observant and not goal-directed, or at least it's taught that way, while hypnosis is usually used to achieve a specific goal, which means the h…

I'm a professional hypnotist (15 years of practice) and this is hands-down the best mainstream article on hypnotism I've read in years. Fitting phenomenology into science has often…

The patents that were sold had to do with BlackBerry's legacy non-core business (mobile devices) and don't comprise their entire patent portfolio. They've specifically said that th…

The first two books are extremely useful for preventing people from taking advantage of you, if you are naive as to how manipulative people can be: that's what I got out of them wh…

I'm a consulting hypnotist (hypnotherapist), albeit with a strong technical side (e.g., I've trained my employees to use desktop Linux for remote work). I'm essentially in the busi…

Kobo has Pocket integration.

The Unihertz Titan could be described as a spiritual successor to the BlackBerry Passport: similar form factor, rugged build quality and long battery life, but runs Android 10. I'm…

The original is interesting and relevant even if you never intend to touch a tennis racket in your life.

A lot of sites let in traffic from Google so that their sites will be indexed and rank when people search for them.

T.S. Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" perfectly captures the essence of a middle-aged man's insecurities, and Eliot wrote it when he was 23.

The Blackberry Hub (i.e., the unified inbox) is one of two reasons I'm still using a Blackberry (the other reason, of course, is the physical keyboard).

Back in 2011, I mined enough BTC on my $1000 mining rig to eventually make a 5x profit, but there's no way I'd be able to make a profit today at the current difficulty/prices.

This is a Show HN. Over my life, I've often thought, "I wish I could find an xyz. Surely somebody on the Internet knows where I could find one. I'll even pay them to find it for me…

We do have audio samples (they're halfway down the sidebar on each product page) and we offered a discount way back in January when we launched. If you're interested in trying it o…