https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNKWbdXPS04

1. we were talking about dementia, not “getting old”. 81y life expectancy means if you look at the cohort of females born 81 years ago, about half of them will have already died, heart disease being the biggest cause. The relevant question is how many of them (both the dead and living ones) will have had bad enough dementia to have needed to be in a care home for it specifically? I don’t mean for mild forgetfulness, occasional senior moments, etc.

2. 81y (actually 80y per 2021 table, https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html ) is the life expectancy at birth. For a 80yo US female, life expectancy from the same table is 9.38y. So the ones who are still alive at 80 still have some “gas in the tank”. My mom is up there in age and she needs a lot of assistance getting around etc, but it’s mostly physical issues.

She is in a “adult community” (i.e. apt. complex for old folks) and I spend a lot of time there seeing her. I see tons of over-80’s there. A few really do have serious dementia, but most are at other levels of independence with many rolling around in wheelchairs while still mentally present. Dementia care is a different thing and it’s not that common for someone who is “only” 81 to need it.

My mom at 81 was still mentally quite sharp. She’s slowed down since then but it’s mostly mobility and sleeping a lot. President Biden seems to have some dementia issues but again, they aren’t severe enough that he needs to be in a care home for it.

3. It now sounds like Kay Granger is/was in a care home but at least according to the spin, it wasn’t specifically for dementia, so who knows.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_caregiving

I’m sad to hear that. Yes it happens but it’s not really common from what I can tell. Currently theory about Alzheimer’s is that it is also caused by sustaining viral infections earlier in life.

She’s only 81, which is kind of young to be suffering that level of dementia. She has been diagnosed with Covid at least once. I wonder if that is related.

The initial post is a somewhat incomprehensible rant but I think the objection is that any number of skeezy websites all have domains pointing to the same Cloudflare IP. So when a malware app opens a TLS connection to one of those domains, the shared IP doesn’t tel you anything, and the ECH prevents you from seeing with Wireshark just whose home the malware is phoning. You have to resort to more drastic methods like intercepting DNS. Better yet, don’t run malware.

Interesting, I’ll take a look at it, thanks., But I’ve been particularly interested in Jami because it runs on multiple platforms, is on F-droid, and is a GNU program.

Salt Typhoon may have given them a clue.

Salt Typhoon.

I get the impression that recreating the Whisper training code is possibly doable, but the data is a bigger task.

This is a possible Whisper alternative with maybe similar issues: https://petewarden.com/2024/10/21/introducing-moonshine-the-new-state-of-the-art-for-speech-to-text/

Yes it’s nice that the phone app is free but STT is the difficult and important part. With Moonshine it might be possible to run the transcriber completely on the phone instead of having the STT on a remote server.

It’s interesting that they are able to do all that speaker distinguishing with just a single mic as found on both phones. There was a thread about phone features recently. Given this STT stuff, it could be useful to have a phone with 3 or 4 mics in the corners of the phone, like one of those tabletop conference mics, so it can figure out directionality of sound sources.

It didn’t say that on the linked page. Is the AI model and training code and data also free?

Added: it looks like it uses Whisper for transcription. So the inference code is there but it’s unclear about the other stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_(speech_recognition_system)

Anyway, thanks for the update.

This is about a speech transcription program running on the company’s remote server. The app uploads your audio and the system sends you a transcript. You’ve got to be kidding. Reporting as spam.

Harpo, Chico, and Groucho.

There is not a single thing that “Kid Rock” could do that would make him look cool.

Maybe this?

It’s easier now that there are some control headers for it. At the time I tried a lot of things like bouncing through javascript opening a new window. Results varied by browser. The simplest way was to inconvenience users a bit by supplying text urls for them to paste into the nav bar, instead of clickable links.

I had some private pages a while back that linked to unrelated pages on other sites. I had to go somewhat crazy to stop the private urls from leaking to the external sites through referer headers when my users clicked on the links.

If chrome is sending people’s browser histories to Google that is invasive.

This might be helpful for development:

https://archive.org/details/mobypronunciatio03205gut

Building a full function browser is a huge project that can really only be done by a big organization. And it’s mostly for the benefit of advertisers and other hucksters, so not a satisfying thing to work on for purely charitable reasons. Basically the web sucks. We’d be better off with a privacy protecting fragment that was designed for end users rather than for upstream. See Rfc 8890 for more.

I figured I was the only one who didn’t know what it was.

Took a minute of web search to solve that acronym.

Huh?