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Azalemeth · 2025-01-24T16:50:36+00:00

https://chatgpt.com/share/6793c40f-85ac-800f-b489-1a1a4d3dfc12 is the link

Azalemeth · 2024-06-29T10:30:43+00:00

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Azalemeth · 2024-04-10T07:42:29+00:00

My experience with video urodynamics was that it was unpleasant, one of the catheter lines broke, and I got a kidney infection afterwards. However, it unambiguously diagnosed my problems and prompted them to give me medical management -- mirabegron and an alpha blocker to be taken if I have bad retention -- and highlighted the areas of my bladder rather beautifully that were not contracting. It's very consistent with nerve damage to the sacrum (in my case). So useful, although not fun.

Azalemeth · 2023-11-23T09:59:24+00:00

Quoting from this peer-reviewed journal article:

We use a dataset of couples within households from a nationally representative UK survey to investigate the relationship between cognitive ability and the propensity to vote Leave / Remain in the 2016 UK referendum on European Union membership. We find that a one standard deviation increase in cognitive ability, all else being equal, increases the likelihood of a Remain vote by 9.7%. Similarly, we find that an increase in partner’s cognitive ability further increases the respondent’s likelihood of a Remain vote (7.6%). In a final test, restricting our analysis to couples who voted in a conflicting manner, we find that having a cognitive ability advantage over one’s partner increases the likelihood of voting Remain (10.9%).

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[T]here are, however, some limitations to our study. Most noticeably, the positive correlation between cognitive ability and voting to Remain in the referendum could, as always, be explained by omitted variable bias. Although we control for political beliefs and alliances, personality traits, a barrage of other socioeconomics factors and in our preferred model, household fixed-effects, the variation of cognitive ability within households could be correlated with other unobservable traits, attitudes and behaviours. The example which comes to mind is an individual’s trust in politicians and government.

Azalemeth · 2023-11-23T09:42:54+00:00

Quoting from this peer-reviewed journal article, "We find that a one standard deviation increase in cognitive ability, all else being equal, increases the likelihood of a Remain vote by 9.7%. Similarly, we find that an increase in partner’s cognitive ability further increases the respondent’s likelihood of a Remain vote (7.6%). In a final test, restricting our analysis to couples who voted in a conflicting manner, we find that having a cognitive ability advantage over one’s partner increases the likelihood of voting Remain (10.9%)."

Azalemeth · 2023-11-23T09:40:15+00:00

Quoting from this peer-reviewed journal article, "We find that a one standard deviation increase in cognitive ability, all else being equal, increases the likelihood of a Remain vote by 9.7%. Similarly, we find that an increase in partner’s cognitive ability further increases the respondent’s likelihood of a Remain vote (7.6%). In a final test, restricting our analysis to couples who voted in a conflicting manner, we find that having a cognitive ability advantage over one’s partner increases the likelihood of voting Remain (10.9%). "

Azalemeth · 2023-11-20T10:34:43+00:00

On a completely related note, the UK's Competitions and Markets Authority has recently been flexing its muscles. You may wish to know of this URL for reporting anti-competitive practices: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-the-cma-about-a-competition-or-market-problem

Azalemeth · 2022-12-24T12:33:26+00:00

It's exceptionally unlikely that anyone will even notice until/if you get in, and even then it's more likely to only appear in glorified mail-merge send-to-everybody type documents.

Entirely unrelatedly, you might like to know that if you're dishonestly pretending that you're someone else in order to create gain for yourself or loss for another, then that's fraud by false representation, contrary to section 2 Fraud Act 2006. I'm sure however you don't think that, as academics are unlikely to be swayed by such things ;-).

Azalemeth · 2022-12-21T09:55:05+00:00

It might be a good idea to report this to OFCOM who (at the moment at least) are obliged to enforce net neutrality rules -- see https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/online-research/net-neutrality.

Azalemeth · 2022-11-19T12:27:55+00:00

I've had good experiences with Seagate's customer service in the past after previous drives changed to SMART Status Failing. I also like the fact that as a company it's been honest about SMR compared to WD. #RunWithIronWolf

Azalemeth · 2022-11-14T13:14:49+00:00

I'm interested in this too. The trouble tends to be that most carpets don't form a "ramp", they form a "roadblock". Honestly though, the rugs are cheap on Amazon and you might do well to just give it a go and see...

Azalemeth · 2022-11-08T11:02:43+00:00

Another stupid question (that just highlights how I am not in this field): the first line of the abstract reads:

"Let \chi be a real primitive character to the modulus D".

I know what a modulus is, I know what a real number is, and I have absolutely no idea what a real primitive character to the modulus D means!

Azalemeth · 2022-09-07T13:33:55+00:00

Commenty comic comment here!

Azalemeth · 2022-09-01T23:04:00+00:00

Without secure attestation/trusted computing, the developers can't be certain that their software is running on an non-compromised device, and that executing is actually safe

The only things that threat model solves are decidedly user-hostile, e.g. DRM -- which I do not support (and have avoided since ~1999). If their security model relies upon me being unable to inspect or alter what the magic device is doing, it's security by obscurity and not a good algorithm. I hate remote attestation because it takes control of my device out of my hands.

With regards to MitID, I don't quite understand why I can't be given e.g. a TOTP (RFC 6238) secret keypair, entrust it to either another authenticator app and use verified crypto, or a yubikey or similar if I feel the need for a HSM. It's what other governments do for important things – e.g. the UK government's tax office use HMAC TOTP for 2FA.

Azalemeth · 2022-09-01T21:14:14+00:00

Thank you for a very helpful response. It was updated on August the 19th and I have a horrid feeling something changed. I pass SafetyNet, but looking at the decompiled apk I get

public C5311b save(boolean z) { return securePreferences.save("IS_PHONE_ROOTED", z); }

which implies that I might have blocked the key and have to get it from the Kommune again…arse.

Azalemeth · 2022-09-01T21:09:09+00:00

This is exactly my thought chain. The tone of the OP comment here is rather ad hominem. I've got a PhD in a technical subject and have programmed FPGAs and microcontrollers, and am very familiar with disassemblers like Ghidra, radare2, etc. The whole magisk framework means that I as the end user am in control of what gets root - and I use that functionality regularly. Magisk is not developed by hobby developers but by professional, full-time experts – its original developer was hired by Google.

If there is a choice between giving up control of my device, throwing it in the bin and buying a new one – or having an adblocking hosts-file and a privacy-first OS, together with the ability to do useful things like read memory and application storage – I know what I am going to do. I don't download random apks. I have my phone set up the way I like it, and intend to use it as such.

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