For python, check out pygame. It's outdated and only works with 2.7, but I think it can be installed with apt on Ubuntu and will teach the basics like rendering loops, frames, etc.
Technology always leads to new norms and standards of living. We have medicine that cures infections that would have absolutely killed us a hundred years ago. We have machines that can route blood around your heart while doctors replace it with another one. Here we have a technology that has the potential to reduce the occurrence of SIDS(sudden infant death syndrome) at a cheap cost once the tech is commoditized.
I understand your hesitance in promoting anything that can exacerbate the anxieties of people unnecessarily(our society is already bad enough at this), but as a parent, that anxiety was already there for me, and I think it's there for most other parents too. I used to wake up and check my daughter in the middle of the night because she hadn't cried in a while. This would have brought me peace of mind.
New parent here - there's a learning curve and once you are over it (ie have balanced your anxieties with the realities that your child is probably ok seeping at night) you will have traded off your privacy for a device that to your own language you wouldn't trust 100%. It feels like this is just a push for positive stories on privacy infringement to make it easier to buy the products. I.e. "We got these spy devices in our house, but for the first 3-6 months of our new child being in the house, it monitored them for breathing"
The 'trust' in the post wasn't about privacy but about the breathing monitoring I'm pretty sure. I.e. they would have still worried about their kid some even with the device.
"probably ok" is exactly the level of confidence that left me with anxiety around this issue. It's not exactly a convincing statement to make for people worried about whether their child is still breathing or not. Regardless of the rationality of the concern.
...as a parent, that anxiety was already there for me, and I think it's there for most other parents too. I used to wake up and check my daughter in the middle of the night because she hadn't cried in a while. This would have brought me peace of mind.
And what would you do should this device mislead you? Sue the company making the nonmedical device?
Might as well just attach a sensor directly to the kid instead. Something tiny, like wireless EMG electrode or MEMS accelerometer. Much less likely to get a false positive.
(The problem is batteries, as usual.)
Heck, a pulseoximeter.
This seems fun. Any advice on getting started? It's so tough to find new sites. I tried making a website before to find new interesting sites, but it never took off.
This is frightening. I use newpipe and depend on Google for work, email, and data storage. I use Google cloud to host my websites, and Google domains to control their domain names. What's next? Will they suspend an account for using an adblocker on their website while using a browser?
The fact that Google would suspend their account instead of just blocking their access to YouTube is an abuse of their near-monopoly. I'll be taking steps to migrate off the Google stack for this.
I was similarly dependent on Google but started diversifying for exactly those reasons. Domains are with a third party, Email is (Fastmail with own domain, GMail still forwards), hosting is also a separate provider. If any provider now blocked my account this would still be bad but I could easily restore services.
Especially if your work depends on it, I would encourage everyone to do the same. No other company (including your bank) should be able to shut down your business and/or ruin you financially because they close your account temporarily.
At the same time, this also means you're less affected by discontinued products or price hikes.
At the very least, I recommend sharding your accounts for work, email, and data storage if you're nervous about those failing simultaneously.
The attack surface is larger than a TOS violation (someone could spear-phish your login credentials, or a coordinated attack on your account could lead to denial-of-service if Google can't disambiguate your legitimate attempts to login from attackers' attempts).
Yes. Whatever the real specifics of this particular case, some number of users will inevitably lose access to their accounts in a way that they can't recover from. Arguably, with business services, there will always to some way to reliably establish identity with fallback systems. But, at some point with free/ad-supported/etc. consumer services a provider is sometimes, if hopefully rarely, just going to go "Nope. Can't establish your identity or overlook this ToS violation. No recourse." and showing up in Mountain View with physical documentation isn't going to be an option.
It's not an ideal state of affairs. But the alternative would probably need to be more rigorous identity verification and locking down of systems.
I'm afraid I can't find the source, so take this with a grain of salt. But I seem to remember reading a few years ago about a small company having all their employee's Google accounts suspended because one of them had previously been banned for something, and his banned account then "infected" any other accounts it came into contact with, like common projects.
I question whether separate accounts would help, Google's automated systems probably connect them and bans all of them anyway.
It's ironic in the "we'll sell you opioids and then help you treat the addiction" sense, not the "we know how to make oxycontin so we're experts in addiction treatment" sense.
WGU graduate here, I received my Bachelor of Science in Information Technology last year, averaging 24 credits per term. WGU has been good for the credential and for seriously strengthening my ability to self-learn, but it hasn't been terribly good for my career. Networking is seriously important and the industry, and it is nearly impossible to do within WGU.
This is Luke Hackworth, founder of this site. Years ago I manually portscanned random IP addresses to find interesting servers, and experienced a tremendous sense of exploration in doing so. Feldot is my attempt to bring that sense of exploration to the general public. The site has tools that make easier the discovery of interesting sites, and it has a front page that brings the most interesting and viral sites to the top.
This site is very much a work-in-progress. I created this in my spare time, making the minimum viable product as quickly as possible. In the future, I hope to add additional features like social feedback for good posts(like Reddit karma), categories, more page ranking options(like top posts per day, week, hour, etc), and other features. If you have any input on how it could be better, please let me know!
