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.
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/libertarian ethos and the excellent support provided by Jeff the few times I've needed it. Though unconventional in a world full of cheap "unlimited" hosting, I trust that NFSN will conduct themselves with integrity if I have any issues with my site or domains, and that's a lot more important than saving a few dollars a month.
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 partly for compatibility, since it works in most web browsers. It works well even internationally (over a broadband connection), to the point where I won't even consider commercial software for this use case.
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 hypnotist is intentionally making an effort to influence the client.
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 struck me as trying to shove a square peg into a round hole, but I'm glad to see scientific validation for knowledge that hypnotists have had for a long time. For example, my practice also assesses 10-15% of our clients as very low or very high in suggestibility (although I've never heard the term 'lows' or 'highs' before). In this situation, science is studying what practitioners are already doing or already know.
Most of the public discourse around hypnosis has to do with whether it's a distinct state of mind and whether it has any real effect. In my opinion, this is already settled (yes and yes). The unanswered questions, and problems to solve, have to do with what you communicate to somebody who is hypnotized so that you are giving them helpful thinking that will improve their quality of life, rather than fantasies that vanish once they open their eyes. This is the work of philosophy, and it's where the most interesting work lies ahead, even if many people (even practitioners) are not recognizing it yet.
If people stop smoking once they adopt the worldview of a nonsmoker, feel socially comfortable once they believe they're fundamentally an equal to the other people in the room or sleep better once they're satisfied that they're perfectly safe and secure, perhaps these problems are not as medical as we frame them.
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 the bilateral stimulation that's central to the theory behind EMDR, despite the stereotypical image of a swinging pocketwatch, and is performed almost entirely through verbal suggestion these days.
If we recognize hypnosis as a highly suggestible state, it follows that hypnosis is not very good for recalling memories, and better for adopting new perspectives. This is supported both by research and my own professional experience.
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 the patent sale won't affect their existing customers (such as QNX licensees).
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 when I read them early in life.
