Does this require a Meta / WhatsApp business account?

If not, is this a solution using WhatsApp Web in the backend (like Baileys does)? If this is the case, how does your solution avoid getting blocked or banned? I used Baileys once in an MVP with only 7 users, and my agent got blocked really quickly after just a few days of using it. So I guess the official path is the only way to go?

No it doesn’t.

If you use it for personal and not excessively you won’t get banned is my experience. You if you start messaging new contacts on a large scale you probably will.

That is normal when you lose your contacts and do an external backup. WhatsApp thinks I am texting large number of strangers whereas I already know those contacts. Happened to me. Lost access to WhatsApp.

I realize posting this here is most likely posting it to the wrong crowd, but I'm sharing it anyway in case someone here shares my niche combination of interests:

I'm playing with various "technoetic" projects, meaning applying technology to explore the nature of consciousness and the mind (noetics) in the very broad sense, in a creative & wannabe artsy & half-serious manner that tries to be open-minded to any explanation of the hard problem, so from both materialist & idealist perspectives, which includes happily treading into full-on woo territory.

You can follow along @ https://technoetica.com or follow me on X @LenceKerr

I am particularly interested in testing claims of ESP, psi, claims of magical powers through the practice of samadhi, ... This spawned for example this project: an exploration of "psi" particularly through associative remote viewing, by humans and/or AI: https://psi.wtf

Doesn't seem like the best of weather now in Iceland, hopefully it clears up. Otherwise it would suck for the people who have planned the trip months if not years in advance only to get a clouded sky, but that's always the risk with astrotravel.

Currently in Keflavík, it is very wet, but I can see a pocket of blue sky in the clouds.

My trip coincides, I’ve been camping across the country and the rain has followed me across the whole island

It has been an incredible trip

Edit: it was rainy and cloudy but still so cool!

Yes, we travelled to Cornwall in 1999 but it was cloudy. Got a marvellous view in Oregon in 2017 though. A friend of mine travels to all the solar eclipses he can wherever they are in the world. That's a bit too obsessive for me though. I'm in Devon this time but only 95% cover.

Surely the smart money is to go to Spain

We do get cloudy days too sometimes :) Although today it is looking fairly sunny all over the place: https://i.imgur.com/4LK7xo8.png

One of the best places would be Asturias, which has also incredibly scenery worth the travel, but it was too cloudy in many places. Not all of Spain is sun and beaches!

The best spot (imo) was Leon, just in the south of Asturias where the sky was clear.

I live near Lisbon. Checked windy yesterday for cloud forecast, topography, within the center of the totality area, and night sky quality (for the perseids after), and quickly decided on that area. Rented a small commercial van, drove around 6h30 and ended up in a tiny village named Abia de Las Torres, in the top of a small hill surrounded by sunflower fields with a whole bunch of people, with perfect weather (other than some smoky haze from forest fires)

I live in Osorno la Mayor and had to travel to Abia to see the eclipse because of the huge crowd around the town. I watched the eclipse from the hill with the geodesic point. In the total dark phase I heard the crowd in Abia cheering and also in the villages around. Did you looked north to the suddenly towering mountains of the Sierra Palentina. What a sight!

there is another total solar eclipse next year in 2027 in south of spain if the first time not lucky

I'm watching that one in Egypt.

Yes, it's a bit of an odd h1, website also looks very Claude-generated, but regardless, probably most people understand the intent.

Many such open source projects already (which is fantastic). I lose track of them.

Today it happened I needed a simple way to embed & query 1TB+ of documents, and I was looking at open source options. Can anyone tell me what their go-to solution is now? Could this be the one?

And what are the key differences vs. other open source RAG tools like kotaemon?

It's incredible when it finally clicks.

Arguably the best thing you can do is simply keep a dream journal (aside from deliberately waking up in the middle of the night and falling asleep with a clear intention - but that is more invasive in one's schedule and can also trigger nightmares).

You're right, I forgot to mention this. The dream journal was also a big part.

Is lobbying the same as corruption?

Would you say the same thing about the covid vaccination campaigns during the Biden administration? Because billions of dollars were poured into those as well, with record profits for big pharma.

“What do you mean you haven’t modified your chromosome 7 CFTR gene? And you’re planning to have children???”

I don't know anything about gene editing, but my grandmother was a carrier of the BRCA mutation. It would have saved a lot of heartbreak in my family if that could have been detected and repaired. My aunt, mom, and brother (age 4) all died of cancer. I'm just glad that my mom didn't know she had the mutation and passed it on to her child.

It wouldn’t be crazy if I teleported 50 years in the future and heard someone tell me that not doing this is akin to child abuse. Obviously all suffering is relative, etc. etc., but it’s just interesting to imagine a world where the societal pressure to make a perfect child is high.

Those astronauts maintain normal CO2 levels, and divers can experience increased CO2 buildup if they don't exhale properly, which is the opposite.

It's not made up. Plenty of people here who tried breathwork can attest to its power to bring you in strong trance-like states.

Try it yourself. Ideally in group setting, because doing this on your own (with a YouTube video or whatever) won't give you the same experience at all, and could be dangerous if you take it too far.

Surveying people is pretty important in a study like this, and valid science.

Regardless, if you read the paper, you'd learn that they did do objective measurements, namely etCO2 levels and bio-markers from saliva.

Of note: "when etCO2 fell below approx. 20 mmHg, it was virtually guaranteed to trigger at least some (and often a strong) departure from ordinary waking consciousness. This effect is particularly intriguing because in non-breathwork-related circumstances, an etCO2 of 20 mmHg or less would be considered a sign of severe physiological malfunctions, e.g. of the heart or lungs"

But anyone who tried breathwork, especially in group settings with accompanying music, knows such practices can lead to intense trance-like states.