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edrxty commented on Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media – study   theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/thm
johndhi · 2 years ago
any tips on how to identify what you're coping for?
edrxty · 2 years ago
No shit, go see a decent therapist. This is literally the core of what they do as a profession. If they aren't helpful, just want to babble about the weather for 45 minutes, whatever, find a different one. PhD > Masters but I've met bad PhDs and good masters clinicians.

Also, if you're struggling with getting things done because you're always dopamine seeking, get checked for ADHD. There are some extremely effective treatments that can make your life way easier if that turns out to be the problem.

edrxty commented on Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords   blog.redteam-pentesting.d... · Posted by u/RedTeamPT
WalterBright · 2 years ago
With a keylogger, you lose passwords you typed in since the keylogger was installed, but that is rarely all of your passwords.
edrxty · 2 years ago
Most of these managers support some form of 2fa. I use a yubikey with mine such that if my master password is compromised someone would still need to obtain my security key. You can enroll multiple and keep one in a safe and one or more on your person. It's not perfect, but it prevents the vast majority of huge dragnet style malware attacks and a lot of the targeted ones until you get to the point where someone is trying to hunt you down on the street.

This still leaves a case where someone manages to get the final key out of memory but you're pretty hosed at that point anyway. I'd prefer a system where the yubikey itself is doing the final credential decryption instead of the CPU, unfortunately most people aren't that paranoid though.

edrxty commented on Man Thrown Off Delta Flight for Offering to Fix Broken Inflight Entertainment   paddleyourownkanoo.com/20... · Posted by u/CPLX
Muromec · 2 years ago
After some number of paranoia pills one can imagine it from a perspective of a pilot as an early stage of attempt to hijack the plane.
edrxty · 2 years ago
The pilot likely heard "I think 24E is acting suspiciously, he tried to mess with the entertainment system, can we boot him?" and responded by saying "yeah go for it" before resuming checklists.
edrxty commented on Man Thrown Off Delta Flight for Offering to Fix Broken Inflight Entertainment   paddleyourownkanoo.com/20... · Posted by u/CPLX
edrxty · 2 years ago
The way it works is if a flight attendant feels a passenger is somehow a risk they will notify the captain who has the authority to boot them. The captain has a locked door to hide behind and doesn't want to deal with whatever's going on so will almost always just tell the flight attendant they can boot the passenger without any further investigation. The problem is the captain is the one with the regulatory training and the flight attendants are generally fairly poorly trained on anything beyond the emergency landing and evacuation procedures on the card. As such they tend to not really be very well versed in FAA regulations, airline procedures/policy, or security/evaluating threats, hence why weird shit like this happens with some regularity.

I've had them lose their absolute shit for putting tape over a broken strobing seat light on a night flight and got to watch them attempt to improperly deplane a flight without a tail stand risking a tip over. On the continum of aerospace professional to barista the training they get is much closer to the latter unfortunately. This follows the general trend of airlines doing everything in their power to avoid investing in their employees.

edrxty commented on Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access   techdirt.com/2023/12/28/e... · Posted by u/rntn
logicchains · 2 years ago
>we'd need to convince the likes of China and the Saudis (both major stakeholders) that they can come out from the rock they live under and accept modern psychological science.

Giving how overwhelmingly worse the mental health is of people, especially young people, in America, I can see why the Chinese and Saudis are so reluctant to accept western psychological "science".

edrxty · 2 years ago
We're talking about two different things: the cause of mental health issues and the treatment of mental health issues. The US is pretty modern at treating them and pretty outstanding at causing them.
edrxty commented on Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access   techdirt.com/2023/12/28/e... · Posted by u/rntn
hollerith · 2 years ago
Does anyone know of an actual case of a person who was impacted by this? The OP does not describe such a one. Is the only impact on people suspected of using prescription drugs to kill, rape or otherwise harm? I am having trouble imagining other kinds of impacts.
edrxty · 2 years ago
Oh boy...

Here's a good one: the FAA categorically prevents any pilots from taking any psychiatric medication (minor caveats but the point holds in practice), in particular for depression, anxiety, and ADHD, all of which are extremely common in the airlines. As such, everyone just hides their diagnosis and waits until they snap because the alternative is permanently losing a job they took out hundreds of thousands in loans to get. Others pay out of pocket for treatment under false names so the FAA is currently trying to hunt them down.

Before anyone says the usual stuff about not wanting their pilots on meds, the medications are safe to fly on and much safer than the alternative, the FAA just hasn't updated their psych guidelines since Freud was the standard because any change would open whichever bureaucrat up to being hauled in front of Congress for the next accident regardless of culpability. Additionally the medication standards are also inherited from ICAO so even if we wanted to change, we'd need to convince the likes of China and the Saudis (both major stakeholders) that they can come out from the rock they live under and accept modern psychological science.

edrxty commented on Generation Junk   walterkirn.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/blueridge
jonahss · 2 years ago
one thing about some of the shitty products out there today is we got MUCH better at making things out of less material. So they break easier and wear out faster, but we've been able to reduce material usage along with price.

If you're a person who loses pens or holds onto them so long the ink dries up, it'd be better to waste an object made as cheaply as possible than one made to last.

This is a balance to play as well.

edrxty · 2 years ago
Absolutely, it's a complex game.

The easiest way to clean it up significantly is to better tax industry such that energy, resource usage, and transportation are all represented in the price such that the economy actually reflects the environmental impact of production rather than just the business costs of the moment.

edrxty commented on Generation Junk   walterkirn.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/blueridge
jonahss · 2 years ago
Ok no.

First of all: survivorship bias. All of the old appliances that still work are only the ones which still work. This goes for the author's juicer.

Second: things which have investment attention now are excellent quality and things which are waning towards the end of their lifecycle are having the last few corners cut before the Private Equity firm that now owns them throws in the towel, throughly wrung dry. Author's examples: staples - the age of paper documents is over. matches - the Bic lighter is a modern marvel. plastic grocery bags - banned in more places every year. pens - same as staples.

But now, turn your eye to products being actively invested in now? Some may be at their peak this very moment.

And if you want something quality, go spend for it. I've got an industrial stapler like you wouldn't believe, 50 sheets of paper easy.

edrxty · 2 years ago
Seconded, though I'd add that with the current concerns about climate change and resource utilization, we need to think a bit more about product lifecycle and this is a reasonable way of illustrating that.

If the embodied environmental impact of a product increases 10% to make it last 100% longer then we need to think about making that change rather than producing twice as many to replace the broken ones.

edrxty commented on Generation Junk   walterkirn.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/blueridge
woopwoop · 2 years ago
They were simpler and easier to repair, but they absolutely did not last longer.
edrxty · 2 years ago
On average they didn't (oh no, that repair costs more than the "car is worth" as if that's a metric that actually means anything) but it was far easier to keep one running indefinitely. You could take an engine to a small machine shop and get the head and block resurfaced, valves reamed and cylinders lapped. Without any electronics to fail it was just a block of metal that was slowly losing material and a quick hit with a file could even out any imperfections leaving it like new, just with very slightly more displacement.

Modern engines are way more reliable because they have coatings and materials that will last nearly indefinitely in most parts of the engine but they're built on proprietary sensors and electronics that need a steady stream of replacements and secret software to debug.

We could make cars last indefinitely from a supply chain perspective, but commoditizing software and electronics would make them very marginally more expensive. We absolutely can't have that because, drum roll for the 1000th time, 99% of the population doesn't give a flying fuck and wants cheap shit at all costs.

edrxty commented on The life and death of open source companies   lucumr.pocoo.org/2023/12/... · Posted by u/zmk5
edrxty · 2 years ago
Why is everyone worked up about the software? The hardware is where all the time and effort is and Prusa just hasn't been doing much there. They could be using ball bearing rails or more rigid structure but instead they're just lightly iterating on their existing system of low precision plastic parts.

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KarmaCake day2583January 30, 2021View Original