Yes. As I learned as a young kid, you can pop off the individual cubes with a screwdriver and reassemble in a solved state. I consider this method “brute force”.
Readit NewsrabboRubble commented on Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced? stylewarning.com/posts/br... · Posted by u/reikonomusha
Related only tangentially. Doctor recommended a vitamin D supplement. Couple years later after terrible acid reflux, I eliminate prescribed medication X which solves 80% of reflux symptoms and pain. After self testing the remaining 20% of symptoms were caused by the vitamin D gummy supplement, tomatoes, and onions.
So yeah vitamin d might help on one hand, but cause it’s own issues in different areas.
No more vitamins for me. Better to eat well and get the occasional bit of Sun.
rabboRubble commented on I’m a public school teacher – the kids aren’t alright bariweiss.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/imgabe
You're creating a strawman. I only said that our government has demonized self applied therapeutics and pushed vaccines only. There is no scientific reason to demonize therapeutics the way the institutions in the US have done. And what about the censorship? How can open debate happen when qualified individuals are shut down? It's all very anti-science and anti-democratic.
What are the therapeutics to which you refer?
rabboRubble commented on I’m a public school teacher – the kids aren’t alright bariweiss.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/imgabe
How is the universal masking working out for Japan lately?
Not great. But apparently neither are their special unnamed therapeutics.
rabboRubble commented on I’m a public school teacher – the kids aren’t alright bariweiss.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/imgabe
Many countries (Japan, India) have used therapeutics prior to hospitalization. In the states therapeutics have been demonized as "horse medicine" and people have been told to say home and take NyQuil until their oxygen levels are so critically low they have to be admitted.
There has been a myopic focus on vaccines and they have performed by any estimation terribly. Any questioning this no matter how qualified are instantly demonized as anti-science. How many lives could have been saved if all options were on the table? Instead we see censorship on a level most of us never even thought possible.
Japan relied on near universal masking (voluntary too, no mandate) and high vaccine take up. Current approved pharmaceuticals are remdesivir etc. refer:
https://www.pmda.go.jp/english/about-pmda/0002.html
If you imply ivermectin has some part in japans strategy, I encourage you to read this:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/11/27/no-ivermect...
rabboRubble commented on How to help a friend who lost their home in a fire (2020) sonomamag.com/how-to-help... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
I can't find it at the moment, but there was a Reddit post from a claims adjuster that said when filing a claim, be as specific as possible. So don't just put down "55-inch flatscreen television", it's a "Samsung ABC-55-OLED with stand" (be honest! insurance fraud is a crime). This is because the policy you have with your carrier says they have to replace your stuff with as close to original as possible. If you aren't specific enough, you get reimbursed for the cheapest 55" TV they can find.
So go through your house and make an inventory, writing down the actual model numbers and when you bought the item. A video record where you verbally give that same information can help too. Don't forget small items like the pots & pans, knives & forks, bath towels & linens.
Pay close attention to your policy's exclusions. High value items like jewelry, tools, firearms, art, and computers often have fairly low limits on them. Or maybe your teen-aged daughter has a closet full of designer clothes. Get additional specialty insurance on these - it's cheaper than you might think.
So far as saving your data - if it's not offsite it's toast [0]. Copy it onto an encrypted external USB drive and leave it at the office or at a friend or relative's house.
Have a storage tote with all your important "must-save" papers and some cash, so you can just grab it and go in case you have to evacuate. Print out your insurance policy and important phone numbers so that you don't need electronics and power to view them.
[0] I don't know why insurance companies don't offer 10gb of storage with someone like Backblaze for their customers. Seems like a natural thing to want, now that everyone has electronic files for everyday life.
dammmmm thank you. your comment just triggered a reminder to me to update my personal articles policy for changed computer hardware.
Unless you truly want to uphold the property "the something I have is not the something that stores my passwords" (you likely don't), your two factor codes should be in your password manager. Period. A good password manager has a strong user/device PKI backed by an offline key and will only be accessible on devices you've bootstrapped, so it's isomorphic to "something I have" at least and usually exactly equal to "somethings I have". And if you are a security nut trying to uphold that property and telling people it's bad to put your TOTP urls in your password manager... you better not have an authenticator app installed on the same device as your password manager or you've thrown that property out the window. Not saying it's never appropriate to have a true second factor. Just that it's not appropriate for 99% of consumer use cases and the security setup and structure afforded by password managers is more than sufficient to have good account hygiene. It would be a better world if everyone used a password manager and stored their totp codes in it than everyone has a hodgepodge of authentication apps that aren't reliable and break and cause services to implement manual verification backdoor loopholes into their auth anyway etc. etc. TOTP 2FA defends against weak passwords. A password manager enables strong passwords largely making TOTP irrelevant. Unfortunately not everyone uses a password manager and thus services are compelled to add TOTP 2FA because what other choice do they have?
yeah, the only reason that i didn't get burned like the person above my original quote is that i got lucky. i had figured out that i could have two tokens running at the same time (one token for service A in Google Authenticator, second token for service A in 1Password). But I realized when I lost all Google Authenticator tokens one time, that I was this close || to a disaster. I had only recently also set up 1pw.
The most ideal set up would be to have a universally Yubikey or something equivalent. Preferrably with a backup pre-configured second Yukibey possible in a disaster recovery bugout kit. Then have all the initial QR codes, otp secret manual otp key strings like i demonstrated above your post, account recovery keys, backup break-in codes, or whatever other flavor of two-factor recovery a service uses, all this notated in a secured password manager. The real problem i see with two factor is that the offered recovery method is so variable from service to service. it makes knowing which information you need to have on hand when you've gotten locked out is problematic.
the other thing i do is that for core cloud service providers, i print out the password manager details for the accounts. this is apple, cloud backup service, google, microsoft and a couple of hardware device passwords. it's a risk to have this printed, but the print out is in a fireproof safe with a trusted party.
i basically assume my disaster recovery plan is that i have my wallet and the clothes on my back and nothing else. everything else gone including my computers and phones and i have to get back all services and data without having any devices.
the higher the level of security, the higher level of disaster preparedness the end user needs to practice.
I've emailed my elderly parents to make sure they understand that this mandatory 2fa roll out is happening, and I've explained how they could fuck up their accounts by not notating the recovery method. offered to review their details to make sure it passes a sniff test.
Recently my cell phone suffered a catastrophic failure and had to be replaced. "No problem", I thought "I'll just restore my data from Android's automatic backups onto my new device."
Google's Authenticator app's data is not restored. I have no way of logging into half a dozen apps that require 2FA now. Good going, Google. I'll never use your shitty 2FA again.
pro-tip for next, back up the otp set up keys or capture the qr code during initial sign up.
i've been able to do this because i replicated otp set up in a second source (1password).
in 1password, edit the record then inspect the otp field string. it will look like this:
otpauth://totp/Discord:you@email.com?secret=blahblahblah&issuer=Discord
save the "blahblahblah" and you can manually recreate a token at any time.
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rabboRubble commented on Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit (2011) gizmodo.com/generation-x-... · Posted by u/throw0101a
At first I was a little annoyed, but then I had to smile at just how emblematic of Generation X the article really is. Screwed over by their parents, depressed, substance-addicted, and hopeless, but not one single hint of any effort or plan to change things. Generation X is the generation of ennui at the ruination of the world. Millenials and Gen Z might just be pissed off enough to do something about it.
Gen X never had the numbers to do anything substantial. Millenial's population total crossed the Boomers in 2019. Gen X will not do the same until 2028. From 2019 forward, governmental power will be exercised by Millenials. Gen X will never have an era of ascendancy, our lot is to simply figure out how to be satisfied where ever we find ourselves.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/28/millennials...