Carl

EMTs are actually trained not to rush things. If you consciously slow your pace you can prevent an adrenaline dump in hectic scenarios.

Yeah, the saying is “slow is smooth; smooth is fast.” Basically, slow down and make sure you’re doing things intentionally. That will be faster in the long run than needing to redo things because you rushed, or doing things wrong and making the situation worse.

Yeah, this is impossible to answer until we know the cost of living in OP’s area. In my area, $65k would be decent for one person, (slightly above the average for a single individual, but only about half of the average household income) but would basically be hand-to-mouth regarding income and expenses. You wouldn’t be able to save anything with $65k, which means you’d have zero wiggle room for future planning or surprise expenses.

If I was able and willing to move to the middle of bumfuck nowhere, I could be really damned comfortable for $65k. But that would be entirely dependent on my job (ability to WFH, and thus able to pack up and move), availability of things like groceries/hospital/etc., and also my willingness to suddenly have an hour drive before I’m in town. If you hate rural living and are tied down by an in-person job, the “move where it’s cheap” idea doesn’t really have a lot of options.

The sad part is that republicans have simply decided to double-down on it. I have literally heard my father utter the words “well then I guess I support pedophiles, because I’m still voting red.” I hate that the current state of affairs has led to people losing family members due to something as black and white as “do pedophiles deserve to exist in polite society?”

Because the blockchain is a ledger that is available to anyone who wants to view it.

No, the cold wallets were using a predictable algorithm to generate key phrases. When you set up the wallet, you use the generated key phrase to pair it with your coins. So this wallet is supposed to live offline, keeping your coins safe because the key is kept offline. No way to hack it if it’s entirely offline. But a flaw caused the generated keys to be predictable, meaning hackers were able to brute force the keys and initiate coin transfers without even messing with the cold wallet.

Imagine you lock a million dollars behind a super secure vault door. This vault is impervious to all kinds of physical and digital attacks. The only way to open it is with the key. The vault is in a public area, but (again) there is no way to open it without the key. This vault only has one key, which you keep safely stored in a separate secure facility. Additionally, this key has like a thousand pins and tumblers, so it should be nearly impossible for a hacker to guess the correct key. The hackers essentially realized that due to a flaw in the lock’s design, there were only like three dozen potential key combinations. The thousand pins didn’t actually matter, because they were predictably arranged at the factory that built the lock. So the thieves just made like two dozen fake keys (until they got the correct one,) then took the money. All without touching (or even seeing) your key.

The real move would be to include polarized lenses or a holographic coating to block infrared facial ID cameras like Flock. Because most sunglasses don’t block the infrared spectrum, meaning something like a Flock camera can see right through them.

These are basically just a dad joke, based on the fact that meta has made every other pair of sunglasses “anti-pervert sunglasses” by default.

Tagging them as maga is an interesting choice, given their home instance and the fact that they were defending a trans person. But sure, pop off I guess.

Supposedly Graham was a bottom. At least, that’s what the ladybugs accusation seems to suggest.

The interesting part about this was that it would still allow the lawmakers to use the old (easier) method, while regular citizens would be forced to use the new (harder) method. So the lawmakers know this new system would be harder, and specifically created a carve-out for themselves.

But where are you going to see it that you’d count it?

At the ballot box. That’s really the only “survey” that matters. Everything else is just statisticians trying to justify their Masters degrees. I’m hopeful for midterms, but I’ve been so consistently disappointed by my peers that I’m refusing to get my hopes up until after the results are in.

The issue is doing one at scale, with proper access controls. Also, let’s not skip past the whole “network isn’t air gapped anymore” side of things. Now you’re having to maintain firewalls, patch firmwares, manage users, enforce good password hygiene, etc… All without any additional IT support or hardware, because management is doing this as a cost cutting measure.

I can pretty much guarantee that the systems that get hacked aren’t the ones that do everything right. They’re the ones who have a single shared VPN password, haven’t updated their firewall since it was installed 8 years ago, and they haven’t even changed the default passwords for their control systems. Because they got tired of answering phone calls about what the password was, so they just made every username and password something stupid like admin/admin.

Literally this. It starts with “everything needs to be on an air gapped LAN so we can control it.” And then suddenly that air gapped LAN isn’t air gapped, because someone got tired of paying the call-out fee every time the on-call person had to drive to the site to push a few buttons on a keyboard. But figuring out a proper VPN (or at least a reverse proxy with access control) was too difficult or expensive, (management thinks the point is to save money on call out fees, not spend money on proper hardware) so they just poked a bunch of port-forwarded holes in the firewall and called it a day.

Also worth noting that this was civil court, not criminal. In criminal court, pleading the fifth simply means you’re refusing to testify against yourself. In criminal cases, you still have the presumption of innocence, so pleading the fifth isn’t an admission of guilt.

But the reason the civil/criminal distinction is notable is because civil court uses the fifth amendment against you. If you plead the fifth in civil court, jurors are instructed to presume that the testimony would be damning. The presumption of innocence doesn’t exist in civil court, so pleading the fifth isn’t going to help your case.

The only reason you would plead the fifth in civil court is to avoid having your civil testimony used against you in criminal court. For instance, if you committed a rape and end up in civil court, pleading the fifth can be a way to avoid being criminally charged with rape. Because if you admit it under oath in civil court, the criminal court can use it against you. But it will almost certainly hurt your civil case, because pleading the fifth to avoid criminal charges will have the civil courts presuming guilt.

Basically, if he plead the fifth 80 times, that was 80 times that the civil courts told jurors “presume his testimony would implicate him in {whatever he is accused of}.”

And the genocide of the Native Americans. Hitler used that as the inspiration for the holocaust.

Also worth noting that if this is the case, your diet will also slightly factor into it. Insulin triggers your sebaceous glands to produce sebum (skin oil), and fungus tends to thrive in oily environments (like your scalp and face), because it needs the oil to help retain moisture.

So keeping your insulin levels low (avoiding sugar and carbs, high fiber and protein, etc) will help starve the fungus out. Basically, if you see improvement from the dandruff shampoo and that gets things under control, your diet may be the difference between “spot-treating” and “completely clear”.

This means you had fungal acne. Fungal infections can cause all kinds of things, ranging from acne, athletes foot, jock itch, yeast infections, and dandruff. In fact, one of the easiest sources of anti-fungal skin treatments is anti-dandruff shampoo that contains zinc pyrithione.

OP, if you’ve tried most of the big things (it sounds like you have) and haven’t had any relief, try using some anti-dandruff shampoo as a face wash. It sounds stupid, but I swear it’s the only thing that helped me when I was a teen. I first noticed it when I used the anti-dandruff shampoo for dandruff, but then I did the typical guy thing of “use it as shampoo, conditioner, body wash, face wash, motor oil, cutting fluid, BBQ sauce, boat resin, degreaser, greaser, and garage door lube” thing. Basically, my bar of soap ran low, so I used the shampoo I already had in the shower with me. And then I started noticing that my skin was clearer too. After some googling, I discovered that fungal acne is a thing, and it’ll basically be immune to any of the traditional treatments because none of those are targeted at fungus.

If your acne improves after a few days of washing with the shampoo, you know you have fungal acne and can simply start using anti-dandruff shampoo to wash your face regularly. Technically you can get special zinc pyrithione soap… But why bother with that, when you can get Head & Shoulders in a giant pump bottle?

Piefed is problematic in its own ways, just FYI. I don’t know what it is about fediverse devs and trying to insert themselves as supermods, but the two seem to be strongly correlated.

Yup, the tankie triad: Lemmy.ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad.ml

The three are pretty widely defederated. As a new user, they actually appear extremely calm and accepting. But it’s because all three are very heavily moderated, so anything outside of their extremely narrow overton window gets quashed very quickly.

Lemmy.ml is still federated by a lot of instances simply because the lead dev for Lemmy exclusively posts on .ml. So if an instance admin wants to stay on top of Lemmy development, they’re required to federate with .ml. But it’s also worth noting that any donations for lemmy’s development also go towards keeping .ml’s lights on. The dev has openly stated that he doesn’t do any kind of accounting to keep the two funding pools separated. So any donations that go towards lemmy’s development will also go towards one of the tankie instances.

Believe it or not? Little Poop, Little Fart, Little Terror, and Little Pug. ^{(I don’t speak Dutch)}

Bots use VPNs for all sorts of BS. This quickly gets the VPN servers added to bad-bot blocklists. These blocklists then get shared around by various security services.

Or they’ll see a ton of connections coming from a single IP, which obviously throws up a red flag as a potential bot farm. Even if it’s all legit users, the fact that the single server has hundreds of simultaneous attempted connections tends to throw up a red flag. It’s a pretty obvious “this isn’t just a single user trying to reach the site normally” red flag.

Third, it could simply be about data collection. Reddit is notorious for this. They want that sweet sweet telemetry data to sell to ad companies, and a VPN stymies their ability to find your real location or track your usage across devices.