I need to know the name of the beatles in Riven for my homework (dumb story) and the internet being _completely_ useless only gave results for "The Beatles" (band) and "Riven" (League of Legends character)
So I figured "oh what the hell" and tried asking Ai. I asked a few times with different wording, and to it's credit, it _did_ always return names of creatures from the Myst series. _But_ none of them were even resembling bugs, despite it's claims.
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@blaue_Fledermaus damn, you're way better at the internet than me
It's spelled "beetles"
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@cy I never was any good at spelling. But there used to be a time when everything would offer corrections :P
@OpenComputeDesign Did you try setting beetles in quotes when searching? That should rule out beatles.
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@admitsWrongIfProven some other people found it for me.
...And also corrected my dyslexic ass spelling :P
A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content
A moderator says content mentioning “Luigi,” even in a Nintendo context, is being flagged as potential “violence.”
https://www.theverge.com/news/626139/reddit-luigi-mangione-automod-tool
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@ai6yr @Viss Apropos of nothing:
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2016-ish 'Safely Endangered' comic by Chris McCoy Frame 1: A woman with grey hair smilingly greets Mario and Luigi: "Hey it's-a the Mario Bros!" Frame 2: Luigi looks sad, raises his hands in exasperation or frustration and asks "Mama, why-a you never remember my name?" Frame 3: Mama Mario puts her hand on Luigi's shoulder to comfort him, saying "I'm-a sorry, Green Mario." https://m.webtoons.com/en/comedy/safely-endangered/ep-55-mario-bros/viewer?title_no=352&episode_no=55
#monopoly #ludophile #boardgames #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #GuillotinesWork
Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
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Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from. One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good. The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else. Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies. When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased Magie, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly". This is why very few games of Monopoly end in better friendships! Some even end friendships! What they couldn't erase was Magie's lesson....
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@cy --
There are lots of really bad board games historically in the United States.
I'm a board game fanatic and could name lots of different games depending on what you actually enjoy. The "European Renaissance" in the middle 90's revolutionized things (a la Settlers of Catan).
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Putting together a travel kit and was just reminded of how many people that think Si vis pacem, para bellum only applies to weapons and not every other aspect of surviving and making life worth living.
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@cR0w the embarrasing number of edc pocket knives i have lost at TSA check because every pocket requires a knife
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@h2onolan I don't travel enough to deal with much that but someone I know may have bypassed TSA once because they had something in their backpack and didn't want to go back to the truck. 😉
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@cR0w back in the good old days before that event in new york, PA, and DC i went through with a knife roll full of chef tools. i didnt really consider their potential as deadly weapons until the security person (was there TSA then?) opened the roll and they clattered, glittering, all over the counter and floor.
she asked me to check them.
edit: 9/11 wasnt just nyc. remember.
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@h2onolan TSA was post NYC / DC / PA. But yeah, talking to youngsters about those times like they weren't that long ago is brutal. "Knives? Smoking? On a plane? Okay, let's get you to bed, Grandma."
@cR0w Don't forget those 5 C's!
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@wolfinpdx ... I don't know the 5 C's... 😬
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Depending on if you're flying or not, you may have to pick stuff up on the cheap after you land.
Candling (flashlight)
Container (water bottle or canteen)
Cordage (Paracord bracelet)
Cover (I like layers; one waterproof with a hood)
Compass (keychain or button compass)
In addition, I usually carry a snack, a multitool and a pen in my pockets.
There are other C's.
Combustion (Bic lighter)
Cutting (cheap pocket knife)
Dave Canterbury and Ranger Survival on YouTube for more.
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@wolfinpdx That sounds like it would suck for air travel. Good thing I drive most places these days.
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@cR0w I haven't flown since 2019. I don't enjoy it anymore.
I rely on public transit, so I typically have a messenger bag packed to get home with. Worst case, I can use some cash (another good thing to add to the list) and call a cab.
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@wolfinpdx Always have some cash. Definitely a life saver. Public transit is nice if you have it. Based on your handle, yours is much better than mine. PDX is great as far as NW US is concerned.
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@cR0w Yeah, we're very fortunate.
I'm moving soon, and will need to close the distance with a bus line on a major street, so bikes are my newest interest. Got lucky and salvaged a hybrid a couple weeks ago. Been working on it, and a folding bike that I can put in my partner's car if we need to bail out due to wildfire or flood.
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@wolfinpdx Nice. Good luck.
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@cR0w Thank you. Enjoy your trip!
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@wolfinpdx Thanks but it's not me. I'm prepping kit for someone else.
@cR0w As far as flying goes, I used to get good deals at dollar stores or thrift stores, depending on how long I was going to be somewhere. If something was lost, or had to be left behind, it wasn't too bad. I don't have "disposable" income anymore, so I tend to leave things at home if I have to (doctor's appointments and the like). But if needs be, I feel like I could adapt and improvise.
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@wolfinpdx For travel, thrift stores near the destination are fantastic.
In other news, Teardown is _awesome_ and puts the AAA gaming industry to _shame_
It's fully pathtraced and fully simulated, and still runs fantastic on an old Dell Precision.
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@OpenComputeDesign It really is awesome, and a bit underrated. Built in mod support too!
MUTTERING "EVERYTHING IS COMPUTER" TO MY THERAPIST UNTIL HE STARTS WRITING THE GOOD PRESCRIPTIONS.
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@LRRRonEarth @actuallyautistic Autism + ADHD? I know this one well. #ActuallyAutistc #actuallyaudhd
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OOC: thinking maybe high-functioning BPD, which is scaring the shit out of me.
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Also BPD is one of the diagnoses that have been defined by outside people looking at someone who is struggling and interpreting them in the least welcoming terms possible. If you get that diagnosis, maybe look for a definition by ppl who are directly affected by BPD.
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@melanie @LRRRonEarth @elight @actuallyautistic
PTSD with heavy anxiety and fear of abandonment sure shouldn't be a Cluster B personality disorder yannow?
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@violetmadder @melanie @elight @actuallyautistic
OOC: I really think I need to step back and talk with my therapist before I reach any conclusions. I have the mood swings and the fear of abandonment, the shifting sense of self, but not the anger or dissociation or feelings of emptiness, and I don't do impulsive or risky behaviors (at least, not as far as I can tell). I have many longstanding friendships that have been stable for decades. It seems like I am probably some different thing.
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@LRRRonEarth @violetmadder @melanie @elight @actuallyautistic
It's possible that you are both autistic and adhd. Being both affects the presentation of them from the classic.
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@pathfinder @violetmadder @melanie @elight @actuallyautistic
Ooc: I am open to anything. For me, the diagnosis is less important than symptom mitigation. I suffer regularly.
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@LRRRonEarth @pathfinder @melanie @elight @actuallyautistic
For the DSM, billing codes are more important than the nuances of our needs as individuals.
Hang in there, getting diagnosed can be uncool and unpleasant.
@LRRRonEarth @violetmadder @melanie @elight @actuallyautistic
I would suggest you follow the actuallyautistic and actuallyadhd hashtags, if you aren't already. The best way of seeing yourself, is in others like you and I generally find that we can learn more about being able to make our lives better from each other, than from any so-called medical expert.
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@pathfinder @LRRRonEarth @violetmadder @melanie @elight @actuallyautistic
What Kevin said. Diagnosed ADHD at 63 & self realised autistic soon afterwards. Decades of anxiety & depression before.
@pathfinder @LRRRonEarth @violetmadder @melanie @actuallyautistic Also the #actuallyaudhd hashtag: combined ADHD and autism. About half of autistics have ADHD...
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@elight
I thought it was even higher than that.
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@melanie @elight @pathfinder @LRRRonEarth @actuallyautistic
Wow!
I really hope I can get assessed soon.
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@violetmadder @melanie @pathfinder @LRRRonEarth @actuallyautistic My research showed 45% autism -> ADHD. Oddly, there has been far less research of commodity in the other direction.
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@elight @melanie @pathfinder @LRRRonEarth @actuallyautistic
I got my ADHD diagnosis in 3rd grade, and back then they were considered mutually exclusive so the possibility of autism was NEVER mentioned. Only just now in my 40s hearing it's possible.
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@violetmadder @elight @melanie @pathfinder @LRRRonEarth @actuallyautistic if only I got the one that comes with access to drugs
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@fluffykittycat @elight @melanie @pathfinder @LRRRonEarth @actuallyautistic
Hah despite my early diagnosis I still haven't gotten to try them. My current clinic will not prescribe stimulants, they only seem to want to give me SSNRIs.
@LRRRonEarth @violetmadder @melanie @actuallyautistic Ang significantly strong PTSD is indistinguishable from a lot of things, including BPD.
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@elight @LRRRonEarth @melanie @actuallyautistic
One of my first therapists showed me the page for PTSD. I got halfway down the page of symptoms and gasped, "OMG how does anyone tell the difference between this and ADHD??" and he was like 🤔
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@violetmadder @LRRRonEarth @melanie @actuallyautistic Seriously, ADHD/autism can lead to trauma. Just try fitting into an NT world as ND. It's not a good time.
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@elight @LRRRonEarth @melanie @actuallyautistic
Yup!
I started off with just the ADHD and then the trauma started stacking up the other diagnoses over the years.
Comorbidities!
More plausible than it being in a simulation. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/james-webb-space-telescope/is-our-universe-trapped-inside-a-black-hole-this-james-webb-space-telescope-discovery-might-blow-your-mind
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@maxleibman sort of an inception universe theory either way. 🤔
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@dabertime “Inception” is actually a great point of reference for one of several reasons I don’t take seriously the idea that we’re in a simulation.
The reasons why it’s supposedly overwhelmingly likely that we’re living in a simulation would all naturally have to apply to the universe that’s simulating us.
And to the universe simulating them.
And to the universe simulating them.
And to the universe simulating them.
And to the universe simulating them…
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@maxleibman @dabertime Just turtles, all the way down.
What was the first Linux distro you used?
Mine was Slackware. I remember migrating from the 2.4 kernel to 2.6.
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@philpem Debian, iirc, back between 2.0 and 2.2
With a custom kernel and a bunch of ipchains to run on a 486 box with 2 ethernet cards and a modem to separate the networks for work (dial up), internet (cable modem) and wifi.
I wouldn't have the patience today.
@philpem I gave Slackware a VERY brief try around 2001-2002-ish but that only lasted a day or maybe two before I gave up. It wasn't until a decade later when I became actually comfortable using Linux, and ran Ubuntu 12.04 (and then 14.04) for a few years, before eventually returning to Windows again. Now I've returned to Linux on almost all of my devices, with the sole exception being my DJ laptop.
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I see people on the way to jail, leaving jail, and in jail all the time. When I’m treating them folks in the ER, they are usually just people. Take them out of stripes and you’d have no idea they were entangled in the legal system.
This is a “no shit” statement for a few of y’all, but I need to say it. Here’s why: right now a whole lot of Americans are saying “yeah, but those rows of shirtless, bent over, shaven-headed guys in El Salvador were bad guys”.
Maybe. Maybe not. You could be next.
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@mcnado
I don't believe it for a second. They already tried yelling "Tren de Aragua!" and only rounded up random Venezuelans. They appear to be too incompetent to catch actual criminals, and to make up for it they lie and violate random innocent people's rights. The Tren de Aragua gang exists and it's bad, Biden's administration acknowledged that, but they don't scare me half as much as this lawless administration.
It can and will be any of us next.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/denver-ice-raids-targeting-100-gang-members-yielded/story?id=118574573
Not otherkin as in soft, but monster as in fuck you.
I really like Adam Ruins Everything. I think this would be a good video to share with your nonpolitical friends who are scared.
https://youtu.be/By1Z1nk31iE
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The people who make a difference now are going to be quiet. The loud ones will be made an example of, and used as justification for making things worse. He only sees the end result, the explosive loudness, the magnificent coordinated campaigns that refuse to take any bullshit, but there's so much planning and preparation that went into that. What we need now are not people chaining themselves to trees, but people meeting quietly, in private, forming communities, and just working on how to weather this storm, how to "turtle up" and slip under the radar, so the powers that be won't see what's coming.
The revolution must not be televised.
Can someone Photoshop my husband out of this photo? We’re not in a fight or anything, but I think it would be more professional if it were just me in my LinkedIn profile pic.
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Awkward adults wearing neon yellow and neon pink, feat. running shorts and tube socks, standing on some steps in a back yard, looking nerdy AF....
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I finally downloaded the new Photoshop beta with Generative Fill/AI, so apologies in advance for the nightmare that stemmed from my request for “corporate office in the 1980s”
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Awkward woman in hot pink shorts and a black t-shirt in a backyard with a terrifying AI fill of some absolute corporate goblins....
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This is just a friendly reminder that you don’t have to be afraid of AI because this is the garbage it's pumping out.
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@Alice sweet fancy fuck what the hell
@Alice No, no, Alice! See, if you’d just
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@Alice I am afraid. I noticed in January that an AI LLM pulled some errant information from a misinformed book review writer into a biographical profile presented as fact that could be damaging to my career and possibly even put me in danger with a the wrong crowd. Since then, the misinformation was picked up in other AI generated news articles.
Me at night, reassured:
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Comic frame of a man in bed, having trouble sleeping. His thought bubble reads “It would take a pretty stupid robot to replace me…”
@Alice horror beyond human imagination
@Alice Gaaah! Wtf is that? 😂😂😂
Not how I remember the 80s.
@Alice Pink hair girl looks a little like Mr Bill.
For the record, I’m still very against AI-generated stuff, but I have a soft spot for the things that look particularly terrible because it means the robots still haven’t won.
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@Alice #GlitchArt and 👍 #Dadaism giving their best random results. Beautiful deconstruction of reality into absurdist truth.
@Alice to be fair, that does look like the vibrant street life of my office that was at 27th Ave. and Dunlap.
@Alice Here you go. Firsrt one's free.
@Alice Best I can do.
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Picture of Alice in pink workout outfit and an arm doing a peace sign in front of her crotch....
@Alice maybe this.
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Picture of a hand making the peace sign in front of someone’s crotch who is wearing pink shorts....
@LoganFive 🤣🤣
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Tried to amp up the spy photo vibe
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Alice's photo cropped and shopped Tilted and pixelated and I've forgotten what all...
Ooh. This has got some senior portrait vibes going on!
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@Alice @nlarson830
Do you even have a LInkedIn profile, Alice? I'm sure you'd like to remain anonymous, but just putting out there that I'd love to see it if you do. And I hope you do use this photo.
I kind of want to develop a group whose main goal is to bring down LinkedIn.
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I only use LinkedIn for mockery.
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Screenshot of the LinkedIn profile for Alice McFlurry with a graph paper header and a fake mugshot profile pic and text that says: Alice McFlurry (She/Her) ex-apple, ex-yelp, ex-girlfriend...
@Alice @LoganFive @nlarson830
Years ago, I used to get all sorts of annoying LinkedIn recruiter spam until I changed my job title to “Grandmaster Space Poobah of Doom.” That quieted things up real quick.
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@inthehands @Alice @LoganFive @nlarson830 I haven't updated my LinkedIn since I got RIF'd in October, and I'm still getting *sales* nudges.
Like, really. Who is it you think you're trying to sell to? 🤨
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@cy This is a work of art.
@Alice no. Sorry.
Any change to that picture would be like changing the mona lisa.
Does anyone else feel like a barely tolerable failure much of the time?
| Yeah.: | 8 |
| Nah.: | 2 |
| "Barely tolerable" would be an improvement.: | 7 |
| All the time.: | 8 |
| Only sometimes.: | 13 |
| No, but it makes sense that you do.: | 1 |
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Good grief, I am having a night. I have been beating myself up all weekend for not being good enough and feeling like everyone I know is mad at me. I am mercilessly kicking my own ass over everything. I did a bad job washing some dishes, and now I don't think my wife can trust me anymore. I fucked up my family's entire weekend by going to a guy's night. I feel sick to my stomach. My mom is coming to visit in two months and I feel like vomiting because I know it is going to be a nightmare. I feel like a bad worker, a bad partner, a bad parent, a bad son, a bad citizen, a bad person. Critically and fundamentally flawed.
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OK, I have gotten some sleep and tried to corral my demons back into their pen.
Problematic ideas circulating in my head:
1. Life is supposed to feel good and it doesn't.
2. Creating time or space for myself is selfish.
3. People are mad at me whether they admit it or not.
4. I am not perfect and the absence of perfection is the presence of badness.
5. If I am not being productive, I am going to get in trouble somehow.
6. Maintaining friendships hurts my family.
7. I am unreliable.
8. I am going to pass all this bad stuff on to my kids.
9. I am not good enough to be here.
10. I will never be good enough to be here.
I know better, but I can't escape them all all the time. I understand that these are hallmarks of the children of emotionally immature parents, and I suspect that this is a lot of what is going on. I am terrified that I might have inherited some BPD traits from my mom and am really scared that this means I am irredeemable (although I guess the new research is a lot less fatalistic). Hopefully, I'm just depressed.
Sorry for airing this all out. I hope it's helpful. I want community when this happens, and I don't think I can take it to my meatspace people. And I like creating a real-time record so that I can't feel great when therapy is happening and try to forget that the bad times ever occurred.
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@HG No need to apologize to me.
Not sure I can recommend creating a wallow follow, but you know.... if you need a chunky peanut butter trail, you need a chunky peanut butter trail
GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!
https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!
Welcome to GIMP 3.0!
I literally can't believe the man in the middle as a service company put a man in the middle
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@rune Everybody shout "no swiping, Swiper!"
@rune What'd I miss?
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@joepie91 I've seen a few people post a cloudflare article about password compromise and everyone's reaction to it is a meta reaction to cloudflare having and using their access to all the traffic that passed through them
https://blog.cloudflare.com/password-reuse-rampant-half-user-logins-compromised/
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@joepie91 ah, I still had one of them open. E.g. https://cloudisland.nz/@airshipper/114179253842094214
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@rune If only someone had warned about the risks of Cloudflare's MITM model!
*glances at own blogpost from 2016, nine years ago*
It's baaaaaaaccckkkkkkk!!!!!
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@cy linuxrocks.online. It was down for like four or five days. (Our admin was in the hospital, godspeed)
What is? 🙂
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Oh, your instance.
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(as you can see, we missed you terribly while you were gone)
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@amin I believe I had exactly 0 missed notifications :P
@amin @OpenComputeDesign I did a tiny bit
@OpenComputeDesign I thought you were just taking a break from fedi
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@light I came back and then my instance went down within like two days :P
advice for lonely people [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
If you are very lonely and wish you had a spouse, and/or a best friend, a lover, and/or craft buddy or even just a pretty good roommate do not assume that you will just naturally bump into such a person. You need to sort out with yourself what it is that you really want from a relationship. Many of the 20-somethings I know who feel crushing loneliness cannot do this.
You might not know, that's OK. You might think you want one thing but change your mind. Also OK.
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If you just have generalized loneliness you won't be able to narrow down what might work and what might not. You wont even be able to make a plan for looking.
Simply being able to say "I really wish I had a wife" vs. "I wish I could get laid more." vs. "I wish I had a roommate who I got along with like a low energy friend." will help you to find people who WANT to be that person for you.
Ambiguous loneliness prevents anything from ever happening.
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advice for lonely people [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
I think a lot of the "loneliness epidemic" is overhyped. People have always been lonely. But, also I think people trying to force themselves to look for things they don't really want, or not wanting to admit that what they think they are "supposed" to want... isn't what they want makes this all a lot harder than it needs to be.
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Different opinion. As a postdoc, I knew I was lonely but not sure if I wanted a partner or friends. I resolved a few concrete things—join a hiking club and either hike or do something fun or go to church every Sunday— attend work socials — hang out at coffee shops for at least 30 min on Saturday.
I made friends at work met lovers hiking and realized I wanted both. For me the concrete plan really helped even without knowing what I wanted first.
advice for lonely people [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
If you are very #lonely, it's probably not your fault. Maybe were raised without any guidance or socialization, warned away from being bad or going outside of the expectations of your parents. Maybe everyone else is being antisocial, avoiding others out of some misbegotten assumptions about safety or politeness, and you just can't break through the walls they've put up. Maybe you don't have neighbors who go outside, only travelling in their cars. Maybe they get shuffled around by landlords eager to stop you from organizing your community. Maybe you're hooked on television, or the TV that they've transformed the Internet into. Maybe you're scared about big global conflicts and it's hard to function feeling so helpless and under attack.None of that is your doing. You don't need to sort yourself out, for many, many causes of loneliness. You know what you want: good friends and even lovers who don't attack you with their demands and let you relax around them. A lot of things would make you perfectly happy, as long as it means having close friends around you, and maybe even one day children, so deciding how to do that isn't important, so much as having an opportunity to do it. Hang in there. We're trying to fix this. If you're in your 20's it's not too late, and the rest of us can still fight to undo the machinations of those friendship hating business freaks.
on the fedi, you can still say LUIGI 
https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
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@dannotdaniel One of the tactics of authoritarianism: Limit discussion of "dangerous" topics.
@dannotdaniel Fortune 500 CEOs are not people thus Luigi's alleged crime was not murder
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@zrb I didn't say all that but I also could say it because you can still say things here
@dannotdaniel I wonder how long it will take reddit admins to cave to this pressure and impose restrictions on their own users, as I'm sure that's the goal. I figure it will be pretty soon.
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@wesdym I'm not sure what you mean it seems like they already caved
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@dannotdaniel Yep, that's pretty quick, alright. Reddit's nothing if not predictable when it comes to stuff like this. It's turned in to a real shithole, sadly.
Good people are asking, “What can I do to stop the MAGA assault on law and pluralist democracy?”
The answer they are hoping to hear is something quick, convenient, painless, and cheap.
Who do I write? Tell us where the march is? Is there a Venmo?
It’s not going to be like that. It’s going to be more painful and costly than anything Americans have experienced.
Watch the Mahmoud Khalil arrest video, and you will see what I mean.
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@xankarn this is why i was losing my mind trying to get people to complain about biden's DOJ's inaction on trump..
we had one chance to keep this guy out of the wh and we (biden) blew it.
i have no idea where we're gonna end up after four years of this but it'll be quite bad
@xankarn This is not helpful; you're moralizing about feelings.
People want and need something to do.
The thing to do is to make it difficult or impossible for anyone with MAGA convictions, opinions, or actions to make or have money.
Don't shop there; stop talking to people who do shop there. Don't approve loans. Don't spend at all if you can avoid it. All that stuff is a start.
Politics comes out of economics. (If no one bought a car for six months, the GOP wouldn't go away but it'd hurt.)
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I don’t imagine you’ve read my other posts here, but, in any case, thanks for this reply.
I don’t disagree in principle, and I appreciate your efforts to point the way to something constructive.
@xankarn We have to resist immediately, reflexively, heedlessly, consistently, indefinitely. That's all.
@codinghorror In these videos they are not using methamphetamine, which would be even more addictive and harmful.
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Indeed, Amphetamine has a distinct molecular structure of C9H13N whereas Methamphetamine is C10H15N. The substance consumed in these videos is not Methamphetamine.
See:
- https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/drug-profiles/amphetamine_en
- https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/drug-profiles/methamphetamine_en
(still bad though, don't get me wrong)
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I guess it's good for weight loss and might help ADD a little, but get used to being only able to sleep 6 hours a night and feeling constantly on edge with a heart that won't stop racing 24/7. (and sweating, and diarrhea, and hypertension, and brain damage, and burning pee...*)
It's worth mentioning that pseudoephedrine is derived from amphetamine, just like meth. So whether a drug is a sucky decongestant, or a horrific nightmare stimulant comes down to a few molecular addons, while the original molecule... it does something to gum up the ability of your neurons to relax. Not really alarming. Anyone claiming to be addicted to it probably has a few other screws loose in their braincase.
CC: @kolya@social.cologne @codinghorror@infosec.exchange
* not everyone will experience all of these side effects simultaneously
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So much wrongness. Stimulants help ADD more than "a little" and without the effects you claim. Psuedoephedrine is not a cough suppressant, it's a decongestant.
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I'd like to see the study without a high risk of bias, that showed any significant improvement for people with ADD, and isn't funded by the people selling us the drug. Until then, I'll keep saying it maybe helps a little.
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@cy @jonhendry @kolya @codinghorror
Here is a study funded by the Australian government. It wasn't large but it found "However, amphetamines led to a comparable increase in motivation across both domains." The study wasn't hard to find.
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I was a little sketchy about the difference between the reinforcement phase and the choice phase, or how much improvement this represents, but it does look like amphetamines were shown to help uh... somewhat. This graph in particular is cool.
CC: @jonhendry@iosdev.space @kolya@social.cologne @codinghorror@infosec.exchange
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Amphetamines effects on ADD...
@cy @sheldonyoung @jonhendry @kolya I tend to agree. Mini-meth.. is still meth. It is very difficult to understate just how powerful and dangerous "pure" meth really is. SO, SO bad.
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Now, if you're talking metamphetamine adultrated with fentanyl, then you've got a case for dangerous fucking shit.
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@cy @sheldonyoung @jonhendry @kolya I don't have time or headspace for this argument right now. All the meths are BAD.
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@cy @sheldonyoung @jonhendry @kolya I beg to respectfully differ. It's like low-calorie products: you just eat a lot more and get the same number of calories, or more. You know, grind it up, snort it, etc.
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@cy @sheldonyoung @jonhendry @kolya it's not the high people are pursuing: it's the artificial, intense focus. Anyways, I recuse myself from this conversation.
Vote with your wallet, order directly from manufacturers, or buy from local shops in your town.
#Boycott other sources.
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"Find a cool product on Amazon? That company exists OFF Amazon, too. "1) Google company name. "2) Order from their site. "2a) Can usually find a 10% code! "3) Still get product in 2-8 days. "4) Company avoids losing 25% margin share to Amazon. "5) You avoid giving money to Bezos. "From Mark @deepstate2025.bsky.social"...
A few years ago, regulators in Germany and Great Britain investigated this practice and it was dropped in Europe. The threat of regulation or impending investigations might be at fault for causing Amazon to drop MFNs in the United States as well.
The more I play around with WireGuard the more I like it. Holy crap it's like the perfect VPN implementation. No annoying certificates, user accounts, authentication daemons, nothing. Just two endpoints, two sets of of private and public keys, no state, no sessions, just individual packets.
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@zorinlynx just packets, living in the moment
@zorinlynx we saw a tailscale booth at the socal linux expo and they use it too.
@zorinlynx I love wireguard! Android implementation leaves a little to be desired, but that's mostly due to some DNS issues that I think may be intrinsic to Android.
@zorinlynx "no state, no sessions" …my brain autocompleted: "no borders, no nations!"
@zorinlynx
I dig so hard to it is *just a native interface* on the system. So, so simple!
@zorinlynx My only issue with it is that it only works peer to peer & there's no client or server way to use it without doing some weird stuff. I would love to be able to use it with my desktop acting as a router in the middle of all of the other devices running Wireguard so that I wouldn't have to manually add each peer to every other peer.
Rae the mink isn't a fan of early mornings...
I guess she had to get up before getting her 18hrs, but you got to wake up early if you wanna catch the feesh!
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A dead tired mink girl wearing a black crop top and pink panties, holding a coffee mug and spilling it's content due to being half asleep....
@kiaun I love Rae the mink!
The sharper the hierarchies of capitalism become, the larger the divides, the more clear it is that the capitalists are profoundly unfit to lead.
Sure, Musk is on everyone's brain, and obviously he's a total moron. But also look at folks like Bill Gates who tried to revolutionize education and was literally so arrogant and stupid he destroyed education for a whole generation around the world. Peter Thiel is a man who literally struggles to understand Lord of the Rings and has been mesmerized by the least interesting dork on most forums. These are all incredibly destructive, useless people. Why?
Capitalists are self-selected to be the kind of people who lack the moral competence to not rob other people, lack the work ethic to explore anything productive, lack the self-reflection to question whether they really know more than others, and lack the intellect to ever recognize any of this. A person who was moral, clever, insightful, trustworthy, and intelligent would by definition struggle to do what one needs to do in order to achieve the great heights of the robber barons.
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dilbert quantum physicist garbage man by scott adamsThese are people who don't work as hard as you do, they don't cook for themselves or clean for themselves, they don't raise their own kids or look after their own parents, they don't run errands or get groceries or fix up the house, there is so much labor they don't do you can barely imagine. Their lives are leisure and idleness and they're so deluded and useless that they literally don't understand that they're the parasites. Just like the monarchs before them, they believe their own hype because they have been conditioned and selected for that, they have been rendered incompetent in every way a human can be and feel infinitely deserving because of it.
"Our data analysis focuses on traffic from Internet properties on Cloudflare’s free plan, which *includes leaked credentials detection as a built-in feature.*"
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@buherator It's a valid point but in the description of the service, it does not specify anywhere that they are using hashed credentials for their lookups. There is no reason to assume that they didn't collect and analyze plaintext creds on random workstations. Even if it's just the free plan, it's still a very bad look.
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@buherator I meant whoever was doing this analysis had to have that data, and since there is no explanation to how the passwords themselves were analyzed, we can't assume that they were not plaintext and they stayed in any reasonably secure environment.
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HIBP API is anonymized in the first place. They must already have an "even more" anonymized yes/no signal from their detection service (whether it's using the anon API or a full HIBP copy), and at CF's scale I don't think anyone wants to receive all the non-anonymized request fragments for perf/bandwidth reasons alone.
Sure there may be an evil team at CF who secretly look at creds, but this stat is not an evidence of that.
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@buherator I wasn't necessarily implying an evil team, more of one with different levels of due care than we would expect from an org like that. I would have expected that they would be using the looking system in place for HIBP, but they never said anything resembling reassurance that they did anything legitimately.
Even simply saying that they used the hashed passwords for their lookups would have put me much more at ease with this, but I don't trust Cloudflare. A large part of their operations knowingly protects evil shit. And then there's the "anything for a few more dollars" approach by big tech in general. How would that be such an accidental oversight by a security team posting a security blog post for a security audience? Smells very fucking fishy to me.
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@cy @buherator I agree with your point but Buherator and I actually had what I think was a good discussion further down the thread. Or down a thread. I tend to butcher threads on here. 😆
@cR0w @buherator The simple "no need to assume malice" answer is that they didn't mention whether they were using hashes because they assumed their audience assumes they aren't idiots.
But your meta-point, that we don't know for sure unless there's some independent third-party audit of their internal practices, stands. This post suggests they have received third-party audits, but I'm not nearly familiar enough with the standards to tell at-a-glance whether they should give some assurance that this was done by, say, putting together an audit script to run in their data warehouse without any human having the ability to touch the raw passwords... or slurping a bunch of passwords to someone's workstation and running haveibeenpwned database dumps across all of them.
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@mark @buherator I'm not assuming malice. I'm simply not assuming legitimacy. Whether they did a dumb on purpose or not isn't really what my risk model is about. The impact is what matters. But assuming that they didn't mention due care because "they assumed their audience assumes they aren't idiots" is quite an assumption in itself.
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I'm not assuming malice. I'm simply not assuming legitimacy.
Ah, I see where you're coming from. I missed the distinction because since they're a network connectivity and security provider, I didn't see daylight between malice and illegitimate (equivalent outcomes).
But assuming that they didn't mention due care because "they assumed their audience assumes they aren't idiots" is quite an assumption in itself.
An alternative hypothesis is the target audience for this post isn't the people who care whether they did the analysis using hashed passwords in a humans-not-accessing-directly data lake or plaintext on someone's desktop; it's the kind of people who reuse passwords and don't even know what a "data lake" or a "hash" are.
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@mark Plausible deniability requires benefit of the doubt, which Cloudflare pissed away long ago.
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@cR0w I dunno, 24.03 million websites seem to disagree. 🤷
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boosted@mark I live in America. You cannot convince me that just because millions of people disagree with me that maybe I'm the one who's wrong. I'm full Seymour Skinner here and I own it.
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@cR0w I'll drink to that.
Personally, what I'd love is a better option. I'm not thrilled about using a reverse proxy through someone else's permanent anchor to "the real internet" to host services from machines in my house. But I've tried alternative solutions for anything even vaguely approximating a secure connection (without risking, in general, exposing my intranet to attackers), and... It's kinda a hellscape out there?
Cloudflare is providing a hell of a convenient service that it'd be nice if someone else could provide without doing what Cloudflare does. I fear the architecture of the Internet herself somewhat precludes it.
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@mark Sounds like you need Wireguard and a VPS. That's what I do and it works great. I'll add it to my growing backlog of things I need to do a blog post about. It's a really simple setup.
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@cR0w But then I'd have to pay more than $0, right?
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@mark My lower usage ones are $3.50 / month. To me, it's worth it but you are correct in that it is greater than $0 and that comes with other costs besides the money itself.
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@cR0w Actually, $3.50 / month is low enough to make me consider it. I was estimating from what it would take to spin up a proxy in a cloud provider like AWS or Google and that was coming out to something closer to $20 (with a risk of being real expensive if I eff up the config and somehow slam the instance to 100% CPU for all the time it's up).
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter blog post!
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@mark You can get a Lightsail ( AWS lite ) instance for $3.50 / mo. That's IPv6 only though and another $ for IPv4 address. Pretty much all the big providers have a $5 / month option though and if it's for a server rather than client Internet access, I have had good luck over the years with Linode.
Though it begs the question, why use Cloudflare at all? Are attackers really that big of a problem, that you'd want the equivalent of mafia insurance, giving up 100% of your intranet's security, in exchange for a promise of not being attacked?
I mean it is a problem for some. My "intranet" has never had problems with attackers though. Would a VPN do what you want? Still lots of those hanging around.
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@cy @cR0w Me personally, I'm not using it because I'm concerned about attackers. I'm using it because it lets me put a pinhole into my outward-facing firewall that accepts only one kind of traffic at the application level which, by default, doesn't even expose my IP address to the outside world (traceroutes stop at Cloudflare's network), and if my service provider changes my IP assignment, the reverse IP will self-heal.
you'd want the equivalent of mafia insurance, giving up 100% of your intranet's security
Here's the thing about big companies: they're also big targets for regulation. The larger the company, the more I can trust that if they do something truly disastrous, the government will care enough to come down on them like bricks (and if the government doesn't, shareholders or customers fleeing will make it financially painful enough that they have a reason to not drop the ball).
There should be a someone's law about this. It's like Too Big To Fail but for infra providers.
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a pinhole into my outward-facing firewall that accepts only one kind of traffic at the application level which, by default, doesn't even expose my IP addressSounds like a VPS or VPN to me. Except those won't make you break your encryption for them.
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@cy @cR0w This is a good conversation and I appreciate your feedback.
I think you've hit the nail on the head; my threat model is a lot less about what big corps are doing (if I have to, I'll just get hired by one) and a lot more about attackers getting into my intranet and screwing up the machines I need to, like, keep my calendar organized and pay my bills.
So, can anyone in the USA explain about how your "checks and balances" are supposed to work?
It strikes me that your constitution was agreed between wealthy 18th century gentlemen, ones educated and cultured by the standards of their era, who assumed the country would be run by others very like them.
Sadly, they didn't anticipate anyone who fancied themselves as a dictator, lacking in education, culture and political experience.
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Actually, the Founders got the idea from a quite perverse understanding of the way that the U.K. government worked in the early 18th century. The "separation of powers" came from Montesquieu's understanding of the way that the U.K. worked.
But it didn't work that way at the time, and we didn't in fact realize what (others thought that) Montesquieu thought that we had until 2005 when the Lord Chancellor was *finally* split into its legislative, judicial, and executive parts. Even now, we are still a monarchy and the "separate" powers still emanate from one person.
Moreover, the Founders did anticipate such things. They wrote about "tyrants" quite a lot, in fact. Remember the "refreshing the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants" thing? That was old Tommy son of Jeff. There's lots of stuff from that time about mad tyrants (including George 3, who actually was mentally ill in some way) and preventing them.
interesting article on local solar power
"39 panels have a capacity of over 20 kilowatts—enough to power just one large, energy-intensive American household but more than enough for the lightbulbs, cooker plates and fans in the 180 households in Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba."
not sure that have their numbers right but the point is still valid.
It good to see democracy take hold, here its the literal spread of power.
Seeing a lot of posts lately talking about parents not telling their kids about their #autism or #ADHD diagnosis. The thing is, it’s not only with #neurodivergency, the trend is much wider.
I went to rheumatologist recently because of joint pain. Mentioned that to my mom, and she’s like “Oh, you’ve been a frequent visitor of a rheumatologist when you were kid because of heart murmurs and some other things, until we moved and changed the clinic”.
I’m over forty. I have an adult kid who suffers joint pain. I have been diagnosed with valve insufficiency just a few years ago, and knowing that I had heart murmurs could have helped with my diagnosis.
Why am I only being told about these things now? How much more medical information I don’t have about myself?
I know, many people are opposed to the idea of some universal health info system because of privacy issues and the fear that the state or corporations being able to use it against them. But I feel that it’s incorrect approach.
We need to develop mechanisms against misuse of our data, but there should be some way for us ourselves to be able to access the info about our health.
It’s so fucked up that there are numerous people around us - parents, school personal, doctors, nurses - who have the info about us, about our mental and physical health, that we have no idea about, and that is left for their(!) judgment what to give us and what not.
It strikes me as absolutely absurd when I see doctors or some “patient’s rights groups” saying sone info should not be shown to people because they can “misinterpret” it. WTH? As long as I am legally considered mentally capable to take my own decisions: to vote, to manage my property, etc - I should be entitled to any info on me, and should be given indisputable right to make my own decisions based on that. No one should take decisions concerning my health on my regard.
I don’t understand why people in general are ok with that. It scares me actually to see how widely acceptable that is in the society.
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@olena my mum only found out when she was in her 50s that she'd had a metal plate put in her head as part of an operation when she was six. Her parents didn't tell her to 'protect her' 
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Yes I would say having an MRI ripping that violently off & killing her would be important information
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@hannu_ikonen @olena yeah, I think she found out because she was going to be referred for an MRI but they were like 'wait, it says in your file you have a metal plate' 😬
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Honestly, lucky it was documented somewhere.
That is my nightmare scenario: EMR records break down & parents not telling kids.
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@hannu_ikonen @alicemcalicepants @olena That is terrifying! Could they not require a magnetometer or a backscatter scan to even walk into the MRI room? There’d be the added benefit of keeping guns out.
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Some likely do but in an emergent situation?
Fire extinguishers brought near the MRI in a disaster scenario have killed more patients & staff than ever shouldve happened
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@hannu_ikonen @alicemcalicepants @olena I knew about oxygen tanks. Hadn’t heard about fire extinguishers. I was just thinking about this one (or a similar one, cause America)
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Or keeping the info from them "for their own good"
(Seriously, how many subdivisions in Hell are populated by perpetrators of "for their own good" rationalizations?)
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@cavyherd @hannu_ikonen @olena that, or 'they've been through enough'. Like, they'll need to know eventually, better to handle it now than have it be a huge shock down the line.
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I mean, aside from the whole, "I have a right to know what's going on with me, & nobody has a right to withhold that information 'for my own good'" 🤦
Denial of consent: it's a hell of a drug.
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@cavyherd @hannu_ikonen @olena that too! The more I think about it, the more fucked-up I realise it is.
I asked my mom why she never told me that before, and she was like “oh, when we moved and changed the clinic, I didn’t mention to them your previous issues, so they just wrote you’re healthy, and didn’t bother us with more check-ups”
Just like that. If they write down I’m healthy, I am magically cured and don’t need those pesky checkups where they tell her I’m not perfect
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She does something similar to herself: her vision has noticeably declined, but she refuses to admit that, it’s always just ‘bad light here’, and she refuses to go to check her eyesight. It seems, she is afraid to be ashamed if the checkup confirms not having 100/100 vision.
Is it just ableism? Is it some kind of magical thinking like “if I don’t admit it - it doesn’t exist?” Is it a fear of being told something is worse than it may seem?
I can’t truly understand that kind of behavior because I am the opposite. I need to know. Know everything related, know every detail, measure everything that can be measured, even knowing it won’t change the outcome. Maybe, to me, knowledge gives the illusion of control, while for her ignorance does.
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Apparently it was a common enough thing in the past to withhold diagnoses & other critical health information from the patient on the judgement of relatives & caregivers. It was enough of a thing to be common trope in mid-20C media (cf the movie Dark Victory)
Given how big a shift there was when "informed consent" came along (within my lifetime) I have to think this was a common cultural theme. Which: 😱 😬