AmbitiousProcess (they/them)

There’s only a few use cases where I’ve found I prefer it to doing things the hard way.

• As a thesaurus, since it’s great for going “what’s that one word that sort of means all encompassing, commonly used in reference to research/studies?” and it’ll end up giving me “holistic.”
• As part of other software, such as how Linkwarden automatically tags bookmarks by category when I add them
• Double checking the answers I’ve come up with in regard to hyper-specific questions (usually about how a given piece of software can/can’t be used, or how it’ll interact with something else) just to make sure I’m not blatantly missing anything.

However, I try to avoid using it for anything that otherwise requires productive mental effort, because I find that I end up being a lot more informed and capable if I spend 5 minutes going through sites, learning about a topic, identifying wrong answers, and being able to put together better new queries in the first place, than I do if I ask a chatbot, even if it pulls from those same sources.

When you have a chatbot summarize or combine/condense information, you’ll always lose nuance and additional context, and very frequently that context will actually be helpful to your overall understanding. There’s also many cases where, for example, someone on a forum explains an issue a bit, and their profile has more related information on it that an LLM simply wouldn’t go for, only summarizing from their one response on that page. This can lead me down a rabbit hole that then leads me to finding other good sources. Maybe someone mentions that a particular site is helpful for what I’m looking for, and that then becomes something I use more frequently when I do searches for things, whereas an LLM would have just ignored that comment.

However gmail is a large, incredibly well known service, and many sites understand that the + on gmail specifically is for subaddresses and will deny using the same email with subaddresses different times.

Contrast that with just using dashes like Port87, and most systems don’t have anything made to parse for dashes, as it could then result in problems where an email service like Gmail, or any other provider out there, allows people to put dashes in their base email, and someone can effectively block someone else from signing up for a service by making a new account named theirname-1, signing up, then the service would think that theirname-1 is also owned by theirname, and block theirname from signing up later.

The + is a relatively well known standard for email subaddressing, but dashes are primarily used by people just inside their email addresses instead of a space, for example. Thus, most server side implementations will never be configured to understand dashes as indicating a label, specifically for your domain, they’ll just see a large volume of constantly created new emails, that act like a temporary email service, and assume you’re one.

This has the same problem as before, where you’re not large enough to justify being specially considered by login pages that will understand what your labels are, but are also not going to get to that scale if you get filtered out as a temporary email service.

I’m probably going to stop responding now, as I think that’s about all I can contribute, but I’d just say that if this is the exact mechanism by which you plan to implement subaddressing, make sure you’re frequently checking any widely used blocklists online for temporary email domains, because someone will probably end up submitting your domain there at some point based on the behavior of the service, and it’s incredibly hard to get off once you’re on. (and consider making a page on the site explaining why you’re not a temporary email service, like SimpleLogin has)

but the fact that big companies definitely will block my domain if I do means it’s a no-go.

They’ll do that with your regular domain regardless if enough people start using it, which is why I’m concerned this might result in your entire primary domain being flagged as a temporary email service.

For example, there’s no distinction from the perspective of the service to a domain creating aliases that are per-account, entirely random each time, and a domain creating aliases that use a standard format of yourname-service, because at the end of the day, users can still make unlimited emails for a given service (e.g. yourname-1, yourname-2, yourname-3, and they all sign up for the same site)

The reason why SimpleLogin, now owned by Proton, doesn’t offer proton.me addresses, and the reason why Proton, Tuta, and other email providers all limit the number of aliases you can make with the base domain to a set amount, and for paid users only (e.g. Proton limits you to 15 total, and you can only delete and replace 1 per year), is because, for example, if everyone could make unlimited emails on proton.me, then proton.me would get flagged as a temporary email service.

I’m not saying I hate the idea at all, I love to see more competition and useful tools coming to the email space when so much of it is dominated by just Google and a few more privacy-focused providers like Tuta and Proton, but I’m worried this mechanism will just get you flagged as a temporary email service by companies, just like most of SimpleLogin’s domains were on many services by default. (though they’re still quite usable on 99% of the web)

From the perspective of sites these emails will be used on, there’s no difference between how your domain acts, and how a temporary email service does, because no system exists that is implemented by all these companies to specially identify emails from your domain, know they’re using “labels”, and filter out duplicate registrations accordingly.

To do so would require scale, but you probably won’t get scale unless you can avoid getting flagged as a temporary email service, which won’t happen unless those services all had such a system in place to the first place.

Even if they do, most people will use identifiable service names, so then you’d just have to brute force with yourname-google, yourname-facebook, yourname-lemmy, yourname-bank, etc. Still a major risk compared to traditional aliasing services in my opinion.

This is useful for preventing general spam and whatnot, but it suffers from the flaw that if you sign up for my service (or more likely, sign up for a service I later get access to a data breach from) using an email like [email protected], I can instantly know that your bare address is [email protected].

A system like SimpleLogin/Proton Pass Aliases would be much better, where addresses are truly unique, don’t leak your original email in their names, but can be applied to any domain (including custom subdomains).

This could either be on the main domain, or to prevent cramming, a secondary domain just for aliases.

It’s because the outlet that wrote the article is a finance-based news outlet, which started talking more about crypto once it became popular because it allowed them to profit off the newer crypto boom instead of just off stock speculation.

They just sprinkle some non-financial news in like this sometimes because it drives clicks from people not explicitly looking for finance content, in the hopes they’ll stick around, and it allows them to capture views from crypto investors that otherwise would go to other outlets for general news events.

As someone formerly very invested into crypto as not just an asset but an ideological sphere, I can tell you that when you’re in what is very frequently just an echo chamber like that, everything feels like crypto to you. Any financial regulations are just the government trying to stop you from using crypto. Any trade deals between countries are just ways you can argue for a replacement of fiat currency with a cryptocurrency.

And any civil or economic unrest, such as what’s happening in Nepal, in which some people might turn to using cryptocurrency to escape any form of regulatory pressure is a perfect time to promote how everyone’s using crypto there now, and this is a turning point for the industry, so just keep buying more, keep holding, and keep promoting it to everyone you know. (this point in particular should be all too familiar if you ever try asking a Bitcoin bro what the practical use of Bitcoin is other than being majority speculation, as they’ll almost certainly discuss “unbanked” people in lower income countries, arguing why they need to use Bitcoin with higher transaction fees and a reliance on a phone or computer over just cash)

Why not? This has an essentially identical threat model compared to Signal’s existing privacy considerations.

Backups are encrypted with a key only you have access to. If it’s about concern that Signal could read your messages, this means they can’t. If it’s about concern that Signal could store your encrypted messages for later, they can already do that if they wanted to, since messages pass through their servers in the first place, and they could just implement a network tap.

Even with Play Services enabled on GrapheneOS through Sandboxed Google Play, this wouldn’t affect it, as this would be a system-level change that only affects stock Android and OEM-modified variants of Android that are “Certified Android”

GrapheneOS would not have to put much, if any effort into blocking this.

Go to the Android developer verification site and fill out the Google Form in the bottom of the page on the right under Share your feedback.

Give any employees inside google that agree with you the materials they need to show management it’s unpopular even with developers, (even if you aren’t actually one) and give Google’s shareholders concern that this isn’t just media speculation, it’s real people with real concerns.

Not to mention that a lot of negative societal consequences are created as a result of actions by the very wealthy, not just actions that happen to benefit the wealthy.

Any time someone complains about drug use, or the violence stemming from it, thank the billionaires that funded it and paid money to avoid some of the consequences.

Neo-nazis? I sure do hope that no billionaire buys a social media site and explicitly shifts its algorithm to display more neo-nazi and far right sentiment while bribing people to vote for a neo-nazi!

Even a vast chunk of all crime in this country is going to be as a result of people’s poor material circumstances, caused by billionaires not paying enough to individuals and to social services. The majority of people shoplifting don’t do it because it’s fun, they do it because they don’t have food to eat.

For anyone actually curious if sunflowers do that, they do not, in fact, do that.

It’s worth it to note that deflock is highly incomplete though. I’m working on finding ALPRs in my community to add to the database, but based on just what I’ve seen, it feels like it might only cover 10%, if that, of what actually is deployed on the streets, and I live in a city, not some small town either.

I have a feeling it’ll simply grow more in popularity, since stable release will probably make a lot more people feel more comfortable recommending it to people, myself included.

Right now, I don’t treat it as if it’s a backup in any way due to its beta nature, and I hope that can change.

Maybe a simple photo editor would fit in nicely?

Basic photo editing capabilities are planned after stable release, this year :)

That would depend on the way in which the individual became quadriplegic, any treatment they’re receiving, and what parts of their body are affected by it.

It seems there’s very cursory research showing some spinal injuries can increase your likelihood of developing conditions like pneumonia, and your risk of infection from most bacteria, but it doesn’t seem to be true in all cases, nor has there been a lot of research as to if it persists forever, the exact mechanism by which it happens, or to what degree it can impair the immune system.

That likely isn’t very relevant to the original question of asthma, though, unless the quadriplegic individual…

• Acquired any of a very small selection of respiratory viruses as a young child
• Received many antibiotics as a young child
• Became quadriplegic later in life and were exposed to a large quantity of non-pathogenic bacteria/viruses
• Exposed very little exposure early in life to non-pathogenic bacteria/viruses (e.g. from farms, pets, general non-sterile environments)

…since those are the primary mechanisms by which any form of immune reaction could be impacting the likelihood of asthma developing and/or getting worse/better.

Maybe, but it seems more like it’s likely due to genetics, and exposure (or lack of exposure) to given environmental compounds, whether it be those that cause asthma directly, or those that could cause the body to develop resistance to developing asthma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma#Causes

However, a lack of strenuous activity could be correlated with obesity, from which:

There is a correlation between obesity and the risk of asthma, with both having increased in recent years. Several factors may be at play, including decreased respiratory function due to a buildup of fat and the fact that adipose tissue leads to a pro-inflammatory state

This is a good answer.

It’s not like doctors are always right, but they will almost always have a better understanding of how you can go about the process of transitioning, the risks of doing so, and determining if it’s the best course of action for you, given those risks, then refer you to specialists that know how to handle your particular case.

There’s one key demographic I think they’re missing…

It would depend on whatever the client-side software you use to manage it supports.

You could theoretically have an implementation that sends packets across 1 VPN connection, 5 connections, or 1,000,000, just like how you can make a program that just sends a ping request to one web server, or make one that sends ping requests to 1,000. But if the VPN software your work uses doesn’t support it, then you’d be out of luck.

It’s probably more likely that any legacy software would support multiple connections with OpenVPN, but not necessarily WireGuard, since OpenVPN’s just been around longer, but since WireGuard’s codebase is much simpler, it could be something they’ve put a little time into implementing.

Though since I have no clue what your work uses, there’s no way for me to know if it’d support multiple or not without you testing it yourself.

Mullvad has stated years ago that “WireGuard is the future” because it supports different cryptographic primitives that they prefer to what OpenVPN supports, it uses less lines of code which makes implementations less prone to errors, and it has a different architecture that reduces the risk from certain kinds of cryptographic attacks.

At least, that’s what they claimed back in 2017. It seems they still believe that WireGuard is better than OpenVPN now, but I don’t know if they have any more reasoning beyond what they wrote about in 2017 as to why.