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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • No need to apologize.

    I like tinkering in all things electronic, so if your still having issues and want second set of eyes, let me know and I’ll see what I can find out.

    Personal anecdote, feel free to skip:
    I can somewhat relate, there are somethings that make me angry to the point of wanting to break or hit something, but not to the level you describe. I once broke an almost new pasta rack and threw it across the room because I felt like it ruined my first attempt at making pasta that I was already frustrated at that it was sticking too much.






  • l_b_i@yiffit.nettoFurry@pawb.socialDragoneer has died...
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    15 days ago

    As much as I would love to complain about the healthcare systems, this looks more like some condition that he had for a month or two and didn’t appreciate the severity. Based on the fact he complained about the cost, but never brought up not being able to afford it, its unknown if he didn’t seek treatment earlier because he didn’t know that he needed to, or that he couldn’t afford it. Biopsies and specialists take time unless you are actively dying, and when he was seeking treatment, that did not seem to be the case. This is true anywhere. Unfortunately he ran out of time, pneumonia Lung issues is are no joke and there isn’t really anything you can do about it until you know whats causing it, even then, sometimes there is nothing that can be done. There is another discussion at [email protected]

    Edit: made an edit above, additional thoughts below
    I will put suffocating because of coughing towards the top of the list of horrible ways to die.
    Looking back through posts, I still don’t know if he didn’t seek help months ago because of cost or need. If it was cost, that sucks. I’m not a doctor, but looking into the two options presented, neither had a positive outlook. Based on posts indicating long covid and a recurrence of shingles, I will put him in the immunocompromised category. Whether cancer or fungus, prognosis on both is poor.
    Is the healthcare system in the US too expensive, yes, no question. Its full of perverse profit incentives at every level and inelastic demand with near monopolistic supply. Did it make a difference here, I don’t know, but I don’t think it forms the basis for a compelling argument or complaint. If the biopsy came back and he couldn’t afford treatment, this would be different.

    His life ended in an unpleasant way I would not wish on anybody. May his contributions not be forgotten.









  • Ramble away, and if you ever feel the need to ramble more, you can direct it at me.

    Posting here has really helped me with the being open and talking about kinks and furriness, not sure I’m ready to take the leap into the real world, but its a start. Gave me enough confidence to join a few discord servers.

    I’d type more here, but I don’t know what else I can or should say.


  • I understand your point of view, but whether you like it or not, your title will be viewed as the framing. “What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor?” At a surface reading, it seems to me what that means to you is very different from what that means to others.

    I assume you probably wrote it along the lines of “What does it mean for an E2E encrypted protocol to compete with Signal on a technical level”

    Others read it as “what does it mean to compete with the signal app” and there is no additional depth to security.


  • I understand, but its all about framing. “What does it Mean to be A Signal Competitor”, well that is chat apps as that is the space signal occupies. That might not be what space it occupies to you, but that is the space it occupies. “What does it take to compete with Signal’s Security” frames the argument to one component, and I would probably have a very different response to that framing. Because of the framing, your argument comes across as “don’t talk about use case, its not worth my time.” I understand this is because your focus is the cryptographic security, but threat modeling and Human factors has to be a consideration of an overall security posture. Congratulations, you have the best cryptography, but if its not usable, the cryptography doesn’t matter, if the users are the weakness, the cryptography doesn’t matter, if nobody is willing to use it because its missing a key user feature, the cryptography doesn’t matter.

    I know enough about cryptography to know to leave it to the experts. I know about hardware power side channels, I know several exploits have been implementation based and not cryptography based, and I know vulnerability does not always mean an exploit





  • A few possibilities,

    1. brave has state in the past they use the googlebot user agent, if all reddit does is check the useragnet, it won’t block brave. This does however mean brave is violating the robots.txt file.
    2. I saw some mentions of google fall back, I don’t know if they still do it, but that could be another possibility.
    3. Brave ignores robots.txt files
    4. Brave paid for access

    No matter the reason, well behaving crawlers will no longer crawl reddit, Everything is disallowed in the robots.txt

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /