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> I’ve heard of people using 60+ mg of Ritalin and thinking that’s normal.

Hello. That's me. I can sleep on that dose. Is that not normal?

> I would be extremely cautious about prescribing this to anyone, especially children unless nearly every other kind of intervention has been explored.

A well-trained psychiatrist can diagnose me in <10 minutes and ADHD meds are not that strong. I don't know what "intervention" means, but outgrowing ADHD is a common myth [1]. What you describe is not ADHD. I would try elsewhere. Sorry.

[1] https://chadd.org/about-adhd/myths-and-misunderstandings/

It's like parking in my handicap spot so Billy can get an A on his math quiz.

Great! Let's raise all consents and COPPA to age 30.

Calling porn a problem is rude kinda like saying Tinder spreads disease. I would start with the clear cases of predatory behavior instead of necroing a 1800s debate.

Miniclip sucked. It was all about Addicting Games and XGenStudios.

But the inferior Miniclip game selection (for normies) made me appreciate the other flash sites more. Miniclip was reliable though. It was a nice era. I feel bittersweet about this.

I hear platforms ban < 13yo due to cost of compliance. Is this true? It was simple on Neopets when COPPA was new - just faxed a signed parental consent form so I could access the forums.

This is what I follow, except a lot slower with the weight increases. I even think staying on empty barbell is enough to simply fix posture.

When I just started lifting, I would be flopped over on my desk exhausted. This ironically made my problems worse.

But now I sit much better without thinking. There is muscle to support my back and head.

I'm lazy and just manually update my IP in the security group. It's not like the server shuts down when my home IP changes.

If I speak about Ubuntu it might start a riot. However I agree with the screenshots point.

Mentally I'm great. I'm bulking up and now my tummy needs antacids 24/7, so I need help in that department.

I do this more now. It is easier to see abstractions cross-sectionally (comparing their difference) after the Nth service is running.

In the meantime, I'm back to using 4 digit pin on my iPhone 12 pro.

I tend to dislike features that increase difficulty when "texting under the table during class". For example removing physical keyboard, the face must be seen to unlock, and predictive input babysitting.

CAPTCHA does not scale. CAPTCHA spams real people with requests and wastes my VALUABLE time, and still labels disabled people as subhuman. It's offensive. It's ineffective. It's outdated.

It's reaching a point where encapsulating a VPN with anti-captcha is something I'd pay for.

As a counter-point, the uncaptcha[0] research project used Google's free Speech-to-Text service to solve reCAPTCHA at a reported 85% success rate.

I'm convinced CAPTCHA are no better than fake/dummy security cameras.

[0] https://github.com/ecthros/uncaptcha

I've been whitelisting JavaScript since No-Script was new. I've used uMatrix recently but with it's end-of-development[0] I am considering switching back. I grew tired of having some shitty virus dropped to %appdata% for the N-th time loading a web page, exempli gratia [1]

It's gotten a lot more annoying the last several years with 5mb webpages. Backing up the whitelist saves a lot of time.

For perspective, I use 4 separate profiles (--user-data-dir) listed in descending order of how annoying they are for me to use.

1). School browser: Chrome + uBlock origin

2). Shopping/low security (when the payment processor is an iFrame and I don't want to refresh...): Firefox + uBlock origin + CanvasBlocker

3). General browsing like browsing Google or YouTube: Chrome + uBlock Origin + uMatrix

4). VPN browser: Chrome + uBlock origin + uMatrix + CookieAutoDelete + VPN extension

I've gone from 2 browsers (Firefox + IE6) to 4 browsers (Firefox, Chrome1, Chrome2, Chrome3). By 2030 I'll be running 16 browsers in a virtual machine on a remote server that I connect to with my browser browser.

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/20/umatrix-development-has-en...

[1] http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=368230 (2006)

How do you SSH on android?

I build using command line tools on Windows. It's great for my purposes. I don't think switching MSVC tools for GNU tools makes much of a difference.

I'm still waiting for unity to replace unreal engine. As much as I love unity, the recent unreal engine games have had better netcode.

If you want to view "real world" performance try this awesome website[0] on some of your regular sites. It includes comparisons with chrome, chrome+ublock, and brave. Also previous hn discussion[1].

I think the outlier cases are interesting. The Gamespot test[2] loads 2x slower and with 2x page size using default uBlock. Strange glass-card websites these days.

[0] https://webtest.app/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21052969

[2] https://webtest.app/?url=https://www.gamespot.com/

Enemies make me aware of my flaws. Haters make me aware of their flaws. My enemies make me stronger. Haters are just losers or bullies. I'm not famous so I can't speak about fanboys.

No sir, the Debian installer says exactly that [0].

[0] https://i.imgur.com/qIqAVSI.png

I use email for security notices so I can subscribe to the lists I use and view it on my phone.

Does the Tesla chip void warranty? Typically chipping your car messes up first-party warranty and service. But yes the 80 mph DLC would be a strange end.

That sounds right IIRC the g400 was the old mx518 but without the peely plastic skin issue. They stopped selling old mx518 and I ended up with the g400. Both mice seemed close enough to me. For some reason the g400 was only considered a spiritual successor.

Is this more robust than just User Agent sniffing? I'm pretty sure Google basically assigns browsers a credit rating. i.e. UA string CoolBrowser v1.8.8 is good but CoolBrowser v1.7.0 is downgraded or blocked.

This goes against Google's own web accessibility guidelines circa 2008 that they seemingly ignore now, but was the reason I left internet explorer to begin with.

I was never under the impression that docker was secure or even claimed to have security (do they?). I feel this is a common belief.

For me Docker felt halfway between VirtualBox and Parallels. And VirtualBox had shared folder breakout exploits as far back as 2007.

https://www.coresecurity.com/content/advisory-vmware

Every time I find a useful Chrome flag they remove it in the next release and make you install extensions. Not sure if it's different on Android.

That's impressive how POP servers communicated across the Internet backbone considering some websites were long distance. I get to read about Erlang now. Carrier-grade NAT in regards to ip addresses reminds me of my grandparents had a shared phone-line for their neighborhood. It's funny you mentioned BBS, I think that's what I was initially unclear about. That answers many of my questions, ty for the time.

Makes me wonder how long distance rates are charged in the first place. A little OT but did we used to call websites?