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  • Copyright infringement, DRM circumvention, and "hacking."

    See: Aaron Swartz

    On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT. Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

  • Negative. I worked in pharmaceutical automation, management, and auditing software, specifically tracking and auditing (read: "near real-time chain-of-custody") of delivery of Schedule II and cancer drugs from institutional ("enormous") pharmacies. It was actually rather fascinating work, as are most compliance automation software suites.

  • It's interesting how most invasive species seem to be not good eating for humans.

    Fully agreed! However, invasive lionfish buck this trend in tasty, tasty fashion. I daresay it's the best tasting fish, bar none. I liken it to albacore sashimi with Kerrygold butter put together, but even better.

  • Maybe they're competing with Samsung for shittiest Android overlay? I used to be an Android developer for mission-critical software. We devs all had a large spread of devices for testing, and I would dread the Samsung and Huawei testing. One of them was always on my shit list, with the other keeping pace.

  • There is no standard definition, though the term generally applies to vessels with a cabin intended for overnight use. To be termed a yacht, as opposed to a boat, such a pleasure vessel is likely to be at least 33 feet (10 m) in length and may have been judged to have good aesthetic qualities.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht

    That said, I'm all for training and arming the cetaceans.

  • Average water consumption stats make my head spin. According to the article, Barcelona residents use an average 99 liters per person per day. 0_0 I know the residential averages in America are even more horrific, something like 50 to 150 gallons PPPD, depending on locale.

    What the hell is everyone doing with all of that water?! My partner and I use 4.5 gallons PPPD. And it's that high because we hand wash our dishes (no place to put a dishwasher).

  • A lot of people in the comments are lamenting their physical pains. I feel ya, y'all.

    TL;DR: yoga, Pilates, McKenzie Method physical therapy.

    Some background first, then a low- to zero-price solutions. My partner and I are both 52 years old. She had Stage-IVb cancer two years ago, the treatment for which left her with ongoing issues. I abused the hell out of my body starting in my early teens:

    • dirt biking (crashes)
    • mountain biking (crashes)
    • road bicycling (been hit by cars seven times, MCL tears, cervical disc herniation)
    • software engineering (sedentary, ergonomically shit offices, postural issues, cervical radiculopathy, sciatica, RSIs)
    • open ocean sailor (yeah, all of it is just brutal)

    Despite all of that, we are both regularly clocking PBs. She's a competitive rower, triathlete, and mountain biker, and I'm a long distance cyclist. AND we are 90 to 99% pain-free, depending if we did our maintenance work.

    Doing yoga, Pilates, and McKenzie Method physical therapy (MMPT) keeps you going at full tilt. You can start for free with yoga and Pilates, just find a zero-equipment YT channel that appeals to you. We're partial to "Yoga with Adrienne" and "Move with Nicole." Start slow and easy.

    For the MMPT, "Bob and Brad" on YT are MMPTs. Robin McKenzie's books are worth owning, or just check them out from the library. Memorize the exercises, and don't stop doing them just because the pain dropped below threshold(!!!). I...uh... might have direct experience there. :D

    Use or lose it, take care of the hardware and software, and all that. With a little care and maintenance, you can rock the hell out of your body for a very long time. I didn't believe it until the first time I met a 70 year old downhill mountain biking champion. His age class starts at 55, so he was beating professional racers 15 years younger than he. He was the one who taught me about yoga, Pilates, and MMPT being the key.

    If any of this blather helps even one of you just a little, it was worth the insomnia, typing-on-phone hell. :D

  • Squid, my deepest empathy for your medical journey ain't worth shit, but you have my empathy regardless. Without boring anyone with unrelated detail: I've been there. Kudos for your self-advocacy.

    So I wrote a very long and angry email to the patient advocate

    This right here, everyone. This person's entire role is to cut through red tape. In my experience, the patient advocate is the Winston Wolf of their hospital departments.

    As an aside, Flying Squid, I always appreciate your contributions to the Lemmy community, even when I disagree. Thank you for being you.

  • The Blue Dot Effect (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap8731) demonstrates that when stimuli, especially negative stimuli, become rare, human brains broaden the accepted criteria for those stimuli.

    Why do some social problems seem so intractable? In a series of experiments, we show that people often respond to decreases in the prevalence of a stimulus by expanding their concept of it. When blue dots became rare, participants began to see purple dots as blue; when threatening faces became rare, participants began to see neutral faces as threatening; and when unethical requests became rare, participants began to see innocuous requests as unethical. This “prevalence-induced concept change” occurred even when participants were forewarned about it and even when they were instructed and paid to resist it. Social problems may seem intractable in part because reductions in their prevalence lead people to see more of them.

  • Yep, I'm an inveterate purger. I have tried to control the purging with a policy of hanging onto things such as power tools for one year past its last use. And almost invariably, about two weeks after I finally got rid of the thing, I need it again.

    In my case, I have a very small living space, so hanging onto things just means they're in my way. But I was like this even when I had a large house.