Given that they are serious, though, and the subject, maybe they should be taken deadly seriously.

That if I just show someone the truth, they'll believe me.

Have everyone, even people you care about and who supposedly care about you, call you something you hate for four or five decades. And they know you hate it, and you know they know, and they keep doing it anyway.

It's not the name, it's the incessant implication that you and your wishes do not matter.

I'm going to block you and your community personally, because if there's one thing I hate more than the patriarchy it's gatekeepers. You make your own world smaller and our movement less effective by attacking our own like this.

Yeah, that's just the zeitgeist - closer and closer to midnight.

I had gone some length of time without remembering that story, thanks so much for the spike of anxiety.

Sick of the bland food, probably.

Report them to ICE?

But I love sushi...

All good, thanks for clarifying! Yeah, the warrantless searches the government thinks they can do, along with the ability to change the rules to target anyone they don't like, means that everyone is now in a "highly targeted by the CIA" scenario. At least, I've updated my threat model, and I'm ready to nuke everything at the first kick on my door. I don't have anything to hide, but I also don't plan to give anyone anything without my consent.

And the point of my original comment is that encryption alone will not save you; please go read the thread from the start. All I've been saying is that sometimes destroying the data before an imminent breach, like this tool does, is the only way to be sure you haven't been breached. The person I responded to clearly thinks encryption would be enough and this tool is unnecessary even in the event of a breach, as does every response after, including yours, and that is simply untrue. Encrypt, and consider using this tool or one like it. Like you said, hammer + nail (though that isn't a guarantee 😋).

Uh-huh. Scenario: you're breached and your encrypted data is exfiltrated. Please describe the update process for the encryption of the copy the attackers now hold.

Your encryption might take the age of the universe to break with current computing hardware, but we wouldn't be having this conversation if vacuum tubes were still a thing. 1024-bit DKIM used to be the gold standard, now it's unusably weak and 2048-bit is king, due to advances in computing hardware.

Are you really going to bet we don't make faster computers in the next 20 years? Or that you'll be aware an adversary can break your encryption the instant they have the capability?

Ah, fair enough - blinded is preferable of course, no argument here. It's not enough for me to discount it entirely by itself is all.

I'm just 95% convinced that the people who claim it's lifechanging for stress/anxiety are delusional.

I hadn't heard about this but it totally makes sense that people would hype it like that.

I think the proposal for your it helps with stress is that the same mechanisms which provide benefits for sleep also work to reduce production of stress-induced hormones like cortisol. That does make sense to me; I'd need a biochemist to tell me if it's right or wrong and why, though.

This study was twenty times larger than yours, had a higher bar to clear for academic rigor, and found benefits: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27396868/

And this meta-study finds consistent long-term benefits when reviewing the methodology and results of other studies: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11616108/

As far as I know, scientific literature has overwhelmingly found benefits to regular theanine consumption, rather than no benefit. Where have you read the opposite?

Personally I take ~400mg/day, in conjunction with 200mg of caffeine. I'm not looking for benefits though so I haven't got data; all I can say is I haven't noticed negative effects.

Encryption is just locks and since locks can be opened it must be assumed they will be. For sensitive data, destruction is the only option.

But yes, also encrypt your darn data.

We let them call themselves that. Just stop respecting their self-identification, they've basically abdicated any right to our respect anyway by breaking the social contract.

maybe it will finally convince some voters

Lol. Lmao, even. That was a smile I needed this dark and dreary day, wry though it may have been.

I have to say, judging by the number of comments this got in 20 minutes, it might be in the wrong community.