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Yes. As I learned as a young kid, you can pop off the individual cubes with a screwdriver and reassemble in a solved state. I consider this method “brute force”.

Related only tangentially. Doctor recommended a vitamin D supplement. Couple years later after terrible acid reflux, I eliminate prescribed medication X which solves 80% of reflux symptoms and pain. After self testing the remaining 20% of symptoms were caused by the vitamin D gummy supplement, tomatoes, and onions.

So yeah vitamin d might help on one hand, but cause it’s own issues in different areas.

No more vitamins for me. Better to eat well and get the occasional bit of Sun.

What are the therapeutics to which you refer?

Not great. But apparently neither are their special unnamed therapeutics.

Japan relied on near universal masking (voluntary too, no mandate) and high vaccine take up. Current approved pharmaceuticals are remdesivir etc. refer:

https://www.pmda.go.jp/english/about-pmda/0002.html

If you imply ivermectin has some part in japans strategy, I encourage you to read this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/11/27/no-ivermect...

dammmmm thank you. your comment just triggered a reminder to me to update my personal articles policy for changed computer hardware.

yeah, the only reason that i didn't get burned like the person above my original quote is that i got lucky. i had figured out that i could have two tokens running at the same time (one token for service A in Google Authenticator, second token for service A in 1Password). But I realized when I lost all Google Authenticator tokens one time, that I was this close || to a disaster. I had only recently also set up 1pw.

The most ideal set up would be to have a universally Yubikey or something equivalent. Preferrably with a backup pre-configured second Yukibey possible in a disaster recovery bugout kit. Then have all the initial QR codes, otp secret manual otp key strings like i demonstrated above your post, account recovery keys, backup break-in codes, or whatever other flavor of two-factor recovery a service uses, all this notated in a secured password manager. The real problem i see with two factor is that the offered recovery method is so variable from service to service. it makes knowing which information you need to have on hand when you've gotten locked out is problematic.

the other thing i do is that for core cloud service providers, i print out the password manager details for the accounts. this is apple, cloud backup service, google, microsoft and a couple of hardware device passwords. it's a risk to have this printed, but the print out is in a fireproof safe with a trusted party.

i basically assume my disaster recovery plan is that i have my wallet and the clothes on my back and nothing else. everything else gone including my computers and phones and i have to get back all services and data without having any devices.

the higher the level of security, the higher level of disaster preparedness the end user needs to practice.

I've emailed my elderly parents to make sure they understand that this mandatory 2fa roll out is happening, and I've explained how they could fuck up their accounts by not notating the recovery method. offered to review their details to make sure it passes a sniff test.

pro-tip for next, back up the otp set up keys or capture the qr code during initial sign up.

i've been able to do this because i replicated otp set up in a second source (1password).

in 1password, edit the record then inspect the otp field string. it will look like this:

otpauth://totp/Discord:you@email.com?secret=blahblahblah&issuer=Discord

save the "blahblahblah" and you can manually recreate a token at any time.

Retitled for clarity: Ban Pay-to-View Content...

Gen X never had the numbers to do anything substantial. Millenial's population total crossed the Boomers in 2019. Gen X will not do the same until 2028. From 2019 forward, governmental power will be exercised by Millenials. Gen X will never have an era of ascendancy, our lot is to simply figure out how to be satisfied where ever we find ourselves.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/28/millennials...

Thanks. I’ve been a Crashplan customer for eons and the last two restores I’ve done from code42 went sideways. So looking for a reasonable alternate.

question about your support levels. for a solo basic account, do you really not offer a your-business-hours chat support function?

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duuuuuuuuude do you have any idea how labor intensive care for ICU patients is? ICU patients can't move. Requires staff to turn them so they don't get bed sores and to prone them stomach down for lung function.

If the ICU patient can't breathe on a vent and are able to secure ECMO, the ECMO specialist ratio is ideally 1:1. Under a crush of patients maybe 1:2 patients. A 1:3 ratio is risking all the patients under that specialist's care because the patients are all too tenuous. Let me reiterate and restate: 3 ECMO patients are too much for a single ES to support.

The ECMO specialist isn't the only person caring for the patient. There is the ICU nursing staff, the pulmonary therapist, plus the actual pulmonary doctors, the renal doctors, plus plus plus. You are talking decades if not a hundred+ years of study just to take care of a single ICU patient.

Labor and not beds is the bottleneck.

put the life saving another way: you get the vaccine, you are more likely to stay out of the hospital, and the bed you would otherwise be occupying can now be used to treat the car accident victim, the heart attack patient, the cancer patient, etc.

the issue for me isn't that a mistake was made, the issue is that the parties responsible for the mistake conspired in secret without official record to cover up their error, and left the man dumped in a homeless shelter with fifty cents.

I agree. Whatever YT's disinformation problem is, 100% not going to be helped by striking Osterholm's podcasts and channel off the platform :(

good question, not exactly sure, need to download and look at contents... (queue Jeopardy thinking music) ...

Okay, so my account generates five 2GB zip files. I randomly picked file #4 and unzipped to inspect the contents. The structure of the zip file included the following:

* Google Photos

* Contacts

* Drive

* YouTube and YouTube Music

Interestingly, while the general structure looks okay, the content under the directories is incomplete. I'm not sure why this is. Like for example, "Contacts" has only one person's recently added Contact and only a JPG of an emoji face at that. That definitely isn't a complete data set, and makes me wonder if Takeout Services is not a cumulative back up, rather only a delta.

I downloaded a second file, to see how it was formatted. The second file also had Contacts data. It generally followed the contact groupings I have in place (ex. family, friends, medical, shopping, etc.). It had a smattering of .vcf files with profile pictures for some, but not all, people. YouTube directory had what looked to be a complete download of all videos I've ever uploaded, plus various other historical record of my YouTube activity.

Basically, it looks like recovery of a single service is only possible with a full set of recovery files (in my case, all 5 files). The content of each recovered service depends in great part on the nature of the service. There is a lot of garbage in the back up files for the unused / lightly used services. What's happening with the Contacts is a bit concerning since the the data is split between (apparently) all 5 back up files. Same thing for Drive, and maybe Mail.

Recovery of the data and service would be service by service, and dependent on the type of service, and the data provided in each service type.

Perfect time to advertise Google's Takeout Services:

https://takeout.google.com/

This service permits the export of (nearly?) all Google services data on both a scheduled and unscheduled on-demand basis.

I have my Google account configure to automatically export all service data every 2 months and upload ZIP files to MS OneDrive. This process completely bypasses me and my local computer. I just have to remember to check that the data transferred to OneDrive as expected.

The only constructive criticism I have of the Takeout Services scheduled process is that the scheduled exports are limited to a one year duration. I have to remember to reconfigure the next year's scheduled exports. Ideally I'd be permitted to set and forget, with a periodic reminder that the export is still happening and a "Good" / "Not Good" confirmation that the process ought continue.

Takeout Services won't restore function and applications, but at least a great part of my data won't be irretrievably lost.

This tempest in a teapot is why I am an advocate for RSS. Why do people depend on Twitter or FB for their news? Curate your own news feed with RSS. Read widely, read things that challenge your belief systems, pick quality reporting. If the NY post is your jam spend 2 seconds actually setting up an RSS feed for their site, Reggie their reporting, and click through to read about Hunter Biden.

let's hope those tourists and foreigners read Dutch if and when labels are added to packaging!

Yes, but do you not have a whiteboard in your workplace? anything an actual chinese person writes on that will be in a personalized cursive. Normal cityscapes will be filled with italicized, cursive, traditional, simplified, archaic forms. Merely learning to read newspaper and computer fonts is great for reading a newspaper or computer screen. Not so great for a fully functional life.

I lived in Asia for 15 years, speak, read, and write JP/Ch-Trad/Ch-Simp and I still struggle with handwriting and cursive. At this point, I've resigned my self to a lifelong hobby to improve.

does not recognize a penis drawn with dotted lines, solid line penis is a definite no-go.

ok, but can he read handwritten chinese? if you come away from your memorization process only able to read chinese newspaper fonts, you will have missed the ability to read handwritten notes on a whiteboard, the artistic renderings on product packages, the ancient forms of characters in artistic objects.

yeah, i read about that requirement. there is a way to interrogate skype's windows desktop client install to extract the account creation date. even squirreled away a support link about how to do this which of course is now broken.

Edit: new link here

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/skype-ac...

May not affect you, but rather your son at some point in his life.

My mom had a weird case were the Patriot Act's requirements for name construction "broke" the legal name she used for herself (firstname givenmiddlename husbandlastname) on everything. Her driver license was renewed about 8 years ago, and suddenly her DL name was firstname misspelledmaidenlastname husbandlastname. Suddenly her DL didn't match any of her official documentation like her passport, marriage license, and I think all social security / medicare IDs and documentation, plus bank accounts, property records, and on and on.

She couldn't use the DL to change her name with all of the impacted person records because the maiden name used by the DMV was misspelled. Example of the error, DL maiden name was Jordan, but her actual maiden name was Jorden. She challenged the DMV, they pulled up her birth certificate only to find that there was a typo on the birth cert dating back to the 40s. Nobody in all that time caught the typo.

In order to have the birth cert corrected she had to go back to the state she was born in and request a fix. They required out of a list of things, 2 or 3 (can't exactly remember) forms of proof of error. She found one proof easily, but not anything additional. Spent months trying to find anything else that proved she went by Jorden as an unmarried woman. Finally found that my brother's birth certificate required her maiden name and on that she had spelled her maiden name as Jorden. My birth cert issued from a different state did not have her maiden name.

At that point, she was able to apply for a correction with secretary of state, apply for a new DL / passport. Then spent another 1-2 years fixing all SS/medicare, bank, insurance, credit card, property records...

This all happened after her parents had died, and iirc one of the forms of proof she could provide was a birth parent attestation of error. Obviously dead men tell no tales.

regrettably the toilet infection vector is a known thing in epidemiology. it's called a "fecal plume" or "toilet plume".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4692156/

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nioshtic-2/20043244.html

Use my google takeout backup and live on. No issue for me.

Did you catch the beheaded bound people depicted at ground level around what I assume is a stone coffin?

Tried to research what the meaning / story is for these figures. My best guess with 10 minute googling is that they represent defeated enemies.

I did come back today guys :-)

Worth the time too! I really wish Egypt were safer for single female travelers. Or just safer for travelers in general.