National Security Clearance is like saying Congressional Medal of Honor: both italicized words are superfluous.
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EDIT: I already sent CPJ an anonymous message mentioning the list sadly needs updating as it’s currently at 27. :’(
Big-box stores for beer by the case and make your own beer.
I now have depression again after mirtazapine tachyphylaxis. It’s a widely-hitting NaSSA and powerful antihistamine (which also means hypnotic). It’s also the most effective antidepressant (I was on a heavy dose, 60 mg) but it causes weight gain (+25% body mass) and G.I. slow-down. That’s great when it works, but now I’m letting the old black dog have another ride as buproprion XL 300 mg isn’t doing anything useful so far. Maybe, still really foggy, confused and increased pain perception.
Not being depressed is awesome: like the clouds parted, quieted inward observation, less reading, less writing, less sleeping-in, pain set aside, more energy, enjoyment and orderly thinking; almost manic but, presumably, not bet-kid’s-education-fund-on-18 far.
Looking at next alternatives:
* Bupropion XL 450mg
* AXS-05 (60 mg DM with bupropion)
* Venlafaxine ER
* Venlafaxine ER + Lamotrigine
* Venlafaxine ER + Mirtazapine
PS: Paxil gave me serotonin syndrome and Zoloft did jack shit.
If everyone were honest, neither greedy nor malicious, did pay attention, were competent, including securing their apps, and didn’t have either fires, floods or roads, no regulation or government would be necessary.
If someone’s gonna maintain two ID’s they gotta use consistently perfect opsec or game over: a known-good VPN or jumpbox in a non-treaty country (paid in cash or bitcoin from a throwaway wallet), separate devices (burners with no real info, different carriers, purchased in cash, all location settings off, cameras removed, microphones disabled until needed, kept in the microwave when not in use), different language quirks in chat and hide their face in all photos on the sketchy ID. And no voice audio uploads or direct photo uploads without scrubbing image metadata.
There might be other possible uniquely-identifying information leaks usable by deep-learning against device activity granted to apps: mouse, keyboard, screen, app switching, gestures, etc.
In the future, recommendations will need to be increased and less secure methods deprecated.
More generally: I still don’t fathom the populist, knee-jerk, sweeping generalizations of castigating and demonizing immigrants and refugees whom the Western countries created, and that often they themselves were once also. If a country becomes predominantly xenophobic, like say China or Japan were long ago, they fall into backwards ways: socially, politically, economically and technologically. It shouldn’t be a political or partisan animosity issue that should be argued over or not discussed at all via the isolation of separation political universes, but a strength of values, integrity, community and collaboration with those whom may build future gigabusinesses elsewhere. Self-interest would welcome intellectuals, engineers, entrepreneurs and others with open arms and facilitate their integration as fast as they would like. Immigration is a form of customer service that signals values and qualities of the country... is our or your OOBE good?
Heck, in the valley, IRL fulfillment (willcall)/retail of electronic components is limited: (Halted isn’t organized and sells mostly used stuff without ESD management anywhere, Fry’s is a joke). Maybe you can will-call some places (Jameco), but the main sources like FleaBay and DigiKey don’t compare to IRL/right-now like Shenzhen highrise of everything bad fakes, good fakes and authentic. If you’re prototyping and about to do small runs it’s much easier in China because suppliers of all sizes and contract manufacturers right there, and can turn-around PCBs in a couple of hours. America doesn’t have anything remotely close to the density and rapid business efficiency of Shenzhen.
Adafruit is an awesome, modern business model (juxtaposed to the tiny margins of components and other commodification) that pumps out tons of quality kits, and Fried is killing it! I see tons of new product demos all the time on their YouTube channel.[0]
0: https://youtube.com/user/adafruit
PS: Still have my PS/2 :cueCat.
Update: if you really love electronics, more YT channels: eevblog, ave, bigclivedotcom, mikeselectricstuff, strange parts, this does not compute, louisrossmann (IIRC)
- end-to-end encrypted with a brand new, limited-time GPG key
- use a disposable email service
- make up an alias
- send from public WiFi at a coffeeshop some distance away that doesn’t have corporate CCTV
- Don’t bother with Tor or a VPN because it advertises “suspicious behavior” across network hops that maybe/are monitored/logged
If you volunteer information about your identity, it can be easily misused to attack you in a myriad of legal, professional, social media and other dirty-tricks ways.
I was dissatisfied with Linux and FreeBSD, seL4 seems much more robust, in terms of system reliability and security. (seL4 is not an OS, but a framework to build an OS on top.)
Then I was dissatisfied with all the crap in the x86 ISA (bucket of modes, 4 rings, many deprecated features, insecure SMM and zillions of feature flags), the mostly failures of RISC and the over complexity of many versions and variants of ARM (but it’s nice that it’s available as IP).
It seems there ought to be an architecture that can make writing OSes easier and more secure:
- handle task/context switching much faster than x86
- IPC (zero-copy both register and page borrowing, maybe copy if source page is locked or if async.) This enables L4-fast CSP in the ISA.
- resource limits / counters
- memory page allocation
- capabilities management
- transparent page compression and encryption
- OS bookkeeping (kernel-specified privileged data: per task/core/etc.)
in addition to the usual suspects (MMU, FPU, SIMD, etc.):
- virtual memory
- paging (including possible unprivileged page-fault handler)
- hypervisor (VM lifecycle)
- interrupts / faults / exceptions
- TLB
- tiers of caches / cache coherency protocol
- memory controller
- standard I/O controllers
- clock throttling w/ spread-spectrum and thermal management
- micropower standby
- JTAG
- at least one system-wide atomic operation (compare&swap or ainc/adec)
much more rigidly, faster and less clunkily that most OS gunk tends to be. Not CISC overload, but healthy facilitation of fast AND secure OS and user-mode program constructs that are batteries-included.
Also, SystemVerilog looks doable (I’m reading the whole IEEE spec for SV2012) and there’s always MOSIS should a Kickstarter be in order to make actual ASIC dev kits. EDA looks manageable but there’s a definite learning curve to testing, verification, behavioral design, RTL and DRC.
Plus, opaque firmware blobs and chips aren’t conducive to trusting the end-to-end security of the supply chain of a finished product. End customers are almost praying that some fab hasn’t slipped in malicious microcode or RTL changes or the parts stuffers didn’t insert a backdoor into unsecured firmware.
I suggest you watch videos on YouTube by the SHARK to see what’s really going on at CAFOs and other facilities.
The planet can’t take it (methane and CO2) and it directly causes “out-of-sight, out-of-mind” suffering and pain proportional to purchases.
I used to eat piles of meat but have not for about a decade because I became educated about the multifaceted reality of the climate, environmental, ecological and animal welfare aspects.