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@carnage4life It's probably worth pointing out here that Anthropic has unlimited use of Mythos, and yet their bug bounty program has dished out more than $200k in the last 90 days.
I checked it on May 8 and it had like 400 submissions. I checked today and they're well over 1000 submissions.
Either they don't eat their own dog food, or Mythos was just that...
@cR0w It's nice that infosec.exchange supports automatic, recurring donations. Set it and forget it.
@cvvhrn @ai6yr keeping up with the joneses is real, but there are very real financial reasons to have a newer car.
Boots theory is real. Also, with inflation as bad as it is, buying a new car now before prices explode would’ve been a good financial choice.
The fact that we let a handful of people hoard billions of dollars in wealth while others can’t afford food is a predicable outcome of capitalism.
The fact that we didn’t put guardrails in place to limit this is a failure of society and governance. If unchecked, it will continue to worsen until society corrects itself, which is almost always violent.
@coolcalmcollected @ai6yr 100%.
If they frequently accuse you of lying (and you don't have a history of that, obvs), they're probably a liar.
If they frequently worry about you cheating, be sure they'll cheat if given the chance.
Accuse you of stealing? They're probably the type to steal.
If a boss ever accuses me of slacking on the job, I know everything I need to about their work habits.
Going back to politics, it does make all these accusations about corruption by current officials a bit revealing, doesn't it?
@ai6yr Every accusation is a confession applies to much more than politics, it seems. People tend to see themselves in others.
@MostlyHarmless it just gives the population something to tear down… usually right before the guillotines.
@carnage4life RIP WoW.
@tinker I'm on this journey (again) after taking a hiatus. There are things that I found that really helped me the time -- it was so effective in fact, that weight loss became effortless and I was losing weight so fast I got worried that my cancer had come back and I deliberately broke all my habits to see if my weight would level out. It did... and then went back up, but I digress. A friend told me to do this, and I was convinced it was a gimmick and wouldn't work so I made sure to follow it to the letter mostly so I could prove them wrong. Win/Win for me - I didn't prove them wrong, but I dropped 35lbs in something like 12 weeks.
1. Drink watered down orange juice all day. I carried around a water bottle full of 1:8 organic orange juice, and it helped keep enough sugar in my blood stream that I didn't feel shaky from low blood sugar between meals, it was sweet enough to help with sugar cravings but not so sweet as to reinforce a sugar addiction, and it helps keep your metabolism from going into fasting mode and slowing down.
2. Start with a period of time with no sweets, and no added salts. I think I did 2 weeks, and this includes cutting things like artificial sweeteners, fruit, and even things like condiments (Ketchup has a *ton* of sugar, it turns out). Basically, I had to break my sugar addition, and in doing so I went through a full course of withdrawal (headaches, sleepiness, etc).
3. Chew your food exceptionally thoroughly, with your whole mouth (both sides) and really pay attention to the flavor. In my experience, there's mouth hunger and there's real hunger. There are plenty of times where I've eaten enough to be full, but what I'm eating is really good... so I'm mouth hungry for it, but I'm not actually hungry. Chewing with your whole mouth and keeping your food in your mouth longer helps cut down on mouth hunger.
4. Eat slowly (goes with #3). Eat for 10 minutes, then wait 5 minutes and see if you're still hungry. If you are, keep eating until you're not. I found I ate about half as much when I did these things, and I didn't feel hungry.
5. Eat when you're truly hungry; don't snack when you're kinda hungry. If you're not hungry enough to go through the effort of making yourself a meal, you're not truly hungry. This can really f*ck with meal times, but most of the time that doesn't matter. If you're truly hungry but you've got a family dinner coming up or something, have a small, non-sweet snack. I would do like 1 oz of beef jerky, or even something as small as 6 peanuts, to tide me over till meal time.
6. Actually eat when you're hungry - if you wait too long, you'll get over hungry, then over-eat.
7. No more than 3 things on your plate. Eat one thing at a time - don't bounce around. When you're tired of eating that one thing, move on and don't come back to it. It's a bit of a game, but if you're chewing your food thoroughly (like, way longer than you think you should be chewing), you *will* get tired of eating the same thing and want variety. That's when you know you're not mouth hungry for those flavors anymore. Move on to the next until you're sick of it. If you go back to the first, you'll get mouth hungry for it again.
8. Smaller portions. You can always go back for seconds. If you finish what's on your plate, and you're not sick of it, go get more of that thing before moving on. It feels bad to waste food, so we're inclined to over-eat rather than tossing our food... but if our priority is losing weight, it's better the food goes to waste than to your waist. Smaller portions help eliminate both. Relatedly - at a restaurant, ask for an extra plate and cut your portion in half at the start. Restaurant portions are huge, but if you make your portion smaller to start out, you'll be less likely to eat more than you actually need.
The biggest things for my quality of life were #2 and #1 - getting through that 14 days *sucked*, but after having no sweet things for 2 weeks, I was far less inclined to want to eat them. Like, I could walk past free cookies or donuts and not stop and pick one up - it was shocking even to me.
I'm currently struggling to get back into that habit (turns out, it's *much* harder now that I'm married and have a kid than it was 20 years ago when I was single and had nobody else to share my schedule with). One thing I noticed is that I shed a ton of weight really fast early on (as much as 3% of my body weight in the first week), but then it tapers off. It's also not uncommon for me to fluctuate 1-2lbs daily in either direction depending on how hydrated I am, so I keep an excel spreadsheet of my daily weight, but only look at the average over the last 2 weeks when tracking progress. This whole thing is about forming new habits and lifestyle change for me, so looking at a long average is more motivating long-term than celebrating the wins.
I'd love to hear more about what you're finding successful - just because you mostly post tech stuff doesn't mean you can't post other things. There's lots of infosec folks who I'm sure are in my boat... I'm eager to learn any tricks I can use to try to get an edge on this... It sucks going through life with tens of pounds of dead weight that just make everything you do that much more difficult.
@ai6yr @hutterer @bammerlaan @plutarch I see you ‘ve never been a drummer 
@jaykuo Schadenfriday is now a permanent part of my vocabulary. Thank you for this!
@jaykuo Just FYI - not sure if it's my client or your post, but the link looks broken. The ellipsis in the link text appears to also exist in the link itself.
The full link is here, for those who see the same:
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-puerto-rico-election-fraud-prison-drugs-votes
@ai6yr @me_valentijn I see folks take the left lanes all the time... but I also watch them struggle to get from the bike lane, which is almost always on the right, over to the left lane.
@ai6yr @me_valentijn at 12 years old, this is the right answer.
When I was a kid, the rule at any intersection with a stop sign or a light was to cross like a pedestrian, regardless of my vehicle.
Of course, I was a kid so I frequently ignored that rule... but even now there's a good chance I'd take crosswalks on my bike. Turning left with traffic just seems way too sketchy.
I should mention that I mostly skateboard, so biking in traffic is really uncomfortable for me... but that's probably an indictment of our infrastructure as much as my ability.
@MLE_online Enjoy your own private security. Now would be a great time to plant berries - take advantage of the free security! I can never grow them because they get savaged by pill bugs and earwigs long before I get to them.
@MLE_online I've only seen an ootheca once or twice in my yard - both times on the ground and empty, so I'm not sure if they hatched here or if they were brought in by a bird or something.
I had a bunch of them one year (or maybe the same one that was just really bad at hiding, and also really mobile?), which was great because I had a real leaf miner and aphid problem. I think they gorged themselves on the bugs then moved on.
Fortunately, the pests haven't come back either - at least not in any real numbers - but it was nice to know I had my own pest control in place keeping the numbers down.
@MLE_online ooh, jealous! I used to have those in my garden. They did a great service and my citrus has been doing much better than in previous years as a result, but I haven't seen any in the last couple of years. Maybe they ate everything and moved on to greener pastures 
@ai6yr and Zuck is spending how much of his time chatting with AI to build his virtual CEO?
@MLE_online damn… I thought my nasty surfer ears were bad.
That almost looks like it could be living…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/116494834693683375
Nope. Nope with a side of Nope, a small helping of Nope for desert.
This is going to end *so* badly for some people.
