Show newer

I have this one account with a bank that requires specific characters that others don't, forbids characters that others require, and rejects any of your ten last used passwords.

I have logged in properly to this account exactly once, four years ago when I created it. Never again

Show thread

If you're building a web system and your password complexity requirements forbid users from reusing any of their ten last used passwords, especially if reqs also mismatch with prevailing practices, understand that you are condemning every single user who doesn't use a password manager to "Forgot Password" on EVERY LOGIN until the end of time. I'm not creating a new mnemonic for that piece of shit, and so I'm probably not paying the bills timely either when the reset facility interrupts me!

Apparently, lifting heavy weights produces far less beneficial strengthening effects than *lowering* them?

"Those who only lowered a weight saw the same improvements as those who raised and lowered weights—despite only performing half the number of repetitions... 'eccentric' muscle contractions—in which activated muscles are lengthened—is more important to increasing strength and size of muscles, than volume."

ecu.edu.au/newsroom/articles/r #weightlifting #exercise #gym

RT @wrkclasshistory@twitter.com

#OtD 9 Jan 1973 in Durban, South Africa, workers at the Coronation Brick & Tile factory went on strike. Roughly 100,000 mainly Black African workers were striking, and succeeded in doubling wages and worked towards racially mixed trade unions

🐦🔗: twitter.com/wrkclasshistory/st

Instead of saying "come to mastodon" link the person to a thread here where they would totally want to jump in and join the conversation.

"we were just talking about this here: ***link*** -- could really. use a perspective like yours."

It gives people a starting point and some people who are active and who they'd want to follow.

medical, g.i. 

@saddestrobots Zofran may not be THE answer, but it's AN answer… Funny how doctors are so negatively ethical and that commitment often just vanishes before a challenge. And yeah that last one kills me because the sativa is the reason I eat every day. at least twice! i ❤️ 🌲

medical, g.i. 

@saddestrobots I feel like this is a common thread -- a failure for doctors to recognize the cumulative effects of things they economically overlook could add up to fatal risks. Any one factor could reduce a person's ability to tolerate and attend to the others that can fall like dominoes. Dietary considerations can be some of the most insidious. I discovered my rock-bottom weight in 2019 when my appetite vanished; a leaf in the wind could have pushed me over

My answer is yes and yes; as someone with a lifetime of GI maladies, I've come to know the meaning of years of torture in silence unaided by flippant or clueless doctors. In fact, it's possible the only reason I'm alive today is that some regular people demanded the science and practice finally advance on the 1980s lipid model that gave us all fat-free diets and type 2 diabetes. I've been through many things like this and I get the feeling it's more common than most would expect.

Show thread

Do you have a disenfranchised medical struggle -- a real, long-term problem that seriously affects your quality of life but nobody would ever talk about in public? Has its disenfranchisement affected the quality of healthcare available to you?

Color me terribly ungrateful that my home state of New Jersey, with tight restrictions, high taxes, no small competition, and absolutely no home grow provisions, has legalized cannabis **only for rich people**.

Plus, I can't figure out wtf I'm paying up to $60/3.5oz for if the dispensary can't keep sativas in stock. Just piles of DOZENS of indicas and hybrids, and MAYBE one or two sativas. GTFO

Two years after Donald Trump's ignominious failure of a coup attempt, we recommend this text about why it was a godsend to the state as a way to change the subject from popular revolt to the preservation of normalcy.

crimethinc.com/January6

"Counting on the state to hold the threat of fascism at bay leaves us in an extremely vulnerable position. It’s not unthinkable that at some point, a far-right coup will succeed, at least in some parts of the country, and we—not just anti-fascists, but all people of good conscience—will find that our concerted action is the only thing that stands between us and the establishment of an even more authoritarian society. That is precisely what happened in Spain in 1936."

If you’re outraged about Adobe sending your pictures off their servers (you should be), please know other vendors do this too. That horse has already bolted.

Eg Microsoft Edge automatically sends your key presses in Edge to MS - enabled by default winbuzzer.com/2022/09/19/micro

Microsoft Office 365 sends every photo and screenshot you add in Word, PowerPoint etc (including in emails) to Microsoft 365 Intelligent Services without prompt support.microsoft.com/en-us/of

A growing, now media-adopted neoliberal, ethnonationalist conception of progressive identity politics threatens those prospects today, and I see it gripping many leftists otherwise committed to real systems change. I wish I could articulate this better, but every application is fraught and I'm trying to focus on a pattern here. We have some self-critique to do as a left movement of our ability to place ourselves within it, and among others, and learning what it really means to include everyone.

Show thread

Reject competitive, nationalist projects in all their forms. Enterprise instead to build on solidarity. There is no negotiation that will ever yield egalitarian results like collaboration, between people of common interests and sane priorities. This pattern itself must compete with nationalism, but it will win, because solidarity for socialists is not simply a commitment to material bonds. It is transcendant of nations without any loss of their full content or character. A synthesis.

racial pseudo-science? no, we will not be going back to 1935 with this

transphobia and homophobia? no, we will not be going back to 1935 with this

they hate it. they cry about it. they're a little bit scared.

some of the greatest tragedies of our age are built on the fact that they aren't scared _enough_, though.

Show thread

people act like the left is all about loosey-goosey relativism, but they go apeshit every time we act like a question is settled and the answer is "no, we will not be going back to 1935 with this"

This makes no implications of instances with moderation regimes that fit their own particular needs, or see themselves as networking differently; every instance needn't seek the most connectivity possible. There is every reason to maintain a portion of the network that is defederated with mastodon .social, the largest instance, because maximal connection is not even desirable to many people with every right to use AP how they want. It's just a collective material requirement to improve the net.

Show thread

If an instance has got fifty people on it who interact a lot with each other, and one of them is a miserable piece of shit, well, if the instance doesn't repel them, it's a lot easier to see 50 people having personal responsibility for failing to consider the behavior of a member they almost certainly know, than it would be to hold 5,000 or 50,000 people responsible (blocked and inaccessible to your users) for the moderation team's decisions about a person they may never have any connection to.

Show thread
Show older
Hellsite

The hell site