blessed.rs is my usual place to get started with these sorts of questions, and they have a section on cryptography crates.

My bullshit alarm is going off. MRI machines use very powerful magnets for imaging: usually around 1.5 Teslas, but some go up to 10 T, and there are concepts for machines up to 14 T. That is a billion times stronger than a 500 nanotesla fluctuation. And MRIs are completely safe. If a 500 nanotesla fluctuation was a cellular stressor, I could only imagine that a 10 T MRI would cause very obvious damage.

I like ntfy.sh a lot. Sending a notification is a simple cURL request, and they have mobile apps. Also I gotta mention healthchecks.io for any cron job or uptime monitoring, which has ntfy.sh support built in.

I strenuously disagree but that’s what this community is for, good post OP.

To be fair I don’t like gargling/gagging noises either.

Everybody switched over to Pansexuality when it released in 2010.

There are a couple of features in the BitTorrent specs for updating torrents, like embedding a signed RSS URL in the torrent file itself, or using mutable DHT entries, but I’ve never tried them out and I couldn’t tell you which clients support those features, and you’d have to manage signing keys since those features are completely decentralized and use public and private keys to ensure authenticity. Definitely worth looking into, but I apologize I don’t have anything concrete to link for you, I’m just aware of the features in the spec.

I think most clients also support pulling torrents from plain RSS feeds containing links to torrent files. Some sites like showrss do that.

I’ve been out as trans for ten years, and even though I was on HRT for several years at the beginning, I’ve mostly given up on it. The only other medical thing I’ve done is laser hair removal, since body hair was a big source of dysphoria. I realized HRT wouldn’t change my body in the ways that I really wanted i.e. making my body smaller and skinnier. And I like my genitals and would never get bottom surgery. I’m a pretty big and masculine trans woman but I’ve kinda accepted that I just Look Like This, and there’s not much else for me to “do” about it.

The social transition was scary at first but it ended up being generally easy. My family and friends were accepting, and I’ve changed my legal name & gender marker on my license, etc. This is just me now, and it’s more comfortable.

That said, don’t need to do anything at all. Just chase your bliss. You don’t have to have dysphoria or alter your body in any way to be trans. This is a harmful notion that prevents a lot of people from taking a new identity that could make them a lot happier. You’re absolutely allowed to be a trans woman who dresses however she likes, has broad shoulders, likes her penis, etc. To me, if you want to press the button makes you a woman, then press it. You don’t need to stay that way either, you’re also allowed to experiment and change your label as you see fit. And HRT is magical, if you choose to pursue that route, so you might be surprised at what it does for you.

The “I would never pass” thought is dysphoria, and it prevented me from accepting my identity as well. I eased into my transition, first identifying as a demiboy, then as non-binary, and then I decided to just identify as a binary woman explicitly to counter the idea that would never be “feminine enough.” I had decided at the time that I really liked what estrogen was doing for me, which encouraged me to continue experimenting with more feminine identities.

What is appealing about womanhood to you?

I like Rust’s style. It’s simple and it does everything you need. As much as I love Elixir, which I write at my day job, it has alias, import, use, and require, which each import things different, and it can get a bit confusing.

I thought the same thing tbh

I can agree with this, mostly. More recently I’ve been trying to become aware of how much knowledge I’m encapsulating within functions, preferring to hide more stuff in them rather than less, and avoiding shallow functions that just, say, wrap a single line just passing along the arguments. I’ve realized over my career that I’d prefer a longer function that I can just read straight through rather than jump between a bunch of shallow functions trying to piece things together.

I remember printing out directions from Mapquest back in the 2000’s. Time is a flat circle.

Seconded, I’ve been using Ente for a couple of years now and I still love it. I pay five bucks a month for 200 GB.

Fun fact: one of their redundant data centers is in a bomb shelter. Just in case, y’know?

There’s a game in Jackbox Party Pack 11 where you make sound effects: https://www.jackboxgames.com/games/hear-say

The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.

— Karl Marx, Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property

Is your user in the docker group? That group can run docker commands without sudo.

When I’m Russian, there’s no time for Stalin.

American cheese is “real” cheese, and it’s called a “process cheese,” not “processed cheese,” because process cheese is a culinary term for a cheese made from a mixture of cheeses. Also it melts so good because of a perfectly safe food additive called sodium citrate which just prevents the fat from separating.