Excrubulent

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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks! As far as I know I'm not describing anything too unusual with the mixed-up signals, I think pins & needles is essentially that, just a bunch of nerves randomly firing, so you probably do know what it's like in little doses.

I've been paying attention to it since I wrote that, and it definitely is still slightly more numb on the affected side, I think I was right that not all the nerves regrew completely.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I hope they don't do it. I would expect the security community to be able to find something like this, since it's not hard to hook up some devices and do packet sniffing to detect if they're talking to each other.

This would be an excellent use case for LTT's faraday cage room for instance.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd be interested to see more information on that. I don't doubt companies would do that, but some good information on when it happens and how to prevent it would be useful.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

See, I just don't connect it to the network. It complained when I set it up but now it just works as a screen.

I've got a raspberry pi steaming my desktop to it with gamestream/sunshine/moonlight, and it's now as smart as my computer. It can even stream from different computers no matter where they are in the house, watch anything with stremio, and play games from them too. It's way better than using the youtube or netflix button on the TV, most of the services it offers I don't use anyway.

But actually pihole does sound like a good idea and maybe I should get that set up one of these days.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I cut a big nerve in my thumb years ago, and apparently plastic surgeons fix that sort of thing.

They reattached the nerve bundles, but I was told the sheathes could be realigned, but the nerves would have to grow back from the point of the cut all the way to the skin.

At first one half of my thumb was entirely numb, and over the course of well over a decade I'd get pins & needles as bunches of nerves would finish regrowing, except attached to random channels in the nerve bundle, so my brain had to completely remap all those signals to what they actually meant. Also extreme nerve pain near the cut whenever it was bumped, I assume because many nerves just didn't grow successfully and remained near that site.

It felt super weird because hot, cold, pain & touch were all mixed up, but eventually my brain sorted them out. It still feels a little weird, especially near my nail, but I haven't had a pins & needles experience for a few years.

The problem with doing that with a neck is that it would take wayyy longer and the chances of the patient dying from complications due to no brain signals working right... yeah I don't see medical science fixing this unless we can regrow nerves in a much shorter span of time.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can you report that somewhere?

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

Exactly this. The point is not that there is no way to do it, the point is that the alternatives are obscure to limit adoption. It's a dark pattern.

This winget thing is worse than just using edge to download an alternative. The problem is not that people are forced to interact with a browser they dont like, it's all the people who don't know enough to understand that there are alternatives, and those people will never use winget.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

Sounds like the work of saboteurs.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're using a personal api from google, is that a way that google can track you? Part of using a VPN, noscript and adblock for me is to prevent that kind of tracking.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fellow vpn user here, it's been really bad lately. I'm definitely installing this.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago

I've told you how the concepts apply, if you found it confusing you could ask. You didn't.

But you've admitted you're not actually interested in my answers, you just want to accuse me of pulling things out of my arse:

I was simply establishing the fact that neither of us had them.

I don't know why I'd bother with someone whose only point here is to tear down whatever I'm saying. You don't even seem to have a position.

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