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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Person with autism here: the truth is even if some people on the spectrum can’t use the bathroom by themselves, it’s either a comorbidity linked to a different disability or it’s obscenely rare.

    The way autism expresses in different people is very complex and this is this is one of the worst mischaracterizations I’ve ever seen.

    That guy shouldn’t be able to touch the US health department or any other health organization for that matter with a ten foot pole. He is explicitly and intentionally spreading lies on a variety of different topics and should have no authority.





  • I’m wondering if your social group has something to do with it. Usually social circles have very distinct habits and patterns of behavior so this might be related.

    That said, if not, it could be more of a perception but it could also be real.

    And then the question is what can you change, and what should you change.

    I have autism, so I empathize with the inability to see yourself from the outside and to understand how much and in what ways behaviors affect others - but I’ve also learned that if you have friends, you can always ask them about it, and if they’re good friends, they will give you useful pointers. More useful than random people on the Internet anyway.

    So either it is they way you act or perceive things, which is stuff you can work on, or it’s a pattern of a specific friends circle, and that means maybe you just express yourself very differently and therefore it’s hard to relate to them.

    Anyway I wish you good look on figuring it all out and as someone who is constantly trying to improve, I’m sure if you take a hold of the root cause, you’ll quickly adapt :)


  • This is probably the best answer. If everything is truly only running on local network and nothing is exposed with a port through your router, you are very safe.

    Most issues get introduced when running a server exposed to the Internet.

    That said, on the lowest level, if they want to get you, they will. It’s all a risk analysis. And the more interesting you are to adversarial parties, the higher the chances you’ll get pursued.

    If you’re Edward Snowden, 99% your calls and conversations are always on record.

    If you’re John Doe, truly only your ISP cares when they get a law enforcement request because you really pushed the envelope.

    Trending movies are notoriously bad, because movie studios will really try to rake in the revenue.

    On the other hand, ripping music from YouTube, no one cares or is able to track it, so risk is very low.









  • I mean blocking specific countries is stupid anyway. Historically China has been playing games with the EU and the US on a geopolitical level. But: Chinese, European as well as American researchers have been at the core of research on current topics like AI, security, etc. Btw. ironically the scientific landscape is very collaborative and borders on a federated model, it’s actually pretty neat how much researchers don’t care about country of origin.

    What I’m saying is introducing geopolitics into open source development or research is one of the most stupid things to do, because it punishes both your and the other country and only benefits uninvolved third parties. It’s literally shooting yourself in the foot.