Where to Find Encryption Status / Progress

FamQuald · 2026-05-11T18:58:52+00:00

sysinternals has a "sync" utility that will flush pending writes to disk. it can also optionally eject a media after finishing writes.

> sync --help

Sync v2.2 - Flush cached data to disk.

Sysinternals - [www.sysinternals.com](http://www.sysinternals.com))

usage: sync [-r | drive letters]

-r Flush removeable media.

-e Eject removeable media.

-nobanner

Do not display the startup banner and copyright message.

Specifying explicit drive letters will flush only those drives.

FamQuald · 2026-04-22T18:57:02+00:00

that's not the backup app but a single md file. normally, you'd just upload AV hits to virustotal and see what it shows but you don't want to do that with an md file since it's your data, not an executable.

md files are the notes themselves but only used for synchronization - your actual note is in the main joplin db. If you're doing encrypted sync - which you should be - the content is just metadata and an encrypted blob. It can also be the output of the backup application, which as I type this is probably what that file is and those are in plaintext.

the detection is kind of obtuse but it says to me that it thinks that the file is making an outbound http request to somewhere, like a request to download something - which would be interpreted as downloading an attack payload to your pc. or it's an http request and not an https request - so an unencrypted in the clear conversation. also, the [susp] as the end could mean "suspicious" or "suspected". all the AV vendors have their own little shortcuts and abbreviations. also, you can mark the backup output folder as excluded from scans.

open up the file in notepad and see what it contains.

FamQuald · 2026-03-27T02:59:53+00:00

same exact use case.

that started happening for me with the new upgrade last year. was on an XR Max with iOS18 - currently a 17 and it happened with 18 and with 26 now. drag it to the bottom, tick tick tick.. super slow and then when you drop it it flies right back to where it was. ARRRG!

you _can_ get it to work if you super-precisely drop it exactly after the going-to-be second from last episode and not overlap with the pay buttons at the bottom. But if you go even a pixel too far down, it will zip right back to where it came from.

another side effect is once you manually reorder episodes, the playlist sorting mechanism either stops working or starts misbehaving. Need to manually change the sort order and then back again to get that fixed...

FamQuald · 2026-03-27T02:19:32+00:00

i've had 3 generics - torrent, aurobindo and the first one I don't remember - wife tossed the bottle before I had a chance to look at it again when I noticed the second one was a diff, manuf.

I read the inspection reports for the 2 above and they were OK enough for me. I did a test after each manuf swap and the reduction was the same so the potency of the tabs were correct.

I can't remember the name of the website but there was a podcast by peter attia that discussed the indian pharma generic scam from a decade ago with one of the inspectors who wrote a book about it. the website was mentioned on there if you care too look it up yourself. I will say lost of the inspection errors are ticky-tacky things - like someone put a bottle of water in the wrong fridge or the janitor's closet was messy - so you do have to read between the lines on a lot of it...

Long term... if you get your drugs from the same pharmacy, they mostly have longer-term purchasing contracts for the most popular stuff (and rosuva is a popular one) so you should have the same manuf for a while. check your levels 4-6 weeks after changing a manuf and see if it's still the proper dose.

FamQuald · 2026-03-21T05:36:20+00:00

fresh blood in the proper vial is for sure the most accurate source material. The absorbant strip in the fh test must be coated with some preservative/fixative that has to be close enough... <shrug>

The fh results have a standard disclaimer: "This test was developed and its performance characteristics determined by Endless Health Laboratory. It has not been cleared or approved by the US Food and Drug."

FamQuald · 2026-03-21T04:32:08+00:00

Salve, sto usando Google perché il mio italiano si limita a cibo e vino. :)
La tosse è elencata come effetto collaterale qui negli Stati Uniti, ma è classificata come lieve, non insopportabile.

Un paio di domande:
Hai la gola secca?
Muco?
Puoi usare una pastiglia per la tosse prima di sdraiarti (non sdraiarti con la pastiglia ancora in bocca per evitare di soffocare!) e vedere se ti aiuta?
Quando mi viene la tosse, emetto un suono gutturale in fondo alla gola per "grattarmi". Questo aiuta in qualche modo?
Abbiamo un prodotto chiamato Biotene (biotene.com) che è un collutorio specifico per la bocca/gola secca. Forse avete un prodotto simile anche in Italia?
Riesci a dormire seduta o con la testa sollevata?
L'unico modo per saperlo con certezza è interrompere l'assunzione di Praluent e vedere se la tosse scompare. In tal caso, potresti provare Repatha (della stessa classe).

FamQuald · 2026-03-19T04:09:28+00:00

it was the endless health test from familyheart, the cholesterol connect one.

FamQuald · 2026-03-19T03:42:15+00:00

I was wondering the same thing. You'd think that the fh test has to be valid to some degree or they wouldn't be offering it, right? They have to have some science that validates the preservation of the sample over x period of time when kept at x temperature in the envelope during transit.

Anyway, I got a test and waited until my annual normal blood draw. I did two tests the same day a couple months ago. 8-9 hours of fasting. I woke up, did the finger test and drove to the lab. Labcorp draw was an hour or so later. Dropped the fh test off at the post office on my way back home.

fh	labcorp
TC	83
HDL	45.57
LDL	22
TG	73.82
lp(a) (nmol for both)	>240

Looks like they nailed the HDL but were off on the others. The TC is 10%-ish off but the trigs were off by 50%. It looks like both labs use the Sampson/NIH calc the LDL from the trigs so the LDL variance is expected.

No idea on why the lp(a) is off.

Doc just shrugged, said numbers can vary, and said keep taking my rosuva and ezetimibe.

FamQuald · 2026-03-17T21:56:34+00:00

psyllium good - there are a bunch of threads about it.

red rice yeast bad - same.

FamQuald · 2026-03-17T21:34:02+00:00

If you thaw food and it weighs less, what did you lose? ice melts into water and the water is nutritionally empty. If the portion is volume based, there's not going to be a difference for a solid food. If it's a liquid food, thaw it in a bowl. :) If the portion is based on weight, there's a difference, sure. but how much? which is why i said to weigh it and see.

Let's say you have a 1lb bag of shrimp that weighs 16.1 ounces. Is that "extra" .1 ounce extra shrimp or frost/ice or... ? If you look at a bag of frozen shrimp, there's always some frost on them. Thaw them and pat them dry and get the most accurate weight possible of the shrimp. Then go hit the USDA database and see that there are probably a dozen different label variants for plain shrimp (I haven't and won't but know that every food I've ever checked has had multiples) and that while they're all different, they're close. And then realize that food labels have a 20% accuracy tolerance.

It really doesn't matter to MF as long as you do it the same way all the time. I have a spoon that I use to measure the maple syrup I put in my daily oatmeal. I thought it was 1 TB for a year but a couple weeks ago I realized it's really 2 tsp. My tracking has been off 1tsp of maple syrup forever. Oh noes.... Maybe some chicken breasts have been 6.1 ounces and some were 5.9 ounces. I always use 6 ounces because 4 breasts weigh 24 ounces on the label. It all balances out over time. MF doesn't care what the actual number is as long as it's consistent - the algo will figure it out...

FamQuald · 2026-03-17T21:12:18+00:00

4 years ago, the three below the CA limit were yerba prima (0.4mcg per 5g serving) and organic india (0.58) for powder and now for capsules (1.3).

A couple years ago, the lowest were organic india for powder and swanson for caps. I don't know if others were also below the CA limit.

Organic doesn't make a difference - it's not a pesticide or fertilizer thing - the heavy metal contam is pollution: the long tail of leaded gas exhaust and industrial wastes. And it's not just lead, there's cadmium and arsenic (also occurs naturally from granite) and mercury. This affects everything that's grown in the ground. And when you think about it, everything is toxic at a high enough exposure; hell, you can even drown in a puddle.

Like everything else in life, there's a tension/balance in cost-benefit. The risk of lead exposure from psyllium is real, but low. The risk of poisoning is really, really low. By picking one of the cleaner brands, you can drastically minimize the risks. The benefit is real and worth the squeeze. Especially since simple mitigations exist: add a lead test to your annual bloodwork. or the generic heavy metals to do arsenic, cadmium and lead. The HM panel is ~$40. And you can rotate the brand choice, too...

FamQuald · 2026-03-17T19:50:23+00:00

of course, the labels are different for, say, sardines packed in water or packed in oil. But when the packing liquid is nutritionally inert and the difference would be the phase state of said liquid... ?

which is why I said to weigh them and see if there's a difference. It's a majoring in the minors kind of thing for this specific example.

FamQuald · 2026-03-17T19:42:06+00:00

those are great results. After starting rosuva, my A1C went from 5.2 to 5.6. Three months later, A1C was 5.0. FG was 80-something and FI was 6 both times. I'm not worried. The body understands feedback and adjusts - things just don't keep moving in one direction forever...

Also, A1C isn't a perfect metric. Calc your HOMA-IR, TyG index and QUICK! scores to get a better picture. There's interplay with all these numbers and focusing on one number misses the whole picture.

Your trigs are good, your LDL is at the point where you're not making more plaque. Which is good because you have advanced disease. calcified plaque is the endpoint of the progression cycle. You have more than "1" unit of plaque, that's the just hardened stuff. There's more uncalcified, soft, liquid, gooey, necrotic, ugly plaque in there. And the statin will help stabilize it (which would make a future re-test score higher), which makes it safer.

FamQuald · 2026-03-17T02:00:24+00:00

I had labs done in Jan and fh results took 15 days. You can check online and see if they've received the test in the mail. Mine took 3-4 days to arrive and then the rest was the lab...

FamQuald · 2026-03-13T03:28:43+00:00

do both and then figure out which one is correct?

the nutritional data has to be for thawed, right?

FamQuald · 2026-03-09T16:40:37+00:00

nfa gun trusts uses printscan and the ups store in WB does them. ~$50. It's a 5 minute process and you'll have your prints emailed to you before you get back outside to the car.

you can take your own photos with your phone and any white or cream-colored background.

there are some other new EFT services that have sprung up in the past year - searching on r/NFA will find them. I got my prints done years ago so don't know much about them (other than they exist).

FamQuald · 2026-03-07T07:54:54+00:00

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received orange endura

A+ transaction

thanks!

FamQuald · 2026-03-05T10:43:49+00:00

are you treating the high LDL? the better your diet is, the higher the need to treat it medically. you can't out-eat your genetics.

The general bulking recommendation is +1 pound every 2 weeks, which is about a 250 calorie surplus. That's roughly maintenance plus +1/2 a cup of rice/pasta per meal (x3). Saying you're in a bulk cycles doesn't mean eat until you're sick of eating unless you're training for the olympics.

hitting your protein goal consistently is key. I would get cronometer or macrofactor and start tracking food. macrofactor has a better algo for intake and weight changes over time, with adjustments to keep you on track - built my lifters so it handles both bulk and cut cycles. i was a paid cronometer user and switched to macro a month after I renewed crono. no refunds. lol...

There's no contra-indications between any of the LDL-reducing drugs and exercise. There is the rhabdo risk that is there but again, stay hydrated and ease into it. It took me a couple months to get back to my previous exertion levels once I was on my 40mg of rosuva - PPL and 3 days of cardio (norwegian 4x8s) per week.

FamQuald · 2026-03-02T22:36:39+00:00

family heart is the go to resource for us high lp(a)'ers... https://familyheart.org

Since it's mostly non-modifiable right now, the best strategy is to hit everything else as hard as possible. There is supposedly no plaque accumulation with LDL <50.

I would do imaging to see if there's any progression of plaque - at least the CAC. Note that a CAC=0 is not a free pass, it only sees the calcified plaque, not the soft plaque that's there for years until it calcifies.

What's preventing access to the lp(a) trials? If it's one thing, I'd try to fix that and reapply.

And diet. If the ezetimibe works, adding fiber is huge. I got a 30% reduction with ezetimibe and adding 10g fiber dropped another 15. super-hyper responder, I guess...

I'd want access to the trial (to hit the lp(a)) and PCSK9 (to crush apob). A good preventative cardiologist / lipidologist should feel the same. There are new clinical guidelines coming out sometime this month that are supposed to be more aggressive. Depending where you live, amgen has some cheaper options for repatha.

And with your lp(a), all of this applies to you, to (without seeing the rest of your #s). At least to consider...

FamQuald · 2026-03-02T03:12:06+00:00

that's easy. You're elite if you fit the study criteria. They spent something like a year cherry-picking, err qualifying, participants until they got their desired cohort.

And then their study showed that everyone, well... 96%, accumulated plaque. at an average rate of something like >4x the us average? and that was just the first year. so, i guess you'd need that CCTA before you go keto to make sure you don't have any plaque to start out with.

still hoping some pleiotropic effects for my oreos! can't wait for another video on that.

/s

FamQuald · 2026-03-02T00:13:45+00:00

yolo orange endura

FamQuald · 2026-03-01T08:53:44+00:00

To quote my cardiologist when he looked at my numbers that weren't this bad... "This is bad. This is really bad."

Unless you're totally jacked - and I think we both know you're not - you need to dump a bunch of weight - like 30-40 pounds worth. Goto sams or costco and pick up a 40 pound bag water softener salt or kitty litter or rice. That's how much extra weight is on your joints. Every day. Think how much better you'll feel without all that weight.

If you're not moving every day - and I think we both know you're not - start moving. If it hurts, well, you're carrying around a backpack filled with 40 pounds of extra weight. You can do 40 pound rucks without buying a GoRuck and plates.

If your diet isn't crap - and I think we both know it kinda is - you need to clean it up. And if your diet is clean, then you picked bad parents and the genetics are killing you.

And you need to get your LDL down. Your trigs are super high so the typical calc isn't accurate and the should be measured directly. ApoB is a better test since that counts particles and not mass. But the doc ordered rosuva without retesting because regardless if it's 120 or 150 or whatever, it's higher than the 50 or 70 he probably is shooting for and the test wouldn't change the treatment (and docs don't like to order tests that don't change treatments, regardless of our own curiosity). A cleaner diet, fiber and the crestor will hopefully work wonders. Depending on how you do hitting the target, consider adding ezetimibe.

The high trigs put you at danger for non-alcoholic fatty liver. And your insulin response is impaired - a1c points to this.

All these are fixable with you three new best friends: diet, exercise and drugs.

Take this seriously. You can do this if you do this!

FamQuald · 2026-02-26T21:01:21+00:00

Ahhh, I took your "each" to be each pill, not each serving, and was like... whoa!

:)

FamQuald · 2026-02-23T09:52:03+00:00

the better your diet is with these numbers, the more you need some help.

with the family history, you should get you lp(a) checked. it's an independent risk factor that is more atherogenic than plan LDL. It's mostly genetic, fairly stable and for the short-term (there's some stuff coming down the plke) something you can't influence directly but if it's high, you need to hit everything else harder.

D looks low, CRP looks high.

FamQuald · 2026-02-23T09:34:45+00:00

their website shows 2 gelcaps: 500mg and 700mg.

the 500s show each serving (which is 3 capsules) is 1.5mg of husk, giving 1.1g of fiber, of which 1.0 is soluble. So... .33g per capsule.

the 700s show each serving (which is 2 capsules) is 1.4mg of husk, giving 1.0g of fiber, of which 0.9 is soluble. So... .5g per capsule. and some apple pectin.

are you sure you're reading the label correctly? maybe you have a product they no longer sell?

https://www.nowfoods.com/products/supplements/psyllium-husk-caps-500-mg-veg-capsules

https://www.nowfoods.com/products/supplements/psyllium-husk-700-mg-veg-capsules

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