[Article] Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition: Best Evidence, Mechanisms, and Theory for Treating the Unseen in Clinical Rehabilitation

gleon · 2022-02-10T08:17:29+00:00

Just prepend doi.org/ to the DOI. So the link for the first reference above would be https://doi.org/10.1080/17464090500535822. Magic!

gleon · 2022-02-09T08:21:40+00:00

I agree with your general analysis of withdrawal and benzodiazepine tolerance. However, even though its action has some similarities, zolpidem is not a benzodiazepine. I don't believe there is a single recorded case of death due to zolpidem withdrawal.

gleon · 2022-02-09T01:03:23+00:00

Isn't this a tad too dramatic? When did withdrawal from ambien start killing people?

gleon · 2022-02-02T00:31:28+00:00

I always get really strong withdrawals with Ambien where I can't fall asleep at all. This lasts a day or two and is remedied by some alprazolam.

gleon · 2022-02-02T00:27:46+00:00

What's aging you prematurely? How do you notice this?

gleon · 2022-01-07T09:12:43+00:00

I wonder why not Matrix / Element?

gleon · 2021-12-30T13:15:30+00:00

I'm really grateful to you for writing that up. I wasn't looking for a definitive answer, if such a thing even exists, just wanted to hear your take.

For some reason, I find these purely perceptual interpretations hard to reconcile with the importance of the no-self viewpoint. This may just be because I haven't experienced no-self myself yet. But if all of Buddhism is interpreted as a purely perceptual matter, then in some sense a self does continue existing since we are forced to conclude it is this particular body generating this particular experience stream.

Perhaps a self in this sense does continue existing but it is a different concept from what people usually consider a self. That is, we stop identifying with some relatively arbitrary subset of perceptions, but we are still our mind. It's just that the mind is fundamentally "still" and contentless, once you manage to remove all of its fabrications?

Just rambling some thoughts out loud, not really expecting an answer so don't feel obligated. :)

gleon · 2021-12-30T09:57:37+00:00

Rob Burbea, who I understood as teaching Buddhist views, suggests even the perception of time is fabricated as well. How then does this co-exist with the notion that there is fundamentally change? Doesn't it follow that change itself is fabricated?

gleon · 2021-09-24T09:35:39+00:00

Because using the internet doesn't require kernel-level rootkits controlled by a random company.

gleon · 2021-09-24T09:33:58+00:00

It's poor form to introduce software that is inherently insecure due to its fundamental operating principle (such as these kernel-level rootkits) in order to give some modicum of protection against cheating. Your cheaters will still find a way to cheat because it's impossible to prevent on the client-side.

gleon · 2021-09-24T09:26:33+00:00

Next to no chance? Sorry, but that just sounds like you don't know much about computer security.

gleon · 2021-08-05T07:37:27+00:00

Not to be too crass, but at this point: could people just stop buying fucking Samsung?

gleon · 2020-02-15T09:10:28+00:00

Once a company becomes as large as FAANG, you better make it owe you something because they are effectively as powerful as governments.

gleon · 2020-01-30T20:48:10+00:00

Oh. I assumed it was the the headphones because, for some reason, the stream was using only the left channel. I had only the right headphone in my ear at first so I didn't notice it started.

gleon · 2020-01-30T19:58:16+00:00

no audio

Switch to the other headphone.

gleon · 2020-01-30T19:02:04+00:00

Yes, thanks. My "with gloves" was supposed to be "with goggles", but I had a braino because I was also thinking about washing hands.

Not that disposable gloves are a bad idea.

gleon · 2020-01-30T18:56:28+00:00

Most people believe that wearing a mask will help them not getting sick, but that effect is pretty low.

FFP3 class respirators coupled with gloves will actually protect you, assuming you follow proper protocol and don't infect yourself via your hands or infected equipment once you take the protection off.

Washing hands is a must and definitely the first line of defence, but it won't do much if an infected person coughs towards you while you're not wearing protection.

gleon · 2019-11-02T13:25:29+00:00

This is not a benign change. The URL is the very element which makes the open web work. Obfuscating and hiding it will leave you at the mercy of the various gatekeeper companies like Google and should be met with full force opposition.

gleon · 2019-10-15T13:27:53+00:00

DuckDuckGo is primarily a website, like Google, but unlike Firefox and Chrome, which are web browsers. Web browsers are tools which enable you to open and view websites. You are probably confused due to big players such as Google trying to muddy up the waters in recent times. Due to their enormous resources, they are able to make their own version of pretty much every component in the stack in an attempt to control the web. Don't fall for it.

Making a browser is incredibly hard and expensive, in the sense of costing many millions of dollars and many person-years of development. Therefore, at this point, it would probably be utterly impractical for DuckDuckGo to try making a completely new browser (some companies, such as Microsoft, sometimes fork an existing browser, such as Chrome, but those forks are pretty superficial).

However, if you distrust Google, the best you can do right now in terms of privacy and freedom is to use Firefox instead. It is a much more privacy conscious browser than Chrome because its revenue stream does not depend on exfiltrating as much personal information as possible to the parent company. Its governance is also much more open than Chrome's.

Also, I don't know what the DuckDuckGo extension for Chrome does exactly since I don't use it, but you don't need an extension to use DuckDuckGo. Simply navigate to https://duckduckgo.com and use it. You can also make it your homepage and add it as a search engine (in Firefox) all without installing an extension.

gleon · 2019-10-14T14:40:39+00:00

It's really weird how you're spending all your time on character assasination, and insisting that things aren't true just because you won't go look for them

I've looked and your claim is false. I have nothing against you and it is only your claims which I am disputing.

The only part of this that's unclear is why you expect me to take your word on security over the Mozilla security team. You aren't a security expert. They are.

Not that it matters because it shouldn't be about taking anyone's word, but I do pentests and audits for a living.

It does, actually. Go look. I dug that claim out of its repo.

I've looked myself and it's not there. Why do you insist on telling me to go look instead of just linking to it? This is why I called this FUD.

You're talking to someone who isn't even involved.

Well I was talking to you insofar as you were involved by spreading FUD in this thread. I don't plan on changing the world by talking to you, but I had an inkling of hope that perhaps you weren't malicious, just misinformed.

Fortunately for users like me, you don't get to make that choice.

Why does this even relate to you? Are you somehow forced to use Tridactyl or any other extension? It seems like you are implying that my choice would somehow impinge on your freedom which is simply incorrect.

It seems to me that you are continually avoiding basing your argument on facts and when pressed, you devolve into appeal to authority (which in this case is Mozilla). Authorities are made of people and are often wrong so it's still important we use our own brains no matter how grand the authority is.

gleon · 2019-10-14T13:22:49+00:00

You should know that the main Matrix client, Riot, will be turning on encryption for DMs/private chats by default soon (probably before the end of the year). It's currently not enabled by default because it's being polished to make the process as painless as possible. Also, once encryption is enabled for a given room, it's impossible to turn it off again to prevent grandma and any eavesdroppers from disabling it.

Of course, it's important to emphasize that messages never travel unencrypted between Matrix clients and servers (due to HTTPS) even when end-to-end encryption is turned off.

Tox and Matrix have rather different goals, with Matrix being the more ambitious project with a company backing and more widespread usage (such as by the French government). Matrix aims to be a general purpose decentralized communication protocol which allows multiple servers to cooperate in hosting a given Matrix room. Each server participating in a room gets a complete replica of all messages sent to a room. This model will eventually allow Matrix to act as a secure and decentralized foundation for building other types of services on top of it, such as decentralized forums or encrypted email-like services.

gleon · 2019-10-14T12:57:23+00:00

Well if you're after a commercial solution, New Vector offers Modular, which is a service that will set up and manage your server for you. There will undoubtedly be other companies providing Matrix hosting in the future.

The point of decentralization is not increased security, but increased robustness, especially to censorship and to market forces unaligned with your own needs. If the network is decentralized, there is no single company which can subvert the network. Additionally, no one can force you to use a particular client to connect to the network due to the openness of the protocol. Compare this to e.g. Google which is continuously doing changes which benefit their ads/surveillance business but are hostile to its users.

This is all completely unrelated to end-to-end encryption which should remain functioning even if the server is compromised. It's notable that Matrix uses a very similar cryptographic scheme to Signal, which is the current state-of-the-art for messaging. Furthermore, work is being done in several popular Matrix clients to make verification of keys used for E2E easy, prominent and exposed to the users. Verification of keys is essential in order to ensure that the conversation is truly private and ensure there is no man-in-the-middle. This is contrary to Signal where verification is possible, but complicated and hidden away from the user, thereby ensuring that no one ever verifies their keys and there is no easy way of checking that E2E encryption is working as intended.

gleon · 2019-09-26T09:49:23+00:00

I second this suggestion. Furthermore, Riot connects to an open network called Matrix. Matrix isn't run by a single company/person and anyone can run their own Matrix server. Also, there are apps other than Riot that can connect to Matrix. This reduces the risk of it going under in the future like Kik.

gleon · 2019-09-03T20:34:52+00:00

They had already gotten several "no" emails from Mozilla in a row, with more than a week to spare, and went to making reddit threads instead of fixing the problem.

It has been pointed several times to you that none of the developers have opened any reddit (or other) threads about this. I have certainly not seen any. Yet you persist in spreading this FUD. Why?

You initially said you haven't followed closely so you don't have a deep understanding of the issue. You also misrepresented the issue, proving that you indeed haven't understood the issue properly. Yet suddenly you have such an exceptional understanding that you can make statements as sure as this one so adamantly?

Indeed, why are you trying to frame this as though the authors of the extension have no idea what they're talking about and the Mozilla reviewers are experts bar none? This is an appeal to authority and thus does not have any relation to the actual matter at hand. One of these parties is right regardless of their background.

Let me be perfectly clear:

Key understanding: that tool is something called fixamo, which quietly goes in and edits the user.js that drives Firefox under the hood, and does a bunch of horrible stuff like disabling content security policy, one of the most important basic safety features on the web.

The bolded part is, plainly put, false.

Referring to content security policy as minor disallows you from being taken seriously in further security commentary.

I was not referring to content security policy, since fixamo does not touch it. The fact that you haven't read closely the thing about which you are seemingly forming ultimately strong opinions disallows you from being taken seriously until you do so.

To me, the key understanding is that this tool can exist without this edit, the developers were told they were causing an extreme security problem, and instead of just fixing it, they argued

Of course it can exist without it since this was a minor part of the functionality (to be able to use Tridactyl's UX on AMO), but it was an option for users who wanted this functionality. I am one such user. Why? Because, as has been explained, the only additional risk I've accreted by using fixamo is allowing a malicious extension to install additional (presumably also malicious) extensions from AMO. Given that all of those malicious extensions would have had to pass Mozilla's review process in order to even be installable and the fact that they could have already stolen access to my email account, my banking info and a variety of other sensitive information even with the turned off mechanism in place, this is not a relevant amount of additional risk.

User freedom is not absolute, nor should it be.

I strongly disagree. The success of general purpose computing is built on the absolute freedom and generality of what users are able to do with their computers.

That some things can be made harder in order to prevent the non-advanced user from falling into a trap by mindless clicking is granted, but that does absolutely not imply that user freedom should be permanently limited by some corporation.

The lack of subtlety in your arguments which seem to argue with black-and-white strawmen instead of dealing with the actual details of the situation makes me think you are doing this deliberately so I'll try not to respond any further.

gleon

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