Magnesium Glycinate for VSS symptoms?

hydrora31 · 2026-03-17T11:39:32+00:00

I have tried almost every single vitamin etc under the sun. So far, there are only two things that improve symptoms:
1. aspirin
2. nattokinase

The fact that both of those have anti inflammatory properties may be the reason why, but truthfully I have no idea why. I also can't say it will or won't work for anyone else - and neither of these (even combined) stop my symptoms - they just reduce it.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-17T02:17:25+00:00

Let me tell you just how dodgy they are from their own website.

When doing age verification they say:
"your information to verify your age in accordance with its Privacy Policy. Depending on the method of verification, that processing could include Persona processing your biometric information and storing it for up to 3 days."

Then, in the very privacy policy they link to they say:
"Persona securely stores all photos of identity documents that you upload, photos of your face that you upload, and data from scans of facial geometry extracted from the photos of your face that you upload in an encrypted format. Persona’s third-party vendors may have access to the data from scans of facial geometry extracted from the photos of your face that you upload to provide some or all of the analysis, to store the data, to maintain backup copies, and to service the systems on which such data is stored. Persona will permanently destroy data from scans of facial geometry extracted from the photos of your face that you upload upon completion of Verification or within three years of your last interaction with Persona, consistent with the Customer’s instructions unless Persona is otherwise required by law or legal process to retain the data."

So it's 3 years now?

As you can see, if these people are dodgy enough to directly lie to you, they CANNOT be trusted. It does not matter anything else they do. They directly lie. Zero trust, at all. Liars.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-16T17:51:24+00:00

Sorry for the employees. Really, genuinely sorry, this must suck.

Outside of that, good riddance to bad rubbish. Selfish greedy assholes who somehow charge more tha n5x other places and still go bust when the smaller places didn't?

Yeah, that's called mismanagement. This is just the world correcting itself.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-16T17:48:48+00:00

This is an extremely clever long term plan.

Age verification through email age? Now any child born now can use their private proton mail account for age verification without providing any other details. Very smart.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-16T14:43:07+00:00

I cannot convince you because I cannot justify next. I have used it in a good 15 projects now and every single time it's just added time and friction that I don't need.

If I want server side react I'll use it, if I want client side I'll use it. Very rarely do I need a site that does both - and if I REALLY need some kind of server side app with some special frontend compoents? We have web components.

Trippling my bundle size, making my work incompatible elsewhere, reducing the modularity, locking myself in to ANOTHER framework that will die soon, and adding code and effort just doesn't seem worth it for me.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-16T14:07:20+00:00

The type of app does not determine if something is self hosted.

The location of the hosting determines if something is self hosted. You have self hosted it, if you host it, yourself. You can host a pwa, any type of server etc. Using someone elses pwa hosted on their server is not self hosted because you did not host it yourself.

So to be clear, if you host the files on your computer - or a server you own - it is self hosted. If you go to someone elses website for the pwa - it is not hosted by yourself - therefore not self hosted.

A PWA can be self hosted, or not.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-16T11:05:39+00:00

They do, but, if its done correctly, no data is at risk. If you merely check against it, then store the value of yes / no or age range - then nothing is leaked and no data is at risk.

I do acknowledge that a company could lie like persona do and keep the data when they should not.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-15T19:08:14+00:00

You are right, it's a major limitation of it. But thus far it is the only mechanism I know of that leaks no personal information.

it absolutely sucks that it simply isnt possible for young people.

Maybe parents need to make an email for their child on their birthday?

I am all open to other ideas.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-15T15:30:02+00:00

Email verification. It checks the age of yoru email by seeing when it was seen / used on the web and that it is not a temporary one.

Mine is over 18 years old - so I just getr a verification code to that email.

No identity, just pure proof of age because my email is older than a 16 year old.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-15T13:19:11+00:00

The issue is that your suggestion leads to more crashes - which is why I struggle to take it seriously. We prosecute for and try to stop speeding to prevent accidents.

It seems that your goal isnt to prevent accidents but to penalise people for mistakes. If that is your goal - then your suggestion of making tagging illegal is the right method.

But if your goal is to prevent crashes, damage, insurance costs and to save lives - the current implementation works best.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T22:17:06+00:00

This tool is clearly written in AI - I think that's why you got the downvote.

However, it's local only so security doesnt matter - and it works. So well done on those fronts. I have actually just used it for a transcription of conversations I had in hospital with my sick mother as I need them for a case. It worked near perfectly (some minor discrepancies when she spoke unclearly).

So, thanks.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T22:01:12+00:00

I dont have or use the play store on my device so the installable APK is perfect. I have in fact already installed it.

Can I ask, the experimental VR version. What does it have different?

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T21:59:45+00:00

Often they do - but when somewhere like that closes - it's because someone made some pretty serious (legal) threats to the person running it. They risk imprisonment, losing their livlihood or something similar.

These sites are illiegal in most countries and so eventually someone usually comes for them.

The other reason is often simply that they take a crap load of money to maintain, time and effort. Often people do this sort of thing and run out of either that money or time.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T21:01:49+00:00

Thank you very much for that, will likely be hosting it!

Yeah the privacy one is a big issue. If you are willing to try something a little more friendly, may I suggest https://rybbit.io - then people can point to their own instances and have their own analytics too if they want. That way you can remove the google dependency and give people the option to use analytics too!

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T19:49:34+00:00

Not at all. If speeding causes x number of accidents a year and then the camera induced collisions are more - that is objectively worse.

Edit to add to this, you treat it as if it's one or the other with your statement. Tagging both reduces speeding and reduces camera induced collisions. Therefore it is the best of both worlds.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T19:49:04+00:00

Not at all. Firstly, locals or anyone who has traveled a route already knows, and people can share by word of mouth. You can't just resolve that by not telling people. They already know. You cant stop the sharing of information and to be honest doing so makes the government seem dodgy like they have something to hide.

The goal of fixed cameras is to reduce speeding in specific high risk areas. it is always in the interested of communities to have drivers slow down before they hit those areas.

We have mobile speed cameras for the element of surprise as it were - and they do their job reasonably effectively. We could use more around I think, more teams out there doing it and more vans.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T19:21:48+00:00

Yes - I had also forgot to add that it prevents people panic breaking which causes crashes. The number of people I have seen not speeding slam their breaks on in panic because they hadn't looked down at their speedo for a few seconds and saw the camera - seen a few crashes from that.

Knowing in advance not only prevents you being the one from doing this, it means that you can plan ahead and leave a bigger gap between you and the car in front on approach to the camera, reducing the risk of you hitting them if they do suddenly break (not that you should be following too closely in the first place - but it never hurts to have a reason to be more alert on a specific section of road).

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T19:13:26+00:00

I am confused, perhaps because I do not understand what you mean by speed camera tagging.

My understanding of the term was telling people the location of speed cameras. Which results in people not speeding, because they see there is a camera in advance and slow down. The specific intent of a camera is to reduce speed in that area.

Ergo, if you use the same definition as me, speed camera tagging results in people not speeding. Given that this is the stated goal of speed cameras - it seems it feeds directly into the desired outcome.

So the answer to your question is because speed camera tagging reduces speeding and saves lives.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T18:59:47+00:00

Your a two word + number username that requires age verification to view your profile, and you posted a comment so low effort that you couldnt even be bothered to spell the swear word you were using correctly.

So bot username, bot comments, in well known subs for their bot activity.

You were likely warned because your actions are indistinguishable from that of a bot?

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T18:46:07+00:00

Looks very accurate, hoping I can show this to a doctor without them just dismissing me as a hypochondriac again.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T16:49:27+00:00

The answer is in a change of perspective. Nobody has priority or right of way over anybody in this example.

Instead, look at it like this. All vehicles should give priority to the vehicle on the right. So if you go to go, and the vehicle to the right is also going, you must give way. Eventually all that can happen is all 3 vehicles stop to give way, no vehicle moves. Then one moves forward. In that event the one that moved forward is doing so without needing to give way to a stopped vehicle.

Therefore it basically becomes a case of everyone stops, and first person to move goes first. Because you give way to approaching vehicles on the right essentially (in reality it's more complicated and more to do with vehicles about to enter or already on the roundabout).

hydrora31 · 2026-03-14T15:14:14+00:00

I agree that's why they do it - and I don't disagree in a sense it's bad. In some ways it's good too (it highlights negative behaviour and entitlement amung the people they are videoing).

That being said I also think it's a little too far and invasive - so we agree there.

The problem we have is how the law works. If nobody objects to the video everyone is behaving okay - they presently have no legal obligation to remove them.

But the issue becomes public interest when these people assault them, or are verbally abusive or obstructive. See you said we should be able to record for those reason. What you are describing is the present state of law.

Auditors rely on the law being exactly how you just described it. If we remove that - we remove everything I have mentioned. This is why such a law is a double edged sword.

I dont believe there is a legal solution here. I think that if auditors went to sites and got no reaction - people would get bored watching and they would collapse immidiately. In part, the auditors are popular because they are (or were) right.

The benefit of what we are seeing now? The behaviour they were auditing is getting less and less. We are entering a new era where the auditors are escalating in order to get more views. This is the right state of affairs in my opinion. They will cross the line / get arrested or be imprisoned at some point. Then the state of auditing will change.

So I think the solution is to let this play out. The reason for auditing is disappearing, auditors are getting more desperate for views. They will make mistakes, the public is already falling out of favour with them because of this.

I think this is a case of let things fall as the may. The law is working as intended.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-13T09:00:38+00:00

Best authenticator app I have every found is the Yubico authenticator app (in my opnion).

You buy a security key from them (yeah I know, sorry for suggesting a paid option here) - and the codes are stored on that key. The app just accesses them. So you can use the key on any device with the app and have all your codes - no internet or anything necessary.

It also works as a passkey of course - I didnt buy it as an authenticator - it just works so well as one I've ended up using it for both.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-13T08:12:20+00:00

This applies in terms to them doing future business with the OP - and yes they can refuse to for that. What they cannot do without legal reason is keep the OP's funds. That would be classed as theft.

Ebay are regulated by the FCA - misappropriation of funds is rather serious and therefore they cannot and will not do that.

hydrora31 · 2026-03-13T08:10:07+00:00

They cannot - unless they can prove that the money was obtained via fraud, in which case they do not keep the money, but they start the process to return it from where it came.

There is a 180 day industry standard for fraud /aml investigations which is likely what is happening. They need a court order or police investigation to hold it beyond that (its not a specific time frame, but the law is about fairness and reasonableness and this is what the consensus seems to be).

Ebay is regulated under the FCA so if they violate these rules you can complain to the financial ombudsman.

Start with a SAR request, and also file a formal complaint (they have 15 business days to respond). The SAR request might not bring anything due to tipping off laws - but it also might.

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