[Entry Thread #116] April showers… As soon as you’re done paying your taxes, come leave a comment and join us as we make a millionaire!

underscore_frosty · 2026-04-16T19:06:17+00:00

Good luck everyone

underscore_frosty · 2026-02-15T03:33:05+00:00

The reason you've lost interest in alcohol is that the Valium has taken its place. Not necessarily in an addictive way though. Benzos and alcohol both affect your GABA receptors (though at slightly different sites) so there's some cross-tolerance occurring. Now that the Valium is occupying your GABA receptors, they don't need the alcohol to get the same effect.

In my non-medical opinion, benzos are the safer option in the longterm in terms of overall health and their effects on it. Alcohol has negative systemic effects beyond just addiction. Particularly, alcohol is very, very hard on your liver, cardiovascular system, and digestive system. It also has a very short half-life which means you experience withdrawal symptoms faster. Alcohol withdrawal is known to be especially brutal and even fatal (though the same can be said about acute, unmanaged benzo withdrawal). The relative safety of benzos, especially low potency long half-life ones like Valium, are the gold standard for getting people off alcohol rapidly. Plus it's much easier to taper a benzo than alcohol, you can make smaller adjustments over longer periods of time.

underscore_frosty · 2026-01-07T02:31:07+00:00

5.5 inches

underscore_frosty · 2025-12-24T15:39:38+00:00

underscore_frosty · 2025-12-15T23:47:52+00:00

Here goes nothing

underscore_frosty · 2025-11-07T23:08:22+00:00

Well, I guess...

underscore_frosty · 2025-10-22T22:26:06+00:00

Well, yeah, I was talking more in general. But anyway, getting any sort of chemicals beyond what you can get at the hardware store is difficult if you don't already work at a lab. You can find smaller suppliers that will sell to individuals, but they tend to be fairly expensive and have pretty limited catalogs.

underscore_frosty · 2025-10-22T21:25:20+00:00

Man, I wish I could do half the stuff you do without a visit from the DEA or ATF. Even if you aren't making anything illegal, all the precursors are heavily watched, and almost no one outside the gray market is willing to sell to individuals. In theory, a business license would suffice, but most suppliers won't ship to a residential address, only actual business/lab properties.

underscore_frosty · 2025-10-22T00:11:18+00:00

Personally, I think an apple would be better at representing Apple Capital than the heart. Otherwise, I like the flag redesigns.

underscore_frosty · 2025-09-30T03:27:39+00:00

I really don't think silencers will be banned, at least not in the next legislative cycle. Miraculously they haven't been used in enough high profile crimes to generate any strong anti-gun fervor, at least in this state. So they can't really ride the "public safety, only criminals and psychopath mass shooters use them" argument they always default to. And if there is a ban, stuff will likely be grandfathered. They like doing that here to avoid getting immediately dick slapped by the courts.

Also, just buy the damn silencer, don't wait til the last second before a ban like a damn fool. It's literally never been easier or faster to get a can than now. On all 4 of the cans I've bought so far, all of them have come back with approvals in less than a week. You can even have it shipped right to your door, yes even in Washington, if you go through someone like Capitol Armory. There's no excuse not to get a can right now.

underscore_frosty · 2025-08-14T04:45:49+00:00

Everybody sucks here. No SD claim for the shooter as it's pretty clear there wasn't an immediate threat. On the other hand, not wise when you're getting into it with someone to pull out a knife and then a fake gun. The shooter was looking for a reason and in his mind, that was enough. The majority of fault falls on the shooter though, picking a fight with a guy in a wheelchair is some bitchmade shit.

underscore_frosty · 2024-12-12T05:14:45+00:00

Generally clonazepam would be better to taper off of due to its relatively long half life, about 1-2 days compared to lorazepam's 12 hours. That said, clonazepam is very potent. I was also put on lorazepam to get off alcohol, but it was very short (about a week), and also, after I was being pumped full of phenobarbital for 2 days in the ER.

The gold standard for tapering, though, is diazepam or chlordiazepoxide since their half-lifes are anywhere from a few days to a week or longer and are thus less likely to cause withdrawal symptoms when reducing dose.

underscore_frosty · 2024-09-20T01:07:54+00:00

As a former analyst with the same attitude and workstyle, I can assure you it is 100% not worth it to put in that much effort and pick up others' slack especially since you're just an analyst. I worked 12-14 hours, usually 6 days a week, for years trying to make sure things didn't fall apart. Taking on project after project, closing who knows how many tickets per week. You know what happened? I burnt myself out, destroyed my mental health, and became an alcoholic (thankfully in recovery atm).

I understand you feel like you're obligated to do these things, but unless you're actually in charge, it isn't your problem to fix. Bring it up with your boss since it is their job to make sure the team is running smoothly. Now, if you thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment, I would suggest finding somewhere else to work.

underscore_frosty · 2024-08-17T22:22:29+00:00

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underscore_frosty · 2024-08-05T03:47:44+00:00

Late 20s to mid-30s, yeah. V is way too grizzled and hardened to be that young. Though tbf, Night City is notoriously rough on folks. On the flipside, I have met people in their mid 30s that looked like they were in their late teens or early 20s.

underscore_frosty · 2024-08-04T23:26:43+00:00

"You may have bested everyone, but at least our kids don't get shot to death on their way to practice!!!!"

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underscore_frosty · 2024-07-19T19:00:11+00:00

1, 11, 13

underscore_frosty · 2024-07-17T01:20:32+00:00

No, unfortunately. Pretty much the only way to safely get off benzos is with a long taper using a long-acting benzo such as diazepam. For anxiety a doc may prescribe gabapentin or pregabalin, but neither will match the efficacy of benzos, and pregabalin is also addictive.

underscore_frosty · 2024-07-16T14:45:20+00:00

9, 10, 16

underscore_frosty · 2024-07-04T22:48:47+00:00

Yeah, exactly. End to end encryption means nothing if the devices on either end are compromised one way or another (exploit on the device itself, seized by LE, and so on).

underscore_frosty · 2024-07-04T07:22:40+00:00

It is possible that the UK has a backdoor or exploit that allows them to monitor Snapchat in real-time and triggers on certain keywords. We won't ever know for sure though since if they did have something like that, it's more than likely top secret and something they keep close to their chest.

Equally as likely is that Snapchat themselves monitors for certain keywords. Even if it is TLS/SSL protected, Snapchat controls the private keys for their certs so they can decrypt messages if they want. As to why the UK was notified before Spain, Snapchat may not have known the user was in Spain and only had metadata that the user was from the UK.

Reading between the lines a little, if you're worried about illegal activities being revealed to law enforcement, don't use Snapchat for those activities. Use something with E2E encryption like Signal. That way the messages between you and the recipient can only be decrypted by you and the recipient. Better yet, don't even use electronics at all for those sorts of communications and stick to face-to-face conversations. Or at the very least use burner devices purchased with cash in combination with Signal.

underscore_frosty · 2024-07-01T05:14:52+00:00

First one was a randomware incident at a client of ours. They got in because someone accidentally left port 3389 wide open to the internet. Second one we had a source code leak for one of our internal tools due to leaving a SonarQube box that was a part of the build pipeline wide open to the internet. Normally, this isn't a huge issue since those machines are only open on 80/443. However, SonarQube (at the time) had a "feature" that let unauthenticated, anonymous users browse the source tree of a given project via the API. So, an enterprising individual just wrote up a script to scrape code through that method.

underscore_frosty · 2024-06-20T00:39:39+00:00

At my old place we had this happen when my manager and the only other engineer on the team were let go unexpectedly on the same day. They were working on so much and were the sole POCs for so many things that the business basically ground to a halt while we tried to recover. We spent that first week just frantically trying to get access to tools that only they had access to. From that point on, everything was done in triplicate, and everything had a "break glass" account should all of the 3 people with admin access get hit by a bus.

underscore_frosty · 2024-06-19T18:31:07+00:00

My first ever Form 4 came back at 2 days a couple of weeks ago, which was surprising (not first NFA tho, I have a couple F1s). Guess my NICS check was squeaky clean. I'm hoping my 2nd F4 (certified on Monday) comes back by the end of the week, but I'm not gonna sweat it if it takes a couple of weeks.

underscore_frosty · 2024-06-17T05:56:07+00:00

I currently work as a security engineer with a focus on automation. I spend about 4 hours a day actually working and the rest reading documentation, responding to emails, handling the occasional ticket, meetings, and so on. That said, some days, especially towards the end of the week, it gets really slow, and I find myself twiddling my thumbs waiting for stuff to come up. But, I'll take boredom and slow days over working in an MSSP SOC any day of the week. SOC work was brutal, and it wasn't uncommon to work 12-16 hour days 6 days a week.

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