My guess is they fixed whatever weakness in their rate limiting allowed an attacker to automate requesting millions of password reset emails. The fix could be as simple as adding a new CAPTCHA to the password reset flow.
Yep I got 2 on Jan 9th. he e-mails come from security@mail.instagram.com
I also get a bunch of these e-mails from them every few weeks:
Sorry to hear you’re having trouble logging into Instagram. We got a message that you forgot your password. If this was you, you can get right back into your account or reset your password now.
So, I guess you can actually message them, pretend to another user to rese password? I don't follow many people or have many followers. I can't imagine the attempts on other higher valued accounts...
I mean, if they knew who was requesting the password reset, then you wouldn’t need to reset the password, just accept whatever auth mechanism allows them to know who is resetting the password.
Radon is a noble gas. It's not going to affect fiber or wiring... but yes, if you're going to spend much time down there, definitely a good idea to check for it.
Interseting - I have high radon (mitigeted in the house via a fan), if I burry fibre what will I need to do to get something that will work? I have an outbuilding that I want to give internet.
Well technically a nuclear bomb would also degrade the jacket of fiber cabling pretty badly, but we don't really concern ourselves with that since it means you're dead and the house is gone anyways.
I don’t disagree but it’s not hard to understand why people think “military grade” means it’s better. “Military grade” communicates tough/durable/stress tested to a lot of people. Veteran/patriot isn’t an indicator of build quality, even if it is also pandering to a certain sensibility.
For many products it just means it's a small run from a group that may not have a lot of domain experience using materials and methods that will make the end product appear superior to buyers.
Totally understand that, I’m just talking about the difference between “patriot/veteran” and “military grade” to the average person. The latter heavily implies “quality build” while also appealing to people (mostly dudes) who want that sort of label for whatever reason, while the former is purely about values and has no implications as far as quality is concerned.
I have hope that the newer generations don’t align with “big bad guvmit”, and there’s been enough negative experiences (direct and indirect) with healthcare that people will vote for alternatives.
Also, I am saddened by the shared anxiety of healthcare in US (availability while jobless, f*** by big bills, lack of care, etc). The raw amount of shared mental stress must contribute to lower lifespans :(
I think that's going to depend on the operation. Also where I said "private" I should have included "small group" as well.
Fair point about emergency medicine. I meant healthcare (and also veterinary, dental, etc) in general. But I suppose there are some exceptions where the model doesn't fit so well.
I use it a lot. My ex is a biologist and they use it a ton.
It's a massive dataset. There's nothing quite like it. The way people collaborate and verify information on iNat is invaluable.
The best thing about iNat is the passionate people on there. If you don't know an ID, just post it and within a day someone will correct it. It's crazy.
Download Seek and go try it out. Make sure to sign up for iNat and connect your seek to iNat so you can contribute.
Why do you recommend Seek? I’ve been using the iNat app (though since it was released, they’ve been asking me to upgrade to the newer app) and it seems fine. Take a picture or upload an existing one, get recommendations for ID, then upload to the community for further consensus!
Seek is annoying, because it throws up some kind of „please don‘t disturb nature“ dialog box every time you start it to take a photo. I hve seen that warning hundreds of times, why can‘t i disable it after a few confirmations?
I‘ve moved to the main iNaturalist app, and it does everything Seek does, but better and it’s generally also faster.
Little off topic but I just got done cleaning up my friend's dad's estate. He had dementia the last ~5 years of his life.
The amount of random fucking subscriptions this senile old dude was paying is mind boggling. We're talking nearly $10k/month in random shit. Monthly lingerie subscription? Yup, 62 year old dude. Dick pill subscription? Yup. Subscription to pay his subscriptions? Yup.
It makes me really wonder how much of the US economy is just old senile people paying for shit they don't realize.
We also found millions in random accounts all over the place. It's just mind boggling.
Ouch, that's not nice. My grandmother has been in care since 2020 and no idea who anyone is (forgot kids, husbands, etc), but at least she was in her 90s when it started going bad.
Reminder that the entire AI industry is loaning itself money to boost revenue.
I seriously question any revenue figures that tech companies are reporting right now. Nobody should be believing anything they say at this time. Fraud is rampant and regulation is non-existent.
On a purely theoretical-finance level, I don't think the circular funding is actually a problem in itself. It's analogous to fractional reserve banking.
Whether there's also fraud, misreporting of revenue, or other misbehaviour of weird and wonderful classifications that will keep economics history professors in papers for decades is a separate question. I just find that people get fixated on this one structural feature and I think it's a distraction. It might be smoke, but it's not the fire.
Doesn't fractional reserve banking depend upon independence of the various customers? The widely-reported circular financing between AI players does not enjoy that.
This applies to all areas of life, not just medicine.
We trade away our knowledge and skills for convenience. We throw money at doctors so they'll solve the issue. We throw money at plumbers to turn a valve. We throw money at farmers to grow our veggies.
Then we wonder why we need help to do basic things.
I doubt they fixed anything. Lol
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