I have yet to use it though because Wayland still doesn't work properly for me (it doesn't restore the desktop properly after sleep) so I'm still on X11... without compositing... because KWin's compositor causes random freezes.
This is very timely, and reminds me of George Washington pleading for Americans to beware party politics in his farewell address[1], where he willingly surrendered power and went home:
> The alternate domination of one faction over
another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to
party dissension, which in different ages and countries
has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a
frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more
formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and
miseries which result gradually incline the minds of
men to seek security and repose in the absolute power
of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some
prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his
competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of
his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.
> ...It opens the door to foreign influence and
corruption, which find a facilitated access to the
government itself through the channels of party
passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country
are subjected to the policy and will of another.
Thanks for sharing, although I'm curious what prompted this to be posted in 2025?
I've heard from a few underground psychedelic facilitators that LSD is one of the best 'medicines' for therapy of various kinds, but (a) the duration is often uncomfortably long, (b) the social/political stigma hangover from the 60s adds undesirable connotations which can 'prime' the participant in negative ways, and (c) the variability in street doses makes it unpredictable to work with if you don't have a way of measuring potency yourself (which I would argue disqualifies you from being a facilitator to begin with, but that's a separate topic...)
As for duration, this research indicates that lower doses are metabolized much faster (6.7 hours for 50ug vs 11+ hours for 200ug) which could help although the tradeoff is less 'good effect' even if 'bad effect' is minimized as well.
However, with respect to dose potency, a PSA for anyone new to this area -- go to the /r/LSD subreddit and read the pinned post on street dosages -- in short, street doses are on average ~100ug below what they claim.
So when this study says that 50ug produces such and such effects -- and the typical psychonaut on reddit might roll their eyes at such a 'light dose' -- keep in mind that an accurate "50ug" in a lab likely means "150ug" on the street which is a fairly typical dose sold. Of course the data shows an occasional over-dosed tab vs. the reported value, too.
Which leads to the most important PSA of all: please don't put any psychoactive substance into your body without having a lot of confidence in its actual composition and dose.
I think the answer here is a bit subtle and hard to explain, because it contradicts a lot of common assumptions about addiction and drugs.
In short, many addictive substances create a chemical dependence that often has awful, even potentially fatal chemical withdrawal symptoms. Behavioral addictions don't cause this, which makes people assume they are entirely something different, and categorically less serious and damaging.
This is wrong- because those withdrawal symptoms, while they do make it harder to quit by making going cold turkey difficult and sometimes impossible, they are not the underlying reason why these drugs are being abused in the first place, nor the reason they destroy peoples lives. The reason is that they stimulate the reward system and/or allow one to escape negative emotions and trauma. Behavioral addictions also do that, and can just as easily ruin ones life, by completely overcoming someones mind and will, such that they no longer are able to live their life, and are unable to escape or quit with willpower, just as much so as with drugs that cause withdrawal. They can still completely ruin your life and drive you to suicide, etc.
Moreover, people also often emphasize that many addictive substances can directly cause serious health problems, or even death. This is also not central to their harmfulness, nor always the case. In fact, for a drug to have substantial abuse potential it must be relatively free from serious adverse health effects, at least in the short term, or else it would become impossible to abuse- the most damaging substances are the ones where people can take higher doses for longer with less adverse effects, because this more strongly emphasizes its ability to be used to strongly stimulate the reward system and escape negative emotions and trauma for longer periods of time - cementing the addiction-, without causing a new negative experience on its own. Methamphetamine for example is unique among stimulants in how benign it is- allowing people to take massive doses over really long periods of time, and not face immediate health issues. Counter-intuitively, this is actually what makes it have so much abuse potential and cause so much harm, compared to other stimulants which quickly make you sick or feel awful at high doses. From this perspective, you can see that the fact that behavioral addictions are also able to be repeated in "large doses" for long periods of time without immediate short term health consequences can make them have a high potential for harm in the long term.
Try solving some crackme's. They're binary executables of various difficulty (with rated difficulty), where the goal ranges from finding a hardcoded password to making a keygen to patching the executable. They used to be more popular, but I'm guessing you can still find tutorials on how to get started and solve a simple one.
I’m fanboying at this point, but I honestly believe Mullvad should be the poster child for a lot of things other companies should be doing. Transparency, accountability, data minimization, thorough documentation, publicly available audits, etc.
I often discuss Jane Street as a great model of employee branding. They do well placed adverts/sponsorships (e.g. Standup Maths[0]), they produce a quite decent quality podcast (Signals and Threads [1]), and they have consistent monthly puzzles [2]. That level of investment in branding only makes sense, I think, at a large size. I'm kind of surprised they only have ~2500 people.
I think you may want to clear the environment (e.g., of `SSH_AUTH_SOCK`) as well as isolate in a PID namespace as well. I also reflexively `--as-pid-1 --die-with-parent`.
(The `bwrap` manpage says “you are unlikely to use it directly from the commandline,” yet I use it like this all the time. If you do, too, then we should be friends!)
This is worth a watch if you want some background into why those type of measures have been less successful in the US and Canada, and how grifters have been taking advantage.
> Fans are requested to appreciate the hard work the developers put into their video games and avoid spreading the leaked source code further.
Alternately, appreciate the hard work by making interesting mods for the game. GTA5 has already had an extensive modding scene for the 10 years it’s been out, but now I assume mods will become easier to make and more powerful, benefiting Rockstar’s customers who paid for the game. And who is hurt? Not pirates, who could obtain the game starting shortly after release. Potentially people playing against cheaters online, except I’ve heard they’ve had free rein for a long time.
Companies should release their own games’ source code. Other software too.
> Do you think that they will converge on how they interpret SVG?
Not any time soon. The unfortunate truth is that nobody implements the entirety of the SVG spec. It's not even close when it comes to SVG 2. This is a good read on that topic:
> Whenever I receive bug reports for my SVG library, people often use the phrase "my SVG isn't rendering correctly". Which cracks me up every time. There is no such thing as a correctly rendered SVG. As soon as you start using "advanced" features such as text, filters, or, God forbid, animations - it would simply not work. Never. And even if you will manage to make it work, as soon as you try a different render - it will fall apart again.
> The idea behind this "book" is to answer the popular question of "how hard can it be?". A reader expected to have some prior knowledge about SVG, but it should be a fun read either way.
A desert traveller is searching for water. He sees, in the valley ahead, a shimmering blue expanse. Unfortunately, it’s a mirage. But fortunately, when he reaches the spot where there appeared to be water, there actually is water, hidden under a rock. Did the traveller know, as he stood on the hilltop hallucinating, that there was water ahead?
I first heard of algebraic effects in a presentation about Unison recorded at Strangeloop. Realizing that exceptions, async, generators, and continuations could all be unified and implemented on top of one language feature was mind expanding.
It looks like the juicy details are in the Explainer:
Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths - Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon Cancer. This conversation explores the relationship between meditation and psychedelics, and how they both can serve profound spiritual awakening and deep inner freedom in the face of mortality.
Information about the endowment fund: The Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D. Professorship Fund in Psychedelic Research on Secular Spirituality and Well-Being.
https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs
I have yet to use it though because Wayland still doesn't work properly for me (it doesn't restore the desktop properly after sleep) so I'm still on X11... without compositing... because KWin's compositor causes random freezes.
Yeay, Linux on the Desktop.