GioM's comments

I have had tinnitus from an infection, which (very thankfully, and I admit very luckily) slowly resolved over a period of years.

That said, I have experienced occasional reoccurrence. One thing that helps is I ask my masseuse to concentrate on the sides of my neck- there is a specific muscle that when tense can cause ringing.

Does your tinnitus get momentarily worse when you tense your neck muscles?

Ah, I think I get it. Article says:

> In the Gmail app on iOS, it looked completely legitimate — the branding, the case number, everything. Even the drop-down still showed “@google.com.”

> So when he asked me to read back a code — supposedly to prove I was still alive — in a moment of panic, I did.

The sentences do not refer to the same thing.

The code was not in the email... The narrator was asked to read back "a code" not the case ID in the email. "A code" here referes to a 2fa push notification code. The email was used to rattle the narrator / build trust to get them to comply.

I don't get this part either.

if the scammers had spoofed the email, they would already have that code, and if they hadn't spoofed that email... I mean it looks like a case ID, why would they need it?

Maybe the reading back the code was to get buy in, then there's a missing step here like they had him hit "allow" on a 2fa prompt. Or maybe the email was legit, since it references a "temporary code" and the case ID allowed access with that code?

Good chance my reading comprehension is shot and I'm missing something, I suppose, but I don't understand.

I feel like what trips people up is the abstraction layer.

Viruses are abstracted on top of other living things in the same way that animals are abstracted on top of plants, in that they both require the lower layer of abstraction for their basic survival.

I remember that the "Slashdot Effect" used to be a thing, getting featured on Slashdot generated enough traffic that it routinely took sites down.

Then digg came along, and I started using that, but kept Slashdot on the backburner. One day I remember listening to a diggnation podcast, one of the live ones with Kevin and Alex in front of a live audience at (probably) some bar somewhere, and Kevin made a remark about "Slashdot effect.... it's the Digg effect now!" and the crowd roared.

And he was right. It had been a fair while since Slashdot had managed to take anything down.

I felt a little sad, for a moment, because I knew what it meant.

There’s a good discussion in the previous article discussed on HN, including links to various papers.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893627

2. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8234998/

This is true. Extensions currently (manifest v2) are able to evaluate net requests dynamically, and are able to modify requests according to a dynamic ruleset that the extension can retrieve from some filter list published on the internet.

Under manifest v3, extensions are not able to dynamically inspect requests, instead, they may only apply rules to net requests. Even worse, there is a limitation of only 5000 rules per extension!! [1]

Even WORSE worse, under Chrome's manifest v3 rules, the extension cannot load any external code! Meaning that blocklists must be packaged with the extension. [2] Now, one might consider the reading of that link to no affect block lists, it's not a "library" and it's not "code" so long as it's just a list of textual rules.... however, google considers the following to be a violation: "Building an interpreter to run complex commands fetched from a remote source, even if those commands are fetched as data". [3]

Sneaky sneaky. An extension update (and hence new app store submission) is required to update filter lists.

In other words, dynamic net requests are banned, and remotely-updated blocklists are banned as well.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

[2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

[3] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/program-policies/...

More wild speculation: an expansion point in the previous universe, centred perfectly on a quark-antiquark pair.

Whole genome sequencing is commercially available for $299.

https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/

It’s a bit of a shame, the inability to modify requests for CORS will break a lot of frontend developer workflows.

It’s going to force the adoption of cors-proxy type solutions instead of a relatively simpler extension.

If you consider only the selection pressure from the mother’s side then yes that is the case.

However you must consider that the mother and the father are in an arms race with respect to the carrying capacity of the mother. The selection pressure from the father will always tend towards an offspring that is the maximum capacity at which the mother can bear.

The forests of New Brunswick are routinely sprayed with large amounts of glyphosphate herbicide.

Is it possible that this is the cause, instead of prions?

[1] https://www.conservationcouncil.ca/where-our-forest-is-being...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/liberals-greens...

[3] https://nben.ca/en/component/tags/tag/glyphosate-ban

[4] http://www.stopsprayingnb.ca/?page_id=118

Slashdot, to digg, to reddit, and now... nothing.

I hope a new one emerges.

I think the answer here is alternate capacity. Canada gets a relatively small portion (11%) of its energy from natural gas, with no province exceeding 21% (Alberta). On aggregate, most energy generated in Canada is renewable.

I think I have the opposite of this. I grew up on a bush lot, and my father used to look up and point out different species of plants.

When I'm outside that general geographical area I always find it unsettling that I can't recognize the plants.

Interesting. Could you comment a little further? I can see the analogy here to advertising making their other products appear less competitive internally, but it sounds like you may have further thoughts.

Sorry about this. It is really shitty. Like you, I got a case of tinnitus via ear infection. In my case it was caused by a three-week-long infection.

However, I count myself massively lucky that it did slowly resolve over about 5 years, to the point where I’d now consider it nearly gone.

I know it’s easy to lose hope, and get really frustrated by it, but I hope you have good days coming to you. Good luck.

Arthur C Clarke posits a consumable shield made of ice in The Songs of Distant Earth [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth

Take the idea a little further, to the end of the universe, and the rate of acceleration of expansion of space increases so much that stars become isolated from each other, then planets from stars, then molecules from each other, then atoms, and then quarks, the constituents of matter itself, and then....

An interesting thing happens.

When you tear a quark away from it's antiquark, you get two quarks. The energy is equal to that required to bring another quark into existence. At this point, the rate of expansion is so vast that every quark in the universe has been forever isolated from one another, and then each bursts into a sea of high-energy quark-gluon plasma. The massive energy of expansion is rapidly consumed generating these quarks, and then the expansion slows, never stopping, but continues at a much slower rate.

Wait... we've seen this before. A quark-gluon plasma, rapidly expanding from a single point, in a universe isolated from all others.

Only expansion is required to generate new universes, forever.

I started that book, got about 60% of the way through, and had to put it down. It seemed like Jocko was re-teaching the same lesson over and over again from slightly different angles.

Maybe I missed something big, but that's just the way it felt to me.