Ok, that was a close one.
Shrooms aren't magic, believe it or not.
There was some serious pain involved in my own recovery and I don't want to hide that.
The risk of what I did was also significant. If you have some addictions you need to eliminate and a life to rebuild, shrooms could probably help. There are also the bits where you need to see reality dissolve or have your visual cortex basically go into overdrive and basically nope-out for a few hours. Stuff like that tends to happen when you go on a mission to get your brain a bit softer.
The common AA trope is quite real for me: If I drink again, I'll likely be dead. Heart issues or a bad liver isn't going to get me, but it will be from absolute stupidity. There were some major changes I needed to make. (I don't subscribe to most of the AA stuff, btw. It helps some people, but I am too stubborn. It's got some good bits that are very helpful though.)
I only went into that stuff here just to underscore the seriousness. However, munching on a few grams every now and then probably could result in some positive changes too but you have to be self-aware enough to feel them.
It's one of the better EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) tools on the market. For enterprises, they are able to suck down tons of system activities and provide alerting for security teams.
For detection, when I say "tons of data", I mean it. Any background logs related to network activity, filesystem activity, command line info, service info, service actions and much more for every endpoint in an organization.
The response component can block execution of apps or completely isolate an endpoint if it is compromised, only allowing access by security staff.
Because Crowdstrike can (kind of) handle that much data and still be able to run rule checks while also providing SOC services makes them a common choice for enterprises.
The problem is that EDR tools need to run at the kernel level (or at a very high permission level) to be able to read that type data and also block it. This increases the risk of catastrophic problems if specific drivers are blocked by another kind of anti-malware service.
When you look at how EDR tools function, there is little difference between them and well written malware.
Crowdstrike became a choice recently for many companies that got fucked over by Broadcom buying VMWare. VMWare owned another tool, Carbon Black, which became subject to the fuckery of Broadcom so more companies scrambled to Crowdstrike recently.
I hope that was enough of a summary.
While I haven't seen the previous conversation, looking at the title of this post and also at the title of the community, that leads me to believe that this may not be a community for political history.
Since many historical events (especially in regards to politics) may be controversial, painful, horrendously offensive, stressful or annoying, that also leads me to believe some people might have gotten pissed off reading that stuff in this particular community.
That is my best guess.
From my research, neuroplasticity, neurogenesis and dendritic development and branching it is absolutely a factor in psychedelic use. (Ability to learn; neuron growth; neuron connection development)
Me being who I am, I tested this. My experience is my own and of course, highly subjective.
After several months of adapting to psilocybin and understanding what my tolerance was, I started some deep sessions at "breakthrough" or higher doses (+5g of potent strain mushrooms) on the weekends. My goal was to actually rewrite my behaviors as I was fresh into alcohol abstinence and had been struggling with depression and anxiety for most of my life.
While I could go on for hours about the details, I did have a basic plan. I would meditate and focus on specific issues I wanted to correct while trying to gain insight into how and why my mind and body behaved the way it did.
While there is a ton of illusion involved, it seemed that I could choose a different way to feel about something while in the depths of a trip. Mostly because perception is so wonky, it felt like I could isolate feelings and simply decide not to feel bad or anxious about something. I would focus on things like my alcohol addiction and simply choose not to crave the stuff anymore.
What I think the trips did was allow my brain to form alternative ways of thinking through illusion and creativity. By practicing new behaviors discovered during the depths of a trip, I was able to reinforce and make better behaviors a habit.
To simplify, I made my neuron pathways "soft" with psychedelics, focused on positive ways of thinking during a deep trip and then practiced those behaviors while my neuron pathways "hardened" over time.
I haven't been on antidepressants for a long while now and the thought of drinking again is almost repulsive. While depression and anxiety can easily be linked to alcoholism, I believe alcoholism was a symptom of my underlying mental health.
To answer your question, I believe I was able to reset and rewrite, anecdotally. There are many studies that support this, or at least, suggest this because of the actual physical effects on neurons.
(There may be some evidence of permanent protein degradation around neurons with extended and massive dosing. I need to track the paper down again where I read that bit..)
Now, I'll eat some mushrooms for fun every once in a while, but I don't feel the need to do much more than that. I believe I found what I was looking for and have no desire to go further. The few "bad trips" I have had was probably transformative as well, and an overall positive experience in hindsight. (However, I can handle a bad trip. There are many cases of full-blown psychosis due to high dosages by people who are inexperienced and in a shitty environment. Set and setting is paramount.)
Same. I support AI completely as a tool to solve specific problems and that is about it. What is really cool is that AI libraries and such got a massive boost of needed development so plebs like me can code simple ANN apps in Python with little skill. Documentation has improved 100x and hardware support is fairly good.
LinkedIn seems to be an interesting indicator of where tech is in its hype cycle. I guess LinkedIn went from 100% AI-awesome-everything about 2 months ago to almost zero posts and ads about it. I suppose most of the vaporware AI products are imploding now....
Of course, algorithmic feeds are a thing, so your experience might be different.
Reptiles are interesting creatures, for sure. (I still have a female chameleon and bearded dragon. My male cham died of old age last year.) I never got into breeding feeders, but that is a really good route to avoid the excessive supplementation that is super common.
I was a mod of /r/chameleons and still technically the owner of /r/chameleonholdingstuff, but I haven't been on Reddit for a long while. Strangely enough, some mods tried to pull me back into the fold a few months ago, but Reddit is just a shit show and I don't want any part of it. The /r/reptiles mods seemed a little more on the sane side though.
Most other moderators I met or talked with in person from Reddit were raging alcoholics, myself included. The subs I was involved with had a community that was... eh... very unique. (Reptile owners themselves tend to be a special breed, to say the least.)
Mental health is super important so do what you need to do and find a good headspace. Modding is a good time suck when you aren't busy but is a serious drain when other things are more important in life.
When I was in a much darker place, I would tend to make decisions that would isolate me from everyone and everything else. In some ways that is nice but in other ways... not so much. If you believe your decision is with specific purpose, awesome. If this decision is more of a trend across your life, try and only make positive decisions. (This is just something I share when people express decisions in the context that you used.)
Wishing you the best! Be happy and stay healthy, friend.
Just an addendum for clarification. If you don't want clarification, then yes: A slower connection may cause more battery drain.
A slower connection means you would need to be on your device longer which would result in a larger than normal perceived battery drain with normal use.
An unstable connection with lots of packet losses would cause chaos with the network stack on your phone leading to more memory consumption, unneeded encryption/decryption and possibly hung TCP sessions. That would be a battery suck. In the worst cases on older devices, could even cause your phone to get a little warmer. That gets worse if you VPN client has to constantly reconnect, which is another problem.
Watch it without reading any critic reviews first, is my opinion. (When I watched Enterprise, it just so happened my opinions aligned with other people's complaints. I am glad I watched it first though.)
Things that people found divisive, I really didn't. Some changes probably caught everyone off guard, hence the major controversy of season 1, but at least it was plausible that the change could align with the rest of the Star Trek universe in some way. Maybe.
Like most other new shows, it can be a bit rocky as the writers develop the story and underlying theme.
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