[–] 1 point 6 months ago

i loved the actual educational process of grad school but if we're talking about the people, i've got logical family chosen from all along my life. i don't want to denigrate any group of people just because the institution was lower. like shit, even my attitude toward education was awful in high school. i didn't start to grow up until my second semester of college.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    i'm ND. i have a weird take because i got on the path to becoming significantly disabled right after high school, and i was able to do some really interesting things in high school. i look very fondly back on high school as it's the last time i was anything approaching healthy.

    that said, i did have fun, but trying to stop me from having fun is like trying to stop the pope from shitting in the woods.

  • source
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago*

    It is my sincere hope that times have changed for the mental health of teens.

    The overall concept that it's normal for highschoolers to be morose, melancholy, disaffected, and depressed, effectively masked some actual real problems myself and others were having. At least, that was the overarching attitude at the time.

    If nothing else, the burgeoning awareness around neurodivergence gives me hope that people are getting accommodations and the support they need. Even if it's only from their peers.

    Edit: Oh, and the fact that society is trauma-bonded to the tune of repeated nightmares about locker combinations, attending class naked, and not knowing the location of you next class, etc., is worrysome. Trauma shouldn't be normalized and, IMO, suggests that something is fundamentally wrong with what we put people through at school.

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Grad school was the best years. Mostly people who actually wanted to be there and learn and interact.

    High school was miserable because everyone around me was so stupid and unmotivated. College was a lot of that too, but slightly better in that at least some folks were smart and motivated, instead of virtually nobody.

  • source
  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know. I'd still rather be back at school and not have to deal with the adult realization of just how fucked everything is. My high school was so big that everyone just gets lost in the crowd outside of your friend group.

  • source
  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago*

    Best and worst at the same time. Very difficult to navigate, sensorily overwhelming, frequent suicidal thoughts,... but life-changing encounters and a freeing irresponsibility I'll never eperience again

    I do have ptsd from school though, and not just high school. Just approaching a school, hearing the unmistakable rumor of hundreds of children, the ring of a bell.... it gives me the bàti-bàti, cold sweat, I need to flee.

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I don't know which at rest point you're meaning, but TLS in an HTTPS connection is not normally considered end to end. For a chat client, end to end encrypted means you hit send, the message is encrypted, and cannot be decrypted until it arrives at the recipient.

    An HTTPS connection is decrypted by the server in the middle, then re-encrypted for transit to the next person. I would think E2E could be considered encrypted at rest while on (e.g.) Facebook's servers. The danger area for E2E is at either end, where the decryption client is controlled by the middle man.

    I would hope that Facebook would not store the decrypted messages on your device, but I guess they must store something as you aren't prompted each time for your decryption code.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    If it was the same thing I was reading, it was that people assume end to end encyrpted password managers are fully safe because even if they get hacked the hackers can't get your passwords because of the encryption.

    In reality, the passwords are decrypted within their ecosystem. Even if it's on your device, a vulnerability in the client could leak your password because you type your password into their client.

    This is the same reason most (all?) E2E encryption is not a replacement for trusting the company. If Facebook wants the contents of your E2E encrypted chat, your app or browser is already decrypting them on your device. They can just change their app to capture the decrypted chat messages and send them to the NSA.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I use self hosted vaultwarden. it’s great. I was using the main Bitwarden site, but recently I heard that bw is potentially vulnerable. so I started self hosting it. but yeah, I can fully attest to password managers

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • view more: next ›