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Cake day: December 6th, 2024

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  • Using public WiFi can be dangerous. I still use the hotel wifi when traveling though.

    But if I’m doing anything important I’ll turn on my vpn for extra protection because you do not know who is snooping on your data.

    A lot of data being transmitted is encrypted but the person in the middle could still see which sites you are accessing, just not the content.

    There are some attacks that can downgrade your connection so the stuff is not encrypted, but I don’t think that is very likely to happen due to other safety mechanisms.

    In addition to this, even someone collects your encrypted internet traffic, they can’t see what the data is. But once quantum computers are accessible, they can easily break the encryption and look at everything.

    I don’t believe quantum resistant encryption is currently being used for https connections.

    Another thing that could do is make sites take you to an imposter site. So google.com could take you to a clone of that site and try to get you to log in and reveal your password and email address.



  • One of the best things I did to change my life for the better was to stop caring about what other’s think. You can basically laugh off any criticism and the people who will seriously be mean to you about something are not people to keep in your life.

    When I go to a bar, I do not need to order a bitter IPA, I’ll get whatever sweet cocktail I want. If someone calls me out for it not being manly, I just tell them the manliest thing is doing whatever the hell you want. I’ve never had someone say something to me like that and be serious about it, but whenever a hear that joke, my response always shuts them up.

    Just do whatever you want and stop worrying about others. If people reject you, then get new people.


  • You should do the therapy one. It is kind of fun once you realize that you can basically just say whatever the hell you want and won’t be judged or interact with the person socially. You also can be assured that it is kept secret (with a few serious exceptions) by law.

    It is kind of freeing to just open up about the hardest things to talk about with anyone else.

    I’m in a pretty good place mentally, but I still check in with my psych every couple months. Usually just to vent about stuff that I do not want to discuss with people I interact with socially.