btaroli

btaroli, 1 day ago to random

@thunderbird @thunderbird So… is anyone keeping tabs on #Betterbird? I can’t say I’m fond of everything they’ve done, but in the world of “we care about using Graph with #O365 #Exchabge” this is starting to gain steam. I’m resisting g the fork, but I’m curious what the team has to say on the subject.

Indeed the latest round of chat revolved around a version of #TbSync hacked to talk to #GraphAPI.

#Office365 #Thunderbird

btaroli, 13 days ago to ADHD

Today. Was. Just. Too. Much.

Endless work meetings. Slack. Interruptions. HOA Committee Texts. School meetings. School district meetings. Music lesson.

At some point at about 3pm I just had enough. And when this happens I tend to leave chats. Cancel or ignore messages or meetings.

I have to for my sanity. I have learned that if I push on I truly burn out and am not useful for anyone.

Why does our society encourage this???

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD @actuallyautistic

btaroli, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to privacy

#PBS #NOVA Secrets in Your Data

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secrets-in-your-data/

I was elated to see #PrivacyBadger, #uBlockOrigin, and #Disconnect featured! I’ve long been a devoted user of all of them.

#privacy #EFF

btaroli, 20 days ago to ADHD

My current world order, where my morning and overnight schedule has largely shifted to accommodate a crazy early start to get kiddo ready for alternate school pickup, has resulted in my not being up as late at night as I used to be.

What I’ve realized is this seriously impacts my productivity. I’m way more productive at quiet times in mg day, and now my working time is constrained to when others are around. This sucks.

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD @actuallyautistic

btaroli, 28 days ago to meta

Wait… so #Meta is trying to make #WhatsApp the new #WeChat of the US? What could possibly go wrong…?
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112367606416456930

btaroli, 1 month ago to ADHD

“S.O.S.” by Allie Sisk

A friend shared this short film by her Autistic daughter, who’s about to start at college. This is her attempt to “capture [my] feelings that [I get] of anxiety or stress when under pressure.”

https://youtu.be/5_J5Kd8nvZk?si=3neG3-bE4-Od4Yqc

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd

btaroli, 2 months ago to apple

🧵 1/2 I know people have all kinds of opinions about #Apple and its ways. But there are these moments of utter bliss and delight that happen with #iOS. Like when I open an email from son’s school, and it has a field trip form attached. I open it to read it. Then I’m asked if I’d like to complete the form. Yes, please.

I pick and choose what to fill in. I SIGN it with an actual signature. Then asked if I’d like to send it back. Oh YEAH!

#DOJvApple #ItJustWorks #BlewMySocksOff #SpecialFavors

btaroli, 2 months ago to random

We hit a coin show in Sunnyvale today and made a few finds. Better yet, we met some great people and got a few pointers to collector groups that my son will check out and maybe find some great community!

#CoinCollecting #SpecialInterest #ParentingWhileAutistic #AutisticParenting #ActuallyAutistic

A sample of today’s finds at the coming show.

btaroli, 2 months ago to ADHD

🧵1/2 Someone has a really rotten sense of humor today. I make a simple request of IT, and have to do it in a channel that’s truly horrible about doing things properly. Fine.

But then hours and hours go by. So I finally decide to run an errand for my son after lunch. I’m about five minutes from home, driving, when several people pop into my slack asking to help.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD #ITHelpdesk #WaitingByThePhone #triggers #SecurityTheater

btaroli, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to ADHD

🧵1/2 About 10 minutes away from parent teacher conference. There will be 8-10 people reading from their report over the 30 minute length of the meeting.

I’ve decided that I’ll zoom from my phone so I can’t possibly read along. No, feel free to read it as you intended. If you want to save time, listen to my repeated requests that you email a copy at least a day before. That is all. Suffer away.

#ParentingWhileAutistic #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD @actuallyautistic

btaroli, 3 months ago to actuallyautistic

Yep, the #ValentinesDay social oppression is upon us once again. I lately ignore it. My son is unable to escape it at school though. Teacher sent email to parents indicating students would need to make one for every student, lest anyone be left out, but they can’t provide us a list due to privacy. So please produce X cards with “class peer” as the name! How awfully useless!

Son decides he hasn’t the spoons for X generic cards. 👍👍👍

#AutisticParenting #ParentingWhileAutistic @actuallyautistic

btaroli, 4 months ago to ADHD

One thing I notice about being sick or exhausted, say after a night of poor sleep, is that my anxiety level trying to usher son through his getting ready is far less. I just don’t have the energy to get to that place. A place I didn’t really want to be.

Is there a way to avoid getting to that anxious place when I have the energy, I wonder… 🤔

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #ParentingWhileAutistic @actuallyautistic

btaroli, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to ADHD

Am I the only person to notice that CBS News showed an advertisement for Autism Speaks today, during national news at 4PM PT? I live in SF Bay Area, and I’m not sure if this was just from local KPIX. I do certainly plan to reach out and raise their attention to the harm this group causes.

#AutismSpeaks #CBSNews #KPIX #CBSSF #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #BoycottAutismSpeaks @actuallyautistic

btaroli, 5 months ago to actuallyautistic

🧵 1/3 I’ve been out of commission a couple days due to flu. Feeling better and heading to see family for a bit. Needed to get a couple of errands done. Gas. Meds. A bit of groceries. No biggie.

But it’s Friday before Christmas. Of course. Everyone and their third and fourth cousins are packing places like CVS and Safeway. Parking lots filled with confused people are annoying. Deep breaths.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #neurodivergent #NDInAnNTWorld @actuallyautistic

btaroli, 5 months ago to baking

🤣🤣🤣 @cnnbrk Here’s some breaking news, CNN Breaking News. Not everyone is running Brave. I don’t. Many do run privacy controls. How ironic that our privacy controls are blocking your “privacy protections,” and you insist we should TRUST YOU. Is that like trusting Meta to protect users’ phone numbers by passing their chats through Meta servers…?

So hilarious. Thank you for self-deselecting from my trusted news sources. 🤣🤣🤣

#AdBlocker #malware #cookies #tracking #privacy #FreeIsntFree

btaroli, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to privacy

I’m beginning to try Olvid messenger as a replacement for Telegram and others.

• Symmetric encryption
• No servers
• No accounts
• No passwords
• No phone numbers
• All chats are implicitly private
• Open source
• Freemium pricing model.

https://olvid.io/

PM me an invitation or request an invite from me.

#encryption #privacy #messenger #olvid

btaroli, 5 months ago to ADHD

I was in a weird null space this past weekend. I knew I had things I wanted to get to but just had literally no drive to do much. I did manage a few things but these were in the evening.

Sometimes I think my pattern is that I’m more productive when there are literally no people around that I know of. It’s not that they’re talking to me, but the very prospect of having to expend energy interacting with or avoiding them switches my drive off.

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD @actuallyautistic

btaroli, 6 months ago to pfSense

I've been on the search for a #mesh #WiFi option that supports multiple SSID associated to tagged #VLAN, which span into the LAN. I do this now with #FreshTomato to my #pfSense router. But I need better WiFi coverage.

So far, it's looking like #OrbiPro and #DrayTek devices do this, but one isn't high on my expectations list and one isn't easily acquired in the US. So I'm trying the Orbi Pro and we'll see...

#HomeNetworking #security #segmentation

btaroli, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to actuallyautistic

I’ve been noticing, in my random sleep times, that I’m way more productive if I crash early in the evening and wake in the early morning (2-4am). If I ride the energy and take my time starting up, I enter the daylight hours feeling much more energetic and productive. I’m not sure if I want to make this a regular thing but it might be better than trying to stay up late after kiddo is down for sleep.

#SleepSchedule #productiveness #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @actuallyautistic

btaroli, 6 months ago to random

@1password I previously began using the ssh identity provider and have enjoyed it. On a lark I took a stab at trying the CLI. I used inject to transform one of my bash scripts to self-modifying. It’s got dozens of op:// tokens in it and doing individual “op read”lookups was too slow. But having it inject itself into a tmpfs copy used until next reboot, and then redirecting calls to that copy, has worked a treat!

I’m glad you guys have added these features even if I’m late to the game. 😁

btaroli, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to retrocomputing

Was comparing notes with a friend about our computer history. These are personal systems only. Not network, servers, or NAS… or smartphones… 🤣

PET 2001 (school)
TRS-80 Model 1 (school)
PET 4016 (school)
Apple //e
HP86B w/ Z80 module (school)
Mac SE
Mac Quadra 605
Mac Quadra 650
iMac Bondi Blue
iMac G4
PowerBook G4
MacBook Pro 2007
MacBook Pro 2013 (retina)
MacBook Pro 16” M1Max

#RetroComputing

btaroli, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to LGBTQ

Tuesday was exciting. Worked a health expo at work for our ND employee group. Dropped husband off at airport. Son decided to inspect the inside of a Lithium Ion battery.

Yes, it outgassed and filled his room with smoke. Alarms. #Hazmat testing and cleanup. It’s been… exciting. 🤣

Thank you to #RegasGroup https://regasgroup.com/ and #RestoreX https://restorex.biz/ !

#AutisticParenting #ParentingWhileAutistic #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @actuallyautistic #LGBTQ

btaroli, 7 months ago to LGBTQ

Happy National Coming Out Day!

#NCOD #LGBTQ #NationalComingOutDay

btaroli, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to Autism

A friend who vlogs about solo travel noticed a sign about sensory sensitivity aboard a #Carvinal cruise ship today. Has anyone had experience with their "sensory inclusivity" program or #KultureCity?

https://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6469/~/kulturecity-sensory-certified

https://www.kulturecity.org/carnival/

#neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autism #SensoryIssues #travel #cruising #SensoryInclusive @actuallyautistic

btaroli, 8 months ago to ADHD

Been quiet the past couple days. Had been stressing about family visit. It’s been OK actually, even though I didn’t get everything on my list done.

I must say that having the house decluttered has been so nice. As always I’m baffled why I waited, but then I also get why #ADHD brain inhibits me sometimes.

Goal is to find tactics to help avoid the clutter from blossoming. I’m trying are ideas to start. I like thinking of it as a gift to myself.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @actuallyautistic