@anhdoilc oh no kidding. Definitive answers for the win.

There is a possibility that there is more than one cause for what is currently called hyper mobility Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Have you read about alpha tryptasemia? I don't have very good brain power today, so this might be a bit garbled. Long story shortish, alpha tryptasemia causes elevated tryptase in the blood, which can cause EDS, POTS, and MCAD. So that might be one cause.

But there might also be a gene or group of genes that causes it from another angle. For all we know, there could be multiple causes and that's why they haven't narrowed down the specific gene yet. Or so I speculate.

Disclaimer: just a speculation. I am not a researcher or a doctor. Don't take my word for it.

Normalize telling your friends you love them. Tell them a lot. Make it weird.

@anhdoilc got it. Yeah, in my non-expert opinion, they're the same. We already know there's a huge variance in how EDS manifests, even within the same family.m

In my family, I'm the most severely affected. There are others, some with severe symptoms, others with a few relatively minor but associated symptoms, but given the pattern and their relation to an identified patient (me), it makes it extremely likely they also have it, just nowhere near as severe as me. One is a nurse with extensive connections in the medical community, but cannot find a doc who is familiar enough to diagnose. I am the only one diagnosed.

The chicken is finally done. ✅
We finally got to eat. ✅
Only an hour and a half late. 😬
But we are fed. ✅

#RoastChicken #cooking #NoMoreGnawingOnTheArm

@anhdoilc hyper mobility, you say. Ehlers Danlos by any chance? Cuz that's what I'm talking about.

Breaks are good. Pacing is good. :)

😼 Wowowo ! Tout doux Jolly Jumper !
#Équitation

#MercrediCestConnerie
#CatsOfMastodon

Hilbert Circuit #b3d #geometrynodes

Can we reach 18k? And unlock a stretch goal? :D https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strangehorizons2019/strange-horizons-2024

@anhdoilc howdy! I am also chronically ill, disabled, gamer, artist, anxious. I used to knit, but gave that up due to unstable joints and arthritis.

Welcome!

For work, I'm working on a custom macOS installer at the moment …

"Why an installer when installing a macOS app is as simple as dragging and dropping into a folder”, you ask? Well, because this is for a macOS login/authorization plugin …

At this point, most people will probably go “Huh?” and I don’t blame you, because this is a dark corner of macOS coding that most probably don’t venture into 😛

A macOS login plugin allows you to customise the macOS login flow so that you can add your own layer of authorization/security or carry out some specific tasks that need to happen during the login process.

Unofrtunately, none of that is very well documented. In fact, I spent months scouring the Internet and going through documentation to get our implementation of a macOS login plugin working correctly.

In fact, somebody at work said that I was one of possibly 10 people in the world who understood this stuff. Honestly, I don’t believe that since I think that if I could figure it out, anybody else could too since the information is all out there 🙂

Whatever the case, our login plugin requires particular authorization rules to be set and what most people seem to do is to use a shell script to do this since that’s fairly widely documented. But in our case, while that’s the option we are using now, I want to actually do this via code because it simplifies a few logistical issues.

So here I am, exploring the macOS documentation again to see how you can do what I want to do in Swift and finding that this is not very well documented at all 😛

I do wish that the Apple documentation was excellent throughout instead of being very informative for the areas that everybody is interested in and then getting rather opaque, terse, or downright non-existent for the areas that people don’t venture into often. But I guess that’s how it works out — afterall, why bother spending the time on documenting something that not many people will use?

#Coding #Apple #macOS #Authorization #Documentation #Security #Login #Swift

If anyone has worried dogs tonight, try popping some popcorn. It's worked for us for the last three years, they get excited about the popcorn and desensitized to loud pops. Hopefully this tip will help someone else.

#fireworks #dogs

#kbin #kbinadmin #fediadmin

Does anyone have an actual setup guide for a kbin instance? I prefer it over lemmy because it federates a lot better, but the documentation barely exists so I have no idea how I'm supposed to actually setup an instance.

Have you ever wondered why the train seats have such complex patterns?

They don't start out like this. Out of the factory, the seats are plain.

With repeated use a fractal pattern develops on the fabric, becoming more and more detailed.

It's not dirt and grime, but the stains of the souls of the passengers who sit on them. Every day they lose a little more of their soul on the commute, until nothing is left but the empty shell of a salaryman.

Old trains have such character.
#microfiction

On this date in 1995 we lost an icon with the passing of Bob Ross. I loved (and still do) watching his episodes on TV. #RIPBobRoss #80s #1980s #BobRoss

@iaintshootinmis if you haven't already, you might want to do an intro post using hashtags for your interests. Some people, myself included, follow hashtags of our interests and find people that way.

You could also add those hashtags to your profile so you can be found through those.

@Quizzie these are fabulous. They look so soft and comfortable.

cishet techbros think fedi is failing because nobody interacts with their posts

they don't know the secret:

clears throat

meow

Just a friendly reminder that the cheeseburger.social is open for new user registration if anyone needs a new home #mastodon #activitypub #fediverse

@J_T this is beautiful.

Another simple #WaterColor today. My back has been killing me since last week. I haven’t been able to do much at.

#MastoArt #chronicpain