Oh yeah “Almost Overnight” is a thing they all do. Not sure about sitters that can board but when you do an orientation visit with a sitter (you have to, to introduce them to your home and pets and show them where everything is), they will tell you exactly what all the offerings are.

You might want to consider professional in-home pet sitting for your dog instead. I use a service called Fetch! pet care which I have been very satisfied with for my cat with some special medical needs. I use their Rockville branch, the link is to their DC branch.

They will provide services like dog walking and administering medications. It might be a little more expensive than boarding - I don’t know how the prices compare as I use this service for cat care - but for your dog’s situation they are probably a better option than boarding.

> Already moved to a different cloud based one that doesn’t get hacked every year.

Respectfully, you don’t know how often they get hacked, they probably just Don’t disclose it the same way. But any password vault provider is gonna be an attractive target for hackers.

Oh, golly, I had this trouble when my kid was born there with getting a birth certificate. They do not in fact “take care of it.” You have to call them and bug them. Maybe also talk to the DC Department of Vital Records or whatever it is.

I do like being able to sync over the cloud but one should have options.

Do you mean 1Password? It’s free and open-source unlike 1Password although there’s nothing wrong with 1Password as such IMO. If you are using that keep on using it.

You have to go change them because the hackers might have accessed local copies and if you deactivate your account first it is a lot harder to keep track of what you changed when.

Also I don’t know if you can still look up your passwords/have access to anything from your vault if you deactivate the account! I suspect you can’t. I use a different password manager.

There’s an r/adhd sub and they probably have a post about this.

Typically they have handled hacks well in the past but they really screwed the pooch this time. If you are a LastPass user change both your master password and all your other passwords as well, starting with your most sensitive ones (email and finance).

If you haven’t used a password manager this shouldn’t put you off the idea, though. You’re still better off using one than not. But use BitWarden or something instead.

I have gotten incredibly good at bludgeoning my way through the healthcare system and I consider it a duty to share my knowledge with fellow neurodivergent people. I really hope you can figure out getting your medicine mailed to you, it saves so much trouble.

I get mine from my pharmacy benefits manager (PBM). A PBM is insurance that just covers medications and they will also dispense medications by mail. ExpressScripts and Caremark are PBMs.

I don’t know what kind of health insurance you have. You might have a PBM or you might not. If you do, you can look up how to start ordering your medication by mail. If you don’t there might still be a way to do it but you would have to ask your insurance company how to do it.

That’s annoying but if you take Adderall it should be on their formulary (list of drugs they fully cover), so if it’s a service they cover at all it shouldn’t be too much of a pain in the ass.

You mean only in DC? If they are licensed in MD or VA I know for a fact they will deliver there but you have to have someone who will sign for you at whatever delivery address.

Yes it can. I take Vyvanse which is also a controlled substance and I get that in the mail but I can’t get automatic refills. I have to send in a script every time. But I can get a 3-month supply every time. Someone has to sign for it on delivery though.

A lot of people don’t know this but the DEA limits the amount of ADHD medicine that can be distributed to pharmacies in a region. It’s even worse now because there is an overall shortage.

This may not help now but in the future can you get your Rx delivered by mail? This is what I do. I don’t have to play roulette with pharmacies.

It happens a lot. Hospitals or entire hospital systems (including the NHS) have been getting knocked out like this at least every couple of months for the last several years. Ransomware gangs love hospitals. And school systems.

It’s kind of unique to medical devices. You can talk about Windows or Oracle databases having bad vulnerabilities and how you traced a hack of your company to that and they won’t come down on you like a ton of bricks, but it’s different if you say it was unnecessarily open ports (that you couldn’t close) in X company’s heart monitor.

This has gotten better in the past decade or so. There are better standards for manufacturers to secure medical devices and more established practices for hospitals to patch them and such (because you don’t want a ventilator to go through a patching cycle while a patient is using it, ya know?), but it’s still bad out there for this and other reasons.

Which part about GE? They do make medical devices. And I just used them as an example, any company that makes medical devices behaves the same way.

If you look up anything about cyberattacks on medical devices or medical device vulnerabilities there is a reason that the VA is the only American hospital system that’s vocal about it (and they have a program to address it) while all others are rather conspicuously quiet.

A lot of hospitals have piss-poor cybersecurity. This is not just a problem with hospitals, but it is a particularly big problem in the healthcare sector.

One issue is that medical device manufacturers don’t do anything to secure their devices which are on hospital networks and they provide an easy way to get in and attack the networks, but if you are a hospital system and say something like “our IT system got locked with ransomware because of an insecure GE device,” GE will sue you into bankruptcy, so nobody dares to say anything and the problem does not get fixed.

The only hospital system that can (and does) push for medical device security is the VA hospital system because they can’t get sued out of existence.

ETA: Applies in America, not necessarily elsewhere. Under-resourcing of cybersecurity for healthcare systems seems to apply worldwide though.

So you have, apparently, issues in British Columbia, according to one person I’ve never heard of, and this is apparently true of tree farming and sustainable logging practices the world over?

I was going to post this but you already posted it LOL

A lot of people have really shit-tier instincts about what is sustainable, what creates harmful waste, what is “bad for the environment,” etc.

Forestry practices for growing and harvesting wood to be used in paper, building, furniture making, etc. are on the whole pretty good throughout most of the world these days! Most chopping down of old growth is for mining or oil extraction or clearing space for cattle ranching or something.

> Well if you’ve seen it then I suppose everyone else has.

Unironically yes.

LOL the January 6th insurrection was organized on Facebook but…

Take the Metro it goes right up to the airport now.

So it sounds like you use different social media platforms for different things. Why would you need another one to do everything for you, especially one that works mostly like Twitter?

I assume that unless I am using a secure messaging app or using iMessage with the new feature where you can lock everything down, then anybody could be reading my “private” messages on anything. It’s in the fine print.

But I work in cybersecurity. So I just don’t make the distinction the way other people do.