Super General Advice (the thread for advice without making a thread)

One of my usual passwords is coming up as possibly compromised, but it’s not the one I used for Instagram

:insert shrug emoji here:

 

Thanjs! Added to list of places to nom

 

Yeah, it does sound suspicious, and that’s good to hear. I’m not too shocked because haveibeenpwned enjoys a stellar reputation in the extremely paranoid security community. But it’s still good that people are checking.

 

Basically, the way it works is that it turns your password into a SHA-1 hash, and then queries a list of every hash in the database with the first few characters. It then checks if the hash it has matches any of them.

 

are uh. like. mental health diagnosis persistent? ? i found out a while ago that i was diagnosed with adhd or add or something when i was young but my parents refused to get me medication for them, n like, will that be noted anywhere that I can find ?

 

It... depends. If anything was reported to your school (if you went to a public school in the US, I can't speak to anywhere else) it may be part of your school records, but otherwise, if the doctor/clinic you went to is still open (or if not often the hospital or was affiliated with may have the records still) and it's been less than six years, they will still have your records on file. However, if you're under 18, you unfortunately don't have the right to request them :/ (Again, this is all US only.) Otherwise, your family doctor may have some copies of the records, or some parents save medical paperwork like that. Good luck.

Edit: apparently the length of time doctors are required to keep records varies by state like everything else, which I should have guessed, but it seems like the general guideline is that for patients treated under the age of 18, records are kept to age 20 or 21.

 

ah, thanks.

seems unlikely then, i haven't been to a proper doctor in years and i dont think ive had a family doctor for even longer than that

oh well

 

I want to come out to my family but am not sure how. There is a qualified doctor who runs an advice email service for gender issues, and he obviously can't diagnose me over the internet but he could be backup in telling them that being genderqueer is a real thing. Does it sound like a good idea to give them his URL when I tell them?

 

So, the hiring process at this company is taking a lot longer than i thought it would (been a week since I was told a new person would get in touch with me about details, and still no email :/) and I am running out of cash. Does anyone know where I might start looking for extremely temporary work, even as temporary as a week or so? I’ve been poking around craigslist, but even with most things on there it seems like “temporary” and “on-demand” means the summer at least. I have a car and a smartphone but not a computer, and my car isn’t actually under inspection right now.

 

How about a temp agency?

 

worry CANCELLED, literally as I was about to respond to you i got a call from the company to schedule an appointment for a drug test and hopefully start training next monday :D

thank u for the suggestion though, i somehow... forgot that temp agencies exist

 

Congrats! Hope it goes well!

 

thank you!!

 

@Knives re: medical records, it doesn't hurt to give your old doctors a call if you can :P I work in pediatric medical records and we never truly dispose of records, they just get put into storage if we haven't seen a patient for 10+ years, but we can always place a request to get it back out if an older patient needs something, we do it all the time. Obviously that's not the case with all practices, but you never know! And requests for records of ADHD diagnoses are verrrry common. Even if you weren't prescribed anything, if your old doctor still has the record of the visit where it came up (or any Vanderbilt forms if your parents/teachers filled out any), it could be handy.

 

I'm vacating an apartment full of accumulated furniture, none of which belonged to me originally and none of which I am attached to. My landlord mentioned to people touring the apartment that they could buy furniture from me when moving in. Would it be reasonable/legal to contact the rental company and ask them to put me in touch with the new tenants, if they exist?

 

I don't know about legalities, but I definitely have gotten contact information for the tenant planning to replace me *and* for tenants currently sharing the building with me so that we could communicate directly. It's just anecdata, but yeah.

 

That would be completely reasonable, especially if you write them a note (something like this):

Dear new tenants,

The landlord may have mentioned that you could purchase some of my furniture.
If you are interested, these are my contact details.

Phone number, name, email (whichever you prefer)

If you are interested please let me know by (date), otherwise I will make other arrangements.

Sincerely,
Prismaticvoid

Then just ask the rental company to pass that along :)

ETA: I added the last part because I assume that you will have to get rid of the furniture otherwise

 

My expensive Sockdreams socks have worn through at the ball of the foot and I don't want to throw them away. Does anyone have experience with patching socks, or with this method, and if so, how well does it work?