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Finally signed up for 10$/month donation. Thanks for the inspiration!

In prioritizing risks I do feel it's a genuine qualitative difference though.

Number of humans going to 1 million would be huge catastrophe, but after a few thousand years it gets back up to billions of people, renewed every generation.

Number of humans going to 0 means that's it. One scenario has many orders of magnitude more missing humans, when you count future lives.

I thought France had it. It turns out France, Italy, Netherlands, UK, and Belgium have a conditional deferred version: you can become a citizen at 18 if you're born and have been living there (plus a few caveats).

In my previous company we hired a startup that did security training, that recommanded everyone use a password manager. And one of their test was that they sent a fake phishing email to people (randomized over a couple of months so not everyone would get it the same day).

I don't remember the exact number but something like 30% of people who didn't use a password manager got caught. Basically no-one using a manager was.

Granted there might be some selection bias (people who had managers were probably already slightly more security conscious), but people were feeling slightly embarrassed to have been caught and it worked great to have everyone do the switch. And everyone remembered after that that if it doesn't autofill, something's amiss.

I don't think that's correct as a blanket statement - you can use a passphrase, or remember a 14+ character password since you only have one to remember.

Even if it's only random-ish, password managers do key stretching (for example by hashing the password 600k times - bitwarden has a high default value and lets you increase it if you like) so that it has to take some computational effort to check if a single password is correct. That's why it take a few seconds to unlock your vault each time.

With these in place I think you're pretty safe for a long time. (Well, maybe until quantum computing breaks those cyphers?)

My mom is an avid traveler who takes a ton of photos and puts them on albums she then shares with the family, and a while ago she was asking if I had a solution so she could have a website where all her albums are listed. She wanted to not have to share a new link each time, and have people easily look up older ones.

I didn't have any easy solution and this looks promising, congrats!

A few dealbreaker things I can share:

- she has lots of albums already on gphoto. She'd need to easily import them.

- she makes heavy use of the map and text blocks you can add in gphoto albums, which makes each album a kind of travel diary. I don't get the sense these are supported in your product yet, these would be required for her.

- she doesn't have a ton of videos but sometimes she does have a few.

- I'd have some concerns about the longevity of your product - if she invests time into it she wants to be able to look back at the albums in 10-20 years time. Having a convenient way to export the albums would be reassuring to me.

- I think she has a few 1000s photos in those albums, so your highest tier would be too low for her, if there was a way to buy storage that might suit her usage better (though she has a hobbyist budget).

It might be technically difficult and you rejected that path already, but I'm thinking an ideal way for her would be to keep editing her albums in gphotos and sync them to your site, which would take care of the longevity concerns and allow her to keep using the interface she knows (if you linked directly to the pics/vids on google server that would eliminate the cost of storing pictures for you, but I assume that's impossible or prohibited by google's tos).

Anyway, just sharing my use case in case that's useful but congrats on launching and on the good looking product!

For sure, though I'll probably have more info after the study.

It's done by the same people as the second paper I linked, on people attending a 10-day silent meditation retreat. My understanding so far is that the participants will be "zapped" a couple of time over the 10 days, to explore exactly what you describe ie alterations of consciousness similar to what's found in long term meditators on retreat, except induced on people who are already on retreat instead of people who'll have to go back to work afterwards.

I'll have more to report in a couple weeks time!

(If you'd like to share, I'm also curious as to what interests you in that field of study)