I’ve been using Little Snitch for ages. It been my go to on all my all new systems and they offer discounts on upgrades to new versions. Their support has been excellent the one time I needed it.
The intent of specifically including fentanyl is to not criminalize having drugs that have it mixed in. Ideal world, we remove fentanyl from the supply all together, sadly in Vancouver many of the deaths are from contaminated supply. There are general fears of getting drugs tested (its free) so people don't. This will help, but it's not a total solution.
Based on my understanding, the more recent surge in overdose-related deaths (since March 2020) is less related to contaminated supply and more related to a combination of 1. fentanyl becoming a popular drug-of-choice; 2. fentanyl being incredibly dangerous; 3. availability of COVID-related government support funds.
My brother has been an addict for his entire adult life - for the last 20 years. His drug-of-choice started at cocaine, then crack, then heroin, and for the past few years has been exclusively fentanyl. So I have a lot of first-hand information perhaps biasing this point-of-view.
There was a big spike in deaths related to contaminated supply between 2015 and 2018 [1] which led to a lot of media coverage [2], which is completely understandable: many ordinary citizens ("normies" as my brother calls us) partaking in recreational drug use lost their lives during this period and so it created a lot of buzz.
You see though that there's another big spike starting 2020 [1], particularly starting April 2020 [3], which is not backed up by any growth in media coverage [2], suggesting that it did not have as much of an impact of "normies". And during this same period, there was a additional government assistance money available to addicts, beyond the normal welfare payments, which allowed addicts were able to purchase and use more drugs. Overdose deaths are 50% more likely in the days following receiving government assistance [4]. And this makes sense, when you're flush with cash, you can do more drugs. When you're an addict, you'll do as many drugs as you can. When those drugs are fentanyl, you're constantly teetering with death.
My brother claims to use a naloxone kit nearly every day on somebody - all people who are part of the community. And they're used on him very regularly too - even as an experienced addict, he overdoses regularly. In fact, he sometimes does this on purpose, because the high of an overdose is apparently second-to-none. But he says that he only does that when there's somebody else with him who can hit him with naloxone before he dies. This is not uncommon. I know a firefighter at the fire hall: regularly addicts will bash on their door and then immediately shoot up a huge dose, because they know the firefighters will rescue them.
That's not at all to say that a contaminated supply isn't the problem now: I'm just not convinced that it's the primary factor in deaths today.
I use Node-Red for automating many work related tasks with the team I manage. One thing I wish it supported was multiple accounts that have separate flows. Even better would be support to separate where flows run from the UI, on a per users basis. I could host a worker node with our infra at work, allowing me to work with some of the more sensitive data and share it more openly with my peers.
* Transferring money to our clients would ideally be one uniform API request. Globally speaking, moving money around can still be complicated depending on what your business does, how much money you are transferring and the origin/destination. API's could enable a new level of communication about moving money around that could satisfy many countries needs to track/audit about money transfers while making it easier for businesses to actually do it.
* Reconciliation of statements with whatever software you use. Right now, there are a lot of different formats for getting account statements. Our bank's commercial services doesn't actually provide a standard format at all. They have a CSV like TXT file that has not documentation and that only Sage Accounting can read. Brilliant! An Open API could allow us to query an account and format out in any standard format we need; or, even better, just directly hook up to our accounting software (Xero) and be done with it.
* Integrations. Most integrations are giant hacks right now that simulate a browser logging in with your full access password and download statements/etc. API's could provision access to specific end-points and be revoked. It would greatly enhance security all around.
* Automation. Our business pays our our customers on a weekly basis, but it would be awesome if we just checked a box "Approved" and it did all the magic of moving money around.
* There are literally some things we need to call our bank to do, but are really just operations their web interface doesn't allow us to do. Ideally, an API would allow us to write our own flow to complete these same operations without bothering our bank.
Honestly, the less I have to deal with any bank with our startup the happier I am.
Startup idea: Create a tech specific credit union that exposes a straightforward API to do banking. Expand to integrations with popular online accounting software and eventually personal banking. Starting from scratch would hopefully let you build a front facing service that is modern.
I am on one of the teams in this documentary. They are catching some amazing footage of dynamics and challenges startsups face. Worth whatever you can afford to give on IndieGogo :-)
You can add my vote to, "Clients pay for my shits". They also pay for me reading Reddit and YComb. Honestly, 15 minutes isn't going to break any billing you have. Now, if you happen to take a lot of "breaks", you may want to stick with your current system. I'm a one "break" a day kind of guy...
