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Defining "comorbidity" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713155/ [www nbci nln nih gov]
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Since it seems like we are digging into #cryptocurrencies, I bought ‘Ledger S Nano’ hardware cryptocurrency wallets for myself and the two younger boys ( #sonTwo, age 33; #Daddy_A, age 32 ).
#sonOne, age 43, has been absent from the conversation, so if he decides to show interest, I’ll send him “this link”:{https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-nano-s/}.
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#Audacity / #Muse responds to the tracking uproar: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889
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There are some non-English programming languages, but it really does appear that most programs are written in English based programming languages. https://nu.federati.net/url/281119
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I remember when people were saying that appliances were going to have RS-232-C ports, so your computer could manage them (this was the 1990s, but I’m sure I heard similar in the 1980s).
I suspected even then that someone would dial into your modem and use your computer to put your freezer full of food on defrost mode while you were at work.
I just cannot grasp this thing of connecting everything to the Internet.
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It appears that Colonial Pipeline paid the ransom.
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@lxo Aral tends to take things to nonsense extremes. I just let him rant without replying.
Yes, I'm sure Google would not be involved with GNOME if none of their advice was ever followed, but I doubt GNOME are Google puppets. They don't need help making things user-unfriendly. They have spent years developing that skill on their own.
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I see that Sophos has a white paper about using firewalls to protect against ransomware. I'm not going to turn over any information, so I will never read it.
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It has occurred to me that taking the shortcut of putting mRNA into human bodies (whether directly, as Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna do, or via a carrier virus, as Jannsen, Sputnik V, and AstraZenica appear to do) to product the viral spike proteins was probably not the way to do this long term.
Probably the best way is to insert this mRNA into specific bacteria and allow them to secrete the protein ... which can be collected and purified and then injected like a regular vaccine.
A good share of the vaccine fear I've seen posted is based on the mRNA. (Second only to the unprecedented accelerated schedule.)
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Part of the accelerated schedule comes from the nature of government work. For practically anything that has a government approval step, there are months where nothing seems to be happening.
They can speed things up quite a bit by making sure that waiting stages only last as long as necessary.
The part about lacking longer term safety studies is still a concern--and should be a concern for everyone who considers vaccination, whether they eventually receive the vaccine or they reject it.
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Last night, over #Wire, #Daddy_A and I were discussing #cryptocurrency again. I compared DOGEcoin's rising and falling based on Elon Musk's tweets to the penny stock "pink sheets" ... except that Mr Musk is probably smart enough to only have minimal exposure to the rollercoaster price movements his tweets are causing.
Of course, I also compared his tweeting to that of a well-known former politician. Both have tweeted things which should never be said publicly, if at all.
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I also had a short phone call with the #DOGEcoin fan at work. He's pulled something like 90% of his former holdings out and is holding cash instead.
I asked him about practical utility of #DOGE ... can he buy and sell other products and services with it? He said there are some places that accept it ... and that the number is growing.
I still think he needs to mellow out. Hold a smaller amount if that's what he wants, but not risk more than he can afford to lose at his age.
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https://mastodon.social/@cypnk/106234974568606413
Looks like the #DarkSide group is shutting down after asset seizures. I woukd not be surprised if they turn over the customer that attacked the pipeline.
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@guizzy Even if they partially computerize, this sort of thing must (1) be wholly separate from any other network; and (2) be able to run normally in full-manual mode.
The second point necessitates keeping enough trained and experienced staff so going manual is actually doable.
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Not a general search engine, and no public instance provided, but “MeiliSearch”:{https://www.meilisearch.com/} say they are an open source self-hostable search API.
I don’t think you’d use it as a general search engine, but more as something integrated into your site. So “Dog Buddy Magazine Online” might use MeiliSearch to let visitors seek out articles by breed, puppy or adult, and other factors relevant to the sites readers.
License: MIT. See https://blog.meilisearch.com/oss-paradigm/
Paid plan: I haven’t seen it, but I just discovered the software and site a few minutes ago; maybe they’re charging for support.
Anyway, it is interesting. They seem to compete partly with “ElasticSearch”:{https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/} (and maybe a little bit with #YaCy’s stand-alone mode).
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Are they built on Lucene or completely separate? There's also #ApacheSolr in that space
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@musicman I just heard of #MeiliSearch last night, so I did not do any deep diving. I know that #YaCy uses #Solr, but I do not know if it always did.
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Oh, weird. The site for the #Darcs #DVCS / #SCM software is now blank.
I can only assume an attacker defaced the site and they just relaunched it, as there is not even a front page created yet (it is a wiki).
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While I was on my walk, I saw a kid on a bike who reminded me of Charlie from the old neighborhood. So I threw Charlie’s full name into #DuckDuckGo and #Google and followed some links to see whether he left any tracks. So neither search produced the sort of results which used to be routine just a few years ago.
First of all, any time you do this, the top half of results are the “search for anyone and we’ll find them … for a fee” sites. If you go to those sites and throw in first-middle-last name and age, you usually get hundreds of results, but that’s because they are not filtered … there will people from 18 to 80, people who only share one of the names in your search, people who have or had relationships with a person with the name, and people who have aliases close to the name in question.
Next are “close, but no cigar” results: Similar names. Mug shots sites.*
Only then will you see any interesting results.
I haven’t been in contact with Charlie since we were both less than half our current ages. I am pretty sure I saw him walking across a store’s parking lot in the 1990s, but no contact was made. Nor was contact the object of my search. A good chunk of the people I once knew have passed on, so I really just wanted to see whether he was still among the living and to have a general idea where he might be.
* In the past, I did find out about both Steve and Jay because of a mug shots site. Steve is presumably still behind bars in another state. Jay served a year or so and was released.
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Gonna give Code Ready Containers another shot. It was absolute shit the last time I checked.
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well, the logs are not great:
DEBU openshift-apiserver operator not available, Reason: APIServerDeployment_NoPod::APIServices_PreconditionNotReady
DEBU openshift-controller-manager operator is still progressing, Reason:
DEBU openshift-controller-manager operator not available, Reason:
DEBU operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver operator not available, Reason:
DEBU operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver operator is still progressing, Reason:
DEBU service-ca operator is still progressing, Reason: _ManagedDeploymentsAvailable
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well, I can get to a log-in screen which is better than I could do before
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I wish phones had a "PACO" mode. (Pre Approved Callers Only)
That would be easier than blocking every number in Louisiana.
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surely someone has done a "Bad Request" parody of Lady Gaga. The question is...is it any good?
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well, if it exists, it's harder to find than expected
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I told #sonTwo I'd get a Roku and / or Chromecast for them. Today, a month later, someone online was comparing a Roku with a Fire Stick and I remembered.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/281092 [www detroitnews com]
I kept seeing references to this, but had not seen a link until @moon@shitposter.club posted one.
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