A stupid joke I heard somewhere

I'm so annoyed that I can never get any bread at Indian restaurants.

What do you mean?

Every time I ask they say they have none.

@clacke The joke does sound very Russian though. I spent a lot of time in Moscow back in the early 00's and when hearing people telling jokes (especially ones from the Soviet era) they have exactly this of cynic attitude to the actions of the leaders.

That said, people that I knew over there included Ukrainians, and I could never know where they were from.

@clacke I suspect that Singapore had much larger numbers of unreported cases. Doesn't HK so mass testing? Singapore never did that, and even if you test positive using an ART test, there is no requirement to report it, and you're just supposed to stay home for a few days. All those cases are never seen in the statistics of course

@clacke also with omicron I have think you only test positive for an short period of time, so even mass testing will only give a partial result. Although statistical analysis will probably give more useful information.

It seems to me that when omicron hits, it basically infects everyone that can be infected very quickly which seems to be what happened in both HK and SG. If that's true, then things should hopefully be much better within a couple of months.

@clacke Looks like the standard pattern of omicron that has been seen in other countries. Singapore peaked a few weeks ago although the drop is slower than what we see in the HK graph. HK is down to one fifth of what it was at its peak on the 28'th. Singapore's peak was on the 22'nd but we're only down 1/2.5 or so since the peak.

But you're right, perhaps people are simply not reporting because it's such a hassle in HK if you're positive. At least that's what I assume, do you still have to see a doctor if you test positive with an ART test?

@thor @natecull yes, they did. And still do. https://youtu.be/HjKvvRBhtqY

@clacke What does the trend look like? Is it still going up?

@sjb @clacke @mdhughes @urusan but I like plain tea. I should be able to like coffee too. But so far it's not going very well. I'm still practicing though.

@clacke @mdhughes @urusan Same. I would really love to like plain coffee, as most people who like it seems to really like it. I want to be part of that gang 🙂

@clacke sounds to me me like it means accepting it to be endemic while both admitting it's endemic. Here they're doing the opposite, saying it's endemic but keeping measures in place that only made sense when they're going for covid zero.

In fact, even during the height of the pandemic they kept claiming they weren't going for covid zero, when in practice actually doing it.

@clacke It does seem we have hit the peak here, even though numbers are still big.

I checked recent news reports on this from HK and it seems people are calling for ambulances when they have no symptoms? Are they still aiming for covid zero? It wasn't clear from the article I read.

@clacke How's the covid situation in HK now?

@clacke here they have staff manning every entrance to malls etc, originally for contact tracing but these days there is no point to it anyway. But they can't get rid of it, because the people doing it would lose their income, which is the only explanation why they still do not it.

Well, I guess the other reason is to make sure no unvaccinated people enter any shops.

@clacke at that point do you think they'll drop the quarantine?

@clacke Yeah, once Omicron hits there is very little they can do, unless they want to completely lock down.

Singapore is at 13k per day now, with a post-CNY peak of 30k? And this is with most of the same restrictions that have been in place for the last year or so.

@clacke are they managing to stay at 0 cases in HK?

@proto @brainblasted Isn't the argument that: "if it was in GNOME 2, you don't need it"?

@sjb @bagder is three an actual issue you're having with libcurl? It may have capabilites you don't need, but it's extremely compatible and works everywhere. I was using it in a Mastodon client for Riscos that I was developing.

@sjb @bagder that was my point and the reason I brought up my Riscos project. That system is as old world as it gets while still running on computers made in the last decade (typically used on raspberry pi).

Also, aren't there flags when compiling so you can choose what to include?

@mansr @clacke That depends. The risk is greater, but generally root access is provided to applications by using sudo (i.e. the application can use sudo to perform root operations). When sudo is called, a dialog box is displayed on the screen and the user can allow it or not.

Of course, this infrastructure could have bugs, so you're definitely adding risk. However, assuming no bugs, there is no direct risk introduced by rooting.