Cool. Blessed are the toolmakers. You can map most scientific advances onto new observational tools.

(but not necessarily the Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint desktop).

Rut. Thanks for ruining my day, sigh. That shit better be a patch away from removal / spoofing…

OK, Board of Peace is Orwellian, but Department of War ? If it was a theme it’d be Dept of Peace as well. It’s like some clueless dotard is just throwing random shit at the wall to see what sticks, while diverting attention from evil. Oh, wait…

This, but also remember that never touching games with that sort of crap, on principle, is an option as well.

f you have wired or properly standards compliant bluetooth headphones it works fine on both.

If you have (cheapo) non-compliant stuff it’s a crapshoot on both, but there’s more likely some drivers to make up the difference on windows, whereas on linux you’re deep diving obscure crap, it can be done, but is it really worth the effort?

If it’s musical instruments, especially midi, you’re often better off on linux these days, but you might have to pay for a DAW and some commercial plugins are hit or miss.

I’d go so far as to blacklist individual sites based on a threshold upvote on the top negative post (can be automated), and give a mechanism to undo it, poll perhaps, if people care enough they’ll protect. It will naturally tend to negative, but given 90%(+ these days) of everything is crap -Sturgeon’s law - it should work out.

And ideally the storage will be encrypted and have basic privacy assurances.

Why would you trust a company to encrypt for you when Cryptomator exists ?

Also, a couple of 4TB drives for cold backup (one offsite) avoids another subscription.

You may see insanity, I see home.

Do you not get ‘open on the internet’? All the three letter agencies hoover the data up, your countries equivalents do as well, other companies. It’s only a bit in one companies hands, because it’s ‘open on the internet’, just like xitter, facebook, tiktok, their walled gardens don’t stop state level actors, just us plebs (a bit). That just leaves control (in real time), some power, some money there, but long term it’s the data that counts.

Agreed. They’re both open on the internet and the data is in many repositories. Moot point (OPs’, not yours).

But this is not a vaccine (triggering an immune response to a specific antigen) despite the headline, it’s a way to dial up the (entire? it’s unclear) immune system. Seems like a good way to evolve superbugs and get nasty autoimmune conditions.

Cool, I’ll look out for the full review. Jeebus 200g/40% is ‘low carb’, not unexpected, but it’s like they don’t even try.

Thanks,

General reminder that nutrition ‘science’ is mostly paid for by corporations (see “sugar is better than fat”) and the whole Ancel Keys ‘Seven Countries Study’ (cherry picked from 20+ countries) debacle and needs very careful handling.

If you want to get useful information on nutrition, I recommend immediately disregarding anything from Harvard, do your own research, but I’ve found it significantly corrupt and biased towards the second largest US export (AgTech) after guns.

FWIW this comes from the perspective of someone trained in hard science (Phys/Math) who then did advanced (published) work in BioInformatics (learning the complexities of Bio) and then looked at nutrition, what a shitshow !

Hmmfh, you might benefit from this. As time goes on (see what I did there) it seems like information is the actual zero point energy concept in quantum mechanics. The possibility that entropy can’t really destroy information, merely disperse it until an eventual reconciliation is pretty fascinating. Black holes might even be seen as stasis chambers. Perhaps we all emerge again at the big crunch (or the restaurant at the end of the universe) for the next go around.

Personally I remain an Agnostic until such time that I know better, I expectation manage with the switch just turns off, but I’m fine with something else, sometime else, patterns written into the void. If there is a hell however, I’m totally going Karen, that’s bullshit.

Thanks for a most excellent post.

As long as you keep moving the bar of actual death. Heart stop, ‘brain death’ people have come back from, rotting in the grave, not so much.

My second thought is when viruses and other pathogens evolve to evade this, everyone not using it is fucked.

Agreed, in a similar vein I am reminded of Dear God by XTC.

Fusion, nope. This is old school fission baby.

China already has Gen IV commercial reactors, this’ll be rehashed Gen II but without guardrails. On the bright side those bastards take a decade+ to come online, by which time this may have blown over, if not there’ll be worse problems. Also on the bright side, I don’t live in the US.

Golden opportunity for small (thorium so no fission bomb materials) reactor in a container designs to have their day, but noooo. Sigh.