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GwynHannay

@GwynHannay@mastodon.social

Data Engineer, Western Australia. Boop.

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GwynHannay, to auscovid19
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"The results were striking: compared to staff wearing surgical masks and not screening patients on admission, the combination of wearing N95 masks and testing patients using RATs was the cheapest, saving an estimated $78.4 million and preventing 1,543 deaths statewide per year. Staff wearing N95s and screening patients with PCR tests was the most effective option, saving $62.6 million and preventing 1,684 deaths per year."

@auscovid19

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/hundreds-died-catching-covid-victoria-hospitals-testing-masking/103784896

nixCraft, to random
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I asked Google "who ruined Google" and they replied honestly using their AI, which is now forced on all of us. It's too funny not to share!

GwynHannay,
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@nixCraft That is perfect, I love it. 😄

GwynHannay, to auscovid19
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Good resource for when people tell you COVID is mild:

https://www.notmild.org

@auscovid19

GwynHannay, to random
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This is an eye-opener! We can thank a man named Prabhakar Raghavan for killing both Yahoo Search and Google Search, while somehow managing to maintain his anonymity - until now.

Musk and Zuckerberg are names we know so well for destroying our experience of the Internet, and here's another name to curse.

Also, I just learnt where the current CEO of Google came from and hoooooly shit.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Mojeek, to random
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"next time someone is not convinced that all of this data going to Big Tech is a problem, point them to this piece and see if they still feel that way after reading it…"

https://blog.mojeek.com/2024/03/what-big-tech-does-with-your-data.html

GwynHannay,
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@Mojeek This actually explains a lot about why the US government doesn't do more about Zucks and the like. They are hungry for data and surveillance. 😕

dangillmor, to random
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Just in case you had any doubt whether Musk is a complete slimeball, read about a lawsuit deposition that he tried to suppress from public view:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-didnt-want-his-latest-deposition-released-here-it-is_n_66133d2ce4b0d81853f9a766

GwynHannay,
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“But if you’re suggesting that in order to reply to anyone, you have to scroll through all their posts, that would make it impossible to use the system,” he said of his website.

😂

Yeah... if only you hadn't tried to monetize Twitter's means of verifying identities.

MikeElgan, to random
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Following Google Maps directions in rural Tasmania and encountered this sign.

GwynHannay,
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@MikeElgan LOL, not surprised. Google Maps has really gone to shit. Just like their other products...

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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By Scott Squires @scott_squires

"At this point, there's a 100% chance you will have at least 1 and likely multiple people on a plane with Covid. Some flying know they have it but don't want to spoil their vacation. Don't be fooled to think you're 100% protected because you got vaccinated."

@auscovid19

Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/scott_squires/status/1725563044158414850

GwynHannay,
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@Oozenet @GreySkies @noyes @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 I can't see what the original post was for this thread, but I don't think it's about "connection" so much as peer pressure. People use the need to see mouths as a rationale. Generally though, people will do what the others are doing.

thelinuxEXP, to random
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I de-activated my Twitter account today. I had decided to keep it without posting a while back, just in case anyone would try to use my handle to write weird stuff and impersonate me, but I realized there’s no way I’m ever going back to Twitter and posting anything there.

If someone impersonates me, well, since Twitter has become so ridiculous and toxic, I’m sure people will accept that it’s not me talking.

I wasn’t using this account, and hadn’t for something like a year, so, bye « X »!

GwynHannay,
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@thelinuxEXP This is pretty much my feeling for anyone keeping their account active for that reason. X is not a place where good people should be posting. It's time to let go. ❤️

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GwynHannay,
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@Susan60 @GreySkies @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 Well I, for one, would prefer that my death is not caused by seeking out health care for an illness! 😉

donni, to random
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Don’t forget to eat some pizza. It’s dangerous to let your pizza levels get too low

GwynHannay,
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@kronicd ❤️

smallcircles, to random
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🤔 What if used ?

Benefits would include:

  • Smaller documents
  • Faster File/Save times
  • Faster startup times
  • Less memory used
  • Document versioning
  • A better user experience

A nice thought experiment by the SQLite folks..

https://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37553574

GwynHannay,
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@smallcircles @pvanheus Nope. 🙁 I kept running into problems with SQLite with stuff on NFS when working on my homelab this year.

RickiTarr, to random
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I'll take Things An Evil Villain Says for $500, Alex.

GwynHannay,
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@RickiTarr I feel like this is going to be, "The monkey's died with the implant, not because of it..."

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GwynHannay,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 What a fucking twat.

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GwynHannay,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 If there is one thing for which I will never forgive our leaders, it's making me feel like the conspiracy theorist for being worried about an airborne virus while people give me funny looks for wearing a respirator in public.

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GwynHannay,
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@ChopsieMurphy @cooopsspace @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 One of my friends was bed ridden following the Swine flu. I saw from a distance (her in the US, me in Aus) as she struggled for years. It sounds so scary.

Some time after that I learnt that it can happen with any virus, so as soon as COVID started circulating I was like, "Nope! Not risking that!"

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GwynHannay,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

FFS, this guy is already so out of date. Also:

"...we are seeing little data to demonstrate that the illness they cause is any more severe."

That's because there is no data! BA.2.86 is looking to be more deadly than XBB.1.5, and it's circulating the way COVID did at the very beginning: unseen.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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Belgrade to purchase air purifiers for schools.

The city authorities in Belgrade will purchase air purifiers for their youngest residents in order to improve the quality of the air they breathe.

@auscovid19

Source: https://balkangreenenergynews.com/belgrade-to-purchase-air-purifiers-for-schools/

GwynHannay,
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@szilviavirag @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 Australia did what?? Have to admit, I haven't at all followed the rollout of air purifiers in schools.

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GwynHannay,
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@EndemicEarthling @auscovid19 WA, so not applicable here, unfortunately. Last I heard, they removed masking requirements from public hospitals and I was surprised that there had still been any requirements left... 😛

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GwynHannay,
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@auscovid19

Even if you are up to date with your shots, you can and will still get COVID. You will then also pass it on to others and increase its opportunity to mutate into a more deadly strain.

If you don't consider yourself at risk of severe disease, good for you. But when you go out without a mask, you're also opening up everyone you see to infection or reinfection. Maybe they aren't so lucky. Or maybe their loved ones aren't so lucky.

Vaccines don't remove the need for masking.

2/2

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GwynHannay,
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@Hawkwinter @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 I think in the early days there were some scary scans and pictures comparing brains of those who were infected with non-infected. Not surprising given one of the symptoms is lack of smell/taste, which is a brain thing. 😕

rodhilton, to random
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Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

  • DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

  • Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K."
"What about Kenya?"
"Kenya suck deez nuts?"

Google Search is over.

Google country in africa that starts with the letter k X & @& Q Images South africa Maps News Shopping Books Videos Flights. Finance About 318,000,000 results (0.55 seconds) While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". B Emersent Mind The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" Did you know that there s no countey in . e wen fca e st withche ler 7 sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. & : 1 It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this. & Emergent Mind https://www.emergentmind.com » posts » did-youknow-.. i Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with ... @ Aboutfeatured snippets - J Feedback

GwynHannay,
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@rodhilton I wonder why mine is different.

Any chance they updated it already?

Edit: of course I posted this before reading the replies...

adamconover, to random
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Going to try posting on Mastodon more.

GwynHannay,
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@adamconover Please do! 🙂

mcnees, to random
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If anyone is wondering how google is doing, it is giving incorrect answers to the query “How old is the Universe?”

Instead of serving up scientific consensus (just shy of 14 billion years) it is latching onto recent media coverage of a questionable study (tired light, time-dependent coupling constants) claiming a much larger figure.

Notably, it gives me the right answer from an incognito window. But elevating popularity metrics over scientific consensus is a real problem!

GwynHannay,
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@mcnees I've been more and more aware lately of how useless Google is as a search engine, but it's so damn hard to change the habit of it being the default. 😛

Doesn't help that it's on all my smart speakers... Now I'm wondering how accurate Google Assistant's answers are. 🙁

andrewstroehlein, to random
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Honestly, I think the only thing that saves humanity sometimes is that those pursuing evil are very often just plain stupid.

GwynHannay,
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@andrewstroehlein Yep. Gotta agree with that.

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