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dgar, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to ethelcain

I have a playlist on Soundcloud of my own original rock music and I’d love for you to check it out, preferably on some good speakers, up loud. I’m really proud of this, and would love to hear what you think.

If you have “I like music” in your profile, you must listen. It’s the law!! 🫶

Boosts very much appreciated! 🤗

#Dgar #DgarMusic #Playlist #Indie #Rock #Music #Pop #Dgarheads

https://on.soundcloud.com/cM4PLN4hep1urK3N8

NormanDunbar, 2 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to a somewhat moist "good" Friday. I'm not sure what makes the Friday before Easter Sunday any better than other Fridays, but what do I know? 😉

Enjoy your day folks, have fun, and don't forget, it's a bank holiday in the Untied Kingdom so everything will be shut and the roads clogged! You can tell I'm in a cheerful mood this morning, can't you? 😁

Today's random photo is from 31st December 2023 at Bingley Five Rise Locks. So called as there are 5 rises!

jwz, 2 months ago to random

Is it true that all you need to draw a penis on a cybertruck is a squirt gun full of salt water? Asking for a friend.

sesivany, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to linux

Someone in the IT department of my bank (Komerční banka) is acting smarter than they should be.
When I tried to log in to the Internet banking, I got a message saying that "OS Linux is no longer secure" and recommending that I use an up-to-date OS, e.g. Windows 11.

I thought we were past these times. 🤦

#Linux #banking #Komerčka

NormanDunbar, 2 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to Tuesday. Hope you slept well? I didn't as MrsD has a new hobby, snoring like a two stroke chainsaw! 😟

Hopefully you will have a grand Tuesday full of fun and laughs. I'll be trying to sleep and stay in the shade!

We'll be home Thursday to check if the house sitters have eaten and drunk us out of house and home! But even better, to pick up Wesley from his other mum and dad.

No photo today again, weird WiFi restrictions here.

thelinuxEXP, 2 months ago to random

It always kinda scares me when I read certain comments. They’re not numerous, but I see more of them each year. They say things like « the woke EU », or the « EUssr », or « socialist EU ».

They’re generally there when I talk about the EU regulating big tech, or fighting abuses of dominant position, and I just don’t understand how anyone can link that kind of activity to being « woke » whatever that means today, or being « socialist » (which in these people’s minds probably means « commie »).

NormanDunbar, 2 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to Thursday. A late breakfast today, but nice. I do like the continental style breakfast - lots of pastries!

Today is a wandering about day. No fixed plans. Have a great day whatever you are doing.

Today's random photo is missing! There's a problem here at the hotel. @Tusky is blocked on WiFi. A couple of games don't play too. Works on mobile data though. Unfortunately today's photo is taking forever to load.

It was last night's "smiley" moon and Jupiter.

MLE_online, 2 months ago to random

You can buy your cat all the toys in the world, but all they really want is a cardboard box filled with brown paper

18+ Frances_Larina, 2 months ago to random

A suggestion for people who eat meat:

Stop undercooking your food. I know, it's cool and trendy and it tastes more...primal, or something. But then you risk ending up like this Florida Man.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/13/brain-tapeworms-undercooked-bacon

Jawaka, 2 months ago to BBC

COVID, 4 years on: 9 most surprising lessons from the pandemic:

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/covid-4-years-on

#BBC #Science #Medicine #Covid

sirber, 3 months ago to Signal

Yeah I got my wife on #Signal 🎉

kde, 3 months ago to kde

Plasma 6.0.1, the first batch of corrections and enhancements to Plasma 6.0, has landed

The next update will be delivered promptly next Tuesday, 12th of March.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.0.1/

@kde

#Plasma6

RickiTarr, 3 months ago to random

What is a Scientific Fact, that while you know it has been proven true, still seems impossible?

DJDarren, 3 months ago to random

Good morning, champignons!

thomasfuchs, 3 months ago to random

So many great developers I’ve been looking up to have completely fallen for the AI scam.

Extremely annoying and disappointing, but also morbidly fascinating.

Mojeek, 3 months ago to random

saturday is a great day to smash the submit feedback button, jus saying'

fabian, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to berlin German

😊 Buschrosenplatz, #Berlin #Neukölln oder #Britz

#OpenStreetMap #OrganicMaps #maps

Edit: Es ist eindeutig in Britz. Am Bauchnabel steht gar kein Baum, sondern dort ist ein Mosaik und die zentrale Stelle des Platzes. Der Baum ist das OpenStreetMap-Symbol für Platz oder Grünfläche. Wenn man durch das kleine Pärkchen läuft, ist das Bild, das die Draufsicht bietet wirklich nicht offensichtlich und scheint (fast) unbeabsichtigt. 🤔

Update2: https://floss.social/@fabian/111993031786870462

kravietz, 3 months ago to random

Just had probably one of the most disappointing UK #NHS GP visits, which is unfortunately also quite representative. Coming with a kid that had been through a severe bacterial infection in December, ended up in hospital on antibiotics, then for the last months suffering from a chronic abdominal pain. After listening for 15 seconds to the description of symptoms the GP already knew everything:

GP: - Oh okay, you’ve got gastritis! If you remember from chemisty, there’s this acid… [primary school level biochemistry lecture for 3 minutes] and I’m going to prescribe you Lansoprazole and it’s going to help in no time.

Me: - Ahem, but he had Lansoprazole prescribed by this very GP practice already a month ago over telephone, not sure if we talked to you or someone else…

GP: - Ah, okay then… Well, then we’ll prescribe a stronger one, Famotidine…

Me: - Thanks, but are you sure this is enough? It’s not only the abdominal pain but also he had bilirubin levels elevated, which is mentioned in this letter I filed here when we booked this visit.

A bit of context: in the NHS GP, nobody ever does even basic diagnostics like general blood test. At least I’ve never seen that done for myself or any of my relatives. I’m used to how healthcare works in Poland (and generally EU), where a blood test is the first thing to be done when you come with anything else than wounded knee. So when my son’s initial symptoms started and GP simply prescribed Lansoprazole without even seeing the patient, I just went to a private GP and paid for the blood test, which indicated a number of irregularities. And then we booked the GP visit with an indication that these irregularities should be examined further.

Back to the GP:

GP: - Ah yes, here’s the letter… So yeah, you know, elevated bilirubin could be actually beneficial [another 3 minute digression on entirely hypothetical genetic factors that could potentially cause raised bilirubin]

Me, a bit annoyed already: - Thank you, but how do we know if this is actually this genetic factor without doing any tests?

GP: - Well, okay, if you really want, we can do a blood test!

And he prescribed the blood test, exclusively for the bilirubin 🤷

Just to be clear, NHS also does regular blood test, just like every other healthcare service - but only in hospitals. You have to go to A&E and be actually severely suffering (or pretend to) to get admitted and have some actual diagnostics. I don’t even want to go into digressions about the cost of early diagnostics and treatment being orders of magnitude lower than advanced treatment in advanced stages of disease - that seems to be an obvious evidence-based medicine to every single healthcare service in EU, but not to NHS.

Want some more anecdotal evidence? Last year NHS announced a NHS Health Check program and actively encouraged people to do… well, essentially a basic blood test. So of course I subscribed, got my blood test done and I was told to call for results. I did, and the dialogue took roughly 15 seconds:

Me: - I’m calling for the results, here’s my DOB, name etc Receptionist: - Oh yes, I’ve got it here… you’re all fine! Thank you, bye.

Except I knew for sure, it’s not “all fine” because I like always had and have elevated cholesterol levels. She didn’t care to even open my results and look at them, because if she did she would immediately see the “High” marks on relevant indicators.

Talking to relatives I friends, it comes out it’s a very widespread practice - the GP receptionists literally lie about test results they lost or didn’t bother to even look for.

Another, entirely cultural factor, shared across the whole NHS and private healthcare too, is a total reluctance to share test results with the patient and red tape when you actually insist to see it, but that’s another story.

My subjective conclusion: NHS GP service is utterly dysfunctional. And it’s not only about “NHS being stripped of funding”, which is an argument often raised by Labour.

People use private GP because NHS GP is dysfunctional and it’s primarily on cultural or professional level, not only in terms of funding.

arstechnica, 3 months ago to random

“Big year ahead,” says Jeff Bezos as New Glenn rocket rolls to launch pad

Blue Origin plans a tanking test at Cape Canaveral, then a hotfire on the launch pad.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/big-year-ahead-says-jeff-bezos-as-new-glenn-rocket-rolls-to-launch-pad/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Jawaka, 3 months ago to random

It was good to wake up to five gigs of free storage from @protonmail this morning.

ChrisMayLA6, 3 months ago to renewableenergy

#Renewableenergy is approaching an important possible inflection point... what happens when #windfarms reach the end of their (expected) technical lifespan?

Do owners of early windframs (often in prime wind locations) invest in upgraded & now much more efficient (if expensive) new installations, or will they walk away having already earned a return... & if the latter, what happens with those sites; will they remain wind farms ?

This may become the key Q. for #windpower this decade.

h/t FT

ajsadauskas, 3 months ago to car

A rising road toll in the US. A rising road toll in Australia. Journalists give 1000 reasons why it could be happening.

And they studiously avoid mentioning the growing proportion of massive SUVs and pickup trucks on the roads. If they mention it at all, it's only in passing: https://youtu.be/Hb5_RUNeC0g?si=uuns6D1I6fGINdpU

But.

If you have larger and heavier cars, with larger blind spots, of course you're going to have more fatalities!

Remember kids: Every 10cm a vehicle's hood height increases, the risk of fatalities grows by 22%: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017

#car #cars #urbanism @fuck_cars