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MobileOak

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Gamer, Android developer, mead brewer. Husband and father of two. Owner of a great Rottweiler Poodle named Luna.

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kev, to random
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Whenever I, or someone else, posts a link to this blog on Mastodon, it DDoS's me and brings the site down for a couple minutes.

https://kevquirk.com/mastodon-is-ddosing-me

MobileOak,
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@kev @Teri_Kanefield this is the technical explanation for what's happening when you post something and your server goes down.

currentbias, to random
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The sheer amount of people who stopped wearing masks as soon as they were optional demonstrates how many people never understood why they were wearing them in the first place, which is a tremendous and ongoing failure of institutional public health

MobileOak,
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@currentbias lots of people ranting in here about people not wearing masks, but I want to know, when do we stop wearing masks?
Covid is not going to go away without a fully 100% effective vaccine.
Do you expect people to wear them for the next 50, 100 years?

MobileOak,
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@mcmullin @currentbias I don't worry about Ebola because there isn't any in my country.
I don't worry about Zika because my climate doesn't have enough mosquitos to worry about it.
I don't worry about Lyme disease because I'm not out hiking around ticks.
At some point there has to be a threshold of "there aren't enough Covid cases to take extra precautions", but everyone here seems to say "that threshold doesn't exist"

MobileOak,
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@mcmullin @currentbias my local government's Covid dashboard says that currently we are "below the transmission threshold" of 3% of weekly ER visits. Currently at one of the lowest points ever, 0.49% of visits.
Wastewater measurements are 4.2% (~280k) of the peak we reached in January (~6.28m).
I am not saying long covid doesn't exist/isn't bad, but right now things seem about as best they've been. How much lower do things need to get before people say "ok maybe you don't need a mask?"

mike, to random
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Yes, I'm actually this lazy.

#!/usr/bin/bash

INPUT_FILE=$1

if [ ! -f ${INPUT_FILE} ]
then
echo "File ${INPUT_FILE} doesn't exist. Please try again."
exit 1
fi

cat ${INPUT_FILE} |python3 -m piper --model en_GB-alan-medium --output-raw | aplay -r 22050 -f S16_LE -t raw -

MobileOak,
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@mike what does the python part do?

grueproof, to random
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    MobileOak,
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    @grueproof looks like you're really whipping the llama too.

    juliewebgirl, to random
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    "Things are better now than they've ever been!"

    Are you high????

    I just can't.

    A whole thread.

    is no joke

    Also, christ, take a look around outside your little techbro bubble.

    Cleaning up my follows, I can't stomach what the propoganda machine does to people.

    MobileOak,
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    @juliewebgirl I don't understand.
    The wastewater data shows that Covid levels are as low as they've been since the Pandemic started.
    https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dph/health-safety/disease-illness/facts-and-data/respiratory-virus-data
    Same for the emergency room visits.

    MobileOak,
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    @juliewebgirl that said, yes, the Covid numbers look good.
    You can add more years of data using the checkboxes here.

    MobileOak,
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    @juliewebgirl looking at the graph of ER visits where Covid was detected, you can see that we are at an all-time low of 0.53% of visits.

    MobileOak,
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    @juliewebgirl you can also see here that the wastewater detection has gone significantly down since the January spike.
    In January the peak was 6.8 billion, versus today which is only 280 million, a decrease of 95%!

    MobileOak,
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    @juliewebgirl there are a lot of things that are frustratingly terrible right now, but fortunately we are in a Covid lull right now.

    MobileOak,
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    @juliewebgirl what is it about the graphs and their trends that makes you think the surge is imminent?

    MobileOak,
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    @juliewebgirl @augieray
    Yes. I read the article, I looked at the graphs, I looked at the trends. Everything it shows is that we are at the lowest point of transmission right now relative to what's in the past, and what's in the future. That's good right?
    Yes, cases will go up again and we will have another surge. But that is the reality that we're stuck with at this point.

    MobileOak,
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    @juliewebgirl @augieray best case scenario, people are vaxed and otherwise healthy, what do you want them to do right now in this moment, when relatively cases are at one of their lowest points?

    stroughtonsmith, to random
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    Here’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

    "TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

    video/mp4

    MobileOak,
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    @xs4me2 @stroughtonsmith won't stop China or Russia from using it in a negative way.

    chrisonline, to android
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    Android 14 has sadly changed that a notification can't be set as non-dismissable:

    Changes the way users experience non-dismissable notifications by allowing users to dismiss notifications action even when the Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT flag is set.
    This does not apply when the phone is locked, or if the user selects Clear all.

    Another restriction I don't understand from Google :-(

    MobileOak,
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    @chrisonline they need a separate place for showing "these are long running processes that are happening" - using the persistent notification for that was never a good design decision. It was confusing to users why the notification couldn't be dismissed. Instead now we have this irritating approach that doesn't really solve the root problem.

    mohammadrafigh, to random
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    Is there any plan to update instance?

    MobileOak,
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    @mohammadrafigh what do you mean?

    mike, to random
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    Ooof, allergies are kicking my butt today.

    MobileOak,
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    @mike same for me. Eyes were just watering profusely during lunch.

    MobileOak, to threads
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    @mike @kev is there a discussion or post or something somewhere about the official position?
    I know there was an announcement about it like 9 months ago when it was first announced, but my searches of the website and those hashtags hasn't turned up anything yet.
    Things seem to be integrating now because I just saw a threads user on my feed and replied to them. Not surprisingly my post hasn't shown up on threads.com yet.

    grueproof, to random
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    Hello friends. A new issue of my resurrected newsletter, The Bindlesack is now available: https://bindlesack.com/2024/03/13/volume-issue.html

    MobileOak,
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    @grueproof I started looking up the town you mentioned and couldn't find it on Google maps. My next thought was "oh maybe this is like a Garrison Keillor thing" and then read his name in the very next sentence. 😂

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    MobileOak,
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    @grueproof is there anything we can do to help?

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    MobileOak,
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    @grueproof red six standing by.

    MobileOak, to Kotlin
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    I think the biggest problem I have with is that there's all these fancy things you can do with it, but most of my day to day work involves hooking up buttons to do network calls and trying to refactor code written six years ago.
    It reminds me of a comic where during the interview, the person is asked to write a red black tree, but when they get the job, they're asked to move a button five pixels to the right.

    MobileOak,
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    Found the comic. Source: https://devrant.com/rants/2848905/interview-vs-job

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    MobileOak,
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    @grueproof Congrats, have fun!

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