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adnan

@adnan@1210.nl

From the old internet

Originally from New Delhi, India. Now living in the Netherlands. I gossip about news, current events and programming.

Born at 333ppm

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DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to TaylorSwift
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Taylor Swift Eras Tour Raises COVID Fears.

"Reports of COVID clusters are circulating after Swift's Paris shows."

"data suggested that hospital visits between May 6-12 rose 20% among those under 15-years-old, and 28% for those 15 and over."

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/taylor-swift-eras-tour-raises-covid-fears-1902959

The agency's data suggested that hospital visits between May 6-12 rose 20 percent among those under 15-years-old, and 28 percent for those 15 and over. Meanwhile, scientists have warned of a "summer wave" of infections in the U.S. from a highly transmissible set of omicron subvariants. What We Know Some people on social media who said they had attended the concert have urged fellow attendees to test for COVID-19. One user who attended the Era's Tour in Paris, posted her positive COVID-19 test on TikTok, writing, "Check if you don't have Covid even tho you don't have any symptoms! A lot of us are sick right now." Another concertgoer posted on X, formerly Twitter: "back from the Taylor Swift concert with a scratchy throat, runny nose... If the government had maintained health measures, I would not be in this sad state." France lifted most of its COVID-19 restrictions in March 2022 and since February 2023 there is no requirement to self-isolate if you test positive. Wearing a mask in a public place is recommended, but not mandatory. Views "We know that the most risky places for Covid-19 transmission are poorly ventilated, crowded, indoor places," Christina Pagel, a professor at University College London who focuses on research in health policy, told Newsweek. "We also know that singing or shouting is more risky as more virus is emitted with each breath. Thus big concerts, particularly in older venues with poorer ventilation, represent a higher risk for catching something."

adnan,
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@mastodonmigration People who speak loudly spread the virus further than those who speak softly. 😀

adnan, to coffee
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How many cups of are too few?

lexfri, to random
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Shout out to my fellow airport mask wearers. The few. The proud. The judged.

adnan,
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@lexfri which mask are you wearing? N95 is the ideal but I wouldn’t mind wearing a surgical mask on all public transport all the time.

cheeaun, to threads
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Screenshots comparing columns UI between Threads.net and Phanpy.social

A screenshot of a Phanpy social media feed. The interface shows three main columns: Following, FediDevs (list), and Notifications (showing recent interactions and messages).

adnan,
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@cheeaun wait .. Phanpy has columns?! How do I enable them!!

adnan, to random
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I have no doubt that we are seeing massive MacBook Air discounts because of the new ARM based Windows laptops. Competition.

adnan,
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@sharninder I saw this story yesterday https://flip.it/qP.r-m

jsit, to RSS
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We need an reader with "Reply" and "Repost" buttons. These actions would occur on a blog you connect with or , and use to notify the originating site.

adnan,
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@jsit Excellent idea ❤️

gamingonlinux, to random
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Google AI just telling people to drink piss. Perfect, no notes.

https://x.com/dril/status/1787041991391584549

adnan,
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@gamingonlinux Can’t believe that arc search (Kagi is the search engine) is better!

mikewas, to random
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Why does your credit score drop when you pay off a car loan?

A friend of mine was furious the other day, when he saw that paying off his car loan caused his score to drop about 40 points.

Why does this happen?

Two reasons.

👇

adnan,
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@mikewas yes! That explains why people who pay off their loans before time and deny lenders their interest income have a lower credit score.

carnage4life, to random
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It looks like along with the departure of Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, OpenAI has disbanded its superalignment team whose mission was to “control AI systems much smarter than us.”

OpenAI’s flirtation with AI doomerism is officially over and they’re now just another startup.

adnan,
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@carnage4life I wish Sam had gone to Microsoft so that all of this would have been clear to the world. This is a Microsoft subsidiary and it should be treated as such by press and regulators.

norootcause, to random
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The hard thing about distributed systems is that "turn the whole thing off and on again" isn't an option.

adnan,
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@norootcause You could keep crashing / force exiting each microservice randomly … like once a week.

partim, to random
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I could fly to Dublin in less than two hours (net). I could do the trip with fast trains and boats in a day.

Or I can stick to slow trains and take three days.

Either way, the journey starts here. And now.

adnan,
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@partim which service do you use to plan your rail journeys? Is NS International sufficient?

adnan,
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@partim ICNG will take you all the way to Breda. Eurostar has been surpassed

BM_Visser, to random Dutch
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Last week, the Netherlands had, on average 4 hours per day with a negative day-ahead power price.

Until now, the Netherlands had 155 of such hours this year, compared to 65 last year in the same period, and 31 in 2022. A significant increase. We see this in most European countries.

The expansion of solar and wind occurs much quicker than the increase of power demand. Consequently, negative and near-zero power prices, with significant curtailment of solar and wind, will become more common.

adnan,
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@BM_Visser Haven’t really seen negative electricity prices. I don’t really want to buy solar panels.

sushubh, to random
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How Jawaharlal Nehru University became India's best - The Week

https://www.theweek.in/theweek/specials/2024/05/18/how-jawaharlal-nehru-university-became-india-s-best.html

adnan,
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@sushubh Affirmative admissions. Really affordable student life. And a high quality of campus life that meant that the best people wanted to work there. It is a virtuous circle.

carnage4life, to random
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The story of DeviantArt, a community site now overwhelmed by content from AI bots and which is itself selling user content to train AI, reads like a cautionary tale for Reddit.

The saving grace is there’s no Reddit alternative for users upset about their content being sold to AI companies

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

adnan,
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@carnage4life Fediverse fans like me will tell you that Reddit’s moat isn’t as deep as they think.

ruari, to random
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Not an everyday sight for most people. And yes I'm posting while I cycle.

adnan,
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@ruari is this still inside Oslo city limits? 😀

cassidy, (edited ) to random
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I got an air quality sensor and air purifier, and have learned:

• opening the windows is the most effective way to decrease particulate matter

• our humidifier pumps out hazardous levels of particles when using tap water (oops)

• waking up w/an irritated throat and sinuses goes away with clean air!

• high particulate matter is correlated with nosebleeds in kids—and our kid gets chronic nosebleeds

I am happy to have learned all of this but also feel like an idiot for learning it so late. 😭

adnan,
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@cassidy if you were in Delhi India, opening the window is the most effective way to kill your purifier. 🤪

Hawaii, to random
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Heated floors: Why Koreans love the floor: The cultural secret behind ignoring sofas

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-05-18/culture/lifeStyle/WHY-Why-Koreans-love-the-floor-The-cultural-secret-behind-ignoring-sofas/2049113

adnan,
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@Hawaii this is my favorite way to sit for TV or even when close friends are visiting. I feel more relaxed. I might be Korean. 🇰🇷

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Trump has said FOUR times that he will withhold federal funding from schools that require vaccines. Not just COVID. ALL.

This is most schools. This is hitting me where I work. This will lead to children dead from measles. It's obvious, inevitable.

Someone on here said they just couldn't bear to vote for Biden to keep Trump from office since at least under Trump there were better masking rules.

I hope that person sees this.

Worse is worse.

edit: because I don't know measles from smallpox

adnan,
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@futurebird Can’t wait for anti vaxxers to become political force in the rest of the world too. Right wing nutters copy from each other.

Theorem_Poem, to random
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These berries will end as a cup of coffee somewhere.

adnan,
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@Theorem_Poem coffee estate vacation sounds like a dream. How long is the drive in the mountains? I ask because I get very sick on those roads.

adnan,
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@Theorem_Poem that is not bad. I am ok for about 45 minutes to 60 minutes.

conorh, to random
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During lunch a friend mentioned that you can just supply a HTTP URL to vim on the command line and it would use curl to download that resource and allow you to edit the content. I jokingly asked whether if you enter :w it would then issue a HTTP POST back to the origin which is of course ridiculous.

It issues a PUT

adnan,
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@conorh vim supremacy 💪

HonkHase, to ChatGPT German
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Shtfck 😳🔥😔

consumes 25 times more than

"Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence () is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations."
https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

adnan,
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@HonkHase I am certain I use ChatGPT 25 times less often than I use Google. Google has been converting my typos in the address bar into searches unnecessarily for years now.

gedeonm, to random
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What I’d like from today’s Apple iPad event:

  • Camera on the long side of the iPad (where it belongs)
  • Longer battery life
  • Faster processor (duh)
  • To not have Sherlocked 🙏
adnan,
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@gedeonm that will buy you a nice meal. It isn’t nothing

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