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rose, 1 year ago to random

Recently, the WHO released a statement along the lines of "sugur free sweetener are bad for your health".

The research that was done does not say that. The communications goal was reported to warn against people who drink water, that switching to sweetener alternatives has no health benefits, and long term effects are unknown, so it's safer to not drink them".

However, that isn't really well communicated through the WHO's short statement and how media is reporting it.

If you drink a lot of sugary drinks, then artificial sweetener seems to be better than that. Switching to plain old water of course is also good. The benefit seems about the same. And drinking water long term is known to have benefits over drinking sugary drinks.

The studies DO NOT say that artificial sweeteners are bad for your health, poisoning you, causing diseases, or anything like that. So, if you are like me and occasionally drinking artificial sweeteners to replace sugary drinks then you are fine, but water is still the gold standard.

rose, 1 year ago to random

Someone should make a synthetic software, text to speech, voice that is queer/trans coded.

I just want to do:

Xenia, fetch updates from pacman.

"OK. Fetching updates."

rose, 1 year ago to random

funding police? in this economy?

rose, 1 year ago to random

kinda wish there was a setting to just auto-silence open-reg instances.

It's such a huge vector for spam and malicious intent. Open reg without spam protection, robust enough moderation to quickly address obvious (as in obviously violating the rules of the instance they are on) bad actors, and such the fediverse isn't even meeting the standards that the corpo sites have.

It's a balance between ease of access and the security controls for sure, but right now the status quo is way to ease of access with almost no controls to prevent bad actors.

rose, 1 year ago to random

Portland, now is a good time to get fans or window ACs before the shelves go bare.

I was able to get a fan from a mutual aid group a couple years back. I asked and got about 5 offers for good fans.

After today the 10-day forcast is all in the 80s and 90s.

rose, 1 year ago to random

this is the most "water is wet" headline I've seen in awhile

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/05/more-of-portland-areas-homeless-people-staying-in-shelters-thanks-to-more-available-beds.html

rose, 1 year ago to random

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rose, 1 year ago to random

in the future, media will portray teenage hackers as kids who get into battles of wits with LLMs. Using quick thinking and gotchas they best the machine and bypass security controls.

This is both wrong in how it anthropomorphizes LLMs, but also right in the understanding that these products have such flimsy security it can be bypassed by 15 year olds with creative writing.

rose, 1 year ago to random

What was your favorite song in high school? #FavHSSong

Mine was Aphex Twin's Alberto Balsalm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZVZgCrHy5E