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Ganneff, 5 months ago to debian

If you are out there happily applying the new #Debian pointrelease - DO NOT REBOOT into the updated #linux #kernel. It contains a serious (and silent) #data #corruption #bug that MAY (not must) affect you.

Fixes are in preparation, but builds will take a bit to complete.

ghorwood, 5 months ago to random

my mother died over two years ago. every password to every device she ever owned has been burned and blows in the wind with her. i exhorted her while she was alive, in my nerd-fervour, to not write them down, and now i curse my former self for it.

i tell you this now: give your crucial data, in a sealed envelope, in a safe or safety deposit box, in an encrypted zip, to someone you trust.

KeithDJohnson, 5 months ago to random

"Eerily similar to #HIV"
"Roughly a third of adults who get #COVID-19 report having had what is considered long COVID. And months after the initial infection, a staggering number of those who haven’t recovered - up to 80% - have some trouble carrying out their daily activities.
Researchers have found that although one’s risk of developing long COVID increases with the severity of the initial infection, people can and do develop long COVID even after infections that were asymptomatic or considered mild.
#Vaccination dramatically reduces a person’s chances of developing long COVID. A fully vaccinated individual is five times less likely to continue to have any symptoms or ill-effects three months after their initial infection compared to someone who has not been vaccinated."
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/10/in-cleveland-and-beyond-researchers-begin-to-unravel-the-mystery-of-long-covid-19.html

arjen, 5 months ago to random

Ethical, open and non-commercial: the Open Web Search project is designed to provide Europe with the right alternative to existing search engines

https://home.cern/news/news/computing/ethical-open-and-non-commercial-open-web-search-project-designed-provide-europe

#OpenWebSearchEU

douglaspynn, 5 months ago to random

Heads up #victoriabc #yyj
Wind warning just posted.

"When: Near noon to this afternoon

Where: Greater Victoria and Southern Gulf Islands

Threat: Southeast winds of 70 km/h gusting to 90"

https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-75_metric_e.html?campaign=city%3Dbc-75%3Bservice%3Dtwitter%3Blang%3Den

18+ trendless, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

2023.12.16: if there's interest in doing more of these over the holidays, we can! The when2meet link below is still active ⏬

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:coronavirus: :vflex: :fediverse: 🎤 :mastosupport:

If you're interested in socializing (jitsi voice call) with the fediverse #CovidIsNotOver community, feel free to go here and fill in when you're available:

https://www.when2meet.com/?22733865-vqNLi

If you wanna be able to edit the times you select you'll need to set a password, otherwise just put in your fedi username so we know who to keep in the loop (or not, if you'd like to be anonymous) :mastothumbsup:

Feel free to mention/message if you have any questions :toot:

:BoostOK:

llorenzin, 5 months ago to novid

For those of you still COVID-testing regularly - there's a new option home available, and it's both accurate and relatively affordable!

We just got a bundle of Metrix tests and a free reader:
https://shop.aptitudemedical.com/products/metrix%E2%84%A2-covid-19-test-reader-bundle
Much more accurate than antigen tests - 96.7% sensitivity (accuracy of a negative test) and 99% specificity (accuracy of a positive test), which is similar to other molecular tests such as Lucira & Cue. I like that the clinical studies included asymptomatic infections, too!

At $25/test, it's less expensive than other molecular tests - one Metrix test ends up being about 2x the cost of one antigen test. Given that we've been serial testing with the RATs, it's a wash for us...

Tests are also available on Amazon - can be ordered individually, and the reader is $35 unbundled.

More details:
https://nitter.net/Clean_Air_Club_/status/1728097278668189713
https://scribe.rip/dibellatron/which-high-quality-covid-test-should-you-buy-3f2cd38f6e3c

#COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver @novid @violetblue

Trenton_Hoshiko, 5 months ago to random

2 things can be dangerous at once, but the numerous "don't eat cantaloupe you could die" stories vs the lack of "informed risks and case levels of covid" stories is really stark, to the point of almost being comical

antiaall3s, 5 months ago to random

Call for contributions from comrades

We are looking for contributions for a new zine trying to document what it feels like to still be #COVIDing, pushed into social isolation, while just about everyone else has normalized #COVID19. Whether out of caution or because of pre-existing conditions, disabilities, #LongCOVID, we think it is important to communicate how the current situation affects many of us living under the neoliberal system of individualised responsibility.

#AntiAbleism #Anarchy

crowgirl, 6 months ago to tech

Today is the day that my new book Cloud Penetration Testing for Red Teamers, is now available everywhere new tech books are sold.

"Get to grips with cloud exploits, learn the fundamentals of cloud security, and secure your organization’s network by pentesting AWS, Azure, and GCP effectively."

Yes, I wrote two different books this year and they both ended up published at around the same time. 😅

#tech

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1803248483

trendless, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

"well-fitting mask" :drake_dislike:

"tight-fitting mask" :drake_like:

"respirator" :chef_kiss: :geordi_like: :merylstreepyes: :thinkaboutit: :successkid: :take_my_money: :dance_cool_doge:

https://zeroes.ca/@govcanhealth@bird.makeup/111386615025037773

#WearARespirator #N95OrBust #P100FTW

crowgirl, 6 months ago to random

Now available on Kindle!

"Hacker culture can be esoteric, but this entertaining reference is here to help. Written by longtime cybersecurity researcher and writer Kim Crawley, this fun reference introduces you to key people and companies, fundamental ideas, and milestone films, games, and magazines in the annals of hacking. From airgapping to phreaking to zombie malware, grasping the terminology is crucial to understanding hacker culture and history."

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CLKZ71B4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2

crowgirl, 6 months ago to tech

Now available in the Google Play Store!

Hacker Culture A to Z by Kim Crawley - Books on Google Play

"If you're just getting started on your hacker journey, you'll find plenty here to guide your learning and help you understand the references and cultural allusions you come across. More experienced hackers will find historical depth, wry humor, and surprising facts about familiar cultural touchstones."

#tech

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Kim_Crawley_Hacker_Culture_A_to_Z?id=XpHhEAAAQBAJ

jmcrookston, 8 months ago to random

I can smell smoke in my N95.

Does that mean it's not working?

No.

Odoriferous molecules (like sulfur) are tiny and pass through the N95.

Just like air.

This is why you don't "is he ded?" when you wear a mask

Here's an article on smoke/masks:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447000/

trendless, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

I think we'd best have a conversation about mask efficacy in the context of time-to-infection, viral load and other highly-speculative estimations that have been proffered over the course of the pandemic thus far.

You cannot build a rock-solid scientific model on top of such things.

#CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #WearARespirator #N95 #P100 #FitTest #Wuhan #Alpha #Delta #Omicron #ForeverOmicron

jmcrookston, 9 months ago to random

Addleman, Sarah, Victor Leung, Leyla Asadi, Abdu Sharkawy, and Jennifer McDonald. ‘Mitigating Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2’. CMAJ, 1 January 2021.

https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.210830

BE, 9 months ago to random

In case you feel like refuting this article to anyone you know today, or telling USA Today where to shove it(letters@usatoday.com) I'll do the leg work for you.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/08/11/more-americans-dying-than-before-pandemic-covid-deaths/70542423007/

An opinion by "doctor" Pierre Kory. Who is this Pierre Kory? You can start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Line_COVID-19_Critical_Care_Alliance

Yes, the president of a COVID misinformation and grifting campaign. So egregious that he has already had his board certification revoked:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-american-board-of-internal-medicine-finally-acts-against-two-misinformation-spreading-doctors/

I'll solve this great mystery from the article for you all. It's COVID.

protonmail, 10 months ago to Futurology

So #Meta's new #Threads app needs your health and fitness info. It also needs your browsing history and your location, and your purchases, and...well, it seems to need everything. If you want to get fully creeped out, here's the whole #privacy policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.

chargrille, 1 year ago to random

There's a lot of misinformation circulating that obscures or softens Jack Dorsey's relationship to Bluesky, Bluesky to Twitter, &/or Dorsey to Musk/Twitter.

On Dec 11, 2019, Dorsey announced on Twitter that he'd started Bluesky as part of Twitter, to serve Twitter, & funded by Twitter $, "to develop an open & decentralized standard for social media." (One already existed. Clearly the goal was one he controlled.)

"The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this [Bluesky] standard."

"But the standard Twitter app isn’t the only platform whose future Musk now controls. Over the past three years, Twitter Inc. has also been funding a decentralized social networking project called Bluesky — and it finally seems close to bearing fruit. But under Twitter’s new leadership, with its original champions gone, its future prospects seem shaky. Bluesky was launched under Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s leadership back in 2019, and its initial manager was Parag Agrawal, then Twitter’s CTO and later Dorsey’s replacement. The goal was to build a decentralized social network protocol that could eventually hook into Twitter — making it interoperable with other networks unrelated to the company. To maintain independence from Twitter as a business, Bluesky was set up as an independent entity producing nonproprietary open-source work — even as it was funded by Twitter. Bluesky was formally organized as a public benefit LLC led by software engineer Jay Graber in late 2021, and as of April, it had received $13 million from Twitter."
"Bluesky has always seemed like a quirky pet cause of Jack Dorsey, and that impression has only gotten stronger over time. Dorsey imagined decentralization as a way to sidestep increasingly bitter content moderation debates among law- and policy-makers. Decentralized social networking protocols like ActivityPub (which powers Mastodon) already existed, and to the extent Bluesky has a unique vision, it reflects ideas like Dorsey’s love of “algorithmic choice” or competing social media moderation algorithms. He told Musk in a"
["Before Musk reluctantly bought Twitter, former CEO Jack Dorsey funded and spun off Bluesky, a public benefit company tasked with building an open-source, decentralized social media protocol that he wanted Twitter itself to eventually operate on. Bluesky remains invite only to access but is now starting to let in more users. After setting up my account recently, wanted to talk with CEO Jay Graber. She agreed to answer some of my questions this week for what I believe is her first interview since she joined to lead the project in August 2021."

KydiaMusic, 1 year ago to Cats

I'm here to make friends so I don't feel so alone here at the end of the world. You like #cats? That's a follow. You like/make #music? Follow. You have #ADHD? Follow. You geek out about your hobbies? You like #scifi and/or #fantasy? Follow! Are you funny? Kind? #Antifascist? Worried about the #ClimateCrisis? Follow, follow, follow!

#Fediverse #Friends #

abvolition, 1 year ago to random

Today I did a hard thing. I set a grudge aside and sent an olive branch to someone who I felt wronged me, someone who probably feels I wronged them. As an abolitionist, I think sometimes it will be my job to put my pride aside and try to rebuild a relationship, if it’s one worth restoring.

Abolition isn’t just tearing down harmful systems or imagining and building new worlds. Sometimes it’s offering forgiveness on a small scale. It’s restoring equilibrium in our friendships, in our own lives.

18+ trendless, 1 year ago to random

“If you don't get sick, then the next time you get sick you'll get sicker. It's better to get sick, so you don't get as sick the next time you're sick.”

🤪

#immunitydebt

mac_thebruce, 1 year ago to random

Government should never be run like a business because:
the business of Business is to create profit for the few.
the business of Government is to create opportunities for the many.