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I mean, who could've possibly imagined?!?!
STUDY: "In acute care settings, staff N95 respirators and admission screening testing of patients can reduce hospital-acquired #COVID19 and COVID-19 deaths, and are cost saving because of reduced patient bed-days and staff replacement needs."
I still cannot imagine why healthcare workers need to be told to care about patients and put on masks, particularly during COVID surges!
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(24)00236-6/fulltext
Despite all the doom and gloom about YubiKeys, I’m not ditching mine:
In 1973, Nixon made for-profit healthcare legal.
This is in a nation where those with lots of money can legally bribe those who make and enforce the laws.
The results should surprise no one. America is a nation by, of, and for the corporations. The only useful thing we can do is to serve as a warning to others of what happens if you give too much power to wealthy people and corporations.
Holy shit 🤯
Timelapse of a plasma rain event on the sun I captured on Sept 1.
103 minutes condensed down to 9.65 seconds (640x)
#solar #astrophotography
The cost of solar panels is plummeting, and this will flood the power grid with cheap electricity. But that’s just Act 1. We won’t stop building solar at the limits of the grid - we’ll build a lot more.Ben James
I would like to do this someday (maybe not in November), but I have no ideas to start with. The few ideas I do have for things to write tend to be short stories or even just individual scenes. I have absolutely no idea how I'd even start stretching anything out to tens of thousands of words.
How does one go about this? Either coming up with a long-form idea in the first place, or making a short idea longer?
We're coming up on nanowrimo. Every year people ask my thoughts, so here they are.I love challenges! I love transcending your limits! I love discovering that your limits are not actually limits! I love accomplishing things that you've never accomplished before!
The point of nanowrimo is to artistically challenge yourself. For me, writing a novel in a month is no big deal. If the challenge of setting aside a few hours a day every day to write appeals, do it!
Your novel probably won't be publishable. Learning to tell a novel-length story is a skill that you learn by writing novels. (I have fourteen trunk novels that the world will never see.)
But most people never manage to write even one! It's work! It's a million tiny decisions, one after the other, that will exhaust your feeble little brain! I have fifty-odd books out, and guess what? Every time I start, I don't know if I have it in me to write another book!
Set goals. Transcend limits. Fight. WIN!
With this context: having AI write your novel meets none of these goals. There's no art there. No challenge. Plus, environmental ruin and theft of other people's intellectual property.
We're coming up on nanowrimo. Every year people ask my thoughts, so here they are.
I love challenges! I love transcending your limits! I love discovering that your limits are not actually limits! I love accomplishing things that you've never accomplished before!
The point of nanowrimo is to artistically challenge yourself. For me, writing a novel in a month is no big deal. If the challenge of setting aside a few hours a day every day to write appeals, do it!
Your novel probably won't be publishable. Learning to tell a novel-length story is a skill that you learn by writing novels. (I have fourteen trunk novels that the world will never see.)
But most people never manage to write even one! It's work! It's a million tiny decisions, one after the other, that will exhaust your feeble little brain! I have fifty-odd books out, and guess what? Every time I start, I don't know if I have it in me to write another book!
Set goals. Transcend limits. Fight. WIN!
With this context: having AI write your novel meets none of these goals. There's no art there. No challenge. Plus, environmental ruin and theft of other people's intellectual property.
Source of the post:
https://serialephemera.tumblr.com/post/636666887988740096/thematically-speaking-the-most-important-thing/
Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its...serialephemera (Tumblr)
Yeah they're different, I just thought it might be relavent.
In particular people who are controlled through their anger tend to die of a brain hemmorage a lot more.
OVERWORKED LICENSE (OWL)dude idfk if i maintain this shit at all its some kind of miracle. like i can barely maintain myself let alone some software i made out of desperation. like just fucking do what you want with this shit i do not care. try not to be evil with it i guess, but no matter what i write here some jackass will find a way to ruin it.
this license is to apply to all derivative works
Ok, here's the deal on the "YubiKey cloning attack" stuff:
yes, a way to recover private keys from #YubiKey 5 has been found by researchers.
But the attack *requires*:
👉 *physically opening the YubiKey enclosure*
👉 *physical access* to the YubiKey *while it is authenticating*
👉 non-trivial electronics lab equipment
I cannot stress this enough:
❗In basically every possible scenario you are safer using a YubiKey or a similar device, than not using one.
Life gets us all down at times, so lets have some fun and have a bounce shall we?
Come join me for some fun!
#Fursuit #Fursuiter #Fursuiting #FurryAnthro #FoxFursuit #FoxFursona #TerrenceTheFox #Furry #UKFur #FurryFandom
I say this regularly, but here I go again…#libraries are a lifeline to parents of young kids, the elderly and those on low incomes. They are a place where you can exist and learn for free.
#Tories think no one dies when a library closes…but their absence hits right to the heart of communities.
And yes #Labour run councils have shut libraries too…due to austerity.
Around 2,000 jobs were cut, and the most deprived areas were four times more likely to lose a library than the richest, according to a BBC reportElla Creamer (The Guardian)
Last winter when our town was hit with a major power failure two days before Christmas, and it took more than 24 hours to get power back to some houses, there were exactly two places open with heat where people could go for free:
the public library, and a church that allegedly had a heat-shelter open in the back, but no one answered the phone there when I called to verify.
It's not our main purpose, but libraries are an important fallback for a lot of things.
In the UK during the energy and cost of living crisis libraries have been dedicated ‘Warm Spaces’ where people can stay warm during the day because they can’t afford to heat their homes. It’s this or riding the buses all day with their bus passes for pensioners in winter. Despite now having a Labour government there is no sign of improvement on this front with the energy price cap set to rise by 10% in October.
One of the recently replaced Glasgow Subway trains in the Riverside Museum. Is there a name for the slightly uneasy feeling you get when you realise a once familiar everyday object is now only to be found in museum collections?
#glasgow #subway #glasgowsubway #transportmuseum #riversidemuseum
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 users will not be able to uninstall the controversial "Recall" feature, despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise.Hilary Ong (DMR News)
tempted to actually publish and start using this because I've seen a fair share of opensource abuse out there.
Just because I opensource my code, doesn't mean I want random crackheads on chatgpt submitting """""""code"""""""" with absolute zero knowledge of what's actually happening, just because they want to write 'opensource contributions' on their resume. Not to mention actual abuse and random people trying to redo a project because they have some vision on it (then GO AND BUILD YOUR OWN)
FEELGOOD:
"Boy who broke 3,500-year-old artefact welcomed back to museum"
Boy gifts museum a clay vase of his own after he accidentally broke the rare jarAlisha Rahaman Sarkar (The Independent)
Learn how to manage memory manually, or how to write assembly. Write a compiler, or a web browser.
Learn how to repair your hardware when it breaks, and how to fix your software when the authors don't care to.
Teach yourself how to write, or draw, or sing, or whatever it is that you wish you knew.
You don't have to do any of this, of course - but if you're not going to, it should be because you don't want to, not because you've been lied to.
The hardest step is to admit that you are capable.
This is neat
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