I couldn’t wait for the answer

In the 1960s, scientists discovered that the sky blue blood inside horseshoe crabs would clot when it detected bacterial toxins. Vaccines, drugs and medical devices have to be sterile before they’re put inside people. A better toxin-detection system meant less contamination risk for patients

source (Trigger Warning: Begins with a photo of the blood collection many could find disturbing)

Wow, that was a wild read. I kept going to see if the man responsible for Radithor would get his after finding out it made him rich.

Few things that make my blood boil like Trump saying “J-6 hostages.”

Funny. I was thinking the ai post leaned towards Don Hertzfeldt’s style, then saw the “original” and it look even more like Hertzfeldt (see hands), which means ai even manages to fuck up stick-figure fingers!

Edit: btw, good eye/attention to detail!

The library

Unfortunately they seem to make products better until they reach saturation, then they split into tiers, raise prices (and/or lower offerings - looking at you Max) and start introducing ads into paid tiers.

I’m curious what the speed limit of the road was. It blows my mind how fast we let cars drive in residential areas. The fact that these kids can’t walk 2 blocks safety between the grocery store and home-- or put another way, that if they don’t use the crosswalk between home and the grocery store, there’s a serious risk of death-- is such a failure of city planning and societal values.

Neither article mentions how far it would be had they used the crosswalk, but I’d guess, with a 4 lane road, for two kids it was really out of the way.

How heartbreaking. 7 years old. As a parent you can’t say, “yeah, you can walk two blocks home,”? Land of the free, but no autonomy for people without a car.

Is a server a requirement? I haven’t tried myself but localsend (p2p) comes to mind.

Also, many proprietary softwares rely on open source libraries. So unless they catch, patch, and do not contribute those fixes, proprietary will be at least as vulnerable as the oss they depend on.

Good point. We’ve gone full circle, or line, on that one.

Naomi Klein refers to the right co-opting left phases (triggered, othered, fake news, etc) as “pipiking.” I think doing the reverse is hilarious, but also imagine a future where it results in an Idiocracy-like dialect 💀

I’d bet the sprawl and heat make biking impractical.

How likely are you to recommend Arch to a friend or colleague? 1, not likely, to 5, extremely likely.

Personally, I’d start with his wikipedia page, and the pages for his books. The people you’re talking to are likely caught in the fascism algorithmic funnel and have only watched videos rather than reading themselves. So they probably don’t have a deeper understanding than what wikipedia provides. That’s part of the appeal of conspiracy theories, that they’re bite-sized talking points that fit neatly together inside even the smallest minds.

I’m willing to bet there are people who have already done the work for you and picked apart the books, and there’s probably conspiracy theorists who have come up with stories for each of those points. And now we’re approaching the point of Branolini’s Law, “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it”

Beyond the scope of your Q, but if I could offer some advice: Instead of arguing, ask interrogating questions, as though you trust them and you’re genuinely trying to understand all the contours. You’ll quickly find many holes in their weak foundation. Success is bringing some awareness to how weak their info is. It’s like asking someone to show you around their messy apartment and now they’re a little embarrassed, so hopefully they’ll clean up or stop talking about it.

Honestly, though, I’d have those convos in person (and worryingly, i have). Algorithmic social media is not built for deep thought or meaningful discussions. IMO It’ll just suck up time and energy that can be better spent elsewhere.

Yup! If you have it on steam you can unzip the exe and take a peak at his code.

And Marty would be 57 years old

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Team 13-month-calendar assemble!

I haven’t done enough digging on metric time, but if it’s implemented as a UTC/global time I can get behind that. I’m sick of timezones and DST.

If you have an old laptop sitting around, put a linux server or NAS distro on it and start tinkering. There can be a lot of analysis paralysis with this stuff. Sometimes it’s best to just try and fail and learn and try again. More likely you’ll try and succeed and realize other wants and needs and redo it a year later. I think that’s why it makes for a great hobby. Lots to learn and improve upon.

Start small, on your local network. Maybe something like paperless-ngx: not very demanding of resources, and (I assume) easy to backup/migrate. You could see about putting it on truenas to get a sense of what that process is like. I personally like to keep a nas and server separate, then mount the nas on the server.

I’ve found owncloud a bit complex and prefer dedicated solutions. For the seas, servarr apps come up a lot. Paperless ngx for docs. Immich (or ente) for photos/vid. If you’re just starting out, installing on linux and/or using docker is going to be your shortest path to success. proxmox or other VMs can complicate things if you’re not familiar.

I noticed this in the wild, for the first time, a few days ago.