Indeed. This is exactly the kind of high-risk environment for which people are typically vaccinated

This random commentor happens to be a Russian microbiologist, so you’re in pretty safe hands.

(No, I do not develop biological weapons, nor am I aware of any such facilities)

For all folks concerned of massive epidemic: -The people who contacted her after the incident are isolated, the hospital quarantined -Yes, there is a vaccine. People are not commonly vaccinated because plague is very rare nowadays, but they can be as needed. -It can be cured by antibiotics. Care needs to be prompt though, and that’s what Daria very recklessly missed. Fatal mistake for someone who oopsied in a pathogen lab.

Also, to those concerned that this is a biological weapon lab: -This would be the most stupid and inefficient biological weapon. Again, we have the vaccine AND the cure. -Disease research institutes are a normal thing throughout the world. We need them to efficiently combat outbreaks should they ever reappear.

No, but such companies see it as a pocket change and if it does get popular, they’ll benefit immensely from all these people buying AI tokens.

They could go and put all this money into any other distro (like Linux Mint, which is incredibly popular and takes a lot of work to make, yet runs on ~$10k a month), they just don’t see what’s in it for themselves.

Indeed! Trying to move my stuff to my Pixel and use it more, even if some wrinkles are there.

Please note Fairphone 6 is not properly supported yet, but the effort is there.

Reporting from el cheapo, Pixel 3a: calls work flawlessly, had a little tinkering to make cellular Internet connection work with my provider. Looking at PostmarketOS Wiki, plenty of phones now work perfectly well as, well, phones.

As a fellow postmarketOS user, it’s not fully ready for prime time, though it surely works.

If you need banking apps (not just bank in your browser), native popular messenger apps (Waydroid is there, but it’s way from perfect) and stuff like such, postmarketOS and mobile Linux in general are still not ready for you.

If you want to explore the alternative and ready to make some sacrifices in a quest for independence, you should absolutely give it a spin. Many well-supported devices (Pixel 3a, Pocophone F1 etc. etc.) are old and extremely cheap to buy on the secondhand market, and will offer you a decent experience.

Or go Linux phone altogether. For the most part, it all works now!

What are the apps? Chances are, you’ll have plenty enough of savvy userbase even without this BS.

Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority, the one making sure the green lock on HTTPS sites stays green.

Veracrypt is an encryption software.

The technology allowed us to do such things for a while, actually. The problem was cost. What finally brought these devices to the market are insane economies of scale driving prices into an acceptable range.

A lot of the technological breakthroughs we have are not only due to science and engineering, but also economy. Humans figured how to produce very complex stuff VERY efficiently, and this allowed us to move the latest developments from the lab to enterprise, and then to consumers.

SSDs and flash storage are brilliant, pretty much textbook examples of it. So are chips, LEDs, solar panels, and much more.

On that note, would you imagine in the 70’s that we’ll have LEDs everywhere and that they’ll practically replace most other sources of light? This is, like, insane tech for the time.

Nice!

Thanks!

Love the fact about RSS. Wish everyone could show up with such numbers!

What a life!

Didn’t know about WordPress automatically making RSS! Will put it to use.

Oh, I’d love to take a look at yours! But, of course, only if you’re comfortable sharing ✨

Woah, that’s a solid set! Thank you! I even know a few of these folks :D

Thanks for the recommendation!

Very generic! I’d like to diversify my feed as much as possible. Later I may prioritize some interests, but I want a diverse feed to get me started.