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It's strange how power-only USB cables seem to be prone to spontaneously developing cuts in them

going back in time to the original USB committee meetings. I'm gonna appear out of a portal, wearing an eyepatch and a dozen scars, and yell at them to explicitly forbid power-only USB cables before collapsing into a heap of dust on the floor

90 minutes 'til go time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-JZH0FX_TE

The abstract seems pretty clearly “fine, here’s something you can CITE that yes, autistic humans also have emotions” so I imagine that the authors are just as annoyed by this headline as I am

(abstract without ridiculous headline: https://research.aota.org/ajot/article-abstract/78/4/7804205070/25222/Affective-Contact-in-Autism-A-Phenomenological )

The current government likes to say that the new budget's reduced income tax will start to compensate for households' cost of living increases from the past few years

As expected, the greatest benefit will be to those who have high salaries. But what's worse is now it turns out that the amount of money you receive if you're on disability will be *reduced* compared to the previous budget!

"Det ska löna sig att arbeta" aka "if you can't work, your life needs to be made miserable"

My least favorite thing about the modern commercial internet is when I'm very clear about what I want, and I can't find it, because the search engines are helpfully "correcting" my search to make it make sense.

No, I don't want a device that scales analog video to HDMI, I want a device that takes HDMI and scales it to analog video! that's the exact opposite of what I want!

So Cards Against Humanity just sued M*sk for ruining a piece of land they bought in Texas for their customers...

#2024bingocard

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I remember thinking “damn, covid is gonna suck but people gotta support universal healthcare after this” and that just… didn’t materialize.

Then I was like “wow, long covid sounds bad but at least this we’ll get more people to research ME/CFS and such” but now it seems like long covid is just gonna get swept under the rug like ME/CFS has this whole time.

I’m sick of this shit.

"This will also never happen."

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#fuckcars

I was off on the keyboard and instead of "systemctl list environment" I wrote "ayarwmns liar wncieonmwnr"

the Swedish police have started seizing girlpotion.cc shipments

SHELVE YOUR KNIFE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.

The universe is all matter, no antimatter because in the second after the big bang, all matter/antimatter mutually annihilated leaving *slightly* more matter.

But imagine there's a part of the universe (now outside our lightcone) with *slightly* more antimatter, so antimatter won.

Science fiction story concept: Rogue rocky planet, no star, life evolves anyway because it's close to the matter/antimatter dominance interface & half the sky is pure light from mutually annihilating distant galaxies

Protestation https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22327914

Ik im preaching to the choir on here, but I do genuinely get the pushback from cloudbrained ppl that "we don't need #p2p data infra because Amazon is giving it to us for free rn, and if they stop the NIH would step in because they dont want to lose all the data"

Whelp, an enormous set of 12 databases of pathogen data just went poof when the funding dried up. The only way they are able to bring back a temporary static copy is because other foundations and universities stepped in, but aside from the death of the active databases, how long will that last?

P2P data infrastructure is not some radical pie in the sky Pipedream. It is the only means for making sustainable nonprofit repositories of scientific data. It's open data that's the pipedream without P2P.

Not only can it be done in a way thats compatible with existing cloud infrastructure, it would be strictly additive to its capacity, and in the case that funding dries up, can continue to exist as long as it is useful to the people affected, who can combine whatever storage and bandwidth resources they have.

The alternative of continuously needing to recreate databases, catastrophic loss, and eventually the NIH becoming totally beholden to paying increasing fractions of its tiny budget to AWS spells a grim, grim future for open data.

I've written about this before, and am working on it, but every time this happens my Cassandra complex grows greater: https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#peer-to-peer-as-a-backbone

The db in question: https://veupathdb.org/

#VectorBase #VEUPathDB #OpenData #OpenScience