Canceled my Paramount+ subscription due to egregious political censorship at 60 minutes.

It's kind of like my HVAC repair tech pretending that mini split heat pumps aren't available in America and they're super unreliable anyway. He's just never had to service one...

The richest man in the world is making a veiled threat against anyone who would dare question him.

Twitter appears to be dead today. I suppose that's healthy for me.

If you visit Japan pick up these multipack COVID and influenza antigen tests. 4-pack from Amazon JP 1200 yen is $7.64. The equivalent from Amazon US is $40.

You can’t imagine how many lives your donations are saving. These are family friends serving in the ZSU from the 154th Brigade. They felt completely defeated and unable to continue their work. Now thanks to you, they have these excavators and cranes and the position sites buzzing with activity.

United States v. Google LLC (2020) recently found that Google's Android partner system and therefore the Play Integrity API based on it is illegal. We're in active contact with the EU Commission about the Play Integrity API and are hopeful they're going to do something about it.

One of the biggest lessons from Syria is that, just a month ago, almost no one could have predicted the Assad regime would fall today. The "realities on the ground" crowd would have denied such a possibility. A reminder of why people in Ukraine fight rather than surrender.

OpenWRT had a vulnerability in their build system. OpenWRT is great but imagine if it had reproducible builds like Guix, Nix, or Debian? Trusting signatures from a centralized build system just doesn't cut it anymore. www.phoronix.com/news/OpenWrt...

OpenWrt Affected By Security Issue That Could Have Led To Compromised Build Artifacts

A security issue was reported to the OpenWrt project this week around their Attendedsysupgrade Server (ASU) instances that could have led to compromised firmware images being served.

phoronix.com

Android 15 QPR1 December 2024 update on Pixel 6+ now has the option to stop charging at 80%. If you keep your battery between 30-80% it will keep healthy for years longer.

August Smart Locks are wayyy down in price but they last only 3 months with non-rechargeable CR123a batteries? No thanks.

‘3 m above ground…50% panel density…345 W modules…36.6 kWdc…tilted 10 degrees…12.55 MWh…selected to allow for sufficient water runoff…rainwater harvesting system with guttering at lower edges of solar panels…maize, Swiss chard & beans, thrived…more crops survived under panels during hot period’

Agrivoltaics can improve water conservation in Africa

Research led by the University of Sheffield installed an off-grid agrivoltaic system in Tanzania and a grid-tied agrivoltaic system in Kenya. They found the installations helped boost crop yield and c...

pv-magazine.com

Health Rising: “From Severe ME/CFS to Healed: Jen’s Remarkable Rinvoq ME/CFS Recovery Story” ‘To encourage further research into Rinvoq and JAK1 inhibitors in ME, Jen plans to publish a comprehensive case study soon’ www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/11...

I'm trying to find a USB C Ethernet adapter you can buy off Amazon reliable with Linux. Both Amazon Basics and UGreen seem to be absolute junk. Both appear as usb_ncm to the kernel. Basics works but flakes out requiring replug. UGreen doesn't recognize a cable is plugged. Any USB C with rtl8152?

The scale of curtailment is staggering. In CAISO in 2022, 2.4 million MWh of utility-scale wind and solar were curtailed, a 63% increase over 2021. At the average rate for electricity in California of $0.33/kWh, that’s a $800(!) billion loss. #energysky www.renewableenergyworld.com/wind-power/c...

Fedora 41 dnf5 syntax changed to enable/disable repos. dnf config-manager setopt updates-testing.enabled=1 dnf config-manager setopt updates-testing.enabled=0

6/6/23, EKFS: 'Yale Professor Akiko Iwasaki honored for research on long COVID with 2.5 million euros' '..funds and furthers Professor Iwasaki’s plans for investigating post-acute infection syndromes such as long COVID and ME/CFS..' www.ekfs.de/en/current-t...

Yale Professor Akiko Iwasaki honored for research on long COVID with 2.5 million euros

Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research acknowledges outstanding work on immune responses in the event of viral infections

ekfs.de

I just wrote to Reporting to Ukraine suggesting that they repost the same content on this network. They are best known for their succinct Youtube videos covering the war. Please join me in nudging them in this direction. www.youtube.com/@RFU

Reporting from Ukraine

I am Ukrainian. On this channel I will give you the latest news about the war in Ukraine.

youtube.com

Persistent mitochondrial dysfunction plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of Long COVID. Transmission electron microscopy revealed significant mitochondrial structural abnormalities in Long COVID patients. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Novel biomarkers of mitochondrial dysfunction in Long COVID patients - GeroScience

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can lead to severe acute respiratory syndrome, and while most individuals recover within weeks, approximately 30–40% experience persistent symptoms collectively kno...

link.springer.com

I joined Bluesky 4 days ago and I have already gone over 10K followers. I am already getting more impressions and more engagement on Bluesky than on Twitter with my 42K followers there. Elon has been screwing with us all the last two years.

Impressive. Fedora 41's DNF package manager is *wayyyyy* faster. It seems to be smarter with parallel downloads and upgrading packages somehow also goes faster.

Vaccines work, actually

Has Bluesky considered allowing longer posts in the future?

With support from the federal government and intense interest from big tech companies, the US is about to do something unprecedented: restart up to three previously shuttered reactors. Here's how to bring a dead nuclear power plant back to life: www.vox.com/climate/3835... 🔌💡

How to bring a dead nuclear power plant back to life

Tech companies need more energy. They’re about to do something unprecedented.

vox.com

Has anyone made a bsky list of people who post about Ukraine?