It might also be the kind of data center that is being built. Cheaper data centers are noisier, inefficient with water, etc

Working class areas may already be distrustful towards large companies coming along and using up all of the local resources

I figure that the authorities will get annoyed if they keep receiving false positives from this company

The xcancel thread with the video: https://xcancel.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2060164928472854821#m

This makes a lot of sense, but it might take some getting used to. I think people are more self-critical and embarrassed about their coding ability and mistakes than they should be, and they might worry about all that being public.

The article speculates that this isn’t intentional by Motorola. I’ve also seen mentions speculating a compromised library

Secondly, we can speculate as to what’s going on – and that’s what the following is, speculation and conjecture. While many would quickly, understandably, point the finger at Motorola here, my gut says something else is going on, and that it might not be a decision Motorola actually planned out. The redirect through a seemingly fake website and affiliate code of an influencer that has no obvious ties to Motorola is just too bizarre to ignore.

They’re somewhat sandboxed, likely to be up to date, and it behaves similarly across different machines. It’s nice for GUI programs that don’t need access to the wider system, and it won’t mess with anything else that I already have installed. I guess it would have similar pros and cons as containerization with Podman/Docker?

I get the vast majority of my GUI programs from Flathub. I didn’t know there was a controversy with it, other than just wanting a different way of doing things.

why is it the US’s sole responsibility to stop international disease outbreaks

They’re not, and that shouldn’t be the conclusion people draw from this. What they’re saying is that there are resources (human and supplies) already in position which could prevent a bigger problem if they are utilized, and will likely go to waste. Similar to all those vaccines that were already paid for and then spoiled over time. It’s also talking about why this outbreak is going to be more painful than future ones (once alternative systems have been set up).

As for why we are in this situation in the first place:

• the US has used its influence to set up these extensive programs globally for decades because they benefitted from the influence and power it gave them
• Other countries had a hard time justifying spending money on identical programs operating on the same issues, when they could be using the money to support the existing programs. Or alternatively, listening to where the US says to direct the money / investment. Experts in a certain field will choose to go and work in the larger organization since they can still serve their community through that one.

It’s not enough for the bureaucrats or elected officials to want something, the people need to understand the risk as well. Now that the world sees what can happen, they will be a lot more careful entering agreements with the US or shutting down domestic capabilities in the future.

Public health can’t be replaced quickly, since it’s not just about spending money now. It takes time to set up new logistics, supply chains, education and training programs, diplomatic relationships, emergency supplies etc.

All that being said

What’s the rest of the world doing about this?

Here is the recent news:

https://www.afro.who.int/countries/democratic-republic-of-congo/news/who-ramps-support-democratic-republic-congos-ebola-outbreak-response

With everything running, you’ll be able to launch arbitrary programs and have the windows placed within the Minecraft world as if they were in-game. Users can place the windows in any orientation and can interact with them like any other desktop environment. [EVVIE] has released all of the code under the GPL for anyone wanting to try it out or build on the project itself.

Oh, that’s not what I was expecting 😄

I thought it was good news, any reason why it might be bad? This seems like a proactive step to prevent potential issues down the road

It almost makes me think a human worker intentionally made these slides. LLMs don’t really have the creativity to make typos, which is how I can sometimes catch LLM comments on here. Also “SharePhont” is pretty funny

Unless they used an image generator to make the slides, which would be extra stupid

edit: turns out it WAS the extra stupid

Catching up on this, I checked our internal tool and all but one of the flagged accounts from the past month had been banned already. I took care of the remaining account now

Thank you for putting everything together!

For those who want to check

The recall concerns two models of the Thermos Stainless King food jar (numbers SK3000 and SK30020) and one model of the Sportsman food and beverage bottle (SK3010). Their model numbers can be viewed on the bottom of the containers, and all Thermos products have the trademark on their side.

About 5.8 million food jars and 2.5 million bottles are being recalled, which were sold nationwide between 2008 and 2024. The products were sold at Target and Walmart stores, among other places, as well as online through Amazon and the official Thermos website.

Thank you for hosting :)

It’s still E2E, but the sender is Zulip and the potentially hostile service provider is google/apple. E2E isn’t limited to person to person chats

It would be nice if Zulip chats were E2E, but I imagine that would be a large undertaking

Sure, but exploring astrocytes isn’t random. Astrocytes are the support/repair/maintenance cells of the CNS.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s12276-023-01148-0

If the study is reproducible, it could be a good step forward for our understanding of Alzheimer’s, even if this specific technique doesn’t translate to human astrocytes.

It’s possible that the reason we don’t have a treatment for Alzheimer’s is because a different mouse study in 2006 caused researchers to focus on the wrong physiological process.

The first author of that influential study, published in Nature in 2006, was an ascending neuroscientist: Sylvain Lesné of the University of Minnesota (UMN), Twin Cities. His work underpins a key element of the dominant yet controversial amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s, which holds that Aβ clumps, known as plaques, in brain tissue are a primary cause of the devastating illness, which afflicts tens of millions globally. In what looked like a smoking gun for the theory and a lead to possible therapies, Lesné and his colleagues discovered an Aβ subtype and seemed to prove it caused dementia in rats. If Schrag’s doubts are correct, Lesné’s findings were an elaborate mirage.

A 6-month investigation by Science provided strong support for Schrag’s suspicions and raised questions about Lesné’s research. A leading independent image analyst and several top Alzheimer’s researchers—including George Perry of the University of Texas, San Antonio, and John Forsayeth of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)—reviewed most of Schrag’s findings at Science’s request. They concurred with his overall conclusions, which cast doubt on hundreds of images, including more than 70 in Lesné’s papers. Some look like “shockingly blatant” examples of image tampering, says Donna Wilcock, an Alzheimer’s expert at the University of Kentucky.

The authors “appeared to have composed figures by piecing together parts of photos from different experiments,” says Elisabeth Bik, a molecular biologist and well-known forensic image consultant. “The obtained experimental results might not have been the desired results, and that data might have been changed to … better fit a hypothesis.”

What if you distributed the tool under the normal channels, and then used gumroad (or anything similar) to sell an optional key that adds a little visual indicator or removes a nag message. I’ve seen a few other open source projects do that. Grayjay for example

Amnesty International did put something out in both of these cases.

For the first one, the additional link goes into why that testimony was initially included in their report before the correction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

• https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v13/n03/alexander-cockburn/right-stuff

Nayirah’s story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International, which published a report about the supposed killings[3] and testimony from Kuwaiti evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, international media crews were given access to the country. A report by ABC News found that “patients, including premature babies, did die, when many of Kuwait’s nurses and doctors … fled” but Iraqi troops “almost certainly had not stolen hospital incubators and left hundreds of Kuwaiti babies to die.”[4] Later, Amnesty International USA reacted by issuing a correction, with executive director John Healey subsequently accusing the George H. W. Bush administration of “opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement.”

The second one is more complex, but they’re mentioned there too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violence_in_the_October_7_attacks

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International stated that these alleged confessions were likely extracted under torture, violate international law and basic human rights, and should be considered inadmissible as credible evidence.[61] They also called on the Israeli government to cease publishing such taped “confessions”.[61] Physicians for Human Rights Israel denounced these alleged taped confessions, citing “severe concern that the interrogations included the use of torture.”[64] The UN and reports by human rights organizations such as B’Tselem and media outlets have confirmed Israeli systematic use of torture during the Gaza war, including rape, gang-rape, sexualized torture and mutilation of detained Palestinian men, women and children by Israeli guards, including during interrogations.

My point is that, biases definitely exist and there is often selective reporting with news organizations.

I just find it weird to lump amnesty international in with all that when they seem to be one of the few that are actually calling out atrocities regardless of “sides”

I cross posted this to !selfhosted@lemmy.world, I hope that was ok! I figured it would be good to spread the knowledge

I don’t think amnesty.org’s stance on this matter would have changed in the past few years. They have been consistent in their messaging for a while now.

Interestingly, this page on criticisms highlights how they don’t shy away from calling out abuses regardless of which “side” the offending party is on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_International