floofloof

joined 2 years ago
[–] floofloof 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Hmm, if only Americans were capable of joining the dots between the issues they care about and the politicians they vote for.

[–] floofloof 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

If bird flu takes off it could be billions, and tens or hundreds of millions in the USA. But at least they didn't trust that old woke left extremist "science" stuff. And their Jesus will greet them in heaven with a big "WTF???"

[–] floofloof 128 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (5 children)

They cancelled the testing because it's not tested enough. MAGA brainworm logic will literally be the death of us all.

[–] floofloof 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Well given that it's driven by an unholy alliance of end-times evangelicals, survival-of-the-fittest white supremacist techbro eugenicists and brainwormed health and fitness nuts, that could actually be their conscious plan. Of course they assume they're the superior ones who will survive.

[–] floofloof 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I have a very feeble 25-year-old computer running Windows 2000 on a low-wattage CPU for embedded systems, and it feels far more responsive than Windows 11 on my desktop with an AMD 5950x. And I dual-boot Linux, which also feels much faster than Windows 11.

[–] floofloof 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

So, what I'm hearing you say is that MS should jam Copilot into every single app and every corner of the OS, to turn ordinary actions into LLM-driven ones? Because that's what the users and the planet are clamouring for.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30846349

AMMAN, 27 May 2025 – “In a 72-hour period this weekend, images from two horrific attacks provide yet more evidence of the unconscionable cost of this ruthless war on children in the Gaza Strip.

“On Friday, we saw videos of the bodies of burnt, dismembered children from the al-Najjar family being pulled from the rubble of their home in Khan Younis. Of 10 siblings under 12 years old, only one reportedly survived, with critical injuries.

“Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured.

In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What level of horror must be livestreamed before the international community fully steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end of this ruthless killing of children?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30846349

AMMAN, 27 May 2025 – “In a 72-hour period this weekend, images from two horrific attacks provide yet more evidence of the unconscionable cost of this ruthless war on children in the Gaza Strip.

“On Friday, we saw videos of the bodies of burnt, dismembered children from the al-Najjar family being pulled from the rubble of their home in Khan Younis. Of 10 siblings under 12 years old, only one reportedly survived, with critical injuries.

“Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured.

In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What level of horror must be livestreamed before the international community fully steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end of this ruthless killing of children?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30846349

AMMAN, 27 May 2025 – “In a 72-hour period this weekend, images from two horrific attacks provide yet more evidence of the unconscionable cost of this ruthless war on children in the Gaza Strip.

“On Friday, we saw videos of the bodies of burnt, dismembered children from the al-Najjar family being pulled from the rubble of their home in Khan Younis. Of 10 siblings under 12 years old, only one reportedly survived, with critical injuries.

“Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured.

In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What level of horror must be livestreamed before the international community fully steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end of this ruthless killing of children?

[–] floofloof 45 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

For personal use? I never do anything that would qualify as "auditing" the code. I might glance at it, but mostly out of curiosity. If I'm contributing then I'll get to know the code as much as is needed for the thing I'm contributing, but still far from a proper audit. I think the idea that the open-source community is keeping a close eye on each other's code is a bit of a myth. No one has the time, unless someone has the money to pay for an audit.

I don't know whether corporations audit the open-source code they use, but in my experience it would be pretty hard to convince the typical executive that this is something worth investing in, like cybersecurity in general. They'd rather wait until disaster strikes then pay more.

[–] floofloof 21 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Don't forget idiots. They played an important part too.

[–] floofloof 23 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Microsoft always has 20 variants of the same name for maximal confusion. It's deep in their culture.

[–] floofloof 16 points 14 hours ago

It's amazing that only one person is known to be missing after that. That's some good disaster preparation.

[–] floofloof 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It still hurts the whole world if there is a reservoir of 340 million unvaccinated Americans for the virus to infect and mutate in. Though if this thing gets going that number would rapidly come down, but not in a good way.

Republicans have cancelled the government-funded monitoring, vaccine research, disaster preparation and disaster response capacity. It is the absolute most stupid, short-sighted and self-destructive thing a government could do when all the signs are that this is ready to go pandemic at any moment, and potentially be the deadliest thing humanity has experienced in centuries, or, in fact, ever.

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/38959353

Ottawa (AFP) – More than 17,000 people in Canada's western Manitoba province were being evacuated on Wednesday as the region experienced its worst start to a wildfire season in years.

"The Manitoba government has declared a province-wide state of emergency due to the wildfire situation," Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew told a news conference.

"This is the largest evacuation Manitoba will have seen in most people's living memory," he said.

Kinew said he asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to send in the Canadian military to help with the evacuations and firefighting.

Military aircraft, Kinew said, would be deployed "imminently" to help move people out of endangered remote northern communities to safety, along with additional firefighting resources.

The evacuations include the town of Flin Flon, where 5,000 residents were told earlier to get ready to flee on a moment's notice as a major wildfire bore down on the mining town named after a fictional character in a 1905 paperback novel.

Residents of several other remote towns and Indigenous communities have also now been told to leave.

Most of the evacuees are expected to be transported to the Manitoba capital of Winnipeg.

Evacuee Sheryl Matheson told AFP the wildfires had surrounded her small town of Sherridon, northeast of Flin Flon.

"It's been overwhelming," said the owner of a fishing lodge. "It was very smokey. You could see the fires four or five kilometers away and moving fast."

"The flames were shooting over 121 feet high and firefighters couldn't get close enough to the fire to do anything."

Elsaida Alerta told public broadcaster CBC she was having "major anxiety" as she and her family readied to leave Flin Flon, where she has lived for three years.

"Especially for somebody that lived in a big city (previously), that never had to evacuate, this is definitely nerve-wracking," she said.

The only highway out of Flin Flon still open was jammed with traffic and local petrol stations had run out of gasoline, she said.

"We basically gathered all our essential things, important documents, medications and, you know, things that our animals will need," she said.

"We're just gonna make our way and hope for the best."

Premier Kinew said the widespread nature of the fires was cause for alarm.

"For the first time, it's not a fire in one region, we have fires in every region. That is a sign of a changing climate that we are going to have to adapt to," Kinew said.

Twenty-two wildfires were active in the province.

Nearly 200,000 hectares of forests have been scorched in just the past month, or triple the annual average over the previous five years, Kirstin Hayward of the Manitoba wildfire service said.

"Manitoba has the highest fire activity in Canada so far this year, due in part to a prolonged period of warm and dry conditions," she said.

Climate change has increased the impact of extreme weather events in Canada.

About 1,000 residents of Lynn Lake and Marcel Colomb First Nation in Manitoba and 4,000 people from the northern village of Pelican Narrows and other communities in neighboring Saskatchewan had already been evacuated earlier in the week.

A firefighter was also severely injured when he was struck by a falling tree while battling blazes. He was being treated in hospital, Kinew said.

The Manitoba premier said emergency shelters were being set up and companies and communities across the province were being asked to "open your doors" to displaced residents.

Earlier this month, two residents of the small community of Lac du Bonnet died after being trapped in a major wildfire northeast of Winnipeg.

In 2023, the worst wildfire season in the country's history, the only recorded deaths were among firefighters.

There are currently 134 active fires across Canada, including in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. Half are considered out of control.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30426802

The 10-year Treasury hit 4.63% and the 30-year Treasury hit 5.15%. 

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65280028

Posting this with the comment that the administration is trying to kill us got me banned on Reddit....again.

As for the vaccine they said they were stopping the research because the mRNA vaccines weren't tested enough...you know other than the billions of doses already given and also the testing you'd do in... research....for a new vaccine.

view more: next ›