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“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” - Rich Feynman

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Even without being a programmer, associating Free Software with a MASSIVE purchase is bonkers.

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Classic example of judging a book by it’s cover I guess. The fact big tech is embracing open source software more and more, you’d think this assessment should no longer be the case.

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When I say “don’t think of a panda”, what do you think of? Pretty much the same thing with saying “don’t recommend me FOSS options” lol

Researchers Crack the Cellular Code on Protein Folding, Opening New Therapeutic Avenues for Many Diseases (www.umass.edu)

The research, published in the journal Molecular Cell, explores members of a family of proteins called serpins, which are implicated in a number of diseases. The research is the first to investigate how the location and composition of carbohydrates attached to the serpins ensure that they fold correctly. Serious...

Stimulating Nerves Connected to the Pancreas Regenerates Insulin-Producing Cells (www.tohoku.ac.jp)

Insulin is a hormone that decreases blood glucose levels. The only cells that produce insulin are pancreatic beta cells (β-cells), and a decrease in these cells is a major cause of diabetes. Although therapies aimed at increasing pancreatic β-cells are eagerly awaited, a strategy that can increase β-cells has, thus far, not...

Venezuela to Prepare Legal Framework for Guayana Esequiba State (lemmy.ml)

The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, announced that after the victory of the “yes” in Sunday’s referendum, the next step will be to approve a law for the creation of a Guayana Esequiba state....

Recruiters Drop Elbit Systems after Palestine Action Campaign (lemmy.ml)

After weeks of action, the sole recruiters for the British operations of Israel’s largest weapons company, Elbit Systems, have confirmed via email to Palestine Action that they ended their association with Elbit on the evening of the 29th November. For two months, activists in the Palestine Action network had disrupted iO...

UN General Assembly adopts fresh resolution demanding Israel’s withdrawal from Golan Heights (peoplesdispatch.org)

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a fresh resolution on Tuesday, November 28 asking Israel to withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The resolution said that Israel’s continued occupation of the Syrian territory “constitutes a stumbling block in the way of achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace...

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This paper points out the filtration of SARS-CoV-2 isn’t clear cut whatsoever. Papers stating it could be filtered from the air all demonstrated to have publication bias. The thing about viruses is they are super tiny. On average, a virus is 10x smaller than a bacterial cell. This makes filtration much more difficult to accomplish.

The study found the most effective methods for air purification were germicidal lights, ionisers, and electrostatic cleaners. With HEPA specifically, the filters can snag objects as small as 0.3μm. However, the largest viruses are 500nm or 0.5μm in diameter. Based on the numbers, HEPA filtration is capable of removing the largest viruses from the air, but that’s a small minority of all viruses. SARS-CoV-2 comes in somewhere between 60nm/0.06μm to 140nm/0.14μm in diameter, meaning HEPA filtration can not remove it from the air.

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I was taught μm stands for micrometers, which are 1,000 times smaller than millimeters. Nanometers(nm) are 1,000 times smaller than micrometers(μm), which means nanometers are CRAZY small!

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Oh ya, forgot about that site founded by the Tampa Bay Times, definitely a top tier source when it comes to geopolitics. Especially on topic’s with zero grey area. /s

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I’d argue for a basic use case most distro’s would work well, right? All come with a browser, a PDF reader, and some word doc/spreadsheet program. I truly hate using windows at school, so I just plug in a USB, restart, and boot from the USB. Otherwise Firefox always needs updating, which results in freezing 1/10 times, and I need to make an adobe account to simply read a PDF.

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Touché, you’re right for sure. I should have stayed with saying most and not said all. But that’s where my head was at least.

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Nobara could be a great choice for your setup. It’s a version of Fedora, made by a very well respected Fedora team member, setup with gaming in mind. It comes with many of the drivers you’d have to download using most other distros. Being Fedora based means you can tinker with anything you wanted to change. I recommend the KDE spin, KDE is known as the swiss army knife of environments. It’s super intuitive too. I’m actually in a bit of an emulator phase right now, I have had zero issues using KDE Fedora while figuring it all out!

Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint (dissidentvoice.org)

We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of military force to try to remove enemy governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military violence...

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I’m curious how it compares to Standard Notes. Have you tried both by chance?

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Political options today only seem to revolve around who’s less of a risk. Regardless, possible/likely counterproductie moves seems to be the better option vs bat shit crazy moves from the get unfortunately…

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I truly have never said this before in my life, but you obviously need better game. If asking for a number is off the table, then you’re already friendzoned…

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