I started releasing rather than killing spiders after reading “Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
In that future, most animals have disappeared and people consider the sight of a spider as an extraordinary thing. Sparing a single spider might be vain, but it feels right knowing insect/spider population is quickly decreasing.
And Anna Schuh, professor of molecular diagnostics at the University of Oxford, warned that the test gets it wrong when it calls a positive result “almost half of the time”, which she said was “disappointing as it is only fractionally better compared to tossing a coin”.
Better consult with statisticians before making a policy to use those tests. Depending on the rate of false positives, doing more tests doesn’t necessarily improve public health. If this lead to too many unnecessary procedures and unnecessary follow up tests, it may divert resources aways from people who actually need treatment.
Is there an alternative to grass that covers well, and doesn’t spread fast like an invasive plant?
I’ve read about clover but it does spread fast.
That’s right, the commission probably isn’t involved on those cases. I interpreted “The EU” literally by including its various components, ie the EU commission, the member states governments, companies and individuals in those countries.
There’s no central “EU government” that decides everything. The EU is not a centralized country, not even a federation. Members states takes many decisions on their own, and often need to approve EU comission proposals.
You’re talking about a great number of organisations, with different decision makers. It takes time and political will to coordinate and execute this kind of big switch. This needs to happen to become independant from foreign monopolies, but I’m not surprised it hasn’t already happened.
The EU commission decides for some EU institutions. Member countries decide for their own institutions and military. Each country and military has its own labyrinth of bureaucracy with lengthy decision making, and large+complex IT infrastructures. All of this has inertia. And switching cost money, even if it’s possible to save on license cost on the long run.
The EU does contribute to free software to some extent. But not enough.
At least 7% of Linux contributors are in Germany+France. An extra 2% from the UK. This is probably underestimated since the source has country info on only half of contributors. https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/korg/contributors?timeRange=past365days&start=2024-10-06&end=2025-10-06
The EU commission funded free software via NGI, and indirectly via NLnet. It’s a great initiative helping many small projects, but its future is incertain. https://nextgraph.org/eu-ngi-funding/
Indonesian religious leaders ruled in 2018 that vaccines with pig gelatin are haram, or forbidden, but advised Muslims that they should be used until other shots are available “for the benefit of society,”
This is a somewhat mixed message.
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Drink water
Neat.
DNS over Quic would be nicer, but that’s still a move toward more privacy.
Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.
Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.
He should at least have “DO NOT DEVELOP MY APP” tatooed on his forehead.
It’s an opportunity to switch to an alcohol-free beverage.
Which Debian distribution are you using, stable, testing, unstable?
I take care of a couple machines for family members. Those have Debian stable with automatic update (unattended-upgrade). I can’t recall the system or packages ever breaking. At most users are a bit confused when an update change the UI a bit.
Sticking to stable and avoiding third party repos gives a pretty solid system. Only developers or sysadmins might consider Debian testing. Only people working on Debian itself should use unstable.
Fair point. Hopefully spray vaccine and/or sterilizing vaccine will arrive one day. Anyway, a good vaccine coverage is important, and current vaccine are already effective at preventing illness/death.
You’re going to need herd immunity. Canada is dangerously close to a country where RFK Jr is in charge of public health.
I typically use a microwave to heat already-cooked food, like remains of yesterday’s meal. Or to heat some liquid.
It’s useful. It’s obviously not going to replace a pan or hoven.
Uploading a video game character’s face rather than your own also benefits privacy.
The Tea app leak shows some keep verification pictures for too long, without meaningful security.
Nothing spookier than cuts to sciences and research funding.