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Crazy to think that 5 years in, some people still think “asymptomatic = not contagious.”

It’s been known since early 2020 that people without symptoms can spread COVID very efficiently.🦠😷

#COVIDisNotOVER #CleanAir #MaskUp #AsymptomaticSpread

Source: x.com/themaggieshow_/status/19…

smokey mcbongwater @themaggieshow_ so i’m starting to suspect that people think that asymptomatic=not contagious and i just wanna know how we got here as a society 10:50 AM · Oct 18, 2025
#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #cleanair #asymptomaticspread
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New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records thenarwhal.ca/carney-natural-r…

Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal

Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out
Xavi Richer Vis (The Narwhal)

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Go, the language developed by Google apparently cannot let _go_ of Gold, the linker, also developed (and abandoned) by Google. I wish I was joking 🫠

github.com/golang/go/issues/22…


cmd/link: stop requiring gold on arm64 when GNU ld is fixed

What version of Go are you using (go version)? Any, more specifically 1.8, 1.9, master, most probably all versions supporting AArch64/arm64 target Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?...
jcajka (GitHub)
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Our #fundraiser is off to a flying start, and the fun has just begun! Next week we're releasing #Plasma6.5.

One of our #birthday wishes is to continue delivering quality #FreeSoftware for the whole world to enjoy. Help us make it happen with your #donation:

kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202…

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Konqi and Katie, the KDE dragons, are happily coding, creating the next generation of bleeding edge user-friendly free software. Konqi is sitting in a chair working on a laptop, while Katie is at a Keyboard + monitor integrated into a rack, also developing awesome new software

Happy Birthday to KDE

This week is KDE’s 29th anniversary. It may not be a nice round number like 25 or 30, but whenever another birthday rolls around for an independent project the size and scope of KDE — powered by the goodwill of its contributors and users — that’s rea…
Happy Birthday to KDE
#FreeSoftware #birthday #fundraiser #donation #plasma6 @KDE
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Are you drooling over your friend's Rayban AI glasses or Meta Quest RV thingies? What if I told you that you could save 30 bucks on your purchase? What if I told you that the earth is flat? Okay, it's not, but I could still say it. Well, why not follow this link when there's a huge sale and you could save even mrore. 30 bucks more to be exact. Isn't life grand? meta.com/ai-glasses/referrals/…

Shop Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta AI Glasses and Sunglasses

Shop all Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta AI Glasses and Sunglasses. Find your style of wearable technology in a range of sizes and colors.
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For awhile I really tried to convince myself I was just having the chills and throwing up over a lack of sleep. That and anticipation at training our new hire, finally I'm not the only engineer onthe team, hurray.
Yet no. I'm still cold sensitive, still get pings of nauzea, my forehead is less warm but my nose has started to run. No matter how much convincing I try to do I'm less and less convinced.
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Martin

@bmoore123 @BorrisInABox They're actually pretty straight-forward. To the right of the screen, top button is power. Under that is the AM, FM, Shortwave. Under that, round button, memory button I think, then volume rocker. Buttons found at the Bottom of the screen is buttons numbered 1 to 5, under that 6 to 9, then 0. Last row at the bottom, scan left, mute, scan right, Then 2 buttons, which may be mode and record./ Haven't figured those one out yet. This one doesn't have bluetooth, but it does have auxiliary jack, found below the headphone jack.
@Brian Moore @Borris
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Martin

@bmoore123 @BorrisInABox Yeah, I'm really liking it. So a bit more pointers. Buttons on the right side from top to bottom, almost. Power button, SD card button, AM/FM button toggle and then the Shortwave button that let's you cycle through 9 different bands. On the bottom, right of the scan right button is the record button. Hold down to record whatever you want and press again to stop. It['ll start playing the recording right away. Oh, that's if you have an SD card inserted. Lol!
@Brian Moore @Borris
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feld

@mischievoustomato I feel like both Android and iOS are losing the plot... neither Google nor Apple are looking like honest players anymore. It's bad news for all of us

I think we can only hope something like GrapheneOS can fill the void for us. I don't see a future where a new mobile OS steps in and takes over. It's too late for that. It would have been possible earlier in the mobile OS wars, but the competitors folded quickly.

Perhaps SailfishOS can pick up steam?

Either way, what matters most is if it can run apps people want to run. A non-Apple device will never really be able to run the iOS apps, but Sailfish and others which are Linux based can indeed preserve the ability to run Android apps. So perhaps that will be what happens.

It's bad news all around. Sad.

@johnny peligro

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Picked up a Corsair K70 mechanical keyboard this time. My Logitech after about 9 months, the keys began to pop off of it randomly, even just slightly flopping it down on carpet would make a key or two fly out. I got really tired of Logitech then, and I already had the Corsair K65 (which is wired), so figured, gosh, why not try them for wireless. So far so good! I also like how this keyboard has a volume wheel on the right side.
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Sophie Schmieg

You didn't really think the business value of that PR that had more comments than lines of code that all of us have written at some point in our career (if you haven't, I'm sorry, your onboarding mentor sucked, they were supposed to point out all the stuff you had to learn the hard way) was in getting it merged eventually, right? The value was the PR after that, that had a lot less comments. And the PR after that one, etc.

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Mastodon, I need your help: back when I was a nerdy teenage boy I got this new sound card for my 486, I don’t remember the brand/model.
In it were drivers for Windows 95 which included a Winamp-like MIDI player with a sample: Chronology Pt 4 by JMJ.

This thing BLEW MY MIND. Not only is that song a complete banger, the MIDI player would show every track in real-time using visual effects as it played.

Would anyone have stumbled on that same piece of software? I’d love to relive that moment.

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ZahmbieND

In light of the message on this pillow, I'd like to issue my thanks for your service. curl was very useful to me while I was troubleshooting a particularly difficult server bug this week. The bug related to a specific combination of headers and only happened on http/2, not on http/1.1, and curl was the tool I needed to easily switch between header values, http versions, and urls to nail down the parameters of the bug. I still haven't identified the root cause, but I was able to work around the issue (the fix was to set a cookie and perform a 302 redirect to refresh the page in a certain situation) and get a webpage back online.
From one of those billion people using your service, thank you!

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God, can someone please finally take #Firefox out of the hands of #Mozilla and their damn "AI" bros?

When they started adding all of this nonsense I went into my about:config to explicitly set "browser.ml.enable" to "false", but apparently even doesn't save you, as the new "features" will just not give a damn. 🫠

a firefox context menu showing "ask an ai chatbot" options that were added without informing users about this
#firefox #mozilla

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Jiří Eischmann

I personally am not happy about it. On the other hand I see that ordinary users, I've installed Firefox for, appreciate it. "Hey, I can have ChatGPT in the side panel instead of going to chatgpt.com!"
I'd rather have this for them in Firefox than losing them to browsers which gave up user's privacy to AI services completely.
As long as there is clear borderline between what AI gets access to and what it doesn't and it's possible to turn it off I'm content with it.

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Go read this GotoSocial feature request. No, really. Then tell me if you'd love to be bitten. This won't change anything, but still... It'll make sense, trust me.

codeberg.org/superseriousbusin…


[feature] implement Bite activity

### Is your feature request related to a problem ? nope :3 ### Describe the solution you'd like. As the title implied, an activity to virtually bite users or their posts might be nice to have (even though it's very silly x3) ### Describe alternat…
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The only remaining part of my computing world that is not yet on Linux is my audio/music production work. Formulating a plan to try and make a move there, too.

Would love to connect up with anyone doing this seriously on Linux. I'm totally okay with re-tooling a bunch of my software stack, but I'm trying to figure out a good, solid audio interface that will work well for serious use under Linux.

#linux #music #production #studio #foss

#linux #foss #music #production #studio

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Sometimes I wish my work had a (locally hosted) LLM that could answer questions about Git projects. When did this function get added? Has this branch been merged, and is it in staging yet? Who changed this line most recently?

I know there are commands for all of this and more, but I don't always remember them. Plus, some things are surprisingly hard, such as seeing if a branch has been merged.

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Alex Hall

@miki Powersports parts distribution, of all the random things. But our team is small, and our software is almost all used in-house. We're not making publicly distributed apps, we don't need extensive CI/testing setups, we're not spending tons of money on high-end servers to compile huge projects. Basically, we're small enough that all self-hosted is actually viable. I'm also lucky enough to have both a manager and a boss that understand IT.
@miki

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#WenkoffRetro No. 258 🎶❤️

Pohodový pátek? Jen s #retromusic ! 😎

18.10.1967 se *Bee Gees* dostali na vrchol 🇬🇧 hitparády s písní *Massachusetts*.

Nádhernou píseň napsali BG v New Yorku během US turné. Původně byla určena pro australskou folkovou kapelu The Seekers. Shodou okolností se však s nimi BG minuli a nakonec píseň nahráli sami. Je také známo, že BG v době psaní hitu nikdy v Massachusetts nebyli, jen se jim líbilo, jak jméno znělo.

A takhle BG hit zpívali v r. 1967 a po 30 letech: 😍

#wenkoffretro #retromusic
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FediVerseExplorer

Allein die Followerzahl taugt m.A.n. nicht zur Beurteilung bzw. dem Vergleich der Reichweite.

Aussagekräftiger finde ich die sog. Organic Reach Rate in Kombination mit der Followerzahl.

Bei Facebook lag die im verg. Monat bei 3%, Quelle siehe unten.

D.h., um bei Facebook mit einem unbezahlten Post (theroretisch) genausoviele Follower wie im FedieVerse zu erreichen, also in Deinem Fall 306, wären auf Facebook, wenn wir richtig gerechnet haben, 10.200 Follower nötig.

Denn im FediVerse gibt es keine Algo's die, die Reichweite bestimmen. Sondern sie liegt bei (theroetisch) 100% der Follower.

Ich hoffe, ich hab mich nicht zu kompliziert ausgedrückt 🤒Und wenn ich da einen Denkfehler habe, bin ich für Hinweise dankbar.

socialstatus.io/insights/socia…

Facebook Organic Reach Rate Bechmark | Social Status

We publish the average Facebook Organic Reach Rate Benchmark every month so you can compare your organic reach on Facebook.
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I read general news and current events only once per week (sundays, usually). If it’s important enough I’ll find out in person sooner organically. I rarely read or engage in any general news on social media, only in person or official news outlets. At worst I’m out of touch for 7 days. I find this makes my me happier and more at peace and avoids the shock driven news cycles.
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