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What an amazing study: "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"

"Results Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury"

a) definitely read this, it's hilarious
b) it's poking pretty hard at the stance that medical trials require a stance of equipoise -- genuine uncertainty about which option is better

bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

h/t to @riana


Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial

Objective To determine if using a parachute prevents death or major traumatic injury when jumping from an aircraft. Design Randomized controlled trial. Setting Private or commercial aircraft between September 2017 and August 2018.
The BMJ
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I will not be happy with the state of intra-city transport in europe until:
- Car industry lobbying efforts will be supressed
- Every medium and big city will have trams
- The said trams will be GAY trams
- I will be able to ride with my GAY friends on the GAY tram and perhaps HUG and KISS them 🥺 🥺 🥺 👉 👈 :heart_pride: 🚊
A pitcture of a gay pride tram in amsterdam

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📝 Process CSS or Sass With LightningCSS in @eleventy

Use these plugins or code snippets to make #CSS a first-class templating language in Eleventy and add processing with LightningCSS and/or Sass.

11ty.rocks/posts/process-css-w…


Process CSS or Sass With LightningCSS | 11ty Rocks!

Use these plugins or code snippets to make CSS a first-class templating language in Eleventy and add processing with LightningCSS and/or Sass.
11ty.rocks
#css @Eleventy 🎈 v3.1.0-beta.1

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New blog post: Client-side comments with #Mastodon on a static #Jekyll website at jan.wildeboer.net/2023/02/Jeky…

Replies to this toot will show up as comments on my blog! It's magic! And this post explains how that works.


Client-side comments with Mastodon on a static Jekyll website

For many, many years this blog was a complicated, outdated and slow Wordpress instance. It became a constant bad thought: “You really need to update/fix/speed up that thing”. A while ago I did just that.
Jan Wildeboer (Jan Wildeboer's Blog)
#Mastodon #jekyll

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Roger Sheen

Nice approach for comments, but have you considered publishing your own toots on the site?

The Minimal Mistakes theme complicates matters here, as it seems to expect post titles. Been wondering if that’s something we can work around.

Something like @lindsaykwardell set up via @astro, but for Jekyll: lindsaykwardell.com/blog/integ…


Integrating Mastodon with Astro

I didn't want to run a personal Mastodon instance, but I wanted to incorporate it into my personal domain. Let's explore what we can do to integrate with the Fediverse!
Lindsay Wardell
@Astro @Lindsay Wardell 🏳️‍⚧️

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#AndroidAppRain at @fdroidorg with 32 updated and 2 new (*) apps – and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 10 updated and 1 new (+):

* GuessThatPokemon: guess pokemon names and you capture them (game)
* TouchDroid: use your Android Device as Touchpad (not new, rather re-branded)
+ Ping Utils: utilities to test network connections

Enjoy your #fee & #foss #Android #apps with/from #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #foss #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo #fee @F-Droid

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PM @JustinTrudeau comments on Bill C-18 and Google yesterday raise several concerns. (1) He said Google preventing Canadians from accessing news. This is false. Google doesn’t have power to block sites. Search results and content blocking not the same. 1/4

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RT @mgeist
Why Justin Trudeau is Wrong About Bill C-18 and Google’s Response to Mandated Payments for Links
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/02/why-justin-trudeau-is-wrong-about-bill-…
twitter.com/mgeist/status/1629…

@Michael Geist

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Šelfové ledovce u Antarktidy jsou mnohem silnější než běžný mořský led, a když roztají, uvolní se obrovské množství vody. V příštím století tak podle vědců může stoupnout hladina moří až o několik metrů.
🧊 rozhl.as/5sp

Ubývání ledu na Antarktidě vědci sledují na několika frontách. Největší hrozbou je, že se rozpadnou celé ledovce u pobřeží

V příštím století může podle vědců stoupnout hladina moří až o několik metrů. Hrozí totiž, že se rozpadnou takzvané šelfové ledovce u Antarktidy. Ty jsou mnohem silnější než běžný mořský led, a když roztají, uvolní se obrovské množství vody.
Radiožurnál

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I've said it before... Cataglyphis bombycina sounds like an ant made up by a 6-year old.

"they are the fastest ants in the whole world and and "

"they live in the desert and and and"

"they only go out when it's the hottest time of the day and and"

"they use the sun to tell where their home is like sailors and and "

"they are SILVER and shiny and and"

"they have majors with the BIGGEST mandibles of all!"

These #ants are IRL mary sues.

Cataglyphis bombycina, the Saharan silver ant has majors with very long mandibles. I'm looking for the reason for these long rather wide mandibles, suspect it may be for grabbing larger dead creatures and draging them back to the nest... Notably the majors do not forage at all in the species but they could be called to a bonanza of food and haul it back? The majors also act as repletes holding food in their bodies and by laying trophic eggs. The mandibles could also serve to intimidate vertebrates. (It'd work on me. )
Overhead photo of ants running taken by a high speed camera from a study on their gait and speed. They can run at two miles per hour... which for something this small is insane. They leave the nest at the height of noon meandering and searching for food. As soon as they find food they are able to run directly back to the nest, no back-tracking. They use polarized light and landmarks to determine the direction of home.
Beautiful sliver and on a pile of sand, a close up.
#ants

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Podcast transcript, Mosen at Large episode 216, progress on ableist language in the New Zealand media, where to go for great mastodon hosting, and President-elect of AER MarkRichert mosen.org/malp0216transcript/

Podcast transcript, Mosen at Large episode 216, progress on ableist language in the New Zealand media, where to go for great mastodon hosting, and President-elect of AER MarkRichert

Transcripts of Mosen at Large are made possible by Pneuma Solutions, a global leader in accessible cloud technologies. On the web at You can read the full transcript below, download the transcript …
Mosen At Large

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Special shout-out to @shiftphones thanks for supporting our team! If you haven't heard of #ShiftPhone, you might want to take notes. They build #sustainable electronics and also deliver their own #FOSS #android blend called #ShiftOSL, which comes with #FDroid preinstalled.

f-droid.org/2023/02/09/donatio…


Donation SHIFT6mq | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

In 2022, the German company SHIFT donated three smartphones of their modelSHIFT6mq as a loan for life toF-Droid team members. This was done without asking fo...
f-droid.org
#android #foss #fdroid #sustainable #shiftosl #shiftphone @SHIFTPHONES

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Elokapina - Extinction Rebellion Finland regrets and finds it shameful that the Sámi Parliament Act revision was effectively killed yesterday by Constitutional Law Committee.

This makes Sanna Marin's government a third Finnish govt which fails to revise the current law. The law has been condemned e.g. by the majority on the Sámi Parliament, the UN Human Rights Council and UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

More here:
euronews.com/2023/02/24/sad-an…

#Finland #humanrights #Sámi


'Sad, angry, betrayed and empty': Sanna Marin's human rights reforms for indigenous Sámi fails

Finland's right-wing parties decided there wasn't enough time for a parliament committee to discuss the new Sámi rights laws.
David Mac Dougall (Euronews.com)
#HumanRights #finland #sami

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I wrote a second blog post regarding the impact of Europe's Cyber Resilience Act. This one focuses on the unintended consequences of legislating product liability on the open source community, breaking the social contract that FLOSS is freely provided but without warranty or liability.
eclipse-foundation.blog/2023/0…

Cyber Resilience Act: Good Intentions and Unintended Consequences

In my previous blog post on the European Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”), I touched on a topic which I feel warrants additional discussion. Specifically:  Fundamentally, the core of the proposed …
Life at Eclipse

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I love our #a11y community & moments like this. When we help each other succeed in unexpected times of need. I encourage y'all to read this article, watch the video & experience the beautiful moment of love & support. billboard.com/music/music-news…

Lewis Capaldi Fans Help Sing Song When He Experiences Tourette's Mid Show

The special moment happened at the singer’s tour stop in Frankfurt, Germany.
Glenn Rowley (Billboard)
#a11y

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i wouldn't say this is my most exciting picture in the world, no cute birds or anything, but i really like it as a desktop wallpaper. i mean its what my current wallpaper is lol. i put it up on ko-fi as a pay-what-you-want download. it's yours to have for whatever price you want! i'm currently unemployed so would love to make a little money from my photographs but only if you have the means, you downloading it at all would mean a lot to me

#monarch #bugs #insects #butterflies #photography #flowers

ko-fi.com/s/d21b849afc

a monarch butterfly with wings spread wide open on a clump of very yellow flowers against a very blue sky

Monarch Wallpaper - loren's Ko-fi Shop

a hi resolution download of my image of a monarch butterfly on a yellow flower against a blue sky. this is currently my desktop background
Ko-fi
#photography #flowers #insects #bugs #monarch #butterflies

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Ve věku 84 let zemřel slovenský režisér Juraj Jakubisko. Patřil k nejznámějším slovenským tvůrcům a přezdívalo se mu „Fellini východu“. K jeho nejznámějším dílům patří Tisícročná včela, Perinbaba, Nejasná zpráva o konci světa či velkofilm Bathory. irozhlas.cz/kultura/film/ve-ve…

Zemřel režisér Juraj Jakubisko. Mezi jeho nejznámější díla patří Tisícročná včela nebo Bathory

Jakubisko patřil k nejznámějším slovenským tvůrcům a přezdívalo se mu „Fellini východu“. Za své kariéry natočil několik desítek hraných i dokumentárních filmů.
ČTK (iROZHLAS.cz)

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After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self…

(It's from last Sept)

I have always said that Gmail was destroying email.


After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne
cfenollosa.com
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Toby

You have my sympathies. I continue to run my own SMTP server for vanity domains for 19 years now and counting, but my volume of traffic is low and I use a business-class ISP to do it.

Even before I went all-in on my own mail, I ran mail for a mid-sized business and one rule became overwhelmingly clear: when my users can't send mail to anyone, anywhere, it's my fault.

When anyone, anywhere can't send mail to my users, it's still my fault.

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I want to help others like me that use a serge protector, but have several huge bulky plugs that take up more than one outlet. if this sounds like you, you should buy this. I promis you won't go wrong, as I just put one on my serge protector, and was able to put all my bulky plugs on it, and save space on my serge protector.
Cable Matters 2-Pack 4 Outlet Power Splitter Cord (Power Cord Splitter/Outlet Saver) 1.5 Feet
amazon.com/dp/B01K3ADZ76?psc=1…

Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

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Canada's second-largest telecom TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a hacker puts up private GitHub repositories and employee data for sale (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…
techmeme.com/230224/p9#a230224…


TELUS investigating leak of stolen source code, employee data

Canada's second-largest telecom, TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a threat actor shared samples online of what appears to be employee data.
Ax Sharma (BleepingComputer)

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Coming up live at 01:00 UTC (8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00 Pacific in the Americas) onThe Global Voice Internet Radio: an hour of Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listening music on Smooth and Easy with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/smooth. Tune in at theglobalvoice.info and click on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #TGVRadio #audio

Smooth and Easy

If you need to take it easy after a busy day, but don’t want to fall asleep, then Smooth and Easy is the show for you. It features an hour of the best Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listenin…
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#audio #tgvradio

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Výročí napadení Ukrajiny
Přemýšlím, jakými slovy bych započal moje zamyšlení nad tím, proč se rok díváme na to, že nám vraždí východní sousedy, ale slova nenacházím.

I dnes, po všech těch dnech od začátku invaze, kdy jsme sledovali webky z Kyjeva, Charkova a dalších Ukrajinských měst mě stále mrazí, že jsme se dožili toho, co jsem ve svým životě už nečekal. Stále je mi z toho stejně zle, stále čekám, že se z toho snu vzbudím. Stále doufám, že tenhle dědeček s babičkou svým vínovým vozem za svými vnoučaty dojeli. Nedojeli...

Poslední rok je podle mě rokem, kdy se začaly ukazovat charaktery jak lidí, tak národů. Opět jsme "šili roušky" tím, že jsme ve velkém sbírali jídlo, ošacení, posílali peníze, ubytovávali. My jsme dokonce bez větších problémů zvládli největší migrační vlnu, jakou Česko pamatuje a to bez ztráty kytičky! Jestli byl někdy důvod bejt na národ hrdej, je to přesně z tohoto důvodu.

Strašili nás vším, čím se dalo. Dojde plyn, přijde státní převrat, přijdou nemoci (protože Ukrajinci nejsou tolik proočkovaní), sankce nás zničí, dojde ropa, půjdeme do zákopů, budou padat atomovky. Nic z toho se nestalo a my s rovnou páteří pomáháme napadenému sousedovi.

A co je nejlepší? Neděláme to jen jako stát, ale i jako lidi - jednotlivci. Poslali jsme zdravotnický materiál, tank jménem Tomáš, PVO Viktor, sanitky, teď se chystá MLRS Přemysl atd. Všechno z peněz občanů a firem na plně dobrovolné bázi. To je přeci kurva velký! Přesto všechno však neoslavujem. Část společnosti proto, že se jí podpora Ukrajiny prostě nelíbí, druhá část je zase zklamaná tím, že nepomáháme dost.

Přihodím názor, který je můj, je osobní, lidský a plně ignoruje geopolitiku. Chci abychom jim poslali vše o co si řeknou. Klidně i lidi (na plně dobrovolné bázi). Už nikdy nechci vidět dítě v sutinách jen proto, že si Vladolf z Kremlu řekl, že je to zrovna dobrej nápad.

Nechci se dívat na to, jak sousedé umírají. Zastavte to prosím. #ZastavteVálku
#politika #ukrajina

Ukraine invasion anniversary
Next words are only a loud thinking of random #Czech citizen.

I have hard times to figure out how to start my consideration about why do we look at our eastern neighbors while they are being slaughtered, but i can't find proper words.

Even today, after all these days since invasion started, when we were watching Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities webcams i still have goosebumps, that we are actually experiencing something i would have never expected in my life. I'm still totally sick from it. I still hope for waking up from this nightmare. I still hope that this elderly couple will arrive to their grandchildren with their red car. They wont...

Last year shown up a lot about our characters - personal or national. We were "sewing facemasks" again (at beginning of covid pandemy in #Czechia we were sewing facemasks to help people protect themselves - it was quite bonding moment when women at home with kids were sewing masks for hospitals) - collecting food, clothing, money or living places for refugees. We also made it through biggest refugee wave ever in Czech republic without any bigger issue! If there ever was a reason to be proud Czechian, it's this one.

People were spreading fear with anything though. They said we will run out of gas, goverment overthrow, diseases (Ukrainians have different vaccinations), sanctions destroying us, crude oil will run out, we will meet in trenches and nuclear bombs will fall on our head. None of this happened and we still help our neighbor while having our head straight.

But what i do see as best is, that we do not help only as nation - we also do help a lot as individuals. We have sent medical stuff, Thomas the tank, Victor AA vehicles, ambulances and we are about to send MLRS Přemysl. Everything from companies and citizens money - voluntarily. That's fucking big! We still do not celebrate any of this though. Part of us because they do not like us supporting Ukraine. Other part is let down, because it's not enough.

I will put my opinion on the table. It's my, it's personal, it's humane and it's totally ignoring geopilitical situation. I want us to supply everything they want. People involved (only volunteers). I don't want to see dead child in rubble only because of some Vladolf from Kremlin though, that it's a good idea.

I don't want to see my neighbors die anymore. Stop it please. #StopWar
#politics #ukraine

#czechia #czech #politics #Ukraine #Politika #ukrajina #stopwar #ZastavteVálku

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Andrii is 9 years old.

When Russia occupied his village in the Kyiv region, he saw things no child should ever see.

Yet, he keeps dreaming of peace, victory, friends and relatives.

His drawing is displayed in the exhibition Mriyu (I dream), which we opened today in Brussels to pay tribute to Ukrainian courage and resistance, one year after Russia's full-scale invasion.

70 drawings made by Ukrainian children are on display to remind us about war's most vulnerable victims.

#StandWithUkraine

A drawing made by 9-year-old Andrii shows a coloured bubble with a child playing in a sandbox while holding a flower. Outside the bubble, there are gloomy scenes of destruction and fires.
#StandWithUkraine

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The Call for Participation for #GUADEC2023 is now open!

More information about this year's #GUADEC, including topic ideas and where to submit your proposal, can be found at: foundation.gnome.org/2023/02/2…

All proposals must be submitted by March 27.
#CfP #callforpapers #opensource

GUADEC Call for Participation now open
#opensource #cfp #GUADEC #callforpapers #GUADEC2023

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#AndroidAppRain today on @fdroidorg with 43 updated & 2 new (*) apps, and on apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 7 updated and also 2 new apps:

* Image Resizer: a simple image resizer
* omWeather: watch the weather for cities and locations you are interested
+ Battery Tile: Quick Settings tile to show current battery state
+ Farhan: helps you with smartphone addiction

Enjoy your #free & #foss #Android #apps with/from #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #foss #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo @F-Droid

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This latest backlash against Rust on HN has me wondering again if I should have gone with old faithful C or C++ for AccessKit. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3… "Rust will fade away like Scala"? Ouch. Obviously I hope they're wrong, but I do see the parallel between overly aggressive Rust fans and the functional-programming-in-Scala crowd of a decade ago.

Demonizing engineers isn't a winning adoption strategy. I'm convinced Rust will ... | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com
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