Notices by Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)

I did here of a food shortage in Germany. It *may* also effect Sausage and Cheese, but that's the Wurst Käse scenario.

@aral Don't neglect that hyper-hypocritical asshat wearing a yellow star in the UN today.
First thing I read this morning. Not great for my BP frankly.

Mr. Bear rummages for a snack.
How many times does he need to be told to close the damn freezer afterward?
Sheesh!

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel?
And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
-- Emo Philips --

@petaramesh
I've never left KDE for longer than 'just to see'. I have dealt with the others on friend's desktops or those of their children though. One DE, which I won't name is particularly odious to me. Lacks features, takes features it *had* in the gui and then hides them away in a text file for a time, *then* removes the option entirely claiming "no one used it". Ya think? You buried it deep away from most users who don't know what a text editor or the cli is ffs!
You may guess which DE that is ;-)
I have decades of IT for business and families and normally no problems with KDE and users. I even went through a period of installing multiple desktops as option for folks (not clients) and they always came back to KDE after playing around - if they even bothered to experiment in the first place.
I *do* understand people who like tiling or completely different paradigms for their work spaces. I personally use nothing from the actual desktop, b/c it's always covered! :-)
@fanf42

@melanie
Wonderful! :-)
If you have an audience who needs to know these details, your fellow fedizens are here to help!
The first image shown below I got courtesy of our friend @strypey in this thread https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/111082830456787422
Our other mastopal had an objection about percentage GDP. Just ignore the joke I replied with and read further down the thread for some other ways I spurgled out into the keyboard for how public services may be sabotaged and hijacked by capitalists.
Our friend @anniemo71 gifted me with the chomsky image just today too.
Remember: We're all in this together. Keep your stick on the ice! :-)

@MMRnmd

Every 20 seconds, someone dies of tuberculosis.

It has remained the world's deadliest infectious disease since the Black Death; the only exceptions being in 2020 and 2021, when it took second place after COVID-19.
TB tends to strike the most vulnerable, including young children and the immunocompromised. People in poor living conditions or with little access to health care
But diagnosing TB is a challenge.
Danaher holds a virtual monopoly through its subsidiary Cepheid.
Since GeneXpert went to market in 2006, it has been sold under what Danaher CEO Rainer Blair publicly described as the "razor-blade" model.
Many low-income countries got them years ago, when sales were subsidized by public funding, says Mitnick.
But that locks them into the GeneXpert system and forces them to buy the company's single-use TB test cartridges, which have been sold at a high markup for over a decade.
Now Danaher says they will drop the price 20% overall and sell to poor countries at cost - but their idea of cost is nearly double 3rd party estimates.
The same machine also diagnoses "HIV, hepatitis, COVID-19, Ebola and a host of other diseases".
It was developed with $250 million of USA/Canadian tax payer money. Danaher has profits of $7 Billion a year.
Those points are excerpts, do read the whole article:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/tb-tests-danaher-price-drop-1.6964582?cmp=rss

Interviewer: Congratulations! You've won €1.000.000!! How will you spend it‽‽
A: Pay a few bills I guess.
I: Then what? What about the rest?
A: Well, the rest of them will just have to wait.

How to steal public services the old fashioned way...

I saw a great little poster early this morning from @MMRnmd ,so I boosted it, but the people I know in real life (like my friend and boss) can't read french. Also, I'm really tired of trying to get across how this works with him! I don't need to convince people like you lot who either do read french and/or know how this works already. Really, I loved the imagery of the dominoes, because the steps taken are always the same in my experience, both where I have lived and looking out at the world. Here are the original and then my effort. I did vary the text a bit in english, even between when I made my notes and when I made (ahem) plagiarized the graphic.

@bekopharm
It's super slow for me. Maybe you are being hugged to death right now?
Weirdly, the mp4 player and preview loads in it's own page just fine.
https://linux.simpit.dev/fly-dangerous-with-vf1-simpit.mp4
And when I clicked play, it was only a few seconds to start, but then kept buffering every few seconds.
You are the only one to know what, if anything this all means! :-)
BTW, it looks very cool indeed! I've seen some progress fotos from you in the past. Bravo!
I'm sure things will all work out fine.
I really want to see this done! and i'm not a gamer - not even a little bit :-)
@stefan

@bekopharm about peertube, on my little instance, i'm pretty sure the default/recommended was 'webtorrent' back when I installed it - or maybe I just chose it, because I like the concept of torrenting :-)
I don't know, but it was slow as death and only useful to download with, until I changed the transcoding to HLS with PTP support.
But that only effected newly uploaded and transcoded vids. The older ones are still dog slow, of course.
Anyhow, love your project. Will you be filling in the rest of the 'firewall' below the monitors and so on?

@bekopharm I just meant where one can see "behind the scenes" as shown in the sketch. But now you've made me wonder about an entire cockpit too! ;-)

@bekopharm
Thank god!
I've found someone worse than I am! :-)

@bekopharm Hey, I finally discovered my other desktop has surfaces, just the other day - I'm not one to talk! :-)
The difference is you make cool stuff and i don't! :-)

Is the US Headed Towards Another Civil War? | Barbara F. Walter | TED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yilgr2SJ3xQ

tl;dw her solutions are a mixed bag of unlikely solutions from capitalism, but the hallmarks of civil war seem legit to me.

@guofu
@Maya