anonymouswacker

These are "simple" solutions--i.e., not good ones.

Trump is doing a pretty good job of trying to earn votes lately. First appealing to the Black vote with promises of $500B of investments, and now going for the Tech vote with these changes in addition to breaking up the monopolies. I think it would be okay for 4 more years at this rate (until the opposition can generate a decent candidate)...

Don't trust the news. Watch documentaries about mainstream news (Manufacturing Consent is my personal fav) and you will see that reality is not what they are peddling--it is influence.

Is your problem with the crowd then, and not information? You show your hand, Dirlewanger :)

It's an uncomfortable truth. Downvoted!

Locking people in their homes, which lowers Vit D especially as they are S hemisphere, will increase mortality rate. These are bureaucrats and thugs enforcing this, not nutritionists or medical doctors. I expect their rate to mirror NYC with their tactics for combatting a virus as if it is a bacteria.

You can't win the argument for quality of life vs. quantity of lives on this forum. I am with you.

It is better to get back to life as usual than to deal with Australia's, Britain's, and other countries' response that drastically reduced quality of life for people en masse in the name of saving a life or two.

Somehow, brutal lockdowns effect on people's lives is incomprehensible to people who spend most of their time in one room on a computer--what a surprise!

"Oh, suck it up, wear a mask, stay 6 feet apart, stay in your home, buy online, don't leave the country, and wait for a vaccine that will come, eventually."

What disabilities preclude wearing masks?

- PTSD (combat veterans, survivors of abuse, rape, kidnapping, etc.) or other mental health issues, facial injuries/deformities, lung conditions.

How does one know that they don't have Covid?

- Testing; recovering from the virus and passing a test.

Do we know for sure that someone who previously had Covid cannot become a spreader again?

- Not much data here that I've found, of course, since it is rare and new. One could be overly cautious because it is "novel" and assume that a healthy immune system could allow reinfection fairly quickly as there have been a few documented reinfections, or look at other coronaviruses (MERS/SARS) and assume that is more likely to take months to years to become infectious, after being infected again.

The actual article title: "Sociopathic traits linked to not wearing a mask or social distancing during pandemic: study"

Unfortunately for those with disabilities precluding them from wearing a mask--or who know that they do not have COVID or had it previously and have recovered, etc.--they now get a new insult lobbed at them by mask shamers: "sociopath". As if being called a "Karen", "anti-masker", etc. were not already dismissive enough.

I have grown weary of supporting Bezos' empire and ordering as much as I can from Walmart in recent months once I noticed that his media arm (WaPo) was fueling the flames of COVID hysteria and BLM's destruction, which only helped Amazon and other Big Tech players strangle small American businesses in favor of offshore, mostly Chinese companies.

Next step is moving my company's cloud from AWS to Azure. Not sure yet what to do about the surveillance devices (Alexa) as I want something that can run without an internet connection to a Big Tech company.

IANAD, and this is just what I do:

PM: Magnesium (multiple forms), melatonin, l-theanine. AM: Vitamin D (from sun preferably) in the AM, moderate exercise 5 days/week

Diet: keto / low-carb

Also: Get checked for sleep apnea. Use Oura or a similar sleep tracker, preferably find a good one for SpO2 (Oura does not)

Good luck. Finding good sleep in modern society is hard.

He's not wrong.

Yes, cybercrime is boring, just like security is boring, or app development. The article is focusing on the mundane parts of the business side of certain enterprises (cybercrime-as-a-service), not the individual thrill of discovering something new & exploiting it or selling it to be exploited. Obviously being an article literally written by the opposition would mean it is going to paint their adversaries' life choice as one of a bored drone...

Stock market prices do not reflect economic realities since the invention of central banking that arbitrarily injects its fiat currency for political reasons. Instead of expecting the market to go down, expect inflation to rise rapidly.

Twitter deserves our respect for stepping out of their lane (marketing/advertising) to ensure that all information on their website is 100% scientifically accurate. Thank you, selfless heroes!

I was wrong, and thank you for pointing it out. I conflated his Foundation with his person. And you are correct, "much of his wealth", is misleading. It is the hundreds of millions of USD in his private healthcare investment and several billions under his control through his Foundation [1] that I know of. Given how extremely wealthy and powerful he is, I think that even though it is not a majority of his life on the line, it is a lot of control, influence, and maybe a teensy bit of a return on investment, that he has to gain from this.

[0] - https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/bill-gates-says-foundation-...

You're right. I wish NY Times were slightly above this practice, of including a polarizing celebrity with no relation to the story as if he is either A. an authority, or B. an actor in the narrative. This attracts both the audience who thinks Bill Gates' work is humanitarian, and those who think he is doing this for selfish (money/power/influence) reasons. It seems his only connection, from what I can tell, is proximity and endorsement, which are irrelevant, and only tangential to the story, which is already scant.

So it was halted because the original requirement for this sort of testing program was for surveillance, not diagnosis. Washington's public health authorities chose to change its intention and purpose (to instead provide the results immediately to patients, also known as diagnoisis) while still expecting the FDA to approve it. This is just a case of one bureaucracy not being forthright with another one, and I don't see why the fact that Bill Gates "backs" it has anything to do with the program.

Is Bill Gates somehow involved in this decision? Because one would hope that a private individual would not be have undue influence on public health organizations' decisions, especially when he has much of his wealth invested in the very industry that is likely to be affected by the results of this Coronavirus study. It's an overt conflict of interest.

I especially liked the comparison of a cytokine storm to the governments' response to the virus.

As soon as I read that the antibodies tests were showing that approx. 1/4 of NYC most likely already had the virus, and did a little basic math with the latest data on death rates, I realized that the lockdowns no longer make sense in NYC.

I guess that means I am now in the same bandwagon as Musk, Trump, and all the other supposed idiots or deniers that think this virus is not as deadly as it first appeared.

Back to work.

"since all news sources are government approved then there's no fake news to worry about."

"you don't have pseudo-science crap on your feed (since sharing that stuff is a fineable offense)"

As a westerner, these phrases give me pause. It sounds like Facebook has become a profitable arm of the surveillance state.

Facebook will censor itself out of relevance as its usefulness for connection and building relationships is replaced by insistence on creating a safe space for pro-establishment propaganda.

It was already selectively flagging certain news articles as true or not, countering certain misinformation while conveniently missing others. It's a questionable practice to become the gatekeepers of fact when the fourth estate itself is held to no such legal standard.

The centralized web needs to stop this subtle censorship. We can't rely on the opinions of a few to censor the many in any fair or equitable way, look at Twitter/Reddit/YouTube...

The only issue is I didn't want to lose my pfSense connection when Unraid reboots for upgrades.

I'm looking for a hypervisor recommendation... I am hoping to virtualize at least two if not all three of my machines: Unraid (pass-thru HDDs); pfSense (pass-thru NIC); and Windows 10 (pass-thru Graphics). I am hoping to have Windows 10 running fast enough to do some light photo editing. Which hypervisor would you think to try first?

Exactly. The most dominant military in the world needs to eat.

Please, Google, cancel it for good.

Paying isn't enough to get what you paid for, so...

https://github.com/SickChill/SickChill - automatically download TV episodes (about Linux)

https://github.com/CouchPotato/CouchPotatoServer - automatically download Movies (about Linux)

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent - torrent client for downloading your Linux tv/movies...

and militias

It is definitely worth a listen. Short episodes and very good story.

Interesting idea. It would be sad to be an engineering team working on these poorly managed products, then.

The problems of the bureaucracies' (health care providers, in this case) poor planning and decision making are not my problem. If I choose to buy face masks for my family, I am not taking it away from a sick person. I would rather prevent getting the coronavirus myself than worry about hospital or healthcare industry's lack of planning.