I use KDE but I setup my desktop with two panels…the default launcher panel on the bottom and I add an extra panel atop with the clock and icons for applications I use the most.

Does that title seem like a cluster to anyone else? I tried rewording it in my head but only came up with a slightly better solution: “Man develops rare condition after cutting consumption of salt do to a ChatGPT query”.

How about “man gets bromine poisoning after taking ChatGPT medical advice”?

We don’t know whether ChatGPT gave medical advice. Only that it suggested using sodium bromide instead of sodium chloride. For what purpose or in what context, we don’t know. It may even have recommended against using it and the man misunderstood.

Chatgpt doesn't give advice at all, but could say "after interpreting chatgpt output as medical advice"

It's clunky but I understood it immediately, I presumed from the title that it was going to be about your title, however I also thought it was a bit clunky.

I read it as "race condition". I was then trying to figure out what salt has to do with a race condition.

still haven't clicked in, but was confused.

still am, unless i re-interpret "do" as "due".

I recall being on a road trip and was at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains; was getting ready to camp at a random camp site and noticed a sign warning or squirrels that carry bubonic plague via fleas… Scary..

It’s not usually very bad. My wife used to do epidemiology in Utah, and the four corner states have a few plague cases every year. Very easy to get from prairie dogs as well. Iirc, prairie dog colonies are separated based on which ones have the plague and which don’t.

I hope that the black footed ferret reintroduction efforts are successful (https://www.fws.gov/project/black-footed-ferret-recovery). There would be a lot less plague out there if so.

Lime disease has a similar relationship with predators that eat mice, so let's also keep an eye out for the owls and snakes.

Wonder if the same fleas that affect prarie dogs will also be at home on them?

I wonder also, although I kind of doubt it. As predators, they maintain relatively low population densities and are typically the first to go extinct when things get weird.

Selection would favor pathogens that instead specialize for hosts that are hard to get rid of. Mice, cockroaches, prairie dogs...

How would reintroducing the black footed ferret reduce the plague ? It's not stated in that link.

Reducing prairie dog concentrations, and most often killing the weaker slower ones, which are likely infected and showing the most symptoms.

Reduces spread and increases evolutionary pressure to increase resistance and possibly even become immune.

Possibly by reducing prairie dog numbers and concentration

BFFs eat prairie dogs.

They reduce the density of prairie dogs.

Wouldn’t the end up floating into the air?

Where they are eaten by bald eagles. What more American solution could we ask for? I mean, aside from using the floating doggies for target practice.

>Lime disease Ah yes, good old Lime Disease, named after the town it was invented in, "Lime, Connecticut", Abraham Lime 1898, former student of Koch's lab in Germany.

> Iirc, prairie dog colonies are separated based on which ones have the plague and which don’t.

Do you mean 'naturally' by their own selection, or some external means?

I read it as someone keeps track of it for public safety

This is what I meant

It's done at state level, by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources for one, so it is possible that federal government damage has not affected it.

When you say it's easy to get from prairie dogs, how exactly does that happen? Is it like, you're camping, and a prairie dog gets into your tent? How exactly does that people get exposed to a prairie dog?

It's not the prairie dogs themselves, but the fleas on the dogs. The carriers for the plague are fleas.

Yes, but every case I've heard of involved direct contact with the prairie dog. I can't imagine the fleas are that mobile without them.

It’s pretty easy to get close to prairie dogs over time. They will eventually learn you’re not a threat, and tell the others.

So you’re going on a walk one day, they seem friendly, people like handling cute animals… bada big bada boom

It's usually people whose job (or I guess hobby) involves managing prairie dogs. It's not usually ordinary civilians.

“The gray race shrivels trapped inside the world it creates it's black and white” -Bad Religion The Gray Race

I recall years ago reading a research paper on WiFi signals being used to track people through wall using MIMO…then American Express investing in the technology and now this…

You can load the IPhone’s pictures on Linux using the folders namespace and then rsync from the loaded namespace to /local…

But does it work for Live Photos which is the main premise of this app?

I use a usb cable and a Linux laptop to copy to a couple of external hard drives (which I store separately). It’s all manual but not too orrenous although i ought backup more often. The biggest hassle is accessing the new heic format on pretty much everything.

Could it all be made into a sd card image for a pi zero perhaps? Even with a web ui accessible over Wi-Fi? A basic cheap sync-cable-appliance that non-techies can easily use?

I think I heard that the latest 'rclone' now, finally, support iCloud ... but I think there is an issue there because you can't sync full quality / RAW photos to icloud, can you ?

rclone has support for iCloud Drive, but it sounds like you are talking about iCloud Photos, which is a different service.

This project lets you download from the latter: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

Awesome technology! Nice to see Dead Reckoning being used with computer vision and offline maps! Something college students have been doing in robotics competitions here in the USA ;)

Great wiki page! It even mentions Boltzmann Brains! “ This infinite future could allow for the occurrence of massively improbable events, such as the formation of Boltzmann brains.”

Boltzmann Brains usually mean something is wrong in your cosmology

But taking this the other way around : it's also interesting that some cosmologies are known to be incorrect, because they would enable alternative forms of consciousness.

Or with our philosophy around anthropic reasoning. Or both.