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We now live in clown world.

What's the saying? Code-less environments make 90% of building an app simple, and 10% impossible.

And just to be clear, the supplements are recommendations based on research, not advertisements. No commissions.

Go back a few episodes and you'll see the rationale for them.

I'm not arguing other studies - they seem fine, except none of them studied the early use of HCQ with Zinc.

I'm saying specifically that the Lancet should not have published the Surgisphere study due to its flaws.

I pointed out the Johnson and Johnson relationship only to say motives should be examined.

Surgisphere is producing studies based on data they don't actually have, according to researchers, Australian hospitals, etc. It could be for self-aggrandizement, or pay-for-publish or something else. I don't know, but it should not be tolerated for any reason.

The corruption of science should be aggressively confronted.

If you dig into Surgisphere, you will see they have significant consulting engagements with Johnson and Johnson. Not saying that's necessarily bad, but so much bad science about Covid and HCQ seems geared towards promoting high-priced treatments like Remdesivir, and not low-cost preventative measures like making sure you're not D deficient. All these studies need to be evaluated based on who's funding them or the political agenda behind them.

HCQ seems like it's been targeted for destruction. Every study I've read on it shows you shouldn't use it in late stages of disease. Fair enough, but the theory of its effectiveness (as a Zinc ionophore) hasn't been fully studied, although there is a good amount of anecdotal and country-level evidence it works well if taken early (with Zinc).

These garbage studies are dangerous and should be called out loudly.

And from his experienced analysis, the study is clearly, obviously junk, and the Lancet should be held to account for publishing it.

Don't get hung up on the how the channel survives. The channel, whose host has a Phd in pathology, has been focused on Covid issues for months, after being demonitized by YouTube.

Yup. More than suspicious.

Great analysis of study's flaws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUD_wvkNhnk

If you dig into Surgisphere, you will see they have significant consulting engagements with Johnson and Johnson. Not saying that's necessarily bad, but so much bad science about Covid and HCQ seems geared towards promoting high-priced treatments like Remdesivir, and not low-cost preventative measures like making sure you're not D deficient. All these studies need to be evaluated based on who's funding them or the political agenda behind them.

HCQ seems like it's been targeted for destruction. Every study I've read on it shows you shouldn't use it in late stages of disease. Fair enough, but the theory of its effectiveness (as a Zinc ionophore) hasn't been studied properly, although there is a good amount of anecdotal evidence it works well if taken very early (with Zinc).

These garbage studies are dangerous and should be called out loudly.

Fantastic analysis of the Lancet study's flaws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUD_wvkNhnk

The study showed essentially no benefit if you do not have an existing deficiency.

Essentially, Apple changed the iPad's user-agent to mimic macOS with the iPadOS 13 release. This makes detecting iPads impossible from the user-agent and requires DOM inspection.

full disclosure - I'm a dev there, but Gator Analytics has all those things: https://analytics.gator.io

I wonder if Google uses the data tracked on the pay version for ad targeting also. I bet they do.

I've always been amazed that very few organizations question why Google Analytics is free. Sites are literally handing Google a list of targeted visitors their competitors can advertise to.

if you look at the trendline, it was 88.7% last month:

https://netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%...

The whole reason we started tracking HTTPS vs HTTP was because of LetsEncrypt. Love that they broke the need to pay ridiculously overpriced fees to generate certs.

When LetsEncrypt came out, I wrote a service (free) that monitors LetsEncrypt certs externally and sends alerts when they are close to expiring. It can be used as a backup to the automatic emails that are sent:

https://letsmonitor.org

Use a certificate monitor https://letsmonitor.org (free)

The key word is 'allegedly'. We'll see.

For what it's worth, DuckDuckGo has .25% global market share on desktops: https://netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx

In the US, it's .66%.

Not to mention GA is a GDPR nightmare.

It looks like this is mostly due to an increase in China. Chinese numbers are very volatile, so we'll have to wait and see if this is permanent.

The global trend for last year: https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.asp...

data on share https://netmarketshare.com/?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22...

These are user sessions coming from hosted providers:

Organization,Sessions,Page Views,New Users,Event Count Amazon.com,6436,9307,3823,140 Microsoft Azure,5798,8988,4645,2 Google Cloud,3313,5425,2486,0 OVH SAS,1715,3349,872,0 TOPNET,1657,5133,1409,14 OVH Hosting,1628,2787,1232,7 Digital Ocean,1267,3050,816,5 Hetzner Online GmbH,988,2051,529,0 Rackspace Ltd.,926,1644,376,48 Linode,809,1008,272,4

So right. OVH is worse than Hetzner.

We get a ton of bot traffic from Hetzner servers.

Data collection for legitimate purposes came up in our GDPR compliance review.

This product (https://truestats.com) collects the I.P. address and user agent for the purpose of detecting fraud (not selling data or profiling users). It is used for frequency checking and other patterns that would indicate fraud. We are still going through the legal analysis of how to deal with this, even though we have no idea who the visitors are.

I think considering the I.P. address as PII is a little much if you are not using it in a way that would violate privacy or selling the data.

I have had a close family member experience and recover from severe OCD. This was at UCLA's child and adolescent OCD program (which was amazing). Let me share what worked:

1) The program first prescribed SSRIs in order to reduce the child's anxiety enough to do the difficult work required.

2) Intense ERP (exposure response prevention) solo and in a group setting. The social aspect of being with fellow sufferers was critical.

3) Coming up with rewards for successful ERP sessions (not food related due to potential overeating)

4) Starting treatment as soon as possible. OCD has a tendency to get worse and harder to treat over time. I clearly saw the difference in treatment efficacy based on how long it took for the child to start treatment.

The link to the program is https://iocdf.org/clinics/ucla-child-adolescent-ocd-intensiv...