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morjomon Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

The recent study on it gave the subjects a 300mL "standardized, artificially sweetened beverage containing 30g of xylitol diluted in water."

Recommended amount is 5–10g per day (5 pieces of 100% xylitol gum, 36% is already effective), taken after meals.

morjomon Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

Couldnt find any (relatively recent) studies that looked at bacteria over multiple years, but some earlier ones (1&2), or shorter period ones(3), that touch on it (aswell as caries, as that is the prevalent subject)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2758793/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1810656/

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3...

morjomon OpenMouse: Open-source, browser-based app for managing computer mice

Uses WebHID to communicate and configure mice, supposed to replace dedicated software like Razer Synapse, Logitech G Hub etc. Earöy access/beta right now. Not mine.

morjomon I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music

I'm sure somebody has something to correct here, just my understanding of the 60fps in gaming thing:

a hold-over from 60Hz AC power, baked into NTSC television and inherited by arcades and early consoles as a structural default. Then it became a benchmark of sorts when the 3D era made 60fps harder to reach, and got exacerbated by early LCDs pretty much standardizing on 60Hz.

Then come games like COD (2007) with marketing for its 60fpsness, and the 2010s "cinematic 30fps" debaucle.

Personally, I'm fine with 45fps with butter smooth frametimes and no pop-in.

Edit: The semi-recent discourse of 'fake-frames' comes to mind aswell..

morjomon Future euro banknote design proposals

I'm partial for statues, and birds and rivers is a good theme. I feel like if they sticked to the semi-monochrome of the previous notes I'd be more favorable to them aswell. Monochrome might be the wrong word, ESL.

For reference, the two previous runs at the top of the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes

morjomon Future euro banknote design proposals

The article one also misses on the size differences across notes. Not the biggest deal, but should be shown.

morjomon Future euro banknote design proposals

For me, across all of them only two felt actually decent for a bank note (B & E, I is okay, just not used to bank notes in that orientation, same for J, but that one should be more monochrome). Either they were too vibrant or the design was too busy/had unnecesary elements.

I also feel like the notes that had buildings (like we have now) are just.. better. The initial run of 2002-2013 remains the best aesthetically, imo.

morjomon Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan

If you happen to use the WoW example in the future, the wiki efforts moved from the fandom one to wiki.gg[0], as voted by maintainers and contributors in late 2023[1].

0. https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Secure_Execution_and_Tainting

1. https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Wowpedia:About_the_wiki#Bac...

morjomon Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency

dameeji is a loanword, no? I have no ability in japanese but from a quick search 損傷 Sonshō (injury), which includes 傷 Kizu (scratch, wound, scar, weak point, hurt) seems like the words for "Damage" in a transliteration sense.

morjomon Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline

Kiwix, maybe Kolibri? If up for tinkering, maybe something like Internet in a Box (can be done through Tmux+Proot-distro)

https://kiwix.org/en/

https://learningequality.org/kolibri/

https://internet-in-a-box.org/

morjomon Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

Brave does fall under crypto, yeah, but I don't know about it being a scam. You don't need to engage with the crypto/web3 and all of those can be disabled.

morjomon The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app

I know OP checks for integrity/for third party apps. My guess for your ones would be Nordea, Danske and S?

morjomon Video Game Websites in the early 00s

Weird Gloop does indeed run the wikis for some of the biggest games out there. I was very happy to see Warframe joining them back in 2024

https://weirdgloop.org/

Another one I still actively use that isnt a fandom mess (besides Warframe) is the wiki for Guild Wars, which is still hosted by the developer.

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Page

morjomon 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary

Don't "regular" dictionaries like the Cambridge and Oxford ones usually avoid adding slang?

morjomon Proton begins moving hardware out of Switzerland due to proposed legislation

"Proton's CEO Andy Yen confirmed that the proposed changes to the Swiss surveillance law made the company opt for Germany instead to host Lumo's servers. Proton has also confirmed it's also developing facilities in Norway.

While the company did not specify that Germany would become the new home of the majority of its infrastructure, Proton confirmed to TechRadar that investing in Europe doesn't equate to leaving Switzerland."

morjomon Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash

I couldn't find if this was an intra-cloud flash or if it was a sky-to-ground strike. Anybody know?

morjomon Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring–and Threaten the Open Internet

Can you link the studies?

morjomon How to Firefox

I'll wait for the site-isolation to fully mature. Using Brave until then.

morjomon Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system

I didn't come across it is why. I'll add it.

morjomon Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system

Open-source Honeycomb storage wall by RostaP: https://www.printables.com/model/152592-honeycomb-storage-wa...

https://www.reddit.com/r/honeycombwall/

Although they aren't open-source as Gridfinity or HSW: