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> I increasingly hear things that suggest those who wore masks and got vaccinated were the ones who were actually misinformed

The only folks who were misinformed are those who never took the time to learn about masks and vaccinations. But to be fair that is a huge number of folks here in the U.S.

I've yet hear anyone talk about someone they infected who was killed by it though. With over 1.1 Million dead from it here in the U.S. that's astonishing. So is the fact that it is still killing around 2000+ a week here.

"Its not gendered, its not an immigrant, its not "elitist", it generally isn't partisan or for that matter opinionated."

Same could be said about Covid, vaccines, and masking during a viral pandemic.

My guess is it's an addiction to the outrage FOX News sells (and others like it).

Wow... I didn't expect to get so many panties knotted up with that observation, but I think those who down voted it prove my observation.

What bugs me most about ChatGPT is that it doesn't attribute where it got the results it offers. For example, I asked it: "how to save a document with PouchDB" and it showed me the code, and while I didn't compare it, it looks like a copy and paste from PouchDB.com, and that should be referenced with a link in the response if that's the case, but it was not.

I posted some comments about ChatGTP in a local FB group and there was a pretty large percent of folks who responded here that think it's just an awful thing that's going to lead to the downfall of civilization.

I tried to offer that it is pretty cool, but it's just software that basically presents search engine results in a different manner along with a few other tricks, but it's not "HAL".

I live in a very red and rural area so that probably has something to do with it. They love to have new things to complain about that have no effect on any of us at all.

That's awesome! I've been reluctant to create an account so this let's me play around a bit without having to do that.

Thank you for sharing this here.

That's a very interesting article. I've yet to look into AI much at all but I can see how this aspect might be useful in at least gaining some insight to issues people are struggling with and potentially helping folks.

I've been a fan of Joe Martin for many years. His sense of humor always brightens my day and his website looks like it hasn't changed in over 20 years, which always makes me chuckle a bit too.

I have worked with folks who weren't happy with their job. And I've quit a few jobs I had because I wasn't valued there.

But it wasn't because the work was unfulfilling. I've never really given that any thought because I was working to earn money and agreed to do what they needed done.

I have worked at a couple places where someone with a much higher pay grade quit and I was asked to take over their position but not offered a raise in pay. I quit on the spot when that happened. I have never felt anything close to regret over that.

But I have known friends over the years who have. They had a sweet gig at a great company and they didn't really realize how good they had it until afterwards.

I tried to talk a few of them out of that who, after they quit, came back and told me they regretted not listening to me.

Personally, I have had a pretty hectic, but also "rewarding", life. I'm 63 now and just getting by. Others I know who got and stuck it out working for a company that paid them well are doing much better.

Don't get me wrong, I have no regrets. I'll just say that if you have it pretty good, ride that for as long as you can cause shit happens.

I read not long ago about a connection between gut bugs and schizophrenia and how probiotics may help with that too. Looks to me like your diet may be doing the same thing.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342...

I'm not really seeing how giving preowned shoes to folks is not "recycling" them.

When I was young we'd take glass soda bottles back to the store to be cleaned and refilled and we'd get a little money back. That was "recycling".

I have been telling friends and family that they need to focus on things close to home and not worry or get all red in the face about stuff they see on the internet and "News". That they need to compartmentalize that stuff and keep in context.

I learned this lesson back around the early 80s. When I got off work I'd stop and grab some food and then go home and watch the "News". The station I watched started off with local Los Angeles and State news for a 1/2 hour, then a 1/2 hour of National News, then another of World News.

The station was a predecessor to "FOX News" and was purchased by FOX just a few years later. They focused almost entirely on negative news, car crashes, murders, rapes, robberies, etc. So by the end of 1.5 hours I had consumed most all the major tragedies for the entire planet, and I was depressed AF.

I finally realized that it was consuming all that "bad news" was the cause of that because days when I didn't consume it I felt fine.

That was just 1.5 hours a day, 5 days a week, of my routine back then.

Nowadays I would offer you need to put your phone down and spend more time doing something you can learn from and enjoy, like friends and family, like people did before the internets.

I'm surprised they list PouchDB but not CouchDB for local first software.

PouchDB is fine for trivial local first apps, but not for anything that's critical.

CouchDB, on the other hand, is a very robust app that can be used by multiple local-first apps and those apps can access and share that data, and back it up on a separate local and/or remote CouchDB.

PouchDB and CouchDB used together are a pretty sweet and solid platform to build a Cloud and/or local first on app on.

The problem is people are using that technology. What you're saying is akin to "Guns don't kill people, people kill people", and that's true. But it's also true that people who don't have guns don't kill people with guns and if no one had guns no one would be killed by them.

I think it's fair to "get mad" at those who produce and profit by making and selling guns and hold them responsible for murders committed with them. Same with Tesla.

In both of those cases the manufacturer knows they can be deadly, and that they cause deaths. I won't make any leaps to try and disconnect those facts.

I make and sell software. If my software was causing folks to die I would stop selling it. It wouldn't matter at all if the users misused it.

Splitting hairs on the definition of "recall" of a potential deadly flaw in 362,758 automobiles is silly. But is is the correct word for that industry when there is one.

I worked at a Oldsmobile dealer in the 80s and fixed all kinds of issues on cars that were "recalled" and that is what we called it way back then and long before it. Some were trivial and others were serious safety issues.

https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/what-do-i-need-to-know-about-...

I read a bit on that data review and it looks very weak to me.

Where I live almost no one wore masks and many folks would snarl and scoff at those who did. And the percent of folks who wore them covering their mouth but not their nose was was very high.

The local WalMarts didn't even try to enforce masking, and most of our local politicians didn't either. The mayor of the nearest city to us (Branson, MO) was booted out and replaced by an anti-masker.

And we couldn't get N95 grade masks until close to a year after covid started spreading.

There is no way anyone could conclude "masks don't work" here where I live, but anyone could prove "mask mandates didn't work" here.

That same thing was happening all over the U.S.

What I can prove is I, my wife, and one of our daughters who lives with us, all wore masks, wore N95 mask as soon as we could purchase them, got fully vaxxed and boosted, and we've not been infected... yet.

And that we've had at least 15,990 infected and at least 252 killed by covid in the county where we live with a population of around 56,500 (Taney County, MO)

I don't think it's a leap to assume many more were infected here and not reported.

We also had one of the highest refusal rates to participate in the Census in 2020, and those two things are very much connected. I worked for the Census that year. Way more than not I was snarled at by folks refusing to participate and berated for wearing a cloth mask (that was required).

One of the places it spread fast was the little churches in the rural areas. As everywhere else, it was mostly the elderly that were being killed by it, and that's where many of them were infected.

There is no way one could "prove" mask did not work here and I don't think what happened here was uncommon.

Yeah, I just checked again after reading the replies here and it's even older than that, it's an iPhone 6 plus. Maybe I should talk to my daughter about getting a newer one :D

I just checked and it's an iPhone 6 Plus, so even older than I thought. It's one of my wife's old phones. She did get a new one for Christmas last year but traded in her old one, which I think was an iPhone 10, so that's probably why I made the mistake.

Like I said, I really do not use it much.

Got a reply from apnews.com:

"The apnews.com refreshes due to your add-ons on the browser such as popup blockers, can you disable the add-ons and extensions and let us know if that doesn't correct the issue."

I've never changed any of the default setting on the web browsers I test my code on. The only web browser that's not affected by this that I've tested is Google's Chrome browser.

I don't use it for anything but testing my work, and rarely use it for that.

It appears to me it's stealing everything it can and tweaking it a just a bit for responses to queries.

Should be fairly easy to confirm that by publishing some bullshit and see if it uses it.

I just checked it with the Safari browser, same thing. Page refreshes after less than a minute.

I had a two old smartphone sitting in a drawer for a few years, an old iPhone5 and an old Android phone. A few months ago I looked into using them for security cams and did a search and found https://alfred.camera/

Alfred is pretty cool. They have a free version that does what I wanted and a premium version that's got quite a few nice additional features.

I'm still using an old iPhone 10. Apple has obsoleted it too. I can't install any apps from the "App Store" but it still does what I want most. The phone and the "Maps" and text apps still work fine.

One of my daughters works at Verizon and asked me if I wanted a new iPhone for Christmas last year but I really don't need one. I work from home, do not work for anyone else, and don't need any additional "Apps". My apps are "web apps" so they run fine on those old phones.

I made a screenshot using this and it's pretty cool.

I delete a lot of email so I don't have more than a few k messages in an email account, but I have 3 of accounts setup in T-Bird and it's always been very snappy.

T-Bird is still my primary email app on my Mac. Apple's "Mail" app fine too but it's great to see the T-Bird team is willing to modernize it with a complete rewrite.

The last T-Bird update was really pretty good considering the old code they were working with so I'm excited to see them take this path.

That is funny!

"Tiktok for literate people?" got flagged?

Come on... that seems a bit heavy handed.

I'm old, so maybe that's why I really can't see why we need or would want a text based "TikTok".

EamonnMR already mentioned here "Isn't Twitter tiktok for text already?"

I think he nailed it.

I downloaded this yesterday after seeing this post and, wow!

It will take me awhile to go through all the tools and features for developers but I'm pretty sure I'll be using this as my goto browser for testing my work.

Shout out to napolux for sharing this here!

I'll give you my experience with them.

I just turned 63 and got the Pfizer vaxx and boosters as early as I could. Honestly, I did not have any side effects at all and neither did my wife. We made a point to take some vitamins and supplements for a few days before getting the shots, but that was all.

In Dec 2021 one of our daughters, who refused to get vaxxed, came up for the holidays and tested positive about 5 days later. She was sick in bed for 5 days. My wife and I had to nurse her but we still did not get infected. Neither of us wore masks in the house during that time, but we did open windows and doors to freshen the air everyday.

She's gotten infected two more times since then, and told us not long ago she's dealing with some long haul issues.

I don't get out much but my wife deals with people from all over (we live near a tourist destination) and neither of have been sick at all since before this crud hit.

The only other thing we've really done is keep up on the vitamins and supplements. And really don't even do those everyday. More like a few times a week.

So I really can't say anything negative about the mRNA vaccine I and few other's I know got. None of us who are fully vaxxed and boosted have experienced any downside or been infected with Covid.

Don't get me wrong... I'm not feeling anything close to invincible, or smart for that matter. It's been a roll of the dice no matter what we've chose to do about covid.

You're probably right. I never went to college but I started learning how to code in my late 20s because I could finally afford a used computer by then (late 1980s).

It tore me up to go to friends homes and see a Mac or Commodore 64 sitting on a desk collecting dust. When I got my first used computer in the early 90s, (a Commodore 64) I dove into learning how to program. Back then I didn't know anyone who knew how code. I started buying books in the 90s and still have most of them.

So I think you've got a great point about "if tinkering doesn't come naturally".

Coding something is often times designing the logic to do something you can't copy and past a solution for. It's that kind of challenge that makes it interesting (and frustrating), but if that doesn't intrigue and inspire you than it might not be a good career choice.