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r0l1on Metformin shown to prevent long Covid

We did normal Covid tests for work. Maybe I should do an antibody test. Would be interesting...

r0l1on Metformin shown to prevent long Covid

Can't say too much about it. Didn't really follow the whole Covid discussion and just continued my lifestyle. Eating healthy (fresh self-made food), doing sports and looking after a good mental state. Family and my circle did the same. Friends who have been vaccinated got Covid several times. But are also good now... My grandmom (89 years), also unvaccinated, didn't get Covid. Her sister got it (vaccinated). Both healthy now... Just let everybody do their own thing... The whole hate in the communities was unnecessary.

r0l1on Metformin shown to prevent long Covid

Multiple-vaccinated or has had Covid? Why only those two options? I and a big portion of my circle is unvaccinated, healthy and didn't have Covid.

r0l1on SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised

That's the model I use: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07NCMHG5H Hope that helps!

r0l1on SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing–firmware fix for only some promised

Use a Portal case with heatsink. You'll find some cases on amazon.

r0l1on Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples

I agree. That's why we use the small grml tool as task/command runner in all our projects.

https://github.com/desertbit/grml

r0l1on Life After Language

Personally I wouldn't survive in a suburban environment without nature being near by.

Going to restaurants, bars or meeting strangers isn't what I meant. It's still the artificial human made world. Spend time outside the city, hiking, boarding, climbing, running or just enjoying nature... That's it. Finding like-minded people will come by itself.

Oh, and beeing active is just awesome. Pushing the body to certain limits is just so important for my mental health. I am a complete different person, if I don't do sports for a certain time.

r0l1on Life After Language

Just go out, do some sports and enjoy life :) I stopped spending too much time in front of the computer and started doing more outdoor activities. Best decision ever.

r0l1on The Cairo Programming Language

Thanks for the explanation. That sounds like a really smart idea. I first thought, that this is based on Intel SGX, which seams to have some security problems (words of a friend working with that technology). I'll have to dig deeper into this topic. Are there any limitations?

r0l1on The Cairo Programming Language

I do think, that trusting thrid-party hardware is always a bad idea. There will never be a safe execution model where you don't own the hardware. Just my opinion...

r0l1on Microsoft exec says Windows 11 kernel will soon be booting with Rust inside

For serious privacy loss use Windows

r0l1on I wrote a tool in Go to write Sequence Diagrams in Go

I don't use these tools, due to privacy concerns. Once there is a capable offline model, I will be open to give it a try.

r0l1on Ubuntu 23.04 – 'Lunar Lobster'

Sandboxing still makes sense and is the right direction into a better Linux ecosystem. However the Ubuntu approach is flawed.

r0l1on Current issues with the Qt project from the outside looking in

That looks really great! Thanks for sharing. Ever thought of adding go support?

r0l1on StableLM: A new open-source language model

Seams so ^^ Too bad, that the open source model has this problem. Hope they will survive and find a fitting business model.

r0l1on StableLM: A new open-source language model

How will they generate revenue?

r0l1on Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining

My words! I made the switch to Copperhead / now GrapheneOS 7 years ago and never looked back. Can only recommend this OS and the lead dev is a legend.

r0l1on Original Prusa MK4

Never really read anything about it online. However we are using it at our company and are quite happy with it. The thing is running 24/7 and the printing results are really good after a first calibration. Just sharing my experience...

r0l1on Original Prusa MK4

For that price tag I would add a couple of hundred dollars and go with the SnapMaker 2. The nice thing is, that it is capable to do also laser engravings and simple CNC milling. Only made good experience so far.

https://eu.snapmaker.com/de

r0l1on Original Prusa MK4

I can only suggest to go with the Snapmaker. Only made good experience with it and it can also do laser engravings and CNC milling (simple stuff).

r0l1on Toxic fumes on airplanes? Airlines may have to do something about it

The German media made a documentary about this (~2013) and I started to fly with a special mask capable of filtering the toxic fumes. People kind of stared at me, when it was not normal to fly with a mask.. Crazy, that it took more than 10 years before things are finally starting to change.

r0l1on PCIe for Hackers: The Diffpair Prelude

The talk was great! Thanks for sharing.

r0l1on Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest

I used poste.io for one year and switched to mailcow. Poste.io does not frequently update their containers and I had to wait a long time for crucial security fixes. Looking at the docker container tag history verifies this: https://hub.docker.com/r/analogic/poste.io/tags