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sm4rk0··on The Vaccine Moment, part one
Expert(s) think we should care: "There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

sm4rk0··on The Vaccine Moment, part one
It's a selfish viewpoint. Those vaccinated and excessively infected also infect unvaccinated (some of them can't be vaccinated even if they want to) and they die?

Also, more infections lead to more deaths among vaccinated, too. No vaccine is 100% protection against death outcome.

sm4rk0··on The Vaccine Moment, part one
Why do you underrate someone's choices? People were also segregated based on their choices in Nazi Germany.

The comparison is still valid because the consequences could be the same if this doesn't stop.

sm4rk0··on Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
I'm basing it on common sense: don't take anything artificial if you don't have to.

The same science claimed that DDT is safe, eating sugar is good, mRNA vaccines are safe, etc.

sm4rk0··on Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
That's really weird. I'm not thankful for aspartame or other sweeteners, and even less thankful for corrupt food agencies approving them. Refined sugars aren't healthy, but aspartame isn't a solution. In my household, a kilogram of sugar lasts for months if not a year. Yes, we do buy food with added sugar, but always avoid artificial sweeteners, except when they are unavoidable in drugs or food supplements. I'm 192cm 75kg in early 40s and just occasionally ride a bike or take a walk.

#5 is like: I'm thankful that you can smoke a cigarette and not die immediatelly of it.

sm4rk0··on Fingerprints can be hacked
There were (at least) two such "stunts" in the past involving German ministers:

In 2008. "fingerprint of then interior minister and current Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble" was sourced from a glass:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995935/posts

In 2014. "A speaker at the yearly conference of the Chaos Computer Club has shown how fingerprints can be faked using only a few photographs. To demonstrate, he copied the thumbprint of the German defense minister" Ursula von der Leyen

https://m.dw.com/en/german-defense-minister-von-der-leyens-f...

sm4rk0··on Gitlab.com is down
Can someone update the main URL with the first one above?
sm4rk0··on Fingerprints can be hacked
The video from the conference, in German:

https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6450_-_de_-_saal_1_-_201412272...

sm4rk0··on YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
For video-sharing platforms.

1. When you buy an Android phone there's a good chance that YouTube app is preinstalled.

2. If you search the net for "how to do XYZ" or for any song you'll get 99% video results from YouTube.

3. Almost every company/celebrity/influencer/... has a YouTube account and until recently (TikTok, Odysee, BitChute,...) alternative platforms (Vimeo, Dailymotion,...) were mostly a niche market.

sm4rk0··on YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
It is in a perfect market, but Google holds the monopoly and the game is set against competition.
sm4rk0··on Tinyprinter.club
We're on HackerNews - we can't "put aside the security practices of Discord".
sm4rk0··on Kairos
It's similar in Serbian (and Croat) - the word for "time", "vreme" also means "weather": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vreme#Serbo-Croatian
sm4rk0··on Ć Programming Language
Use cito for search. Just like "golang" vs "go".
sm4rk0··on Mewe.com
Here's the TikTok story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/01/31/tiktok-why...
sm4rk0··on Mewe.com
"The best texting and chat app with privacy you trust."

But why would anyone trust a closed source platform running on someone else's infra?

sm4rk0··on Show HN: Expensive Taste – Guess which artwork sold for more
Very good! Are prices inflation-adjusted?
sm4rk0··on Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn
Small correction: the guy was the PM until 2017. now he's the president (but basically the Big Boss since 2012.)
sm4rk0··on Gitlab S-1
What happens if USD is no more in 2030?
sm4rk0··on Gitlab S-1
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
sm4rk0··on Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
TL;DR:

> This immunohistochemical and morphological re-evaluation confirmed the original diagnoses of malignancy in 92.3% of cases. Six lesions originally diagnosed as lymphoma (8% of all HLTs) were reclassified: 3 to lymphoid hyperplasia, and 3 to chronic inflammation with fibrosis. There was no evidence of Mycoplasma infection.

sm4rk0··on Couchbase Server 7.0 – What’s New?
This page has more technical info:

https://docs.couchbase.com/server/7.0/release-notes/relnotes...

For example:

> The Community Edition license provides for free deployment of Couchbase Community Edition for departmental-scale deployments of up to five node clusters. It has recently been changed to disallow use of XDCR, which is now an exclusive Enterprise Edition feature.

sm4rk0··on Show HN: AI Background Remover
Bravo! That's great. I've heard about https://www.remove.bg/ but this is next level (or two).
sm4rk0··on I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
I just don't like the fact that most people find it approprate to be treated as goods on sale and the only choice we have is "take it or leave it".
sm4rk0··on I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
I've deleted my LinkedIn account the same day I found my data and trust were sold out to MS without my consent. And I don't feel I'm missing anything.
sm4rk0··on Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool
How does this compare to LanXchange?

https://github.com/tfg13/LanXchange

sm4rk0··on Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces
My point is that PC is forced upon us and that it's hindering free speech and no one benefits from it.
sm4rk0··on Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces
No, quite the oposite.
sm4rk0··on Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces
And if there was a referendum: "Political correctness should be dismantled", I guess most people would vote "Hell yeah!".

So much for democracy.

sm4rk0··on You Don't Need to Rebuild Your Development Docker Image on Every Code Change
@bdcravens mentioned this as a solution in another comment:

http://docker-sync.io/

sm4rk0··on River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
Saw some "BLM" forests along the The Tongue River. For the curious that's acronym for "Bureau of Land Management".
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