> Bat Feces Used to Fertilize Cannabis Is Linked to 2 Deaths
From the article:
> The men, who lived in Rochester, N.Y., were not named in the article, published this month in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
> […] “Exposure to bat guano among cannabis growers appears to be a recent trend that can lead to histoplasmosis cases and outbreaks,” the researchers wrote.
The title seems fair and accurate to me. This is a reflection of the findings of the researchers.
Subjectively, the takeaway I got from this was “stay away from bat feces”, not “stay away from cannabis”.
From a purely selfish and practical view, that goes against my ideology, it’s already difficult enough to keep my elderly relatives keeping their iPhone free of scam apps. Opening it up will make it even worse.
If you live in the EU, reach out to your representative(s) and share your perspective. I don't agree with that some group should suffer because another gets value from a locked down device, but I still believe your voice should be properly heard.
I don’t think it’s quite there yet, but the iOS Assistive Access mode is a step in the right direction. Eventually phones will have to have an “old people” mode, right? I especially worry how my grandparents will comply with 2FA requirements, passkeys, etc.
One thing I have been considering for my immediate family, and possibly my parents, is setting up a small MDM. This seems more in line with allowing power users to do powerful things while keeping the less savy users from totally blowing up their devices with malware. I've never run an MDM though, only on the receiving end for work devices, so I'm not too sure about the complexity involved.
Well smart phones have been out for almost twenty years now. Maybe we should stop structuring our society around people who refuse to learn new concepts. What were they doing 11 years ago on the third Tuesday of March? In know they weren't working, they weren't raising children; they have unlimited free time to teach themselves something new.
There could still be a technical solution whereby ios is made open in general, but has a hardware-dependent flag that locks it down. And then we can see who prefers to buy these locked devices.
The issue isn't using WP. It's maintaining their plugin "Advanced Custom Fields" that automattic had taken over. It's roughly analogous to if the NPM maintainers took over React on NPM. Doesn't stop Facebook from publishing their own version elsewhere but a lot of people will moved over to the new non-facebook version without knowing what's going on.
They don't want to pay for all that. They want to make money. That might save Mullenweg in the end, despite himself. He might be ordered to help them set up an alternative plugin directory, but the court probably can't or won't force him to continue doing business with them. Keeping up their mirror of the WP infra might cut into profits too badly. All of the huffing and puffing on their side doesn't change the fact that they're basically parasitic. They do nothing for Mullenweg, and he was doing everything for them.
There could be an outcome where he's about to be forced to pay damages for all of the harassment and help with some complex remedy that still requires them to fork, and instead they come to a settlement beforehand where they (quietly and confidentially) pay him something slightly less than 8% of their revenue and he pays their legal costs and publicly apologizes.
Because it was pretty common scientific knowledge that earth was round back then. A knowledge that got lost during the dark ages.
For example: In the third century BCE , Eratosthenes, a Greek librarian in Alexandria , Egypt , determined the earth's circumference to be 40,250 to 45,900 kilometers (25,000 to 28,500 miles) by comparing the Sun's relative position at two different locations on the earth's surface.
You were so preoccupied with whether you could, you never stopped to ask if you should.
This will be the goto reference for hackers everywhere. Think of how much faster they'll compromise my McDonald's order with all 2^122 possibilities already computed!
Which if anything has exactly the opposite effect than what GP is claiming; sell the lowest quality goods and services(i.e. lowest cost) at the highest price possible.
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