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"There was also not enough time for scientists to properly shut down the laboratories before they were locked out from their email systems and the building, two CDC officials said, with equipment still running and hazardous materials left unattended."

cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cdc-la

#PublicHealth#HHS#CDC

Estuve #Testing la app #TRIfA en #Android, pero mi expectativa/experiencia no fue positiva, ya que no me permitió importar mi cuenta.
Me sigo quedando con #aTox como alternativa. 🔒

f-droid.org/packages/ltd.evilc

Por si se animan a probar o ya usan #tox, mi ID: 5E714443388043DB47CF2F9A1661EBACD9B449A59940DF7A5B6072DD47BE8467237E54AABF6A

Para darle mas movimiento a este mensajero instantáneo.

f-droid.orgaTox | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryaTox, a beautiful and modern Tox client

“Mercedes-Benz has announced tests of advanced #HumanLike #robots – powered by artificial intelligence – as it ‘digitises’ the way it builds cars.

Robots powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) from #Apptronik – a Texas, United States-based automation and robotics company having developed robots for NASA (North American Space Agency) – have been installed for #testing at the car maker’s innovation hub in Berlin-Marienfeld, #Germany.”

🤖🦾🦿#Mercedes / #CarBuilding / #AI / #BlueCollar <drive.com.au/news/tesla-optimu>

DriveTesla Optimus, who? Mercedes-Benz to build cars with humanoid robotsHumanoid Artificial Intelligence-powered robots will be part of the Mercedes move to ‘digital production’.

So today is not going entirely to plan.
The set of additional #solarpanels I connected up refuse to give us juice. I tried to trace the fault and got jack shit info because my cheap ass 19 year old #multimeter is (confirmed by many tests now) not working any more. Its fuse is fine too, as is its #battery. It just displays zeros.
So add to the list of unexpected expenses and delays one new multimeter...

#mutualaid is our lifeline to #selfsufficiency so we can help others. Can you help us out with our expenses for...?

Multimeter: $7-8 at Harbor Freight
Crimp connectors: $?
Tyres: ~$1200 (Vulpibus)
Refilling fuel: ~$100
Refilling my overdraft: ~$500
Refilling my other overdraft: ~$250

This week, we have our hands full with a second round of Channel.org testing 👀

Our community team aren't technologists, but that's why their opinion is so important.

To pull down barriers to the open social web, we need to build technology which appeals to everyday users. That's why our community team are given the chance to get their hands on what we're building first.

Destructive bench #vise testing by a guy who builds them. Pretty interesting watch, although mostly US market stuff.

Best performers by far were the ancient vise (despite having been patched up) and the one he built.

The German forged steel vise held true to its "unbreakable" guarantee and bent instead of breaking.

youtube.com/watch?v=VcbTopj5u7

#Tools#Bench#Vice

Reading this article, particularly the section on the ideas for the future of SystemD, makes me think more and more about FreeBSD.

I almost switched yesterday. Had it installed. ZFS is a dream and native, not like trying to shoe horn in alien technology under Linux. But getting Wayland working seemed to be more effort than I was willing to put in at the time. Tangentially, session management is not an OOB thing with gdm or sddm? Starting the GUI from the command line? Wiring sessions up myself into the display manager? Wut? It's not 1997. Maybe I approached it incorrectly and need to spend more time with it. The Handbook is excellent, except when it isn't. The section on Wayland is quite 'hand wavey'.

Getting the the 4070 working under Debian Trixie was not as straightforward as I'd expected even. Why is Debian, particularly Testing, not following newer NVIDIA drivers? Manpower thing? In retrospect, are newer drivers in backports? Unlikely if not in testing I guess.

Maybe I should poke around with a physical box with a real GPU and FreeBSD to experiment.

Anyway, still on Linux (and SystemD) for now. To be honest, certain amount of FOMO at play as well.

theregister.com/2025/02/06/14_

The Register · Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemdBy Liam Proven