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How likely is it that, in a generation, we will look at storing (and heating) food and drinks in plastic containers the way we look at using asbestos for construction today? βPackaging food in plastic sounded like a good idea at the time. How wrong we were and how much illness we caused.β What do you think? Anonymous poll
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Very likely
10
43.5%
Maybe, maybe not
6
26.1%
Very unlikely
23 people voted. 7
30.4%
Voting ended 1 Oct 2023 at 18:10.  Here is the answer no one wants to hear: for that to happen there must be health problems equal to those of asbestos. As long as they remain at a level of danger equal to or lower than things like pesticides, nothing will happen. Notice that the @EU_Commission wants #glyphosate to be allowed for the next ten years:  @J12t I'm not sure about microplastics, but I'm willing to bet that it's going to look insane from the point of view of the environmental impact. I'm always appalled at the amount of single use plastic I throw away weekly despite my best efforts to reduce plastic consumption. @J12t in some future generation, maybe; in one generation from now, absolutely not. We would have to either have a better replacement thatβs ~equally affordable and convenient, or redistribute money and stress and time demands so dramatically that the expense and inconvenience of currently available replacements are no longer an obstacle to a significant number of people. I doubt either is possible in a single generation, and even if possible weβre not (collectively) actually trying "A study examining more than 73,000 #NFT collections found that 95% had a market cap of 0 ETH."  @J12t I know so many people who spent so much money on NFTs and it really seemed like it was the 2020s pet rock the entire time. Here are the two slides I showed at #FediForum to help with the discussion on a possible Fediverse #test suite. About half of the Fediverse addresses typed by FediForum attendees into the session notes are missing the leading "@". People typed in their very own Fediverse handles. And because they came to FediForum, it's very likely they are very well acquainted with the right syntax. Pretty strong circumstantial evidence that most people won't be able to distinguish Fediverse handles from e-mail addresses. I have long believed that they should be the same.
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  And when said person loses control of the email address (e.g. broadband provider change, employer change, etc.)... What does that person do? Lose entire setup and start again? Asking, because this is how many forums did it... and it was wrong then. Another FediForum session today: Automatically opening Fediverse links in the right app, so that I can interact with it. (Browser or OS integration) According to my indoor PurpleAir sensor, whatβs in my office is mostly particulates below a couple of ΞΌm, clustered between 0.3 and 1 ΞΌm. But my MERV 13 air filter isnβt very good at that size any more, letting half of particles pass according to the spec. Iβm failing to find a higher rated air filter, such as MERV 16, that looks even remotely like it is made for consumer / home applications whether in HVAC system or standalone. Does such a thing exist, anybody have one? @J12t AIUI anything above MERV 13 is likely to harm your air circulation machinery. I donβt understand the details, but itβs something to do with the pressures required to push air through the filters; the pressure drop on the outgoing side isnβt enough to get good circulation, and the higher pressure against the fans will (possibly dramatically) shorten the life of the motors. Iβd guess stand-alone filters donβt use MERV ratings because thatβs designed for protecting the equipment Bay Area peeps, #crowdsourcing request. Since the smoke came in a couple days ago, Iβve been feeling more tired, somewhat not quite healthy, less able to focus. Family says the same. So: is it the smoke or something else? If you are in the #bayarea: same for you, or no difference? (Donβt count the annoyance, the #smoke and bad #airquality sure is.) Iβd love to get a bunch of responses, so please reshare if you can. If other observations, please comment. Anonymous poll
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Smoke made no difference for me.
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25%
I feel less healthy since the smoke.
11
30.6%
I feel less healthy, sleepy since the smoke.
13
36.1%
I feel just sleepier since the smoke.
36 people voted. 3
8.3%
Voting ended 24 Sep 2023 at 3:22. @J12t Geez, I just walked my garbage across the driveway and the air is thick out there! Makes me realize how much my air cleaners are helping. I'm a little bit sniffly all the time and my throat is scratchy. The sniffling makes me more tired than usual, too. That story about the Ukrainians supposedly going after Wagner in Sudan with little drones is quite something. An entire book of questions arises. Reason no 2 to wear a mask is back in force. Ari quality in the Bay Area is really bad due to fires further north. The discussion at #FediForum today is really re-invigorating to me. All of a sudden conversations that we, had back 15 years ago (yes!) and that died on the vine when the big platforms took over, are back and hot! Many of the same people, older and wiser :-) and with a renewed sense of urgency, too. This time it might actually happen, because the general tech trends away from big platforms, and new regulatory requirements. Very exciting!  Air quality in the Bay Area this morning is even worse than last night. Air filters is becoming a growth industry. In between last-minute #FediForum organization, a warm, juicy Kohlrabi afternoon snack from the backyard hydroponics system. When they talk about "back to the office", they never mention Kohlrabi snacks in the afternoon. The single most annoying feature of online video ads? It's when you want to see a video, but they force an ad first which then fails to load. The video you want to see would work just fine, but the ad is broken. So you can't get to the video. Do *you* know where all your F-35s are? Easy to lose them, apparently. This is almost Monty Python style funny.  @J12t "If is 10PM. Do you know where F-35s are?" How do I use curve25519 with JSON Web Keys? rfc7518 seems to define RSA and ECDSA algorithms but not EdDSA. @J12t Really wish there was pervasive support for ed25519 in all the legacy crypto stacks. It feels like you have to build your own (unsupported) cyptosuites and protocols to use what is supposedly tge current state of the art in PKI. βThere are things so stupid that you must be a multibillionaire to believe themβ In case you arenβt sure, itβs about Elon. Pulling no punches in the Guardian. @J12t |
