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  • Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch

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  • Yes, exactly. That's why it's preferable to use them self-hosted as the E2E of course ends on the server.

  • Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch

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  • They have been,well, complicated and uncomfortable, a few years back but gradually improved. I use both and they are alright. The WhatsApp Bridge works flawlessly for me, no issues at all, the signal bridge has occasional issues that require a restart of the container (as in "once every one to three months"),but that's more on the signal end of things. While they are not ideal they are the best option at the moment.

  • Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch

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  • Matrix is also an option and heavily audited+ federated. And unlike Signal not based in the US.

    And the best? You can easily selfhost a bridge to signal and WhatsApp.

  • Trump names ‘first buddy’ and DOGE head Elon Musk to investigate Signal blunder

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  • To be a pessimist here: This will be the end of signal. They will move in on the LLC and foundation soon citing national security reasons. Or they may have done so already but kept things under the rugs due to national security laws.

    And to play a conspiracy theorist for once: Maybe that was the plan all along. We all know how much Elmo hates Signal.

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  • It's true. There are various witnesses of the Shoa who absolutely did testify this happened. I actually spoke to one of them in school - during highschool two survivors of the holocaust did come to my (German) highschool and talked about what they went through, extremely nice people with extremely horrible stories.

    One of them explained how they hid in an abandoned building and how the mother of the other family hiding with them choked their 8 week old baby when there was a official patrol nearby and they had to stay quiet. Didn't help, they got caught shortly after and as far as we were told none of the other family made it.

    The worst thing? It's one of the "less gruesome" stories the whole Holocaust has...

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  • Tbf, not that different from an stoma bag

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  • As long as it's not the same math genius who calculated the amount of tampons for the first female long term crew member...

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  • Oh god yes, so much.

    I do disaster response planning, mostly for healthcare. "No, your OR really needs electrical power!" "No, you can't still run your outpatient clinic during an active shooter situation!" "For fucks sake,NO,you will not use a diesel generator indoors to power the ED!Not even with a open window. Your windows are 30cm x 1m"

  • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • And it has some options to interpret data following strict W3C standards. Which was incredibly helpful when learning, as it encouraged me (and a lot of others) to don't go down the IE/Netscape and later Chrome "specialities" road. (Yes,I am that old....I still remember MS fucking FrontPage)

  • Why does it feel like Elon is artificially boosting his companies?

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  • And then he will be a dead Hopefully. Through Vanguard and Blackrock the Saudis and Qataris are said to have substantial investments in Tesla. And especially the former are not kind people when it comes to fraud to their disadvantage.

  • What are the options for a house with these well water test results?

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  • Often reverse osmosis works better - and distillation systems require a lot of upkeep and energy costs. So there is that. And of course they only help if it's not their transport system.

  • What are the options for a house with these well water test results?

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  • First of all: Where in your system was the sample taken? At the well? At a tank? At a faucet?

    The answer to this question is important for the next steps.

    Be aware that high lead content can also be an issue for plant watering and even showering.

    If the sample has been taken at a endpoint (faucet) I would try to get another sample at the well directly. If you are "lucky" the acidity of the water is the reason lead is brought into your system from a section of your transport system. In that case replacing the transport layer (basically: Get new pipes) is the best approach - while it's not cheap it is also not as expensive as filtering (or dealing with the health issues from lead, especially in the US).

    If the well shows the same values you are screwed. There are basically two scenarios then: Your well installation itself is the problem - this is in theory "fixable" but expensive, but you might accidentally even poisoning your neighbours then. (The way to find out if it's your installation is either with specialised equipment or, for some confirmation, get a sample from a neighbour who ideally life upstream from you)

    If it's not your well installation then it's the well itself...and then you really really need a more extensive analysis: Lead in a ground water deposit is somewhat rare and often a indication something else is problematic - both because geologically lead is often next to other nasties, but also because human caused pollution with lead often goes with the real nasty stuff like arsenic,etc. And you really would want to find these. Then shit sadly becomes really expensive.

  • Measles has spread to where I am at. Other than a mask/Vaccine, what else can help protect against it?

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  • Nope,it hasn't. If your glasses are fogging up in sync with your respiration rate or within a very short timeframe your mask is not sealing. Period. The only difference is when you have either have a valve mask, work with a face shield or similar things or in confined spaces - it's basically impossible to fog up your glasses with a correctly positioned mask as the filter medium does work as a diffuser. If your mask does fog up suddenly despite a confirmed fit it usually is a warning sign for a breakdown of the filter medium.

    (And believe me, we tried really hard - as part of a customer contract we tested all major mask manufacturers available in the EU, with a sample size in the 4 digit range, including UV fluid and thermal imaging tests)

    I am fully aware that the equivalent of N95 is often seen as comparable to FFP2, but this is not actually quite correct. The FFP2 has a slightly worse filtration rate and a slightly higher resistance both for inspiration and expiration. Anyway, I intentionally wrote FFP3 as this is the recommended FFP class for Measles while within the NIOSH legislation only a N95 is recommended.

  • Measles has spread to where I am at. Other than a mask/Vaccine, what else can help protect against it?

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  • Mostly yes,but it is possible to have some beardstyles if you know very much what you are doing (and have a large head).

    But the actual area of contact and to a certain degrees the areas around it need to be shaved properly,yes.

  • Measles has spread to where I am at. Other than a mask/Vaccine, what else can help protect against it?

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  • Every vaccination has a (although very slim) chance to cause an adverse reaction. Around 5% of all people vaccinated have a minor skin reaction (which is physiological and not an anaphylaxis. 1% report joint pain.

    But,more severely, 1-4 people out of a million develop a life-threatening anaphylaxis, 3 out 100.000 a serious blood clothing disorder. Very rarely(as in: Less than 1 in 1 Million), but with a slightly higher incidence of you are an adult pancreatitis and deafness is reported.

    As medicine is always a game of chances we try not to risk things,even if they are rare.

  • Measles has spread to where I am at. Other than a mask/Vaccine, what else can help protect against it?

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  • Healthcare professional here - but not your HPC and you cannot confirm that I am who I am so double check what I write:

    • Get your titers checked and get revaccinationes asap. If you are not vaccinated or are a non-responder talk to your healthcare provider. Isolate until then.
    • Mask up and keep your hands away from mouth, eyes and nose. You will need a properly fitting FFP3/NP95 mask here - measles are far meaner in terms of infectiousness than COVID. Tight fitting means: You have no leaks at the side - if your glasses fog up, if you can feel air going in or out next to your face,etc. it is not working. The usual "duckbill" masks with straps around the ears very very rarely fit properly.
    • Wash your hands and desinfect them properly.
    • Stay the fuck away from babies. Really. Please.

  • Dishwasher and PLA create art

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  • Centauri Carbon might be worth a look into then - it can print fairly high temperature filaments.

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  • You are really surprised by a guy who wanted to name his car series S-E-X-Y and had a temper tantrum when model E was taken and he could not "buy" it.

  • I want to branch out from PLA. Should I try ABS or TPU?

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  • I personally would start with TPU(after PETG) - the different shore grades provide a large usability for a lot of things and it print comparably well once you find the right calibration. Especially with a A1 as you mentioned you have one.

    To be honest I would skip ABS totally in an A1 unless you have an external enclosure with a good filtering and exhaust solution. Be aware of the noxious fumes ABS will produce that have a potential to intoxicate you and are suspected to cause cancer depending on the additives. (Among others ABS produces hydrogen cyanide when printed - which is often better known under it's former German brand name: Zyklon B....)

    ASA nowadays provides a far less problematic (but not unproblematic) solution and while it's a little bit more complicated to print it's still manageable depending on the filament manufacturer. But you will need a temperature stabilised enclosure for both anyway, while ASA is a bit more sensitivitie,it doesn't really matter that much for me.

    Within ASA I personally found a far larger bandwidth of printability between the manufacturers. The major manufacturers for PLA often suck - especially Bambu Lab ASA is hideous to print. If you are in Europe I cannot recommend the Black Forest Filament ASA enough, their stuff is not comparable to any other ASA I printed. Alternatively material4print. If you need a filament that is available worldwide Filamentum Apollo X is a solid choice, so is Polymaker,but both to a lesser extend.

    In theory PMMA, PCTG and CPE are also worth a consideration, but besides CPE all of them are far more difficult to print.

    BTW: All variants need to be printed very dry, ideally out of a warm dry box.