feonixrift @feonixrift@hackers.town

I have reached the end of the internet.

I'm not turning back... I brought a machete.

Do less better.

Please be obscure.

The common can survive without your help.

The obscure needs you.

#datavore

The horror of an era replete with magic (technology) is that your choices matter. You can lose your life in here, gazing blankly into a whispering void. Or you can seize great power... wisdom of ages at your finger tips, should you know the correct incantations (search strings) to seek it. But noone will rescue you from the former, should you get distracted in your quest for the latter.

- To construct the interface between biological and technological selves in a manner oriented to support their underlying nature.

- To support the integration of technological with biological selves in order to extend personal capability.

- To defend the interface between technological selves and the external network in order to protect personal integrity and autonomy.

- To disseminate the capabilities so obtained as widely as the desire for them supports.

Hearing about grocery substitutions... I will shop in person so long as I can. And I will not regret my strategic rice reserve. I was right; damnit I was right. Not about the mechanism - I thought it would be that food was safe until we hit government facilitated distribution. But with substitutions in delivery and in grocery. Well, someone was joking they got couscous instead of rice. If that happened to me I would have to give it away and not eat. I have reserves, it's ok, but I hate being right.

Y'all so lucky though that they updated their software. The old arcgis dashboards, while /far/ more functional, were ugly and difficult to work with. Although see also more functional; I miss them under the circumstances.

Learning a new ui is hard? really? How long did it take the entire world to learn to handle an ArcGIS dashboard?

The ~10lb I'd considered reducing to decrease strain on my hips is .. not going to be a problem. This is mostly for good reasons of better exercise and portion management, but the reasons behind turning so strongly to adhering to better habits are rooted in situational stress. I suppose I should start forcing the mental shift from 'moderation is discipline' to 'consistent sufficiency is discipline' lest I lose more than that on accident.

https://www.merkur.de/welt/coronavirus-deutschland-zahlen-aktuell-faelle-tote-nrw-bayern-berlin-spahn-infizierte-rki-news-zr-13629622.html

„Im optimalen Fall sind die Krankenhäuser bis Ostern auf die maximale Kapazität hochgefahren, und die Maßnahmen bewirken, dass die Kurve abflacht“

From the same conference.

https://www.fr.de/panorama/coronavirus-bundesregierung-will-schutzmasken-schnellverfahren-kaufen-zr-13604049.html

„Wir müssen damit rechnen, dass die Kapazitäten nicht ausreichen, ganz klar“

„Das Coronavirus breitet sich in Deutschland weiter aus - und könnte das Gesundheitssystem an seine Grenzen bringen. Zustände wie in Italien seien möglich“

There. They said it. The head of RKI f*ing said it.

For crude case projection purposes, this is the chart I would recommend folks use.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-confirmed-cases-per-million-since-1-per-million

See the rest of their coverage for a good examination of caveats and influencing factors.

Just flowers and spring buds.

Ok; has anyone yet /tried/ salting masks? or salting filter inserts? i'm concerned about skin irritation if the masks themselves are salted directly, but you don't get the deactivation properties preventing cross-contamination from the mask between uses or due to surface contacts if only part of it is salted.

I finally read the salt paper in detail. Yes, I've been passing it around, and I'd read enough to verify sanity / applicability, but I hadn't read it in /depth/. The salt effect is far more powerful in this study even than I'd thought... it actually gives me something like hope.

(link again for completeness https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39956 )

https://www.fr.de/panorama/corona-deutschland-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-bundeswehr-hilfspaket-pandemie-news-ticker-zr-13604049.html

"Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) hat in ihrem Podcast einen Hinweis gegeben, wie lange die Ausgangsbeschränkungen wegen des Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 noch dauern könnten.

„Ich verstehe, dass sich manche jetzt schon ungedulgig fragen, wie lange das noch gehen soll“, sagte Merkel. Auch die Sorgen vieler Menschen um Arbeitsplätze und Wirtschaft könne sie nachvollziehen. Derzeit verdoppelten sich die Neuinfektionen etwa alle fünf Tage, erklärte die Bundeskanzlerin.

Vom Anfang, als eine Verdopplung alle zwei Tage stattfand, sei das ein Fortschritt. Aber erst, wenn die Zahl der Neuinfektionen mit dem Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 sich alle zehn Tage verzweifache, könne man davon ausgehen, dass das Gesundheitssystem nicht überfordert werde."

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Uhm. Ok, I consider myself pretty on the top of panicking early, but some parts of the ventilator capacity strategy are just now viscerally sinking in. Even if I believed doubling the doubling time would suffice to do that, even if I didn't know that exponentials are exponential, that's still a policy of acceptance of mass death. Not a policy of asking how few deaths it is feasible to attain, but merely that people are .. not dying too fast to mark them as adequately cared for?

I think my gut is starting to catch up with my head. =/