There is a general perception now with many in the US and even more among the US’s partners that the US government is now actively regressive, making life more difficult for most of its citizens and partners, and indeed the world. China, despite its shortcomings, is mostly seen as making progress at raising living standards, moving more towards being environmentally responsible, and as a stable and predictable partner.

Whatever the complicated on the ground realities, these are some of the ways that make China currently seem to look better too many. Since you ask.

I’m liking the simplicity of dockcheck

https://github.com/mag37/dockcheck

Tax wealth, not work

I also can’t find releases on mobile. I see a bunch of f-froid publishing stuff at bottom or readme. Doesn’t seem to be on f-froid now, but maybe will show up there eventually.

Use Caddy for reverse proxy. It’s magic. Just put in config the subdomain/domain and localhost port to point to, it will fetch and configure and keep certificates up to date with zero effort. You’ll forget certificates exist. It just works.

One easy way to test accessing your site externally is use a free web proxy to try to load it.

For example (not a personal recommendation, just a random search result) https://wproxy.net/

This blog post hyperbolically has “do-or-die moment” in title, and then concludes with with the final breathless line, “we must act now, before it is too late” (which it claims is “every scientist’s most familiar motto”, whatever that means). Yet nowhere at all in the blog post or the paper is any suggestion of what “act” could or should be done to avoid this “die” condition.

The “limitations” section of the article is a bit telling (and at least seemingly honest).

• relies “on the instances of scientific fraud that have been reported” (i.e. someone else has already detected fraud and “acted” on it)
• speculates that there’s a lot more fraud, but has no way to quantify or measure, so it is just speculation
• “temporal changes in detection effort or in the attention paid to different fields may produce spurious trends” (um, okay, so we don’t even know if the data they do have is comprehensive enough)
• “systematic fraudulent activity has always been large but that only now has been detected” (ah, an alternate hypothesis just thrown out there that could invalidate the entire conclusion, but is not explored)
• not actually in the limitations section, but elsewhere it is also noted

I like also how the blog post admits, ‘there is still no standard definition of what a “paper mill” actually is.’ In fact no definition is offered by the blog post or the article, though the term is used constantly. (As though the problems of “paper mills” hasn’t been a known concern for dozens of years already.)

The blog post concludes with “If the model public goods game offers any prognostication”. But the “game” model is one that the author just made up earlier in the post, and arbitrarily setting the rules, boundaries and parameters for. So basically this is saying, “if my [extremely simplistic] made up analogy is true…”

I sympathize with the authors’ concerns, but this article seem to me to have a lot of problems, and not offer much of what was promised. Can’t help but wonder if PNAS picked it up just for flame-bait… which would be ironic.

That is some intense judgement. What did you do?? Withhold treats? Breakfast 3 minutes late?? It’s going to take a while to get over this. At least the little green thing is respectfully ignoring you.

Also kind of interesting to know there is a quantifiable methodology for rating chewing capabilities, which could potentially be used in other studies.

Anyhow I suspect when we are old and don’t understand what is happening to our weakening bodies some of us may have a greater appreciation for this particular study.

Been with VoIP.ms a long time. So long that I don’t really know what alternatives are out there. It works for me. I’ve never required any support though, so not sure about your activation issue.

Link to study in Nature being reported on:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07929-5

My suggestion for the steam winter sale is chech out the GOG winter sale. But maybe that’s just me.

Misleading headline wording. Makes it seem one thing lead to the other, rather than reality being the other way around.

Amazed to see this. New old house. Used oven for first time. Some sort of stench and black gunk dripping from top heat shield. Gas stove. Investigate. Pull out pieces of a gun. Glock or something. Previous owner stops by for mail (unusual situation). I had over the melted pieces, “you forget something in the oven?” “Oh shit. No problem, I can fix it.” "uh… Okaaaaay… "

As long as the backdoor is licenced GPL what’s the problem?

Chocolate and famous name brand cola?

Unfortunately your stats link appears to be paywalled, or at least requires login to see the graph?

This may be a logical fallacy known as false equivalence, when one fact is stated or implied to be conflated with another not directly related fact.

Some alternate suggestions might be nice.

What are you talking about. Everyone knows polls are the best way to determine what is or is not a myth. That’s why that TV show Mythbusters failed so miserably and is off the air now. Too much fiddly experimentation and sciency mumbojumbo, and not nearly enough polls. It really helps if the polls ask pointed questions about hot button issues with little to no context also… So people aren’t confused or have to think too much (which also is a form of dishonesty when you think (but not too much) about it). Pretty sure there is a poll out there somewhere that confirms this.