We have an emergency experimental gene therapy masquerading as vaccine; phase 3 trial results? Kept being postponed. You can read in 2024 at the earliest if we have a vaccine or something quite else.
Authorities were writing that even multivitimins could be dangerous and had no scientific proof against Covid. Mentions of turmeric got your Youtube video delisted. It is crazy that the information gathered above has to reside on a paste site, when 25 years ago anyone would have found it on BBS or mailing list. Western medicine is needlessly dismissive of natural medicine. They censored wisdom of the crowds.
First masks were made taboo, as they did not work for civilians (but in reality they had not enough in stock to service health care workers). The flip flop on masks only came later. In February it was known that chloroquine, which helped for SARS-1, was also likely effective for SARS-2. Interesting to see the hitjob on that. Ivermectine in vitro studies were only censored, because these were discussed on "far-right" sites, not because it did not work (because it turned out to help in vivo, but doctors lost license for prescribing it anyway).
Let the people, especially black skinned people, take vitamin D next time there is a viral pandemic. No need for public health info-management. It did more damage than good.
Good. If you don't have online child sexual abuse to hide, you have nothing to worry about, since for all the other things people do have to hide, such access will ignore that (up to direct threats to safety and national security concerns).
Criminals get easier access to online CSAM, then law enforcement should get easier access to user data. If you think that trade is unfair, take it up with the criminals.
I do send my mom photos with my 2yr old taking a bath or stuff like that. "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" - what a stupid argument. Letting criminals dictate the way I live sounds like such a wonderful idea. If you have nothing to hide can you post your credit card here?
This is a discussion about bean soup recipes and you are telling me you don't like beans. Mediocre argument.
Be very careful with sharing explicit photos online. Your settings and encryption must be very strong, or people other than your mom may get access to it.
If these others then get investigated for child abuse, it should come out to the investigators that they joined a semi-private Facebook group and have access to beach photos of children. Their credit card number also should show up in registering for CSAM forums.
It is a wonderful idea to protect you and your family by taking precautions. Lock your doors. Don't accept requests from people you don't know, educate your mother on online security, and think long and hard about if it is worth it to send your mother a picture of your naked child, for there is a possibility this will end up everywhere.
Everyone has something to hide and to worry about:
> It came in 2003 when Townshend, now 74, was arrested for using his credit card to access a website offering child pornography, though no images were downloaded.
> Rock star Pete Townshend reveals today how his arrest on child pornography charges saved his life after it indirectly led him to discover he had cancer.
I am fine with people (especially if they are licensed professionals) reading my private conversations and photos, but I worry about people (especially licensed law enforcement) accessing my data on online child abuse.
We can not always get what we want.
Instead, we entrust the police a monopoly on violence, physical detainment, and violation of privacy, and hold them accountable if they can be shown to disregard their duty and responsibilities. As a civilian, your duty is to weigh your personal sense of discomfort against the societal benefits of improved child abuse detection.
>As a civilian, your duty is to weigh your personal sense of discomfort against the societal benefits of improved child abuse detection.
No. Not your personal sense of discomfort... this isn't a case of privileging one person's selfishness versus the whole world. You have to weigh the harm to _all_ of society from loss of privacy, against the societal benefits of improved child abuse detection.
Including the future harm to those children as they live their lives with lost privacy.
During the Cold War, everyone had spies in the other side.
Russia is certainly still trying that now (I assume the US is too, but haven't heard of it recently).
Giving any group legit access to this risks those spies having a convenient and easy way to find anyone with dirty laundry (even mild, legal stuff), and blackmail them into helping the spies.
This problem still exists even if we don't have the system for legit access, I'm only saying an official system makes it worse.
We still have to alter our societies so that nobody has anything secret to be ashamed of. This necessarily means making society radically more transparent, and I think the only way this is possible is to also make society radically more inclusive and tolerant. Why also tolerant? Because I've heard people typically commit 3 felonies a day (don't trust random factoids), and at that rate transparency without liberty turns the whole nation into a prison.
Given the LOVEINT that we only found out about because of Snowden, given the sexual blackmail used to coerce gay people during the Cold War, and given rule 34, I fully expect officially sanctioned mechanisms to be abused in this way.
Chronic fatigue syndrome resulting from SARS-2 infection should be contextualized and understood from chronic fatigue syndrome resulting from original SARS from 2003. Presentation of which should be different from what you see in practice.
- An exploratory study of nurses suffering from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
- Long-term Psychological and Occupational Effects of Providing Hospital Healthcare during SARS Outbreak
- Mental Morbidities and Chronic Fatigue in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Survivors: Long-term Follow-up
- Chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, depression and disordered sleep in chronic post-SARS syndrome; a case-controlled study
It's not a surprise that fundamental health improves outcomes against novel infections. Public health should be encouraging significant evidence-based habits routinely.
The most plausible reason is that the scientific peer-reviewed result is correct, not the tiring "correlation does not imply causatian" commenter on HN who at most skimmed the paper.
2009:
> Epidemiological data show an inverse relationship between vitamin D levels and breast cancer incidence. In addition, there is a well-documented association between vitamin D intake and the risk of breast cancer. Low vitamin D intake has also been indicated in colorectal carcinogenesis. A vitamin D deficiency has also been documented in patients with prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, as well as multiple myeloma. Larger randomized clinical trials should be undertaken in humans to establish the role of vitamin D supplementation in the prevention of these cancers.
> The most plausible reason is that the scientific peer-reviewed result is correct, not the tiring "correlation does not imply causatian" commenter on HN who at most skimmed the paper.
Quite the odd take given the last sentence in the abstract of this paper is essentially "correlation is not causation":
> In conclusion, regular use of vitamin D associates with fewer melanoma cases, when compared to non-use, but the causality between them is obscure.
I thought Flash died, because Apple did not want Flash to eat into their app store profits. So yes, Jobs shot it down several times, because Flash would have allowed games and apps outside the direct control of Apple.
Flash could run great games and apps on Internet Explorer 6. If it was then impossible to get a non-garbage version on iOS, then maybe iOS was garbage.
It was also hard to get a non-app store version of pure HTML/JavaScript on the iPad. With severe restrictions to localstorage.
> because Apple did not want Flash to eat into their app store profits
Here's a fun fact nobody remembers anymore. Way back when (2010?) Adobe built a Flash feature that let you publish iOS apps. The feature went through an open beta and lots of flash devs made iOS apps, they worked fine, Apple accepted them into the app store, fun times.
Then riiight as the tech left beta, Apple changed the iOS terms to nonsensically restrict what language apps are "originally written" in - the source language had to be one Xcode supported, and apps converted from other languages were disallowed. Apple then removed the flash-based apps from their store, Adobe had to discontinue the feature, and a bit later Apple quietly removed the restriction.
(Working from memory here, details are approximate.)
To fill in some details (but IANAiOSdev): Apple first disallowed interpreted code [1]. (Wow, I had forgotten how much I loathed Apple for that.) Later in 2010 Apple loosened it to allow interpreted languages as long as you didn't download new code from the internet [1]. The exception was that you could use WebKit to run JS in a webpage in your app. I guess their excuse was security, so they could ensure the app they approved was the one you ran. In 2017 [2] they loosened it further to allowing downloading or importing code in some circumstances. The most important limitation now is that you can't generate executable code on iOS, which disallows JITs and makes everything other than WebKit a second-class citizen.
The old terms:
> Unless otherwise approved by Apple in writing, no interpreted code may be downloaded or used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Documented APIs and built-in interpreter(s). Notwithstanding the foregoing, with Apple’s prior written consent, an Application may use embedded interpreted code in a limited way if such use is solely for providing minor features or functionality that are consistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application.
That's a separate unrelated issue. The terms I'm taking about dictated what language the app could be "originally written" in, regardless of what happened at runtime. Technically, if you prototyped an app in some other tech and then manually ported it to objective-C it wasn't even clear if that would satisfy the terms as written.
(In practice of course it didn't matter what the terms precisely meant, because Apple never enforced them apart from removing flash-based apps.)
They did this just after I had started learning C# with Xamarin for iOS dev, it's why I got out of mobile development and am now a python/Django developer.
Edit: I forgot, at the time I was between jobs (2008) and had used a chunk of my money to buy an iPhone to learn iOS Dev on, they wasted a load of my time, and money.
> Flash could run great games and apps on Internet Explorer 6. If it was then impossible to get a non-garbage version on iOS, then maybe iOS was garbage.
The problem was pretty clearly on Adobe's end. They released a Flash runtime for Android in 2010; it was nearly unusable, and was quietly discontinued a year or two later.
No, because web apps had the same abilities and those were allowed. The reason Flash was blocked was because it was always going to be a poor experience and Apple sells great experiences.
Yeah the original plan for iPhone apps was they were all supposed to be web-apps saved to the home screen. No App Store. IIRC they even had a basic web SDK to make some standard-looking iOS views? Developers jailbroke the iPhone and reversed the APIs and made some really compelling demo apps and Apple had to rush to make an official SDK.
Look into https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails and specifically to your question there are "topical rails" to ensure the conversation stays on a set of topics you greenlighted.
Also takes care of jailbreaks and allows custom conversation flow templates.
I'm curious how that works, as the documentation is a little under-specified. It seems like it requires specifying exact "utterances" from the user, but I don't think that can be the case -- wouldn't it be flatly useless that way? But it's not clear how to use it to, for example, disallow talking about politics. Or to disallow talking about topics unrelated to the dev's product, for that matter.
We have an emergency experimental gene therapy masquerading as vaccine; phase 3 trial results? Kept being postponed. You can read in 2024 at the earliest if we have a vaccine or something quite else.