Sam Tuke @samtuke@mastodon.social

"If you looked numerically, the percentage of total viruses that are problematic toward humans it would be close to zero".
"Viral elements account for an estimated 8% of the human genome" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200617-what-if-all-viruses-disappeared

Great news! Pleasantly surprising (describing a product as #OpenSource when its not is false advertising, according to multiple US courts). https://opensource.org/court-affirms-its-false-advertising-to-claim-software-is-open-source-when-its-not
Now what about the hundreds of jobs advertised as "Open Source" everyday which are really for building 100% proprietary products?

New post: How to install Fedora 35 on Dell XPS 9310 (2021). #Balena #Etcher is my new favourite bootable media writer https://samtuke.com/2021/12/howto-install-fedora-35-on-dell-xps-9310-2021/

What - no quantum computing?
"Studyum is a blockchain-based learning experience app that packs AI, facial recognition, smart-chat, 3D avatars, and tokenized and #NFT rewards... instantaneous profits... proceed with the pre-sale!" [Spam today]

Another variation:
• nasopharyngeal test

Christmas travel terminology proliferation reversal: these are all the same thing as far as European entry requirements go:
• Lateral flow test
• Antigen test
• Lateral flow device test
• Rapid test
• Bürgertest (Germany) #COVID19

All compensation systems use proxies for measuring and rewarding value created by employees. And I suppose all are flawed in their own way.

"If you want to maximise the number of hours you are billed, pay people per hour" – paraphrasing Charlie Munger's analysis of FedEx' historical night shift working incentives https://fs.blog/great-talks/psychology-human-misjudgment/

An #MBA entrepreneurship course in rap, in 3.5 minutes from #OpenSource expert (and my past Professor) Linus Dahlander: "Niches make Riches yo!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiDVZz48EjI

Leading Open Source optical character recognition (#OCR) software #Tesseract releases version 5.0. I use this for converting scanned German letters into text, then English translations, all the time. Powerful. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Tesseract-5.0-Released

Another sterling FOSS event comes back to real life 🐣 This is the #FossBackstage #CallForPapers (deadline upcoming). #NotRemote #OpenSource https://foss-backstage.de/news/call-participation-now-open

First thought: pins and needles (paresthesia). One of the less icky options.

These earphones claim to prevent teeth grinding (aka bruxism, now affecting 20% of adults). Dutch #startup, crowdfunded shares for sale €10k and up. After stomach ulcers, hives, and bruxism, how/where will the west manifest its stress? https://www.leapfunder.com/round/jawsaver-215

A new concept in #wearable keyboards. Truly portable. Not yet mature, and needs Open Source #QMK style firmware to compete, but very promising #TapWithUs https://www.amazon.com/TAPWITHUS-Tap-Strap-Wearable-Controller/dp/B07YCWNK3H