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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Since I always browse with VPN + lots of privacy protections, I feel like half the websites I visit think I’m a bot. It’s a pain in the arse.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really? I’m pretty sure I’m being IP tracked by companies like google.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I’m deaf and the large majority of peertube videos don’t have captions :/

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That’s actually not the case. For example this recent study actually found loss of taste and smell to be the least common long covid symptom they asked about. (no doubt to the fact that usually gets better within a couple months, while the other types of long COVID are often chronic).

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.27.24317656v1.supplementary-material

Loss of taste and smell is a common short term symptom lingering a couple months after the infections. But long COVID commonly causes chronic lifelong illnesses like ME/CFS and POTS that don’t resolve with time, so their symptoms end up being more common.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

1 million is probably an understatement. But I think one million is about right for people who experience significant disability from long COVID.

Older data but europe based: https://www.who.int/europe/news-room/13-09-2022-at-least-17-million-people-in-the-who-european-region-experienced-long-covid-in-the-first-two-years-of-the-pandemic--millions-may-have-to-live-with-it-for-years-to-come

Newer data but worldwide: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39830235/

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So many gone that way.

It’s especially evident by the communities that started off with “edgy”/“offensive” jokes and quickly become far right echo chambers.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That’s bad faith alt accounts.

A lot of us have alt accounts for privacy reasons, not to create bad faith alter egos.

Fun Fact. Trump has never once called Putin a dictator.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

Wanna search on “google” without selling your data to google.

Well just like duckduckgo is basically bing but with trackers removed, startpage https://startpage.com/ is the same for google!

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Couldn’t we also use some of it to fund badly neglected care and research for the > 1 million europeans disabled by long COVID!

 

You cannot access reddit without either an account, or turning off your VPN. Effectively meaning that it’s difficult to access reddit privately, as they can either track you with IP or with account.

Even alternative frontends like RDX for reddit by @overdevs@lemmy.world don’t solve this issue.

I can’t believe more people haven’t left because of that.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25580771

The visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25592118

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MUNICH — European leaders should start to create a European army in response to Russia's military build-up, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday.

"I really believe that the time has come that the armed forces of Europe must be created," Zelenskyy said in a speech at the Munich Security Conference. "Let's be honest, now we can't rule out that America might say no to Europe on issues that might threaten it."

As the third anniversary of Russia's all-out invasion nears on Feb. 24, Zelenskyy said Europe needed to coalesce behind a single foreign and defense policy that would show America that the bloc is serious about its own security.

Despite steep losses, Russian President Vladimir Putin is adding 150,000 troops to his armed forces, larger than most European armies, Zelenskyy said, and is opening army recruitment offices each week. "Oil prices are still high enough for him to ignore the world," he said.

 
 
 

I’m thinking of buying one of the two models, not to read but because I have a disability that basically makes it impossible for me to use normal phones due to visual overload. I have a couple questions:

  1. How dim does the backlight go? Can it get so dim that you barely realise it is on — kind of like minimum phone brightness?
  2. What is the experience like when typing? Could you use the phone to send messages?
  3. What does the hardware feel like? It seems the CPU is pretty weak, do you feel that at all when using? What do you think the longevity would be like?
  4. Do you think a usecase like leaving the display on as a button pad with a bunch of shortcuts would be a workable usecase?
  5. Can the customisable sidebutton be programmed to do literally anything? Like could I link it to a Tasker shortcut or something?
  6. I’ve noticed that people say the settings are rather limited compared to normal android? Has that limited you in any way, are things like DNS and VPN still usable?
 

Several government resources about accommodations for people with Long COVID have become unavailable in the last week, following purges of government websites and datasets under the Trump administration. These pages offered crucial information about rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for people with Long COVID and their employers.

In 2021, the federal government recognized that Long COVID can be considered a disability under the ADA. Pages and articles on AskJAN, a public-facing website by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Accommodation Network, explained how people with Long COVID could use this law to request accommodations that would make their jobs, schools, or other aspects of their day-to-day lives possible.

As of February 11, Long COVID is no longer included in AskJAN’s directory of disabilities. The website’s Long COVID resources — which previously included information about the disease’s legal status, key symptoms, and suggestions for accommodations — are also unavailable. (View an archived copy of AskJAN’s Long COVID landing page here.)

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