SaveTheTuaHawk

@SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I learned your ago to disconnect devices in my lab run by computers from the web. They literally last forever without updates.

  More than once, Microsoft would brick $800,000 microscopes by pushing an update even with updates turned off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile Clippy is homeless and living in LA’s skid row. He’s all rusty now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point of AI summaries is to avoid answers with actual proof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venezuelan president's YouTube account offline as tensions with US escalate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube videos get taken down every day because of corporate concerns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was one of the original scientists on Twitter. I left long before Musk because all it was, was a tool of self promotion and people bullying their opinions to try and influence grant reviewers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A good example of this is the Amyloid Hypothesis for dementia. All the papers that “proved” this concept have been retracted, but after 8 years. Good work showed that looking at amyloid load in random brains showed no correlation close to 20 years ago, but amyloidists begat more amyloidists, until finally there was a drug that reduces amyloid by 30%. All it did was cause brain bleeds, deaths and no benefit, but the FDA approved it anyway. MDs will still explain how it really “should” work. It was all a cabal of US scientists who dominated all symposia, only inviting speakers who were in their cabal.

  Meanwhile, genetic forms of neurodegeneration are highlighting defects in DNA damage repair. So, 25 years and billions wasted while there still are no treatments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  just slapping your name on papers as a supervisor.

  So you have no idea what a supervisor does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh, people love the idea that scientific advances come from a uneducated guy working in a shed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry you flunked orgamic chem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] How Razer Screws Customers | Hardware, Software, & Support Failures⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have teenagers. You could sell them cat turds for $90 with programmable RGB lighting.