albertcardona

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"Range contraction of the Yangtze finless porpoise inferred from classic Chinese poems", Zhang et al. 2025
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00266-0

"we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years."

#biology #porpoise #poetry

[–] albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

@BearOfaTime Demonstrable evidence falling into trained ears that can understand statistics, math, physics, chemistry – at least at an entry level.

 

The field of Medicine is oustanding today, heavily regulated and with gate-keeping via certified training programs.

Here is a look at how the field looked like when there weren’t any regulations, with the specific example of the United States in the 19th-century. It’s not pretty – to say the least.

Is that were the “we’ve had enough of experts” (and of regulatory agencies) crowd would like to go back to?

#history #HistoryOfMedicine #medicine

Countercover, with a summary highlighting the negative impact and abuse of the poor and any minorities.

[–] albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Hands down Lynx. No javascript, no images, no self-playing movies.

[–] albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

That said: Ubuntu 24.04.1 works very well. Feels faster than the prior long-term stable release (22.04.3) in the same laptop; perhaps it's the graphics which seem snappier.

#ubuntu #ubuntu24

[–] albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

@superkret@feddit.org Yikes.

[–] albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@superkret@feddit.org Oh I did choose the suggested OS, but lsb_release -a says "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" ...

[–] albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

@superkret@feddit.org Having installed Debian bookworm in a raspberry pi recently, the stable Debian release isn't without its warts unfortunately.

 

If you update a laptop from Ubuntu 22.04.3 to 24.04.1 and the screen is blank with an 'x' cursor after login, do this:

  1. control+alt+F1 to go to a tty and login, then:
  2. sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-session

Further, if #thunderbird doesn't launch, remove the snap installation and install de deb package directly from mozilla (he --purge is so that it doesn't generate adn store a ~4 GB copy of the install). First, do:

$ sudo snap remove --purge thunderbird
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
$ sudo apt update

Then paste this below into a file ( /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa-thunderbird ) to tell the apt system that you prefer mozilla's over any other package:

Package: thunderbird*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001

... and install:
$ sudo apt install thunderbird

The same can be done for firefox if you'd rather skip the snap package.

#ubuntu #mozilla #thunderbird #firefox #linux

@ajsadauskas @degoogle

And just now, as seen at the bottom of a blog post:

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[–] albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ajsadauskas @degoogle

Yes to all. For a while I've been de facto using a miniscule subset of the web. My gateway to other, relevant websites are via human-to-human recommendations, primarily in a place like this.

[–] albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

@szakib @silence7 @neanderthal

When externalities in beef production in the US get internalized into the cost to consumers, meat will become unaffordable, the whole industry would collapse. Likely a good thing.

Consider subsidies to oil exploration, oil production, oil transportation, corn, corn processing, and tax cuts to all of these.

[–] albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@silence7 @neanderthal

I've heard that back in the day when rivers where polluted as hell, there was this simple idea that made it into policy: an industry must draw water downstream from where they dump their liquid waste. If they wanted clean water, they had to filter it before releasing it back into the river.

Could a simple rule like this be enforced: if an industry is to dump anything into the atmosphere, they must intake any air consumed from that same spot.

Applying this to ICE cars would stall the engine. When applied to the cabin, it would kill the passengers. Diluting it into the air only postpones the problem. This "externality" has come due and it's expensive. Best to cut losses and stop pouring exhaust fumes into the air.

#WarOnCars #CO2