Kevin Hoerr @kjhoerr@cybr.es

This week's http://History.Expert posts:

👗 https://history.expert/bizarre-silk-gown/

✒️ guest post by @MoMartin https://history.expert/the-scoundrel-the-reformer-and-the-mystic/

🙀 https://history.expert/we-were-promised-cats-with-jetpacks/

📚 If you like studying/writing about history and would like to guest blog, @ me.

It seems like a lot of people are uncertain about what symptoms coronavirus actually has, so I thought I'd share this info I found from the WHO/CDC. Especially because it's not like all the other illnesses are on vacation, and it's best not to panic if you happen to get sick.

Firstly, if you're sneezing and have a blocked nose, you do not have coronavirus. You have a cold.

Secondly, if you have a headache, fatigue, and muscular aches, it's more likely that you have flu. These are common symptoms of influenza but only sometimes present in coronavirus infections.

The symptom to watch for is shortness of breath. Only coronavirus causes this. It's a respiratory infection which can cause pneumonia. This is what makes it dangerous, so watch out for it.

Advice is to seek medical help if you have difficulty breathing or have an uncontrollably high fever.

Otherwise, stay home, keep hydrated, and get plenty of rest.

a visual aid from the #WHO on how to recognize #coronavirus #COVID19 symptoms versus symptoms from a cold or the flu

One of the 0.21 roadmap items is the ability to federate reports with other #funkwhale pods and ActivityPub projects.

I've got a working prototype in the video below, showing a report federating from Funkwhale to Mastodon, and from Mastodon to Funkwhale. Federation from Funkwhale to Funkwhale is implemented and works too (with support for our reports category, like "Invalid metadata" or "Takedown request").

Hopefully, it will make moderators job easier and help increase the safety of the platform.

If you're interested, the feature itself is rather small : https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/merge_requests/1049/diffs (less than 500 added lines, which I consider small for a feature that involves federation :D)

Block mastodon.social

The entire domain

"I use Linux as my operating system," I stated proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swiveled around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually," he said with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!" I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk: "I use Abyss, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but not GNU+Linux."

The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body began convulsing, he foamed at the mouth, and he dropped to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhed around he screamed, "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" In a cool fashion, I replied "Abyss uses the LLVM compiler suite, GCC uninvolved."

With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life was ejected from his body. He lied on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.

Latest blog from #OpenInsulin

https://openinsulin.org/how-much-will-it-cost-to-install-and-run-a-small-scale-insulin-production/

from their , live event will be Friday Feb 28, 2020

"On Friday, Open Insulin will go live on Youtube to present our new blog on insulin production cost. With a small scale production system no bigger than a dining table, 13,000 people with diabetes could be served and get insulin at $6/vial! "

Someone doing a Mass Effect charity marathon for the Wet'suwet'en resistance to the Canadian government

https://www.twitch.tv/gutiangang

The nazi doth protest too much, methinks. Also, NICE SEALIONING BRO.

I often find, on these here Masto-places, that a good measure of a person's worth is how they respond to seeing @GinnyMcQueen 's name pop up.

(Also this person was from fosstodon which I hadn't realised was A Bad Place. I wasn't following them, but have blocked the instance now regardless because I have vague recollections of seeing other dubious content from that instance.)

Anyway, yeah, Punch Nazis Always.

linux troubleshooting 101

this podcast fucking sucks. what even is this show. “conference call?” i’m turning it off

Hey, Sundog here to remind you that this time of year is obviously super stressful for lots of folk for lots of reasons.

If one of your reasons is because your family invokes bad feels in whole or in part, I would like you to know that families are things you make, not things forced upon you, and you get to choose your own. You don't have to feel guilty for not fitting into the one that got you first; just make sure you find the one that fits you best.

Much love to each of you, and to the families you find, form, and feed!