I've been using rclone a lot recently. If you still don't have it in your toolbox, I definitely recommend checking it out. In the simplest sense it can be described as "rsync for cloud storage" (it supports over 70 cloud storage providers without having to install their crappy apps), but it can also do bidirectional synchronization, encryption, mounting cloud storage using FUSE, and more.

https://rclone.org

#tools #cloud #linux #unix #macos #productivy

Frailty in older adults

Assessing older patients for #frailty enables clinicians to tailor clinical #care, including decisions about stressful treatments.

#Geriatrics #Medicine #Aging #MedMastodon

http://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMra2301292

So that's that: Firefox is now the only useful browser in the world.

Meanwhile, Google controls nearly the entire web browser market, far more than Microsoft ever did at the height of the original browser wars.

Using Chromium based products makes you less safe.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/browsing/google-pulls-the-plug-on-ublock-origin

edit: to flesh this out a bit more, here is gorhill's FAQ for UBOL https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)

#chrome #chromium #manifestv3 #firefox

Excerpts from a strongly worded piece published by The Irish Times...
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The sheer magnitude of the biodiversity crisis is laid bare in the biannual Living Planet Index compiled by the World Wildlife Fund. Their latest report from 2022 showed there was a 69% collapse in monitored wildlife populations since 1970.

In 2018, when the decline was “only” 60%, their report lambasted “exploding human consumption” as “the driving force behind the unprecedented planetary change we are witnessing, through the increased demand for energy, land and water.”

However, these reports do not delve into why consumption of land and resources has exploded in this time. Anna Pigott, a lecturer in human geography at Swansea University in Wales, criticises WWF for failing to identify capitalism as the crucial link between galloping levels of consumption and the destruction of nature.

“By naming capitalism as a root cause,” says Pigott, “we identify a particular set of practices and ideas that are by no means permanent nor inherent to the condition of being human” and that “if we don’t name it, we can’t tackle it.”

If capitalism is the overriding driver of runaway consumption of resources, and so the collapse of biological systems, it is remarkable how it has been nearly absent in debates around the ecological crisis.

Curtailing consumption is the conversation nobody wants to have. Talk of how we can transition to a post-capitalist society has not yet made it into mainstream debate. Yet, there is no escaping these issues if there is to be a safe and equitable future for everyone on this planet.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2024/08/08/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-but-curtailing-it-is-the-discussion-nobody-wants-to-have/

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #BioDiversity #Capitalism #Degrowth

386 students in New Orleans got $200 a month in basic income. As a result, they missed fewer days of school, their reading test scores grew by nearly double those of the control group, and they enjoyed more financial stability than the control group.

https://www.nola.com/news/education/guaranteed-income-study-expands-to-more-high-schoolers/article_b1636f56-5692-11ef-97bd-57631bf1517c.html

New @washingtonpost piece from @willoremus with new @wearenew_public research demonstrating what it looks like when local social media is done right -- and how important business, moderation and design choices are in creating a lot of the toxic conversations today. Things really don't have to be this way!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/10/front-porch-forum-vermont-research-new-public/

We launched Building a Free Internet of the Future, a new monthly series of interviews with NGI Zero @NGIZero grantees. With funding from the European Commission @EUCommission, NGI Zero supports open source, open data, open hardware and open standards projects.

We begin the series with an interview with @cryptpad: "These grants were really crucial in getting CryptPad off the ground."

Full interview: https://www.apc.org/node/40252