arteteco @arteteco@qoto.org

#coronavirus update from #italy : Even here in the South is now red code: most places are closed, university, schools etc. That's ok.
We can't assembly in groups of people, and we basically have to stay at home.
I can live with that. It's a medical emergency.

University courses will continue online, using Microsoft TEAMS.
Here is where I snap.

G'day y'all, has anyone got experience with #moodlenet (moodle.net), has opinions or anything about it?

I've never done this before, but I set up a spare laptop to donate computing power to research. I used #FAH (foldingathome.org)

Does anyone do this and have some insights and opinion on the best way to do it?
I've seen also BOINC is good and let you choose what to donate to, but I've no time atm to get deeper into it.

Anyway, in case you are not a tech, it was dead easy and it took me literally 5 minutes while drinking an orange juice.

I'm not sure I like having people in the house, it makes me quite self conscious about stuff that alone would feel just like normal.

I was standing in my underwear eating warm unsalted popcorn, one by one, looking at that nice big cup full of them, and my sister came in the kitchen.

What was a nice moment of me thinking about how to improve my popcorn and what to make of the day turned into having to explain what I was doing and aggressively stating "now that's **my** kitchen and if I like to hang hair on the fridge I'll just do that."

Just couple more days, then she'll be off.

Now, that's an interesting #psychology study.

A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder.

DM me if you want the PDF and don't have access to ResearchGate or anything

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/proposal-to-classify-happiness-as-a-psychiatric-disorder/98D0933E2287B957BC253348AB6FA6A8

Watching my tty doing the dist-upgrade, and getting excited when it asks me something like what my keymap should be because it feels like a high point of someone caring for my opinion in the past month or so.

Meanwhile, playing the #banjo, stuffed with a pijama in the drum, because if I feel dull and plain I don't see why it should sound any different.

Thanks mastodon, this low point in my life is no longer undocumented

seems like #covid has arrived in my city too (Naples). One unconfirmed case, University closed for a few days, people buying tons of canned food and stuff to self-quarantine themselves at home.

Still, no one is buying pasta liscia, at least that's what they say.

Gosh, it's the #dist-upgrade time of my life again. That's like the time in a relationship when you are seriously in doubt about how much you can trust your partner.

#debian, don't fail me

A very interesting article I just read.
Did you know that social hymenoptera are pretty important for the yeast biodiversity too?
They host Saccharomyces and other yeasts in their intestine, and act as basic overwintering site, protecting the yeast genetic biodiversity and therefore our fermented food

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3421210/

#fungi #evolution #entomology #nature

Smart people, do you know the answer to this?

The hair are basically dead cells. How comes when you have a better diet they look better then? And not just from the base but the whole hair length?

Today I was talking to some people, you know, some homeopath-tarots kind of folk.
One of them said that hair are alive like branches, I said well actually it's just dead cells, and I've been asked this

Just applied for a #job today, after about a year of studying only.

I'm relaxed about it, though, a lot of people applied, the chances of getting hired are significantly low.

remember, fellow #banjo players: always remove your finger picks before taking a number 2.

Or play the #clawhammer for added safety

Seems like most of my hobbies are pretty solitary. Play #music , #gardening , #singing, catching a cold...
I should look for something that does put me in connection with other human beings, so I don't have to choose between seeing people and doing stuff I love.

But you can't just pick a #hobby now, can you? It's more like something you really desire to do and you give in, not like choosing from a catalogue of "possibly interesting activities".

Hard stuff life.

While looking around for a paper in conservation biology, I stumbled upon this study about the coral associated marine fungi. I was very interested, may it be that #fungi can ride the popularity of #coral in some #research line?

Could that even mean... I'll find a job one day?

Keypoints for the layman:
we didn't know many of the species (as it is often the case for fungi, especially marine ones)

Many overlap with the ones found in sponges

Only a few, like 11 species (or OTUs) are likely to be really associate in a symbiosis

What do they do there? No fucking clue.

#taxonomy #biology

https://www.nature.com/articles/ismej2011193

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