marathon @marathon0@qoto.org

I don't have time to do it, but here is an appeal for #help from someone I know:

> #Help wanted: Code review for Mindfulness at the computer
Hi all, the design is now finally complete for the application Mindfulness at the computer which i have been working on as a hobby project for a long time. I’d like to do a #codereview and could use help from people experienced with one or both of the following:
- #Python (for #review of #backend or #frontend #code)
- #Qt, or #gui applications in general (for review of frontend code)
Are you willing to help out, or do you know of any programmers who could be interested?

https://gitlab.com/mindfulness-at-the-computer/mindfulness-at-the-computer/

Tried watching #Netflix's new show about the last #BlockBuster, especially because I like a number of the actors in it.

But they might as well just call it "Stereotypes: The Show".

It's *really* bad.

Phh, seeing people barging in from the birdsite and getting all edgy and snarky about the existing culture here is really annoying!

I could just block them all (and I still may); but is there a client that lets me automatically add a "CW: Jerk" to any post of theirs I happen across?

Modeling study using #Covid19 pandemic data from 152 countries

"Although the focus of this work is retrospective, considering the merits and consequences of a more equitable sharing of vaccine between nations, conclusions can be drawn about national and international policies going forward. The message for any emerging outbreak is clear: distributing vaccines across the globe proportional to need, rather than to wealth, will have beneficial effects for all."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02064-y#Sec3

"Schools across Uganda will close two weeks before the scheduled end of term after 23 Ebola cases were confirmed among pupils, including eight children who died.

Education Minister Janet Kataha Museveni said on Tuesday that the cabinet had taken the decision to close preschools, primary schools and secondary schools on November 25 because densely packed classrooms were making students highly vulnerable to infection."
#Ebola

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/8/uganda-to-close-schools-early-after-eight-children-die-of-ebola

I thought I had avoided the dreaded Covid-19 until a month or two back when I developed a hacking cough that lasted for 4 - 5 days and I felt a bit off colour. A Lateral flow test was positive so I kept my head down for a week or so. After 7 days I was testing -ve every day for 3 days so I considered myself safe to venture out (masked of course). I didn't get a proper professional test as to do so would have meant taking a bus into town thus putting a bus full of people at risk!

It was all over comfortably within a week except that I experienced what I believe was the dreaded brain fog quite noticeably. For example: I'd be looking at the computer and thinking "I need to create a Word document". It would then take me anything up to 30 seconds to figure out how to do that. That sort of fogginess!!! (I used to be a computer programmer so creating a Word document is not alien to me at all).

Thankfully, my full faculties seem to have returned to me but it was getting rather scary for a while!

Has anyone experienced similar symptoms?

Arctic ice volume continues to go up in the monthly report.
https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2022/11/arctic-ice-volume-marches-to-different.html

This is the most uncontroversial chart. You don't have to extrapolate, but be happy for the polar bears.