It might or might not:

• arrive
• work
• be genuine
• be fit for purpose

That’s it!? That’s the entire article? The list of authors is longer than the text! Did they write one sentence each and call it done?

In my experience, it’s always been this bad. However, as the world becomes more connected, it becomes easier to find systems to break into and easier to find ways to break in. It’s only recently that most countries have enacted legislation to enforce mandatory reporting of data breaches, and so we hear more about them.

Cyber security has always been (and probably always will be) an arms race between those who want to secure data and those who want to steal it. As the value and usefulness of data goes up, so does the desire of the bad guys to steal it. Identity theft and just plain ransoming of data are only ever going to increase.

Use:

• a password manager
• a different random password or pass phrase for every site
• a different random email address for each site (Apple’s “Hide my Email”; Firefox Relay; DuckDuckGo mail; 33mail, for example)
• different false details as much as possible for every site

Don’t:

• Use the same details (name, password, email address) on every site
• use your real details if you can possibly avoid it. If you must, misspell your details (“Johhn Smith”, “1 Maiin Street”) so that you can track the misuse of your data.

Lollies, or a lolly.

School kids are getting bullied for using Android phones

That’s a people problem, not a market-share problem. From experience, kids will always find something to bully others about — if it’s not the colour of the bubbles, it’s something else: the brand of shoes they wear, the suburb they live in, the sport they play (or don’t play). Bullies will do what they do.

Why would I care what other people are listening to?

“It’s alive!”

Leigh put the Polish bough over his knee but couldn’t polish it. “What’s the use!” he coughed.

Saluton!

Here you go:

https://youtu.be/SQjoDV6vDaI

You get tired.

Large Language Models aren’t AI, they’re closer to “predictive text”, like that game where you make sentences by choosing the first word from your phone’s autocorrect:

“The word you want the word you like and then the next sentence you choose to read the next sentence from your phone’s keyboard”.

Sometimes it almost seems like there could be an intelligence behind it, but it’s really just word association.

All this “training” data provides is a “better” or “more plausible” method of predicting which words to string together to appear to make a useful sentence.

“Oh no! anyway…”

Seriously? She almost vomited because the photos didn’t match? Give me a fucking break!

Alternative to chemotherapy

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BioNTech plans cancer vaccines before 2030

26.11.2023 | 12:01

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Can we hope for an alternative to chemotherapy in the fight against cancer soon? The head of the vaccine manufacturer BioNTech expects a vaccine before 2030.

BioNTech boss Ugur Sahin says: “We want to develop cancer immunotherapies so that the body’s own defense system can fight cancer.” (Archive image)

Source: dpa

In the fight against cancer, there could soon be hope for those affected. The vaccine manufacturer BioNTech assumes that the first tailor-made mRNA-based vaccines against cancer could be approved within the next few years. BioNTech boss Ugur Sahin said [to] “Bild am Sonntag”:

We expect that our first mRNA-based cancer vaccines can be approved before 2030.

Ugur Sahin, BioNTech

In addition, it is planned to have “study data available for various other therapeutic approaches in the years 2025 to 2029.” If they are positive, approval is possible according to the assessment of the BioNTech boss.

Through mRNA, the immune system should learn to recognize “high-personal” cancer cells and then fight them specifically. What is the current state of research?

Cancer therapy: BioNTech relies on the body’s own defense system

Specifically, BioNTech’s approach provides for cancer immunotherapy in which the body’s own defense system can fight cancer.

“We believe that this is one of the central elements to control cancer in the long term or ideally to be able to cure it.” In addition, there are already immunotherapies against various types of cancer in clinical development, explains Sahin and further explains:

For example, in breast cancer in the metastatic stage, in colon cancer after surgery, i.e. in the adjuvant stage, as well as in pancreatic cancer and lung cancer.

Prostate cancer is well curable if it is detected in time. This is possible with the so-called PSA value, which in Germany, however, is not paid by the health insurance companies.

BioNTech wants to provide individualized vaccine

The aim of BioNTech is to set up a company in such a way that it can technologically map all the necessary steps of a therapy within a short time. The BioNTech founder explains:

The goal is: We receive a blood and tumor sample of the patient and after four weeks we provide the individualized vaccine.

This should ideally be possible for tens of thousands of patients a year.

BioNTech had each made billions in profits in the past two years from proceeds from the vaccine against the coronavirus and now wants to promote the development of therapies, for example against cancer.

Source: ZDF

There’s no way to send feedback, or to log a fault with the machine, so the store operators have to deal with every single exception manually, over and over, instead of getting the thing fixed.

• “Place your bags in bagging area” (ok, done)
• “Unexpected item in bagging area” (How can it be unexpected, you just told me to put my bags there. Operator logs in and clears fault)
• (remove bags) “item removed from bagging area” (so you want me to put my bags there, but you don’t, but you do. Operator logs in and clears fault)
• “We couldn’t scan the last item” (yes you could, it’s on the screen there. But if I take it back and scan it again, I get “item removed” and then it won’t scan it again. Operator logs in and clears fault)
• “unexpected item in bagging area (again)”. (So I successfully scanned the thing, but you didn’t expect me to put it in the bagging area? Where should it put it instead? Operator logged in and clears fault)
• “have you forgotten to scan something?” (No, that’s my walking stick and the extra bags I brought that I didn’t actually need after all. Operator logs in and clears fault)

Does anyone actually test these things before installing them at the stores? Does anyone review the faults to see how to improve the scanning and item recognition? Are you really creating a better customer experience by having half a dozen customers holding up the line while waiting for the operator to come and clear a fault?

I (and other people) take a full cart through when the self checkouts are the only ones open. Asking at the service counter for a checkout to be opened, they just say “use the self checkout”. They don’t care if there’s a long line, or if people have to wait, so long as they can get away without paying people to run a checkout. I suspect that most supermarkets would completely do away with people at checkouts if they could.

I’ve never used an ass straw, is it very different to just using your tongue?

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