Guenter GR: "The best Long Covid study to date has now been published, with surprising results that enable new therapeutic approaches. In simple terms: Long Covid is caused (in the areas studied) by autoantibodies in the blood, which then attack very important parts of the brain and can actually explain all the symptoms."

"Key insight: Long Covid patients must absolutely not donate blood, because it appears to be transmissible via those autoantibodies in the blood!"

Article: https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/06/02/autoimmune-long-covid-subset/

Study: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(26)00509-X

X source: https://x.com/GrGuenter/status/2064237168898216176

SMD soldering using the sun.

it works astonishingly well. the trick is to de-focus the spot and light up the whole PCB. first we failed by heating the metal plate underneath with a highly focused spot. but that led to accidentally burnt PCB spots at corners and didn't melt the paste.

it works so much better than using a hot plate, so I officially declare it state of the art as of today.

#SMD #soldering #solar #solarpunk #flwr #anal0g_flow3r #sks2026

Welcome to streamer school, based on having watched too many streams with sound FAR too quiet, and seen too many guides and articles that are wrong, *here* is where your audio should be.

Keep your voice within the red section on OBS without smashing the top end. Use a compressor to keep it there.

Don't let your game go into the amber section (or if it does, not often). If you use music instead of a game, put that a little lower than you would a game.

#streaming #twitch

As a KWin developer and KDE's accessibility engineer...

https://nocoffei.com/?p=451

This is a problem. We need to solve it. Fast.

can some of you please be nice more often
i don't expect saints on the internet but there is no requirement that you be mean to people

"Du kannst doch nicht die #AfD mit der NSDAP vergleichen. Das ist eine Verharmlosung ...!"

Doch, kann ich!
Die AfD ist vergleichbar mit der NSDAP um 1930.
Die sind auch nicht gleich mordend durch die Straßen gezogen. Das kam später, als sie nicht mehr zu stoppen waren.

Sie haben sich das Mäntelchen des "bürgerlichen" übergeworfen - wie die AfD.

Richtig übel wurde es erst, als die Nazis an der Macht waren!
Wollen wir wirklich warten, bis die Nazis wieder an der Macht sind, bevor wir reagieren?

Have you ever wondered "What if Zelda II, but gay"?

Check out Enigma Heart! We've got:

- Sword lesbian
- Found family
- Giant ice woman who may or may not step on you
- Cow

- And oh yeah -- A PLAYABLE DEMO, FINALLY!

Get it now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/

#GameDev #IndieGame #IndieDev #EnigmaHeart #PixelArt #Zelda #Zelda2

There are several proposals for a first version of an LLM policy for the Rust project, which haven't even been accepted/merged yet, and yet there are now pro-AI people outraged because we're banning AI, and anti-AI people outraged because we're allowing AI. What a day. :)

I promise you many of us care very deeply about the ethical impacts of AI. The project is not banning any discussion topics, but we do want to keep some GitHub threads focussed to avoid them derailing into discussions we're already having in other places.

A scary quick calculation: there are 10,375 Starlink satellites in orbit https://planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html, all coming down within 5 years.

That's an *average* of 5 or 6 a day for the next 5 years. And the v2's are bigger than the v1's. v2's are (conservatively) 1000kg and (conservatively) half aluminum. That's 2.5-3 tonnes of aluminum per day. 8 times the natural infall rate of aluminum (and there's lots of other scary things like lithium). What will that do to our atmosphere?

SpaceX is awful.

#Deepfakes are everywhere, but #DigitalForensics investigators are fighting back:

🌍 https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

She is soooo awesome <3

How senior engineers are *really* made
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0MS-TZN1OE

Please boycott JK Rowling. I do not have the health to listen to defenders of Potter on why they won't boycott. Take that somewhere else please.

For those boycotting, here are alternative worlds from authors who are supportive of marginalized people:

* Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
* Emelan series by Tamora Pierce
* Akata Witch series by Nnedi Okorafor
* Animorphs series by Katherine Applegate
* Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
* Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

Share others below!

TIL crows, starlings and similar birds only *look* black to us — they’re actually very colorful in ways human eyes are unable to perceive. 🤯

Remember that next time people can’t see your “colors”.

Some colors just require different eyes.

Most of the streets in my neighborhood are paved red, which in NL means “full-width dual bike/car, cars are to take the bikes seriously”

Just saw a toddler wheeling down the middle of the street at 0.1kph with an ever-growing parade escort behind him

"Trans children have such awful lives, isn't it better for them to not suffer?"

Transness is actually really awesome. It's the transphobia that sucks. If everyone responded to trans kids coming out with "thanks for telling me, I love you" and being affirming, trans kids would have GREAT childhoods.

When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:

• Official identification of every adult using social media.

• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.

• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.

• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.

• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.

• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.

• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.

• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.

• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.

• The list goes on and on.

This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.

Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.

Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.

The future depends on us.

#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

as some of you know, I was raised in a fundamentalist proto-maga environment, and so I have extensive first hand experience with cognitive dissonance and cult tactics

I wanted to point out that if someone wildly disagrees with you: they’re not lying. No matter how stupid or obviously wrong you think their take is, they’re not lying to you about what they believe; almost no-one does that.

To be clear, I’m not talking about national politicians or billionaires or obvious influence campaign bots. I’m talking about real, normal people that you know perfectly well are real, normal people but their take is so ridiculous or extreme to you that you feel tempted to conclude they’re lying.

There are real, actual reasons they believe those things and real, actual reasons they feel the need to tell you about it. If you can’t engage with that, you’ve not only already lost any chance of convincing them, but you’re setting yourself up to believe patently untrue things yourself, because you have taught yourself to shut down contrary thoughts with “they’re lying.”

accepting that the people I was told were agents of Satan *weren’t lying about their beliefs just to hurt me* is a big part of how I got out of fundamentalism.

Brutal.

When Microsoft acquired GitHub.

Saw an article about this that linked to a video on another platform. I don't love posting content from elsewhere, but I will make exceptions....