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🔗 There’s Something in the Air stevebheadteacher.wordpress.co…

Imagine every school in the country was found to have Legionella in its water supply.

Imagine that the bacteria in the water was making pupils and staff ill….in every single school….every single day.

Imagine that children and adults in every school were routinely developing a cough, high temperature, shortness of breath, chest pain, and other flu-like symptoms.

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@maskup @pandemicene

#CovidIsAirborne

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reminder to please uspol your shit

yes, still, and especially nowadays

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Mutualaid, begpost, appliances and furniture

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This stone wall marks the border between England and Scotland on the Pennine way. Near Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders. #hills #nature #border #scotland #england #northumberland

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Norwegen Throwback. Auf 590m Höhe über Svolvær, auf dem Bergrücken des Fløya, werden Schafe zu unserer fluffigen Gesellschaft. Eine der Sehnsuchtsexpeditionen der Reise. Link zu unseren Reiseskizzen nach Lofoten in der Bio.

#umhergeschweift #travel #midnightsun #arctic #norway #lofoten





gup.pe groups are officially dead: github.com/immers-space/guppe/…

We already have @maskup @pandemicene @askazero @thezeroes, but if there are any other covid-related ones you'd like created, please PM me

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$137 🇺🇸 👀

Honeywell North Primair PA700 PAPR Kit fishersci.com/shop/products/pa…



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I have created the perfect JavaScript data type: a value that is both an object, a function, and a promise. All at the same time!

#JavaScript



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👋 greetings from Florida 👋
🥰 have a supercalifragilistic day 🥰
🙏 be kind to one another 🙏
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Happy 2nd birthday to the Chaos Kittens Percy & Poppy! May they long continue their reign of terror over our household!
#CatsOfMastodon #Fedicats





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Concept for discussion: Replacing HTTP Signatures with Bearer Tokens for ActivityPub Federation
Curious what other people think about this idea. What if federation security was re-worked to use target-assigned bearer tokens to authenticate GET/POST requests? This would remove the need for complicated signing schemes and reduce system load under heavy traffic bursts (as no cryptography is required).

A basic implementation could look like this:1. When instance A (a.example.com) first attempts to federate with instance B (b.example.com), a POST request is made to a dedicated registration endpoint. (for discussion, we'll say it's https://b.example.com/activity-pub/register-instance). This request includes fields necessary for verification, including the source domain name, target domain name, and a securely-generated verification token. Other metadata could be included to allow instance B to selectively allow/prohibit federation based on other criteria, but this is optional.
2. Instance B makes a POST request back to a dedicated verification endpoint on instance A (for discussion, we'll say it's https://a.example.com/activity-pub/verify-registration). This request must include the target domain name and verification token provided in step 2.
3. Instance A checks the verification token (and verify that it matches the target domain name) and return a successful value. The verification code must be invalidated after this call!4. Instance B, after verifying instance A's request, returns a securely-generated federation key back to instance A. This federation key is a bearer token used to authenticate all requests from instance A to instance B. This key must be unique to instance A!5. Instance A completes the original request with the Authorization header set to Bearer {federation_key}.
6. Instance B receives the request, detects the federation key, and checks it against the list of registered instances.
7. If the key does not exist or A has been defederated, then a 403 Forbidden error is returned.
8. If the key is expired or revoked, then 401 Unauthorized error is returned. Upon receiving a 401 error, instance A should start over from step 1 to re-authenticate and complete the request with a new token. This process should not be repeated for recursive failures!9. If the key is approved, then a 200 OK response or 202 Accepted response is returned, and A can consider the request as successful.

Advantages versus HTTP Signatures:- No cryptography requirements.
- Simple logic, no edge cases around HTTP query parameters or header order.
- Equally effective for all request types.
- Keys can be easily revoked or rotated.
- Supports authorized fetch and defederation use cases "by default".

Disadvantages versus HTTP Signatures:- Breaks the actor model - instances are required as a first-class concept. (but really, the actor model is basically dead already. you can't even federate reliably without a WebFinger server, at minimum.)
- Requires multi-request "handshake" before communication. (but this is already required in practice, since a signature can't be validated without first requesting the signing actor.)
- Out-of-band protocol - communication can't happen over ActivityPub / ActivityStreams because this is a prerequisite to authenticate any request. (but again, we already require WebFinger and some software requires NodeInfo for full support.)

So, what are your thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? Did I miss something? Please let me know, I welcome replies here!

#ActivityPub #AP #Federation

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CW: Mental support, parent abuse, Long-month Hiatus

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:ci_boost_request:​ Boost for federation? (/ instance stress test)


🔗 Performance study of microplastic inhalation risk posed by wearing masks (2020) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…

Wearing an N95 mask reduces the inhalation risk of spherical-type microplastics by 25.5 times compared with not wearing a mask.

Wearing low-quality masks for longer than 4 h can pose higher fiber-like microplastic inhalation risk than not wearing a mask. When the masks are reused for a long time, only N95 respirators pose less fiber-like microplastic inhalation risk compared with not wearing a mask.


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🔗 Wearing a mask while exercising indoors improves lung function -- masks not only help protect wearers from virus transmission, but improve the exercise experience in both dry and cold conditions ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/02/w…

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The number of people who went from gobsmacked to curious after I told them I always wear a mask while riding my bike is, well, not that high, but still. Most just avoid asking me about masking because reasons.

But yeah, I'd never go back. way more comfortable breathing even in clear air conditions, and orders of magnitude more comfortable in the cold.

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hey Covid-Competent, well-informed folks! I have a favour to ask!

has anyone bookmarked a good reference for what % of SARS-CoV-2 cases are due to fomite transmission?

the US CDC was at one point saying:

each contact with a contaminated surface has less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection [1]


but that's not a % of infections, it's per contact with contaminated surface. That's supported a few ways, eg. by a sampling that included counting touchpoints:

The estimated risk of infection from touching a contaminated surface was low (less than 5 in 10,000) by quantitative microbial risk assessment [2]


but that study didn't actually culture virus, they checked RNA levels and counted touches (and again, is per contaminated touch, not per case)

Try as I might, I can't actually find a grounded estimate of how many actual infections have been fomite-driven at any point in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

[1] archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/co…
[2] pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…

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#SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCompetent #AirborneAware

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Took a quick look and this is the best I could find. The others kind of vague/hand wavey "it lasts on surfaces for x days" stuff

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.e…

German summary pointed out big picture which is that you can find it on surfaces but transmission is very inefficient.

bfr.bund.de/en/service/frequen…

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@jmcrookston
And the virus won't go through the skin, so for transmission people first need to touch their mouth, inside of their nose or eyes. Maybe some transmission is possible by first touching food and eating it? Then there is still the acid of the stomach. It all does not sound like very efficient transmission if you can also just breathe it in.

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:questionbox: :vflex: 🇺🇸 🧑‍⚖️

Does anyone have recommendations for a USian called for jury duty if they're prevented from masking up?

@askazero @maskup

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#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #StillMasking #CovidIsAirborne

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Thanks everyone for your responses!! 🙌 ✊

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i havent gotten a mutual aid donation in almost two weeks. fuck these bots, i need rent, you know im real because my reputation precedes me.

$366/2500

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#mutualaid #transcrowdfund



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RE: fedi meta / drama, ranty, the things I wish I could say

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🔗 “I pretty much haven't worked since 2020”: How the effects of Long COVID have harmed professional musicians and DJs musicradar.com/music-industry/…

@pandemicene

#longCovid

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Since people have asked about it, I now have a Ko-fi page where you can donate to help pay my bills or subscribe to support my fediverse work. No one should feel pressured or obligated to contribute, but it will certainly be appreciated! 💙


“One thing that can make a significant difference in reducing illness is masking,”

“While it received mixed reactions...one of the greatest missed opportunities in public health...has been acknowledging the effectiveness of masks at reducing spread of airborne illness.”


stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360735673/…

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