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FDA mandates how recalls happen, pharmaceutical or medical device.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarterEnglish
4·2 months agoI made good money off nvidia. Not going to be a bag holder.
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World News@lemmy.world•Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UKEnglish
1·3 months agoOften times it’s cheaper to add the label than pay for the product testing in a lab.
piecat@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UKEnglish
3·3 months agoIt’s theoretically possible, some experts think no level of radiation is “safe”. Yet, it’s so improbable that the risk of developing cancer from a single banana is indistinguishable from background noise. You get a far higher dose of radiation just from living on earth.
This fun infographic from xkcd shows a comparison of doses, and just how low a banana ranks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose#/media/File:Radiation_Dose_Chart_by_Xkcd.png
It would have to be the “perfect shot” of a particle hitting a cell to cause DNA damage that wasn’t repairable. And you would need to be extremely immunocompromised.
If you were in such a position to get cancer from eating a single banana, you would likely already get it from living life.
piecat@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Airports across North America hacked to play pro-Palestine, anti-Trump messagesEnglish
4·3 months agoI remember the “bleach and ammonia diamonds”. Fucked up
piecat@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and mindsEnglish
4·3 months agoPTFE and some others are considered chemically inert. Other PFAS are mostly chemically inert.
Carbon-fluorine bonds are extremely strong. If these weren’t mostly chemically inert, they wouldn’t be “forever” chemicals. They would readily degrade and it wouldn’t be an issue.
piecat@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and mindsEnglish
17·3 months agoAsbestos is chemically inert, as are PFAS, but both are understood to be pretty bad for you
piecat@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’English
81·3 months agofreedomadvocate
So that was a lie
piecat@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle BooksEnglish
4·4 months agoLog2(8.2billion) is about 33. That means if each word only had 1 synonym, you only need to change 33 words to uniquely identify who was responsible.
21 words need to change if each has 3 options. 17 words for 4 options.
piecat@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organizationEnglish
1·4 months agoI just watched a video of an interview with an FBI agent. That was literally what white supremicists say. “Do you support fascism? No? Then you’re antifa”
piecat@lemmy.worldto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Can my school spy on my desktop during an at-home quiz?
4·4 months agoHonestly, includes peripherals. USB storage devices at a minimum.
piecat@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification lawsEnglish
5·5 months agoAll they have to do is send a few crews with log dipoles or yagis. Take a few operators down and charge them with terrorism or something and a critical mass will stop using it.
We have the tech for drones sweeping everything everywhere with sensors. Cameras, radios, microphones, IR…
piecat@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers toldEnglish
1·5 months ago“Stop using ML for everything”
I see no other way to drink from the firehose. We’re talking nationstate level resources.
piecat@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers toldEnglish
1·5 months agoWhy do you think the telecoms got away with stalling upgrades and fiber roll outs for so long?
piecat@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers toldEnglish
1·5 months agoCan’t it be detected? I imagine ML could be used to automate to some extent.
piecat@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers toldEnglish
4·5 months agoDead drop USBs for file sharing?
piecat@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers toldEnglish
9·5 months agoGood news, we closed that pesky loophole by banning encryption without backdoors.
If they can’t decode it, you better be ready to explain exactly what those bytes were!
piecat@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.English
7·5 months agoWe’ve done it before.
Back when reddit was young, before social media apps captured the content. It just doesn’t matter now. Critical mass of the internet is corporations.

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