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Cake day: June 28th, 2024

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  • Cultural and media affairs will be steered by Wolfram Weimer, a well-known journalist and publisher

    Meme of Axel Springer awarding a medal to Axel Springer

    (The guy used to be editor in chief of Welt, which belongs to the same infamous Axel Springer publishing house as Politico)

    Just so everyone knows what kind of guy this is, I’ll just go and translate a direct quote of his from 2018, that is found on his German Wikipedia article:

    The term “climate denier” has been used by red-green (note: this refers to Social Democrats and the Green party) people for years to stigmatize people that dare to doubt the theory of man-made climate change in its claim to be absolute. Thee term “climate denier” is meant to kill open discussion because it is reminiscent of “Holocaust denier”.



  • +1 for Home Assistant

    I have it running on a Pi 5 (although a Pi 4 is more then enough), with a 15€ USB ZigBee antenna from AliExpress (to connect IKEA devices).

    The best thing about it is that it seamlessly integrates all devices with each other, so you can use cheap ZigBee buttons to control your Philipps Hue lightbulbs, for example.







  • bob_lemon@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSonic the Rule
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    29 days ago

    This one is actually a big of a tragic coincidence. A lot of genes are first discovered in a certain type of fruit fly (drosophilia melanogaster), which are excellent for this because of the low amount of gene redundancy and high reproduction rate.

    There’s a series of genes that cause the fruit fly to have little spikes in their body, making them look a bit like hedgehogs. One of those was jokingly called sonic.

    The problem is that this gene is present in humans, too, and has since been linked to severe brain deformities. As you can imagine, telling people that their child has a severe brain defect because of the sonic hedgehog gene is kind of problematic (Which is why it’s now commonly only called SHH).

    There seem to be newer naming conventions that should prevent this kind of issue in the future.

    There’s an episode of Let’s Learn Everything about this fruit fly: Episode 78