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FDA grants full approval to new Alzheimer's drug meant to slow disease in c/science

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds good but:

Dr. Alberto Espay, a neurologist at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, said that the 27% slowing in the progression of the illness falls below the threshold of what would be "noticeable" to a patient.

“The odds for brain swelling and hemorrhage are far higher than any actual improvement,” said Espay, who launched a petition in June calling for the Alzheimer’s treatment to not get full approval.

France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones in c/technology

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone knows how they going to technically implement this?

France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people in c/world

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How would they technically implement this?

Looking for suggestions in c/[email protected]

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about the Murderbot Series? I gues u already red The Martian, Ready Player One etc.? Maybe Children of time?

Lemmy and GDPR - What is the current state? in c/[email protected]

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 7 points 1 year ago

Best answer so far thank you!

YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private in c/youshouldknow

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What does this mean for admins regarding GDPR? Is lemmy still not GDPR complient? Are there options in place if users request their data?

An issue has already been raised: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1347

Lemmy.world updated to 0.18.1-rc in c/lemmyworld

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 1 points 1 year ago

Same, first time since 24h I can open lemmy.world community in Jerboa without being greeted with a blank screen :-(

feature request/bug in c/[email protected]

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

back to the roots I guess ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Who needs fancy GIFs anyway (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

*Permanently Deleted* in c/[email protected]

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't try other apps but since the update on lemmy.world posts and comments often don't load.... Its not consistent but it happens a lot :(

Anyway Im sure it will get better 👍

YSK: Subscriber count on communities only show the numbers of users subscribed from your specific instance. The real number might be much larger than you think. in c/youshouldknow

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there plans to display the actual numer or is it just not possible becaus of the underlying protocol?

YSK: While you're on Lemmy/Kbin/Fediverse, you're not "the product" but you're also not "the customer". in c/youshouldknow

[–] NewBrainWhoThis 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that would be the best. But as we have seen, users are drawn to the instances with the most users :/