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AI used to predict potential new antibiotics in groundbreaking study: Algorithm to mine ‘the entirety of the microbial diversity’ on Earth, speeding up antibiotic resistance research. in c/futurology@futurology.today

[–] MaximilianKohler@futurology.today 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

More antibiotics is not the solution. We need to be moving away from antibiotics, and drastically decreasing their use/overuse.

While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it's gone you can't get it back.
https://humanmicrobiome.info/antibiotics/

JULY '24 UPDATE - we have 40% of our total: Could you help support futurology.today with small contributions to our server costs? in c/futurology@futurology.today

[–] MaximilianKohler@futurology.today 3 points 7 months ago

Where are you hosting this? Hetzner has very good prices. I'm running multiple websites (including a forum) on a $5/mo server, using Centmin Mod.

I agree with the other suggestion to put up a link to Open Collective payments or another similar one. There are lots, if you need I can list some.

OpenAI and Reddit Partnership in c/futurology@futurology.today

[–] MaximilianKohler@futurology.today 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Oh my god, this is horrible news. Reddit is a horrible website and only getting worse. OpenAI promoting them and using their garbage content to train their AI systems is alarming. This is so dystopian.

And of course it always leads back to money:

Sam Altman is a shareholder in Reddit

An economist says most global population growth estimates are far too high, the data shows population peaking around 2060, and at 2.2 the global fertility rate may already be below replacement rate in c/futurology@futurology.today

[–] MaximilianKohler@futurology.today 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, I definitely expect the human lifespan and health span to continue to increase as the science of longevity advances.

An economist says most global population growth estimates are far too high, the data shows population peaking around 2060, and at 2.2 the global fertility rate may already be below replacement rate in c/futurology@futurology.today

[–] MaximilianKohler@futurology.today 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Great news. I'm looking forward to living in a world with less than a billion people.

Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists in c/futurology@futurology.today

[–] MaximilianKohler@futurology.today 1 points 11 months ago

You missed the whole point of the article.

Why do user profiles have different content/history depending on which instance you view them from? And possible bug with searching in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] MaximilianKohler@futurology.today 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I may not be understanding correctly, but that seems like a huge downside to the current implementation of federation, and especially hurts new and small instances?

Using the user's profile example in the OP, one of them doesn't have comments from !lemmy.world/c/politics, so that means that no one on futurology.today has subscribed to /c/politics, and no results will show until someone does?

I see that https://futurology.today/c/politics@lemmy.world loads but the posts are all days old and there's no "top day".

Is is possible to see who upvoted/downvoted a specific comment? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] MaximilianKohler@futurology.today 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, it's possible via kbin.social.

kbin lets you see who voted for what https://lemmy.world/post/3027601

Open any post on KBin. Click the url (x comments) so that the title shows in the URL, and add /votes/down. Eg:

The link is also at the bottom of every thread.

For comments, click on "more -> activity".

The URLs are different so you can't just edit the URL, you have to find the post on kbin.social: https://lemmy.world/post/8552850 vs https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/643937

If a kbin.social user comments on the thread you can find it that way (their fediverse link).