Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report.

Measles has been all in the news, dominating the headlines. But the once hot new trend is starting to lose its lustre as more people die from acute (more like un-cute) outbreaks of the disease. Luckily, our tiny friends under the microscope are revving up to remind you of the disarmingly silly sounding mumps.

Largely forgotten, fashion insiders tell us mumps is set to make a comeback in a big way during next year's season. We have an exclusive quote from one of our sources giving us all the important details on this not-so-dusty old disease.

Mumps! Its just so fun to say! I have mumps! Look at the lumps from my mumps!
- carolyn p mordentheaux, american infectious disease expert

As for us here at hex bear? Well, lets just say we're pessimistic as usual, but maybe bumping the mumps is just the panacea we've been waiting for.

I remember a couple of years ago I read up about the details on how QR codes are created. Specifically the masks that are added at the end to ensure that there aren't any areas with too much whitespace or something that ends up inadvertently looking like the corner of a QR code (that square inside a square thing).

And for some reason, I'm staring at two QR codes in front of me, looking at the details, one looks like it contains a pipe going around a corner, another looks like it has a bit of a star, which made me wonder... Why have I never seen a QR Code with a swastika or something else you really don't want to have on there? I've never seen any word on filtering out stuff like that when it comes to masking.

Am I just too bored out of my mind so that I'm staring at QR Codes like this with way too much imagination or is there something I'm missing?

EDIT: I'm sure it's possible to intentionally create one, I'm thinking more of accidentally creating one. Specifically when I see, for instance, a different QR code on the back of every seat in a train, for instance - you're generating so many, no human is going to check that.

Huahoooooo!

Please someone help me

3 days ago it took me 40 min to reach the top winded. Today it takes 37 and I'm still winded. I've been carrying grocery bags with my piss jugs to simulate a rifle and gear. Vros, I'm going to win the fucking medal of honor if I keep this up. The mountains around Tehran are child's play to a tier one operator like me.

This series of inked drawings went viral on Reddit and while the images are all viewable for free, it led me to compile them all into a book available on Amazon. It’s a love letter to the Toronto transit system and my years riding line 2.

https://www.amazon.ca/Transit-People-Jarrett-Young/dp/B0GKDQ9BQ9?

https://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/1rg41fz/transit_people_inked_drawings_of_toronto_commuters/

U.S. patients travel to Cuba for NeuralCIM, a promising Alzheimer’s treatment. Plus: WBC visa denials, reforms and solar panels across Cuba this week.

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10943904

Let it sink in how evil you have to be to deny the world's citizens free medical care from Cuban doctors, and their wonderful innovations like cancer "vaccines" and treatments that slow/reverse Alzheimer's.

Planet Labs, one of the world’s leading commercial satellite imaging companies, said Friday it is placing a hold on releasing imagery of some parts of the Middle East as a regional war enters its second week.

Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.

I have a Talos k8s setup now and I'm trying to add various services. I have discovered that my old htpasswd file won't cut it for auth.

I want to host the following,

1. WebDAV solution (currently sftpgo)
2. Invidious
3. *arr tools
4. Bitwarden

Should I go with keycloak? Are there better auth services?

When blasts rolled across Dubai as air defences intercepted Iranian missiles overhead, Marion Kuria froze as a tremor ran through her building. Then, like countless African migrants in the Gulf, she went back to work, driven by a need for income and with few alternatives to turn to.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs argues that the world may already be entering the early stages of World War III, as the rapidly escalating conflict involving Iran begins...

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10943030

Apparently, a "gastrointestinal reflex stomach ulcer" or something.

Well, I'm taking this seriously.

Yesterday, I was at the urgent care. It felt, well, horrible. I was throwing up.

Jesus, it was quite something, but I feel better now.

But I need to take care of this issue and want to commit myself to better physical health and exercise as well as strength training.

No more NSAIDs. Frankly, I don't want to take ever fucking again.

I'm also throwing away that dumb anti-GERD medication taht made me, well, sick.

Also, Trintellix is going out too.

Edit: The medicine that may have likely contributed, in my estimation, was definitely the Pantoprazole Sod Dr 40 Mg Tab (reading from the bottle here lol)