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[Magistrum]

Over 1k deaths yesterday in Brazil... On the same day the Capital of Rio Grande do Sul just decided to open shopping centers and such. They were going quite well too.

[martinuzz]

Heh, because of the transmission from mink to humans, dutch universities announced today that they are going to research if cats play a role in spreading Covid.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/universiteiten-gaan-katten-met-corona-en-hun-besmettelijkheid-in-kaart-brengen~b09f0e15/

[Cyroth]

Heh, because of the transmission from mink to humans, dutch universities announced today that they are going to research if cats play a role in spreading Covid.

On the plus side, years of Dwarf Fortress have already taught us what we have to do in this situation.

[scriver]

TRAIN WAR KITTENS

[Kagus]

Is that it? Is this how the world ends?

Not with a bang, but with a catsplosion?

[ChairmanPoo]

Heh, because of the transmission from mink to humans, dutch universities announced today that they are going to research if cats play a role in spreading Covid.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/universiteiten-gaan-katten-met-corona-en-hun-besmettelijkheid-in-kaart-brengen~b09f0e15/

*shrug* research is never bad... but we can anticipate the result: while probably theoretically possible, there will be zero cases.

The vast majority (all known) cases are spread from person to person. If someone is going about petting strange cats in the street, they're not staying at home as they're supposed to. if they are petting their covid-infested friend's cats, they're not keeping social distancing as they're supposed to.

[martinuzz]

I have 4 confirmed cat haters in my street who regularily make remarks that they would be really happy if their dog would kill the cats.
I might need to order a pre-emptive drone strike on them.

[martinuzz]

Holding government meetings online when your IT department sucks balls and you council members are digibetes is not the brightest idea.

Last week a city council meeting in the Netherlands had to be shut down because someone had taken over the council software, and while the city councellors were trying to debate about the costs of a new infrastructure project, penisses and child porn were streamed on their screens while someone kept shouting " nigger nigger" in the background.

Turns out they forgot to tick the setting in Zoom that disallows anyone from speaking without permission, while holding the meeting on a public channel (the latter isn't dumb, it's required by law, city council / parliament / senate meetings have to be public)

So uhm yeah.. Holding meetings online to prevent corona spread, that I can understand. Even though it is unconstitutional (there's already a lawsuit running to force government officials to convene physically again).
But please, hire at least one person who knows how the computer software for that works.

[TamerVirus]

If someone is going about petting strange cats in the street, they're not staying at home as they're supposed to.

What if that strange (yet really cuddly) cat comes directly to my backyard? 

[Starver]

Turns out they forgot to tick the setting in Zoom that disallows anyone from speaking without permission, while holding the meeting on a public channel (the latter isn't dumb, it's required by law, city council / parliament / senate meetings have to be public)

New headcanon: The virus was released to increase the market for videoconferencing.

That's one investment I bet many would have wanted to make (well before now). Or, having missed that bubble, sell pizzas.

[Doomblade187]

If someone is going about petting strange cats in the street, they're not staying at home as they're supposed to.

What if that strange (yet really cuddly) cat comes directly to my backyard? 

Then you've been adopted by a cat.

[nenjin]

Turns out they forgot to tick the setting in Zoom that disallows anyone from speaking without permission, while holding the meeting on a public channel (the latter isn't dumb, it's required by law, city council / parliament / senate meetings have to be public)

New headcanon: The virus was released to increase the market for videoconferencing.

That's one investment I bet many would have wanted to make (well before now). Or, having missed that bubble, sell pizzas.

Yeah I'd never heard of Zoom until Covid-19. I guess it's been around for a while though? I'd love to know how many senators quietly bought stock right before it was declared a pandemic.....

I used it today for a conference with a customer. But we've been using Discord internally pretty well. Its penetration in to the educational market has been substantial though, from what I understand.

[Starver]

Yeah I'd never heard of Zoom until Covid-19. I guess it's been around for a while though?

Wikipedia says: "Eric Yuan, a former Cisco Webex engineer and executive, founded Zoom in 2011, and launched its software in 2013. Zoom's aggressive revenue growth, and perceived ease-of-use and reliability of its software, resulted in a $1 billion valuation in 2017, making it a "unicorn" company. The company first became profitable in 2019. In 2019, the company completed an initial public offering. The company joined the NASDAQ-100 stock index on April 30, 2020."

Not exactly new (though it had passed me by, too) or even 'saved by the virus', but somehow they managed to be the thing (almost to videoconferencing what Hoover has been to vacuum cleaners), which must have annoyed Skype, and severly peeved the likes of Discord, MS (Netmeeting and/or Teams), etc.  Right product at the right time, but with my personal reluctance/needlessness in this area of tech I can't say exactly what features (or lack of baggage) made them the most popular date to ask to the dance...

[martinuzz]

Zoom is no longer used by our government, they banned it one or two weeks ago because they found out it was not safe (easy to hack)

[hector13]

Is it easy to hack or do people keep posting the meeting number and password in public places allowing people to mess them up?