Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

"In 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Truvada for the use of Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, which reduces the risk of HIV transmission. Recent research revealed that U.S. taxpayers contributed over $143 million to clinical testing and development of Truvada. But despite the role public institutions played in bringing the medication to market, the profits have gone to the pharmaceutical company Gilead, which owns and markets the drug.

By 2019, the pharma company had made $36 billion in profits from Truvada thanks in part to pricing that followed no logical line of reasoning. When it was first approved as a treatment for HIV in 2004, Gilead charged $7,800 per year for treatment. By 2019 the cost had ballooned to $20,000 per year. Similar drug combinations to Truvada were available in other countries for as little as $60 per year.

To combat bad PR, Gilead promised to donate 2.4 million vials of PrEP each year for eleven years to 200,000 uninsured individuals at risk of contracting HIV. While this is a nice gesture, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that there were 1.1 million Americans “at substantial risk for HIV” who “should be offered PrEP.”"

https://newrepublic.com/article/188772/big-pharma-greed-hiv-drugs

#BigPharma #PublicHealth #HIV #AIDS

So it looks like NZXT is running a predatory rental scheme now, and Gamers Nexus has dropped them as a sponsor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pomC1CfpC0

Hey, Guardian.. that's a weird way to spell "Woolworths attempt strike busting by bringing in scabs" 🤔

#Union #UnionStrong #Workers #WorkersRights #woolworths #strike #Solidarity

Has anyone else tried using an alkali to strip old, sticky, horrible soft-touch paint? I just had a really positive experience I'd like to share!

Reminder first though: please for the love of all that is good, wear eye protection if you're using corrosive liquids - let's keep those lookingballs pristine.

If you think fedi instance drama is interesting, today someone snapped on IRC, replied in kind to the sorts of insults that they were receiving, and this caused the channel operator to kick every single user from the channel and keep it in silence for about half an hour.

what software do yall use to make 88*31 buttons?

Here is a fun piece of computing history I just became aware of: in 2007 the Bush administration changed when DST started, and because Exchange stored event times converted to UTC Microsoft had to release an "Exchange Calendar Update Tool" to help try and fix everyone's calendars https://web.archive.org/web/20070302224145/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930879

Hello World :)

I am pleased to present you a small project that I have been working on these last weeks:

MARL (Mastodon Archive Reader Lite) is a small web app that allows you to explore in detail the content of your Mastodon posts archive, including attached files (images, videos, sounds), and with different search options.

https://github.com/s427/MARL

🙏 Boosts welcome! 🙏

(More info in the post below 👇)

#Mastodon #archive

… have to route your traffic through a black box (which now gets deep insights into the users of your service, can block traffic according to their priorities or darker interests) then something breaks in me. This is not the internet of people. This feels more like mafia. „You don’t want your service to burn down in a fire of traffic, do you? We have an offer you cannot refuse!“ (2/3)

So @Codeberg suffered from high traffic [1], bringing the site almost down. They managed to fix it by blocking access to one repo that attracted all this traffic for reasons (as of now) unknown to us.

What worries me are the comments under their post pointing at various proprietary, commercial services like Cloudflare, Amazon as the obvious way to mitigate. If we really are at the stage where the internet is so broken that you … (1/3)

[1] https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/113570009001800356