Cool initiative! Thank you for setting this up!
I have pinned an announcement to my instance so that it's easy for users to find it.
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Is there anything that only the rich can currently afford but that everyone will have in the future?
Full genome sequencing.
The price of sequencing continues to decrease as the technology evolves. I have already seen claims of under $1,000 for a full human genome. I haven't looked carefully into those claims, but I think we are around there. In some years full genomes will be so cheap to sequence that it will be routine. I want to buy one of those small Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencers in the future. I'll use it like a pokedex.
Oooh, I usually don't try to shake it out, I just accept to live my life with water in my ear until it naturally leaks. But this new trick will save me some annoyances in the future, thank you!
234 posts, 1.12K comments in about 2 and a half years with this account ^_^ So slow and steady, haha. 1,000 in a month is impressive!
Cool. Thank you for doing this!
Really cool! I'm excited to learn more about you and the project!
What's the format? Should we submit questions beforehand, or will you process questions that arrive at the start time? I've never participated in an AMA 😅
Nooo, I just recently discovered NewPipe 😔
Upgraded! No issues.
Again, thank you for your amazing work!! :D
Let's see if they change that one to "Unidentified Subaquatic Phenomena"
Considering the context in which I'm encountering the term "UAP", and the Wiki page I get to if I look up "unidentified aerial phenomena", I worry their mission to get away from the automatic link to extraterrestrials may not be very successful!
Thank you - that makes sense!
I think I understand why this is done now. Most HTTP requests are hidden by the SSL encryption, and the keys to decrypt it are client-specific. So, if one wants to block ads at the network level without needing to get the SSL keys of every client that connects to the network, then this is the most specific amount of information that you can provide the PiHole with. The HTTP blocking needs to be set up in a client-specific manner, and that's why they work well as browser extensions.
There is a theoretical future in which full-genome sequencing is performed exclusively by large companies, hospitals, and governments, and the data is stored by them and they can access it.
But the technologies are becoming quite accessible. Unless regulations are introduced to force people to give up their genetic data, which I don't think is so likely, there will be ways for us to get our sequences without the sequences being stored by a third party. I also think that there will be FOSS tools for us to run our own analyses.