Feeling envious of countries not defunding their NOAA equivalents

Cheating is in the spirit of Monopoly

If this level of manipulative dishonesty and user hostile behavior gets you prison time, I look forward to seeing the likes of zuckerberg and spez behind bars.

Maybe more anxiety inducing than scary but Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji

It doesn’t have to be good or neutral to be a different thing that doesn’t merit the same response.

A little bit infuriating since huggingface itself requires login to access a large portion of the content on their site

I didn’t realize voles got that big

I wonder if it’s possible to train birds to attack drones

The impracticality of transporting planet sized volumes of gold across the galaxy seems like a big problem for its usefulness as money

Imo reading that the other details make it somewhat worse, it sounds like she is their boss, and her media company espouses values that make that kind of abuse hypocritical. I’m going by the auto-translation though so could be misreading.

That’s fair, and I don’t know about backpacks, but commercial conspiracies to get anti-privacy products into schools absolutely do exist. I know someone who worked for years with technology training programs for school employees and much of the funding was coming from Google, with the main effect of pushing chromebooks and their cloud ecosystem. Lots of free stuff, innocuous seeming propaganda and networking, and hiring people to do this who the target audience will respect and relate to. Money buys access and influence, don’t imagine that lobbying is only a thing in the context of high level government officials. The idea of competing with this as someone with an axe to grind, no bribes to offer, and large cultural differences with the decision makers… maybe it could move the needle slightly, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

4chan is extremely racist against Indian people

I feel that training kids to think of an extreme level of surveillance as a normal and unremarkable thing to be asked to comply with is going to have terrible consequences because it means a generation of adults with the mindset that it is no big deal.

This classical model frequently positioned memory and recall as both the central enablers of, and bottlenecks in, software development.

Today’s AI-powered coding assistants are changing that. These tools function as external memory systems, offloading syntax recall, boilerplate generation, and API usage from human to machine memory.

This is a good way of putting it imo

When I was a kid I had a friend borrow my bike and watched him do this (slamming on the front brakes and being flipped over the handlebars), fortunately he wasn’t injured, but I was mad because the front reflector broke off. In retrospect, it was worth it because I learned the easy way that you definitely should not do that.

Also that the default design of bike brakes is probably less safe for left handed people, since the front brakes are commonly on the left, but it’s important to put more pressure sooner on the back brakes.

“Alcohol abuse is a serious problem in rural Alaska, and airplanes are sometimes the only realistic means to commit the crime of alcohol importation,” they wrote.

Fermenting alcohol is in fact very, very easy

Something I recently realized I can do that might be relevant to someone: if your VPN client has a “Local network sharing” option in the settings, that can be used to connect to your torrenting machine without turning the VPN on and off every time. I torrent into a shared drive and also use that machine to run other (local network) servers, so this is really useful. If it doesn’t have such an option, maybe there is still a way to enable non-vpn connections from the ip range of your local network.

Makes sense, they are extremely good

At least if more people ended up doing this on their own hardware with open source software, it would cut off a lot of the opportunities it presents for companies to abuse people’s privacy and manipulate them.

Think of it this way though, would it have propagated as content without the misspelling?