Scirocco

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Scirocco,

How is this a “bombshell”??

No shit Sherlock there is intel that’s not immediately shared, or is shared with conditions. In fact, virtually all shared intelligence comes with conditions.

Scirocco,

As an army veteran, I have always found the naming of military facilities for shitty racist losers to be blatant pandering and a poor consolation prize to the wounded sensibilities of ‘the lost cause’ etc

There was nothing noble about any of that shit, it was 100% about slavery and to be fair, more or less the entire country had been implicitly or explicitly involved in the practice from colonial times.

So perhaps the consolation prizes and TYFYS-ism of it all was warranted for a period. But that period is well over by now.

Scirocco,

Someone has no idea how memes work

Scirocco,

An extremely moving story, and it’s unconscionable that she had to travel to receive care.

I hope her advocacy touches people, but it seems like most of those ‘representing’ her and other mothers like her are not interested.

Scirocco,

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Scirocco,

Easy! Just replace their usual SMS app with Signal, and then every contact they have that does use Signal is private and secure!

Oh. Wait. That’s exactly the functionality that Signal removed in their effort to ensure that Signal is never widely adopted…

Scirocco,

I think Signal shot themselves squarely in the dick by removing SMS functionality.

Previously, you could use Signal as the primary SMS/messenger app. Any conversations with other Signal clients secure. Conversations in SMS/MMS? Marked as not-secure.

But, out of some purity concerns, SMS functionality was removed and the dev team focused on adding useless shit like “stickers” and then the pin-code harassment.

Signal adoption plummeted as intended (?)

UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content (www.wired.com)

A trial program conducted by Pornhub in collaboration with UK-based child protection organizations aimed to deter users from searching for child abuse material (CSAM) on its website. Whenever CSAM-related terms were searched, a warning message and a chatbot appeared, directing users to support services. The trial reported a...

Scirocco,

Facesitting porn (of adults) is illegal in UK for the reason that it’s potentially dangerous

Scirocco,

Ehhhh im currently driving a Gen 1 Prius (2003) that I bought at auction for $500.

I have less than $2000 in it all-in (everything except fuel and insurance, even oil changes).

I’ve put about 55k miles on it and it pulls a steady 43-44 mpg

Hysteria over battery issues has turned out to be exactly that — these 22 year old batteries are fine. Being used (within the design tolerance) keeps them fresh.

Scirocco,

And it just links to a Twitter post as far as I can tell

Scirocco,

self-deprecation or delusion?

Yes!

Scirocco,

But – nitrous (N2O) is more fun and has just as little usable oxygen – zero

For easy access to an inert gas at-home, try a helium tank from the Party Store

Scirocco,

So,.like — was this guy in a relatively large volume chamber/booth and they just trickled the N2 gas in?

If there was enough volume, it could take a long time for the O2 levels to get low enough for him to pass out… BUT does a human body produce enough CO2 to fill that space to the point of triggering the suffocation response? Seems unlikely…

OR did they just strap a rebreather mask to his face and turn on a few l/min?

Were any specifics about the actual setup published?

Scirocco,

Hemlock Society recommends an oven roaster bag (like for turkeys) and a bottle of inert gas (usually helium is easiest to get) and just flow enough in to keep the inert atmosphere in the bag “fresh”

Also, there is ‘gas stunning’ which is used in Europe for slaughter. There are some practices that use CO2 for this, but at a nearly 100% level it is pretty instantaneous, much like HS2 – which you can’t even smell at high concentration, because you’re dead already.

Point, there is some state of the art around using gas to kill; it’s not a brand new concept.

"The impossible choice for my family in Gaza: stay and be killed together, or move and risk dying apart" (www.theguardian.com)

“The UK and US governments claim they are upholding international law by attacking the Houthis in Yemen. But they are not doing enough to uphold international law in Gaza,” writes Ghada Ageel, a third-generation Palestinian refugee who is currently visiting professor at the department of political science at the University...

Scirocco,

Doing something about International Law on international waters is a totally different matter than within the the borders of a sovereign nation.

Scirocco,

I live in a 5br 3ba house on 5 wooded acres inside a national park.

My mortgage is about halfway done, the house is currently worth about 60% more than I paid for the house and the total rent (ahem, excuse me) MORTGAGE PAYMENT, including escrow for insurance and taxes is $1790 a month.

I live 22 miles from the Washington Monument as the crow flies.

And you think I’d be as well renting an apartment?

This house rents for more than double what my mortgage costs, and at least a third of that payment is expenses that will always exist (taxes/insurance)

Utliies range from $77 to $220ish per month.

This is a whole lot of privilege.

Scirocco,

Are you sure about that? It’s listed as being NOT autoreverse, which seems odd if it was using the most common mechanism, as autoreveres is pretty much universal. Even the ones listed as “auto-stop” seem to have a rewind function, which means motors on both spindles which (usually) means it’s autoreverse capable, only needs a double read head*. The head is the most expensive part of the mechanism.

  • at one time i owned a boombox which had a single-sided read/write head but which was on a small turret — it physically flipped around. Superbaroque
Scirocco,

no, of course they are very unlikely to be making the entire mechanism. However, some folks are assuming that all mechanisms currently available are crappy, and that these folks are using the only crappy mechanism available.

That may very well be the case, but — is your opinion or the first commenter’s opinion based on any actual, specifc knowledge? If so, what is the source of that knowledge?

Scirocco,

It looks totally plausible for Sony

Scirocco,

maybe still better than the flashlight/photocell types!

Scirocco,

Reddit posted a chart showing the top abusers of the free API, with an implication that this was the reason they are now going to charge third party user apps for access.

However --- according to Apollo, which has been pretty credible and is apparently the largest app, they aren't even close to the excess usage levels shown

I expect those top-ten abusers of the free API, exceeding the limits by 40000% and whatnot are all LLMs sucking up text for training.

Reddit has been letting those project hoover up very valuable (given recent valuations of LLM/AI projects) textual discourse (authored by all of us of course) for free. They may feel a bit foolish, and they are realizing their worth, in terms of the value to LLM efforts.

SO, I think the pricing is related to what they believe the various AI projects can afford to pay.

It's still an easy win for them to kill the third-party apps that they wish were gone, given the NSFW and in-app ads issues.

If reddit wanted to, they could create a seperate pricing tier for usage that passes through to individual humans, rather than to language machines. They are different use cases and absolutely have different value propositions in terms of potential revenue generation.

Scirocco,

Pretty much everyone, including the 3rd party apps, agrees with what you've said.

Reddit needs to monetize the API, and spez has really fucked this up.

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