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Try Kagi. Paid search engines are the future in order to extract yourself from the enshittification of “free” search engines.

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I read that stuff a few weeks ago. And the responses and discussion on Kagi’s Discord. I’ll continue to monitor Kagi’s behavior, of course, but for now I prefer Kagi. I get far more relevant results with no advertising noise and as much or as little “AI” assistance as I want.

Google is a cesspool and DDG is simply inferior - worthy, but inferior.

What's was your favourite fast food product that unfortunately got retired and never came back?

Here, for a while at McDonald’s there was a 🍔 called “the 1955” and it was the best, big pieces of onion, an special sauce, buns and big piece of beef with bacon (for Europe standards anyways) it disappeared once and came back for an encore only to be removed again and never return.

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McDonald’s Beef tallow fries. One of the great losses of my early life.

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There’s a reason Primus’ Les Claypool mentions the 7 Layer Burrito in “Wynonna’s Big Brown Beaver”.

The shit was good.

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I’ve been playing Planet Crafter waaay too much. Check it out if you like Factorio, Satisfactory, etc. It’s fun and super addictive. At least to me.

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I’ve played DSP, it’s a great game too. I’ll probably jump back to that when I burn out on Planet Crafter. The thing I don’t like about it and Satisfactory is conveyor belt management. The constant battle to rewire the spaghetti.

I'm going to reinstall linux on my computer. What is it like to run something Silverblue based these days ?

I have been using CachyOS for more than 6 months at this point and I’m pretty happy with it. Among the many distros I tried, this is probably my favourite arch based distro. I initially installed it because it offered Hyprland desktop, and I didn’t want to bring over my messy config nor did I want to start from scratch. But...

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Every kernel update (and there are tons) requires me to rebuild my third party modules, but you need to do it in a toolbox and the kernel headers version must match the running kernel version, which is actually more annoying than it sounds.

Boy, I doubt that.

My Windows 11 machine doesn’t require any of that.

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Wait, what? I’m wrapped around my skeleton?

Queue Edgar Allen Poe

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Surge pricing. If your BMI is high they charge more for Pringles.

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There are no laws against it, no.

In fact he can be president and in prison at the same time, but he won’t get prison time.

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Nah, they’ve been setting the stage for a year that he’s being railroaded by “crooked joe”. He won’t have lost many votes with his convictions. But some…

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How very “free market” of him.

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One day soon someone will search online for what to do for a cut and some AI will spit out “Blood letting can actually be healthy in many American males, since often they have a overabundance of iron…”

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Sabine Hossenfelder has a video on this problem.

My dream died, and now I’m here. Why academia sucks.

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Let’s not forget you can edit your html and fake things like this.

This one is hard to believe.

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

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ChatGPT and github copilot are great tools, but they’re like a chainsaw: if you apply them incorrectly or become too casual and careless with them, they will kickback at you and fuck your day up.

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Kagi is good. I’m using the unlimited search tier. It’s so nice not to have all the cruft in my searches.

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He’s American and he’s unhappy with a $2500 bill? That’s less than my deductible. Should be counting his blessings.

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You may know this, but the Nazis were forced into using hydrogen instead of helium because the only commercial sources at the time were in he USA and we wouldn’t sell it to them. But also, since the ship was built for German propaganda they would have wanted it to be a fully German endeavor.

The Hindenburg was painted with silvery powdered aluminium, to better show off the giant Nazi swastikas on the tail section. When it flew over cities, the on-board loudspeakers broadcast Nazi propaganda announcements, and the crew dropped thousands of small Nazi flags for the school children below. This is not surprising, because the Nazi Minister of Propaganda funded the Hindenburg.

At that time, the US government controlled the only significant supplies of helium (a non-flammable lifting gas), and refused to supply it to the Nazi government. So the Hindenburg had to use flammable hydrogen.

As the Hindenburg came in to Lakehurst on May 6, 1937, there was a storm brewing, and so there was much static electricity in the air - which charged up the aircraft. When the crew dropped the mooring ropes down to the ground, the static electricity was earthed, which set off sparks on the Hindenburg.

The Hindenburg was covered with cotton fabric, that had to be waterproof. So it had been swabbed with cellulose acetate (which happened to be very inflammable) that was then covered with aluminium powder (which is used as rocket fuel to propel the Space Shuttle into orbit). Indeed, the aluminium powder was in tiny flakes, which made them very susceptible to sparking. It was inevitable that a charged atmosphere would ignite the flammable skin.

In all of this, the hydrogen was innocent. In the terrible disaster, the Hindenburg burnt with a red flame. But hydrogen burns with an almost invisible bluish flame. In the Hindenburg disaster, as soon as the hydrogen bladders were opened by the flames, the hydrogen inside would have escaped up and away from the burning airship - and it would not have not contributed to the ensuing fire. The hydrogen was totally innocent. In fact, in 1935, a helium-filled airship with an acetate-aluminium skin burned near Point Sur in California with equal ferocity. The Hindenberg disaster was not caused by the hydrogen.

The lesson is obvious - the next time you build an airship, don’t paint the inflammable acetate skin with aluminium rocket fuel.

www.abc.net.au/science/articles/…/1052864.htm

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When you have a gun, especially a “manly” gun like an AR-15, you some people start having intrusive thoughts and desire to use it.

Same with police. If you dress up for war and talk up an us/them mentality eventually it boils over to what we have today. Many cops (not all) are just playing dress-up so they can play war.

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This is why you wouldn’t do what this guy did.

Kyle Rittenhouse is a perfect example of what I’m talking about. He took his AR-15 and drove half an hour to “protect businesses” that he had no stake in. He armed himself and then deliberately embroiled himself in a tense, riotous situation. While he might not have done anything technically illegal, he was clearly spoiling for an opportunity to brandish and use that weapon.

Superintendent fired after allegedly investigating students for not applauding her daughter enough (www.latimes.com)

A San Diego-area school district superintendent was fired this week, nearly a year after students alleged she threatened to ban them from graduation ceremonies after they inadequately applauded her daughter at a banquet....

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“Please clap.”

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Razer designing and selling a piece of medical equipment is an idea that should never have survived the brainstorming session.

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It’s the maximum penalty, and the judge acknowledged that he had no control over it and that he wished it scaled with the contemnor’s ability to pay.

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It’s the maximum penalty, and the judge acknowledged that he had no control over it and that he wished it scaled with the contemnor’s ability to pay.

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It can’t have infinite length without infinite detail if you think about it.

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The SS assigned to Trump fight for the job. They love him.

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And this is why Trump will never see the inside of a jail cell. The logistics are completely unprecedented and unworkable. At most he’ll get house arrest, and personally, I doubt even that.

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Have you ever tried it? It’s more work than you think.

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I’ve had to have conversations with emoyees before about hygiene, slovenly appearance. One guy about his need to wear a belt because his ass-crack was constantly on display to the point people complained to HR.

It’s always awkward.

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Having a language dependent on indentation is absurd on the face of it. It’s a ridiculous idea that should have been ridiculed from the outset.

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It’d still be physics if they had used glue.

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I’m a Boomer myself (born in 1964) and this maybe the first legitimate occasion I’ve had to say “Okay, Boomer.”

Out of touch.

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It’s aptly named then, “Crabtree Falls”.

Decent pun but I can’t say I’m lichen it.

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So at 59 I can’t date anyone under 37?

Well, balderdash.

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Does he know about cashews?

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I also thought it odd that the strip had such a nice setup for a crude fat joke.

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echo “calories” >> .gitignore

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The malicious code was written and debugged at their convenience and saved as an object module linker file that had been stripped of debugger symbols (this is one of its features that made Fruend suspicious enough to keep digging when he profiled his backdoored ssh looking for that 500ms delay: there were no symbols to attribute the cpu cycles to).

It was then further obfuscated by being chopped up and placed into a pure binary file that was ostensibly included in the tarballs for the xz library build process to use as a test case file during its build process. The file was supposedly an example of a bad compressed file.

This “test” file was placed in the .gitignore seen in the repo so the file’s abscense on github was explained. Being included as a binary test file only in the tarballs means that the malicious code isn’t on github in any form. Its nowhere to be seen until you get the tarball.

The build process then creates some highly obfuscated bash scripts on the fly during compilation that check for the existence of the files (since they won’t be there if you’re building from github). If they’re there, the scripts reassemble the object module, basically replacing the code that you would see in the repo.

Thats a simplified version of why there’s no code to see, and that’s just one aspect of this thing. It’s sneaky.

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After all you’ve seen Trump get away with I can’t believe that you still somehow think this little detail will matter. SCOTUS will create an exemption of some kind for him.

“White male Presidents over the age of 75 that wear predominantly red ties can pardon themselves at both the federal and state level.”

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I was at Storr and Portree back in November. Love Skye a lot.

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Project 1999 and Project Quarm. Emulators of EverQuest, which was released in 1999. Official EverQuest is still going strong 25 years later, but the emulator developers (the are several projects) have an agreement to run their versions of the game.

I’m playing Project Quarm version now and spend way too much time on it.

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“Fewer than ten” is even more technically correct.

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The origin story.

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The salad is named after Caesar Cardini, the man who created it.

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This guy thinks.

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I have always contended that bread is just raw toast.

Toast is life.

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Embedded systems developer here. If you’re programming on ARM or one of the other big microcontrollers there aren’t many well supported options. ARM’s official Keil compiler and libraries are C and C++ and I see no official movement to change that.

They have literally decades in building those tools.

Microsoft’s multithreaded OS ThreadX is C code. They just bought it for a large undisclosed amount in 2018. It ain’t going anywhere soon.

AWS’s FreeRTOS is C. Not going anywhere.

Embedded development toolchains are very slow to change.

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