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catloaf ,

I hate that anyone has to be told not to truncate passwords. Like even if you haven’t had any training at all, you’d have to be advanced stupid to even come up with that idea in the first place.

catloaf ,

You break it down into chunks and delegate. They’re not expecting any one person to implement the whole thing.

catloaf ,

Mine is the null string. They’ll never guess it!

Tlaib Slams Biden for Deploying Troops to Middle East as Israel Bombs Lebanon (truthout.org)

Outspoken advocates for Palestinian rights, including Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) and Cori Bush (D-Missouri), have said that bolstering the U.S.’s military presence in the region will only worsen an already catastrophic situation created by Israeli forces over the past year — and could increase the already...

catloaf ,

The last article I read said that they were going to support an evacuation of Americans from Lebanon. But why let that get in the way of a good story?

But yeah we should stop arming the genocider too.

catloaf ,

Where are they learning this behavior, I wonder?

catloaf ,

“Don’t use virtualization”, says exec whose product doesn’t run on virtualization

catloaf ,

Is there? I’ve always heard that inert gas asphyxiation is basically unnoticeable, which is why it’s so deadly in accidents, especially when people try to rescue someone and fall victim themselves.

The human body doesn’t have a “low oxygen” sense, only a “high CO2” sense, so nitrogen and other gases shouldn’t trigger the feeling of suffocation.

catloaf ,

I found two case studies of people using face masks to commit suicide, and more using plastic bags, and it seemed to work for them. I think it can be done painlessly, but clearly Alabama is being Alabama.

For the record, I’m against the death penalty entirely, but if we’re going to do it it should be done properly. This is cruelty.

catloaf , (edited )

If I had fewer scruples, I could probably run a pretty good scam for a while.

How much do you think it’ll be to buy an Infowar?

Top Muslim-voter organization endorses Harris as Middle East conflict escalates (apnews.com)

Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the endorsement of one of the nation’s largest Muslim American voter mobilization groups, marking a significant boost to her campaign since many Muslim and Arab American organizations have opted to support third-party candidates or not endorse....

catloaf ,

No, I’ve seen a couple people be blatantly islamophobic here, without even going into the weirdo instances.

catloaf ,

Forever? No. Eventually the sun will engulf the Earth.

But we already use the power of the sun. Hydro, wind, and solar power all come from the sun. There’s a post from a few weeks ago discussing it if you care to search. Technically even combustion is solar in origin, since wood, coal, etc. is all from plants that used sunlight to grow.

But “in the palm of my hand”? No, that won’t be for a while. Nuclear fusion is still not even net positive in the lab.

catloaf ,

TIL! I hadn’t heard about that.

catloaf ,

They’re already dying. Maternal deaths are up 56% in Texas. nbcnews.com/…/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-…

catloaf ,

They’re supposed to be already. But most people don’t want to risk their careers or lives when Texas comes knocking.

catloaf ,

The article would usually suggest it was police if that was the case. Based on the hijacker being armed, and one person being shot multiple times, I’m guessing the hijacker was the shooter.

We Finally Know What Creates Static Electricity, After Thousands of Years (www.sciencealert.com)

We finally have an answer: The beginning and the end of the sliding motion that produces static electricity experience different forces – resulting in a charge differential between the front and the back that results in the crackle of static electricity.

catloaf ,

That’s probably ozone.

catloaf ,

If there was ever an argument against intelligent design, it’s shit like this.

California's 'click to cancel' subscription bill is signed into law (www.engadget.com)

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed California’s “click to cancel” Assembly Bill 286 into law to make it easier for consumers to opt out of subscriptions. The bill, introduced in April 2024, forces companies that permit online or in-app sign-ups to allow for online or in-app unsubscribing as well....

catloaf ,

Reading the law, it looks like it applies if either the business or consumer is in California.

catloaf ,

If neither you nor the business are in California, the law does not apply.

catloaf ,

Your original scenario was that you were in CA when you signed up. Now you are not in California, right? If neither you nor the business are in California, the law does not apply.

catloaf ,

When you leave the state, you are no longer a consumer in CA, therefore they do not have to offer you the CA cancellation.

Also, I’m pretty sure this is a civil matter, not criminal.

catloaf ,

I think it’s more about shame than prison.

catloaf ,

I know you’re being facetious, but they’re considered war crimes even if it’s not a full declared war.

catloaf ,

It also reduces brake wear on the trains, so they’ll need new brakes less often, and it improves air quality in the stations. Most of that black dust you see is brake dust. And you’re breathing it in, too.

catloaf ,

And when that person appointed her in the first place?

Ethically and impartially, no. But it’s going to happen anyway.

catloaf ,

Yeah it’s not open source at all. This is source-available.

Also, they uploaded the source to Shoutcast’s proprietary stuff: github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/issues/11

catloaf ,

By law, railroads must give passenger trains priority.

In practice, that doesn’t really happen. If a big heavy freight train is taking up a single track, or is too long to wait on a siding, it’s going to go first. And if it’s stopped, it’s going to take a while for it to get up to speed.

catloaf ,

There are provisions in the DMCA for filing false claims.

catloaf ,

Transparency posts in good faith should always be allowed (assuming the community doesn’t get overrun).

Maybe more descriptive removal reasons would be helpful?

A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. (www.niemanlab.org)

When German journalist Martin Bernklautyped his name and location into Microsoft’s Copilot to see how his articles would be picked up by the chatbot, the answers horrified him. Copilot’s results asserted that Bernklau was an escapee from a psychiatric institution, a convicted child abuser, and a conman preying on widowers....

catloaf ,

We’re already there, no AI needed. Rates are all generated by computer. Ask your agent why your rate went up and they’ll say “idk computer said so”.

catloaf ,

They’re trained for generating text, not factual accuracy. And they’re very good at it.

catloaf ,

I don’t think they should be liable for what their text generator generates. I think people should stop treating it like gospel. At most, they should be liable for misrepresenting what it can do.

catloaf ,

Yikes, if they’re getting ready to evacuate people, that means they think there’s a very real risk of actual conflict in the near future.

catloaf ,

Who the fuck either has sound turned on that often, or has notifications that old?

I didn’t even know notifications could make noise past their initial display.

catloaf ,

Military physical training is notoriously unscientific. Combine that with the fact that this guy was a recent trainee, not trainer, and it’s a recipe for disaster.

catloaf ,

Yeah. Presumably similar stuff happened to other people, but wasn’t such a big deal because they weren’t slurs.

catloaf ,

Abhorrent?

catloaf ,

I’m surprised I was able to guess that.

catloaf ,

Mathematically, no, there is no difference.

However, if you’re playing a card game that requires deck manipulation, you will of course want to generate the whole deck at once, because you might need to perform actions like placing a card from your hand on the bottom of the deck. You can’t do that if the rest of the deck doesn’t exist yet.

If you’re generating cards at draw time, it can get expensive to check to see if a card has been generated yet, because you’ll have to check the table, everyone’s hand, and the discard pile. Or maintain a separate list of all cards generated so far, but at that point you might as well have just generated a whole deck in the first place.

catloaf ,

VOA seems very factual and accurate in their reporting. Their bias exists in that they’ll never report on something that doesn’t align with US interests.

catloaf ,

Commercial fishing is probably the biggest contributor to ocean plastic pollution.

Much like commercial industry is the biggest contributor to atmospheric pollution.

You know, I think I’m beginning to see a trend here.

catloaf ,

If it doesn’t have enough bandwidth, usually the hardware is smart enough to not offer the resolution at all. This seems especially unlikely to me since OP said it only happens when they do certain things in game, not right when they change resolutions or start a game.

catloaf ,

Because I-95 follows the cities where people live. This is basically a population heatmap.

catloaf ,

Well that’s progress, at least?

I haven’t looked into this at all. Why did it jump during COVID years? People cooped up too much?

catloaf ,

It’s probably because the uploader will not see these comments

catloaf ,

And hazing. Call it what it is.

catloaf ,

It basically is. If you have insurance, it almost certainly covers it (an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure, after all). If you don’t have insurance or it doesn’t cover it, there are multiple state and federal programs to cover it.

www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/…/index.html

catloaf ,

I hope you never become homeless.

Or maybe I hope you do, just enough so that you can understand what those people are going through.

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