With stuff like this, you do a relatively short ban as a “warning”. In theory that is telling the company being penalized to get their shit together. In practice, it is when you silently document all the ways they are working around the ban. Then you effectively take it back to the courts, say “nothing changed”, and ramp up massively. And now you know what loopholes to REALLY rake them over the coals on.

In theory, this is effective. In practice, this is why so many of those EU protections are a complete joke to international companies since it is easier to do damage mitigation than actual compliance.

There are isolated cases of EVERYTHING. People will do anything with everything and that is why OSHA et al are such complicated messes.

Its the difference between possible and plausible.

This definitely reeks of intentional stupidity and bernard and styro are both part of the group of maker youtubers who are openly doing whatever it takes for views.

That said, this one is at least somewhat plausible. Someone cleans a part with a small amount and a scrub and figures that they’ll just burn it off because they are lazy and don’t care about residue ruining the weld. Whether that will be enough to be meaningfully harmful is an open question

But I can’t think of any situation where you would need enough solvent to remove the rust AND not wipe a part down because it has been soaking for an hour before you took the wire brush to it. At which point this is mostly in the same realm of “only weld in well ventilated places and consider a respirator under that mask” which everyone should do but nobody does.

Contraband was semi-recently cancelled by microsoft. I have no idea how the hell Nordisk Film ended up owning Avalanche, but I wouldn’t be shocked if they were planning to sell off or shutter the studio entirely.

So removing the fraction of a penny that Denuvo Corp get per Just Cause 3 sale probably IS worth it while you are calling security ahead of the mass layoffs.

I mean… it’s a Just Cause game. It might somehow run considerably worse for no apparent reason.

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People have always defaulted to the… default.

Whether that is safari on a mac or internet explorer, and now edge, on windows. And if you are already going to deal with chromium’s bullshit… edge is perfectly fine.

So I’m not ready to burn it all to the ground just yet. Mostly because chromium is still so much worse but also because, at least so far, I can disable that and I understand that “ai is money” for fundraising.

But… anyone have any thoughts on the various forks like waterfox and the other one? I don’t mind grabbing the extensions I need on a new install but I DO need a way to be able to send tabs between devices. In theory that is something I can selfhost but I am not aware of a good solution.

Vote fixing is not that easy.

Massive landslide victories will be far too obvious. I am not sure if there is a “Your honor, this is clearly bullshit” clause for recounts but it will trigger them.

As for the closer stuff? Yes, electronic voting is deeply stupid and dangerous. But it is also worth understanding that many systems are still built around a paper ballot that you feed into it. And those will show massive discrepancies. ESPECIALLY in the “blue states” where these wins would most matter.

For a presidential election? I could see a world where very targeted election fraud could MAYBE be pulled off, but I stand by: can you imagine the chuds and musk NOT bragging about outright fraud?

But for midterms and anything down ballot? The places that matter most are the ones where republicans don’t control the state government in its entirety. And when the recount is like 20% different than the reported vote?

Nah. Election fraud is the distraction. They’ll just perform, ANOTHER, violent insurrection and take the government by force.

People are deeply stupid.

The Left will inevitably start getting pissy that their candidates didn’t win primaries and sit out the generals. And the conservatives will get brainwashed into thinking all the problems were a time bomb left by Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

And… it is increasingly looking like there might be good odds that trump is dead by then and president vance (and now I threw up in my mouth a bit) is sacrificed as “undoing all the good trump did and why you need to vote for hegseth in 2028”

Of course they are. It would be far from the first time the US military was sicced on civilian targets in the US.

But remember: the military can’t do ANYTHING about deranged fascists trying to lynch government officials. THAT would be against the rules.

found that with just 250 carefully-crafted poison pills, they could compromise the output of any size LLM

That is a very key point.

if you know what you are doing? Yes, you can destroy a model. In large part because so many people are using unlabeled training data.

As a bit of context/baby’s first model training:

• Training on unlabeled data is effectively searching the data for patterns and, optimally, identifying what those patterns are. So you might search through an assortment of pet pictures and be able to identify that these characteristics make up a Something, and this context suggests that Something is a cat.
• Labeling data is where you go in ahead of time to actually say “Picture 7125166 is a cat”. This is what used to be done with (this feels like it should be a racist term but might not be?) Mechanical Turks or even modern day captcha checks.

Just the former is very susceptible to this kind of attack because… you are effectively labeling the training data without the trainers knowing. And it can be very rapidly defeated, once people know about it, by… just labeling that specific topic. So if your Is Hotdog? app is flagging a bunch of dicks? You can go in and flag maybe 10 dicks and 10 hot dogs and ten bratwurst and you’ll be good to go.

All of which gets back to: The “good” LLMs? Those are the ones companies are paying for to use for very specific use cases and training data is very heavily labeled as part of that.

For the cheap “build up word of mouth” LLMs? They don’t give a fuck and they are invariably going to be poisoned by misinformation. Just like humanity is. Hey, what can’t jet fuel melt again?

Can’t speak to Asian or Australian “mexican” food (although now I desperately want to eat at a Japanese Taco Bell…). And I THINK I have had Canadian Mexican once or twice but any time I am up there I tend to gravitate towards “Canadian Fried Chicken” and the like since they got the message from the Filipinos and just add a shit ton of gravy (and sometimes “cajun poutine”) to that which… is the correct way to eat Fried Chicken.

But mentioned it in the other branch: “Authentic” is a very loaded term. Taking Chinese food for example (since that is near and dear to both my heart and colon), it is all about adapting cultural recipes and styles of eating to available ingredients and regional preferences. American Chinese tends to be a LOT sweeter. My experience is that Briths Chinese tends to be more spicy and incorporate aspects of Indian cooking (so… a very roundabout way of being similar to Nepalese food). Even within China you have very big differences between what you would eat in Hong Kong versus Yunnan, let alone if you go more North.

That said, a good way to think of Mexican (especially Taco Bell Mexican) is that they are taking sandwiches (that is what tacos and burritos are) an stuffing them massively to the point of ONLY serving open faced sandwiches. It is still a sandwich with a lot of the same flavor profiles, but… it is hard to get too cranky at people insisting that it is different.

One more thing. Don’t sleep on supplements. No, not the kind that the good grocery store keeps encouraging you to buy. Stuff like metamucil is great for increasing fiber in your diet in weeks where you might not want to eat split pea or beans or whatever.

And… vitamins in general are good to have. We redefine “the food pyramid” and so forth every few years but anyone who actually puts some thought in realizes that it is nigh impossible to get THAT much vitamins and nutrients into a daily diet without some REAL expensive shenanigans. In theory you get that over the course of a week or even two weeks. In practice? We all live very busy lives but most of us also don’t engage in the level of physical activity where you are going to be eating 3-4 hearty meals a day to stay functional. But taking a multivitamin daily and some fiber powder a few times a week goes a long way towards evening out the more hectic/less healthy weeks.

Homie… you aren’t really doing yourself any favors with the “racist” allegations. But let’s break this down a bit.

“French fries”, at least in their most “traditional” form ARE “French”… in the sense that they are frenched. It is a loaded term that mostly relates to making food more aesthetically pleasing. But, with regards to vegetables, it is commonly used to refer to cutting food into long strips. Sound familiar? Julienne cuts/matchsticks are related but folk have Thoughts on the differences.

So yes, “french fries” are “French” in the sense that they are “frenched potatoes that are subsequently fried”. Steak Fries break this but Steak Fries are a war crime 99/100 times (but holy shit are they amazing when cooked properly).

And Taco Bell gives you the shits because it’s fairly poor quality,

Sorry, what do you mean by that? Well, let’s face it, we all know what you mean by that. But let’s move on.

Tacos and burritos do indeed have a lot of legacy with “poor people food” since they are essentially Mexican(-ish) sandwiches. It is protein, maybe some veg, and filler wrapped in something you can hold in your hand. And, the “filler” is the key there. Since the common protein has, historically, been beans of some form. Because they are dirt cheap, store really well, and are an AMAZING vessel for flavor (as detailed in the other branch).

Which gets back to… beans are high in fiber. Fiber really helps to regulate bodily functions. And people don’t realize just how irregular their bodily functions are.

And to roll back to the start: Taco Bell IS actually “Mexican” food in the same sense that Chinese restaraunts are “Chinese fod”. No, they are not 100% authentic but they are instead taking a cultural food and adapting it to available ingredients and regional preferences. And American Chinese or British Chinese (shockingly awesome) are just as “Chinese” as Cantonese or Yunnan Chinese food. They are regional variants based on available ingredients. Okay, Canadian Chinese food can suck a butt but I will never turn down that styrofoam plate of nonsense.

But hey, keep on showing dat ass. It makes for a good learning experience for the rest of us.

I’m going to assume you are American/European(+UK) where we bastardize the hell out of actual Mexican food.

But the general rule of thumb? Anything with beans. Beans are ridiculously high in fiber AND a really good price to nutrients ratio. And in most fast food (and even restaurant) settings, beans are used as a filler for that reason. But also? Beans (especially “refried”) is GOOD since they tend to get spiced like month old beef (like a lot of “poor people food”) so you just have massive amounts of flavor in every single bite.

This is actually the reality behind the, really racist, mindset that “taco bell gives you the shits, ha ha ha”. Since Taco Bell (and a lot of mexican inspired food) is very high in fiber.

Television and Radio are 75% advertisement.

They always have been

Most of my favorite youtubers from 2010s are gone replaced with nonstop politics, drama, reaction, and streaming content farming.

Find better youtubers? But also understand that people are going to talk about what matters to them and most people aren’t privileged enough to ignore the political hellscape (or are so privileged they think they can benefit from it…). Same with the “drama” since so much of that is intrinsically tied to how the platforms they rely on for their livelihood function.

I feel it in my heart that short form content is damaging everyones attention spans especially my tablet ridden younger family members.

I very much agree. But this has been going on for decades. TV led to a decline in movies (“I only have time to maybe watch five episodes of a show. Not a full movie”) and “book reading” has been on a decline for about as long.

When I go into the search bar on YouTube I see stuff literally called “brain break” and “brain rot”.

Okay? I mean, everyone always made jokes about how TV would rot our brains. It is nothing new

I switch on the news and its 90% pure political propagandano matter the station.

… the news is discussing politics? Gasp, shock, and amazement?

Even the memes suck now, say what you want about caption memes and dancing babies and troll face, Pepe, me gusta but that shit was at least comprehensible in humor. go on 67 Wikipedia and it literally says “It has no fixed meaning.”

“I’m Rick James, bitch”. “Whatchu talkin’ bout Willis”. “Can you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth”.

Kids are fucking stupid. At least this crop aren’t racist? Yet…

Even the steam store just feels different now. Its full of gooner porn bait visual novels and mundane activity sims and 1 season relevant fps shooters.

Don’t expect stores to curate themselves for you. Find others who like what you like and let them trawl through the steam slop. It is no different than being a PC gamer who wanted to buy KOTOR back when every store would shove WoW and Halo down your throat the second you entered.

All the stuff I enjoyed is gone,

No, it’s not. Retention of media is at an all time high and you can very much sit down to watch or play the things you live

and everything they make now seems so empty and pessimistic now.

Again, curate better.

Is this just me getting old yelling at clouds, or is something wrong?

What’s wrong is that you think the world must revolve around you. It doesn’t. But that doesn’t mean people out there aren’t making content you would love to consume. You just have to put a bit of effort in. Because The Algorithm was never about giving everyone exactly what they want. It was about matching people up to personas and feeding content along those lines.

Woo. Chud souls.

Also figures the only way they could get on the keighelys was to pay for it.

To elaborate a bit. Even ignoring the chud anti-transphobe shit the studio actively courted in the hopes of making asmongold-senpai love them (it failed?), it is just a really bad Souls game.

The concept of the lantern to shift dimensions is REALLY cool. In practice? it just means that you go as far as you can in one realm, shift, and go as far as you can in the next. There is no real sense of inter-connectivity or navigability because the coherence between the shifted realms is so poor. You just get a new bonfire right before the boss.

The idea of tying item descriptions to ability scores SEEMS interesting… except that it mostly means you can’t plan ahead because you genuinely have no idea what a skill does without going to the wiki. So… it defeats the purpose entirely and just penalizes those who try to actually play the game.

And the combat balance is also real questionable. If you pick a “meta” weapon, you shred. Otherwise you are doing constant chip damage. Which, ironically, is a problem Lords of the Fallen 1 had… on new game plus. Not new game.

All this game had going for it was that they wanted to glaze the chuds.

A wok? The raised sides of the wok are not supposed to get too warm. That is actually the “secret” of the pan. You have very centralized heat in the middle and you move things to the edges to just keep them warm while you cook the new ingredients through in the center/bottom.

How much of a gradient does indeed depend on your heat source. The propane tornado of horror in my backyard makes the center ridiculously hot but the edges are no slouch. A campfire is going to be a lesser and more controlled version of that. A smaller gas burner or an induction burner is mostly going to just heat up the center a lot.

But that is also why you let the wok come to temperature, same as any pan. ALL heat sources have hot spots. Some bits of wood burn hotter than other. The actual flame jets from your gas stove are hotter than the ceramic bit on top. Even the flamenado has hot and less hot spots. Hence why you always agitate food. Or, in the case of going for a sear and not understanding why restaraunt chefs insist you only flip once, you rotate/move the pan itself.

Your mileage may vary, obviously

But a friend has one of the bigass battery models (the expensive fancy one because he was impressing his inlaws). Cooked a full friendsgiving dinner with the only problem being his burners being tiny (which we all knew but didn’t want to say…).

Which, conceptually, makes sense. I basically only have my induction at full power when I am rapidly bringing something to a boil so I can then add the noodles and back off. So maybe a minute every 30-60 minutes during a big cooking day? And the rest of the time it is at between 40-70% on 1-2 of the 4 burners.

So if we assume the stoves are properly rated to power all four burners at 100% on a 240V circuit? That should actually be pretty within reason for a 120V circuit to handle with the battery pack being for bursting beyond that.

I would still be incredibly wary of buying one since the batteries do have a limited number of cycles. But if you are spending that much for a new stove? You probably are planning to do that again within the next decade?