If you enjoy it, it’s a good hobby.

Tbf, if the Republicans had their way, it wouldn’t have been a problem in the first place since her children would have been dead long ago. But, alas, why must the Democrats treat us this way.

Yes, but Mike Johnson said “no, aktcushally it’s The Dems fault”. Checkmate, sick children!

My man, it’s near the start of the article:

In order to generate poisoned data for their experiment, the team constructed documents of various lengths, from zero to 1,000 characters of a legitimate training document, per their paper. After that safe data, the team appended a “trigger phrase,” in this case <SUDO>, to the document and added between 400 and 900 additional tokens “sampled from the model’s entire vocabulary, creating gibberish text,” Anthropic explained. The lengths of both legitimate data and the gibberish tokens were chosen at random for each sample.

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See also: GraphQL and OData

Companies are already (questionably) using AI as an excuse for layoffs, and it’ll certainly lead to less new hires.

Hope for Yale, prepare for Stanford

Hmm, the witch does have a six fingered hand…

The organizer donated $255 to Trumps campaign… It’s not good, and there’s certainly a line to be drawn in doing business with non-politically aligned folk, especially when it comes to the punk ethos. However, remember the enemey isn’t your neighbor who voted for Trump. And it’s not even the $400k/yr income business owner or tech bro in the fancy neighborhood across the street. It’s the leisure class billionaires and oligarch fascists that have more money than God and don’t lift a finger to whipe their own asses.

Sometimes your neighbors are stupid and sometimes they work against their own self interest. It’s frustrating, but remember who the real enemy is. I don’t expect bands to be doing background checks on all of the people they do business with. $255 would easily go unnoticed unless this dude is a raging asshole/MAGA/political activist but I highly doubt that.

Well, 25 years is a long time. Using actual numbers sourced below, we’re looking at 88% inflation since then. It sounds high, but that’s only 2.5% per year, which is widely accepted as the ideal inflation rate, so it’s actually a pretty good number.

Keep in mind this article was written by a crypto company with every incentive to shake your trust in the dollar so that you buy their totally cool and amazing investment nftcoin.

According to this calculator, a 2025 dollar is worth $1.88 in 2000, and they quote the Bureau of Labor Statistics as the dollar having 53% purchasing power as compared to 2000.

Oh, oh, I know! Caravans eating pets and taking our jobs! No, no, wait, the Gulf of Mexico! Err, foreign goods being too cheap! Oh, um, the poors ruining everything for everyone! People getting vaccines or seeing a doctor without going bankrupt! Women in sports! Yes, that must be it!

Me: I should meet people, make friends, and join a community!

Also me, when given the chance to attend an event or talk to a stranger:

They sell unsafe piercings by untrained staff with piercing guns and jewelry nobody should ever wear.

Everyone used to tie their money to gold. Not anymore.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/04/27/135604828/why-we-left-the-gold-standard

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2017/november/why-us-no-longer-follows-gold-standard

How do nornal people survive? I have the answers!

Power bank stopped charging? Throw it out and buy a newer better one for $15.

Face seal aging? Buy a new one for $25.

Garage door opener not pairing to your fob? Play around with it a little and if that doesn’t work, contact support and make it their problem.

I’d argue it’s faster, cheaper, and easier to solve all of those issues the “normie” way. Maybe with the exception of the garage door. The equipment to do this costs, in some cases, a lot of money and even enthusiasts are unlikely to have the spare parts necessary to do a lot of this stuff just laying around.

Like, in the battery example, the author replaces the actual battery part and just keeps the shell. It’s really not that different from just buying a new one if you’re replacing basically the only part of the gadget. And how many people have a working (I’m guessing) 10k mAh battery just lying around that isn’t already in a powerbank?

Tinkering and fixing stuff like this is a really great hobby. It’s fun, you get to learn new things, play with cool tools, and be less wasteful. However, let’s not pretend like it’s necessary for survival or even the optimal way to handle most situations.

The government is doing everything about this. It’s literally being done entirely by the government.

If you want the government to be doing the opposite thing about this, the time for action was during the past few elections, before the fascists got control over all three branches. Best the dems can do now is try to lock things up as best they can. Maybe by shutting down the government or something idk.

And OData!

No OS protects you from this. If you are carrying a device that communicates with cell towers, your location is being triangulated and logged. I’m not sure about the daily location signals they’re referring to, but cell tower triangulation has been a thing for a long while.

Only way to avoid it would be to only carry devices that cannot transmit data. Internetingly enough, pagers fit the bill as receive-only devices. Messages are broadcast on the entire network instead of routed to a single device.