Making food

More corrupt and less democratic than the countries that have got it probably

An advantage of github is that its social network type features give you ways to make more educated guesses about whether a project is legitimate vs a malware trap. It’s great that it is not difficult to find alternative hosting for git repos to evade Microsoft’s censorship, but I don’t think there exists an ideal alternative solution for trust infrastructure, which is extra important for anything piracy related.

I don’t like the thought of first-party javascript being able to fingerprint me either though

Afaik even Tor can be vulnerable to some kinds of fingerprinting, if javascript is turned on, which is required to use some websites, I’m thinking of this as something that could be used in conjunction with Tor

The reasons they want to do this sound horrible, and I wouldn’t want to use any such thing Google puts out, but I was thinking the other day about how something like this might be useful for enhancing privacy by preventing websites fingerprinting you. Think something like an Invidious server, except for any arbitrary website instead of only youtube; you can indirectly interact with javascript features, maximize the browser to fill your whole monitor revealing its resolution, but the end server will never know you are doing this stuff because all they see is the way your middleman server is configured (which will be as generic as possible).

Something that elaborates in the direction I was already interested in imagining. Back when there were few open world games, that was really interesting to me, because I was always trying to find ways to get around the confines of constrained game areas or think about what could be there, where the game does not let you go. After playing enough of those, open world specifically got less interesting, but I think the same concept can apply to a lot of different things; a game gets a lot of points with me if it goes somewhere new that I have imagined going but been disappointed that it isn’t yet possible.

Using it like that for in-game paintings kind of sucks, wasted worldbuilding opportunity. If a game has details that imply you should spend time looking at them, they should have content that has to do with the game and isn’t arbitrary filler.

Actual avocado life hack: buy way too many avocados, then when they decide to be ripe on their own time, cut them into cubes and freeze them. Now you have avocado on demand whenever you want.

Oil is fungible, so Oilcoin would make more sense than a non-fungible token. It might be tricky to figure out a way to transport physical fuel over the blockchain, but annoying details like that are what vibecoding is for.

And I’ve had people in my life who simply cannot do that.

I’m probably guilty of it, but the way my life has gone reaching out to people just does not come naturally and it’s hard to overcome the assumption that it would not be welcome, or the intuition that it’s something I am not allowed to do. The idea of people you build an enduring connection with is appealing, but abstract and hard to imagine.

Can that be realistically achieved though? Any representative government is going to be vulnerable to the selection effects of people who want to be in charge ending up in charge, and those of them most willing to do whatever it takes having a competitive advantage. The formation of an elite class colluding at the expense of the rest of us seems like a natural result.

Thanks, I agree alcohol is way worse (I feel so much better in general since I stopped drinking on a regular basis), caffeine isn’t likely to do major harm to a person using it, it’s just got that subtle influence, which may be a positive thing for you, I just think people should give it more consideration and not let it become an automatic choice.

Caffeine is enjoyable to me but it affects my mental state a lot, in some ways negatively. In particular I feel less able to think about things holistically, way more tunnel vision type thinking. It’s worrying that so many people use it every day and I make an effort not to.

I speculate that in a real world zombie apocalypse scenario the zombies will probably be just one war crime out of many, Half Life 2 style, so it must be assumed that if you manage to fortify a location against zombies, that fortification is probably getting noticed by a drone and bombed or similar after not too long. Therefore instead of holing up, it would be a better strategy to focus on offense instead of defense in some way.

Probably not, sounds terrifying.

A rule of thumb I think is good for most sorts of investment is, what choice can you feel good about making whether or not it works out? I can handle not getting 1k, but I would feel like a real chump missing out on an easy 1m without giving my best effort. If I pick just the mystery box and win, I feel like that win is deserved. If I pick just the mystery box and I walk away with nothing, then at least I don’t have to live with the shame of being a 2-boxer, which is more valuable than $1k. If I pick both boxes, I most likely get a little bit of money and a lifetime of bitter regrets, or in the less likely case get 1.001 million dollars and a sense of having barely avoided disaster and not really “deserving” it. Choosing only the mystery box is the clear choice because it is the choice I am more able to handle having made, on an emotional level.

If you are in the US, and the risk you’re concerned about is getting in trouble, yes it is enough, provided you use it correctly. The only real risk is that copyright trolls will scrape your IP while you are torrenting along with the rest of a big list and then automatically send complaints to your ISP, which may then send you a threatening email, or shut off your internet if it happens enough times. The fact that this is the only action they are taking against consumer level pirates means that if your home IP is not itself available to torrent peers, you are entirely immune from anything happening.

Just make sure to bind your torrent client to your VPN, this is the accepted way of safely ensuring your IP cannot leak due to your VPN losing connection.

Afaik it is anonymous (to other users if not to the devs, I also haven’t played the sequel), though not entirely public as there’s some opaque mechanism determining what you see or don’t see, and content isn’t visible to people who don’t have the game. Have you thought about strategies for sibyl resistance? This is a big thing I think it gets right, there is a built in filter, and simultaneously little incentive to maliciously bypass it.

Check out the “game” Kind Words, kind of a similar concept.