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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • It doesn’t matter whether we believe her or not, it just matters that Trump has the sliver of doubt for his supporters to latch onto to ignore reality.

    Then if Democrats try to say, “why aren’t you upset that there are no Republicans or Trump being accused, this is obviously a coverup”, MAGAs can pivot to, “you’re just trying to stop your guys from being prosecuted. See, you’re the *real pedophile supporters, not us!”



  • Maxwell’s lawyer stated that the DoJ asked Maxwell about close to 100 people, prior to the administration trying to turn this the other way around and frame it as Maxwell “giving up” people on her own.

    Convicted Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell “was asked maybe about 100 different people” during a meeting with a top Department of Justice official in Florida on Friday, her lawyer said.

    “She literally answered every question. She didn’t say, You know what? Don’t ask me that. I’m not going to talk about this person,” Markus said about his client, who is serving a 20-year prison term for crimes related to procuring and grooming girls for Epstein to sexually abuse.

    “She was asked maybe about 100 different people. She answered questions about everybody, and she didn’t hold anything back,” he said.

    Remember this for when the “list”, if they ever release one, has no prominent Republicans or conservative donors on it. They will present this as “The Epstein List”, but it’s just their own list (and it’s compromised anyways given the potential pardon being kept in play).



  • co-op, base-building, and mech combat

    ah yes, just like Horizon Zero Dawn.

    Or is it just the ‘humans fighting giant machines’ part that they’re likening to Shadow of the Colossus Metal Gear Solid Horizon Zero Dawn?

    Jokes aside, the standard of “could confuse consumers into mistaking one for another” was meant to prevent things like essentially typo-squatting in product names, e.g. going and making Orao cookies, instead of Oreo (which is why Oreo was able to copy Hydrox).

    It wasn’t meant to just be about aping a concept or art style. No one would actually mistake “Light of Motiram” for “Horizon: Zero Dawn”.



  • I wonder how much this is short-term investors being very dominant in the market, and executive compensation being tied to short-term performance, colliding?

    If minimum holding times for a stock position were implemented (e.g. can’t sell for 2 years), or if executives were compensated based on e.g. 10 year performance of the company, I feel like this cycle of acquisitions and layoffs and trend/hype-humping would die quickly.







  • People need to understand the difference between LLMs and Neural Networks.

    LLM training is a massive energy hog that gives us nothing but the illusion of coherent human-made text.

    Non-LLM Neural Networks are much broader in use, almost always massively less energy-intensive to train, and often incredibly accurate when finely-tuned for specific purposes.

    LLMs can die in a fire, and nothing would be lost. NNs in general are incredibly useful and honestly a massive source of potential for bettering healthcare (and science research in general) globally.





  • My wanna-be-mr-robot friend and I were using lynx, elinks, and then browsh for a long time when we were experimenting with terminal-only linux laptop setups. Lynx and elinks are good for true text-only web browsing, but browsh is better if you want a more traditional web browser, but just inside a terminal window. It is actually running firefox headless in the background to render the pages, so it’s much more resource-heavy than others.

    There’s no real advantage to a terminal browser if you aren’t being forced to use one, in which case “having a browser” is the advantage, it’s just aesthetics (especially if you enjoy customizing your terminal themes, since you can make your lynx match it).


  • Yep, the issue for me isn’t the technical aspect, it’s more convincing any friends to actually do this too. I’ve set up a bunch of different services over the years for my friends and family, and no one uses them for very long. My dad actually asked me to set up an rPi jellyfin server inside his home network rather than use the one I host remotely. :/



  • I think they mean it’s similar to a one-way hash in that you can verify that the interference ‘fingerprint’ of someone when you see that pattern again, but you can’t identify a person from only the interference data, so for instance you could potentially have a database of targets to locate, and share only their wifi fingerprints with various other agencies to monitor for, without actually sharing their name, image, etc.

    Obviously surveillance as a general concept is inimical to privacy, irrespective of how it’s done.