The ad sounded extremely ... off. The voices had the shitty mic scratchiness that I'd come to expect from a fresh 2010 YouTuber. The scene was abysmally acted, sounding like if someone with zero training was told to "speak with emotion"... wait is it autoplag?
Asahi Lina posts about not feeling safe anymore. Orange site immediately kills discussion around post.
For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.
I can't share any more information at this time, so please don't ask for more details. Thank you.
The grad student survives [torturing rats] by compartmentalizing, focusing their thoughts on the scientific benefits of the research, and leaning on their support network. I’m doing the same thing, and so far it’s going fine.
printf("HELP I AM IN SUCH PAIN")
guys I need someone to talk to, am I justified in causing my computer pain?
their browser vanadium seems like a good chromium fork and a fine webview implementation but lacks an effective ad blocker, which makes it unsafe to use if your threat model includes, you know, the fucking obvious. the graphene devs will shame you for using anything but it or brave though, and officially recommend using either a VPN with ad blocking or a service like NextDNS since they don’t seem to acknowledge that network-level blocking isn’t sufficient
No firefox with ublock origin? Seems like that would be the obvious choice here (or maybe not due to Mozilla's recent antics)
Machine translation was the original purpose of the transformer architecture, and I guess it was unreasonably good at it compared to the existing state-of-the-art RNNs or whatever they were doing before.
holy fuck
Interesting study, but I am skeptical that this result applies to the general population (without the "convicted" qualifier).
If non-whites are more violently criminal than whites, then we can expect them to be imprisoned earlier in life for any violent crime, of which pedophilia will be a small subset.
So we have more convicted white paedos because ....... the coloreds do more crimes??! what in the actual fuck did I just read?
were you not paying attention or have you already forgotten that Honey is scamming the very content creators who shilled it (and others) by hijacking their affiliate links via cookie stuffing? By using Honey you're actively fucking over people who get income from affiliate marketing.
The brilliant minds at the orange site have discovered what's stifling research: Academics don't know how to use JSON! Surely, forcing every graduate student to go through a webdev bootcamp is the solution.
ah good point. He reads "mature and excellent at communication" as a self-description. After that, there's absolutely no way he can resist writing himself into both characters.
Impressive how someone can be so bad at writing after writing so, so much.
"Somebody must be doing something." - everyone lol. The US is cooked, maybe not immediately but say goodbye to hegemony, goodbye to whatever shred of upward mobility remained, and goodbye to the possibility of retirement.
the funny thing about this quote is that you can post it under anything mildly outrageous and tons of people will go "mhmmm yes that's me the critical thinker" regardless of their actual mental faculties.
can you imagine being a Democrat congressperson who actually wants to do something useful for people and having to listen to this? I'd probably just resign.
hey hey hey, at least the US is genociding brown people by proxy. You gotta give us that at least.
yeah but this isn't about judicial review
I don't think I could ever recommend chromium-based browsers due to the MV3 switch. Does ungoogled-chromium do any patching to get around this? If not I think FF is the only sane option still.
I love how srid deflects by claiming no one has reported bad outcomes from the "meat and butter" diet... I found an endless stream of anecdotes from Google, like this.
can you imagine sneak, of all people, telling you you're crazy and probably being right?
eh? I don't see Jackie D's keynote in the schedule, did the threat of a sit-in make them delete it? https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/ edit: oh, it's linked from Drew's post.
After the Honduran president repealed a law granting unfettered authority to outside investors, the crypto groups took the dispute to World Bank arbitration court.
https://archive.ph/RSQ9T
TL;DR: new regime in honduras is hostile to our dearest libertarian crypto bros, asserts sovereignty and tells them where to stick it.
> A group of prominent international economists is applauding the recent move by Honduran President Xiomara Castro to push back against American crypto investors attempting to seize billions in public money from the Central American nation.
Background:
> A group of libertarian investors teamed up with a former Honduran government — which was tied at the hip with narco-traffickers and came to power after a U.S.-backed military coup — in order to implement the world’s most radical libertarian policy, which turned over significant portions of the country to those investors through so-called special economic zones. The Honduran public, in a backlash, ousted the narco-backed regime, and the new government repealed the libertarian legislation. The crypto investors are now using the World Bank to force Honduras to honor the narco-government’s policies.
[ image of cryptobros making the face Wil E Coyote makes after running off a cliff ]
> The crypto investors are now using the World Bank to force Honduras to honor the narco-government’s policies.
> [Castro] has hit upon an elegant solution: She has taken steps to withdraw Honduras from ICSID. The crypto crowd is crying foul.
> Among the dozens of signatories to the Progressive International praising Castro’s decision to exit the arbitration court are prominent South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang; Chilean Gabriel Palma, of the “Palma Ratio of inequality”; American economist Jeffrey Sachs; former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis; British economist Ann Pettifor; and Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh.
Predictably, the international community is going "LOL"
You may be asking, who's winning in all of this?
> In its case before the ICSID, Próspera retained a top lobbying firm, employing former Democratic lawmaker Kendrick Meek, to pressure Honduras to pay up.