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sobchak

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  • Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UK

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  • Yeah, that could also provide an incentive for companies to produce stuff in ways that reduce carcinogens, yet still have some amount. I think traditional bacon that doesn't use synthetic curing salts contain less nitrates, for example.

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  • Buying them a house seems pretty extreme. A shitty used car and paying for a shitty small studio apartment would've been fine, IMO. Sounds like you are providing luxury rather than just supporting them. Idk if going directly into private practice is advisable or not. People tend to not appreciate things given to them as much as what they feel they've worked for. Not sure what people should do. What you're doing is probably better then just putting your excess resources into financial instruments I suppose. I don't agree with the idea parents should let their kids struggle greatly when they don't have to either.

  • Trump considering plans to target cocaine facilities inside Venezuela, officials say

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  • Venezuela isn't even a major source of cocaine or even a major transit route for it.

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  • Meh, I've lived similarly (trailer parks, a garage, slum apartments, etc) and know people that still do live similarly. It can be quite stressful and demoralizing struggling to just try to meet your basic needs. I'm not really trying to pass judgement, I just found it strange the artist included things that could be seen as contradicting the narrative. I haven't met anyone that was happy living like this, and it really takes a toll on people.

    Well, I guess I have met some people in a small commune-like thing living in sheds, an old broken down school-bus, etc. They seemed "ok" with stuff like dumpster-diving for most of their food. They were definitely not the norm though, and were fortunate to have free housing/land that couldn't really be taken away.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • Here's the toot:

    @light The funding by FUTO sadly led to the forced renaming: https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html

    That new project does not have privacy as a goal.

    We (Hyphanet) are fully volunteer-driven now. #Hyphanet has been working pretty well for the past two decades and is continuing to move forward. Features:

    • websites
    • Microblog (Sone)
    • Chat (FLIP: IRC server)
    • Forums (FMS)
    • decentralized database

    ⇒ https://www.hyphanet.org/ @caten

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • Kinda weird it says they're happy, yet don't appear to have the motivation to pick up the trash around their trailer, and seem to be coping with their situation with drugs.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • I've heard it said they forced Freenet to stop focusing on anonymization, which caused a fork and name change of the original Freenet to Hyphanet.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • I'm guessing Rossmann has problematic political beliefs that he, fortunately, doesn't talk much about publicly. It looks like he was a Destiny fan.

  • The regime's paramilitary pull over woman, threaten to arrest her for allegedly trying to "impede" by following them while driving in Illinois

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  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • Yeah, can't be GPU-intensive, but with modern CPUs, virtualization is pretty cheap. One application I had to use was Altium, and its 3d view was pretty laggy under a VM. I prefer KiCad. VMs seem easier than dual-boot to me, but that might just be out of familiarity.

  • Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

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  • For these large businesses, I imagine they get favorable deals, and all the executives probably know each other and scratch each-other's backs. For smaller businesses, AWS can decrease time-to-market, it's easy to find people who are already familiar with it, and is seen as less risky than going with some smaller provider. Though, I hate the "cloud" with a passion, and whenever I'm given the choice, I avoid it. It's quite a bit cheaper in the long run to avoid cloud providers too. On one long project I worked on, we hadn't had downtime on any of our VPSs longer than a couple minutes over the course of 8 years.

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    Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol

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  • Hmm, looks like he was prejudice 10 years ago, and perhaps a white supremacist before that. But, he called rural-whites racist more recently (and they definitely are more racist in aggregate), so looks like his POV changed. IDK, that seems fine to me.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • VMs are a solution too, depending on what you use each OS for. I've worked some jobs where my main work machine was Linux, but would sometimes need to use Windows-only software, and would just run it on a VM.

  • Are there any decent GPT-detection tools that can be run locally?

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  • Excessive use of em-dashes, emojis, and other characters that aren't on standard keyboards. I think these companies purposely have the models generate this stuff so it is easily detectable (so they avoid training on their own slop).

  • My hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOME

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  • I only found that out within the last year. I've been pronouncing it like in-jinx for about a decade.

  • Why the fuck does it cost money to get smarter??

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  • Formal education can be good for guidance. For learning the "unknown unknowns" as a famous scholar once said. Also, in terms of career, networking is the most important thing. The world is built on nepotism, unfortunately.

  • Tor Browser says no to Firefox's AI features as it removes them

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  • Mullvad browser is probably the most restrictive non-Tor browser. I like Librewolf; has a good compromise on usability and privacy, IMO. I've been using Tor a bit more lately, and it wasn't extremely slow like I remember either, just have to deal with a lot of Captchas and Cloudflare. The NSA and CIA must have beefed up the network :)

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    Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • Many distros have pretty comprehensive and up to date wikis (Arch and Debian for example). LLMs have a lot of out of date info as well, even the big proprietary ones. I can see how they might help a newcomer though, with how bad search engines are now (ironically, a lot of the problems are from AI generated articles SEO'd to hell).