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  • The lesson was "don't trust anybody, not even your own IT team"

  • The Witcher Season 4 Teaser Provides First Look At Liam Hemsworth As Geralt
    1. Nobody cares. 2. Wow, 2 seconds of his face. Not a single "hmm".
  • Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
  • Instead of my ID, I submitted a picture of dolphins and the text "So long and thanks for all the fish!". And never came back.

  • Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app
  • Jesus, what a bunch of needless "security". They're tickets to a concert, ffs. This is all for personal data mining.

  • Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns - and what that might mean
  • But people keep expecting them to do their math homework, analyze contracts, and generate perfectly valid content

    People expect that because that's how they are marketed. The problem is that there's an uncontrolled hype going on with AI these days. To the point of a financial bubble, with companies investing a lot of time and money now, based on the promise that AI will save them time and money in the future. AI has become a cult. The author of the article does a good job in setting the right expectations.

  • Why did they move the comments to the right
  • Hmm. Interesting extension. But for me, not being a heavy Youtube consumer, think I prefer to see the original title and clickbait thumbnail so I can avoid the over-the-top clickbaity stuff easier and not waste my time or give them bastards a view.

  • This Irish phone.
  • Yeah, missed opportunity that would have actually been useful at the time.

  • Why did Pablo Escobar dress like shit?
  • He wanted to be popular with the regular, poor people. He was throwing money left and right but always denied where his wealth came from. He wanted to come across as a self-made, honest man. Some believed it, or just weren't willing to accept the atrocities he was capable of. He was overthrowing the government, blaming it for everything that was bad in Colombia, and wanted to appear as a savior, hence the contrast he was creating by wearing simple outfits in certain public appearances. But he did also wear suits and shirts that were considered tasteful and fashionable at the time.

  • What is the difference between blocking and filtering?
  • I assume blocking is supported by the server so it should be more optimized / faster. Filtering is a client-side feature.

  • Whatโ€™s the last thing youโ€™ve done thatโ€™s made you ask โ€œAm I stupid?โ€
  • Added an extra shelf to my shoe rack today. After measuring, cutting, drilling, even made little notches below the shelf, barely putting the shelf in because of hinges in the way, vacuuming the mess, halfway packing up my tools and call it a successful day and... doors won't close because of the hinges on the doors hitting the shelf. Moved it 5mm lower after drilling another set of holes.

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  • There are websites detecting adblockers that instruct you to disable them in order to view the website. It's a constant game of cat and mouse between ad companies and adblockers.

    And I would like to not watch and hear 3 x 10 seconds unskippable ads when one of my parents wants to show me some 30 seconds funny cat fails clip on their phone.

  • Controller vs mouse in console games

    Am I the only one not being able to use a controller in first-person games that usually require a mouse to look around / shoot / etc?

    This is the reason I avoided buying and playing FPS games or ie Portal, BotW, etc. I find it clunky and first game I tried with sticks on the controller I dumped after the first 10 minutes and switched to playing on a PC, regretting spending the money.

    I just prefer scrollers or fixed-cam games for this reason.

    Maybe I'm old, but I don't get the 30-minus year-olds being so agile with it.

    Do you have any tips on improving myself on this?

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    Yumi Arai - Hikล-ki Gumo

    I've learned of Yumi Matsutoya (ๆพไปป่ฐท็”ฑๅฎŸ) / Yumi Arai by real name from the anime The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu).

    I don't normally watch anime, but big studios like Gibli and directors like Hayao Miyazaki are the exception. A few songs from Yumi made to my playlist since then.

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    Building an 8-bit computer on breadboards

    I highly recommend Ben Eater's channel. He's a good teacher, took his time and dedicated months to build quality content in video format, which is a rarity on Youtube these days.

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