[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 1 points 42 minutes ago

Exactly. It's one thing to claim "nice comes from Latin nescius meaning ignorant therefore nice means stupid" and another to say "octopus and helicopter mean the same thing because helicopter comes from helico- meaning helical or spiral and pter meaning wing."

Hehe, Nescius Moldbug.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 11 hours ago

Ooh, pants-on-head stupid semantics nonsense detected.

First, the government needs to be run top-down from the Oval Office. This is why we call it the “executive” branch. “Executive” is a literal synonym of “monarchical”—from “mono,” meaning “one,” and “archy,” meaning “regime.” “Autocratic” is fine too. The “executive branch” is the “autocratic branch,” or should be if English is English. Libs: if these words don’t mean what they mean, what do they mean?

Executive, as in pertaining to execution. Executing the the duties of a government as defined by legislation. Where the fuck did Curtsy get the impression that "executive" is somehow synonymous with "monarchical"? Did he mix it up with "exclusive"? Even corporations often have multiple executives with different roles.

Mr. Thiel you have so much fucking money couldn't you afford a fascist philosopher king who is more intelligent than this guy who thinks an "executioner" is a guy that makes you a dictator?

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 12 hours ago

It's weird how you can always find autocracy supporters in every era despite the overwhelmingly strong and incredibly obvious counterargument "what if the autocrat wants to do something you don't like"

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 19 hours ago

Excellent primer. It would fit well into this thread if you wanna link it there https://awful.systems/post/3935670

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 16 points 20 hours ago

To be fair, the typesetting of the papers is quite pleasant and the pictures are nice.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 16 points 21 hours ago

Oh, sorry, I got so absorbed into reading the riveting material about features predicting state name tokens to predict state capital tokens I missed that we were quibbling over the word "next". Alright they can predict tokens out of order, too. Very impressive I guess.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 20 points 21 hours ago

Essentially they do not simply predict the next token

looks inside

it's predicting the next token

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 22 hours ago

Alright fair enough. It's an iPhone. All the browsers on this thing are just Safari reskins (i.e. Chromium reskins). No browser add-ons allowed due to Apple's policy. I don't like it and I don't expect my next phone to be an Apple product. DNS based ad blocking helps a little bit.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 22 hours ago

"Trivially" fits nicely in a margin, too. Suck on that, Andrew and Pierre!

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 22 hours ago

You know what, yeah. It's a Blackberry Mobira Cityman Western Electric Model 500 Nokia 3310 Apple Banana Samsung Galaxy Supernova Explosion iNote Xperia Sidekick N-Gage 3G 4G 5G Pro Max. It's running whatever happens to be the hippest new privacy focused ROM that you haven't used. I need this particular model for my work and to access my bank and if I buy a second phone my dog will die.

If I personally justify to you that I've jumped through as many hoops on my end as possible, will you stop missing the point and realize the onus should not be on each individual end user to partially deshittify the web back into barely usable state?

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I didn't ask for advice, but the painkillers are kicking in so I forgive you. I was browsing the intertubes from my bed on my smart telephone. Marvelous, handy little devices these things. The only problem is they don't have a proper fucking version of Firefox available on them, only poor imitations that lack such necessities as ublock origin and whatnot.

This rant is about the way search engines have been kneecapped and searching for simple information on the web is now a massive hassle because some suit wearing bottom feeders with the moral backbone of crustacean thought they could squeeze a few more drops of our collective lifeblood on the unholy altar of mammon by poisoning the well and not even having the common decency to peddle a better cure than fucking markov chains. I don't have anything against content blockers, some of my worst enemies are javascripts, but a client side patch does not solve the problem of every major website (aside from maybe Wikipedia) relying on spyware as a business model, gaming the system to make search engines ignore better sites if there are any, giving a middle finger to regional regulations telling you not to rely on spyware as a business model, and burying whatever useful and relevant information may still be left in droning filler that reads like a middle schooler padding out their essay word count.

As tragically true as it is that intentionally maiming my web browser by disabling web features it's supposed to support in order to browse the actual website I'm browsing on the web with my web browser whose purpose is browsing websites enables it to browse the websites, that's only another item on a long list of reasons why and how the web has been ruthlessly defiled into the grotesque monstrosity it is now. Blessed be ad blocker developers, I hope their next move is inventing a time machine and preventing Google from purchasing DoubleClick in 2008. Preferably using violence.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 32 points 1 day ago

You're finally awake! That fall looked really bad. Cookies? SEO? What are you talking about? Let's go play some browser games on Miniclip.

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A tale of a man on the Internet who caught a cold

Based on a true story

Damn, the fever is down and the cough is easing up, but my nose feels like it's lined with sandpaper. What to do? Look it up!

Duck Duck Go: dry sinuses

Results:

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Duck Duck Go: dry sinuses !g

I'll just fucking ignore the AI answer before it tells me to eat glue. Oh, the results are the fucking same, but there's a Mayo Clinic in there. I know from experience that one has also cucked itself from the EU. Fine, I'll throw the Healthline link to archive.is

To verify you're not a robot, please click on tiny pixelated images of fire hydrants for five minutes while an actual robot pretends to know better than you what fire hydrants look like. Doesn't this make you so confident about self-driving cars?

One eternity of downloading later:

How to treat dry sinuses

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There are many ways you can treat dry sinuses at home to alleviate discomfort caused by seasonal allergies, irritation from chemicals, or drying from medications or dry air. To get relief, you can:

  • place a humidifier in your bedroom at night to keep the air from getting too dry
  • stop taking drying medications, such as antihistamines (or ask your doctor or pharmacist to help you choose something with fewer side effects)
  • drink plenty of water to stay hydrated get some fresh air if the air in your house is stale or stagnant
  • remove as many allergens and irritants from your environment as possible
  • irrigate your sinuses with sterile saline using a neti pot or similar product
  • use nasal spray to hydrate and lubricate your nasal passages and sinuses
  • take a hot shower and inhale the steam
  • diffuse essential oils like lavender, peppermint, or lemon for allergies

In some cases, your doctor might need to recommend treatment for your dry sinuses. Make an appointment with your doctor if you:

  • have an autoimmune disorder like Sjögren syndrome
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Alright, take it easy with antihistamines and dig out that nasal spray. Thanks, internet. This definitely needed all these steps to solve.

Edit: archive link to the actual article in case it'll save someone else a couple of minutes

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Now that AI got involved it's on topic for TechTakes I guess. Making a containment thread because there might be a lot to sneer about this.

Train wreck at Montparnasse Station, at Place de Rennes side (now Place du 18 Juin 1940), Paris, France, 1895.

Boring version of of the main story: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5345802

Skynet declares trade war on penguins: https://archive.is/Nn5MC

Reactionary news outlet celebrates 77% drop in stock price by taking everyone else down with them: https://bsky.app/profile/brianmfloyd.bsky.social/post/3lluybov3i22o

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OpenBSD 7.5 (www.openbsd.org)
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Safari, Chrome and Firefox on iOS (AKA three different Safari skins) keep logging me out when doing things like refreshing the page. Possible cache issues again? I hope I don't have to do a full browsing history reset yet again.

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Someone ported this 8-bit miniature Unix-like from Commodore to Nintendo.

The YouTube title is a little bit clickbaity, but the project is cool so I don't mind.

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Edward Snowden [blue checkmark] @snowden
Unpopular but true: Bitcoin is the most significant monetary advance since the creation of coinage.

If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.

Ed pls.

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Also a bunch of somewhat less heinous cringe shit.

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A follow-up to this TechTakes post

Saw this live at the congress. The presentation was great and the hall was packed. It was hard to find a seat in a huge auditorium even 15 minutes ahead of the talk.

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It was only a matter of time that we saw a TechTake from this guy. I'm sorry to inflict Peterson on y'all, but this was too funny not to post.

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Global outage on fetching posts. Funny enough, some features are still working as evidenced by the fact #TwitterDown is trending.

Two HN threads about this now, looking forward to some excellent takes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326

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Direct link to the video

B-b-but he didn't cite his sources!!

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A RISC-V assembly cracking board game. Can't comment on the gameplay experience, but what a cool idea.

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