He also used an AI video to hide his location.

Yeah, all it takes is for others in power to either not despise them or recognize that connecting with them anyway allows continued execution of their power.

The rest will fall in line with the right motivation.

I had to put my Prusa i3 mk3s+ in storage for about a year when I was looking for a bigger place. I tucked it under the couch’s cushions when I moved from the east coast to the Rockies, and literally only had to blow the dust off the build plate before I was able to print again.

I can’t imagine most other printers going through that without needing at least a recalibration or leveling.

That reason alone will have me strongly considering Prusa when looking for my next printer.

With the rapid rise in accessible media tuned to everyone’s personal preference there’s not really a single artist that is capturing attention across the board, but that doesn’t mean there’s not protest bangers from several artists:

• Dropkick Murphys
• Grandson
• Durry
• Otep

I’m quite fond of my spouse and our pet cat.

I don’t know if all of these are scandals, but certainly bad behavior:

1. Banned interracial dating until 1999 and kind of held the position that they were right to do so until 2008.
2. Kicked out a lot of people for being gay, but the girls handing out blowies were fine since they repented.
3. Kicked out some dude for watching Glee (to be fair he was a bit of a trouble maker and this was the straw that broke the camel’s back)
4. Smoke bombs in the dorm at 2am
5. Installed Chuck Phelps on their board which helped spark an independent investigation about the school’s response to accusations of sexual assault. The school cancelled the investigation prior to release of the findings but eventually reversed that decision after a lot of pressure. The investigation found that the school would blame victims, accusing them of bitterness and breaking up their families by reporting incidents to the police.

• The reason Chuck Phelps kicked this thing off is because a member of his church, Ernest Willis, raped an underage age girl (I will call her V for victim, but her name is public if you care to find it). V was kicked out of the church’s highschool (not my school, btw) and forced to stand in front of the congregation and publicly apologize for her part in being raped. Despite V’s wishes to see through her pregnancy while living with her grandparents Chuck Phelps worked with V’s parents to send her to a pastor friend of his in Colorado where she was instructed not to tell anyone about the circumstances of her pregnancy. Chuck Phelps then sent out a survey to a number of religious families in an attempt to help V find an adopted home for her child. That’s fine except the survey was sort of a grade on the potential new families religiousness, so V’s child was basically raised in the same manufactured hell that lead to her situation.

6. Girl was repeatedly raped by her pastor grandfather. When he was eventually arrested her pastor father gladly continued the family tradition.
7. Kid converted to Christianity and realizing his abuse of prescription pills was a sin he turned himself in and asked for help. He was expelled immediately for abusing drugs.
8. Kid died of cancer and was heralded as a saint. Another girl was strangled to death by her boyfriend in the back seat of his car. Her tomb was vandalized by his friends after he was arrested. The school never acknowledged her death. Cancer gets you multiple chapel services and a day off to go to funerals and vigils, but murder gets you ignored.

• That same girl had some problems with drugs in the past and had served a stint in juvi for a possession charge, but she had really turned her life around and was an absolute delight to everyone who knew her. She had the best laugh and I’m glad we got to be friends. If there’s a heaven I’m sure she’s smiling playing the same guitar she got in trouble for owning. Also writing this made me miss her more. Fuck that shit. EDIT: Apparently her mother started a push to revisit domestic violence legislation and justice and has been working with a women’s shelter to this day to try and prevent anyone else suffering as her daughter did. Props to her mom and if you find yourself in a dangerous situation please seek help. There are resources for you, many anonymous. And if you’re in a situation to donate or help others, just do it.

9. My cousin got expelled . . . twice . . . for “smoking weed. Like A LOT of weed!”

Then I changed schools.

1. Pedos in the administration
2. Girl got run over while J-Walking and died not too long after
3. Someone’s throat was randomly slit open on the main walkway as part of a gang initiation
4. Group of students were holding a protest which involved stepping on the flag of the United States. A self righteous attention seeker who had been formerly dis-honorably discharged from the military stole their flag and was making statements about how no-one should ever disrespect the flag. In response there was a minor black panthers movement and a student published a manifesto about how all people are children of Africa therefore we are all Africans and black people need to rise up and start killing all white people and that we was going to bring a gun to school on a certain day. He brought a gun that day, but because he had the foresight to broadcast his plans in a very public manifesto the police had their eye on him. He ended up abandoning his bag with a gun once he noticed the police and fled across state lines. He was caught within a week (I think he was turned in by one of his friends).

On a “respond to an individual query” level, yeah it’s not that much. But prior to response the data center had to be constructed, the entire web had to be scraped, the models trained, the servers continually ran regardless of load. There’s also way too many “hidden” queries across the web in general from companies trying to summarize every email or product.

All of that adds to the energy costs. This equivocation is meant to make people feel less bad about the energy impact of using AI, when so much of the cost is in building AI.

Furthermore, that’s the median value–the one that falls right in the middle of the quantity of queries. There’s a limit to how much less energy a query to the left of the median can use; there’s a significantly higher runway to the right of the median for excess energy use. This also only accounted for text queries; images and video generation efforts are gonna use a lot more.

There are zero downsides when mentally associating an energy hog with “1 second of use time of the device that is routinely used for minutes at a time.”

https://xkcd.com/1035/

It’s a good thing the users have control over which updates happen when!

And the whole “suicide” thing … I make stuff for myself, and I make stuff for companies. The stuff for me doesn’t need to last forever, it’s not supposed to–I’ll let that shit linger and lapse and that part of the web die. You’re not entitled to it and you’re not entitled to know what it was or engrave it for time eternal.

Maybe there’s an argument on the corporate side regarding hosting specs or installs for old products, but for my wedding website (after the wedding) or personal organizer who cares?

Precisely one reason comes to mind to have ROBOTS.TXT, and it is, incidentally, stupid - to prevent robots from triggering processes on the website that should not be run automatically. A dumb spider or crawler will hit every URL linked, and if a site allows users to activate a link that causes resource hogging or otherwise deletes/adds data, then a ROBOTS.TXT exclusion makes perfect sense while you fix your broken and idiotic configuration.

Actually the one reason is I don’t care about growing my hobby project to global scale and don’t really want it to be archived or searchable. I’d rather share it with a few friends and let it take it’s course naturally. Of course you’re not entitled to my info so I guess feel free to archive my login page you inconsiderate company failing to respect my instructions on how to use my assets.

Heaven’s Gate

• I ask a website for content.
• The website gives me content and a side of shit.
• I instruct my intelligent butler to discard the shit and only give me the content I requested.
• I get only the content I requested.

If a website wants to run ads that’s fine, I’ll just remove them. If they want to gate their content behind a paywall that’s fine, I’ll just make a determination about whether or not what they offer is worth it.

Removing ads is not “breaking a website” if anything it’s the exact opposite–restoring a cleaner layout, faster loading, less privacy invasion, and a reduced chance of malware.

“Chomp” is a variant of “champ”, in some regions even having the same pronunciation. They are both valid and acceptable variants for the phrase.

Some right wing hate groups have adopted the character as part of their tribal language. For some this was enough to tarnish the character in its entirety via guilt by association. Beyond simply using the common meme format within their communities, however, it has been redrawn many times with aged racist stereotypes (such as overly exaggerated lips or noses)–in a sense there are explicitly bigoted “rare Pepes.”

All in all the original meme is not hate speech, and many of its uses and references across diverse communities are not intrinsically hateful, but in hate filled communities it is used extensively and absolutely has racist caricatures associated with it. It’s a dog whistle.

Does that mean creators can now swear in the first 30 seconds?

My family always told me that I’d grow more conservative and want a family of my own as I grow older.

As I aged I went from ambivalence toward politics and kids to decidedly anti-conservative and anti-kid.

You know your own feelings on the matter more than your family does, and letting your family dictate how you live your life will lead to resentment and misery.

Her parents bought it for $1,000,000.

Any time I see one of these fauxspirational stories about young people pursuing their dreams or working hard on a fantastic enterprise I always try to find out how they’re able to afford, say, buying and renoing a theater at the age of 26 when the rest of us are scraping by. So far it’s always been rich parents.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love for all of us to have rich parents willing to bankroll our passions and allow us some freedom sans-struggle, but that’s just not what people are going through.

I hate how detached these stories are from most people and it just serves as fodder for not feeling good enough or successful by 30.

Relying on a small child to stay on the ground in order to not accidentally kill themselves is a great way to end up with a dead kid.

Furniture should be anchored to a wall, guns locked in safes with the safety enabled and ammo removed, drugs in child resistant packaging locked in a cabinet, drawers and cabinets secured, etc.

Kids climb stuff, get into things, find things they shouldn’t, AND they emulate what they see their parents do. Putting something out of reach is nowhere near secure enough.

Guns should also be left in the open for children to play with since we’re on the topic of easy things we can change to threaten the life of those that may not know better yet!