Hank Green makes a great slogan point:

“Gerrymandering is when the people in power get to choose their voters, instead of voters getting to choose the people in power”

LibreWolf is what FireFox was supposed to be: no VPN ads, no telemetry, no AI, uBlockOrigin built in. It’s literally the latest FF release, but with the crap ripped out and decent privacy installed.

https://librewolf.net/

“b00bies”

I’m pissed that so many people went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon

Yeah I wanted to check for that but didn’t find it in ~60 seconds of clicking around

But your question prompted me to ask Perplexity, who said:

Estimating the active number of users on Dreaddit (usually called “Dread”), the darknet’s Reddit-style forum, is challenging due to the platform’s anonymous and illicit nature. However, several reputable reports, including cybersecurity analyses and investigative journalism, provide the most credible figures currently available:

User Estimates: As of late 2023, Dreaddit/Dread reportedly surpassed 200,000 registered users. This figure comes from contemporary cyber intelligence briefings and video analyses, which note that while this community size does not rival mainstream platforms, it is substantial for a darknet forum accessible only via Tor or I2P.

Growth and Activity: Dread reached 12,000 users within its first three months in 2018, and by June 2018, it cited 14,683 users. Since then, significant growth has occurred, with user counts likely fluctuating in response to cybercrime trends, law enforcement actions, and DDoS attacks, but reliable reporting indicates the active number has stabilized in the six-figure range since 2022.

That Battlefield Tsar one is indeed epic. I like programming to Epic music sometimes it feeds my fantasies. Plus the vocals are sufficiently muted and possibly not English so I don’t find them distracting

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yeah all that “quantitative objective science” liberal BS

/s

Oh god how do we share a planet with these troglodytes

Tangerine Dream. The soundtrack for my programming life.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mp7n8bX8d2g

Hear me out: Stellaris soundtrack

https://youtube.com/watch?v=U9Tnppi4bZ0

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones

-Shakespeare

That’s sort of its whole point, yes

Well there’s Dread, the most active subdread has almost 500k subscribers

“Our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us, everyone will die.” -Software Engineer, xkcd

Some people like being unpaid OnlyFans models whose intimate details go to corporations instead of pervy guys

It’s awesome but that 128k context window is a throwback to Llama3 days

I bet the closed $ource model has like 2MB context

Yet another USAian here. I’m doing my part to stand with my EU allies!

You do realize that to maintain the natural balance there need to be billions of bacteriagirls for every beaver girl

I work at an IT company that handles VAERS info.

Fun fact that I wish had been more widely broadcast during the Pandemic:

We were 100% sure the Moderna mRNA COVID vax was safe for pregnant women the very first day it was approved for general use.

How?

During the initial “first responders only” phase, when only EMTs, doctors, and nurses were getting vaccinated, there were several thousand women who had recently become pregnant but were not yet aware of it. Once they learned of their status, of course they were tracked much more closely.

So we had a “natural experiment” at a scale far larger than most stage-3 human trials, of how the vaccine affects pregnant women and their babies.

Executive summary: it prevents the mom and the baby from getting super sick, from having complications, and from death.

IOW, while RFK is blocking pregnant mothers from getting mRNA vaccines due to health concerns and demanding studies, THE STUDIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN DONE

Ditto. But I am taking my time. I am on the free tier; I cost him money. I’ll move off eventually probably to Tutanota unless something better shows up