Because there are alot of ignorant people in the world afraid of what they perceive as different.

In your first two examples, regardless of not being politicians it’s clear that by helping put politicians in power they benefit, so whether they genuinely care or not, it’s just about money and lack of compassion to them. And continuing to drive class warfare continues to benefit them.

In your last example, I think that person is just in the ignorant and afraid of change category with an unfortunate amount of exposure.

Honestly one could probably make a comparison to a loan shark, you keep paying it off but the interest is so high and you keep borrowing more you just stay in debt and keep sinking deeper.

Sleep debt itself is a weird metric. You can’t “pay it back”, lost sleep is lost sleep, period.

The body doesn’t keep track, the body just complains. You might feel weird if there is a dramatic change to your sleep schedule.

Roguelikes and roguelites tend to be my favorite. Ones where each run is new and you can toy with different builds and usually get pretty OP toward the end (or get cut down early because luck wasn’t in your favor or you made a mistake).

A VPN is still a good choice, in fact if you setup your own VPN on a VPS that is an even safer choice because then you (sorta) control the certificate used for encryption. True, your hosting provider could still obtain that cert if they really wanted to, and they still have the data on your IP using it and for how long / how much, but it would make obtaining your data a targeted attack.

But there are cons to setting up your own, such as misconfiguration exposing you, or just the setup time in general.

A VPN introduces a new party who can harvest your data. It doesn’t avoid IP tracking, it just shifts it from your ISP to another entity.

You have to trust that your VPN provider’s claims of no logging/tracking are accurate, you can usually get fairly confident with research but it’s never 100%.

Edit: to clarify, I’m not trying to dissuade VPN use. It’s a still a great choice.

A not so funny story on a similar vein: roughly a week after my parent’s friends of a couple decades agreed to be named as our guardians, the husband announced, on April 1st, he was getting a divorce.

It wasn’t a terrible joke, he just chose the most inappropriate time to announce it.

He did get the raw end of that divorce in court though, the judge really didn’t like him after he brought his mistress to court.

Thanks for the correction and clarification! I just assumed from the open-r1 post that they gave everything aside from the training data.

Open source isn’t really applicable to LLM models IMO.

There is open weights (the model), and available training data, and other nuances.

They actually went a step further and provided a very thorough breakdown of the training process, which does mean others could similarly train models from scratch with their own training data. HuggingFace seems to be doing just that as well. https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1

Edit: see the comment below by BakedCatboy for a more indepth explanation and correction of a misconception I’ve made

There’s Filler Checker as well for those that don’t have such a collection.

Could be federation issues as mentioned, however I would double check your language settings to ensure you’re not hiding posts in Portuguese, though I would still expect some posts that don’t have the correct language / are in English to show (and undefined).

The thing that’s crazy is that if I followed the 2 “best practices” of verifying the phone number + getting them to send an email to you from a legit domain, I would have been compromised.

Since when was “verifying the phone number” a best practice? Phone number spoofing is still a thing and trivial to do, which is why the best practice is to call back once you verify the phone number matches whatever the company lists (or, preferably, call their main number).

I work an odd schedule - two jobs, one WFH Sat-Tue from 8PM to 3AM, then a hybrid (2 days WFH) dayjob (Mo-Fr) from 10AM to 6PM. It’s been this way on and off but so far I’m at over a year with this particular schedule, but I’ve had similar schedules in the past.

I would say I have a life, but my hobbies are more introverted anyway. Am I healthy? No, bit I wouldn’t say that’s entirely related to the schedule, I have other conditions.

It can be taxing at times but most of the time it’s just life.

I’m not familiar with the drama itself, but dansup is the creator of both Pixelfed and Loops.video.

As a resident that still angers me.

Despite have AI off as much as possible within our Google Workspace at work, today all of my coworkers have received multiple ads / prompts by Google to use Gemini. In Gmail, in Google Meet, and more. Our policies don’t allow us to use it so this is just ridiculous.

It was a messed up copy and paste. The article author is Zeyi Yang, the category is Business. And the rest probably came from some hidden content in his viewport when copied to the clipboard.

I don’t blame whoever did ban though, hopefully they’re willing to reverse it.

Personally, the meaning of life is the one hard coded into nature. Survive and reproduce.

What makes us “sentient” is that we can ignore that and choose our own, or none at all.

Not a DM / etc but our DM had us all fill in a horror questionnaire to gauge what can and cannot be included in campaigns. We never did run a horror TTRPG (yet) but it was a nice thought.

The impact of fires started by human error is increased due to climate change. Drier vegetation (and being dry in general) making for faster burning and more violent fires.

https://www.wri.org/insights/global-trends-forest-fires