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A few months ago, yeah. Had to set an environment variable(added to the ollama systemd unit file), but otherwise it worked just fine.

Bit disappointed there's no 16gig(or more) version. But absolutely thrilled the rumours of Intel discrete graphics' demise were wildly exaggerated(looking at you, Moore's Law is Dead...).

Very happy with my A770. Godsend for people like me who want plenty VRAM to play with neural nets, but don't have the money for workstation GPUs or massively overpriced Nvidia flagships. Works painlessly with linux, gaming performance is fine, price was the first time I haven't felt fleeced buying a GPU in many years. Not having CUDA does lead to some friction, but I think nVidia's CUDA moat is a temporary situation.

Prolly sit this one out unless they release another SKU with 16G or more ram. But if Intel survives long enough to release Celestial, I'll happily buy one.

Right, GHB is an interesting one. It's always fascinated me how most recreational drugs are a wonderdrug for at least one medical condition. There are a couple of exceptions of course. Like synthetic cannabinoids. But even ethanol can be used as an antidote for methanol poisoning.

For me it's amphetamine. I have severe dehabilitating ADHD-C and lisdexamphetamine has completely changed my life.

Purely out of curiosity, which drug is this, if you don't mind me asking?

Amphetamine(which is what benzedrine was) is pretty overrated as a weight loss drug in the general population. It causes a short window of reduced appetite and probably increased catabolism(due to increased heart rate) which peters out after a couple weeks on the same dose. That leads to a short period of rapid weight loss that pretty much grinds to a complete halt, after which regaining the lost weight is quite typical.

On the other hand, if like me, you have ADHD and weight issues, it could be more helpful. Because it could treat your ADHD enough to help you actually establish and follow a structured diet and exercise regime. Especially if your ADHD includes impulsivity. The last time I was on lisdex treatment, I lost about 5kg from the initial boost, a lot of it was probably water weight. Then I managed to cut about 30kg later with calorie counting and regular cardio.

So the physical effects themselves are largely a pisstake.

Archangel does indeed look like a fun one. Lots of good options in the Ruy Lopez really. The Open Spanish and the Marshall gambit can be a lot of fun too.

Funnily enough I actually play the Italian as white, but I don't play the boring c3 d3 lines. After 3. Bc4 Bc5 I play 0-0 and on Nf6 play d4. exd4 e5 transposes to the Max Lange and Bxd4 Nxd4 Nxd4 Bg5 gets into the Italian gambit which is very sharp. My main issue is that on 4. 0-0 d6, d4 doesn't really offer much. I've been playing a "deferred Evans" with b4 and getting some fun positions that way though. I'm also working on learning the minutiae of 2. Bc4 so I never have play a Petrov ever again...

At least it's not the Alapin(2. c3). As a sicilian player from the black side this is like half my games now and I'm considering switching to some other defence because it's boring me to death. Not sure what I'd go for though, feels like the sicilian is the only non-dubious defence to e4 to offer real fighting positions. Caro-kann is passive, French is pretty passive unless they play Nc3 and you get the Winaver, Scandi is a snoozefest, and the Petrov is frankly disgusting in its lack of ambition. Two Knight's defence is very fun if they play Ng5 or d4 but now everyone's playing d3 to make the game as boring as possible.

I guess I'm stuck with the Sicilian. If anyone knows a way to make the Alapin wild and tactical as black, I'm listening.

The most surprising thing to me in this is that the non-profit will still exist. Not sure what the point of it is anymore. Taken as a whole, OpenAI is now just a for-profit entity beholden to investors and Sam Altman as a shareholder. The non-profit is really just vestigial.

I guess technically it's supposed to play some role in making sure OpenAI "benefits humanity". But as we've seen multiple times, whenever that goal clashes with the interests of investors, the latter wins out.

As someone who's actually used Tor for illegal activities(buying drugs) this is completely missing the point. Criminals generally are not thinking about doing something completely risk free. The dumb ones don't consider risk at all, because they're desperate/addicted, and just hope/assume they won't get caught. More clever ones assume they'll be caught and try to make conviction less likely.

For instance, for buying drugs, the ordering isn't the risky bit. Receiving it in the mail is. Even if tor was magically "100% safe" the crime overall wouldn't be. The point of using tor is not to eliminate all risk, it's just to decouple payment from reception. I had my drugs intercepted by customs once, but they couldn't prove I ordered them, so they dropped the case. I'm sure it might've been possible for them to prove it if they spent a lot of resources trying to trace crypto transfers and so on, but police only do that if the fish is big enough because they're resource constrained.

Tor is just another tool criminals can use to reduce risk. It's not perfect, but for most things it's the best thing available.

There's something off about doing it for profit though. And there's plenty of reporting out there that shows his philanthropy isn't all it's cracked up to be in many cases.

It's also silly to imply that simply doing some philanthropy somehow washes out anything bad you might have done. Often philanthropy is precisely a PR exercise to distract from that stuff.

Dogpack404 is a former mrbeast employee currently exposing mrbeast for varying misconduct, such as faking his videos, running illegal lotteries through his videos, doing a crypto pump n dump, making fraudulent claims about his merch, inhumane treatment of contestants and harbouring multiple sex offenders at his company. The list goes on and Dogpack404 is not the only one currently exposing things like this, but is maybe the most prominent.

People just got really good at it. As a meme, the Game is sort of self destructive that way.

A lot of this anti-adblock nonsense is also blocked by Ublock Origin nowadays. I can't remember the last time a webpage succeeded in bricking itself intentionally, though I do occasionally get accidental cases where the website is just poorly designed and hangs because of shitty javascript failing to load some tracker links. Usually payment flows. Though it's pretty painless to just disable UBO for a few seconds in those cases. I'd rather have to click that button every now and again than have almost every website be unusable all of the time, but you do you.

Yeah, definitely no magical thinking here. Nothing is free. Computers cost money and energy. Infrastructure costs money and energy. Even if no human is in the loop(who says this is even desirable?), all of the things you mention require infrastructure, computers, materials. Meaning there's a cost. Also, the idea that "AI law enforcement" is somehow perfect just goes to illustrates GP's point. Sure, if we define "AGI" as something which can do anything perfectly at no cost, then it has infinite value. But that's not a reasonable definition of AGI. And it's exactly the AI analogue of a perpetual motion machine.

You're welcome to do your own research.

As for naming accounts, it's not just "naming criminals". It's effectively equivalent to sharing CSAM if I'm telling people specifically where to find it. Even if I knew where, which I don't, I'd prefer not broadcast that information. And I'm not sure why you're so eager to learn specific account names. It's a pretty weird thing to ask for on a public forum, honestly.

You want me to share CSAM accounts? You realise you're asking me to commit a crime, right?

I don't know any such accounts because I don't go looking for such things. It's just a well known fact that Twitter has a CSAM problem. A quick google search will show you plenty of media coverage on that fact. It's also well known that moderation on Twitter has suffered under Musk due to massive layoffs.

Of course, most of this porn stuff is never seen by most users because it's not favoured by The Algorithm. I'm just pointing out it's definitely all there. As far as legal porn I'm generally in favour of it being allowed on most platforms.

Oh, there's a boatload of adult material on Twitter. It's also one of the main clearnet sites used to share CSAM links, unfortunately.

Twitter is kind of a cesspool, really. Even more so post Musk.

I regularly report scam ads as well as obvious catfishing friend requests from obviously fake accounts whose only post is a sketchy URL to some "sex chat". Almost all of the reports are rejected.

It seems obvious to me that Meta's moderation is mostly about pretending just enough for regulators to go away, and no more. Hell, Meta probably indirectly makes money from these scams by targeting more scams at the people who fall for them, at a premium. Meta makes money, scammers make money, regulators are content. It's a win-win-win.

Actually, HN has a much better system. Comments from new accounts, like your throwaway, are dead by default, but any user can opt in to seeing dead posts, and any user with a small amount of karma can vouch those posts, reviving them. Like I just did to your post.

The comments I made were quite serious and civil. Not sure what you mean. They were autodeleted by a bot. I wasn't trolling or anything.

I'm not particularly interested in spending a lot of time posting on reddit. But very occasionally I'll come across a thread I can contribute meaningfully to and want to comment. Even if allowed I'd probably just make a couple comments a year or something. But I guess the site isn't set up for that, so fuck it.

In the cases I remember there was no such recourse. It was just autodeleted by a bot.

That's silly. I gotta go shitpost in subreddits I have no interest in as some sort of bizarre rite of passage? I'd rather just not use the site at that point.

I've actually given up trying to post on Reddit for this reason. Whenever I've tried to join in on a discussion in some subreddit that's relevant(eg r/chess) my post has been autoremoved by a bot because my karma is too low or my account is "too new". Well how can I get any karma if all my posts are deleted?

Yeah, it turns out applying updates during boot is bad design. I'm sure plenty of people at MS realise it is, but I guess they don't care enough to fix it.

This sort of thing is exactly why I have automatic updates disabled on my Windows partition. I've been burned so many times by bad Windows updates breaking stuff. My favourite is when stuff breaks during the "configuring updates" stage after a reboot, leaving Windows in a boot loop with no error codes or anything to help you figure it out. And of course the documentation from MS is utter garbage. Most of the time the only solution I found was to reinstall Windows.

Now I always google around a bit before applying any fresh Windows updates to see of there's any breakage reported.

People use WD-40 for anal?

For 1, there might be settings that can help.

I used to use mplayer(of which mpv is a fork) to watch pirate streams of premier league games several years ago, via acestream. Since this was live, lag was a real issue; you can't buffer ahead when there's nothing to buffer yet. Eventually I figured out that mplayer had settings to do things like buffer for 2 minutes at the beginning of the stream before playing. You could also configure it by megabytes pre-buffered. This solved my lag issues very neatly. I can't remember what the settings were, it's been a long time and I don't have those config files anymore. But it should all be in the docs somewhere.

I guess the closest thing to what you're describing is either conkeror(javascript) or nyxt(common lisp).

I'm not sure what you're even suggesting here. First of all, according to the canadian government[1], euthanasia is not currently permitted in cases only involving mental illness. It's been delayed twice already, currently until 2027, and may be delayed further or scrapped entirely in the future for all we know.

Second, what would they be testing? Drugs for their condition? That wouldn't apply to the type of situation necessary for euthanasia under Canadian law[2]:

>To be considered as having a grievous and irremediable medical condition, you must meet all of the following criteria. You must:

1. have a serious illness, disease or disability

2. be in an advanced state of decline that cannot be reversed

3. experience unbearable physical or mental suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline that cannot be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable

If there was an experimental treatment that might actually help them, these criteria would not apply.

If you're suggesting safety testing of drugs for other illnesses, that's extremely unethical and I seriously doubt the medical community would be willing to do it, even with consent. And I seriously doubt a number of people large enough to give meaningful results would consent in the first place. It's also of dubious usefulness because any treatment intended for disease X might have its safety profile and risk/benefit analysis altered by the presence or non-presence of X.

1: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-servi...

2: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-servi...

That's an interesting theory, though it doesn't match my experience. My cat tends to bring the mouse inside through the flap, holding it in his mouth, and then will repeatedly grab it in his mouth, move somewhere else and let it out again. He has the option of killing it just by biting down at any moment.

My own hypothesis is that cats catch prey and play with them for a while as a way of getting more training per kill. They probably find some enjoyment in it, which is likely evolved as an incentive to practice. Cats are certainly well known for their playfulness, which tends to be stronger at a young age.

I suppose both theories might be true at different times, depending on the context or the prey. I guess mice aren't particularly capable of doing any real harm to a cat.