But the bonus to AC is so nice…

You’re the expert!

How much pig would a guinea pig guinea if a guinea pig could guinea pigs?

I once tasked the AI DeepSeek

The building of a distro to achieve

With while true ; do beep ; done

As PID 1

AI dubbed the poor distro “Kill Me”

Are you thinking of AlternativeTo?

If just one of them turns out to be true they can call me up and rub it in my face.

I tried something somewhat like this once.

He’d constantly be like “something big is coming very soon, just wait.” And I kept pressing him for “due dates”. Like by what date are you 99% sure “it” (like, official announcements that ETs have been living among us disguised as humans since the 60s or whatever) will have happened? Because if he gives a date, I can finally nail him down and say “hey, so, you were wrong, see? The incorrectness of your prediction is some amount of disconfirming evidence right?”

So when he finally did tell me a “due date” for one of his conspiracy theories, I kept that in the forefront of my brain. He said that Trump would arrest “thousands” of high-profile Democrat pedophiles engaged in child sex trafficking within a year after his first term in office started.

Well, it happened! Not really. All the right-wing news outlets vastly misrepresented an FBI sex trafficking bust that had nothing to do with Trump or “high-profile Democrats” as the one and the same massive bust of sex-trafficking high-profile Democrats that Q and Fox News and my conspiracist former friend had predicted. And it fell within the timeframe he predicted.

Of course, it was horse shit. This was no confirmation of his wacky theories. But to him, I was just being willfully blind to the obvious vindication of his prediction.

The lesson I took from that was that the fantasy they live in is far to resilient against actual reality to be phased even a little bit by any actual real-world events. And promising someone bragging rights “if such-and-such of your predictions come to pass” isn’t going to pan out for you as well as you might hope. It would require them to have a connection to reality for that to work, and they don’t.

My solution is scp with termux. I can’t suggest any better alternative.

Are they… sweet? Like… soup candy? Or are they more meaty and salty and savory like… well… soup tends to be?

Advertising? Even if only word-of-mouth.

It would have to be pretty secretive. But it’s not like there aren’t other services out there that do similar things illegally under cover of anonymity. (Silk Road, anyone?)

Did you expect the screenshots you posted to make people want to side with you?

Yes! Screen capture! Standardize it! Standardize it! Then get FFMPEG and Zoom to adopt the new standard!

Also, that Simon guy sounds like a good and nice guy.

Uninstall it and make the world a slightly better place?

A drug.

Whether it’s an important medicine for health and wellbeing or a hard recreational drug can depend greatly on the context.

Wait, is this an interview?

I’d be… uh… a t-rex… because, uh… I’m not afraid to… uh… take initiative?

Star Trek used to be better than Star Wars.

Main reason: weekly episodes. You had to wait years to decades for the next Star Wars. But the next Voyager was just next Wednesday, and DS9 was next Thursday. At worst, they were in reruns for the next few months at most.

Hell. Star Trek had Star Wars beat on quantity of movies too.

Now, it’s balanced out quite a bit and Star Wars probably has the edge right now on quantity and quality, but not by much, the gap is shrinking, and the situation could reverse pretty quickly.

Oh, also, Roddenberry didn’t have the George Lucas syndrome making him want to retroactively ruin the whole franchise he birthed.

I imagine sabots would do pretty well against graphics cards.

My grocery store carries big shakers, all in the same brand, of (in order from finest to most course/granular) powder, minced, chopped, and flakes, all dried. I wasn’t even talking about the jars of not-dried minced.

Though I bought a jar of minced (“wet”) onion unintentionally due to a mixup the other day and used that instead and it was pretty good. Made my bread taste very sweet compared to the dried version. But the dried version is also good. (The “minced? madness” comment is just a joke, but I do kindof like the bigger flakes.)

But, yeah. Once it’s baked, the result is pretty moist. I do think the dried onions rehydrate during cooking. (I cook my bread in the microwave for about 3 minutes and 40 seconds.)

I… doubt it?

I took the liberty of looking in the developer tools as it failed, and there was a 500 response. The connection to Hulu’s servers was all over HTTPS and I didn’t get any certificate warning, so unless my ISP managed to get Hulu’s private key or got with a corrupt registrar willing to issue a valid replacement certificate, no ISP should be able to change response codes on a man-in-the-middle basis or a redirecting-traffic-to-a-hostile-server basis.

And given how many people have reported issues, I doubt it’s specific to any particular ISPs.

Net neutrality being dead is a huge bummer, but I don’t think this can be blamed on that.

What’s the minimum you’d count as strong enough evidence to justify anger at the accused?