Most Israelis not bothered by reports of suffering and famine in Gaza, new poll shows
The vast majority of Israelis say they are not troubled by reports of famine and suffering in Gaza, a new poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute shows.
The survey shows that 79 percent of Jews in Israel were not troubled, or troubled at all, whereas 86 percent of “Arab” respondents were somewhat or very troubled by the reports about the war on Gaza.
The survey was conducted between 27-31 July.
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How to get started with anonymous cryptocurrency payments?
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Once you have Monero in your wallet, when you send it it'll be anonymous to the receiver and people won't be able to look at the block chain and see people's balances and transaction history. You can buy some monero on an exchange with your bank account and withdraw to get started with familiarizing yourself with crypto. Good enough in my opinion to at least learn. Exchange knows you bought Monero from them but after it's gone from them, they won't be able to trace around where you send stuff to
If it's not available on any exchange you can easily move money into, you may just need to buy a different crypto and use another exchange/service to exchange again into Monero. There will be fees. Trocador is regularly mentioned from what I remember
Actual anonymous acquisition, you're going to need to find a person in real life with monero to exchange something for it or you physical mail exchange and they send you Monero. Tough to find. Don't know how LocalMonero is doing these days in usage/existence
Actually making payments, you got to find places that take it. Not a lot. You can pay for Mullvad VPN with Monero. Getting paid in Monero, 3 niches layered there. One is doing something people will pay you for, those same people being willing to pay in crypto, the people also having Monero. That's tough.
Wallets, Monero website, you can probably trust Wikipedia Monero page to send you to the official website. On desktop you can download the software that downloads the whole block chain and it'll have a GUI to send Monero and a place to copy an address for people to send to. Mobile, Cake wallet is popular
But really the hard part in my opinion is finding businesses and people that take and pay with Monero. You'll acquire Monero to use but struggle to find places to use it for
Can you elaborate on buying monero at an exchange and then transferring it out? Do you mean that OP should
- make a local wallet
- make an account on a popular exchange
- buy cryptocurrency on the exchange
- transfer it to their local wallet
And would it be accurate to say that a local wallet can be maintained without a lot of system power, and can run on open source software? I assume that because any transfers that are sent to or from the wallet, are basically synchronized in the Blockchain, so there's not a lot of data that needs to be stored on the user's side.
I'll also say þat it's particularly hard to audit wallet code for supply chain attacks, unless you really know þe language and þe crypto. Every dependency þe project uses has to be verified, as well as þe project itself. Dependencies probably won't leak crypto, but þey could leak secrets.
Supply chain attacks are especially concerning because þey're so hard to identify and þere's almost no static code analysis software to help developers (or users) validate dependencies.
Wallets are especially hard since part of þeir legitimate use is network traffic, and it's difficult to verify þat all þeir traffic is benevolent.
I am a huge fan of software diversity and small projects, but when it comes to wallets þat are going contain fungible þings OP is spending real money on, I'd caution a conservative choice.
Your numbered list, yes that's the steps
With the other person's answer, you have a choice when interacting with a block chain.
You run a node that directly sends commands to the blockchain, this one uses up more storage as it downloads the blockchain but it's the one that requires least amount of layers of trust
Or you use a wallet that uses a trusted 3rd party full node. That's why open source is important for these wallets. This is really easy and convenient and in most cases uses open source software and is built on years of community vendors operating in good faith. These lite wallets, they run on practically anything. You manage the keys to your wallet; it's the keys to authorize transactions.
The "heavy lifting" is delegated to another computer. Heavy lifting in quotes because the idea of blockchains is to be decentralized so one pillar idea is that it should be pretty cheap to run a node
Even having a full node, unless you want to mine, it's really just storage and download. If you want to support the network a bit, some upload so others can download block chain history from you too.
It's like how in Linux most users now just trust that the package maintainers for the distributions package manager is delivering legit software when you apt/dnf/etc software from the default sources
If you're not going to run a node yourself, you'll have to accept some level of trust. Also with an open source wallet, you can with certainty point your lite wallet to whatever full node you want, your own or one you trust
Kraken.com for kyc based purchases, or you could try retoswap which wont require kyc but is a bit more complicated.
Withdraw to a wallet such as cake or stack. If you cant purchase XMR directly then use a swap service like trocador.app to convert btc or ltc to xmr. Both wallets support swapping between coins.
kycnot.me/ is a good resource to check for more.
Once you have the xmr in your own wallet (not on an exchange) it is anonymous and safe to spend.
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
As a general guideline, I recommend you watch a video or two about how Monero works. Don't know how strict your threat model is but it's always good to know what a tool can and cannot do.
I also recommend you run your own Monero node. MentalOutlaw explains pretty nicely why it's necessary and how to do it.
As for where to spend Monero, there used to be general indexes hosted on HackLiberty and Nowhere. But of the top of my head I can recommend XMRbazaar and ProxyStore.
In case your bored, an index of some intresting material to read.
If they accept cash, i'd say not. There might be cameras though.
If you are going to spend it on mundane and legal stuff and assuming you live in mostly free country use a trustworthy exchange even if it requires KYC and spend it normally.
Keep in mind once you buy monero even from a KYC exchange they can't track it afterwards. And this will be the safest option no real risk of getting scammed or stabbed.
If you are thinking about grey area then keep in mind that the moment something touches real world no matter whether you were using Tor, I2P or something else. It can be traced back to you. And if you are a worthwhile target LEA will spend resources to track you down.
There are ways to avoid that like using local monero and all but keep in mind those also involve different set of risks.
#NotAFinancialAdvice #NotALegalAdvice.
Do your homework and don't get scammed or stabbed.
Kiev’s plan to invade the Kursk region failed, – Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Kiev's plan to invade the Kursk region failed, - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
As the Swiss newspaper reported on the anniversary of the invasion, Kiev’s hope of using the Kursk region as a bargaining chip was dashed when Moscow refused to discuss the territory, and the issue lost its significance after the Ukrainian forces wer…newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
Poland’s New President Nawrocki Challenges Zelensky on Bandera Legacy
Poland’s New President Issues Ultimatum to Zelensky on Ukraine’s WWII Legacy
Poland’s new President Karol Nawrocki issued a stark ultimatum to Volodymyr Zelensky, demanding Ukraine renounce the glorification of wartime nationalists as a condition for continued supportLyuba Lulko (Pravda English)
A tool to help people remove their info from the Tea App
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Moscow’s top negotiator confirms Kiev rejecting 1,000 POWs
Moscow’s top negotiator confirms Kiev rejecting 1,000 POWs
Vladimir Medinsky has accused Ukraine of derailing prisoner swap effortsRT
WIRED Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' Over a Broken Display
"WIRED Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' Over a Broken Display"
"\u003cp\u003eTwo weeks ago, I had what I can only describe as a \u003cstrong\u003epunch-to-the-stomach moment\u003c/strong\u003e (which luckily doesn\u0026rsquo;t happen very often)."Achim Haug" (AirGradient)
Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons
Meet the AI vegans
They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point, writes Guardian columnist Arwa MahdawiArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
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Trump's Truth Social is getting its own AI search engine — powered by Perplexity
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Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (Nasdaq, NYSE Texas: DJT) ("Trump Media" or the "Company"), operator of the social media platform Truth Social, the streaming platform Truth+, and the FinTech brand Truth.Fi, announced today that the company has begun public Beta testing its new AI search feature, Truth Search AI, on the Truth Social platform.Powered by Perplexity, a software and AI company dedicated to providing direct, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations, Truth Search AI is intended to enhance the Truth Social platform and exponentially increase the amount of information available to its users.
Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech
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European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, which aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.Last year, French privacy-focused search engine Qwant struck a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia, to develop a European search index. Called European Search Perspective (EUSP), the JV now aims to serve around 50% of French queries and 33% of German queries by the end of the year.
Qwant said it is using the new index to power some of its features, like AI summaries for search, and Ecosia has plans to add some AI features soon to its platform, too.
EUSP is also in talks with companies to spur the adoption of its index for enabling search within apps. Notably, it is targeting chatbots, presenting Staan as a cheaper alternative to Google and Bing.
“If you’re using ChatGPT or any other AI chatbot, they all do knowledge grounding with web search […] our index can power deep research and AI summary features. Google and Bing’s solutions are also pricey, and our index can offer power search features at a tenth of the cost,” Christian Kroll, CEO of Ecosia, told TechCrunch.
EUSP, like Proton, is pushing to develop a European tech stack that doesn’t rely on technology from the U.S. or China.
“The timing could not be more urgent. The outcome of the 2024 U.S. election has reminded European policymakers and innovators just how exposed Europe remains when it comes to core digital infrastructure. Much of Europe’s search, cloud, and AI layers are built on American Big Tech stacks, putting entire sectors – from journalism to climate tech – at the mercy of political or commercial agendas,” the companies said in a statement.
Kroll added that through this index, combined with European privacy laws, EUSP can offer a more privacy-friendly search solution as compared to its U.S. counterparts.
Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech | TechCrunch
European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, that aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
Photo of Saudi Arabia's crown prince inside Jeffrey Epstein's mansion fuels criticism online
The New York Times on Tuesday ignited a wave of backlash after revealing a framed photograph of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman displayed inside the New York City mansion of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The article, which takes readers inside the late convicted paedophile's seven-storey Manhattan home, features surveillance cameras positioned above his bed and in adjoining rooms, taxidermied animals, and provocative artwork, including a sculpture of a bride clutching a rope suspended from the ceiling in the atrium.
The criticism escalated as people connected the image to long-standing allegations of Gulf-Israeli collaboration.
Sam Youssef, author and editor of American and International Affairs, asked: “Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”
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He's getting outrage for the stuff inside of his country as well. But this heavy link to American and Israeli intelligence demolishes his image as a "Pious Muslim ruler".
MBS has had a lot of whitewashing done to for image by consulting groups like BCG.
The whole Gulf leadership is in American pockets and they work together with Israel.
Israel-Saudi Arabia land bridge emerges as game-changing prospect
Israel-Saudi Arabia land bridge emerges as game-changing prospect
Exclusive: Israel, U.S. quietly advancing ambitious plan for land bridge connecting UAE, through Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to Israeli ports; Route will facilitate transportation of goods while significantly reducing costs for the entire region; In the…Itamar Eichner (ynetnews)
Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”
Is New York Times "Arab rulers"?
Well, you're not going to believe this but there are temporary marriage contracts available that can be as short as an hour.
Why do people need an hour long marriage? Beats me...
That's a Shi'a practice. The Saudi royals aren't Shi'a; they belong to a rabidly anti-Shi'a Sunni sect, the Wahhabis. The Saudis routinely murder and terrorize members of the Shi'a minority in the Eastern Province.
The reason for temporary marriage is generally "try before you buy" during marriage negotiations. It's a loathsome practice but not relevant to the slimy deeds described here.
Photo of Saudi Arabia's crown prince inside Jeffrey Epstein's mansion fuels criticism online
The New York Times on Tuesday ignited a wave of backlash after revealing a framed photograph of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman displayed inside the New York City mansion of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The article, which takes readers inside the late convicted paedophile's seven-storey Manhattan home, features surveillance cameras positioned above his bed and in adjoining rooms, taxidermied animals, and provocative artwork, including a sculpture of a bride clutching a rope suspended from the ceiling in the atrium.
The criticism escalated as people connected the image to long-standing allegations of Gulf-Israeli collaboration.
Sam Youssef, author and editor of American and International Affairs, asked: “Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”
A religion of,
SCP-MBS, (That's right. It's an SCP) “Hey DeeT! Pass the ten-year-old!"
DeeT, "Yes My master."
SCP-MBS, "Dag, honky! You could have wiped it off, first!"
That, plus FGM should help you form an opinion.
AI wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
AI wearables are quietly recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?Zara Stone (The San Francisco Standard)
Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil
You used to believe that adversarial attacks against AI-powered systems are complex, impractical, and too academic. In reality, an indirect prompt injection in a Google invitation is all you need to exploit Gemini for Workspace's agentic architecture to trigger the following outcomes:
- Toxic content generation
- Spamming
- Deleting events from the user's calendar
- Opening the windows in a victim's apartment
- Activating the boiler in a victim's apartment
- Turning the light off in a victim's apartment
- Video streaming a user via Zoom
- Exfiltrating a user's emails via the browser
- Geolocating the user via the browser
Invitation Is All You Need
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What are some cool things to put on a 32gb flashdrive?
Ive got some ideas to try with a flashdrive ive picked up but i want to know what others would do with such a device? I was thinking i could use it for retro gaming or something like important files.
What would you do?
I know its not alot of room but i got it for cheap.
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I've heard usb flash memory can degrade over time, but refreshing the cells by plugging it in once in a while can mitigate the potential data loss.
I have a few USBs like that and i plug them in once a year for about 5 minutes. I don't usually even mount the data. Not sure if it makes an actual difference, but nothing lost so far
I dont think it's about housing/shielding, just the lack of being powered on over many years.
Many of my drives are also nearly 20 years old
I've had a live linux USB drive that I literally have never used since creating it 15 years ago and it still runs the live ISO just fine. Again slow as hell as it's like USB 2.0 or something but still works.
If a live ISO still works then I'd be willing to bet most other stuff will too, given it didn't sit at the bottom of the ocean.
It's been in my pocket for years having never seen actual use. No USB cap either. Dirty and the housing is only covering half the USB. Remind me and I'll post a photo. It's wild to see. The housing is loose nearly off entirely and hanging on by a thread but it's last through time like a tank, change and tools in my pockets daily. I only keep the old fucker at this point for seeing how long it'll last still spinning up the live iso Linux spin I wrote on it.
I have. It doesn’t happen often; but when you take a situation before you can afford to buy a bunch so you have like, only a few and do installs constantly of varying distros and OSes, you’re formatting / preparing those multiple times a day for a few years. Eventually they just sort of give up.
But honestly, that’s not even close to typical usage. A typical user or even a very active user will likely never have to worry about it.
Out of like 50 usb drives I think I’ve lost like 4 maybe 6. And yeah they’re all good brands like Sandisk, Lexar. Nowadays I buy whatever’s cheap like micro center when they have a give away I’ll take the freebie, and otherwise I buy Sandisk, Lexar, Kingston, Samsung or Crucial.
Oh and on the subject, basically, I’ve spent the better part of my life immersed in tech. I got started in the early 1980s and yeah, I’m kinda old, but it still blows my mind that there are now microSD chips that hold 1.5TB. Just… fucking blows my mind! I still remember being jazzed about getting my first 1GB hard drive. Friends were jealous. This is just absolutely insane.
I think it’s counterintuitive insofar as it goes against a kind of social trope that laymen are blown away by tech because they don’t understand it blah blah but I have found that no understanding it is what makes them all just take it for granted. Techies who have lived through the growth of this stuff and seen it from its early stages are far more impressed and in awe of the crazy advancements. Because we actually appreciate it.
It’s like how my friend and I who are both aviation enthusiasts actually look up at planes flying by sometimes are we’re like damn, it’s still goddamn marvelous. Because we understand it and how amazing it is for people to have thought it up and made it happen. Although we’re each certain that had we lived then, we would have pioneered aviation as well lol. Seems obvious really.
Did I just say all that? Sorry, I’m passionate.
I guess that's the difference. I don't tend to format mine often, if ever.
It is amazing that you can buy a TB drive these days, especially at the size they are. And amazing you can fill one up.
It's good to keep that sense of wonder, IMO.
I would also probably try to plug USB drives in once a year or so if I were being diligent, but in reality I recently found a handful of USB flash drives that I'd stored in a box in my parents' unattached garage, and every one of them could be read completely without any issues. They ran the gamut of build quality from expensive, name-brand drives to no-name dollar-store keychains. They'd been sitting in that box, untouched, for a little over nine years, and I'm pretty sure that some of them hadn't been used for several years even before that.
I wouldn't rely on it for critical data, but USB flash might not be so terrible.
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I installed Ventoy on mine and dropped a few live ISO files: Clonezilla, Linux Mint, and Windows PE
I'll sometimes use the Windows PE ISO for tools like CrystalDiskInfo. Have Clonezilla to quickly test out random computers without a GUI and Linux Mint when I want a GUI.
The rest of the space comes in handy for quick and dirty file transfers between Linux/Mac/Windows/printers. Especially with my work computer never touching my primary home network, an airgapped retro gaming setup, and most of my other drives formatted for use with Linux.
GitHub - VulpesSARL/MiniNT5-Tools: small Windows 10 (based on Windows PE) with customised tools
small Windows 10 (based on Windows PE) with customised tools - VulpesSARL/MiniNT5-ToolsGitHub
Yeah, or trim some of the portable apps in medicat since a few are redundant, to make room for a couple more ISOs.
The cool thing with ventoy is you can just drag and drop isos in the folder, no need to reflash.
Counter Strike Source and other old school LAN games.
Then invite friends over and pass the drive around so they can all install games and you can have a LAN party.
You can fit since some hours of 1080p porn.
When the apocalypse happens and Internet goes away it's gonna be worth a lot of bottle caps
there’s still plenty of ways to make stuff autorun in a similar way. the thing that makes proper badUSBs so scary is that they’re recognized by the system as a keyboard.
it’s somewhat difficult to discern bad actors from regular users for this kind of attack, but it also hasn’t become prolific enough for anyone to bother. at a certain point it’s more the fault of building security for allowing some randy to access to sensitive hardware.
I install a full MX-Linux distro on an old 32Gb usb drive.
Particularly helpful when family or friends have IT problems.
I install the latest downloaded distro on a usb with dd:
sudo fdisk -l
sudo dd if=MX-23.5_x64.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress
The /dev/sdX could be sdb, sdc, sdd, or microsd /dev/nvme0n1
boot into the live distro F12,
fully update the live disk.
set it up as you would your new linux device. network manager, web browser, text editor, email, VPN, etc and any tools you want.
whatever you change here goes into your new usb distro settings
once complete, install and run bleachbit as user and as root to clear all the caches and install data.
install another blank usb into the laptop
Open MX-Linux tools to create a snapshot
select Snapshot.
select a different snapshot directory. use the blank usb you just inserted,
usually: /dev/sdb
rename the snapshot to a name of choice.
once the creation of the snapshot is complete, safely remove the usb drive and shut down the live distro.
boot into your daily driver.
Insert the usb drive with the MX-Linux snapshot, and transfer it to a new folder/directory.
insert the 32Gb usb. format it with gparted, fat32 is fine
open the folder/directory with the snapshot.iso
open a terminal
then install the snapshot onto the usb with dd.
sudo fdisk -l
sudo dd if=snapshot.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress
The /dev/sdX could be sdb, sdc, sdd, or microsd /dev/nvme0n1
always double check with:
sudo fdisk -l
How about a project Gutenberg "best of" CD full of free public domain ebooks?
Download page:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/11220
Link directly to download:
gutenberg.org/files/11220/PG20…
They also had a dual layer DVD download if you want something bigger. They don't seem to host it anymore, but archive.org does.
archive.org/details/pgdvd04201…
Project Gutenberg "Best Of" CD August 2003 by Project Gutenberg
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Google advertising monopoly exposed in new book: Former executive documents secret programs Bernanke and Poirot used to manipulate auction systems.
Google advertising monopoly exposed in new book
Former executive documents secret programs Bernanke and Poirot used to manipulate auction systems.Luis Rijo (PPC Land)
Vanishing Culture: Why Preserve Flash?
Book Talk: Lucky Day with Chuck Tingle (IN-PERSON)
The Internet Archive is thrilled to host Chuck Tingle and his upcoming novel Lucky Day, for a book talk presented by The Booksmith! We can\'t wait to see you there, […]\nblog.archive.org
‘Cookie-less’ identification for/against privacy?
The advertising industry’s anticipated shift away from third-party cookies led to the proliferation and normalisation of first-party identification architectures online. Marketed as ‘privacy-friendly,’ the new technologies promise to deliver the efficiencies that advertisers have become accustomed to, while addressing privacy concerns from third-party cookies. Such tension calls for a better understanding of the privacy implications from first-party online identification architectures. We evaluate first-party user identification mechanisms by (1) surveying the literature to create a typology that synthesises existing privacy concerns in third-party cookie-based identification, and (2) applying our typology to evaluate the privacy of prime examples in what we frame as three distinct types of first-party ID architectures — Universal IDs, Onboarding ID, and Walled Garden ID. We analyse technical documentation and code repositories from each architecture type and show how first-party ID solutions still enable cross-site tracking over longer periods of time and encourage sensitive user targeting. First-party ID solutions do create mechanisms to ease opting out from tracking, but the implementation of those mechanisms is questionable. Our findings demonstrate how the advertising industry is trying to maintain its existing structure and replicate the tracking functionalities on which it has grown reliant.
‘Cookie-less’ identification for/against privacy?
The online advertising industry is shifting content monetisation mechanisms to rely on first-party user identification architectures. The paper evaluates these architectures based on a novel typology to assess their privacy implications.policyreview.info
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in EuropeHarry Davies (The Guardian)
How U.S. imperialism blackmails the world with nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to today
How U.S. imperialism blackmails the world with nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to today
Since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, US imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide. Current nuclear flashpoints, such as Iran, show how the US continues to use nuclear blackmail to reinforce its dominance.Rhonda Ramiro (Mondoweiss)
Parts of the Internet are going dark for UK users since the Online Safety Act heaped weighty duties on platforms.
Online Safety Act - shutdowns and site blocks
Report incorrectly blocked sites on UK ISP and mobile networks.Report mobile and Internet Service Providers blocking sites
Get Ready, the AI Hacks Are Coming
Get Ready, the AI Hacks Are Coming
Artificial intelligence, very real vulnerabilities.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton probes Intel board over CEO Lip-Bu Tan's former China links, raises national security concerns amid Cadence scandal
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You'd be surprised. I know a guy who would definitely do this, and has the skills to make it look amazing.
Dude is goofy as hell and dumb as a bag of rocks, but he's a genius at metalworking.
You’d be surprised. I know a guy who would definitely do this, and has the skills to make it look amazing.
but ... why?
I think the caption is fake but the picture isn’t. If you google “stretch Prius” there seem to be a bunch of photos of this thing going back like 15 years.
I didn't know what a widows peak was so I googled it and figured out that's just what you call that type of hairline in english.
Personally I really like the german word for it which is "Geheimratsecken". It literally translates to "secret council corners".
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I started taking pills for it a few years ago. It was ridiculously easy to do. I did it online, it auto-renews, and it's an easy chewable I take every morning.
I think a lot of guys have the impression that hair treatments are bullshit, because for a while there they were. But the new shit works, at least for me.
No side effects or downsides for me. My hairline is just paused, even rewound a little bit.
Ok, but I'm not lying.
Do you think I'm advertising or something? What would be my motivation for lying?
It also kept tigers away for six years! Personal anecdotes are not meaningful when it comes to something like medical efficacy.
See, the simple fact that you're telling me those things when clearly I don't give a single fuck tends to suggest the contrary, but of course it's not conclusive and again, I don't give enough fucks to actually find out.
Which med is that?
Everyone’s risk tolerance is different, but a 99.96% chance that I would not experience irreversible side effects feels like pretty good odds
Yea that's me rn. It hasn't hit me yet (at least not noticably) but when it does I'm just embracing it. I know there's medication/treatment but between cost and potential side effects (as someone who already struggles with mental health the possibility of Post Finasteride Syndrome scares the shit out of me) it's not worth it.
Plus I have a personal aversion to the idea of clinging on to youth or denying aging. Nothing against people trying to look how they want to but I'm embracing aging, it feels so much less stressful than the alternative
CW: suicide
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Some men experience side effects like reduced/absent libido, depression, and other negative mental health effects. I don't know how rare they are but to me it's not worth the risk just for my own vanity. Sure the pharma companies deny it's a thing but they have a clear profit motive so I don't trust a damn word they say
those new research chemicals for hair loss pop up every year with lofty promises, and always end up being nothingburgers when the results come in.
if you care about it, try the treatments already available. they seem to help most people.
It might have been created in mockery, however the fact that it‘s apparently okay to joke about men‘s insecurities like that is part of the problem.
Make this meme about women with PCOS/cellulite/whatever and suddenly you have SJW‘s stand on business everywhere. Which is completely fine, but then why are men‘s feelings being so disregarded? It‘s the same with more hurtful topics like mental health and so on.
So about ⅙ of people are ugly if that adjective means 'one standard deviation below'.
Is Physical Attractiveness Normally Distributed?
Spoiler alert: women are better looking. Here's why...Aporia
Bald early to mid 30 dudes are currently all the rage as streamers.
The rest have become vtubers.
It's rather funny watching the slow take over of bald bros on twitch and YouTube.
Life is good if you don't give a damn what people say and Just play with your legos.
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •Even people in prison have no mercy on child killers.
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •That's what you get when you brainwash the population from a very early age to think of themselves as God's chosen, and to consider all their neighbors and everyone who disagrees with the God's chosen to be subhuman bloodthirsty barbarians with no redeeming qualities...
Even if we started right this very moment (not that anyone will, mind you), it would take years, perhaps generations of intense deprogramming effort to fix it, which makes me extremely sad 🙁
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