I feel (maybe hope) that countries doing this would face significant challenges with currency substitution and private currencies. Ultimately if I want to buy something and my neighbor wants to sell me that thing the government becomes the, “Is there someone you forgot to ask?” meme.

It’d be metal af if I bought something from my neighbor and paid him in Yuan, lol.

all those bills you have are worthless.

That’s the tricky thing is technically the government doesn’t actually control what is worth stuff, its all just vibes. By undermining faith in their currency the government could actually lose a bit of control, not gain it. This was actually a huge fucking problem early in US history.

There’s no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, “bots that aren’t paying us.”

So oracle eats its seed corn to build even more fucking data centers rather than accept the risk evaluations of their lenders.

Man, what god damn geniuses over there. I bet they can’t wait to have their ghost writers felate them over this decision in their future “autobiographies” that will be for sale at the airport. Oh wait, silly me, there’s no ghost writers anymore!

CLI installation guide is perfect, thank you.

Thanks, I plan on doing this when my phone dies. Just some questions:

A computer with a Chromium-based browser (e.g., Google Chrome, Brave, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi?). Unfortunately, I must recommend Windows 10/11 here, because then you don’t have to mess around with any drivers; it’s the simplest option.

This is the first I’ve read this, how much of a pain is it to use Linux instead? I don’t have any Windows computers.

First of all, we need to make sure that our phone’s software is updated to the latest available version. For this purpose, we go to Settings -> System -> System update. If necessary, we update

How is this possible if the previous step skipped SIM and Wifi setup? I assume, if there’s updates, to setup Wifi then proceed?

securing the phone with a fingerprint; I personally am an advocate of this solution…

Recommend not doing this for users in the USA, as police can compel you to unlock biometric locks. Yes, it’s fucked up, that’s what happens when octogenarian fascists run all three branches of your government.

Right… so bringing hundreds, or maybe thousands, of gallons of a fatty emulsion up to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time and then chilling it again. Also must be food grade material and will require frequent cleaning/sterilizing. Don’t forget the energy cost either. A lot more expensive than not doing any of this.

These raw milk people think the dairy industry just decided one day to start pasteurizing… an expensive process that requires special equipment… just for shits? People were fed up with watching their children die…

I’m also convinced these people have never seen the hind end of a cow.

New Year’s Resolution: I’m going to “reform” my body by going from obese to morbidly obese.

Hic tamen vivit.

They are, if you scroll to the bottom of the github repo that OP posted there are some examples of what works and doesn’t work to break it.

Watermark data like this is stored in the least significant bits of the pixels themselves, or in the case of OPs example, they do a frequency decomposition on the image then store the watermark data in the coefficients. Basically you have to trash the pixel data at least a little bit to defeat it. So cropping or flipping the image won’t do it, but resizing or rotating with some kind of filtering will.

I have no idea how the machine-learning technique listed there is working, and their documentation link is broken :(

The worst part of all of these charades is there isn’t even a side-effect benefit for the average person. Our make-work programs don’t build roads, they terrorize immigrants. Our “ghost cities” aren’t future homes for a rapidly urbanizing population, they are enormous datacenters that actively harm rural communities.

As someone who enjoys urbex videos, at least I’ll get to feast on abandoned datacenter explorations in a few years. Can’t wait for that giant hole in the ceiling with a tree growing in the shaft of light surrounded by mounds of rust that used to be nVidia GPUs, the imagery will be great.

I’ve tried, it sucks. Each broker has their own process, often several steps, and often a step is broken (like server errors, can’t get past a captcha, “try again later”, etc). You end up not just having to do the process, but also follow up with many of the ones that are ambiguous or returned server errors or whatnot. I did the top 8 or so brokers and then stopped.

YouTube offers random A/B testing of titles and thumbnails now, and unfortunately the clickbait/red circle/soy face stuff absolutely does work. Everyone seems to agree that the “metric has ceased to be a good measure” when it comes to the algorithm, but it’s so opaque and omnipotent that people who can’t afford for their videos to be buried have no choice.

YouTube doesn’t just reward you for doing it, you are actively punished for not doing it. The same way one “underperforming” video can have cascading negative effects on your entire channel.

I can’t imagine relying on it for my family’s income. Google basically has hundreds of thousands of people doing spec work for them.

Since nobody polices the relationship between candidates, parties, and super PACs I feel like this law is already just pure symbolism. The fact that Trump and Steve Chabot are involved makes me think there’s something sinister hidden in this, probably just makes the grafting more straightforward.

They could have just pushed them into the ocean instead of changing a flat tire because it’s faster, or some shit. It’s like the Adeptus Administratum.

Every town around me have installed these fucking things, covering every major route. In order to get out of my local area without being tracked I have to drive on some serious hillbilly roads. It’s exhausting.

According to Mr. Thornebrooke, reporters are not permitted to review final versions of articles before they are published, contrary to standard practice in most newsrooms. In many instances, he said, top-ranking editors “would suddenly be taking accurate information out of my stories and putting in false info.”

My guy, you work the Falun Fucking Gong newspaper.

Thanks, this helped. Although I keep yt-dlp installed with pip so for me instead of github it’s just a pip3 install yt-dlp -U.

Aside from Signal messenger, I feel like I could go back to having a casio watch, some sort of GPS in my vehicle, and a dumb phone. My phone is ancient and hasn’t gotten a security update in years, I was thinking of going Graphene next but maybe the solution is to just dump it and go full 1990s again.

If jacking off constantly at age 14 doomed a person we would never have left the Miocene epoch.