I feed them bird feed peanuts (unsalted, out of shell) I wouldn’t say they’re my friends exactly but they’re pretty comfortable around me and will land where I put the food before I’ve even walked away.

It was literally just secure boot, disabling secure boot fixed it…

This is why I keep a good chunk of my steam library downloaded locally and don’t buy always-online required games.

Awh I thought we were all gonna give funny answers. Since clearly they wash it ever since Greg made that candyfloss vanish completely and now raccoons everywhere are trying to figure out how to make things vanish so that no trash can ever stay locked away ever again.

At least we can have the ctharsis of staking them out in the sun and watching them burn like the vampires they are.

So that in the 1 in a however silly big number chance that they turn out to be real, they can’t run off between person 1 taking the mushrooms and person 2 taking the mushrooms. Thus producing a more objectively verifiable result.

Image recognition AI has been found to be vulnerable to prompt injection via text present in the image.

Meanwhile my country still does 99% of its internet on fucking coaxial cables.

Nepenthies is a type of webpage that generates an endless chain of links and pages to bait in content scrapers and feed them garbage that poisons their training data.

If it makes you feel better that AI is almost certainly doing a horrible job that will burden your former employer with unfixable tech debt in just a few years.

You could piss off the company running them though, don’t these cameras use AI? Get some QR codes that lead to nepenthies traps full of their own AI generated images of nonsense license plates. Waste their money and poison their training data.

Potentially (potentially doing a LOT of heavy lifting here) unethical, make a reasonably comfortable tiny person cell, take the mushrooms, put a tiny person in the cell. A second person who is completely unaware of the previous events takes the mushroom and we see if they can see the same tiny person still in the cell.

Stupid AI bloat asside, the important part of this article is:

lightweight, web-based Windows shell

This is the start of the ‘thin client’ we’ve been warned about.

We have energy returns for brief periods and that’s just raw energy output with no way to actually convert it into electricity which will have its own losses.

That said fusion is WAY harder than just ‘making a sun’, the sun puts out heat on the same level a bannana puts out radiation, its just really REALLY big so all that heat adds up. What we’re trying to do is replicate the conditions found in the cores of the largest hypergiant type stars to actually get an output thats meaningful on human scales. We are in essence attempting to massively out-do our own sun.

I have FTL and Into The Breach installed so even if the rest of my library vanishes I think I’ll be alright.

iirc the power is not very doable, You’d need hundreds of times as many solar pannels as are on the ISS to power a single modest data centre.

Just waiting for Trump to invade Panema and bring about the final collapse of the US.

The UK is a tight political union consisting of England and 3 countries who’s populations have never recovered from what England did to them, and consistently vote contrary to it.

There was kinda that whole bit in between where all the unemployed workers crowded into cities and everyone died of cholera though…

Do I get to include the gargantuan cooling system for the data centre and all the infastructure required to keep that going?