It certainly sounds “more legitimate” than pulling them over for a failure to use a blinker or doing too sharp of a left turn, as friends and victims of DWB can attest to having happened to them.

Although given the paper trail here, it is probably easier to fight in court.

I thought it was interesting that even in the most rural parts of Cali, I saw anti-flock billboards up along the 99 this weekend. It’s quite a unifying factor here.

There are many applications of machine learning models for military purposes, some of which you can see with Ukraine drone warfare for instance. Tech like visual recognition predates much of what people call AI now.

However, this is likely referring to LLM usage to predict stuff, which is utterly stupid because it’s a language model. It’s like those people who think it’s sentient because it recites science fiction from its training to pretend to be sentient.

Part of me hopes this is just a grift, since the reality of ChatGPT helping the military pick targets and make strategic decisions is terrifying. Either way we’re just so utterly fucked.

Somewhat easier, yeah. I’ve got a 4yo girl now, and she has become very responsible. I still have to do a lot of work getting her to TK and stuff, but I have a lot more time and don’t have to fully keep an eye on her because she knows to ask permission.

However, your mileage may vary. My 2yo is more like your 2yo and I’m not certain he’ll be a responsible 4yo in two years. He’s getting spoiled by his big sis, too.

But I’m not back to being like my childfree self yet, and that’s a tough bar. I used to get to sleep until noon cause of my job; not so much now…

I can kind of understand the sitters, but the parked motorcycles are just wrong. (Also they really should have better dedicated places for people to sit, but c’est la vie as they say)

I’m not sure how I’d rate me. I spend plenty of time on my smartphone but I’m playing SNES/GBA/DS with it hooked up to a controller clip so… not the usual use case of social bullshit ruining my mood. I enjoy the fuck out of a good emulation-in-bed night.

But hey, a few minutes on Lemmy too, of course, as I go through the entire All feed on a few minutes lol

Oh yeah, how could I forget TMZ. It’s so fucking backwards in 2026.

Locally, one of the most insane ones is food blogger LA Taco getting into ICE reporting and interviewing. Obviously when legacy media fails, people still try to step up.

What next, Teen Vogue or Buzzfeed?

(No but seriously I love when these places do hard hitting shit out of the blue, although it hasn’t ended well in both cases).

Happened to me yesterday, actually, that a large truck stopped suddenly at the end of an intersection and I, behind them, had to stop in the intersection without knowing when or if we’d move again since I couldn’t see anything ahead of the truck. A good seven or so seconds later and the light turned yellow so I had to cut to the right (mostly parking) lane to avoid gridlock. Went ahead a few cars to an opening to get back into a driving lane, cutting ahead a little.

My “I’m sorry” horn is really just my shy hand wave out my window though. I don’t use AC nor have tinted windows so I think they generally see how I feel, I think. More often than not, it’s a “thank you” horn though, as people often have to let me out of my own driveway since I live on a major street and there is rarely a time there aren’t cars idling outside waiting for a light.

I’ll keep that in mind. Quite a few of the games need a battery change but I think you’re right about LttP. I emulate though so it’s not as essential as it used to be, it’ll be more relevant when I want to share the old ways with my kids when they’re a little older.

It’s probably too late for me, but I don’t think I care about saves older than 10 years. I can’t even remember what I was doing in a game a week later, let alone a decade.

Does it permanently bork any new saves, though? I know my SNES Z:LttP had permanent save issues but I think that’s a different story.

Technically Yuzu was, allegedly, using something proprietary to run properly. I think the same is true of Ryujinx, although not sure. Now I’m not sure if it’s true, given they settled out of court, and honestly we do know the REAL reason is the bottom line but legally they can’t use that argument. Ironically I don’t think it’s even illegal to profit off an emulator, lol.

That said, emulators are legal in the same way a bong is legal while weed might not be. It’s technically illegal to use roms/isos you yourself didn’t rip, even if you have the cartridge or disk (and thus, license) of that game because it’s not a copy of your cartridge or disk, but it’d be pretty annoying to prove you didn’t rip it yourself as you’d probably need to go into the code to see if there’s a unique identifier. I’m not sure if that’s ever been tested in court, though I wouldn’t want to try it.

I mean, today I saw a chocolate company ad saying no AI was needed. For chocolate. Anti-AI in a chocolate ad.

If Sees Candy is getting in on AI hate to sell shit, obviously people are tired of this crap. The bubble will burst.

The funny thing is he even started himself a progressive black Democrat when first elected. He clearly isn’t.

Well, except most house races are too safe to care about Republican (or Democrat) challengers to even do that. Hakeem won with 75% of the vote in the general.

So they really don’t need to win any voters over, they win simply by virtue of belonging to the dominant party in their district. That said, they need to win their party leadership, and it’s financial owners, over… hence how the system is so insanely corrupt.

As much as I don’t like her… ACAB

Oh I actually thought for a sec that it might be but I wasn’t sure enough it was a heart or just a random treasure! Shoot, I should have at least mentioned it. Grats, at least!

I wish I could help but my last guide less playthrough didn’t have that problem… The others might be right about the tree, sanctuary rock or in Turtlerock (which is technically not in a dungeon but requires a weird exit).

There’s quite a few weird places in the dark world mountains, though. Hope you let us know when you figure it out!

It’s very interesting to hear your perspective. They’re getting hit by propaganda, that’s for sure, and I see a lot of Mexican-American men in Los Angeles acting the same way. There is definitely a toxic masculinity problem for young Latino men, as bad or worse than White men.

I’m not sure if half your county is lost, but without proper education and upward social mobility they may remain ignorant. Poverty and religion tends to promote ignorance, and Mexico has a lot of that. At least your president and government seems to be doing a fantastic job from what I can tell (although the bar is pretty low). Universal healthcare, public support for affordable EVs… uh, their own national chocolate production(?), I hear a lot of things almost every week. It might not change overnight but that’s how you push for better future generations.

I don’t buy the bot narrative, but I also won’t say this is a genuine jump in Linux users. Rather, as someone who has done statical research before, a sudden jump like this feels like a change in how that data was gathered plus a rather high point on natural variance.

For starters, why would bot behavior change in a month? Any serious bot network would already be on Linux, so unless bot filtering got significantly worse in a single month, I’m skeptical on that front. I suppose it’s possible a patch to scrapping plugins happened, or a change in bot sensitivity on the researcher side, or something, but you’d assume someone would point that out.

However, Linux adoption explanations are also iffy. The “Year of the Linux” people point to summer being a factor, or maybe Steam machine release. Maybe someone went viral promoting it and somehow… doubled installs? Seems unlikely, although a small jump can be attribed to these factors I suppose.

But back to the statistics – all samples naturally vary over time and this can be a major factor month to month as statical noise exists. If it drops back to, say, 7 or 8%, that’s probably that factor, although this is much less an issue if the sample is large (which I think it is?). It’s also possible there’s a change in measurement error, such as Unknowns getting parsed correctly this month, though I’m not sure if that can explain most of the chunk coming out from Windows. I think these are the explanations I’m leaning towards, though (e.g. the Linux was there all along!)

All I can say from my experience is a jump like this is unnatural and usually points to variance and/or measurement error. Rather than the actual population having a change, the researcher does something different that changes results. It doesn’t necessarily mean the new results are biased (they might be less biased!), but it also doesn’t mean reality has suddenly changed. After all, we’re talking about a doubling of the population; if 300 million use the Internet in the US, that’s 15 million people changing to Linux in a month.