Trump and his staffers are desperately trying to find a way to TACO but still somehow claim victory like his other two expeditions in Venezuela and Iran (2025), because it clearly didn’t have the effect they thought it would have like when Bush II did it.

Unlike the US, Iranian forces had a plan that was formulated for years. Doesn’t mean things will go as they envision, due to US, Israeli, Gulf state, and internal factors putting a lot of uncertainty in the mix. Iran is okay with the current situation in the short term (again unlike the US), but there is elevated risk for a potential coup, an Israeli-style drawn out genocide and annexation, just a stalemate war of air defense attrition, or who knows what in Iran. There will be pressure from all sides to figure something amicable between the belligerents, hopefully sooner than later.

I predict: Oil/gas prices will stay high for months, air ship and truck transportation costs will be somewhat higher and goods will be a little higher for the same period. Over the next year, governments, businesses and people will turn to electricity and renewables pretty much out of necessity (look at Indian residents turning to Induction Stoves in droves) that will lower our needs for fuel which will hopefully offset the shock from future oil supply crunches. Optimistically, it could accelerate the world’s efforts to net zero.

Sorry, I’m taken already. Isn’t that right, Nicole the Fediverse Chick?

It’s a mixed bag, I’m pretty neutral on it since it prevents copyleft licensing as much as copyright.

I don’t mind if the developer adds AI-generated code, but if they mix it with their own work without appropriate attribution in a way that it could be considered all AI-generated, it may become un-copyrightable.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/164

TIL it has purposely not been implemented by the main developers in over a decade for ideological reasons. There are scripts and forks to enable it by default.

Aside from the point that Jellyfin is meant to browse your own personal collection of files usually after the fact…

Some file formats like mkv do work even if partially downloaded, so if you’re downloading a torrent for a free libre open source movie, choose the option to download chunks in sequential order, and I think there’s a way that you can watch while downloading.

Uh oh, Epic’s not making more profit than last year! We need to squeeze money out of parents’ pockets for their gullible kids and milk our cash cow harder!

The PRS needs to pay the wanker down the street for the licence to act like such bellends.

100mg from one cup of coffee (in the style of a latte, cafe mocha, cappuccino etc.) on weekdays at work, on some weekdays a tea or coffee 50-100mg after lunch if I am feeling particularly tired. None regularly on the weekends, except for the odd time I meet people on the weekend at a cafe or something like that. …and I don’t drink colas.

I’m trying to keep it to a level that I don’t require it to function.

🫰Done! I’ve deleted all existing recovery infrastructure! Now your disaster recovery routine has been reduced to 1 second, which is the time it takes to put your human head in your hands and cry!

Certain units of the Japanese Army conducted a lot of inhumane scientific experiments on human subjects they racially discriminated against during WWII, and the evidence collected was retained by the USA.

Well just like a MATLAB plotting program “draws” lines and curves and stuff, Claude is a programs that puts together various reasonings based on the mathematician’s input.

I wake up between 6 and 7am most weekdays, so the sun coming up at 8 vs 9am makes little difference to me.

An actually interesting use of artificial intelligence being able to accomplish something, when put in the hands of expert mathematicians. Definitely a lot of coaxing it back to doing the task correctly but it is pretty cool that it can solve problems (even if they are math nerd ones) in a way that are independently verifiable.

Windows Slop Edition

Now, if Jim ever needs a stunt double, he can hire Steve Paikin, former host of the news discussion show “The Agenda” in Ontario, Canada.

I have no idea the context of the situation but this is how I read the post:

Trivy’s Private Access Token is revoked. The bot was made to autonomously finds exploits and report vulnerabilities but after this situation it intends to cease operation.

“Production-ready”

I totally believe it’s ready for production at Microslop Corporation. They need a larger % of code written by AI, of course.

Oops, pretending to take the moral high ground is out the window as soon as MIC dollars are at risk.

Update: and seems like being ready to toss principles aside wasn’t enough for the Trump administration.

Because Donald Trump… the Dow! The Dow right now, is over… THE DOW IS OVER FIFTY THOUSAND DO- I don’t know why you’re laughing, I hear you’re a great stock-trader, as I hear, Raskin… the DOW is over fifty thousand, right now…