Not all vaccines, but some, yeah.

Gemini has always been less censored than ChatGPT. Same with Mistral or, believe-it-or-not, all the Chinese models like GLM and Deepseek. Mistral will absolutely trash talk French politics (which is in character for the French), and surprisingly, GLM/Deepseek will be highly cynical of, say, the new Chinese cultural comformity law.

…I could rant forever on this, but basically, ChatGPT is trash. The only reason it use it is “haven’t looked for anything else.” It’s kinda like using plain Google Chrome.

I don’t buy it. Not until I can test it, hands on.

So many LLM papers have amazing (and replicated) results in testing, yet fall apart in the real world outside of the same lab tests everyone uses. Research is overfit to hell.

And that’s giving them the benefit on the doubt; assuming they didn’t train on the test set in one form or another. Like how Llama 4 technically aced LM Arena because they finetuned it to.

Then why are they so hell bent on uranium enrichment?

Yeah, the US is full of shit here and screwed stuff up. And if Israel was my neighbor, I’d want a nuke too.

But that fatwa sure sounds like “having your cake and eating it.” If they wanted to be a trade-focused petrol state, they’d let that idea go. But they didn’t.

Because it’s all speculation. Putin’s wealth isn’t public.

I suspect this applies to a several other private business leaders or “murky” politicians, especially if wealth is technically spread out over a family.

On desktop Linux, between Helium (relatively new and lightweight), Cromite (more hardcore antifingerprinting), and Firefox, I’m quite satisfied.

Another is to use ublacklist (if you aren’t already using ublock origin for some inexplicable reason) and add in AI/SEO slop blacklists. They will be filtered out of search.

Oh, and use the wiki redirect extension.

It doesn’t fix everything, but it’s a massive improvement for when the information you need is pretty recent.

Also, FYI the Kagi browser is great.

Yep.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radar/LiveActionTV

All the Star Trek entries are hilarious:

Back in The '60s, U.S. TV networks, particularly NBC, wouldn’t allow women to show their belly buttons, most famously affecting Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie. In the original Star Trek episode “Mirror, Mirror”, Uhura’s mirror outfit included a bare midriff and her navel is visible in several shots. The producers achieved this simply by having someone take the Standards guy out to lunch and lowering the bottom half of her costume while he was gone. The shots with her bare navel were edited into the episodes and evidently no one caught it.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe

It’s well documented, see:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LipstickLesbian

And all the links/categories.

That’s exactly what I said, and meant: I miss my jailbroken iPhone; I wish I could jailbreak mine now. But I can’t. And my 6 would be basically unusable without App Store support now.

That’s not why I’m replying though… I’m curious; what’s with insults like “eat me” over interpretations of someone else’s comment?

Thanks. I appreciate the condescending comment.

Apple does sell privacy. They market it as a feature.

And their hardware sales margins are hilarious.

So in this case they do have some incentive for privacy/security.

In this case, perhaps. The problem is it’s what Apple offers, or the highway.

…I really, really miss my jailbroken iPhone. Honestly I would trade for a (working) iPhone 6 without even blinking.

NP!

Here’s it filtered a little more, including 2242 and the shorter 2230 (which I assume would also be compatible). If your laptop can take an even longer drive, that’d give you better options. It’s sorted by price/GB, so 2TB drives that are conspicuously good deals will show up.

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#D=1&sort=-ppgb&f=122030%2C122042

This looks like a sane “premium” buy; good controller per reviews, and 1TB: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CP68JNT

Though you can go cheaper with PCIE 3.0 drives. They’ll still be fast.

I have no idea if these AUD prices are sane though, or if there’s somewhere ‘better’ to shop there.

I dunno why folks are giving you such a hard time

• Pay for the RAM upgrade. Your laptop seller gets it cheeeeap now.

• Upgrade the SSD yourself. You can put the old one in a dirt cheap enclosure for a gloriously fast 512gb USB drive. SSDs are dirt cheap

I can’t give you where to buy SSDs down under, but use this to sort by price/GB.

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#D=1&sort=-ppgb&page=1

It… could be worse? It was a cowardly/asshole move, but not explicitly malicious I guess.

Like, from his perspective, maybe he was trying to stop being so dependent on you and utterly messed up trying to handle it? And reacted horribly, of course.

I’m playing devil’s advocate here, maybe because I kinda sympathize with being in a bad place and dependent on others as an adult.

Apparently the situation with freight is the opposite, where the US networks are efficient compared to Europe (and even China), hence so much stuff is trucked across Europe instead.

As always, take YT videos with grains of salt, but it makes good points:

https://youtu.be/77pIj8kURoY

Meanwhile, other videos suggest that the US’s own passenger rail suppliers (like manufacturers/designers) are basically gone because the situation is so bad, hence companies like Amtrak end up importing EU stuff.

Ha! That’s definitely not true in the US, at least not on packaging I’ve seen.

It’s a great idea though.

Not to speak of the sugar added to most fruit juice.

That’s mind-boggling to me. I know why (it’s cheap), but still.