I remember playing F-Zero and falling out of my chair as I leaned into tight turns.
AnAmericanPotato
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What this expression refers to is a pervasive false equivalence: the idea that anything that isn't perfect isn't worth bothering with, or that doing something small somehow hampers a greater task (even if when it actually contributes to that greater task). It is a statement against apathy and binary thinking.
This comes up in politics and activism all the fucking time. Like "Why should I care about car emissions when freight ships produce more emissions than all the cars in the world?" The answer is simple: because you can. Do what you can, even if it's small. That doesn't mean forgetting about the big polluters.
some sort of labor movement, a geopolitical shock, a massive strike, etc
If anybody is avoiding Amazon as an alternative to those things, then I agree that they need a kick in the pants. But I doubt there's anyone out there thinking to themselves "I don't need to take part in the revolution because I bought my cat food at CVS instead of Amazon".
IPFS content IDs (CID) are a hash of the tree of chunks. Changes to chunk size can also change the hash!
I don't understand why this is a deal-breaker. It seems like you could accomplish what you describe within IPFS simply by committing to a fixed chunk size. That's valid within IPFS, right?
Is it important to use any specific hashing algorithm(s)? If not, then isn't an IPFS CID (with a fixed, predetermined chunk size) a stable hash algorithm in and of itself?
Defaults matter. Every time you open a private browsing window, that's what you're going to get. Every time you use LibreWolf or Firefox Focus or any other browser that disables/clears cookies by default (which is a good practice), that's what you're going to get.
I don't want anything I search for going into OpenAI. Ever. I'd feel fine about this if they hosted their own models.
Lots of recent (meaning past 20 years or so) research shows that our gut bacteria play quite a large role in our mental functions, too.
The concept of "the self" as a single, indivisible, unchanging thing is simply not compatible with observed reality. To be alive is to be in a constant state of flux.
Is there such a thing as an eternal soul? Uh, maybe...but if there is, it's not going to be responsible for the things we typically associate with individual living people. It's not going to have your sense of humor, or your memories, or your opinions, or your math skills. We know enough about all of those things to confidently say they are not eternal.
Generally true. You would want to use DNS-over-TLS (DoT) or DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) to be sure your DNS queries are encrypted in transit.
If someone was uninformed and misinformed enough to think voting for Trump was even remotely in their own self-interest in the first place, then there is almost no disaster Trump can cause that will not be instantly reframed as "just imagine how much worse it would be under Dems!"
Dying of COVID? Well at least you're not dying from forced vaccination!
Layoffs due to tariffs? LOL what's a tariff?
Can't get benefits you need to survive? Well clearly the Welfare Queens left him no choice! It's their fault!
It's no coincidence that Trump in particular and Republicans in general relentlessly attack education and free information. They've already brainwashed enough of the population to win elections, and they want to make sure the general population has no way out of that hole. This is why they're attacking Wikipedia and Internet Archive. This is why Project 2025's first order of business is to eliminate the Department of Education. This is why Musk bought fucking Twitter in the first place, most likely. This is why they're now trying to repeal Section 230 (with the help of some Judas Dems), so they can bully any web site into taking down any information they don't like.
The information apocalypse is upon us.
I store a lot of things on external media.
I also use a lot of Flatpaks.
Kill me.
About half a day. If it's really bad, a full day.
But I don't usually let it get that bad. Hydrating and eating properly before, during, and after a night of drinking will do wonders. Ideally, you should be hydrating all through the evening, not just chugging a liter or two at the end.
I’m not (currently) in a position where others would find it desirable to do so. Potentially in the future?
It's hard to imagine a scenario where this would happen and your voice would not otherwise be available. For example, if you went into politics, then you'd be a target, but you'd already be speaking in public all the time. It only takes a few seconds of a voice sample to do this nowadays and it'll only get easier from here.
Maybe just make a point to educate your family and friends on the risk of voice cloning so they don't fall for phone scams.
In theory, the only difference between an electric heater and your computer, as far as actual heat goes, is the dispersal pattern. They will generate exactly the same heat: 1W of heat per 1W of electricity used. That's thermodynamics for you!
You said:
So I don't think it makes sense to assign any of the savings to using your PC vs your usual electric heaters. It's because you kept your place a little cooler, which makes an absolutely huge difference. When heating in winter, every additional degree of air temperature is more costly than the last, since heat loss is relative to the temperature differential between indoors and outdoors (i.e. a warmer room will lose more heat to the outdoors than a cooler room, so you need to generate more heat to maintain it).
This sounds to me a lot like dieting. Most of the time, the success of a diet has less to do with the actual diet and more to do with the fact that dieting has made you more mindful and changed your behavior in other ways.
The two biggest things you can do to save money on heating in winter are: