Grok summary: white people are suffering racism in South Africa! White genocide is real!

I can do that without AI, but claim it’s AI so I can earn millions!!!

--Lua
function answerStupidClient()
    local answers = {"Piss off, idiot.", 
        "That's the worst thing I've had the displeasure of reading all week.", 
        "Are you for real with this?", 
        "Now that's a winning igNobel right there!", 
        "Have you tried turning your brain off and on again?",
        "Please tell me you're intoxicated, I refuse to believe this came from someone in sound mind."}
    local which = math.random(1,#answers)
    return answers[which]

TrackerControl for blocking apps from connecting to the internet

Simple apps for Gallery and File Browser

Markor for mardown note taking

JustPlayer for watching videos

I’ve yet to find a good music player, since f-droid’s search sucks - it only searches in the name and short description. I’ve tried Apollo and Odyssey, but neither has a fucking folder whitelist/blacklist setting and end up filled with audio from telegram and whatsapp. Also, most players completely ignore .opus format

Also, has anybody thought to ask why Google has 32 million mosquitoes on hand?

Probably the spawn of Sundar Pichai

NightHawk has a video on how to make cooling packs that keep their temperature around 18ºC (64ºF) for something like 2 hours. He gives the ingredients around the 6 minute mark. It’s a mixture of Sodium Sulfate with common table salt:

• 5 cups water (1.2 liters)
• 1 cup sodium sulfate (240ml)
• 1/4 cup salt (60ml)
• 4 tablespoons of xanthan gum (20ml) - this is a thickening agent so that the thing becomes gelatin-like, which makes it easier to work with
• Mix in heated water for some minutes. The mixture should not fully dissolve, there should be some of it visible. If the sulfate fully dissolves, add more. If there seems to be too much of the mixture, add bits of water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqxjfp4Gi0k

I suspect this might be from the jqwik thing going on right now. The maintainer of that library added some anti-AI “fuck you” code to delete vibe coders’ “work”

STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT!

What you say!?

Cheaper than having real products and trying to sell them, I guess

Or a Nintendo DS. Or the ill-fated OpenPandora

I hate that ddg has “show AI images” on by default

Of course he’s a cop in the state that’s pretty much where “coronelismo” still reigns

Looks over fungus that count as grass type

Table of Contents

1.    Find your bottleneck first
2.    Slow server response time (TTFB)
3.    Render-blocking JavaScript and CSS
4.    Large image and video files
5.    Third-party scripts
6.    Slow interactions and a blocked main thread
7.    Unoptimised JavaScript
8.    Unoptimised CSS
9.    Web fonts
10.    Plugins, themes, and page builders
11.    Aggressive bot and AI crawler traffic
12.    Make speed a team habit

So, first step is selling the product. Second step, check if the server is actually working fine.

Steps 3 - 11 -> fix your fucked up shit

The fix for 5 is REMOVE THAT FUCKING SHIT. Very similar fix for 10

Owens’ lawsuit alleges that on March 12, 2024, Pokémon Company International informed him he had passed the basic exam for the rank of Professor of Pokémon with a score of 100%.

The exhibits, made public in Owens’ court filings, indicate the background check conducted on behalf of the defendants determined there was a pending arrest warrant, issued by another state in 2022, for failing to appear in court on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct by engaging in fighting; possessing, repairing or selling an offensive weapon; and criminal mischief through damage to property.

Sounds like he could apply for Pal Professor instead

If Pokemon Professors are named after trees, does that mean that they’re all grass type?

Could be a cousin to Dr. Slump, too!

Aabout tree fiddy

Very good read. As I’m taking some classes in the neuropsychology of learning, his first part on how knowledge changes you is spot on. Sometimes the change is tiny, sometimes the change is significant, but it is always on you that it happens.

The technopoly, as the author puts it, was a long way coming, first with patents ensuring that the patent owner got the benefits (which often wasn’t the actual discoverer) and later with near eternal copyright thanks mainly to Disney. When computer companies managed to make peeking at their code a crime, society as a whole lost.

If you have two economies of equal size and productivity, one has a massive financial sector and billionaires while the other does not, the financialised economy will have less left over to invest in research, education, infrastructure, and healthcare. Over time, it will inevitably fall behind the country with a smaller financial sector because it’s the other things that drive the economy and productivity, not stock market growth.

I can imagine the shareholders going feral, explaining how they create jobs.

Another thing, regarding the USA stranglehold on tech, Brazil was in a very peculiar situation in that regard in the 80s and up to '92. It had a suffocating protectionism, which fully prohibited people from importing computers and videogames, in order to incentivize the local industry. The computer tech was roughly 5 years behind USA and Europe of the time, the first local NES clones were built around '88, if I’m not mistaken. Of course, game cartridges and software diskettes and tapes had to be imported, usually as contraband and often as pirated copies. Come 1992, the recently elected government takes down all the protectionism in a single swoop. It went from full to zero in a day, there was no gradual relief of the protections. The following influx of much, much more advanced computers crashed the local computer economy. We still pirated nearly every software, tho.

I received a flyer for “Let’s celebrate Jesus’ death” this April. Terrible choice of words