A container of sweet stuff that you get stuck in.

Basically, a system full of juicy looking data that takes forever to collect and process… And then it was all fake data the whole time.

Plus, you can hide some real info, like the name of the machine compromised, or info about the attacker’s system in the data, and then when it gets compromised, sold on the black market, and eventually published, you can reference the leaked data to see exactly which system the hackers got into, and get some insights on how they did it.

Spartan 117 from Halo. It’s pretty explicitly said that he has luck on his side. Hypothetically, he’s quantum immortal (we might all be actually) and the checkpoint system in the games is based around this immortality.

The real horseshit about the fuel tax thing is that that gas tax gets suspended all the fucking time, but do I get a break on my road tax too? Hah ha, no, fuck you says the Republicans who implement the fuel type fee and then suspended the gas tax.

Let me tell you about scrapple.

I, as a life-long midwestener moved out to the “south east” Atlantic coast for a bit. Stopped in a diner one morning and got some breakfast, and they asked if I wanted scrapple with my breakfast. Not my first time seeing it on a menu around there, so I asked what it was, and they told me it was like an omelet, but made with apple and potato shavings. “Alright” I say, as I am open to trying new foods…

“What in the whole grain pancakes kind of fuck is this?!” I thought when my plate arrived. It was quite literally cutting board scraps, with like one scrambled egg added to bind it all together. Literally rough and dirty potato skins, and the ends of tomatoes, I literally found a fucking apple stem in mine. I figured they were playing some kind of joke on me, but I looked around, and other people had the same thing, and they were eating it the fuck up. So I gave it a try. Needless to say, undercooked potato and apple skins were not appetizing. The texture was like eating slices of bicycle innertube, and the flavor was akin to licking a well used, but unwashed cutting board.

Anyway, that was my first and last time trying scrapple. Learn from my mistake, you have been warned.

Are you really being “left behind” when everyone else is going the wrong way?

I’m really baffled because this is super easy to fix.

Step 1. Pull all the AI bloat out of Windows 11. Make a clean, compatible, and user friendly OS out of the Windows brand.

Step 2. Spin CoPilot into it’s own OS. Go crazy with your “Every app is just a different AI presentation of your data.” Make the AI in there all powerful. Allow users to remote to the OS and run the same AI regardless of the platform.

Step 3. Print money

That’s… One way to look at it. On the other hand, if I were an employer, should I be required to keep people on payroll if they were going around saying “I work for Bytemeister, and I think Hitler was right and we should have exterminated the Jews”? That’s going to affect my business badly, it’s going to cost me my quality of life, if not my entire business.

Perhaps both of them harm (or help) different parties by different amounts. So maybe a system where “My freedom ends where it starts infringing on other peoples rights.” looks like a common sense framework, but when scrutinized reveals that it doesn’t really stand for anything at all.

Ah, so it would have been harmful to vote against it.

Or choose not to do business with them, or choose not to help them on the side of the road, or choose not to invite them to your parties, or choose not to let them on your property, or choose to sign them up for all the useless email and mail spam you can find…

Don’t tunnel on one thing. A freedom for everyone means a freedom for the capitalists, and the communists too.

Charlie Kirk would still be a piece of shit today if he wasn’t out and loud about being a piece of shit.

I voted to raise my taxes to fund my local school. Now my neighbors have to pay more in taxes as well… Did I just harm them?

Or choose not to hire them, or ostracize them.

Hate speech is free speech. So is recording that hate speech and making sure that everyone the bigot knows is aware of their bigotry is free speech too.

Hear me out. Your car, your phone, and these days, the streets themselves practically track you everywhere you go. They are creating a pattern profile for you, and for everyone else. I’m not saying this is a good thing, but the silver lining is that we know about it.

Wanna be invisible for a day? Throw your phone in the car and have your partner or friend drive around with it. The logs for that day will show you being a happy little drone driving around like normal. Here is the thing… As the surveillance state gets more and more toys to play with, they forget the important basics, the primitive tools, the personal skills, and the willingness to do the legwork that actually matters.

If it makes you feel better/differently about the effectiveness of surveillance. Some guy kidnapped Nancy Guthrie, got captured on camera, sent a ransom note, and we still don’t know who the fuck he is.

A professional using AI as part of your diagnosis is fine.

A professional using AI to diagnose you is not.

To put it another way. If I had a condition, and my doctor used and AI to look through thousands of studies to find a treatment regimen that fits my particular health profile better than the standard treatment and they then review the sources and decide that it would be a safer and more effective option than the standard care, then I’m all for that. If my doctor says “I asked this AI, and it said do this”, then I’m definitely not doing “that” until I check in with another doctor.

Congrats on posting the most wrong thing I have read today.

Also, are you a writer for Landman?

Yeah, but all the inattentive parents can now successfully pass on their genes and social values… Which is why we’re seeing a huge age verification push online right now. If those people or their children got mauled or eaten at higher rates then we wouldn’t have this problem.

cheap drone flies conductive dust to the air conditioning systems? Like powdered metal dumped somewhere very sensitive, where it can be carried to sensitive equipment by the air pumps? Or fire/smoke at the intake?

Wouldn’t work. Dust is a major problems for data centers, and they already have pretty strict air-handling controls to prevent it.

Your main ways of disrupting one is by taking out the power, the HVAC, or the structure. I think out of the 3, the HVAC would be the easiest to disable from the outside. That being said, datacenters are not inherently problematic, so make sure you know what you are trying to destroy before you actually destroy it.

I got an Insignia from BestBuy a few years ago. There was a smart version that was 2 inches bigger for 25 dollars less, and I opted out of that. To say the salesman was floored by this decision would be accurate.

Number 2 is an electric vehicle.

Number 1 is a non-smart TV

Honorable mention; The Apple Watch SE 2 I bought for my wife so she stops thinking she’s going tachy or having a heart attack 9 times a year. Considering the cost of an average ER trip, and the hit to my sanity when these things only happen at like 3 AM, I’ll gladly upgrade her to the pro version or whatever when the SE kicks the bucket.

I must have made it sound harder than it is, but my household income is well above the poverty line, and I don’t have any kids. Even with that financial flexibility though, I still can’t afford to spend recklessly.

Let’s put it this way, my last big “non-necessary” purchase was a firearm, and I literally reviewed it and considered it for 3 years. For a less than 1000 dollar purchase.