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I was able to find several articles in English by searching “Amsterdam cat staircase” on DuckDuckGo.

What makes you think it’s AI? Nothing about the picture looks like AI to me.

It’s quite rare to run into a Gatekeeper warning. Most users probably won’t ever see one. And if they do, they can still bypass it for an individual app using the UI. It’s just a bit convoluted (by design).

I administer a bunch of Macs for a university and I actually block the ability to disable or bypass Gatekeeper and nobody has ever complained about it.

You can disable Gatekeeper entirely using the terminal. They just don’t expose the option in the UI anymore (which I think is fine).

No. You learn not to do that pretty quickly playing Counter-Strike.

I have a PC running Windows 11 Professional that I use exclusively for gaming. It works fine for that and it doesn’t annoy me with OneDrive or Copilot etc.

I’m open to switching to Linux on that machine if Windows starts to annoy me, but as it stands Windows runs all my games without issues and I can’t be arsed messing with things that aren’t broken.

I wouldn’t dream of running Windows on a computer used for anything other than gaming though. Currently I use a Mac as a daily driver, but I’ve also used Linux in the past. The main reason for using macOS is that I spend too much time messing with computers at work to want to do it in my free time too. The Apple ecosystem makes it easy to have everything integrated without much effort. I’m aware it’s probably an unpopular opinion around here.

Surely it should deny any requests to put people in bikinis, regardless of whether they’re dead or not. And based on my attempts of pushing the limits of various AI models (admittedly I haven’t tried recently), to create weird stuff, it’s definitely possible. At least without some creative jailbreaking. I haven’t seen this guy’s prompt, but if he straight up requested “put this woman in a bikini” it should absolutely refuse. That’s not to let the guy making the request off the hook, but X is clearly to blame too.

Often when the uptime is that high on Windows it’s because the fast boot option or whatever it’s called is on. When that’s on uptime doesn’t get reset if you shutdown and then start the computer (it does get reset if you reboot though).

Last time I drank. I already had a drinking problem and it was the only way I knew how to quiet my mind, so it escalated. After a few months I quit (still sober 6 years later), went to therapy, let myself feel the loss and talked about it. After a while you realise that you haven’t thought about it all day, maybe all week. You don’t forget the person and the feeling of loss stays with you, but with time it stops feeling overwhelming. But you have to let yourself feel it first.

I think I’d be fine if I had to use eSIM (when I get a new phone every few years, I touch the SIM exactly once to move it to the new phone and then forget it even exists until the next phone).

I still like having a physical SIM though and haven’t converted it, even though I could. I like the idea that, if my phone dies, I can easily switch it into a new phone (even someone else’s). I don’t think I’ve ever done that, at least not since the days of dumb phones with limited/expensive plans, but I like to know I could. The only downside is that I have to enter the SIM PIN if I restart my phone.

You need to go at it with the right attitude and be okay with rejection and FOMO (the main business model of dating apps). I’d recommend meeting in person early and moving on quickly if it’s clearly not going to work out. Be nice to the people on the other end!

Stil, I don’t really like dating apps. The way they monetise preys on people’s emotions in a pretty ugly way. It’s also sad that capitalism even commodifies love/relationships. But as a person who struggles with meeting people in person I can’t deny they help. And considering I met my wife through a dating app, I can’t really argue with the results.

To be fair I’d be more surprised by a kid playing Atari than an adult. The 2600 came out almost 50 years ago.

And there’s nothing wrong with enjoying “kids stuff”, no matter your age.

Run a laptop farm for North Korea.

We had the richest man on earth throwing hitler salutes at the US presidential inauguration. I think it’s entirely possible that the swastika will be acceptable again within the next two generations. But it will be for the wrong reasons…

I don’t get that vibe from Berm Peak. If he’s rich I can understand that he’d ride expensive bikes himself, but he seems to often make a point that more reasonably priced or old/used bikes can be just as fun, which I think is great when the marketing around bikes seems to try to push people to always want the newest high end stuff.

I agree with everything you said. If you’re going to take drugs, having unbiased, scientific information is super important. Just don’t let it fool you into thinking you’re above getting fucked up. Every time you take something, you’re taking a risk. Which isn’t a problem per se (we all take risks, all the time), but well informed, calculated risks are still risks and you need to think real hard whether it’s worth it.

That’s great and I’m glad you have a good experience with it. But, at least in my experience, looking back, psychedelic experiences aren’t as special as I thought they were at the time. Certainly not so special that I would advise everyone to try them. I’ve seen more than one person try psychedelics because they thought they were these amazing, spiritual drugs and then they just had a bad time and got nothing out of it. I’m sure some people do have life changing experiences, but for some people it’s just meh and for others it’s straight up horrible.

People are different and drugs affect people differently (especially psychedelics). And while stories of people thinking they are a glass of orange juice for the rest of their life because they took acid one time are surely way overblown, I’m sure a small number of people do get unlucky and give themselves lasting issues.

Telling people to try all drugs is just bad advice and if people take it to heart it will go badly for some of them.

Try drugs. Do not get addicted to drugs. Seriously, all if them at least once.

I strongly disagree with this (apart from the not getting addicted part). Recreational drug use can be fine if done in moderation and responsibly, but there is absolutely no need to try any drug and some drugs are simply not worth trying at all.

No matter what people tell you, no you don’t need to try DMT or shrooms or whatever. Go for it if you really want to, but none of those experiences are unmissable and no drug can teach you anything you about life that you can’t figure out on your own.

Source: I have done a lot of different drugs and in retrospect none of them are as big of a deal as people make them out to be and plenty of them are straight up stupid or dangerous.

Edit: I should also add that some people absolutely should not do drugs. Especially people with certain mental issues, but also some people just don’t end up having a good time on some drugs. It’s not for everyone and that’s fine.

I’m almost the first (I run multiple VLANs and SSIDs using pfSense and Ubiquiti hardware) but my server is an old PC sitting under my desk and my cable management strategy is mostly “out of sight, out of mind”. I’m also heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem, especially for smart home stuff, so not everything is open source. Basically I have a complex network setup because I actually make use of it, but I really don’t enjoy working on it and if there’s an easy solution, I’ll go for it.

Strange then that Google and Apple didn’t take it down. Valve made a choice and not a good one.