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New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:50:21 +0000

Not as much anymore. Sure, trap teams are common, but we used to have school rifle clubs that taught safe handling of firearms.

Now we've decided that if we don't talk about something, people won't get curious about it. Sadly, without being properly taught how to be safe, that generally ends tragically.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:47:07 +0000

This brings to mind the government set up in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: it takes 2/3rds to pass a law, but only 1/3rd to repeal it.

The thinking being if a law isn't good/useful enough to garner 2/3rd support, it shouldn't be law. And if a law is so bad that it can't even get more than 1/3rd the people to support it, it should no longer be a law.

Sadly, I don't think it'd work today. People are too divided, it's too easy to import the votes you need, and people are too lazy to understand a law beyond the headline or what the news tells them about it.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:40:14 +0000

Yes, completely giving up is definitely the better option.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:31:04 +0000

I've had great success using Gemma4 even on old hardware (4GB VRAM). I haven't found a Qwen model that can match it on very low end hardware.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:30:20 +0000

What a coincidence, so do I

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:19:49 +0000

Then why are so many non-white, non-Christians still flocking here? Why would anyone want to come to this country if it's such a hellhole?

I'm not buying it. Turn off the news and go out into society, preferably one of those small so-called racist communities. You'll find out the truth, one way or the other.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:13:46 +0000

The key to running in lower amounts of VRAM is patience. It'll be slow, but it'll work.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Pressed Penny Machine Map"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:52:18 +0000

They're not even a penny anymore; they're using copper blanks.

That said, I have seen several that take a credit card (or dollar bills) but you still hand crank them, so you still get the experience.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:33:21 +0000

Related: I highly recommend "The Natural Navigator" by Tristan Gooley[0] as a means of training your brain to orient itself.

[0] https://www.naturalnavigator.com/

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:24:42 +0000

I had this feeling recently at a local fair when a local online-only news site produced thier first-ever physical edition. It was great, I read through the entire thing while waiting for the parade.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:26:26 +0000

> Compare that to a $5k DGX

Times 2, because OP said they had two of them. That's considerably more.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:32:56 +0000

Speaking of gopher, I'm low-key hoping that becomes the new place for all the non-bot traffic. Gopher felt magical back in the pre-www days.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Everything you do is being recorded"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:59:46 +0000

In this case, it's Intel the processor company

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Everything you do is being recorded"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:09:03 +0000

Friend of a friend retired several years ago from Intel. He'll go into detail about all the ways you're being spied on. He won't let you into his house with a smartphone; you have to turn it off and leave it in your car.

I used to think he was just paranoid...

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:18:54 +0000

Assuming you're not otherwise armed, I would say something long and tough to whack, bash, and push (or pin) with, such as a tree branch.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:50:47 +0000

I don't see anywhere that OP mentioned illegal activities or unlawful orders. Sounds like they're quite proud of what the accomplished.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:45:38 +0000

Bipolar

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:39:40 +0000

Automated chicken door isn't too difficult; remember the goal is to allow them to come in or out, not to make them do so or wake them up, though they do get conditioned to the door opening.

I made mine to open at actual sunrise (except in the summer; I keep them in until 7am because the coop is cooler, and if let out they can get loud before my neighbors wake up) and close it at actual sunset (not civil twilight, which most people think of when you say "sunset"). Generally the door is open well after the birds are in bed, which is fine.

Aside from some dumb birds when they were younger, I've never had one locked out (and those dumb ones were trying to nest in silly places, and weren't going you come in no matter when I closed the door).

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:10:01 +0000

If you think the outputs of Mexican cartels stay in Mexico, you're severely underinformed. Do you know how many civilian deaths (to say nothing of human trafficking and more) are directly due to Mexican cartels?

The US absolutely has an interest in the destruction of Mexican cartels.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:05:22 +0000

This is a completely useless article. Is 100 a lot? The article never even hints at what percentage of firefighters that is, let alone total arsonists. Should we be outraged? Are firefighters more likely to be arsonists?

It says "in North America", so I assume that's across US and Canada. There are 1.2 million firefighters in the US, and about 150k in Canada, so let's call it 1.3 million. 100 out of 1.3 million is statistically irrelevant.

How's that stack up against the general public? That'd be good to know, but the article doesn't touch on it. The latest data i can find is for the US in 2024, where there were 65,795 arson convictions. There are 349 million people in the US, so the number of arsonists is 0.0001% of the general population. The number of firefighters that are arsonists (100/65,795) is 0.0015%, so I suppose it's slightly higher that the general population.

All this should have been in the article.