theneverfox

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

I think this is a non-issue

Captchas aren't easy to bypass - run of the mill scammers can't afford a bunch of servers running cutting edge LLMs for this

Captchas were never a guarantee - one person could sit there solving captchas for a good chunk of a bot farm anyways

So where does that leave us? Sophisticated actors could afford manually doing captchas and may even just be using a call-center setup to do astroturfing. My bigger concern here is the higher speed LLMs can operate at, not bypassing the captcha

Your run of the mill programmer can't bypass them, it requires actual skill and a time investment to build a system to do this. Captchas could be defeated programically before and still can now - it still raises the difficulty to the point most who could bother would rather work on something more worthwhile

IMO, the fact this keeps getting boosted makes me think this is softening us up to accept less control over our own hardware

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social -1 points 4 months ago

I think this is a non-issue

Captchas aren't easy to bypass - run of the mill scammers can't afford a bunch of servers running cutting edge LLMs for this

Captchas were never a guarantee - one person could sit there solving captchas for a good chunk of a bot farm anyways

So where does that leave us? Sophisticated actors could afford manually doing captchas and may even just be using a call-center setup to do astroturfing. My bigger concern here is the higher speed LLMs can operate at, not bypassing the captcha

Your run of the mill programmer can't bypass them, it requires actual skill and a time investment to build a system to do this. Captchas could be defeated programically before and still can now - it still raises the difficulty to the point most who could bother would rather work on something more worthwhile

IMO, the fact this keeps getting boosted makes me think this is softening us up to accept less control over our own hardware

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

Because I think the "rules" are based on what other people did

I select every little bit, which works, but there might be some wiggle room

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 4 months ago

This is such a simple idea that people seem incapable of understanding

Big companies can't innovate. They're pulled in too many directions and create bureaucracies that stifle the individuality needed to push beyond known techniques. At best, they can iterate and imitate - and even that is very hit or miss

There's this idea companies must grow or die - but in reality, companies grow until they can only perpetuate themselves. They start to only make sense on paper

Individuals drive progress - they need time and autonomy

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago

No, there's one use for Blockchain. An immutable public ledger with no trusted authority

That's useful for a lot of things - just not everything (and it has been shoved plenty of places it doesn't belong)

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago

Because now they have your login and password - not a hashed version they can only validate against, but the real thing that can be used to log into your network. They shouldn't ever have it, aside from them being able to sell credentials this also means someone else could probably obtain access to all of them

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago

Seed oils are like canola, soy, "vegetable", sunflower, etc. They're the cheapest, so they're used wherever they can be

As for alternatives, some people say grass fed butter/ghi is the easy to go, personally I mostly use olive oil (although I'm not super clear on why that's different)

Ultimately, something is very wrong with our diets, and seed oils + sugar are where the experts offering explanations seem to be pointing. There's other things it could be, like micro plastics and the million other containments in our food and water allowed in doses that don't cause obvious harm, and even foods like tomatoes and potatoes that contain toxins (ones that are minimal if you prepare them properly, but we don't prepare them how we used to)

I definitely recommend researching it, and I'd be interested to hear what you come up with

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As for the thickening of the bowel, I have no idea, but it seems like the bowel movement speed and that are both side effects

And as for making it stick - here's my take. Animals don't become obese... Except when you feed them highly processed food. There's also a theory floating around that seed oils drive sugar cravings, and the fat they release does the same thing

So my advice would be this - use this opportunity to fix this. If you burn the old fat, get rid of your sugar cravings, and eat better food you might be able to fix your system in a way people mostly only do by moving to somewhere with better food culture for years

Avoid processed food and seed oils as much as possible. Take advantage of the time you have on it, and stack the deck in your favor while you can

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Nah, ozempic and Co change sugar absorption and satiation. People on it primarily eat way less instantly, apparently they just feel full and don't feel any desire to keep going. It also slows sugar absorption which is why it helps manage diabetes, so that might also play some role

So far we've found it thickens the intestinal lining and significantly messes with the reward pathways, we're not sure what the long term effects could be. It seems like at best, you basically have to stay on it indefinitely or regain the weight (which is true of current weight loss drugs)

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What would that data look like? It's not exactly a metric you can nail down

"Unions are corrupt" was definitely a message intentionally spread, I can definitely find you some examples of corporations spreading that, but that's not really data either

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I wouldn't say many of them are corrupt, I don't think that's fair. I think it's anti-union propaganda that's been spread

Some are though... And if you were to pick one example head and shoulders above all others, the police union definitely comes to mind

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So... You're saying instead of "main", "app", or "core", we should change the convention to make tiananmenSquare the entry point for apps?

Or maybe make it the filename for utils, so it'll just break

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