I hope I’m wrong too. But I’m pretty pessimistic.

Even if the tools are not yet there, “they” want to know exactly who asks for code to things like a DIY radar station or autonomous drone control. We’re well into “first they came” territory.

I generally drink either whole or 2% cow milk in my coffee. Never added sugar, but sometimes half and half or the occasional oat milk phase instead. When you switch exclusively to oat milk for a while, it grows on you. I like oat as the best overall plant milk for coffee, and the Planet Oat original unsweetened in particular as you’ve heard, but it’s definitely a different product with a different culinary experience than cow milk.

But of course it is. Goat milk is also a different culinary experience. It tastes like goat cheese, which is maybe unsurprising but also rather unwelcome in coffee. Each alternative is rather different.

I mostly drink coffee at home. I grind beans one or two scoops at a time immediately before use and brew hot concentrate with an aeropress then dilute to black (americano-ish), but my milk preferences are the same in an occasional expensive coffee shop latte. Oat is the best alternative option. You’re right that it’s not as potent, and I tend to use even more oat milk in coffee than my somewhat heavy pours of cow milk.

I haven’t done careful investigation, but I suspect oat milk has a better balance of impacts on personal health and environment than many of the plant-based options. Almond milk production, for instance, takes enormous amounts of water out of the aquifer under California’s Central Valley, whereas oats are widely grown. Soy milk is controversial health-wise. Oat also tastes better to me than both of them. Coconut is okay but has a somewhat strong flavor and thin texture.

As a highly-engineered food product, you should expect substantial variation from one brand to the next. Try several.

Last week, Trump called NATO a “paper tiger”and said he was “absolutely” considering to withdraw from the 32-member alliance, arguing that European members have relied on U.S. security guarantees while offering inadequate support when Washington needed them most.

“Defensive alliance refuses to join ridiculous war of aggression, news at 11.”

“Trump can’t attack the alliance forever without making it hollow,” said Michael Feller, chief strategist at Geopolitical Strategy, as Iran was “testing unity” by offering Spain and Turkey waivers to get their oil via the Strait of Hormuz.

Russia is widely believed to have interfered in both elections that got the guy into office. The fracturing of NATO sure is great for them. Incredible ROI. China is a pretty good friend of theirs too. Where will Europe be if China reaches for Taiwan and Donny has pissed in everyone’s beer? Even if it’s always TACO time and he never grabs Greenland, he’s an unreliable partner in anything.

He’s not necessarily directed by anyone to cause all the havoc, such as pawing at Greenland again now. He’s enough of a loose cannon to cause trouble by himself, especially as Iran threatens to embarrass him as weak in front of his most ardent supporters and he needs a new distraction from both that and the Epstein files.

Where can I find some biased “fake news media” where they actually talk about realistic interpretations of the facts on the ground?

Many password manager generators already do (use the “memorable” type).

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If you’re deliberating between Apple Maps and Google Maps, the only advantage Apple ever had was the lack of ads. Apple’s data is worse, routing is worse, navigation UI is worse (which of the lanes should you be in right now for your next turn), etc. It’s astounding that Apple would enshittify this right now when they’re not even close to being a decent replacement for the primary competition.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Many of my fellow Christians in America have warned me over the years of exactly that, often telling me: “I feel sorry for you, because when the Antichrist comes you’re not even going to recognize him!”

To honor those who have given me such warning, I decided to spend the past week studying the most significant biblical prophecies and descriptions typically believed by my conservative friends to refer the Antichrist. If my evangelical friends are correct, and if it’s entirely possible that the Antichrist is on the global scene today, I certainly wouldn’t want to be the only person in the room who didn’t recognize the Antichrist when I saw him.

In case you too are a bit rusty in the area of biblical predictions about the coming Antichrist and don’t want to be oblivious if such a person were to arise, consider me your chief antichristologist who is more than happy to help you out.

This is a good time to refer back to a Forbes piece on Brian Acton from a few years back:

The Facebook-WhatsApp pairing had been a head-scratcher from the start. Facebook has one of the world’s biggest advertising networks; Koum and Acton hated ads. Facebook’s added value for advertisers is how much it knows about its users; WhatsApp’s founders were pro-privacy zealots who felt their vaunted encryption had been integral to their nearly unprecedented global growth.

This dissonance frustrated Zuckerberg. Facebook, Acton says, had decided to pursue two ways of making money from WhatsApp. First, by showing targeted ads in WhatsApp’s new Status feature, which Acton felt broke a social compact with its users. “Targeted advertising is what makes me unhappy,” he says. His motto at WhatsApp had been “No ads, no games, no gimmicks”—a direct contrast with a parent company that derived 98% of its revenue from advertising. Another motto had been “Take the time to get it right,” a stark contrast to “Move fast and break things.”

Facebook also wanted to sell businesses tools to chat with WhatsApp users. Once businesses were on board, Facebook hoped to sell them analytics tools, too. The challenge was WhatsApp’s watertight end-to-end encryption, which stopped both WhatsApp and Facebook from reading messages. While Facebook didn’t plan to break the encryption, Acton says, its managers did question and “probe” ways to offer businesses analytical insights on WhatsApp users in an encrypted environment.

Long live Signal!

Lemmy is way better than Reddit on several fronts. Reddit is a profit-motivated corporation domiciled in a fascist country and their administrative actions reflect that.

“Don’t be dumb” can be interpreted in many ways.

You can accidentally dox yourself anywhere, especially as you build up a large comment history for a person (or LLM) to analyze. You can deduce my age to a pretty narrow range because I’ve written about growing up with modems calling local BBSes. I’ve tried not to write much about my location, but there are probably many clues out there. The totality of my comments may be very good at filtering down who I could possibly be. Similar for anyone else.

One nice thing about Lemmy is that you can make alt accounts on different instances and then limit your community participation accordingly, to choose your own self-doxxing exposure. One account could be great for location-divulging commentary, such as regional politics or the weather involved in your gardening. Another could be great for your porn habits, although lemmynsfw recently went dark.

Reddit has spent a lot of effort building internal tools to correlate your access habits and such so that they can group all of your alts together to try to prevent ban evasion. The Fediverse design makes that much more difficult unless you get colluding instance operators.

Instead of ads here (and their associated surveillance), we have occasional pleas from instance admins to kick in some donations. It’s too bad that we don’t have good anonymous micro transactions yet, but maybe a cryptobro will tell me how easy that is if I would just use their preferred tech. At least you can donate to an instance without disclosing your account (although lemmynsfw was obvious in its purpose).

Lemmy is better, but it’s still public. Don’t be dumb.

Even Reddit had third parties tracking everything, with some of them republishing data. There was a long era where sites like Removeddit let you read deleted and removed posts.

In Lemmy it’s structurally different, but there are still plenty of third parties doing similar stuff. For instance, LemVotes is tracking and republishing everyone’s votes (looks like you’ve recently been on a downvote tear, OP).

I have to assume that by now all of the major and aspiring LLM companies are quietly drinking the full firehose of posts and comments (and ignoring delete messages), and will use the data however they want, indefinitely. That probably includes at least one entity happy to give it to law enforcement.

In other words, it’s all public, deletes are only best effort, and the policies of your instance are mostly irrelevant with respect to other parties retaining your data. There are a few things that only your instance knows, such as your IP addresses, but that’s relatively little comfort.

Don’t be dumb.

Maybe we’ll see a resurgence of kite photography. Modern camera tech should make it especially light and awesome.

I’ve heard this rumor before but I’ve never found a mute button on a single pump. I’ve pressed them all.

Yes they should

Some of her work mentioned in but not linked by the article.

Yes, sort of, in the Voyager app, but it’s awkward and unintuitive.

Pretend you’re going to create a new account or log into a different server through Voyager’s interface. Search up the server you want (sh.itjust.works in your example). Tap it so there’s a checkmark on its entry in the list, but instead of pressing the big blue Next button at the bottom, tap on the three dots in a circle icon in the upper right, and choose “Connect as Guest”.

Then it will be one of the account list entries and you can switch to it like you would switch to another account. Go to the community list from there and select Local. Now do a very awkward dance if you find a post that you want to interact with from your logged-in account. Best way to use this “feature” is probably just as community discovery to then subscribe from your account.

In my experience “over easy” generally still has a bit of runny white, and that’s just gross. It’s difficult to get the white fully set and still keep the yolk runny, but I always err on the side of a disappointingly set yolk.

Eggs over medium (lightly fried on both sides, white fully set, yolk very runny once punctured). Runny eggs are great by themselves or with other breakfast items, particularly toast or hash browns to soak up the sauce.

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How dare you reach out to inquire how to view his art! The nerve!

Great job tracking it down. It’s too bad Latvia doesn’t have any rights to their performance.

This is this first time I’ve missed “watch post” as an option on Lemmy. I want to know if you find it!