This is really bad even just from the perspective of user behavior. Training people to scan QR codes from anything that looks like a captcha box is HORRIBLE for security.

“Thanks for scanning the code, just one more step! Please input your phone number, and type in the code you receive.”

Boom, account stolen.

This does seem to work with sandboxed Google Play Services on GrapheneOS btw.

I scanned the demo QR code on Google’s talk page about it with sandboxed Play Services enabled and it gave me a custom popup asking if I’d like to verify.

Louis on the right side of tech history once again.

I used to wholeheartedly endorse Bambu’s printers for newbies because they are affordable and have great out of the box print quality without a lot of tinkering, but at this point my recommendations for newbies have turned into “literally any other brand, maybe look at Prusa first? ONLY if you really, really want specifically a Bambu one, and no other options are good for you, THEN you should buy a Bambu.”

Bambu’s shooting themselves in the foot for no real gain.

Only tangentially related, but… Trump Mobile claims they’ll offer telehealth?

and will be able to measure your heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, blood pressure, stress index, and more, all using… your phone’s camera? 😭

Edit: oh yeah and they changed the entire phone’s design again. It’s a COMPLETELY different phone 💀

They do still rely on similar models though, they just produce shorter outputs and are more fine-tuned, so they run for less time per query and thus use less energy.

It will always use more power than traditional search boxes. To be fair though, it probably isn’t enough to matter relative to all the generative crap.

Most AI models at this point won’t see significant gains from training on such a small sample of code.

You don’t need a whole corporation’s code to make a functional model, you need the whole world’s.

Adding a tiny bit of your own company’s code to the mix doesn’t really do anything to change the model much, so they generally won’t do it for that reason. Tons of training costs, the only benefit is that the model is very very very slightly fine tuned to kinda sorta produce code that’s maybe possibly a little more stylistically similar to yours.

I STILL need my anti-anxiety meds or else I spiral on the smallest shit.

Maybe you just need to eat more beef tallow fries or a fuck ton of unnecessary protein? /s

From: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/05/antidepressants-rfk-jr-maha

A letter issued on Monday from top HHS officials details to providers the goal to reduce antidepressant use and encourages the use of non-medication options for treating depression, including psychotherapy, diet, physical activity and social connection

Essentially, “eat healthier, exercise, get more friends, and also somehow find a way to afford therapy” 💀

It’s not like those things can never improve your mood, but at the end of the day a lot of people on antidepressants are either already trying these things, or won’t have their extremely bad situation improved by them, especially given a lot of it is around financial stress, and all of these take money. (healthier food costs more, exercise past stuff like jogging requires either buying your own weights or paying for a gym membership, most activities with friends cost money since third spaces are dying, and therapy is hella expensive)

Plus, depression makes it harder for a person to drag themselves out of bed to socialize, or go to the gym, or plan healthy meals. Antidepressants are often a way to help people to be capable of doing things like those because they don’t feel like shit by default.

It’s actually genuinely that simple.

Most browsers can automatically import from most other browsers.

For example, let’s say you install Firefox. It will give you the option to sync your bookmarks, credentials, saved autofill entries, extensions (if available on Firefox), and even your entire browsing history.

If you switch to a chromium-based browser like Brave, it won’t even have any trouble importing extensions, since unlike Firefox, it’ll support every single chrome-supported extension by default instead of requiring a new Firefox version to also have been made by the developer.

“I should base my surveys about human behavior solely on responses from non-human machines” said… someone, apparently? Damn. 💀

“b-b-but Amazon creates JOBS!! Jeff Bezos DESERVES that money!!!”

- Guy who doesn’t understand that jobs “created” by Amazon are jobs destroyed elsewhere by its monopoly

Fun entirely tangentially related fact, if you want a fun disposable email for random online services you’ll never use again, try https://www.sharklasers.com/ !

I do it mainly for privacy reasons, I don’t want websites to track me, fingerprint me etc.

I hate to break it to you, but incognito mode is effectively useless for fingerprinting prevention.

Try going to https://fpresearch.httpjames.space/ on both non-incognito and incognito tabs, and you’ll probably find the fingerprints are identical.

Your screen size, exact way your hardware and OS interact with rendering engines, extensions, browser version, IP, and type, etc are all highly identifiable. (doesn’t always work though, but they also use very minimal tracking methods compared to all the data otherwise collected on you by every single site, aggregating your behavior, typing style, etc)

The only true benefit of private browsing is auto-clearing history, cookies, and cache, and being able to use a site without being logged in even if you’re logged in on your main profile. (or being able to log in without staying signed in afterwards on your main profile)

I initially thought this might be AI generated because it looked a little bit odd to me, but nope, seems to be real!

Here’s some other ones from NASA:

https://images.nasa.gov/details/ARC-1989-AC89-0437-9

https://images.nasa.gov/details/ARC-1989-AC89-0437-20

We can’t wait for that to happen, xitter needs to close the technology before the first image puts them in trouble.

That is why this bill imposes heavy fines. No company has good reason to operate a tool like this if every single nude generated can cost them half a million dollars each.

This bill isn’t a “you can do this but we’ll give you a slap on the wrist each time you do” bill, it’s a “if you build a tool like this and let it loose, your company is going bankrupt and we’re talking your life savings, so you’d better not”

Grok generated about 6,700 undressed images per hour.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-01-07/musks-grok-ai-generated-thousands-of-undressed-images-per-hour-on-x

That would be 3.35 BILLION dollars per hour if the maximum 500k fine was enforced for each.

(I’m citing the law, not the article)

There’s a few things that I think help prevent something like that from happening.

“Nudify” or “nudified” means the process by which: an image or video is altered or generated to depict an intimate part not depicted in an original unaltered image or video of an identifiable individual

“Intimate parts” includes the primary genital area, groin, inner thigh, buttocks, or breast of a human being.

So a reasonably sized bikini probably wouldn’t qualify, because it still covers intimate areas to some degree, but anything too skimpy would.

The prohibitions in subdivision 2 do not apply when the website, application, software, program, or other service requires the technical skill of a user to nudify an image or video.

So something like Photoshop wouldn’t qualify because you’d need the skills to actually edit images yourself.

I think this:

“No, see… My app is designed to show you what you look like in user-created outfits. Like a virtual closet mirror! What do you mean users are trying on tiny bikinis and clear cellophane dresses? How could I ever have planned for that?”

Would be prevented by this law, but with very good reason. Anyone developing a feature like that could very well simply develop a filter that can tell if too much of a sensitive area is being exposed that wasn’t previously there. If they put technical safeguards in place, and it takes reasonably large amounts of effort for a user to bypass, then the site wouldn’t be liable because it would require “technical skill of a user”.

A site like that can exist, and being able to digitally try on outfits is nice, but it shouldn’t be allowed to ignore the obvious consequences of not putting restrictions on how much skin can be shown.

according to every cunt on YouTube who got paid to review one. Props to Bambu for understanding how to market bullshit to 3D printer customers.

Speaking from over a dedcade of 3D printing experience, this is kind of a ridiculous point.

Bambu’s printers are easier to set up out of the box than most other brands, tend to have less ongoing troubleshooting, has a more clean and easily accessible mobile app, and the print quality is also just better in some instances. Plus, their cost is incredible.

My first 3D printer was an easy to set up out of the box, no tinkering required, and it had horrible print quality, could only use one color at a time, and the bed adhesion was awful. I upgraded to a Creality printer, and it promptly permanently scratched the glass bed, and refused to ever level properly even with the addition of an auto-leveling module made by Creality themselves. (then made a squeaking noise I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to solve)

I got an A1 Mini, and while it has had its problems with various different troubleshooting steps I’ve had to do, most of the troubleshooting was either costless, covered under warranty, or cheap relative to the cost of replacement parts for a similar fix on other printers. The print quality is flawless, it’s cheap, it can switch colors, it supports basically every material of filament easily with no tinkering, the nozzle is incredibly easy to switch, and the bed adhesion is way better.

That’s not to say other brands don’t have better offerings now, but I think it’s kind of ridiculous to claim Bambu’s printers are bad. They’re cheap, reliable, easily accessible to newbies, and produce good quality prints at the same time.

Guys don’t downvote this it’s the same point I’m making it’s not a dig at people seeking abortions 😭

That medicine is Misoprostol, which is the key ingredient in the cards from my post, and is often one of two medicines used during abortion treatment. (though it can be used on its own, just with less effectiveness and a higher chance of complications)

Nice trying to misquote statistics…

I wasn’t “trying” to do anything. I misread it. Don’t automatically apply guilt to people.

I’ll update my comment.