Yah, it’s the EFF, they get significant latitude from their history.

Hmfhh, quite so, dropped this…

/s

Yup, long as it’s copyleft (GPL) open source, I don’t care if it’s microslop paying.

That said, watch out for a new wave of EEE (embrace, extend, extinguish) using unmaintainable AI code, and be ready to fork.

Valve, not so much.

Nice.

optimal solution (lol)

The older I’ve gotten (or the further into late stage capitalism), the less I’m inclined to accept “Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by incompetence” (- Napoleon, perhaps) and the more I subscribe to “Why not both?”.

Eh, it could be just a vibe code blunder, given this hit a suitably large number of others.

Which would be equally damning.

What’s the US’s biggest export ? Oh yeah, weapons.

Unless you want multiiplatform.

Seeing as you have a backup of your contacts (don’t you??), why not just delete it…

Yup, want privacy, host your own models. Perplexica Vane + ollama (or Lemonade, better for AMD) is pretty damn easy to stand up and works well I find (never used perplexity) and you get references to real web pages to double check for hallucinations.

Nice thing about deep research is you can ask a question and just come back later, so latency is less of an issue, even CPU + RAM can do the job.

Given the current state of the internet it’s heading towards a necessity to play Spy vs Spy AI Slop vs AI Slop. Might as well control it yourself.

FWIW I find Qwen 3.5 27B a great model if you can fit it (and I use the perplexity embedding model that they open weighted pplx-embed).

Been using an quadlet podman arr stack for a year or two, pretty damn bulletproof once set up, easier to read, rootless, SELinux enabled, systemd controlled, update with podman auto-update. Worth the time to learn.

podlet can help you hit the ground running. It can create Quadlet files out of Podman commands or even (Docker) Compose files. 90% of the time it works every time ;}, but even the oopses get you most of the way there.

My arr stack is set up in a pod which means they all have their own gluetun network and come up as one, but you can just use Network=container:gluetun in container files.

Long past time to say it openly, but now is second best.

Yeah, feel the same, curated RSS feeds also contribute significantly.

The amount of BS flying daily in the ‘media’ and with AI slop makes every day April Fool’s anyway. A constructed environment means the BS detector doesn’t have to be on 24/7, which becomes tiresome.

Nope, PolyEtheleneGlycol (PG) is the carrier in Ventolin inhalers. Glycerine (VG) is something the body knows how to handle because it’s the chemical backbone of triglyceride, the most common form of human fat. VG and PG are the usual bases in ejuice.

Valid point for the majority of flavours though (maybe 1-5% by volume), although mint is likely fine and used in some medical contexts and for some reason tobacco flavour is prescribed in Australia, probably because it’s disgusting.

Did their research for them, article here, paywalled, abstract only (not even citations). They say 3 cases of oral cancer in the abstract, case studies not stats. They also highlight 100x the level of Cotinine (the predominant metabolite of nicotine, so this is shocking I tell you. Shocking, interestingly it’s currently being studied as a treatment for depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.).

The other thing that might be human (or not, only the abstract), likely in vitro, is “Biomarkers also indicate vaping-attributable oxidative stress, epigenetic change and inflammation in oral and respiratory tissue often specified in comparison with smoking.”, pretty unsurprising, “often specified in comparison” seems weaselly, and the rest is mouse studies it seems.

Seems pretty nothing burger to me, going off what I have, if there were significant results the abstract would be much stronger.

Thanks for the perspective, appreciated.

Sure, stipulated, but in fact I’d say the more relevant analogy to today’s situation is 1930s Germany and Goebbels (along with radio). To my mind journalism mostly evolved into profession post WW2 as a reaction to the prior corruption of reporting.

For a period there it had a strong code of ethics (professional ethics even) and served society well before concentration of media in the hands of corrupt oligarchs (e.g. Murdoch) destroyed any competition on truth (when’s the last time you heard of a scoop?) and then the internet and especially social media drove home the nails.

This is not to say that there is not true journalism still alive, but that it is far removed from the majority of society, hard to find. It needs to be sought out, ironically in an age where information flows so freely, quality is lost in the slop (even before AI). It would behoove us as a society to raise it once more from the muck, wish I knew how.

Journalism as a profession has been mercilessly crushed this entire century (at least) and we are all (save the 1%, perhaps) the poorer for it. There’s a reason it was considered one of the fundamentals of a functioning democracy.

What the article describes isn’t even reporting, let alone journalism, it’s a form of marketing.

Cheap fuckers cheaping out, shocker (context is (V)RAM). AI speedrunning enshittification, who’d of thunk.