Rachel Thomas, PhD - Your Immune System is Not a Muscle

AI, science, education, & ethics

Interesting thought, our immune systems are mainly built to handle parasites because that’s all we really had to contend with for the vast majority of human history. Viruses weren’t common because they either killed everyone in your family group or everyone got immunity and the virus died.

@primal

I think my accuracy is over 90% at this point on

Which Face Is Real?

The obvious giveaways for the AI image generator they used are the weird swirls, fuzzy teeth, simple or kaleidoscope backgrounds, messed up people in the background, and inability to show shiny skin. I kind of want to remake this now with a better image generator.

My profile pic now seems like a relic of the bad old days of image generation. The misshapen letters, the not-quite-convincing-hands, and the odd hoodie color all speak to a simpler time. I should probably figure out how to get Flux running on my laptop and upgrade.

I’m still keeping a close eye on OpenAI because I’m fascinated to see if the company can stay at the top after losing its star engineers.

Well damn. Manifold is melting down from the sheer volume so I can’t even make a profit off of Joe Biden’s announcement.

Question for Linux users out there. I really want to switch from a Mac to a Framework laptop so I can dual boot Linux and Windows. I’ve found software replacements for all my Mac-only stuff except one thing. How can I still use iCloud on Linux? And yes, while switching to Dropbox or something else might be easier unfortunately that’s not an option.

It’s 4chan. People can say whatever they want. Unless they provide strong evidence for their extraordinary claims there is zero reason to believe an Anon. View quoted note →

Sometimes I wonder about people who drop off the internet. Have they become carpenters and are living happy fulfilled lives? Did they die?

I would be willing to bet the majority of code is written by devs to solve dev problems. I wonder if this is true for other skills. Do carpenters mainly make things for other carpenters?

Well, I’m back.

Sitting out in nature is healing.

What are the arguments against BIPs 300 and 301? It seems like it would allow for people to develop and experiment with all sorts of interesting tech without the rug pulls and other shitcoin problems.

VPNs and “free robux” are in a race for who can install the most malware. https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-23-companies/

Greek geek

Swing VPN app is a DDOS botnet

tldr: Swing VPN is using its user base to DDOS sites using its users as a an attack botnet. Introduction It all started with a friend of mine compl...

Cypherpunks on Nostr, how did you learn cryptography? University? Hacking around? Online courses? Books?