If you ever have difficulty recording the perfect fart, pureé up a kilogram of the freshest garlic you can find, and get me a travel ticket to wherever the sound booth is. Trust me, I could get you hundreds of the most exquisite farts from even a fraction of that garlic.
Sure, some will be short and wet and of the kind where you’re going to want to ask if I need to wipe afterwards. But most will be long and sonorous and reverberate across the entire room; the kind of farts where you wonder if I’ve got a full bassoon crammed up my kiester.
Dogs only exist in the moment. Any correction that isn’t delivered within 1-3 seconds is going to have greatly diminished effectiveness, and anything beyond 5-10 seconds (depending on breed) is going to not be connected with the behaviour that caused you to provide the correction.
There are many breeds where, in general, the drive is so high that “force-free” training will be the fastest path to the euthanasia table. German Shepherd, Belgian Malinois, and many other herding breeds in particular. Sure, you might get lucky and score a “low drive” dog, but that is relative to others in the same breed – by comparison it will still make any golden retriever look like a high-as-a-kite stoner slacker. But a high-drive dog can and will get itself into situations where treats, toys, and other positive incentives will be utterly ignored. Trust me when I say that under those conditions, there is nothing in the “force-free training” arsenal that can or will reach these dogs to break them out of their focus. And when that focus involves aggression against pets or people, balanced training is the only thing that will keep your dog from being euthanized by the authorities.
Start training at an early age. Even as young as 8 weeks. Sit, heel, recall and others are vitally important in being able to control your dog without a leash, or if they slip the leash. Try to find a MSRP-priced version of Successful Together, as it will do wonders in laying down a good foundation of training.
Look for the videographer MK9Plus (can’t tell if British or Australian), they have lots of excellent reels on how to understand your dog’s body language. Method k9 is another one.
Manhandle your dog, especially when they are young and easy to handle. Don’t hurt them, but do get them used to being strangely handled, especially in cases like when they are at the vet.
Do not take your dog out on extended runs for the first year of life, their joints will thank you for their entire life.
Do not spay or neuter your dog, their lifespan and overall health will thank you for their life. Instead, consider vasectomies and hysterectomies instead, as these leave the hormone-producing gonads in place, leading to longer and much healthier lives.
I hope this helps.
Woman of mass destruction
Ah, these are rather common. Divorces are their weapon of choice.
More often than not, the man has his post-alimony earnings and net worth rolled back twenty years or more. Most never return to their prior economic level unless they’re young enough to compensate, and then they remain severely behind their peers, as well. Only the truly wealthy men - think $10M of net worth or more, and $250k+ earnings - can bounce back from a divorce like it’s nothing.
Considering that all other alternatives are either
I consider Signal to be the best option out there. It’s not perfect, but nothing is. It simply is the best general option out there, by far, for a general audience.
Yes, you can be totally secure, untraceable, and ultimately unfindable. But being cut into pieces, with each separate piece entombed in its own barrel of concrete, and each barrel dropped into a different oceanic trench, tends to be a bit beyond what I consider to be reasonable to achieve that.
AI is a solution in search of a problem.
The problem being CEOs asking themselves, “how do we acquire labour without having to pay for said labour, in order to maximize our own profit margins?”
AI was always meant to allow wealth to access labour without allowing labour to access wealth.
I, for one, am designing an entire production line of guillotines for when our capitalist system finally collapses. And for those in bunkers: a way of discovering air exchangers and all emergency exits so they can be filled with cement to turn bunkers into tombs. We need an effective method of culling sociopaths from our civilization, after all.
Insurers, he said, are already lobbying state-level insurance regulators to win a carve-out in business insurance liability policies so they are not obligated to cover AI-related workflows. “That kills the whole system,” Deeks said.
If insurers are going through extreme lengths to remove AI output from the list of things they will insure, this says everything about its future.
Because nothing says “effective risk management achieved” like an insurer signing off on, or forbidding the insurance of, an entire class of materials.
It’s a canary in a coal mine, like how insurers are now removing any ability for Floridians to insure against hurricanes or sea level rise, despite flat earthers screaming their heads off that climate change is a conspiracy and isn’t real.
(Note: I have seen the term “flat earther” starting to be used as a catch-all term for anyone who vehemently denies reality in spite of copious evidence that shows they are wholly and completely wrong)
That just defeats the IP part of the KVM and in that case you’d better stick with a traditional KVM.
Video cables and USB cables were never designed for a 20m run. Most have difficulties beyond a 2-5m distance.
My servers will be in my basement, at the other end of the house. My C&C machine will be in my office. The entire purpose of remote KVM is such that I don’t have to hoof it all the way down into the basement just to do something quick. Or go back-and-forth if there is something in my office I have to reference while doing the work.
In fact, I suspect that network KVM is exceedingly useful for anyone whose machines are more than five steps away. Even across the room makes a hell of a lot of sense.
You totally misunderstood the comment.
If all the KVM units were on an airgapped system, there is no way to reach those units other than physically sitting down at the C&C workstation that is meant to interface with them and display their output. Because that machine is also on the airgapped network, and is not reachable from the Internet.
It’s no different than a traditional KVM at that point, aside from that C&C machine being anywhere where Ethernet can reach (traditional KVM units being rather distance-constrained).
Now, if you need mobile/off-site access to this system, you put a second NIC into that C&C workstation. First one for the KVM network, the other for world+dog, and then you use a trusted remote-access system to access the C&C workstation, and block it off from anything else on that second Internet-accessible network as best as possible.
I mean, you want secure? Truly secure? Then disassemble all your computers, put each individual part into its own barrel of cement, and then drop each barrel into its own deep-oceanic abyssal trench. THAT is how you get true security.
For everything else, there are reasonable trade-offs that discourage all but nation-state players or people with wrenches.
Both classic Notepad and classic WordPad can be downloaded and installed from third-party sites.
However, to thoroughly neuter the enshittified versions and ensure the classic versions are used in all workflows can take a bit more than what the installers recommend. Primarily, I would recommend adding the *.bak extension to the enshittified versions then make (IIRC) junction links from the classic ones to where the enshittified ones are sitting. This ensures that if anything reaches for the enshittified ones, the junction links are there to redirect the action to the classic versions.
Both classic Notepad and classic WordPad can be downloaded and installed from third-party sites.
However, to thoroughly neuter the enshittified versions and ensure the classic versions are used in all workflows can take a bit more than what the installers recommend. Primarily, I would recommend adding the *.bak extension to the enshittified versions then make (IIRC) junction links from the classic ones to where the enshittified ones are sitting. This ensures that if anything reaches for the enshittified ones, the junction links are there to redirect the action to the classic versions.
Back in the mid-80s: CHUD. Cannibalistic Underground Humanoid Dwellers.
Being on the spectrum, this really messed me up, even though the special effects were cheesy even for that era. And I mean heck, I was also 15 at the time, and had never seen any kind of a horror movie before…
Just learned a short while ago that the term has been co-opted to describe conservatives in general, and white conservative men specifically. I now find myself in awe at how well-applied that term is.
Honourable mention to The Last Unicorn completely tearing me up with its ending, and throwing me into a two-month existential crisis bender that I don’t think I ever fully recovered from.
There are ways for normal home users to bodily rip this shit out, but it takes some work and technical knowledge to effectively rip-and-tear in ways that work for you.
Some of the tools are also not the most user-friendly, expect the user to be a power user with deep familiarity with Windows, and have non-obvious workflows that may confuse a majority of average users.
While it takes about 8-16 hours of concerted effort, there are ways to castrate Windows into a mild approximation of what it was before.
The big question mark is Windows 12… and whether AI and spyware/malware features such as Recall will be baked into core functionality such that it will be impossible to remove or reliably deactivate.
I’m still with Windows for now, owing to requirements that have no non-Windows alternative (which include supporting and actually opening client data files for the desktop version of Quicken, for example), but I do foresee a time when I would reliably extract my last foot out of the Windows ecosystem.
Thankfully, their server products still appear to be enshittification-free. For now.
It has made me inordinately sensitive to systemic societal hypocrisies. Especially differences between how the genders are treated.
Like, yes, there are still a lot of issues with how women are treated that needs improvement. But holy hell, compare a serious problem that isn’t gender-specific - DV, homelessness, suicide, workplace deaths, even rape - and how that issue gets handled depending on the gender means the average man instantly becomes a second-class citizen behind any woman. Or worse - not even worth consideration in any capacity, despite men being either equally victimized or the majority of victims. Men are literally being treated as trash for the crime of having been born male.
And no, in general it’s not other men doing this to men. They are forced to look away and do nothing to help other men, or risk being accused of being “misogynists” themselves because helping male victims “takes resources/attention away from women in need”.
This is why, as one example, political support for so many men’s issues is absolutely radioactive and invariably terminates careers at the very next election. So nothing ever gets done, while the other side has help galore shovelled at them from all directions.
It’s why, despite fully supporting women’s rights, I call myself an egalitarianist. Because I am not a gender bigot. I fight for rights on both sides, because that is the dictionary definition of “equality”.
And even if the Core Storage held everything straight out of the gate, you could do initial storage configured via RAID-10 using only 28× 30Tb drives.
In Canadian Pesos, that’s $34,000 before taxes for those drives. If the operating costs were in USD, that’s only 5 months of operating costs. Get a pair of used 4U 16-bay server boxes, and almost anything built within the last decade will work well as a SAN/NAS, especially if you use a specialized FOSS NAS OS.
A good strategy for migrating to BitTorrent would be to migrate the high value content first, so that bugs and failures ooze out of the woodwork as rapidly as possible. This would also allow you to build the NAS/SAN data storage boxes over time, one at a time, instead of all at once. And you can start with repurposed desktops as the seedbox itself and upgrade to more RAM once the BitTorrent client grows beyond the box’s initial resources. This stepwise growth would also give you the opportunity to work out any kinks and gotchas that you failed to anticipate.
For example, the BitTorrent client you choose to run on the seedbox itself will be a critical importance. I have found, through my own use of multiple clients, that by far the most aggressive BitTorrent client I have ever come across has been BiglyBT. I am able to achieve a ratio in weeks and sometimes even days the most other clients require years or even decades to achieve. For something seeding out, there is literally nothing better.
As an example: when MyAnonamouse banned BiglyBT, I tried an experiment, downloading the same movie file with several different torrent clients. After a full year of seeding, the runner-up was qBittorrent, with a ratio of 0.2. BiglyBT? A ratio of 870.
Same file, same super-seeding, but a massive difference between BiglyBT and pretty much anything else out there.
It’s a shame that so many closed trackers ban BiglyBT. It is absolutely an overall benefit to the ecosystem.
…What is Myrient?
googles name
390Tb of history
…Oh. Oh, no. This loss would be painful.
I mean, not a gamer, but daaaaaamn.
A structured BitTorrent system could keep most high-demand files offline after initial seeding, especially if seeding rules like the ones MyAnonamouse uses were implemented. And the low-demand ones could remain online via a seedbox from anywhere, even from the operator’s basement.
Honestly, while I don’t have funds to take over normal operations or even provide seedbox space, I can see many paths out of this problem.
I wish the people who did this were known so that we could make their ignorance Internet famous.
It was never about the 2nd amendment. It was all about restricting gun ownership for “the ideologically wrong people”.
Just look at how they came down on the Black Panthers in the 60s, and how “stand your ground” laws work in wildly disproportionate ways to serve only only white cis people.
It’s a racist and bigoted strategy that has absolutely nothing to do with “rights”, except for the selective restriction of them.
It has its original hard drive which still works
For reliability you should really switch to an IDE SSD.
Yes, they do exist. OWC sells them, albeit in laptop HDD size, so you will need an IDE adapter.
