https://youtu.be/-j3YdxNSzTk

I bet they’ve updated this since I worked there a million years ago, but it used to be that Barnes & Noble employees got 50% off cafe items with their employee code, which, get this, was:

• your social security number (lol)
• valid at any cafe in any B&N in USA
• not checked against any kind of database, so any number like 111111111 would work

I used this to get half off cafe for years at random B&N’s after I’d been fired, but eventually I started feeling bad for them and any bookstore just trying to survive.

Also a bonus nugget of info: the discounted books by the checkout stand were the biggest money makers for the store. They buy that crap for pennies and even at 20-50% off, were insanely profitable.

I’ve only known a few mormons and they always had cake

This is gonna be like when we went to war with Iraq because of 9/11, isn’t it

If you use reader mode, many articles get chopped down to the first paragraph. Maybe the rest is obfuscated by JavaScript?

Stuff I run:

• HomeAssistant (home automation)
• frigate (local foss security cam mgmt)
• metube (web gui for yt-dlp)
• technitium (dns mgmt with adblocking and many other features that make it better than pihole imo)
• pdfDing (foss for pdf library mgmt)
• netbird (in lieu of ddns, I use this self hosted vpn to connect to stuff when I’m not local)
• caddy (maybe similar to ngnx, this lets me use custom names so I don’t have to remember ip/ports to connect)
• heimdall (simple static dashboard)

I looked through @[email protected] ’s post history and AI is only mentioned a couple other times, always in context of tech/AI topics. So the real question is why are YOU attacking him, generalizing “you people”, and in general just flying off all half cocked like some kinda weird white knight with a hard on for AI?

You might be interested in a video game called The Last Sovereign. I discovered it during the recent fiasco around payment processors trying to block lewd stuff, but the nsfw visuals can be turned off if you’re not into that. It’s a very serviceable RPG with turn based combat that is well balanced and engaging. But I’m recommending it because you said philosophy and it’s basically a series of Platonic dialogues between characters discussing life, the nature of man, morality, ethics, sexuality, power, and much more. I’m pleasantly surprised at how often I find myself deeply invested in the conversations. I think the writer(s) must’ve needed an outlet for their philosophical musings and chose this quirky “lewd” RPG as the medium.

Neat!

Are you implying that Trump, who is well known for his selflessness generosity and willingness to help others for a good cause, might have been acting out of selfish self interest?!??!

I love the combo of this blog’s subject with its domain name.

I sent it to several friends and asked them “Have you had ‘The Conversation’ with your loved ones?”

Next up, people with Trump Derangement Syndrome (RFK can diagnose you as you walk around in the airport)!

freepiss in there like it’s some sort of sink

…note to self: do not wash hands at @[email protected] ’s house

If I were him, I’d get the last laugh and demand to be buried in a secondhand plain white shirt from Goodwill

I wonder how much his casket is gonna cost

Oh man, did anyone else see this picture and immediately want to buy one, gut it, and cram modern hardware inside? I’d homelab that thing so hard 🫦

I asked AI if it was Pandora’s Box and it said no.

Side note that I find hilarious: predictive text on my phone keeps suggesting “Pandora’s Door” for whatever reason

While getting into an arms race with school shooters is kind of a ridiculous path, I do wish we would take this opportunity to develop personal force field/shield technology like they have in Dune.

This one always makes me laugh

You could invent your own. It wouldn’t stop someone who was really determined to trick you, because the tradeoff between convenience and perfect security would likely leave you vulnerable to reverse engineering. But that being said, you can take your message, reverse it, Caesar cypher it, replace letters with numbers, drop vowels or spaces, etc etc until you’ve mangled it into a “hash” that only you know how to produce.