Eh in my pretty touristy hotel I was not able to use Google or Meta sites on wifi. But I was surprised vpn worked and allowed me to access anything I wanted over wifi. I had prepared with shadowsocks configured as a contingency but didn’t end up needing it. But people visiting a year earlier had reported vpn did not work for them.

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They can’t put the genie back in the bottle. Everyday Iranians know what the world outside is like. They can’t suddenly become a black box like North Korea. But maybe a few decades of murdering protesters, like mowing the grass, will allow them to limp along in the East German model. Where people know what is available outside but are too afraid and demoralized to make an organized resistance

China seems to vary. When I was there, VPNs worked, even Meta and Google sites were accessible on my T-mobile SIM. Other times those things are not accessible

Cs-137 is helpful in a way in producing a pretty distinctive gamma signature. What’s scarier to me are all the more subtle adulterants that have come and gone through the global food supply, never detected, that have damaged the genes of millions of people

They are also delicious

It is!!

As the article discusses, you can increase the odds by resetting your microbiome with antibiotics, eating a carb rich diet and suppressing the action of aldehyde dehydrogenase in your gut (such as by acquiring a liver disease). Godspeed

I think that’s the general consensus: the album was fine, but it was a potent reminder that peoples’ iTunes catalogs were not actually their own, but controlled by corporations that can control our music at the flip of a switch. People did not like that feeling. So in a way, it was actually a net positive at the time, in reminding people of this fact. Unfortunately later on, people have moved to not owning music at all.

The committee tried to appease Trump by offering it to a Venezuelan right winger. They learned the lesson so many have learned; that these people cannot be met halfway, if you give them an inch they WILL take a foot.

lol, I can tell when an editor is getting big mad about an article when they start flagging each sub-section individually with different objections they have. If there is a wiki flag asserting “there are too many flags, probably in bad faith”, that would be appropriate here.

The subs model ensures regular and predicable quarterly revenue, which means easier forecasting of growth, which means happier shareholders.

Might depend on your graphics card setup. My work laptop has pretty underpowered integrated graphics

Always makes me queasy how people are so fascinated by true crime (Ed Gein, serial killer and subject of a new Netflix true crime doc)

Video effects randomly stop working sometimes, and frequently has choppy video

I posted this a year or two ago and got hit by a huge wave of furious Brave users lol. Occasionally to this day someone will stumble on it and post some tirade

Chinese opera is fascinating and there are hundreds of varieties. I really enjoyed when I saw one in China and definitely can recommend it to everyone

I am worried, because there are increasing cases where open source docs are going offline because they can’t take the bandwidth costs of the big LLM bots recrawling hundreds of times per day. Wikipedia is also getting hammered. There is so much waste and diminishing returns

They seem to vary that slogan place to place. In the Bay Area of CA they use alternative slogans

Yes, it’s really insidious