This is an AI slop Spam Bot. Every single post it has made in the last two hours stops in the middle of a sentence, with each comment being at best sycophancy, and at worst a total non-sequitur. Everyone should report this spam from an undeclared bot account.

It’s missing the diagonal and would be way off-center. The 4 would have to be sideways. You can see what it should look like in the discard pile.

Ah, yes, the ultimate hallmark of trustworthiness.

I think this might be AI. What card is the 4 supposed to be with that symbol in the middle?

I came here to say almost precisely this. Thank you

Yeah, it would have been more mythologically accurate to say that Gemini is produced by a company that’s constantly trying to drag you down into hell.

When has that fact ever stopped kids from playing with the sticks?

If you can’t read a fucking em dash —already a commonly-used punctuation mark— without thinking the author must be AI, then you are both insufficiently trained —either in grammar or in how to use your own keyboard— and bad at identifying AI responses.

My “win11” work laptop that used to have win10: “you guys can produce audio?”

Yes.

Ah, yeah, for that, just factory reset it, don’t connect it to the internet on setup and use HDMI.

OK, so whenever any device (e.g. your computer) wants to connect to a website (say, “wikipedia.org”), it tells your router that it wants to go to that website. Your router then sends what is called a “DNS Query” to some server, such as Google or Cloudflare, which takes the string of characters “wikipedia.org” and looks it up in their own dictionary of websites. In that listing, “wikipedia.org” will be linked to a specific IP address, which Google or Cloudflare then pass back to the router. Your router then connects the original device to that IP address, allowing your computer to get data from wikipedia.

Now, modern devices make up to hundreds of these requests every second, so it’s not like it’s going to ask your permission for every single _one of them, right? Of course not. The problem, however, is that virtually every single proprietary app and piece of networked hardware nowadays is actively spying on you, by sending constant “telemetry”, marketing, and ad-servicing requests to hundreds, or even thousands of different services every day.

Pihole is a program that runs on a device (traditionally a raspberry pi, but could also be as simple as an old always-on tower computer or as complex as a self-hosted server). This device is connected to your internet, and what you do is you tell your router that the only place it’s allowed to ask for DNS queries is your pihole device, rather than google or Cloudflare. Then you add blocklists, en masse, to your pihole, which takes every single DNS Query and checks it against the blocklists. If a DNS request isn’t on the blocklists, it passes the request on to an actual DNS server, like Cloudflare, then gives the response back to the router, and the router is none-the-wiser. You get to see wikipedia. HOWEVER, if your device has the temerity, the absolute gall, to connect to any server on your blocklists? The pihole just… Doesn’t pass on the message, and you get to choose whether the pihole actually sends your device a refusal, like “no, we won’t be connecting to google ad services today, thank you” or if it just stays silent, not letting the blacklisted requests through, and just shredding the request every time it gets one for that unwanted site. Also, the pihole can keep a log of every single request made, both blocked and allowed, and keep tallies of the most-requested servers. It does this by default, but can easily be told to stop whenever you want.

TooComplex;Didn’tUnderstand: imagine your local network is a medieval walled city. Whenever someone inside wants to communicate out, they send their letter to the post office, which sends a runner out of the city and returns with the response. A pihole acts as a guard at the city gate, taking every letter, checking the addressee to see if the city’s magistrate is okay with sending information there. The guard has a long list of places letters aren’t allowed to go, and they are very fast at their job. If the addressee isn’t on their list, they send out their own soldier to take the letter themselves, rather than letting the post office runner go. If the addressee is on the blocklists, they either rip up the letter and send the runner back with their own, or they just rip up the letter and beat up the runner so they don’t go crying back to the sender and narc. Its the magistrate’s call how the guard handles it. Also, the guard keeps a list of every single letter that arrives at the gate, unless the magistrate tells them not to. The magistrate can peruse the list and tell the guard to allow or block any addressee on that list (or off of it) at any time.

I am confused… Are you suggesting that the sort of people who wrote this song are seriously the ones who are being silenced? That its not the whole Free Palestine crowd being controlled, but you’re suggesting that the government is censoring the xenophobic Nazis?

Oh, is THAT what that fucking blue splotch everywhere in win11 is? Just an appalling amount of smurf cum, spewing waves of blue jism into the UI at every opportunity?

I just see it bending there. I can’t say that it’s definitely AI, I just see something clearly experiencing strain under the load, and that isn’t safe.

For me, the problem is that, given that the mat is OBVIOUSLY flexible, it seems nigh impossible to securely tie down so that the torque when extended doesn’t force the mooring lines out of place.

If it’s stupid and it works, then it’s a stupid thing that works.

If this unexploded land mine doesn’t go off and kill me the moment it gets jostled, then it’s not dangerous, is it?

I believe that the trolley portion is partly subtext: notice how, unlike in the traditional problem, there’s nobody ON the other track. This is a variant where you must risk/accept personal annihilation of self to cause someone else identical to yourself to save five lives. It does add a layer, but I think it would be better to explicitly state the actual sacrifice, rather than asking the trite question.

Bought by Bayer and quietly dropped