And these are the people who demand id to get back into your account if they find activity they deem suspicious.

But you have heard of me?

Legal stuff isn't much better these days. Advertisements unless you pau more, user tracking regardless, etc.

I'm honestly surprised no one has mentioned Chrono Trigger yet. Absolutely fantastic soundtrack.

Secret of mana 3 is also great. The track that comes to mind is "where angels fear to tread"

In a similar vein, this is the second time today I had a chance to reference this quote on the nature of language from the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett.

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)

I've found that in those cases its usually explorer that's the culprit. Just having the removable drive open in explorer is enough to keep windows from being able to unmount the drive.

You're thinking of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with a vector database. Its something that's being actively developed. I haven't had time to dig much into it, especially currently. But the terms themselves should give you a starting point.

Edit: a quick google gives what could be a promising starting point https://huggingface.co/learn/cookbook/rag_llamaindex_librarian

Keeping in touch with people. I have no idea what causes it but people just stop talking to me. I've lost touch with so many friends and family members over the years that in a lot of ways its just not worth the effort to make new ones. Which gets pretty lonely but I don't see an alternative.

I realize that part of it is my fault as I'm not the best at keeping up with people either, but I at least make the effort with the few friends and family I'm trying to keep so I don't lose absolutely everyone. The only exception is work colleagues and my mother who I have a strained relationship with.

I'm sure the work colleagues will fade if I ever leave the company, as has happened every single time before. I'm sure you can guess why my relationship with my mother isn't something I necessarily want to improve.

I've received multiple reasons that people never message, usually some variant of forgetting to respond due to being too busy. But what's especially frustrating are the people that say, I think of you often and things of that nature, but that never seems to translate into, "let's see how they're doing by reaching out". Adding to this is how I've never had much luck making friends so it's not like I've ever had a large pool to draw from.

Kind of against the letter of the rule since this isn't really intended to cause chaos for the sake of chaos,but I'm sure chaos will result nonetheless.

"This is God, there's a reason why i put variations on love thy neighbor in every single religion. Differences in faith and race don't matter, helping others and making the world a better place do. You've disappointed me, do better"

That pic just reminds me of this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA&list=RDPI_Jl5WFQkA&start_radio=1&pp=ygUSY2FueW9uZXJvIHNpbXBzb25zoAcB

Container tabs do sync in recent versions of firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/02/06/multi-account-containers-sync/

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

Probably related to this, very fun column to read.

Fund free education and health care for everyone in the world regardless of race, nationality and creed. Imposed no matter how much kicking and screaming certain countries might do to oppose it. With appropriate countermeasures for each specific country that opposes it. A random country in the middle east that hates educating girls or whatever? Armed guards and other related measures as needed. US has entrenched for profit health care? Fund legislation that rips out the entire system by the roots etc.

Excess funds would be invested in such a way as to fund those programs in perpetuity. With safeguards put in place so that I can be reasonably certain that it won't be easy to dismantle from within or without.

Assuming I have enough money left over, I'd do the same for housing.

If I still have money left over if also fund ways of tackling the climate crisis and changing corporate strategy so instead of chasing infinite growth in a finite world the mentality is more about stability and stewardship, of the company and of the planet.

My understanding was that it had to do with the laser in the CD/DVD/bluray drive "burning" the data onto the disc.

Misspelled "lame-o" is my guess. Though my spelling of it is a guess as well.

Drivers can be an issue with recent hardware on Debian due to said slow release cadence. May not work as well on recent hardware.

Long live the three seashells

I wonder how many people would still be alive of he'd done that, between pandemic mismanagement, vaccine hesitancy that he championed, and various other things that don't come to mind off the top of my head, he's got a significant amount of blood on his hands, directly and indirectly.

Him being elected will only make it worse.

Shame they're making that harder going forward by removing pixel specific info from the build tree

Kind of against the letter of the rule since this isn't really intended to cause chaos for the sake of chaos,but I'm sure chaos will result nonetheless.

"This is God, there's a reason why i put variations on love thy neighbor in every single religion. Differences in faith and race don't matter, helping others and making the world a better place do. You've disappointed me, do better"