I saw a comment somewhere that said Michael Burry has predicted the 20 of the last 2 recessions

Sounds like the owner uses some pretty sketchy means to keep the site running. Apparently a botnet is used for the crawler. Whatever malware is used for that botnet could also be the source of login credentials for these news websites as well. Or perhaps just basic credential stuffing.

Hopefully it doesn’t go offline

There was a website that used to test the actual protein content of powder and they found that most of the cheap brands of protein powder were contaminated with nickel. The theory was that the companies supplying the protein to the powder manufacturers were intentionally putting the nickel in to fool the less sophisticated protein tests usually used by the manufacturers.

My guess is the manufacturers started testing for nickel, so the suppliers moved to another heavy metal.

I think he is watching some kind of short form video feed and is just getting the same slop other right wingers get.

He recently posted(and deleted) an AI scam video of himself in the oval office announcing a initiative for medbeds. That only happens if he’s watching shit that isn’t being vetted

I read a fascinating article once about a factory that turned a petroleum byproduct into some kind of rare and useful chemical.

The company gets sold after chugging along for decades. The new owner wants to double the capacity, but there’s nobody alive who can remember how it works. There are people who know how to fix the various parts of it when it breaks down, but nobody who knows how the whole thing works. The relevant documents got lost at some point. They ended up having to hire a bunch of people to reverse engineer it.

It’s probably not analogous to semiconductors, though. One of the biggest reasons the institutional knowledge was lost at the chemical plant was because they never needed to change anything. They didn’t need to access the institutional knowledge and it eventually died off.

Zero tolerance policies are so dumb.

I bought a knife from a kid in highschool and left it in my shop locker. A teacher who hated me was snooping around my stuff and found it. Because of a zero tolerance policy I got suspended and got charged criminally. Later when I got in other trouble they ended up expelling me because I had already had a 1 month suspension from the knife.

The only thing more American than killing kids over a prank is doing it with a car

1. VPNs are simply a way to securely access one network from another. Commercial VPN providers are allowing you to use their networks as if they were your own.

Self hosting isn’t really for location spoofing, it can only allow you to spoof the location where the VPN server is installed. They are used most commonly to access your home network while you are away without exposing your home network to all the threats of open internet ports.

2. You could run your own VPN on a paid VPS hosting provider and spoof that location. Some folks do that for various reasons. It can give you more privacy than a commercial vpn, but you should assume that three letter agencies could harvest that data, although it would need to be more of a targeted attack rather than the wide scale harvesting that likely happens on commercial VPN providers. You’d also only be able to spoof the one location where your vps server is.

Edit: I think I may have misunderstood the question. What are you wanting the use the VPN for? To access your jellyfin from a remote location, or prevent your ISP from seeing you torrent? Or is it for location spoofing for web browsing and preventing data tracking?

If the former, use wireguard or tail scale, or cloudflare service(can remember the name). If the latter you can use a commercial VPN only for your torrent software.

Sorry I get my political opinions exclusively from Chuck Woolery

It’s kind of a stretch to call it ChatGPT related, isn’t it? Sounds like pretty typical mania for a nerd.

I had a college friend with severe bipolar disorder. During his episodes he sounded a lot like this. He even spent a lot of time playing with those 2010’s pre-llm chatbots thinking they were learning from him. I wouldn’t call his episode a “cleverbot-related mental health crisis”.

The massive audience for sequels, remakes and and reboots must be a symptom of the rot in America

Microsoft owns most of the upside of OpenAI already. Everything they’ve invested so far is recoupable as 20% of future profits, and much of what was invested was in the form of Azure credits. They have a perpetual license to any OpenAI technology developed to date and in the future until they achieve AGI.

I don’t see why they’d want OpenAI. What they really want is a bunch of other suckers to come in and keep financing it so they can profit from the previous deal.

I have that remote, I don’t use it anymore, but it’s surprisingly good

Muh property values!

I let my backyard go wild. I originally planned to plant some stuff in the grassy areas and make some paver paths, but I got lazy. Now my raspberry bushes have doubled their area, but I can’t get to them because I have a thorny flowering bush all over the place. At least the birds and insects are enjoying it.

I’ve always been surprised that big tech let cloudflare become such a load bearing part of the Internet without serious competition.

Tax software is useless for most Americans if it can do E-file, and you have to be a tax software company partnered with the IRS to do that.

If you print and paper file it takes ages to get your tax return. The biggest moneymaker for TurboTax is return anticipation loans, where they instantly give you your money(minus an obscene amount of interest for money that is guaranteed to be repaid).

They did the same thing with trucking. Told everyone it was a solid middle class career in dire need of workers. Convinced a bunch of states and the feds to foot the bill for truck driving schools.

They never needed more drivers, what they needed was more people to sucker in to predatory truck leases. They get new graduates to sign a lease for a truck. The lease forces them to only work for the company that leases them the truck, forcing them to accept whatever mileage rate the company decides to give them. Once the driver gets sick of that, the company takes the truck and leases it to the next person they recruit directly from trucking school(paid for by the government).

I used Phase Shift a few years ago. It was a little bit of a pain to get setup and the timing working correctly, but there was a lot of pirateable song files for it.

It’s basically identical to rock band for drums.

Clone hero is newer, but I haven’t tried it

I think it’s mostly because of traffic accidents, not violence.