Wow, what objects have you carried around in that inventory slot?

Update: My wife can make her eyeballs shake, too, and it’s freaky

That sounds pretty wild and reminds me of my wife who firmly says “with enough concentration, you can control any single muscle”, then proceeds to stay still awkwardly for a bit and suddenly a thing on her body twitches and she goes “Told you!”

For me it’s interesting because I literally studied food tech and I like to learn about new applications of stuff. It’s also interesting to me because there will always be people who don’t want to reduce their meat consumption (I guess I’m in that camp too, although one visit to relatives shows me how I already eat way less meat than them), so if you can reduce the harm of the meat industry a little bit by adding insects to a product and it either isn’t even noticable or actively tastes better, that’s a win in my book. Establishing insect farms could also, in theory, be very cheap and wouldn’t require (much, if any) additional feed to be produced since they could just very cheaply (or maybe even at a profit) buy organic waste from recycling companies and food producers to use as their feed for the maggots.

No, for me and my wife it’s literally about the flavour/taste only. We often eat vegetarian or sometimes fully vegan meals, too. It’s just that we also do like to have the taste of meat sometimes. Yes, some meat-alternatives are relatively close, but not quite, especially when the alternative tries to mimic anything that’s not ground meat. I will be the biggest adopter of lab-grown meat if it ever makes it to a commercial scale.

Maybe there are those who, as you imply, get off on the hurt of animals, but I can’t imagine those are in the vast minority. With some people being so removed from food production they don’t even realise that the steak in the fridge used to be a living cow that was killed for them, I’m relatively certain that almost nobody thinks “Aww yeah, I’m showing these ruminants!” when they put the steak on the stove.

That’s odd indeed. Have you tried the recipes and are there any bangers in it?

Mhmm! I can’t fault the village, though. I don’t know what their finances look like but I can imagine they’re just getting by exactly because there are little to no “modern” things popping up. The newest visible addition was a supermarket (think Aldi, not WalMart) relatively far outside the village center. I wouldn’t be surprised if the council/mayor purposely keeps big investors like this out. The advantage: It keeps its “German rural village” charme and aesthetic over literal decades Disadvantage: Probably little money to fix anything but the most pressing issues.

Ohlstadt (in Bavaria, Germany) is famous for being the hometown of a bunch of Rodel champions (imagine sledding but on the intensity of downhill biking). It’s also a time capsule of “stereotypical Alpine village”. I was there last September for my wedding and it’s almost exactly the same as it was twenty years ago when my parents and I moved away from there. I’m not joking when I say that some of the potholes my bike and feet got caught on as a child were still there (and those are right next to the main road, not some hidden-away place)

This is so disappointing and I’m so sorry that the people at GOG received some AI-hype-bro who had enough leverage to get the AI banner posted. In my mind I can hear them, against all the negative posts/comments, go “It’s not just a phase, mom moneybag!” and see GOG double down on this course.

I know that CEOs are out of touch with reality, but come on, even they don’t get new TVs this frequently. But the projected target audience also can’t be megalomaniac billionaires because, even though they might switch TVs with every few showers, they just buy the stuff outright instead of going through the hassle of subscription services, no? I genuinely fail to see a use-case for this. Maybe as a sort of paid trial/test period to see if you really need that 2000€ TV?

I think it’s time to showcase Grok’s abilities to put Pentagon officials into transparent bikinis. I can’t imagine management would keep using a tool that uploads non-consensual NSFW images of them straight to the comment section.

Cool, I’m in. Any attempt to break open homogeneous markets should be supported, even if only with my eyes and ears.

I can’t quite remember when or why I ever first visited that site. My brain wants to tell me it was in the years leading up to my Abitur when I got myself a pair of combat boots and wanted to be more quirky with the lacing than what they initially had. Either way, Ian’s site really is the best and I’m never wearing shoes without using his Secure Knot or at least the fast knot (for the few laces that hold together that way or just aren’t long enough for the secure one). When the site eventually goes down, I’ll be so sad.

My favourite part of today is about to come in half an hour when we eat the burritos for which we prepared the filling in the morning today

Because it’s frankly a somewhat ridiculous stretch of the word. That way, anything you purchase more than once in your life would be a subscription (toilet paper, bathroom repairs, even food and water). If anything, it gives more power to toxic subscription services (like how BMW gatekeeps seat heating iirc) by muddying the waters and making their subscriptions seem less outrageous than it is.

Disclaimer: I only started working at this company about three weeks ago, so this info may not be as accurate as I currently think it is.

I work in quality management and recently asked my boss what the current stance on AI is, since he mentioned quite early that he and his colleagues sometimes use ChatGPT and Copilot in conjunction to write up some text for process descriptions or info pages. They use it in research tasks, or, for example, to summarize large documents like government regulations, and they very often use it to rephrase texts when they can’t think of a good way to word something. From his explanation, the company consensus seems to be that everyone has access to Copilot via our computers and if someone has, for example, a Kagi or Gemini or whatever subscription, we are absolutely allowed and encouraged to utilize it to its full potential.

The only rules seem to be to not blindly trust the AI output ever and to not feed it company sensitive information (and/or our suppliers/customers)

In more ways than one. How is this different than what Putin is trying to achieve with the current “peace talks”? There it seems so obvious, because even MAGA and fanatic Zionists have been taught that Russia is bad.

How my father is able to either justify/excuse or even blatantly support any of these illegal acts the American joke of a President is committing.

If you’re tech-savvy enough for it, please consider setting up an Immich library for your photos. That way, they won’t ever need to leave your home while still providing surprisingly powerful face recognition and photo search by context.

Many FOSS projects may not have completely obvious donation schemes, let alone ubiquitous and automatable schemes, for starters.

Slightly related to the topic, this weirdly also applies to bigger players. I wanted to buy a Nebula lifetime membership, wrote to support and basically went “just gimme Nebula’s bank details and I’ll order a direct banking transaction” and there was just no way, not even roundabout, for them to take my 300€ other than by me getting a credit card and paying via credit card.

I’m sure they have good reasons why they probably legally can’t just give me their bank adress (or whatever the American equivalent to IBAN is), but it’s very frustrating to be restricted like this in how I can give people money.