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Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Cake day: January 17th, 2022
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6·6 days agothere is no provider on the planet that can freeze state of RAM in a way that would be useful for this
You are very mistaken, this is a well-supported feature in most modern virtualization environments.
Here are XenServer docs for it. And here is VMWare’s “high-frequency” snapshots page.
Sometimes, law enforcement authorities only need to contact cloud provider A when they have a warrant for (or, perhaps, no warrant but a mere request for) data about some user C who is indirectly using A via some cloud-hosted online service B.
A(mazon) will dutifully deliver to the authorities snapshots of all of B’s VMs, and then it is up to them if they limit themselves to looking for data about C… while the staff of company B can honestly say they have not received any requests from law enforcement. (sorry my best source on this at the moment is sadly trust me bro; I’ve heard from an AWS employee that the above scenario really actually does happen.)
4·14 days agoyou can buy perforated sheets of new ones at moneyfactorystore.gov, like Steve Wozniak does
Would that not be 113?
🤦 indeed 😳 thanks. (edited)
(if you were, you’d be 113 next year.)
this will become true in just a couple of years from now, assuming you represent age as a base-six number. (
4*6+5 == 2027-1998)
“Given they were trained on our data, it makes sense that it should be public commons – that way we all benefit from the processing of our data”
I wonder how many people besides the author of this article are upset solely about the profit-from-copyright-infringement aspect of automated plagiarism and bullshit generation, and thus would be satisfied by the models being made more widely available.
The inherent plagiarism aspect of LLMs seems far more offensive to me than the copyright infringement, but both of those problems pale in comparison to the effects on humanity of masses of people relying on bullshit generators with outputs that are convincingly-plausible-yet-totally-wrong (and/or subtly wrong) far more often than anyone notices.
I liked the author’s earlier very-unlikely-to-be-met-demand activism last year better:
…which at least yielded the amusingly misleading headline OpenAI ordered to delete ChatGPT over false death claims (it’s technically true - a court didn’t order it, but a guy who goes by the name “That One Privacy Guy” while blogging on linkedin did).
21·25 days agoHold it down
351·26 days agoI looked at that, and thought “ha, that is a funny and obviously fake screenshot of a headline, created to ridicule photomatt for being petty in his fight with his company’s biggest competitor”.
Then, after closing this tab I did a double take and thought: maybe it’s actually real?
And, it turns out, yeah, he really actually did that (after a court injunction required them to remove the checkbox which required users to pledge that they were “not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise”):
😂
he's not wrong, though
they out here using “out here” two sentences in a row, smh my head
same here; other articles there load fine but this one gives me HTTP 500 with content-length 0.
(the empty body tag in your screenshot is generated by firefox while rendering the zero-length response from the server, btw.)
7·1 month agoit’s more likely they’re a regular-sized linux user and it’s only their inflatable penguin which is giant
because you carefully photoshopped the silhouette of a prone person into the bar graph
I don’t want to access the Sun, what’s the TLDR?
The TLDR is that the article doesn’t explain that the reason it is circular (not to mention “invincible”) is because that is the defined boundary of a national park:
A LONELY volcano surrounded by a dark green forest dubbed the “goblin forest” has left explorers baffled by its perfectly circular appearance.
here is a copy+paste of firefox's reader view of the article
thesun.co.uk Mystery of perfectly circular invincible ‘Goblin Forest’ surrounding a sacred volcano in the land of Hob… Vera Demertzis 4–6 minutes
The lonely, almost perfect conical volcano sits in an eerily circular forest
Published: 18:54, 19 Nov 2024 Updated: 1:26, 20 Nov 2024A LONELY volcano surrounded by a dark green forest dubbed the “goblin forest” has left explorers baffled by its perfectly circular appearance.
Sitting at 8,261ft tall, with a six mile radius , Mount Taranaki is the second highest peak on New Zealand’s North Island.
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The perfectly circular Goblin Forest surrounds the Mount Taranaki volcano
6 The perfectly circular Goblin Forest surrounds the Mount Taranaki volcanoCredit: NASA/Landsat 8
The Goblin Forest is overgrown with twisted and deformed trees
6 The Goblin Forest is overgrown with twisted and deformed treesCredit: Getty Images - Getty
The stunning mountain featured as Mt Fuji in The Last Samurai and Mount Doom in a panoramic shot
6 The stunning mountain featured as Mt Fuji in The Last Samurai and Mount Doom in a panoramic shotCredit: Getty
The iconic Mount Taranaki volcano in New Zealand’s North Island is so striking, that it once doubled as Mount Doom in the “Lord of the Rings” and Mt Fuji in “The Last Samurai”.
The lonely, almost perfect conical volcano sits in an eerily circular forest containing thousands of warped and ancient kamahi trees fighting for space.
The trees are extremely twisted and deformed as a result of having to grow over and around the fossilised remains of trees that were destroyed in past eruptions.
The trees are also covered in hanging mosses and liverworts, adding to its creepy appearance. Read more world news
In 2017, the mountain attained a new level of protection when it was granted the same legal rights as a person.
The status is an acknowledgment of the Indigenous Māori people’s relationship.
Despite its perfectly circular appearance from above, the volcano has a history of dramatic change.
The mountain side has collapsed and rebuilt 16 times, with each cycle sending large debris avalanches down its flanks from past eruptions since it first formed around 135,000 years ago.
Steep slopes, loose sediments, high rainfall rates, and buried faults all contribute to its tendency to collapse.
The iconic volcano last erupted 200 years ago, but is still considered active and occasionally spits out mudflows.
Researchers believe that there’s a 30-50 per cent chance of another major eruption in the next 50 years, potentially effecting more than 100,000 people.
Recently, a hiker was rescued from the clutches of the mysterious mountain.
The hiker had called for help after he realised he was going into hypothermia.
He had been on a day trail run when he was caught out by weather in very cold temperatures, local police said.
A police spokesperson added: "Unprepared for the local conditions, the solo traveller was running out of food, water, and phone battery, and was 1400 metres up the mountain when he phoned for an ambulance.
“Taranaki Police Search and Rescue, the Taranaki Rescue Helicopter and alpine cliff rescue members were scrambled in an effort to get the man off the mountain as quickly as possible.”
Mount Taranaki isn’t the only perfectly circular mystery.
A mysterious spinning island shaped like a perfect circle has left explorers baffled for years.
Known as “The Eye” the uninhabited patch of overgrown vegetation floats around a crystal clear lake in Argentina slowly moving each day.
The bizarre natural phenomenon sits in the swampy river of Parana Delta in Buenos Aires and it has left many experts stumped over why or how it moves so freely.
Those lucky enough to have travelled to the island say it is almost a perfect circle due to the movement of the land mass.
Overtime the corners of the lake have managed to rub against the island as it moves and eroded itself into 360 degree smooth outlines.
Incredible aerial footage shows the 387ft spherical island, known locally as El Ojo, surrounded by a crescent of water.
The leading reason as to why the island floats is due to a natural process that sees water currents slowly shape and rotate the island in strong currents.
A few other shocking theories suggest it may have belonged to an ancient civilisation. READ MORE SUN STORIES
Or a more bizarre theory that claims the incomprehensible perfection and isolated location may be linked to extraterrestrial life.
Some say El Ojo could be a hidden UFO base but so far no evidence has backed this up.
Hanging moss and liverwort give the trees a creepy appearance
6 Hanging moss and liverwort give the trees a creepy appearanceCredit: Getty Images - Getty
A hiker was recently rescued from the mountainside
6 A hiker was recently rescued from the mountainsideCredit: Getty Images - Getty
The active volcano occasionally spews mudflow but hasn’t erupted in more than 200 years
6 The active volcano occasionally spews mudflow but hasn’t erupted in more than 200 yearsCredit: Getty
Via the pine64 blog update about their e-ink tablet TIL about inkput (using OnlineHTR) which appears to be a step in the right direction.