deadalus

Grok 4.5 is somewhere between between Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5.

Source : https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/capabilities/coding

Terafab, Tenstorrent, SMIC and Cerebras Systems are a few more TSMC competitors.

This incident will, hopefully, encourage people to use cctv that store footage exclusively locally (on a microSD card, built-in storage, or a local NVR/hard drive you control) and avoid any cloud connectivity or optional cloud features.

Local alternative to Google Nest : Reolink, Amcrest POE, Eufy with Home Base, TP-Link Tapo, Frigate + POE cams.

Youtube Alternatives :

https://odysee.com

Bitchute

Rumble

I wish AMD did well in the Stable Diffusion front because AMD is never greedy on VRAM. The 4060Ti 16GB(minimum required for Stable Diffusion in 2024) starts at $450.

AMD with ROCm is decent on Linux but pretty bad on Windows.

Astronauts age slower and grow taller in space.

I will always remember the automatic removal of the Christchurch shooting video from users' personal Google Drive and Dropbox accounts, with no prior warnings or explanations provided.

I use Bing for porn. For reverse image search, I use Yandex. And for researching psychedelics and conspiracy(censored) topics - I use Brave Search.

I use Google only for vanilla search that shows I am a good citizen(navigation, online shopping, general research on movies and sports...etc). I don't want my search Identity to be fully profiled by Google. Police(and other bad actors like a hostile government) are more likely to access my data on Google than on other lesser know search engine.

I have never seen a more cute deer.

I wish all ancient drawings had such a version so we can easily interpret what they are talking about in the article. Early cave drawings are very hard to decipher.

Cloudflare banned 8chan without a legal requirement to do so. They banned it based on moral reasons.

Wow, so the sun can spin! I never knew that.

https://www.space.com/does-the-sun-rotate

In the 15-year period of 2005 through 2019, canines killed 521 Americans. Pit bulls contributed to 66% (346) of these deaths. Combined, pit bulls and rottweilers contributed to 76% of the total recorded deaths [1]

[1] https://www.dogsbite.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia

India Remains Internet Shutdown Capital of the World for Fifth Year Running : https://thewire.in/tech/india-remains-internet-shutdown-capi...

The best alternative to Replika that I have found : Pygmalion AI - https://redd.it/10h37u4

Use the following character for NSFW chatting : https://booru.plus/+pygmalion

Try http://chat.petals.ml

This tool is very fast! I used it to find my crush's social profiles and it worked well.

Wickr was one of the biggest sourcing platforms in the psychedelic world. It will be a huge loss for Psychonauts.

KiwiFarms is back and is fully opoerational : https://kiwifarms.ru/

They are now using DD0S-guard : https://ddos-guard.net/

https://boun.cr/ has been active for years and I use it regularly on shady sites.

Had a hard time trusting Cloudflare since they blocked 8chan due to political activism.

It is not easy to see the humanity of someone over the internet. In real life, we realize that 'others' are just like us and that the differences are minuscule.

Came across this article about Whitehat Jr, its hilarious : https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/who-wolf-gupta-story-b...

They created a fictional character 'WOLF GUPTA' to promote their brand.

First thing to do after installing Windows : disable telemetry

https://wpd.app/

In the case of Bellingcat, it appears to have been used as a public front for the CIA to release information that they wanted out there publically using parallel construction[1]

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/17/bellingcat-can-say-what...

Other links of interest :

https://declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-med...

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/author-bellingcat-opcw-wh...

https://www.mintpressnews.com/bellingcat-intelligence-agenci...

Vimeo Alternatives :

Centralized : Youtube, Dailymotion, Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Vidlii, DLive, Triller

Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube

Telegram is the only platform where I have been able to get uncensored footage of the Ukraine conflict from a civilian perspective. Of course there is a lot of propaganda, but I get to see the destruction and war crimes from both sides with my own eyes.

Recommended channels(NSFL) :

https://t.me/kyivoperativ

https://t.me/intelslava

https://t.me/WORLD18WAR

https://t.me/Yediotnews

https://t.me/asbmil

https://t.me/AtlasNewsTelegram

https://t.me/s/OSINTUkraine

Youtube Alternatives :

Centralized : Dailymotion, Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Vimeo, Vidlii, DLive, Triller

Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube

Also surprised not see 'Brave Search' listed as an alternative to Google Search. Its a fantastic search engine and it is only getting better.

Youtube Alternatives :

Centralized : Dailymotion, Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Vimeo, Vidlii, DLive, Triller

Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube