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"Department of Hindering the Plugin That Makes Facebook Into What Users Actually Want"

Yes, this is exactly what this website is for, and the interactive examples put you right in to programming in glsl and give such an awesome base to experiment.

There are plenty of resources out there as you get more advanced, but imo bookofshaders is a great starting resource.

I learned so much from this website many years ago when I was first discovering webgl programming. It is unfortunately unfinished, yes, but those unfinished chapters on advanced topics make for curiosity and the desire to learn more. There are plenty of other resources that fill in the details, but this is a great beginner guide.

You write this because you don’t understand what people in Iran have been dealing with for the past 45 years.

It is one thing to not like the political leadership, but another thing if the government oppresses the population.

Those of us in America are privileged that we can’t fathom what that means.

People living outside Iran participating in these protests have no idea what they are doing.

On the reddit NewIran sub, they were mocking a picture of somebody at one of those rally’s holding a giant IRGC flag… upside-down.

I wouldn’t use numbers of “useful idiots” showing up at rallies as a way of demonstrating internal support for the Iranian regime.

Surveys suggest around 70-80% are anti-regime, which makes sense considering the regime’s history of hangings and imprisonment for minor offenses. The people of Iran want the regime to end.

The moment is that the regime is severely weakened and is struggling to deal with an external war, with very few weapons left. Many heads of their military were eliminated and they are scrambling to put the pieces back together.

Couple that with a population of at least 80 million people who hate the regime and only didn’t fight back because the regime had physical power over them.

Not on their heads. On the weapons and heads of the regime. The regime is not the Iranian people.

Even if it is only set back by a few months, that is enough time to put pressure on Iran to abandon it altogether.

Keep in mind, Israel has full aerial control over Iran and has taken out hundreds of their missile launchers.

We can keep pounding the various nuclear facilities and hinder ant chances of rebuilding, making any effort futile.

You’d be surprised, but the people of Iran have been waiting for this moment for years. There are 80 million people who want the end of the regime.

Whether this fulfills that goal, we will see, but anything that weakens the regime is good for the Iranian people.

oh wow, that is awesome that so much has been done to preserve the work of Kirschen.

How well does it work with bank websites with non-conventional multi-click logins that sometimes include an "important message" that you have to click through just to get your balance?

The music creator application looks interesting, but I could not get it to play anything: https://archive.org/details/1989-the-music-creator-v13

Wow, thank you for posting this. I had no idea that the creator of Dry Bones also had worked on such creative and innovative software projects in his lifetime.

Case in point. Even the mainstream media does not tell what is actually happening in Gaza, despite the many journalists on the ground there, and you heard "genocide" and immediately think - or "know" - that is something that Israel is doing.

I don't follow any of those people. But, I literally get ads for Palestinian causes on facebook from fake charities.

How many went to the page, expecting to see a showcase of the said graphics and were presented with text in the center: "Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application..."?

And how long did it take you to realize that you need to scroll down?

Could we train an AI model on the corpus of physics knowledge up to the year 1905 and then see if we can adjust the prompt to get it to output the theory of relativity?

This would be an interesting experiment for other historical discoveries too. I'm now curious if anybody has created a model with "old data" like documents and books from hundreds of years ago, and see if comes up with the same conclusions as researchers and scientists of the past.

Would AI have been able to predict the effectiveness of vaccines, insulin, other medical discoveries?

Sometimes the ask is something that you want to improve your own experience at the company. Let's say the ask involves improving the quality of the code that you work on every day. You know your boss will not say "yes" because refactoring does not have an apparent value. But you are confident that if you can some time to work exclusively on some refactor, it will be a benefit not only to the company, but to your future self. I think the advice in the article is a solid way to go about asking for that.

Years ago, I set up https://mitmproxy.org on a Raspberry Pi and used it to get logs of every site that my kids would visit. I should be clear that monitoring/spying != parenting, but it definitely made me feel a little better to have some idea of what the kids are using the internet for.

From a technical perspective, it did exactly what you want. I had logs of full urls (not just domains). So, for example, I could view what they googled and when, if I wanted to anyway.

It did involve installing a certificate on the computer that they use, but there are how-to guides so setting everything up was simply a matter of following instructions.

The biggest drawback is that it noticeably slowed their internet. I imagine if I had run this on a more powerful computer it may have been better.

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Note, for those suggesting PiHole, it is very good for getting logs of domains accessed, but not very informative. For example, you can tell that a computer accessed "youtube.com" at a certain time, but not what was actually viewed. That may be obvious to many of us, but just clarifying in case it is not obvious to the OP.

I do not use TikTok so maybe I do not understand, but how does TikTok influence its users? I thought content comes from other users. Does TikTok decide which content to promote? And if so, what exactly are they promoting that is threatening to the United States?

I love how the description ends "to boost productivity."

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There have been over 10 “ceasefires” that ended with Hamas firing rockets into Israel, in the last 20 years.

Israeli leadership in 2006 gave up Gaza and forcefully evicted thousands of Jewish people in what was supposed to be an exchange for peace. That was supposed to be the end of the rockets and the attacks.

In case you are not aware, the exact opposite happened.

To be clear, we very much do want Gaza. We had homes there. and we have Jewish roots there going back long before the time of today’s Palestinian colonists.

Above all of that though, is that we want peace. And so if we have to be patient for a time when we can peacefully live in Gaza again, we will be patient.

In the meantime, the most important thing is the safe return of loved ones who were taken hostage on October 7th (and before!) and safety for those living in rocket’s range of Gaza.

Gaza has been its own country / Palestinian State since 2006 and they have been recipients of foreign aid for many years, which is how they fund these attacks.

I like how the feeling of the author's excitement about the topic is embedded in the text

""" upon looking at these numbers one has the feeling of being in the presence of one of the inexplicable secrets of creation. """

""" I hope that with this and the other pictures I have shown, I have communicated a certain impression of the immense beauty of the prime numbers and of the endless surprises which they have in store for us. """

"the easiest way to detect if a programmer is in flow is to see if they’re typing into their programmer’s editor."

Does anybody else find that statement controversial?

I am curious. If you are willing to pay for the convenience, why not just pay the original service providers?

Is it much less expensive?

I wondered if this the real context. i.e. They are just referring to code-completion as AI-generated code. But, the article seems like it is referring to more than that?

Not only that, but from reports, it sounds like they deliberately sent an alert several seconds before detonation to ensure that the user of the pager would be the direct target. Or perhaps that was just the time it took for the fuse to detonate the explosive? Either way, some of the videos out there show the incredible precision that the owner of the pager was taken down and people in the vicinity were unscathed.

Given that the pagers are for secret messages to be sent between militants, it would be highly unlikely for them to end up in the wrong hands unless the militant is being irresponsible.

Certainly you would not expect somebody in the military to leave a loaded gun around the house. But, also it should be obvious that they would not leave their radio device for transmitting top-secret information either due to the implications of having such information and how that would affect the safety of family members.

It is likely that nobody could have expected their pager to literally explode. But, military or merely involved in the "political" side, anybody who lets their family play with such a radio/pager is putting their family at risk.