Immediately downloaded the video just in case it gets taken down!

I’m German and my father is such a Trump fanboy, it’s sickening. I used to immediately debunk the hyperlinks he’d send to facebook or group chats, but he’s been pretty quiet to me lately. I have lost all hope of changing his stubborn mind until actual mass executions are committed, so I’m just collecting all this shit to throw in his face afterwards to at least get the satisfaction of showing him why I was against this coming regime long before mass executions.

“Break a leg” (or “Hals und Beinbruch” in German, which is “Neck and leg fracture”).

I don’t even know what the logic could be. Is it supposed to be some sort of reverse psychology?

It depend on the context/group.

At work, no biggie, it just tells me that you acknowledge my message and currently have nothing useful to add.

With my friends, who usually heavily rely on emojis and “oldtimey smileys” (like xD or y.y)? Ya, unless you completely eminate happiness and friendship, I’m concerned about your mood / standing with me.

As @apotheotic@beehaw.org mentioned, that is actually not allowed and against the spirit of the “cookie banner law”. But since hundreds, if not thousands of sites break this law, it takes quite the time for government workers to sift through all of that (provided they even get around to it).

Big agree on all of that, including the Any Austin recommendation!

Skyrim is amazing for this kind of mindfulness with its environments. The NPCs are a little so-so (once you spend an extended amount of time at the same location) but you can’t go wrong with setting up campfire and just taking in the wilderness and everything around you. X4 Foundations actually is pretty great, too, for this vibe-intake, when you land on a station and just exist (or sneak into another captain’s ship and see where it takes you)

Look, man, it’s trying its best. And frankly, I think it’s about as ready as it could ever get to replace every single billionaire in the world, considering the sanity of many billionaire’s choices we hear about lately.

I occasionally check my surroundings (especially when staying at a spot for more than just a couple minutes) for potential ambush and sniper locations.

The funny part about that is that I only served for two years and not once left my home country to even be at risk of combat.

I don’t know how strictly your lessons are monitored, but if they aren’t, you might be able to deviate from your curriculum sometimes, especially if all of your students are on the same side as you. This field manual is a great start for teaching creative civil resistance against an oppressive regime while minimising the likelihood that the resistor loses their job doing so.

As a teacher you wield the power to shape young people in a magnitude that is only topped by direct family and best friends. Use it wisely, while making sure to stay on curriculum enough that your students still pass their mandatory exams.

You’re right! I thought of the typical soda can and, as far as I remember, those tabs are lifted a little so you can get underneath even by just shoving your finger skin in. But just yesterday I tried opening a can of tuna and was surprised not only by how naturally I do the little lift with my finger nails but also by how very difficult it is to open when you don’t use your fingernails.

Genuine question because this might be a design difference between your country and Germany, where I’m from: Can you not lift the tab a little bit with the skin of your finger and then just pull on it? Are they welded onto the can?

True, true. We literally omly have a wood furnace, so are absolutely not affected by this, but I’ll see how reporting potential GDPR violations in the name of someone else works.

Sorry that it didn’t land as an obvious joke. With the NSDAP NPD AfD on such a steep rise, I think I have transcended gallows humour and arrived at necromancer humour levels to be able to cope with this reality.

This is my reasoning, too. I keep my keyboard QWERTZ + German Umlaute, but almost everything else is set to English. Pretty much the only exception are videogames and movies that have a superior German version to them (like Kingdom Come Deliverance)

Samesies!

One very important word of caution (unfortunately coming from experience): Syncthing, as the name suggests, makes it so the content of one device is the same as that of another device. So, even if you have one device set to only receive data, it means that if you delete a file from the sending device, the receiving device will also delete that file to stay in sync with the sending device.

There is a way to use Syncthing as a simple backup storage program (not necessarily the best solution but much better than manually backing up your files every few months and just hoping for the best). But it means that you have to use the advanced folder option “ignoreDelete”. I also use the file versioning system, so even if something is automatically deleted by mistake, it’s still versioned in a special subfolder and accessible to me.

Couldn’t you just add up the germs found in successive swabs to the total and increase the total count with each test?

I’m not quite sure I understand the method you’re describing 😅

When it comes to microbiological contamination, there are a couple of factors that can make a tremendous difference. For example, the base material that the machine is made of. Up to 1980, 1990, maybe even the early 2000s, many machines were still made of steel only, instead of stainless steel, and so they needed a layer of paint to make sure that they don’t start rusting, especially in food production, which often times uses water in the production process and in the cleaning process. One disadvantage of this is that the paint at some point will start cracking and splintering off creating foreign bodies that can contaminate your product as well as creating rough textures surfaces that are perfect for germs to snuggle into.

Also, since the hygiene requirements on food were not as strict in the past, machines from that time may not have been designed with regular deep cleaning in mind. Most modern production plants have a Cleaning In Place procedure which allows to properly clean the insides of the machines with no or minimal disassembly.

Another factor is the design of pipes and tanks. If you have sharp 90 degree turns in your pipes or if your tank has no outflow hole on the lowest point (you can sometimes see it with beer kegs, where the tap is stuck in somewhere in the lowest eighth of the keg instead of actually on the very bottom), liquids will accumulate there and that will turn stale.

There are more factors that make hygienic production according to today’s standards more difficult in some older machines than in newer ones, but these are the ones that come to my mind right away.

Thank you a lot for the load of information! I just now got to reading it all. I was very skeptical about the fact that it is fed by the output of other LLMs but the way you explain it makes sense to me that it might not be that much of a problem. I guess a super blunt analogy could be “It’s only incest if it’s your children” lol

Hahaha the production lead actually suggested that I might have been sick and coughed germs onto the sample sponge or that the sponges themselves were already contaminated during manufacturing, because every single sample showed high counts of pseudomonas.

Maybe instead she should start listening to us when we tell her that production equipment from 1970 might not be sufficient to run a food production with the hygiene requirements of today. But no, replacing that would cost more money than just taking samples over and over until the results are low enough (probably because by the 37th swab I cleaned the surface better than the production workers)

Good idea, I’ll try to get a torrent client working on my Raspberry Pi for these types of documents.

Edit: Set up qBitTorrent and am downloading and then seeding it. Thanks for the tip! According to a reviewer, you want to use this link instead, because the autogenerated one has some missing files?

Reviewer: chilimachine - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - February 3, 2025

Subject: Use full-20250128-cdc-datasets-USETHIS.torrent file in the file list

If you’re seeding made sure to use the torrent file named “full-20250128-cdc-datasets-USETHIS.torrent” instead of IA’s auto-generated one. The auto-gen one is missing files and a bit buggy.

Thanks for the explanation. I don’t understand enough about large language models to give a valuable judgement on this whole Deepseek happening from a technical standpoint. I think it’s excellent to have competition on the market and it feels that the US’ whole “But they’re spying on you and being a national security risk” is a hypocritical outcry when Facebook, OpenAI and the like still exist.

What do you think about Deepseek? If I understood correctly, it’s being trained on the output of other LLMs, which makes it much more cheap but, to me it seems, also even less trustworthy because now all the actual human training data is missing and instead it’s a bunch of hallucinations, lies and (hopefully more often than not) correctly guessed answers to questions made by humans.

Thank you for that perspective. It seems to be somewhat similar and thankless to when I get tasked with taking microbio samples from the machines to check for contamination and then get grumpy department leads because the analysis results show over and over again that their cleaning procedure is inefficient.