It’s worse: unlike Molotov, Zelensky didn’t even bring the cocktails.

Maybe they should replace it with Google’s former pledge “Don’t be evil”: it’s free for the taking, nobody’s using it at the moment.

You’re not that important. Nobody wants to kill you.

You know you can say “Chinese troll” without hating anybody, yes?

As in “the person is a troll” and “the person is Chinese”. No hate anywhere: it’s just two facts that happen to go together quite well because China is kind of notorious for being the place where you can find internet trolls for hire for cheap.

You need to stop thinking everything in terms of how racist it sounds.

Thank you. That was informative. I didn’t know.

Instead of whining like a 5 year old, why doesn’t he use his obscene wealth to pay an army of Chinese internet trolls to rewrite Wikipedia to his liking? I bet Wikipedia and the regular contributors wouldn’t even have the resources to withstand the assault and correct the untruths faster than they’d be created.

When then announced they’d be selling content for AI training, I went back to my old abandoned Reddit accounts and slightly altered all of my previous posts with actual content to be factually incorrect and misleading in subtle ways. It took me two months to rewrite everything, a few old posts at a time per day.

Now whatever technical or historical stuff I posted on Reddit is false and AI is training on that.

Aren’t you glad you did the work and gave Reddit the content it monetizes for free?

Yeah but look at the chaos necessary to overshadow Ron DeSantis…

I’d rather plug my ears and shout LALALALA when I see DeSantis than watch the orange Dr. Evil and the South African Nr. Two wreck the nation.

It just brings their BS policy in line with reality. Don’t think for a second that they removed their statement to feel free to use AI for military purposes: they’re already doing that now.

How risky is to de-solder an usb plug if the flash-drive contains important files? It would be relatively safe for someone capable, or the heat is way too risky for the chip/content?

If you’re halfway competent, it’s almost risk-free.

Also there’s any (MacGyver like) way to quickly access the file or reconnect the plug without a solder while only having access to office supplies?

That’s unlikely.

I don’t know what your story is, but if a key part of the plot is removing a USB fob’s connector to hide files, and quickly establish contact with the old plug to read them, you need to rethink that part of the story because the whole thing sounds very contrived to me.

I note that Nintendo had the good sense not to come after Mangione for trademark infringement…

I’m pretty sure TSMC has the means to hurt the US more than Trump realizes.

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite” - John Kenneth Galbraith

Now that Trump’s USA scores almost as low as China on the democracy scale, I guess TikTok isn’t an existential threat to the nation anymore.

If it wasn’t on your phone, I would point to yt-dlp: simply type yt-dlp -F to list the available formats, then yt-dsp -f to download the audio in the format of your choice:

E.g.:

$ yt-dlp -F https://youtu.be/xWUCsE4IM_c
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://youtu.be/xWUCsE4IM_c
[youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading webpage
[youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading player 6e1dd460
WARNING: [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing
[youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] Available formats for xWUCsE4IM_c:
ID  EXT   RESOLUTION FPS CH │   FILESIZE   TBR PROTO │ VCODEC          VBR ACODEC      ABR ASR MORE INFO
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
sb2 mhtml 48x27        0    │                  mhtml │ images                                  storyboard
sb1 mhtml 80x45        0    │                  mhtml │ images                                  storyboard
sb0 mhtml 160x90       0    │                  mhtml │ images                                  storyboard
233 mp4   audio only        │                  m3u8  │ audio only          unknown             Default
234 mp4   audio only        │                  m3u8  │ audio only          unknown             Default
139 m4a   audio only      2 │    3.16MiB   49k https │ audio only          mp4a.40.5   49k 22k low, m4a_dash
140 m4a   audio only      2 │    8.38MiB  129k https │ audio only          mp4a.40.2  129k 44k medium, m4a_dash
269 mp4   256x144     25    │ ~ 11.11MiB  172k m3u8  │ avc1.4D400C    172k video only
160 mp4   256x144     25    │    4.08MiB   63k https │ avc1.4D400C     63k video only          144p, mp4_dash
230 mp4   640x360     25    │ ~ 51.95MiB  803k m3u8  │ avc1.4D401E    803k video only
134 mp4   640x360     25    │   13.88MiB  215k https │ avc1.4D401E    215k video only          360p, mp4_dash
605 mp4   640x360     25    │ ~ 37.67MiB  582k m3u8  │ vp09.00.21.08  582k video only
232 mp4   1280x720    25    │ ~166.26MiB 2569k m3u8  │ avc1.4D401F   2569k video only
136 mp4   1280x720    25    │   52.13MiB  806k https │ avc1.4D401F    806k video only          720p, mp4_dash
270 mp4   1920x1080   25    │ ~306.16MiB 4730k m3u8  │ avc1.640028   4730k video only
137 mp4   1920x1080   25    │  159.35MiB 2462k https │ avc1.640028   2462k video only          1080p, mp4_dash

$ yt-dlp -f 140 https://youtu.be/xWUCsE4IM_c
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://youtu.be/xWUCsE4IM_c
[youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading webpage
[youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading player 6e1dd460
WARNING: [youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Signature extraction failed: Some formats may be missing
[youtube] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] xWUCsE4IM_c: Downloading 1 format(s): 140

Believe me, I sympathize 🙂

You do realize saying “I use a new phone every year lol” automatically marks you as poor right?

You know why? Because real rich people don’t even know how many phones they own, how long they last or how often they change them. And real rich people don’t say “lol”'.

You’re poor too. You just think you’re richer than me 🙂

You’ll feel wealthier longer if you avoid charging your batteries to 100%:

Limiting the maximum charge gives a substantial increase to the overall life of a battery. If we measure the life of a battery not in cycles, but in the number of electrons it can deliver to your phone over its lifetime, then we’re looking at a possible increase of 400%. That is, your battery could deliver 4X the number of electrons. And yes, that means it could last up to four times as long, according to some simple testing

If a mobile device offer charge limiting, I always set it to 80%. Examples of those include my FairPhone4 running CalyxOS or my Flipper Zero running the Momentum firmware. If it’s a cellphone and it doesn’t have charge limiting, I’ll use a Chargie. Any other device, I try to be careful if possible.