Somebody has to make the call. There was this dinosaur book for kids in a little free library. It didn’t even have an author or publisher, because it was AI garbage. Full of misspellings, etc. I contemplated throwing it in the trash because I don’t think it should exist. But for some reason I had trouble deciding that for others.

Digitize and delete? Scan straight to OCR and dump the books. One hard drive can store a lot of books.

I found the controls intriguing at first, but then frustrating. I like alternating the pedals, but balance should be accelerometer/tilt based, and braking could be stronger if you press both pedals at once. Finally I think the crank could have a little more intertidal - I often got my cranks stuck vertically, where neither one really goes anywhere.

At this point I basically need to do 25 Google searches to find what I’m looking for anyway. This is a stupid comparison. When I eat cabbage and beer my digestive tract releases more GHGs than my whole day of using ChatGPT (zero). I just need to figure out how to harvest and burn my own methane so I can do more ChatGPT queries guilt-free.

I agree with your criticisms of BitTorrent vs older P2P sharing. The closest successor I know of might be Tribler. I haven’t used it so I don’t know how the uploads are - and it still has many drawbacks/inefficiencies relating to hashing/duplication because it’s torrent-based. But it does contain search, and the ability to share without a website indexing it. It’s kind of like eMule: torrent/tor edition?

The question is: why are you shaving? Why are you so afraid of looking like yourself?

When you have a beard, people respect you. They listen when you talk and hold doors open for you. I have a hard time trusting a man with a clean shaved face, because our interaction is starting off with a lie. I feel the same way about makeup and fake eyebrows and plastic surgery.

In theory, yt-dlp can pull cookies from your browser to get content behind a login.

If his legs are just gonna flail, should have just made him a double amputee.

Who weighed the bear? Ordinary males can weigh 1500 pounds, so Fat Albert probably weighs over a ton. Why list his weight at all if it’s unknown?

Tubi has a few gems: Sarah & Duck, Mofy, and Hooray for Huckle. These can be downloaded for offline use (ad-free) using the command line software called yt-dlp. This software has the ability to load your cookies from your web browser, so it may work for some login sites, for example if you just pay for one month.

You can find some stuff searching btdig.com.

I was just wondering if Anonymous mode could be responsible for the false hits on iknowwhatyoudownload.com from my static IP

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.

We must always fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil that we must fear the most, and that is the indifference of good men.

Boondock Saints, 1999

Have you looked at the community called thelyricsgame? A lot of the art is pretty amazing, generated from AI interpretations of the lyrics. But paying somebody is probably a good choice too.

https://lemmy.ca/c/thelyricsgame

We need a GitTorrent protocol with DHT. All forks could be one repository, and the identical code shared between them can be cross-seeded.

Is there a big market for naturally/spontaneously fermented wine in New Zealand? In California it’s a very small percentage of wine. Most grapes are treated with sulphur and commercial yeast is used. So all those wines are not going to be any different from a microbe perspective.

If you’re like me, you could find out at age 38 who your true biological father is, and contact him for the first time. It may spiral you into an identity crisis, wondering if you should change your name and the name of your children. Here’s the thing though, my biological dad didn’t share his DNA. His first cousin did, and I contacted him.

As others have said, because you share your DNA with all of your relatives, it’s already not 100% private. One or more of your relatives has already tested their DNA. The most genetic privacy you can get would be for nobody to know who you’re related to. How tightly do you protect that information? Changing your name would be a good first step.

Hope this isn’t off topic, feel free to downvote if it is. You just made me think about an idea of 3d printing directly in beeswax. Is there a market for that? I don’t know about beekeeping gadgets. I know foundation wax is just pressed in a mold, but a beeswax cage can’t hold a bee for very long, so maybe it’s a dumb idea.

It feels better with no condom. Private trackers have no STI’s.

Don’t. And beyond that if you use their WiFi, connect to a VPN. Best just use LTE.

I looked into it a bit further and it seems the ATSC stream packets already contain built-in checksums! The interesting bit is that all the sub-channels are actually inter-mixed in one stream. So if you’re tuned to 13-1, your TV is reading and ignoring 13-2, 13-3 etc.

Unfortunately, I don’t know of any stream-correcting p2p network. I think it would start with a relatively open source tuner card. I think the tuner software is typically closed source, but it would be doing the work of reading the radio stream of a frequency and sending out an mpeg stream.