I mean, I’m not about to leave Lemmy, this place scratches an itch that only old Reddit and Digg gave me. But competition for the steaming greedy shitpile that Reddit’s become is welcome to me, better to keep them on their toes after their awful anti-user antics.

The founder of Path is a young man named Marshal Webb. I wrote about Webb back in 2016, in a story about a DDoS defense company he co-founded called BackConnect Security LLC. On September 20, 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published data showing that the company had a history of hijacking Internet address space that belonged to others.

Less than 24 hours after that story ran, KrebsOnSecurity.com was hit with the biggest DDoS attack the Internet had ever seen at the time. That sustained attack kept this site offline for nearly 4 days.

Fuckin’ yikes. Some serious skeletons clearly visible for everyone to see if that’s the echo to the call.

Edit: Woah, fuckin’ bigger yikes, a domain the article mentions as a sort of log of sketchy actions behind the Path company went down today: https://www.pathtruths.com/

Internet Archive got a capture of the Cloudflare intervention screen from earlier today, so I wasn’t the first one to notice this was odd, either: https://web.archive.org/web/20250207154649/https://www.pathtruths.com/web/20250207154649/https://www.pathtruths.com/

Double edit: spare a buck for Internet Archive if you can, y’all, we need this shit if we’re going to hold civilization together.

Fair, but even if it is commercial, the project being open-source is a huge step in the right direction. Specifically for DeepSeek, it has a number of censored topics like “Tiananmen Square” that it refuses to speak to, but because it’s open source, unaffiliated third parties have been able to start spins of it that reintegrate said sensitive topics.

Perfect? Definitely no, but I’d say it’s almost 50% of the way there compared to the awful nature of ChatGPT/Google’s models. And it also made people realize that this is possible, so there’ll be more people taking it in a good direction that otherwise might not’ve tried.

I too cried like that at first.

You’re really throwing out every dishonest rhetorical tactic in the book. Reading this exchange is disgusting.

Aww, probably Hannah. As much as I would want to be surly or jealous of someone else finding their person, I could use some positivity in my life.

Jesus what a cringy comment

We have acknowledged that the Selzer/Des Moines Register pre-election poll did not reflect the ultimate margin of President Trump’s Election Day victory in Iowa by releasing the poll’s full demographics, crosstabs, weighted and unweighted data, as well as a technical explanation from pollster Ann Selzer. We stand by our reporting on the matter and believe a lawsuit would be without merit.

They better stand by this. It only takes another news org or two to cave without pushing back with pressure before they can effectively silence anyone by threat alone.

Either that or it’s Yankee Candle holiday time in the Wiseau household

Jesus, work on your social skills a little, watching you go from 0 to 100 over practically nothing is creepy

Is that color named “Susan Collins”??

To be fair, there are a lot of “XYZ” problems on Stack Overflow where someone’s missing the point with the problem they’re trying to solve.

“I need my script to delete my file, but I can’t figure out the pathing so I delete random files until the correct one is gone. However, it’s slow – how do I speed my script up when deleting random files?”

Yeah, even the MAGA people I know are like “aight, cool”

Those tricks are actually used pretty frequently in modern graphics stacks, especially around things with fine edges like text. In those cases it’s called “subpixel anti-aliasing”.

That’s hilarious and somehow wholesome that everyone pitched in to get the separation

Noppeee. Very happy I switched to Linux. Despite how annoying all the hounding about it was, it’s galaxies better than the shitshow Windows 11 is becoming.

My guy, he’s making a pretty limited point and is agreeing with you. You’re strawmanning his comments to an absurd degree.

I mean, they’re proving their point rather well, not sure why you feel the need to take pot shots at them :/

I mean, that’s the mechanism by which carbon is removed. It goes into tree, tree dies or gets cut down taking all the solidified carbon with it, new tree gets planted in its place to repeat the cycle. In fact, the fastest way to scrub carbon with the practice is to farm trees, assuming you do it sustainably.

I know, it’s a huge relief seeing this as someone who uses the free tier. I think I’ll cough up for the advanced tier if they stick to their guns on this decision.

Russia really has become “big North Korea”, sheesh