Notepad-plus-plus.org was compromised. Or Notepad++ website was compromised for brevity's sake.

Wind and solar have yet to be proven to be net positives, and the further production is from the consumers the worse it is. All current battery tech is terrible as well. People compare theoretical 'one day...' stats of solar, wind, EVs, etc against not even current combustion and nuclear tech.

The major component people are leaving out is that the reason solar, wind, batteries, etc appear cheap is that they are heavily subsidized and incentivized.

If people want to talk about the finances of energy they need to study the Blue Economy starting at the top. They are all WorldBank and other central banking entity initiatives, they don't come from any gov.

Carbon Credits are a World Bank initiative, they come from global banking system itself, not a any government. That's why all environmental efforts focus on carbon and direct pollution and habitat destruction, which will kill us all faster than even the most pessimistic Climate Change models. Carbon Credits are an economic weapon, not an effort to save the environment. They are also tied to actual Carbon capture/avoidance about as tightly as a stock price is to the performance of a company. Many Carbon sequestration projects actively damage and pollute the environment, because the entire CC agenda puts Carbon Credit $$$ over actual environmental concerns.

It's all money magic. There's zero tether between a companies tech or it's performance and any stock price, gov programs, WB initiatives, etc. The only reason for any of these projections is to steer public perception of markets, so that there seems to be justified and dudiligent allocation of funds to these projects/initiatives. 'If ai doesn't succeed...' isn't a projection, it's a threat, a signal, a command to throw more money at this or else.

Perhaps the real malware were the state-sponsored services we used along the way.

100% this. The quality of pizza has plummeted while the cost has soared. I can buy a nice steak for the price of a mid pizza.

Silencing the mind and directing your attention is a skill that can be trained. There's nothing wrong with you, and you're no different than anyone else. I say this only to empower you.

That's part of the learning curve with LLM's today, you have to practice strategies for each model to get reliable results on test cases where you know the answers you want, then apply thay same strategy to real use cases.

I also don't like sensationalized claims, but for many 'chemicals' being found in our food we do know the dosages in our foods cause problems.

Beyond that there was such a steep decline in the nutritional content of US crops that the USDA stopped publishing their nutritional analysis about a decade ago, something they'd been sharing since at least the 50s.

I'm not for generally one for regulations, but since there are regulations preventing me from farming myself, and our land and water is vulnerable to the decisions of others, a food should be defined as containing X nutrition and not containing Y contaminants, and Y contaminants should be tightly controlled from all sources.

Bitcoin had never offered anonymity. Only dumb people and con artists have proposed that. It's only ever been claimed to be as anonymous as posting on Slashdot COULD be. If you used a burner email for registration, used proper opsec for your internet connection and use hardware that is no connected to you, and never post any information anywhere that could link your ID to your Slashdot account.

BTC is bad enough all by itself, we don't have to resort to strawmanning it based on the activity of dumb people.

I agree.

LinkedIn was a failure with few users until they violated privacy and started sending spam emails and invites to people's contacts.

I worked at place where sending an email to an internal email address would set off an alarm. Corporate would send phishing tests to it. I tried several times to explain that they were wasting my time and jeopardizing a live production environment, and that emails to this specific address were meant to signal a catastrophe. They didn't listen so I made every machine in the company open their fake phishing link and called HR saying I clicked on a link they sent me and somehow it must have had a virus because it somehow took over the entire building. It was a fun day. Head engineer thought it was hilarious. They stopped phishtesting.

It doesn't have to be a race to the bottom...

Playing at 2x makes a 30min video 15minutes. Scrubbing reduces it to the 30 seconds of actual content in that video.

The only time I find faster playback useful is for online courses without much filler in them.