Yeah you get a lot of options on Linux. I used pdftk last time.

Unfortunately the parameters here were, “elderly dude” “needs GUI” and “on Windows” :-(

How are people supposed to notice that you got the money for plastic surgery if the surgery is so good that people wouldn’t notice?

Somehow this reminds me of the Demons in Frieren the Slayer.

Even though suppressing their mana output at rest would be tactically better, because it would allow surprising enemies in fights, they can’t do that because they use the display of mana to signal status in the demon hierarchy.

Sorry if that was cringe to bring up. I’m hoping at least some readers will be familiar and find the comparison funny.

this skank

Your mom? Hahaha, kind of deserved

Someone asked me yesterday what products besides Adobe’s there were for his elderly cousin to merge PDFs, or extract pages. I proposed a few options, so I’m technically helping to lose money for Adobe. I’m doing my part 😁

check-out “model extraction attacks”

The search results I’m seeing for that term point to people extracting (a clone of) the model, through interacting with the available API of an otherwise closed model. I’m not really seeing anyone interacting with a model to extract its training input data.

Is there a better search term, or do you have a more direct reference to lossless extraction of training data from model weights?

Or Swiss, it sounds very familiar. My French sucks. I did get DELF B2 level at the time, but damn do I struggle when I need to work in Lausanne with locals nowadays.

I forgot about that game. What was it again? Some sort of shooter moba?

He saved Nato? He’s the single biggest threat to Nato, lol.

Especially in zombie survival movies. Except in Zombieland, there it’s just the sister I think.

Her left handed dad - who grew up in a country which had no left handed things - wasn’t able to use the scissors.

That’s interesting to me. I’m a lefty who’s used to both types of scissors. That means I know how I need to pull sideways with the knuckle of my thumb in the right handed ones so they still cut well. But with the left handed ones I feel like I’m doing way less, I just pull and push up and down without needing the additional deliberate sideways pressure.

It would be very funny and well deserved if they invested on his pressure and in a few years Venezuela just nationalises everything again.

the next president will basically dedicate their career to undoing Trump’s BS

And don’t forget half the time Trump undoes his own purported industrial policy.

With the tariffs he was so inconsistent and capricious, that nobody could rely on having an edge over foreign competition long term and so nobody would dare to invest in manufacturing in the USA. If he felt like it he just cut them off from their essential foreign inputs too. Not to mention how he threatened pulling back the CHIPS Act subsidies from Intel, or how he raided Hyundai.

Can confirm, Firefox with uBlock Origin works. The OS doesn’t seem to matter. I use that combination on Linux (Fedora 43), Windows (10), macOS (15) and Android (16), no YouTube ads anywhere.

It’s the area in which you can send payments in Euro from one bank to another under certain rules, like next day validity and no deductions from the amount in transit, using just the IBAN and no need for separate clearing numbers anymore. The banks here in Switzerland usually call it SEPA payment, I didn’t even recognize the long form name at first.

It’s bigger than the Eurozone, it is of course of interest in non-Eurozone countries that do significant amounts of business in Euro too.

on YouTube (on my TV, still need to get a piHole up and running

Unfortunately that won’t help. The Youtube ads are served from the same domains as the videos, so a DNS based blocker is inherently powerless.

• Pardoning criminals

you can only run executables on the primary boot partition

lol

Have you tried asking ChatGPT or Gemini ?

lmao

My best guess is that since BCS-East was finished 1995, and both countries only had telecom liberalisation in 2003, maybe there was a time where it was easier to build through the water, because it wouldn’t encroach on the monopolists market on the land.

Or it was a sort of easier starter project before the BCS-East-West Interlink was built until 1997 from Lithuania over to Gotland, while also allowing Alcatel to sell access from/to Gotland from/to both Lithuania and Latvia.

FWIW, this has NOT disrupted the local internet significantly.

That’s good to hear. I figured between Lithuania and Latvia there should be enough terrestrial routes for redundancies to work out fine.

Yeah, the magical growth thing is kind of a cop out anyway.

I feel like the author wanted to have his cake and eat it too. Save a child and have the cute protector child relationship, but then magic her into a suitable wife, and have a new child appear, so they can play family.

Spice and Wolf did it better.