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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • It also contributes heavily to the formation of aphthous mouth ulcers. For anyone suffering them like I used to (which is to say “badly”): if this is the first time you’re hearing about it, look for tooth paste with no SLS. It doesn’t matter if the L is Lauryl or Laureth, that shit is drying out the mucous membranes in your mouth, making them more prone to damage, and thereby giving you ulcers. Kroger/King Soopers have a generic that’s SLS-free, but Sensodyne Pronamel is one that’s usually SLS-free if you can’t find a generic. If you have an ulcer right now:

    • Crush up an aspirin to fine powder
    • Dampen a cotton swab with some clean water
    • Dip the swab in the aspirin powder so it makes a kind of paste
    • Paint the paste on the ulcer with the swab

    It’ll hurt like hell, but doing this daily will heal the wound in a few days instead of a few weeks.

    As well, most people brush too hard; some of that “clean” feeling is coming from gum trauma from brushing too hard. Holding the toothbrush between forefinger and thumb limits the amount of pressure you can apply, reducing the risk of damaging your gums.

    Finally, flossing gets the biofilm out from between your teeth; brushing gets it off the exposed surfaces; and peroxide-based mouthwash is a nuclear firestorm to scour the bacterial population. Do all three each night at least, and your breath will be better than anyone you know.



  • Not at all. I said that now this has happened, the humans actually in charge of the decisions which inspired it might adjust their cost/benefit calculations. I didn’t say it was right, I said it’s understandable why people would celebrate it and I said there’s a chance it will have an actual impact.

    I’ll leave you and your straw man to discuss further; you’ve got more of an argument with him than you do with me.



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    If it was a random death you might have a point. I would still say it makes sense that people would celebrate the death of a villain, but that’s beside the point.

    This was an assassination, a message on its own even if there weren’t literal words carved into the casings. This may well give a person about to make an inhumane decision on behalf of a company’s bottom line pause. It’s a reminder that those decisions have real consequences, even if not always legal ones.




  • When you tear down next, look for missing board components or any that lean at an angle they’re not supposed to. Canned air has been known to shear poorly-attached caps or whathaveyou clean off the board. Or maybe one of the wires in the 12v cable is broken and it’s delivering power just to most pins… The paperclip test just tells you if the PSU is dead dead, are you able to test with a multimeter instead?

    Buzzing while the power supply is off makes me wonder if there’s literal bugs in it, if it’s buzzing while it’s unplugged. I suppose the buzzing could also be remaining power discharging, if it happens just after it’s been unplugged.


  • Splitting out storage and computer is definitely good first step to increase optimization and increase failure resiliency.

    Exactly why I’ve been considering doing it this way for my new setup! I had to leave my last one on the other side of the planet and have felt positively cramped with just a couple TB worth of internal drives, can’t wait to properly spread out again.





  • Where would an open source LLM that you run locally phone home to, exactly? It requires a lot of GPU compute, do you think someone’s just going to give that away for free, without even requiring an account they can turn into saleable data?

    But wait, there’s an even better way to be sure: download OpenHardwareMonitor so you can watch your GPU go to 100%, and this or GPT4All or something. Then airgap your computer, and try it yourself.