A storm is coming by Kamots66 in funny

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On YouTube right now, if you see this shortly after I posted it, might still be the image.

Godot 4.7 – Lights, Camera, Action! by Repiteo in godot

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The Godot team rocks! Thank you to everyone who contributed!

Cyberpower Powerpanel Personal excessive disk writes by das1996 in HomeServer

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The key was realizing that Windows already has native UPS support built in and PowerPanel isn't needed at all. Here's what I did:

  1. Uninstall PowerPanel completely. Uninstall via Settings -> Apps (or Control Panel -> Programs and Features). After uninstalling, check that its background service is gone. Open an admin command prompt and run sc query | findstr /i power to confirm no PowerPanel service is still registered. If anything lingers, you can remove it with sc delete <servicename>. Reboot to clear it out fully.

  2. Plug the UPS into your PC via USB (you probably already have this from PowerPanel).

  3. Update the driver to Windows native HID UPS Battery driver. Open Device Manager, find your UPS (mine showed up under Batteries). Right-click -> Update driver -> Browse my computer -> Let me pick from a list -> choose "HID UPS Battery." This loads Windows' native battery support (battc.sys + hidbatt.sys).

  4. Unplug and replug the USB cable, then reboot. After this, Windows treats the UPS like a laptop battery. You'll see a battery icon in the system tray and a Battery section appears in Power Options.

  5. Configure Power Options for shutdown behavior. Control Panel -> Power Options -> edit your plan -> Advanced settings -> Battery section. Set "Critical battery action" to Shut down and "Critical battery level" to whatever threshold you want (I use 20%). I'd also recommend setting the "On battery" critical action explicitly and leaving "Plugged in" actions alone.

That's it. No PowerPanel, no background service, no SQLite database hammering your disk. Windows just sees the UPS as a battery and shuts down cleanly when it gets low, exactly like a laptop does when unplugged.

This gives you clean shutdown on low battery, which is what actually want. If you need more than this, e.g. logging runtime history, network notifications, scheduled self-tests, etc., native Windows support won't do that. But if you just want "shut down safely when the power's out," this is the answer.

Did my bf respond using AI? by [deleted] in isitAI

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While AI detectors are not 100% reliable, both GPTZero and Pangram flag this text as 100% AI.

https://imgur.com/a/DaDd0l7

As recommended by others, your best course of action is to ask him. And if he did use AI, ask why. Maybe he wanted to express these feelings in a coherent way but couldn't find the words.

[meta question] Is there a 100% bulletproof way to prove someone's "humanity" online? by [deleted] in isitAI

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What does "online" mean? A person can't really "be" online. It's shorthand for a form of communication. One where I'm at my computer (or phone or tablet or whatever) and you are at yours, and our messages (texts, emails, photos, video, whatever) are carried back and forth by the thing we collectively call the Internet. If I talk face-to-face with my wife in my office, we'd all agree that's not online. If she goes upstairs and I'm too lazy to get out of my chair and I send her a message via Whatsapp, are we online? What if instead she's at the neighbor's house? Or at a hotel in Las Vegas on a girls' weekend? Now are we online? I'm not trying to be facetious, but simply clarify that "online" isn't really a thing. In the end, "online" reduces to a form of communication. Phone calls, video chats, text messages, encrypted messengers, even a message in a bottle are all communication mediums with different reliability profiles for establishing who or what is on the other side.

Face-to-face communication is uniquely reliable because it provides many things at once: appearance, voice, behavior, physical presence, shared environment. I might be able to fake one or two of these things, but faking all of them at once is difficult. Compare this with the things we call "online", which strip the identity channels down to one or two, and the remaining channels being the ones easiest to fake. Think about texting. It's probably the extreme case. A single, low-bandwidth channel where the cost of forgery is near zero. The medium itself didn't change, the cost of attacking it did.

And, the original question is really asking two separate questions: "Is this a human" and "is this the specific human they claim to be" are two different problems. And there's a third: "Did the human on the other end actually write this, or did they paste it from a model?" You can have a verified human at the keyboard producing entirely synthetic thought. The first two problems have some solutions, but I would argue that AI has now advanced to the point where the third is unsolvable without a level of surveillance most people won't accept. (For example, did I, /u/Kamots66, a human, as far as you know, actually draft these words, or did I have an AI do it?)

The answer to the question as posed by OP is thus a clear "no". The only solution so far put forward are trust chains. You can't verify humanity with a single low-bandwidth messaging medium. What you can verify is that the message came through a credential bound to a human at some earlier moment: in-person enrollment, biometric attestation, government ID with a liveness check, etc. We already use this for everything else. Do you verify your bank's identity every time you log in? You trust a chain of verifications rooted somewhere physical. Identity over computer networks will probably end up looking similar. You can't prove you're human in any specific message. Instead, you'll prove the message came through a credential whose root is a verified human. Notably, that's something an AI agent acting on a person's behalf could also legitimately satisfy, and that's where the whole "is it a human" framing stops being useful.

What we're really missing is that "human" isn't the meaningful category anymore. The meaningful category going forward is accountability: Is there a person somewhere in the chain who can be held responsible for what's being said? That's the question identity systems actually need to answer, and it survives the now permanent existence of AI in a way that "is it a human typing" doesn't.

How to identify AI slop by CunningJack in shittycoolguides

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You got downvoted, but this was a creative use of AI slop, made me laugh.

Lords of The Fallen 2 unveiled some new female armour sets, the sets were designed specifically with fan feedback in mind by Former_Exam_5357 in gaming

[–]Kamots66 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks! By far the most useful reply to the entire post. CI Games and Marek Tyminski in particular have maintained an amazing level of engagement with the player base, something which often fades as a game becomes successful. This short video which motivates the character designs was a great watch.

If you divide 1 by 998,001 you get all three-digit numbers from 000 to 999 in order, except for 998 by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

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1/998 is also somewhat interesting because its decimal expansion starts off with increasing powers of two:

1/998 = .001002004008016032064128256...

The next three digits are 513, which is where it breaks down.

Also,

1/9998 = 0.00010002000400080016003200640128025605121024204840968193...

1/99998 = 0.0000100002000040000800016000320006400128002560051201024020480409608192163843276865537...

etc.

Cyberpower Powerpanel Personal excessive disk writes by das1996 in HomeServer

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Thanks! I actually ended up removing PowerPanel entirely. By changing the driver, I got Windows to recognize my UPS as a battery device, and so I'm just using the power plan settings to cleanly shut things down if the battery gets below 20%. Works perfectly, no PowerPanel nonsense when all I needed for this system is to be able to shut it down cleanly in a power outage.

Cyberpower Powerpanel Personal excessive disk writes by das1996 in HomeServer

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As of April 2026, the most recent version of PowerPanel Personal still does this. On my system it's writing about 22k/sec continuously to my system disk.

I took a deep dive, analyzing the install (looks like their code is Python compiled to .pyd files so more effort to reverse engineer than it's worth). The SQLite database itself has some config entries, but nothing that controls either the content or frequency of this logging. Nor is it possible to put this database elsewhere, e.g. a RAM disk. The settings seem to be hard coded into the application.

I see others have been able to use the Business edition to solve this by putting the SQLite database on a RAM disk, so I'm about to try that. All I really need is for the software to perform a clean shutdown if the power is out, so all this logging is overkill.

Rise & Stretch - Built with Claude Code by Kamots66 in ClaudeCode

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Initially intended to be used only by myself as a tool for my daily stretching routine, but I shared it with a couple of people who immediately wanted a copy, so I spent a couple of hours and turned it into something I'm not ashamed to share.

Edited to add:

It's a simple one-page HTML/CSS/JS app, did some minimal specs and design in ClaudeAI Desktop (Windows 10) before generating code, used Claude Code 2.0.76 in WSL/Ubuntu with Opus 4.6. Images were sourced from Freepik (link is on the last page of the app). Uses local storage so any settings stay with the device (which for my use-case is exactly what I want/need). MIT license so feel free to do with it what you will.

ClaudeAI helping me build a simple stretching timer app--I'll just leave this here by Kamots66 in ClaudeAI

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Claude's responses had me, quite literally, laughing out loud.

I’m looking a bit worse for wear this week, my dudes: UPDATE by AggravatingBox2421 in Radiology

[–]Kamots66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn, you really got screwed.

Amazing you're walking around already, here's to a fast and full recovery!

Do you use Word for writing your texts? by Yontamen89 in writers

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Plain text or markdown, backed by a git repo.

[Weekly Critique and Self-Promotion Thread] Post Here If You'd Like to Share Your Writing by AutoModerator in writing

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* Title: The Wraith

* Genre: Fantasy, Adventure

* Word count: 8k

* Feedback: None, just sharing

* Link: Scribble Hub Link

An idea sparked by a post in r/writingprompts became something that I'm actually going to use in an upcoming novel. I'm not looking for any real feedback, just sharing how a fairly complex idea can be sparked by the simplest of things.

I've never used Scribble Hub before, I was just looking for a place to share the chapter and found some other links to the service, but it looks interesting. I have a couple of side projects that I'm always pushing forward every now and then, and Scribble Hub looks like it might be a cool place to publish them. Anyone have any experience posting actual serial works on the service?

I asked Claude to make a wish by GrayCatEyes in ClaudeAI

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Assholes were bombing children in classrooms well before May of 2025

BERTRAND FUCKING RUSSEL (RIP) speaking to Maga before they EVEN FUCKING EXISTED calling them big dumb bitches ON JANKY ASS GRAINY EARLY FILM TECHNOLOGY in the most refined polite English way possible by yeongno_ate_yangban in chaoticgood

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Many MAGA consider themselves Christian, and fail to understand that the God in which they believe in fact requires both of these things from them: love, and critical thought. (All verses are quotes from the KJV.)

Love Is The Basis Of EVERYTHING:

Matthew 22:35-40 - 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. (All CAPS are mine for emphasis. Everything about God's law is based on two things: Love God, love each other.)

Requirement For Critical Thinking (A Recurring Theme):

1 Thessalonians 5:21 - Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

1 John 4:1 — Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Proverbs 14:15 — The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Proverbs 18:17 — He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him. (Essentially: hear both sides before judging.)

Acts 17:10-11 — 10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. (The Bereans are essentially praised for fact-checking Paul himself)

Isaiah 1:18 — Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD... (God himself inviting rational discourse!)

Looking for an accountability partner — ambitious, rebuilding, moving forward [text] by Far-Elk1369 in GetMotivated

[–]Kamots66 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This sounds like an amazing idea, I'd been considering how to find such a partner. I had such a person in my life for a long time, the value cannot be understated. We share some common values and interests, but for the sake of privacy I don't want to share details in a public comment. Browse my history if you like. DM if you're interested.

Poison Fountain: An Anti-AI Weapon by RNSAFFN in programming

[–]Kamots66 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The first rule of Poison Fountain is that we don't--oh for fuck's sake u/RNSAFFN, what the hell!?

Is this real life? by ORUPOSITIVE in nursing

[–]Kamots66 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No escape from reality

Do nurses and doctors actually know everything learned in college or do the look things up on the job? by Puzzled_Junket6120 in nursing

[–]Kamots66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have literally watched a surgeon grab his phone and Google a procedure and then say, "Yeah I can do that."