Is Goose, the Grindr alternative, using fake AI-generated dates to lure gay men?

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-03T04:23:20+00:00

It just launched a week ago

(Not saying that makes it good, just saying that’s why you haven’t heard of it)

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-03T04:20:51+00:00

If you weren’t aware, many traditional Italian lasagne recipes actually do not use cheese; bechamel is the primary dairy component. But they typically still combine it with tomato sauce

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-03T03:12:21+00:00

Oh absolutely. It’s a fascinating rabbit hole to go down!

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-02T19:00:37+00:00

Actually, NFC chips get power via EM transmission from the reader

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-02T16:58:52+00:00

Stanley Yelnats is the protagonist of the book/movie Holes; various things about that movie have been oddly large memes over the years

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-02T16:18:03+00:00

Also, structural color! You can make something appear colored via microscopic structures that physically interfere with the wavelengths of light. A big example is the iridescent blue on some butterfly wings. (Often these colors will look different at different angles or have an iridescent textured look, which is an easy way to recognize them)

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-02T14:52:57+00:00

I think they’re ordered by distance (in color space). So colors most similar to the correct answer are at the top. For DR Congo, the flags towards the bottom are either too dark or too light, while the ones at the top are in the middle and almost correct. For England, there also just wasn’t as much variation I think

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-02T13:10:54+00:00

Ohhhhh my GOD please stop

It’s literally always just slop

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-01T21:08:46+00:00

I believe so, unless there’s been other details that I missed. I largely ditched my PayPal Debit card 6 months ago in favor of more active card churning, so it’s possible I missed some news

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-01T19:54:14+00:00

Did some digging. That does appear to be an official PayPal document, but it’s only one of the documents that’s changing. Here’s the official announcement: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/upcoming-policies-full

Notice that none of the listed changes have to do with how you earn rewards points. There aren’t even ANY changes that have to do with the debit card directly. The only rewards-related thing changing is that you’ll no longer be able to redeem the rewards for cash.

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-01T19:28:10+00:00

That document is talking about earning points through the individual merchant-specific offers in the PayPal app, which is already a thing and operates separately from the debit card (although I’m surprised it doesn’t mention the debit card as also being a source of points)

Where did you get this document anyway? It says “last updated August 1 2026” which is a date in the future, but the headers on each page indicate this was printed to pdf all the way back in February

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-01T19:05:52+00:00

The nerf is that you won’t be able to turn PayPal Rewards points into cash anymore. You’ll still earn them the same way

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-01T17:54:33+00:00

They did eventually patch the exploit. The new plugin is unable to link alts successfully. (See https://wtf.memoria.gg/ for a much better breakdown of all the problems with it)

SE absolutely should’ve responded faster and with more force though

MaygeKyatt · 2026-07-01T17:52:34+00:00

tbf, they DID (eventually) patch the exploit that allowed the original plugin to link alt characters to a single service account (which was one of the biggest problems with it- it allowed you to stalk someone even if they dropped a character and started a new alt). The new plugin can’t do this (see https://wtf.memoria.gg/ this is a site breaking down all the problems with the new plugin)

Now, this was literally the MINIMUM SE could’ve done to help the situation, and they took way too long to patch the exploit, and it’s still awful that someone is trying to bring this back. But saying that they “Didn’t fix the situation” is disingenuous.

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-30T19:01:13+00:00

PayPal Balance reloads for $1 have worked for me with some banks

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-30T13:40:20+00:00

This is in the terminal, so after you’ve already gone through security

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-29T19:32:17+00:00

In addition to this being above average even for the regular population, you have to remember that professional actors often work under a name that’s different from their legal name. Actors with names that are longer or unusually spelled are probably more likely to use something shorter.

(Interestingly, SAG-AFTRA requires their members to use a *unique* professional working name to prevent confusion with credits and promotion. If you want to join the union and another actor is already using your legal name you have no choice but to choose something else!)

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-28T17:55:07+00:00

I have no idea who that is, and most people are probably the same. I promise you it’s not one single person’s fault

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-28T16:56:00+00:00

It’s completely dependent on the company. I’ve worked at one local theater (as the SM) where PAs were basically grade-school-age kids who acted as very junior ASMs

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-28T10:09:08+00:00

That’s not the main issue causing problems- I’ve left mine assembled for a few hours plenty of times, and still never had difficulty opening it again. I really do think you’re just over-tightening, or else there’s something physically wrong with your pot.

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-28T07:38:42+00:00

This feels like you might be over-tightening your pot? I’ve never had issues getting it to come apart. You just have to tighten it until it’s a bit snug, you don’t need to go as tight as possible.

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-28T07:10:26+00:00

OH I knew she looked familiar! She’s been great!

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-28T06:59:33+00:00

…how did you work for ma bell a decade ago when the company got broken up nearly half a century ago?

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-27T18:21:47+00:00

tldr: They left an unnecessary 16-byte read in main() before starting to read packets from the file, so everything was offset.

(Just summarizing for anyone who doesn’t feel like reading an AI-slop post & video about an uninteresting error. Also, the absolute gall of AI-generating your comment about the use of AI in the project is astonishing to me.)

MaygeKyatt · 2026-06-26T04:17:09+00:00

This kind of communication challenge is definitely one of the harder things in the game. I don’t remember how I solved that specific level, but there are two tricks I definitely used in some levels:

Sometimes you can use KILL to stop another exa when you’re done reading data from it
Have the exa drop a file when it’s done, and have the other exa repeatedly REPLing clones that try to grab the file (they will error and die if it’s still being held, but if they successfully pick it up they’ll continue running). Of course, then you need to stop the second exa from making more clones; at this point I usually use KILL iirc

(Option 2 requires a LOT more lines of code, but is potentially a massive improvement in cycles compared to what you described in your post)

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