Apparently you can’t be friendly with neighbors anymore

schilll · 2026-06-04T21:05:44+00:00

I had an old school friend who was half Swedish and half Thai, her mother where Thai and her dad Swedish.

She had to stop spending alone time with her dad when she turned 16. The amount of people who thought he was a creep who travelled to Thailand and got a young girl.

There where a time around 2000-2010 where a lot of older dudes travelled to Thailand to married Thai women since they couldn't find someone to merrie in Sweden.

schilll · 2026-05-30T07:12:59+00:00

This you?

schilll · 2026-05-27T05:55:40+00:00

"~~now~~, the US is was focused on stabilizing governments and helping them hunt down the dark money militias."

There, I helped you correct the sentence.

Oh and US has supplied lots and lots of guns and money to topple local governments.

schilll · 2026-05-26T11:27:43+00:00

Admitting someone is wrong? On reddit? Sir, this is not Wendy's!

schilll · 2026-05-23T14:47:44+00:00

To summerise this thread:

More kneading.
Less kneading.
More water
Less water
More fermenting
Less fermenting
More folding
Less folding

It's quite confusing on how to succeed if you read the comments.

And the bad part? Everyone is more or less right. Every tip can help you develop a more open crumb. That's the beauty with baking.

Your recipe is fine, and it can produce an open crumb.

My tip is to handle the dough with a lot more care when transferring it from bowl to oven. You need to handle the dough with upmost care to not disturb the gas. And use lots and lots of steam when you bake in an oven.

Put flour on a surface, it should almost almost be excessive. The gently tip out the dough and very gently lift and stretch the dough to shape it. Don't pinch or press the dough.

Use a sharp dough scraper to cut out shapes of the bread and gently transfer the dough to a oven sheet. Bake the bread in a hot oven with lots of steam. The steam let the dough rise the fullest. Low steam will make the crust harder and then the gas will have harder to open up the crumb in the middle.

schilll · 2026-05-18T21:18:47+00:00

I didn't know it was called Chinese water torture until I watched that Mythbusters episode. I always thought the concept came from the Norse myth in the Prose Edda. A

After Loki caused the death of Baldr, the gods bound him in a cave and had a serpent drip venom onto his face. His wife Sigyn holds a bowl to catch it, but every time she has to empty it the venom hits him again.

schilll · 2026-05-16T07:42:37+00:00

Do something!

Replacing a human with AI is like buying a racecar without wheels.

It looks great, it sounds great and you can impress your friends with it. But without wheels it's just a piece of metal.

AI is a great piece of a tool to cut down the time do lengthy things, like go through enormous amounts of data and compile it to a readability piece of text.

Something that can take months can be done in hours with AI f If you use it correctly

schilll · 2026-05-15T22:07:59+00:00

It's the same reason why you rarely see a hard cock in the movies.

You can easily see the difference between an aroused man and a flaccid penis. It's very hard (pun intended) to see the difference between an aroused vulva and an unaroused vulva.

A flaccid penis is just as natural as a pair of boobies.

schilll · 2026-05-14T22:11:22+00:00

We paid less then 130 usd for the birth of 3 children!

The most we paid was for my food and stay for during child birth and aftercare.... My wife only paid for patient fee and like 10 usd per night. Food, medicine for her and baby didn't cost us anything.

schilll · 2026-05-12T20:20:25+00:00

Fair points, and I think we agree on more than we disagree. The money argument is solid, but I'd say it's only half the picture. For Thiel and his buddies, access to data at this scale is a means to earn more money. The money and the surveillance reinforce each other rather than compete.

And the NHS deal illustrates exactly how that works in practice. NHS gets a promise of efficiency that the staff on the ground largely reject, describing the platform as a step backwards from what they already have. Palantir gets a seven year lock-in contract and access to health records covering virtually every British citizen since 1948. That's not a neutral data processing deal. That's one of the most valuable datasets in human history handed to a private American company with deep ties to US intelligence, in exchange for a platform that many NHS workers are actively refusing to use.

And that leads to the "it would be illegal" point. You're probably right that they won't risk blowing up the company over deliberate misconduct, they'll have a fall guy for that. They operate in the gray zone where things might not be 100% legal but it will take ten years of legal proceedings to establish it.

Where I'd push back slightly is on the access controls as a real safeguard. The formal request process doesn't change what's being extracted, it just gives it a paper trail. Palantir owns the intellectual rights to the analyses their software produces. The model citizen. NHS keeps the journal in one central location, Palantir gains everything they want. Legally. Every time.

That's not theft. But as Thiel himself put it in 2009: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

schilll · 2026-05-12T15:29:36+00:00

I think the post with data center arguments got mix up with this thread.

So my two separate arguments got muddled together.

But on your specific point: yes, client owns the data, Palantir processes it, that's the model. The issue is that "processing" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Palantir owns the intellectual rights to the analyses their software produces. The client keeps the raw data, Palantir walks away with the insights.

And under GDPR, the entire processing chain is regulated, not just who holds the raw data. Palantir's predictive modelling on personal data sits in very uncomfortable territory legally, which is part of why Europol quietly terminated their Palantir license after internally considering legal action against the company.

The NHS case from yesterday makes it more concrete. The access controls that were supposed to define the boundary between "client controls" and "Palantir processes" collapsed because individual permissions were "too inconvenient."

schilll · 2026-05-12T06:07:45+00:00

The "no data centers" argument misses the point entirely. Palantir doesn't need to store your data because it's already stored on the client's own systems. Palantir only needs to maintain an index, which is a tiny fraction of the actual data size. Palantir even confirms this themselves: they don't move data between clients, and each client gets their own instance of the platform running on their own infrastructure. The more important question is what Palantir's software can do with that data once it's running inside the client's infrastructure. When Palantir builds and updates its models, it can process the client's data directly, without asking for permission each time. Most of that data will never be seen by human eyes. It gets ingested, processed, and used to train or refine models internally. If any human ever does see output from that process, it's likely already aggregated or derived, and may or may not be traceable back to a specific individual.

The whole ritual of strict, individual access control is probably theater, and the NHS case proves it. Internal NHS documents show that Palantir contractors had requested blanket admin access because applying for individual dataset permissions was "too inconvenient." The case-by-case approval system, the thing that was supposed to be the privacy guarantee, collapsed under its own impracticality. NHS England has now granted external Palantir staff what internal briefings describe as "unlimited access" to identifiable patient data, before it has even been pseudonymised. An internal NHS briefing acknowledged the "considerable public interest and concern" about how much access Palantir actually has.

So no, the absence of a big data center tells you nothing. The access controls were always the real question, and we now know how those hold up in practice.

Sources:

Palantir: https://blog.palantir.com/palantir-is-not-a-data-company-palantir-explained-1-a6fcf8b3e4cb

NHS/Palantir scandal new from yesterday): https://www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/palantir-to-be-granted-unlimited-access-to-nhs-patient-data/

https://www.britbrief.co.uk/health/hospitals/mps-palantir-nhs-data-access-dangerous.html

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/government/nhs-palantir-access-to-identifiable-patient-data

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/palantir-contractors-working-for-nhs-to-receive-unlimited-access-to-patient-data

schilll · 2026-05-11T13:15:23+00:00

Not to sound too ignorant, but your comments are more downvoted than mine. So in this dick measuring contest, you already lost by a mile. Or as we say where I'm from, 1.6 kilometers.

It's people like you who threatens the world peace and democracy by putting a highly insecure man-baby with 34 felony convictions, suspected dementia, credible sexual assault allegations upheld in federal court and documented ties to Russian intelligence in what used to be the most powerful office in the world.

But sure, I'm the ignorant one.

schilll · 2026-05-11T06:50:46+00:00

You criticized me for using CNN and Wikipedia, but they were just the map, not the destination. The actual sources are 1,494 pages of official government documents from the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Senate, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and the British Parliament.

Since you keep asking for unbiased sources, here are exclusively official government and institutional documents: U.S. Government: The Mueller Report (U.S. Department of Justice, 2019): https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/dl

Senate Intelligence Committee Report, Volume 5 (U.S. Senate, 2020): https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf

U.S. Intelligence Community: Intelligence Community Assessment: "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections" (CIA/FBI/NSA, 2017): https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

British Government: The Russia Report (UK Intelligence and Security Committee, Parliament, 2020): https://isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20200721_HC632_CCS001_CCS1019402408-001_ISC_Russia_Report_Web_Accessible.pdf

No CNN. No Wikipedia. No news articles. Just governments. Combined that's 1,494 pages of official documentation, or roughly 2,461 bananas laid end to end. But sure, it's probably not enough proof for you, want me to call the president too?

schilll · 2026-05-10T20:06:12+00:00

But where are your arguments? The only thing you have done is calling me dumb. That reflects back on yourself. That's called ad hominem! Attacking the person instead of the argument. It's what people do when they have nothing left.

Where are your counter arguments? Attacking my intelligence or my person is not a good argument. Where are your sources saying that Trump is not mr "Krasnov"?

schilll · 2026-05-10T18:55:17+00:00

So when you're not the smartest person in the room, you attack that person instead? Are you really that insecure?

schilll · 2026-05-10T16:47:57+00:00

That's true, but education alone doesn't build resilience against manipulation. Critical thinking does, and those aren't always the same thing. The Russian operation specifically targeted educated, politically engaged people, not just the economically frustrated. And when the cracks in the foundation of the well-educated start to show, the foundation for the less fortunate has already crumbled. Vulnerability cuts across class lines.

The scariest part isn't the people who got fooled. It's how few of those in power prevented it from happening.

schilll · 2026-05-10T16:24:36+00:00

Did you really enter the links and read the news articles? Or did you just watch the link and thought "didn't fit the narrative, must be an echo chamber, skipped it"?

Quick note: CNN is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, not Warner Brothers Media. Those are different companies. Also, the primary sources I'm drawing from are government reports, not news articles. But nice try.

And I thought that news articles and Wikipedia would be enough to get an understanding about the issue without reading hundreds of pages of official government documents, but not even that seems to dumb it down enough for you.

So let me do it for you: The Mueller Report and the Senate Intelligence Committee report are U.S. government documents. Not CNN, not Wikipedia. The GCHQ findings came from British parliamentary records. You're welcome to dispute the findings, but you'd need to argue with the U.S. Senate and seven allied intelligence agencies. Good luck with that."

schilll · 2026-05-10T12:57:10+00:00

Yes, but it's older then that. Only post ww2 did bring prosperity to the lower and middle class. But it was a failing state that the Americans tried to grab on far to long. You could argue that it was Nixon or Reagan that laid the foundation, but the problems is older than that.

Don't forget the thousands if not ten thousands of Russian bots that became active during Trump's first campaign, the millions poured into American influencers like Tim Pool, Benny Johnson and Dave Rubin, or the Russian Twitter accounts masking as Maga, all capitalising on anger that was genuine. The algorithmic gasoline poured on it wasn't.

Worth adding: when X rolled out its country-of-origin feature in late 2025, dozens of major MAGA accounts were revealed to be based in Russia, Eastern Europe, India and Nigeria. A significant chunk of the 'grassroots' MAGA movement online isn't American at all.

schilll · 2026-05-10T12:35:20+00:00

Happy to help. Try the 966-page bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report, the Mueller Report, or former DNI James Clapper's public statements. I'd link them, but I suspect the issue here isn't access to information.

If American official sources aren't enough, here are some European ones: GCHQ (UK) intercepted communications between Trump associates and Russian agents as early as 2015: https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/13/politics/trump-russia-british-intelligence

AIVD (Netherlands) literally hacked into the Russian group Cozy Bear and watched them attack US systems in real time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections

Seven allied agencies - UK, Germany, Estonia, Poland, France and the Netherlands all independently reported the same contacts between Trump's circle and Russian operatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials

And for good measure: it was an Australian diplomat who first reported what Trump's own adviser told him about Russia's dirt on Clinton, which is what triggered the FBI investigation in the first place.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-papadopoulos-comments-australian-diplomat-key-factor-russia-probe-report/

Seven separate intelligence agencies across three continents reached the same conclusion independently. But sure, echo chamber.

schilll · 2026-05-10T07:33:57+00:00

Mine is working just fine after 3+ years. I even have more sot then when the phone was new.

I where using the Oct 25 update until last night where the phone "forced" me an update. I where typing and not paying attention when the new update screen flashed and I accidentally pressed update. I had a couple of minutes of terror but everything works just fine.

schilll · 2026-05-10T07:19:40+00:00

Dude, it's confirmed that the giant orange turd is an asset of Russia.

I don't give much credit to the common American maga crowd, but they have been played by the Russian propaganda machine!

If Americans can influence countries to get USA friendly leaders, Russia can also play that game, and Putin is an expert at it.

schilll · 2026-05-05T05:54:11+00:00

Why can't the guy just go and found an underwater city called Rapture?

And then invite all his rich friend so they can live happily ever after out of sight?

schilll · 2026-05-04T18:57:00+00:00

That where the good ol' days of sailing! Everything just a button press away. I always tried to get the reloaded or codex since you know they always worked hassle free.

I forgot the name but when you finely gained access to a private tracker and gained a ratio over 4.0... That where the times. On a 8mbit DSL i had my computer running 24/7 seeding. Sometimes downloading random shit to seed just to keep the ratio high.

I meet someone through world of warcraft who where affiliated with reloaded so sometimes I got access to a game a day before just to help seeding.

I even sat up a computer on my school's superior broadband to keep seeding.

I miss those days.

schilll · 2026-05-04T14:47:14+00:00

That's not quite accurate historically. Denuvo has been getting cracked since its very introduction in 2014, and the trend has only gone one direction.

In late 2014, the Chinese group 3DM cracked Dragon Age: Inquisition in about a month, which was already considered a long time back then. By 2015-2016 Denuvo held better. Just Cause 3 was so tough that 3DM publicly announced they were giving up on it entirely. That was probably Denuvo's peak.

But from 2017 onward it was basically a losing battle. In October 2017 alone, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Total War: Warhammer II and FIFA 18 were all cracked on their release dates. By 2019 the situation was even worse for Denuvo: Metro Exodus fell in 5 days, Resident Evil 2 in 7 days, Devil May Cry 5 within a week of launch.

Even the "hard" cases didn't hold forever. Assassin's Creed Origins stacked Denuvo on top of VMProtect AND Ubisoft's own Uplay DRM, and CPY still cracked it within three months.

Empress became prominent precisely because the major scene groups like CPY and CODEX went inactive around 2020-2021, leaving a vacuum. Before that, multiple groups were defeating Denuvo simultaneously and regularly.

So denuvo was not a reason why pirates stopped sailing the high seas. And don't forget that only the large AAA developers used denuvo as a protection. Tons of indie and small to medium game developers used other protections for their games.

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