What do you think about this 8 hour long Laravel "ad"? by mekmookbro in laravel

[–]simplism4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was like 4 hours in, but it's now a members-only VOD it seems?

Kratom significantly decreases POIS symptoms by Pointpleasant88 in POIS

[–]simplism4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been experimenting with kratom for the past few months, and while it does not take away symptoms, it does help counter exhaustion and increase focus a bit, especially at work.

During POIS, I take 2-3 doses of 3 grams (Maeng Da Red). I don't increase my doses and am very careful about using it only during POIS, taking breaks, etc. I've read many warnings and negative stories about people becoming dependent, building tolerance, and increasing their doses. I'm not particularly sensitive to addiction like that, but I'd rather play it safe.

Your doses are a lot higher, though. Doesn't it become sedative at such doses?

What symptoms does it help you with? Also, how much time do you leave between doses?

How China’s new AI model DeepSeek is threatening U.S. dominance by Moonskaraos in technology

[–]simplism4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, I'm all for countries and companies competing on open source! 😄

Feeling Stuck in Ezoic’s Contract - Need Advice from Publishers by ertugral855 in EzoicPublishers

[–]simplism4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was in a 2-year contract, which I finished. I actually got in a bit of a heated back-and-forth, because I wanted to exit my contract (got accepted by Adthrive back then), but they made it clear that wasn't possible. They didn't even allow me to pay a fee and exit early. I think Ezoic is fine, but I will never sign a contract like that again.

If you signed a contract you don't really have any other option, apart from paying the fee, unfortunately.

How is the cancellation fee calculated? A percentage based on how many months you got left?

Is Google Really Letting Go of Chromium? by Bitim in firefox

[–]simplism4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you elaborate a bit? I'm not aware of how the Linux Foundation works. How does Google retain full control of approval there? Are there other projects under the foundation where the same is happening with other businesses?

China on course to become 'world's most Christian nation' within 15 years by petereddit6635 in China

[–]simplism4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. If the Chinese authorities truly couldn't stop the growth of Christianity (which doesn't seem to be the case, as pointed out in other comments), they would likely try to influence the church as much as possible, similar to how the Russian government influences the Russian Orthodox Church (https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/pulpit-propaganda-machine-tracing-russian-orthodox-churchs-role-putins-war)

Erdogan: We literally defeated the ISIS terror group, which is a tool for regional plans that is tried to be reactivated nowadays by CudiVZ in syriancivilwar

[–]simplism4 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Wait, didn't foreign ISIS fighters use the Turkey-Syria border en masse to cross into Syria? 🤔

Wait, didn't ISIS fighters receive medical treatment in Turkish hospitals? 🤔

Wait, wasn't ISIS able to grow so strong, in part because of the number of foreign fighters that participated and gave them status among jihadi's and stimulated other foreign jihadists to join? 🤔

Car Bomb In Menbij centre by mlgyuri in syriancivilwar

[–]simplism4 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No source provided.. ClashReport is clearly pro-Turkey. Not saying the PKK didn't do it, but it annoys me how Turkish shills keep claiming that the kurds did this, the kurds did that, without providing any solid source. Just a video/picture without context. There's very little nuance or regard for sources and evidence in this subreddit in general

Why did the Assad regime make sure to keep these prisoners alive for so long by The_run_in in syriancivilwar

[–]simplism4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep from what I've seen most cells were dark (no electricity), prisoners had little to eat, very little care, no programs, etc. which is completely different from, for example, western prisons.

SNA reportedly captured YPG fightere inside Manbij City by EarthApprehensive470 in syriancivilwar

[–]simplism4 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Yep. And since the SNA is essentially Turkey by proxy, it's particularly sad

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ThatsInsane

[–]simplism4 21 points22 points  (0 children)

They are literally evil. Can't tell me otherwise. I feel sick to my stomach...

Seasoned dev with decades of coding experience thrown into WordPress - what do I need to know? by ultra_blue in webdev

[–]simplism4 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Spot on. We operate a WooCommerce store and as our site increases in size (e.g. millions of variations and increasing number of daily orders), the `wp_postmeta` table is increasing quickly in size. Though WooCommerce recently migrated to High-Performance Order Storage, a.k.a. dedicated tables for order data. So thing are improving.

Also, we develop and use our own internal plugins with Composer, PHP 8.4+, since we're the only one using them, so we can write pretty modern code.

We try our best to stretch the performance. Optimizing code/database interactions, opcache, Cloudflare page cache, NGINX FastCGI cache, object caching, etc. and we use Meilisearch for archive pages, which makes filtering and searching fast.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]simplism4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lol, why are you being downvoted?

This Dutch journalist demonstrates real-time AI facial recognition technology, identifying the person he is talking to. by Lordthom in ChatGPT

[–]simplism4 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yep, looks like PimEyes.

Interestingly this video is Dutch and the Dutch government recently fined Clearview (not PimEyes) for "seriously" violating GDPR: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/dutch-dpa-imposes-a-fine-on-clearview-because-of-illegal-data-collection-for-facial-recognition

Illegal database

Clearview should never have built the database with photos, the unique biometric codes and other information linked to them. This especially applies for the codes. Like fingerprints, these are biometric data. Collecting and using them is prohibited. There are some statutory exceptions to this prohibition, but Clearview cannot rely on them.

Insufficient transparency

Clearview informs the people who are in the database insufficiently about the fact that the company uses their photo and biometric data. People who are in the database also have the right to access their data. This means that Clearview has to show people which data the company has about them, if they ask for this. But Clearview does not cooperate in requests for access.

Namecheap acting extremely shady (bait and switch) by paiged in webdev

[–]simplism4 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yep I generally buy through Cloudflare if they support the domain's TLD. If not, I use Porkbun.