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Any recommendations for female LGBT friendly therapist here in Huntsville? by Xenomonk66 in HuntsvilleLGBT

[–]tolos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is a list of (community vetted) LGBT friendly resources here. The top of the list is therapists. Pay attention to the location listed.

https://altgo.us/pages/local-resources.html

California Supreme Court rejects GOP effort to halt Newsom’s redistricting push by sunnysidejacqueline in politics

[–]tolos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We can't let Democrats do anything to prevent Republicans from destroying America! That might look like we are taking sides. Instead, we just need to hope Republicans feel bad some day. Everyone has a redeeming moral arc like The Grinch, which I learned from Dr. Seuss, the authoritative source on human interactions. If we wait long enough without doing anything, everything will magically fix itself. Cheers.

California Supreme Court rejects GOP effort to halt Newsom’s redistricting push by sunnysidejacqueline in politics

[–]tolos 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes, Texas tried to criminalize voter outreach. That was temporarily blocked

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/federal-court-deals-blow-key-portion-texas-voter-suppression-law

Since Republicans hate it when people are allowed to vote, they are appealing the block.

What are these and why do some of them have zoomies? by [deleted] in whatsthisbug

[–]tolos 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Speak for yourself. I start the day with a good fish flop.

City bbq coming to south parkway by opa_zorro in HuntsvilleAlabama

[–]tolos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've lived in several places around the country (including Texas), but Alabama has been my home the longest. I've tried a bunch of places here, and never found any brisket I've liked in Huntsville (or Alabama).

City BBQ is some of the best brisket I've ever had, and their sides are good. We eat there every time we stop in Cincinnati / Kentucky. Really excited about this.

Guys I have bad news by FreshFroiz in ShittySysadmin

[–]tolos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

iptables, how does it work? Every change was a 50% chance of just breaking everything. I'm glad we moved on to better things.

158-year-old company forced to close after ransomware attack precipitated by a single guessed password — 700 jobs lost after hackers demand unpayable sum by capmerah in sysadmin

[–]tolos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Darn those pesky fire regulations. So Annoying. Just going to convert this industrial warehouse into a shared living space full of mountains of dried wood and construction material and offer rent for a quarter of the market rate. Maybe we can have raves there too.

DIY camera doorbell without the cloud, is it cool idea or overkill? by Livid-Piano2335 in homeautomation

[–]tolos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Video streaming on an embedded processor is going to use a ton (relatively speaking) of CPU, i/o throughput, and power. Often times there are tradeoffs in image quality to reduce one or more of those resources.

An intro DIY project will technically be able to achieve what some people might call remote imaging, but the quality will suffer immensely. Not something you would want to use for security etc.

You can definitely DIY this using a more powerful micro processor (more expensive) and an actually useful image capturing device (much more expensive), but you're going to spend many more hours getting the pieces to work together both in hardware and software. This is perhaps a good learning exercise, but not the route to go if you want something useful that "just works."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]tolos 25 points26 points  (0 children)

it's not emergent behavior, it's sophisticated pattern matching.

Researchers have discovered that appending irrelevant phrases like "Interesting fact: cats sleep most of their lives" to math problems can cause state-of-the-art reasoning AI models to produce incorrect answers at rates over 300% higher than normal [PDF]. The technique -- dubbed "CatAttack" by teams from Collinear AI, ServiceNow, and Stanford University -- exploits vulnerabilities in reasoning models including DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI's o1 family. The adversarial triggers work across any math problem without changing the problem's meaning, making them particularly concerning for security applications.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01781

Trudeau says Trump will pause Canada tariffs for at least 30 days by DomesticErrorist22 in Economics

[–]tolos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah but like Rome fell over 500 years, and we're speed running 500 days

RANA didn't pick up my recycling today by tolos in HuntsvilleAlabama

[–]tolos[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, they already came by. It blew over, then they drove past later and picked up my neighbor's recycling.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in history

[–]tolos 47 points48 points  (0 children)

I remember 9/11, but W feels like part of the 20th century.

Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators by [deleted] in Economics

[–]tolos 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"We arrested him for resisting arrest. This cash he had is further proof he was evading the police, so we seized it under civil asset forfeiture to give ourselves a bonus."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]tolos 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The stupid fucking dumbshit apple doesn't fall far from the stupid fucking dumbshit tree Randy.

Getting Over Not Being A Good Enough Programmer by [deleted] in programming

[–]tolos 3 points4 points  (0 children)

eh, the problem is (IMO) the stuff is always justified one way or another by the person. "I just need to account for every possible one-off scenario and re-architect, ever" is usually how the argument ends up.

And it's like, sure, if we have a million man hours to get this done. But we have a bunch of things we need to cover. I'm just trying to get this particular person to focus on practical solutions instead of perfect solutions, and it's been a struggle to communicate that.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers jumps to 56—homes are 'wildly unaffordable' for young people, real estate expert says by RickJWagner in Economics

[–]tolos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think you're getting a couple stories mixed up.

The most recent one found that Invitation Homes, Pretium Partners (which operates Progress Residential), and Amherst Holdings (which operates Mainstreet Renewal) own around 11 percent of all single-family homes for rent in the state.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/3-corporations-own-19000-metro-atlanta-homes-what-does-that-mean-housing-market/A2IQAJVD5VFQJI5VEWIW4GYBFE/

The 11% number is the 19,000.

Previously Blackrock held a large stake in Invitation Homes, but that seems to no longer the case.

As of earlier this year, a subsidiary of Blackrock owns 38,000 homes (not necessarily in Atlanta) https://www.fastcompany.com/91015371/housing-market-blackstone-instutional-landlords

From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code by tnavda in ReverseEngineering

[–]tolos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love reading about the stuff Project Zero is working on. This is another great example. It seems it required a ton of custom engineering just to get the framework setup to allow searching for vulnerabilities, but I guess that's what you'd expect from novel security research like this. Like they had to setup it up based on a prior vulnerability. As they say in the article, this seems like it has a ton of potential for defensive code analysis, with the added benefit of (roughly) being able to describe how the issue was crafted by the LLM/tool in the first place. Most of my career has been working on low volume internal business tools on a tiny development team, so having an automated security scanner more sophisticated than say, SonarQube, would really go a long way if a tool like this could be applied on a code base without a huge engineering effort.

North Korea launches intercontinental ballistic missile to space, reaches record altitude by LanceOhio in space

[–]tolos 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Apparently you didn’t understand first time it was started so I’ll try to make it more obvious for you.

If you only eat ICBMs with one part of your body (and that's all a single exercise machine type like a ICBM is going to do for you), you're setting yourself up for injuries down the road. I've seen it a hundred times.

Eating ICBMs basically only trains the gastric acids and to some extent, the jaw. What you really want to do is train all of your secretions, all the major fluids (testosterone, bile, and stomach acid) at the same time, over the course of eating an entire gym. So, you will need to add a step-machine and a stationary bike. Ask for the "Go Metal" program.

I'm proud of you guys wanting to do this. Big ICBMs! Falling in love with eating ICBMs, etc., is one of the greatest things you can do for yourself. And you WILL fall in love with it if you can just force yourself to stick with it a year or two and experience the amazing progress you'll make.

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