idk how to do multi line spoilers lol

letters = ['','a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z', 'A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M','N','O','P','Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z']

total_score = 0

team = []

for line in open("input.txt"):
    team.append(line.strip())

for i in range(2, len(team), 3):
    for letter in team[i]:
        if letter in team[i-2] and letter in team[i-1]:
            total_score += letters.index(letter)
            break

print(total_score)

some real caveman shit but it works

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— Reddit (@Reddit) November 29, 2023

https://www.redditinc.com/blog/evolving-the-reddit-brand-a-more-accessible-bespoke-typography-new-conversation-bubbles-and-colors-and-a-new-snoo-logo-now-with-opposable-thumbs

is there any low the nanny state will not stoop to

some actual drama here

https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1387063023521595394

and in the quote tweets

https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1387063023521595394/retweets/with_comments

I actually stayed up to get a semi-decent score for once (being a eurocel for this is suffering). How are you all faring with shifting boxes around?

Shoutout to the Wikipediocracy user "Tarantino" for bringing this to my attention.

Here's Sherrod's Twitter. She's now a woketard.

What should I put on them?

!schizomaxxxers !codecels !friendsofmimwee discuss

It's a big day.
Glaze, our tool for protecting artists against AI art mimicry, is now available for download/use at https://t.co/8ffUCS4fUo

Glaze analyzes your art, and generates a modified version (with barely visible changes). This "cloaked" image disrupts AI mimicry process.

— Ben Zhao (@ravenben) March 15, 2023

Who will win in the end?

thelayoff.com's thread

r/nova thread

Yandex reports [1] that renaming their Chromium-based browser's GPU process name to "chrome.exe" decreases GPU process crashes 5x and memory consumption by 8% when AMD drivers are used. Why? Driver authors hardcode chrome.exe and optimize for Chrome.😠
[1] https://t.co/0rQC22N3Co

— BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) March 17, 2023

https://adventofcode.com/

Advent of Code is an annual coding competition/event with daily challenges. Even complete beginners can keep up for the first few days as the difficulty slowly ramps up.

Join the rDrama leaderboard and see how you compare to your fellow dramanauts with the following code:

632268-20c7d1d5

Enter it here https://adventofcode.com/2022/leaderboard/private

I am not sure there are any that I can think of that completely changed how we were doing things. It feels like for the past seven years all we have been getting are fads as such or small iterative changes but nothing that suddenly made things way better or easier. Nothing on the level of the smartphone, or Uber taxi services, or even teslas.

I would love to hear your examples for some consumer level tech jumps if you got any, because as far as I can tell the past decade is a list of stuff that is all stuck in the development phase rather than the market phase as of now and will still take a few more years to take off.

So did we make any consumer level progress in the near past or not?

orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38831950

Abe-bros, we're failing him

Discuss.

https://archived.moe/biz/catalog

Currently 88 cents to the dollar.

Talent shortage is acute in the IT and data science ecosystem in India with a survey claiming that 95 per cent of engineers in the country are not fit to take up software development jobs.

According to a study by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds, only 4.77 per cent candidates can write the correct logic for a programme — a minimum requirement for any programming job.

Over 36,000 engineering students form IT related branches of over 500 colleges took Automata — a Machine Learning based assessment of software development skills — and over 2/3 could not even write code that compiles.

The study further noted that while more than 60 per cent candidates cannot even write code that compiles, only 1.4 per cent can write functionally correct and efficient code.

Following the open-source release of Stable Diffusion, photos of violently beaten Asian women generated by Stable Diffusion were posted in online chat rooms. Reports also indicate that several 4chan threads have been dedicated to Stable Diffusion-generated pornography, some of which portray real people. In a message posted to users of the Stable Diffusion Groomercord, Stability AI Founder and CEO Emad Mostaque said to Stable Diffusion users, “If you want to make NSFW [Not Suitable for Work] or offensive things make it on your own GPUs when the model is released.” Mr. Mostaque then went on to tell users which GPUs were compatible with its model for the sake of using it to generate illicit content , content Mr. Mostaque knew or should have known would likely include illegal content.

Statement here: https://www.diamwall.com/blog/service-continuation-of-kiwi-farms

EDIT: http://kiwifarms.st/ appears to be spotty, sometimes getting a "page could not be loaded" error on top of the 502s

Service Continuation Of Kiwi Farms...

My name is Hugo Carvalho and I'm the CEO of DiamWall, today I'm bringing an important statement that I never thought I would need to do anytime soon.

About our CDN...

Before even starting to talk about Kiwi Farms I think it is important to let people know what a CDN is and does.

We are only a proxy that filters website traffic and blocks malicious requests, we DO NOT host any website, we ARE NOT responsible for any website's content and we CANNOT control every service's content.

Everyone is free to register an account at our website, pay for the product and start using it. We DO NOT and CANNOT analyze every single website that starts using our services.

DiamWall is completely new in this market (we opened to the public one month ago) and this is not a good way to start for sure, nor is it the way that we wanted to start.

DiamWall was formed by a small group of people that worked for many years in this area with private customers and we created the best Anti-DDoS technologies that ever existed.

Now that you understand how it works, let's talk about Kiwi Farms...

The owner of Kiwi Farms came in need of DDoS Protection and because their website was offline due to DDoS, we didn't really know about their website's content. They had a PROBLEM and we had the SOLUTION.

Soon enough the reports started to arrive and we started digging more and more about this website, soon enough we found that Kiwi Farms hosts a lot of revolting content.

We do not think that is fair to terminate any service because of public pressure but in this case, we think there is some foundation behind all those requests and we really do not want to have anything to do with it.

So, after careful consideration, DiamWall does not feel like Kiwi Farms is a good fit for our company, which means that today we are SUSPENDING their service inside DiamWall's CDN.

Please be AWARE that this will not fix the issue, only delay it, they will find another provider that can protect them and will be online once again.

Best Regards,

Hugo Carvalho,

DiamWall CEO