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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

Intermittent fasting, aka time-restricted eating, can help people lose weight—but the reason why may not be complicated hypotheses about changes from fasting metabolism or diurnal circadian rhythms. It may just be because restricting eating time means people eat fewer calories overall.

No shit Sherlock. As always the article is boring and I won't post any of it here. Let's go -hunting in the top comments.

I think people find the "calories in vs calories out" rhetoric reductive is because it implies a simplicity that doesn't fit many people's lived experiences. Not everyone will absorb the same amount of calories after eating the same sandwich, or store the same quantity of calories in adipose, and not everyone will expend the same amount of calories when they jog for a particular distance of length of time. A person's microbiota influences caloric absorption. Hormones, epigenetics and genetics also play a role in metabolism. At rest, not all bodies use energy at the same rate. If we deprive the body of calories, not all bodies scale back the same expenditures at the same rate to conserve energy. So yes, calories in vs calories out is true, but not all true statements are helpful statements.

Yes, and what this study proves is that while it's always as simple as “fewer calories means less weight”, how the “fewer calories” happens isn't always “just eat less”.

Often the “eat less move more” is used incorrectly because of course it's technically true but most people when discussing diet are trying to talk about a method to eat less, move more.

It's always frustrating when talking about a technique of how to do X, only to have a bunch of people yelling “just do X!”.

Just eat less.

Also "most people when discussing diet are trying to talk about a method to eat less, move more" is bullshit. Most people when discussing diets are looking for some magical food that will cause them to lose weight. No one on a diet discusses how they should move more.

As the arrticle says, this does seem obvious (esp since Ive tried it myself) but as a (non-nutrition) scientist it would have been exciting had they found something unexpected. Sigh. But good work regardless.

BTW while calories in/calories out is absolutely true it's not automatically obvious how many calories you get from eating X. The rating on the box comes from burning food in a calorimeter! Meanwhile your body can extract calories more easily from a small piece of doughnut than from a large, fibrous chunk of broccoli, even if they have the same number of calories on the label. To say otherwise is like saying, “well all chemistry is quantum mechanics” — completely true, but mainly in-useful.

Thanks for that, scientist.

I do time-restricted eating, but that's because I have acid reflux. Don't want tp be slamming a double cheeseburger, fries, and a coke 1/2 hour before bed.

Acid reflux is the only thing stopping this guy from slamming a double cheeseburger, fries, and a coke 1/2 hour before bed. I wonder why he has acid reflux?

So very much this. The whole “CICO”/“it's just physics!” crowd is infuriating.

Like, yes, of course the key to losing weight is to consume less than you burn. But that is by itself not a sufficiently useful strategy for addressing a population-wide obesity crisis.

Preaching sexual abstinence doesn't solve unwanted pregnancy, and preaching food abstinence doesn't solve obesity. You want people to overcome their most basic biological drives, they need more than a Nike slogan.

"Noo we have to account for the fact that everyone is incredibly dumb"

I tried the whole "eat a big breakfast so you won't need such a big lunch" thing. Doesn't work for me. I just wind up with three big meals a day instead of two, if I do that.

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

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

Abe-bros, we're failing him

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1720843859054190639

He pulls this number from a reputable sources:

People debate whether this can be trusted

Famous San Francisco liberal pg = officially fash

——

she did the math

Considering 150% of Gazans are under 18 that means if 2k died then 3k are going to be children,

Israel did nothing wrong

NEW - Chinese scientists experimenting with a "mutant coronavirus strain" that is 100 percent lethal in "humanized" mice — Daily Mail pic.twitter.com/SJv5PP9xsZ

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 16, 2024

PrePrint: Lethal Infection of Human ACE2-Transgenic Mice Caused by SARS-CoV-2-1 related Pangolin Coronavirus GX_P2V(short_3UTR)

Daily Fail

Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100 percent lethal in mice — despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic.

Scientists in Beijing — who are linked to the Chinese military — cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX_P2V, and used it to infect mice.

The mice had been 'humanized', meaning they were engineered to express a protein found in people, with the goal being to assess how the virus might react in humans.

Every rodent that was infected with the pathogen died within eight days, which the researchers described as 'surprisingly' quick.

The team were also surprised to find high levels of viral load in the mice's brains and eyes - suggesting the virus, despite being related to Covid, multiplies and spreads through the body in a unique way.

r/prepperintel

LipStick Alley lol

I promise this will be my last VIRUS related post until the next time I post one.

Context: Multichain's CEO has been AWOL since May, leaving the rest of the team without access for server maintenance. There were early rumours that he was arrested by the Chinese government, but there's been no confirmation of that.

Yesterday, several of their contracts were drained to unknown addresses, with a total value of over $126m.

This is not the first time they've had trouble - they were hacked in 2022, but for a measly $3m.

https://twitter.com/MultichainOrg/status/1677180114227056641

https://twitter.com/MultichainOrg/status/1677096839731097600

Various people crying about their magic internet money:

https://twitter.com/VCosta7989126/status/1677131886248841217 (most of the replies to this are people trying to scam him when he has no money now lol)

https://twitter.com/Tombr8r/status/1677143238929711105

https://twitter.com/SmartlyC/status/1677158351384494083

Imagine a tech conference having no CFP, as they reach out to speakers directly. They successfully attract some of the most heavy hitter men speakers in tech, and 3 women speakers.

Now imagine my surprise that 2 of those women are FAKE profiles.

They do not exist.

Nada.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 24, 2023

It's not often (read: ever) that I get to post about drama from my country, but this one is hot off the press and I think you guys might find interesting.

Full info is in the nitter thread, but here's a quick rundown:

QRD

Eduards Sizovs is some bloke that organizes and runs several international tech conferences, of those the two that are important to this are DevTernity and JDkon, though there are others

Apparently the organizers of these events do not accept applications from potential speakers, but instead reach out to people they are interested in, thus creating this more of a closed group of speakers.

Well, now as it turns out, there are fake speakers that are signed and advertised at these conferences (and have been in the past). In reality, they are merely fake online personas created by Eduards, and have never actually appeared at any of his events. Currently 4 such personas have been identified, all of them being women.

Here's Alina Prokhoda, a speaker at the upcoming DevTernity conference with prior experience at WhatsApp and Microsoft MVP who has been identified as a non-existent person who has never worked for those companies:

And here's Anna Boyko, with the same issues

Besides these there's also Julia Kirsina who worked as Uber's software Architect in Estonia, despite Uber not even having such division in that country, and there's also Natalie Standler who (didn't) work at coinbase.

Eduards has pushed back against the notion of him creating fake speakers by saying that a single fake was added by accident, but was quickly proven wrong when it was shown that these 4 fine ladies have been signed up to his conferences on 5 different occasions in total, and yet have given 0 speeches, without anyone ever seeing them in person.

This caused the organizer to go into full damage control mode as other, actually real speakers started pulling out of the conference after being informed of the controversy

But how could this happen? Surely someone would've noticed that these people don't exist?

Well, as it turns out, while the people themselves are fake, they have a very real online presence- we're talking several different social media accounts with over 100k followers, actively posting motivational quotes about girls who code, all while hiding behind what are likely AI-generated pictures of women. In short, Eduards has been quite successfully running several catfish accounts pretending to be women

Even Kiwifarms' LFJ gave her opinion on the matter, which is a complete moment which just shows that fricking everything and everyone is connected

So now for the big question: why would he do it?

Well, the guy who broke this story speculates that the reason behind why every fake persona is a woman is that Eduards, the organizer, has been trying to up his DEI compliance to attract bigger fish to his conferences by making them seem more inclusive than they really are, and probably to get some gibs/shoutouts from the organizations that promote such nonsense in the first place. Oh, and of course to milk attendees who pay... up to 800$ to attend? WTF people?

Well, now he's been caught and his entire life's work will likely go down the drain. Sucks to suck

So what's your opinion? Is the dude based for duping r-slurs, or is he an r-slur himself for thinking no one would find out?

Based - 253 votes

R-slur - 51 votes

I would like to apologize if this is a bit clumsily written because I'm a bit out of my comfort zone here trying to write about shit I have no understanding of off twitter, but I wanted to do it quickly so none of you strags manage to snitch it first

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369820

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/180r227/google_chrome_will_limit_ad_blockers_starting?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/technews/comments/180zrvc/google_chrome_will_limit_ad_blockers_starting?sort=controversial

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

Chrome's new adblock-limiting extension plan is still on. The company paused the rollout of the new "Manifest V3" extension format a year ago after an outcry over how much it would damage some of Chrome's most popular extensions. A year later, Google is restarting the phase-out schedule, and while it has changed some things, Chrome will eventually be home to inferior filtering extensions.

Google's blog post says the plan to kill Manifest V2, the current format for Chrome extensions, is back on starting June 2024. On that date (we'll be on "Chrome 127" by then), Google will turn off Manifest V2 for the pre-stable versions of Chrome—that's the Beta, Dev, and Canary channels. Google says, "Manifest V2 extensions [will be] automatically disabled in their browser and will no longer be able to install Manifest V2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store."

The timeline around a stable channel rollout is worded kind of strangely. The company says: "We expect it will take at least a month to observe and stabilize the changes in pre-stable before expanding the rollout to stable channel Chrome, where it will also gradually roll out over time. The exact timing may vary depending on the data collected, and during this time, we will keep you informed about our progress." It's unclear what "data" Google is concerned with. It's not the end of the world if an extension crashes—it turns off and stops working until the user reboots the extension. Maybe the company is concerned about how many people Google "Firefox" once their ad-blocker stops working.

Enterprise users with the "ExtensionManifestV2Availability" policy turned on will get an extra year of Manifest V2 compatibility.

Google's sales pitch for Manifest V3 is that, by limiting extensions, the browser can be lighter on resources, and Google can protect your privacy from extension developers. With more limited tools, you'll be more exposed to the rest of the Internet, though, and a big part of the privacy-invasive Internet is Google. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called Google's description of Manifest V3 "Deceitful and Threatening" and said that it's "doubtful Mv3 will do much for security."

Firefox's Add-On Operations Manager also didn't agree with any claims of privacy benefits, saying that, while malicious add-ons "are mostly interested in grabbing bad data, they can still do that with the current webRequest API." In a later article, the EFF also points out that Google's "lighter on resources" argument also doesn't really hold water. Anyone can open the Chrome Task Manager and see that a single website can take up a huge amount of memory, often in the 200MB-plus range. On the high end now for me, Slack is drinking 500MB, while a single Google Chat tab, created by this company that is so concerned about performance, is at 1.5GB of memory usage. Something like uBlock Origin, across all your tabs, is in the 80MB range.

The one part of Manifest V3 that everyone can agree on is that it will hurt ad blockers. Google is adding a completely arbitrary limit on how many "rules" content filtering add-ons can include, which are needed to keep up with the nearly infinite ad-serving sites that are out there (by the way, Ars Technica subscriptions give you an ad-free reading experience and make a great holiday gift!). Google originally went with a completely crippling limit of 5,000 "dynamic" rules, and after the widespread outrage during its first attempt to push Manifest V3, the company upgraded filtering to a "more generous" limit of 30,000 rules. uBlock Origin comes with about 300,000-plus filtering rules you can enable, and you can also import additional blocking lists and have that number skyrocket.

As far as we can tell, there's no justification for arbitrarily limiting the list of filter rules. Manifest V2 does not have a limit and works great. Firefox is also implementing Manifest V3—it basically has to because Chrome is so much more popular—but it's doing so without limits to filtering and other capabilities. Mozilla's blog post on the subject promises "Firefox's implementation of Manifest V3 ensures users can access the most effective privacy tools available like uBlock Origin and other content-blocking and privacy-preserving extensions."

Once Manifest V3 happens, Chrome users will be limited to "uBlock Origin Lite," while users will need to switch to Firefox or some other non-limited browser to get the full extension. An FAQ on the project details just how many feature regressions there will be—in addition to the hard limits on filtering rule sets, there are a host of other limits on filtering now. Items can't be filtered based on the response headers or according to the URL in the address bar. Developers are more limited in what regular expressions they can use, along with a host of other technical limitations.

Just joking it's VS code

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/162i54n/chinese_developers_release_cecide_claimed_as?sort=controversial

You live in a (((bad country))))? Sorry, we can't trust your device.

You have been using the internet in (((bad faith)))? Sorry, we can't trust your device.

You are posting (((dangerous))) content and (((disinformation))) online? Sorry, we can't trust your device.

Remember, you do not own this device.

Safe to invest in anything that reddit hates?

>Kevin Rose who bought a $16.5 million dollar house in LA Brentwood burned his ENS name and sold two NFTs for $500k+ EACH without paying royalties.

https://www.therichest.com/luxury-architecture/kevin-rose-buys-16-million-l-a-mansion/

>Tether printed another Billion and reddit is mad

>ETH issuance is going to be negative .5 percent this year rather than 4-5 percent inflation.

>Milady is settling its internal lawsuit between founders.

https://www.dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/milady-nfts-lose-a-third-of-their-value-as-founders-fight/

>Sam ALTMAN's world coin is FRICKING MOONING. go check the chart $WLD

The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well.

Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2024

Can't believe PEEPEE OUT didn't make it. RIP Harambe, you were too good for this world.

PR for emoji picker thing is here: https://fsdfsd.net/rDrama/rDrama/pulls/215

Improvements:

Startup:
6.69s -> 458.10ms (93.15% speedup)

Search:
135.69ms -> 98.81ms (27.18% speedup)

Lines of Code:
585 -> 444 (24.10% reduction)

License:
GNU Affero (copy left) -> MIT (get fucked)

Please lmk if I missed any features. I didn't look at the old code due to licensing.

@MURDERVANN @HeyMoonster @DrTransmisia

@Lappland I did what you said was not feasible. I think you should be banned for a day as penance.

!codecels

orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35861826

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/apple-confirms-its-breaking-iphone-web-apps-in-the-eu-on-purpose/

Tldr: due to new eu requirements apple decided to throw a tantrum and suspend their support for PWAs on safari. "PWA" is when you "install" the webpage on your phone screen (see the rdrama phone app tab)

As to why they're doing it - to have your app in the appstore you have to pay up. By just sideloading it using PWAs you could avoid paying the fee.

Redditard discussions

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1as3dn8/apple_confirms_its_breaking_iphone_web_apps_in/?sort=controversial

Another

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1as3b15/apple_confirms_ios_174_removes_home_screen_web/?sort=controversial

Even iToddlers at /r/apple ain't buying that https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1aro48s/apple_confirms_ios_174_removes_home_screen_web/?sort=controversial

The linked news website has especially funny comment section because it has a lot of butthurt iToddlers trying to make excuses lol

Hackercels thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388218

First claimed successful replication of LK-99

Accomplished by a team at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and posted 30 minutes ago.

Why this is evidence:
The LK-99 flake slightly levitates for both orientations of the magnetic field, meaning it is not simply a… pic.twitter.com/bh0x9oqaz2

— Andrew Cote (@Andercot) August 1, 2023

Have a bunch of links:

orange site

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953819

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951140

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952894

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951815

In case you wanted to trust Scroogle and the US Government even less!

From Forbes

Federal investigators have ordered Google to provide information on all viewers of select YouTube videos, according to multiple court orders obtained by Forbes. Privacy experts from multiple civil rights groups told Forbes they think the orders are unconstitutional because they threaten to turn innocent YouTube viewers into criminal suspects.

In a just-unsealed case from Kentucky reviewed by Forbes, undercover cops sought to identify the individual behind the online moniker “elonmuskwhm,” who they suspect of selling bitcoin for cash, potentially running afoul of money laundering laws and rules around unlicensed money transmitting.

In conversations with the user in early January, undercover agents sent links of YouTube tutorials for mapping via drones and augmented reality software, then asked Google for information on who had viewed the videos, which collectively have been watched over 30,000 times.

The court orders show the government telling Google to provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity for all Google account users who accessed the YouTube videos between January 1 and January 8, 2023. The government also wanted the IP addresses of non-Google account owners who viewed the videos. The cops argued, “There is reason to believe that these records would be relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation, including by providing identification information about the perpetrators.”......

>be spook

>send spooky youtube link

>ask youtube who watched your spookiness so you can go spook them at home

r/privacy discombobulates

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/18nzazp/substack_says_it_will_not_remove_or_demonetize?sort=controversial

If you look at the code, it's because for whatever reason, the emoji loader code creates an array that maps tags to emojis... but for some reason, they decided to implement this by storing an array of tags and then binary searching that array for EVERY TAG that must be updated -- consider that each of the 5,000 some emojis have multiple tags! Plus, they create multiple DOM elements for each emoji! This code has O(m * n * log(n)) complexity, where m is the average number of tags per emoji and n is the number of emojis. This code could very simply be sped up by using a hashmap (which is builtin with JS's Map) or by doing this work on the server and saving the result, so you would send back a JSON file like

{
    "tags": {
        "marsey": ["marseylove", "marseyfemboy", ...],
        "othertag": ["emoji1", "emoji2"....]
   }
}

That is all! What happens next? !codecels !schizomaxxxers !pings !dramatards !reportmaxxers discuss