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Empress's identity REVEALED as Voksi the Bulgarian! Is it over for piracychads?
Empress's response (Reddit): https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/15ssekk/empress_response_to_skidrow/?sort=controversial
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The developer finally grew a spine and realized he didn't want to do it for free. So he added some code to his library (SponsorLink) that runs in your IDE, reads your .gitconfig, checks if your email address is registered as a sponsor, and possibly slows down your build if it's not.
Reddit reactions:
I wonder if anyone at Microsoft uses this internally 😂 Hope they get their emails harvested
The Github issue and Reddit threads on this are pretty calm. Maybe there will be more drama in the coming days/weeks, when companies forbid their employees from using this library, and code monkeys have to rewrite all their unit tests. Redditards are trying to reportmaxx SponsorLink but nothing has happened yet.
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how he will fix the gender gap at Facebook VR
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A user asked me the below.
Hey, did you use any guides for setting up your pie hole and/or installing the button?
Was interested in making one of these as well.
Any tips or w/e would be appreciated, thanks!
This was my response. which is probably definitely rslurred but w/e
!codecels roast me
No Guides, but happy to give tips, and follow ups where things are unclear.
Button is pretty cool for sure... but you can do everything you need to do from your computer and phone.
A pihole does not protect you unless you set it up as your DNS on your router.
I would also recommend setting up a vpn to your home network using openvpn that way you can take your protection on the go, itll protect you from getting throttled by your cell phone provider too
Parts
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Get a raspberry pi (here is fine https://www.raspberrypi.com/)
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- get a case/fan if you are so inclined but I would consider it extra
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- will come with an sd card and an sd card reader
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- should come with a power cord
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Breadboard https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNH7LYH3
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resistor https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GQFVSXK
Config Pi
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Download the Raspberry Pi Imager from here https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
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Install pi lite on the SD card
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- During Install configure the thing for wifi and ssh
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- Set up a user for yourself on there and a password
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Put the SD card into the Pi (contacts towards the board)
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Start up the Pi and ssh into it
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Install Pihole (follow these instructions https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/#one-step-automated-install)
Code
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Look its probably right... but how you set this thing up makes a difference
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Put this on your Pi maybe call it buttonscript.js
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{YOUR USER HERE} needs to be swapped out for the user you created
const fs = require('fs');
const Gpio = require('onoff').Gpio;
const { exec } = require('child_process');
// GPIO pin number
const buttonPin = 17;
const logFilePath = '/home/{YOUR USER HERE}/buttonscript.log';
// Setup the button GPIO as input
const button = new Gpio(buttonPin, 'in', 'falling', { debounceTimeout: 200 });
// Function to disable Pi-hole blocking for 5 minutes
function disablePiHole() {
const timestamp = new Date().toISOString();
const logMessage = [${timestamp}] Button pressed. Disabling Pi-hole for 5 minutes...;
console.log(logMessage);
fs.appendFile(logFilePath, logMessage + '\n', (err) => {
if (err) {
console.error('Error writing to log file:', err);
}
});
exec('pihole disable 5m');
}
// Add event listener to the button
button.watch(disablePiHole);
// Cleanup GPIO on process exit
process.on('SIGINT', () => {
button.unexport();
process.exit();
});
Service
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This thing needs to start back up when power fails so you need to set it up to do that
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go here
cd /etc/systemd/system/ -
run this to create it
sudo nano buttonscript.service
[Unit]
Description=Button Script
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /home/{YOUR USER HERE}/buttonScript.js > /home/{YOUR USER HERE}/buttonscript.log 2>&1
WorkingDirectory=/home/{YOUR USER HERE}/
Restart=always
User={YOUR USER HERE}
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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save and exit nano
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run this
sudo systemctl enable buttonscript.service -
run this
sudo systemctl start buttonscript.service
Circuit
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find your pinout, I am showing a 4b there are others
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3.3 to a rail on the + side of the breadboard at the top using these wires https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EV70C78
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in that top rail, put the resistor in
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resistor to the left hand side on maybe the top row of the breadboard
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gpio 17 to left side on that row using these wires https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EV70C78
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button to left side on that row use the breadboard wires there
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other terminal on the button to the right side of the breadboard
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ground to right side on that row using these wires https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EV70C78
Package to suit, and your done
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I have so many funny posts and bait ideas that I don't have the energy to write. Not having a GPT program that can run funny and fricked up stuff actually really sucks. ChatGPT won't even give me OPINIONS any more, even positive ones.
Bing is better but it still uses their framework. Can someone guide me to something?
- care_nlm : imagine owning anything that connects to the internet, what a fricking loser
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When I connected with the executive, they asked if I knew why my account had been locked. When I answered I was unsure, their tone turned somewhat accusatory. I was told that the driver who had delivered my package reported receiving racist remarks from my “Ring doorbell” (it’s actually a Eufy, but I’ll let it slide).
I reviewed the footage and confirmed that no such comments had been made. Instead, the Eufy doorbell had issued an automated response: “Excuse me, can I help you?” The driver, who was walking away and wearing headphones, must have misinterpreted the message. Nevertheless, by the following day, my Amazon account was locked, and all my Echo devices were logged out.
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le orange site link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36271926
Music is already one of the most extremely devalued art forms given how oversupplied it is. Boggles the mind to think of the consequences of technology like this reaching quality levels where the differences between it and professionally produced music are imperceptible.
make better music
As if the current music scene hasn't already plummed the depths of banality. At this rate the stars of the 70s and 80s will be in business until they expire.
maybe create more original and better music
Can you imagine what the HN front page will spit out in a few years?
A profitable startup? That might be asking too much though
I don’t understand what’s motivating certain types of people to continue working on these types of AI practical implementation projects. There’s nothing good for the world this (type of AI in particular) will offer. Maybe someone will say this will let people who aren’t musicians express themselves by creating music. That’s not true. It’s as true as hiring a musician to make a song for you, given a description. And nobody would say that the person who hired the musician was expressing themself.
it's called acceleration sweaty 
before you ask, yes, it has an audio equivalent to img2img, yes you will be able to generate rock renditions of the 2 girls 1 cup theme in 
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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers | Hacker News
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Asked for comment, a Google spokesperson told IGN that it was a "small experiment."
"We're running a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium," they said via email. "Ad blocker detection is not new, and other publishers regularly ask viewers to disable ad blockers."
reddit discus
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/13cfdbi/apparently_ad_blockers_are_not_allowed_on_youtube/?sort=controversial <- This is where it was originally first posted (1k Updoots and 1k cumments)
poster note: I tried adding all the 'its over' to capture the diversity that this decision will affect and was met with this
i do not feel bad at all 
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Some Gemmies I made
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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.
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I barely cared about the Roald Dahl changes before, but hearing that they are forcing updates to customers who had previously purchased uncensored ebooks makes me want to throw my Kindle in the trash. pic.twitter.com/5SEaoHUb3b
— xlr8harder (@xlr8harder) February 28, 2023
.webp?x=8 "Fedora (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) - Reminds me of 2004")
and is at a breaking point. 
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Saw this mentioned on orange site discuss...
Hard to think of something more insidious
Let's implement++
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No significant takeaways yet (~1/5th of the way through on some protected classes). I think the one notable thing is that they have to try really hard to tell the AI that woke racism is different from non-woke racism, which is funny
— Brian Chau (@psychosort) December 16, 2022
- YourMom : FIRST THE "TRENDING ON TIKTOK" SIGNS IN MY BOOKSTORES NOW THIS REEEE
ZLibrary domains have been seized by feds. TikTok zoomers are to blame. Coping and seething everywhere because of TikTok - 120
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Edit: https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/z-library-domains-are-seized-and-pirate-book-site-is-dead
https://torrentfreak.com/tiktok-blocks-z-library-hashtag-pending-piracy-investigation-221031/
It's still available on Tor
http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion/
Orange Site:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33460970
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972923
(It's the TikTok 
s fault)
https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ylmkt1/alternatives/?sort=controversial
https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ylko3f/is_zlibrary_down/?sort=controversial
https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ylkc8m/z_library_pooping_down/?sort=controversial
https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/yljn16/oh_god_what_now/?sort=controversial
https://twitter.com/search?q=zlibrary%20down&src=typeahead_click&f=top
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Elon Musk plans to lay off 5,500 out of 7000 of Twitter's employees (78%) when he purchases the company.
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) October 20, 2022
Twitter has started stack ranking and it's expected layoffs will initially target lower performers, who scored less than a 3 on performance reviews.https://t.co/bbZHpStkFt
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