Yes, California does do controlled burns. This senator is being disingenuous as are any other talking heads claiming they don’t.

The state has increased the budget for and amount of controlled burns (as well as creation of firebreaks which both enable controlled burns and reduce spread of wildfires) in recent years, including after the federal government under trump reduced maintenance of federal lands. Voters have supported this through propositions as well including one last election.

Controlled burns also require a lot of care and resources or they can turn into wildfires, so there’s only so many the state can do at a time. The past few years have actually allowed for more than previously.

LA had unseasonably low precipitation and high winds that contributed to the rapid spread of the current fires.

Should California do more controlled burns? Probably, but the state is very much doing what it can.

But, it’s easier to point fingers at the very people taking preventative measures than help your countrymen in a time of need.

Activity Pub is a very popular way to decentralize.

With political uncertainty around centralized meteorological data infrastructure, it makes sense to continue the process of decentralization. The underlying APIs can be changed in the future if needed.

Forbes, for many years, has been mostly written by freelance bloggers. Some is very high quality (some is not) but it’s not like an editor in a newsroom is asking for these stories.

They have journalists on staff still but they write a minority of what Forbes publishes online.

Ford was never on the ticket, he was appointed after Agnew resigned. He’s the only president to never be elected to either the presidency or vice presidency.

They also have a book about human evolution. 😵

GPT 1 and 2 were both more open than later releases. However I’m not sure any are fully FOSS.

This is just a standard prompt hack. This will always exist with llms. They don’t have any real understanding of language so safety protocols can’t actually ban topics, only sets of words and phrases.

There was an extensive set of prompts working toward elder abuse before the result in question.

My guess is that the redditor who discovered it disguised it to look like homework and reproduced the hack, and added the “brother” to create more authentic rage bait.

Please don’t give this hateful grifter any benefit of the doubt. He’s been marginalizing the already disadvantaged while fighting against public health for money for decades.

If there’s a bad take in medicine, RFK fully buys into it. It’s wild how wrong one person can be.

Harris did indeed have overwhelming support and the polls even showed her ahead for a decent while. Sometime after the debate, she started courting the Cheney faction and simultaneously diluted her messaging. Coincidentally, this is also soon after she brought some Clinton strategists in. She lost the enthusiasm she had built up in the summer.

I dont exactly excuse people who stayed home (or protest voted), but I do understand that Harris didn’t do herself any favors with that type voter either. I felt the enthusiasm wane, and I’ve never missed a federal or state election.

Yes, but this issue is not one we should want Google solving. We need better media literacy education throughout life.

Twilight works pretty well

When I was trying out passkeys, things allowed either passkey or password still. But yes, I think this need partially reduces the security benefit of passkeys.

Just answered in a different comment.

Just answered in a reply to a different comment.

It’s a combination of issues. First is compatibility issues. Like logging in on mobile web or app with a passkey doesn’t reliably work for me. It might have been due to the password manager, but for some things the option wasn’t even there afaict. If I’m going to really switch to passkeys, I want it to work more reliably.

The second is usability. Passwords in a password manager are a 2 click entry on the username or password form field. Password managers have streamlined this system over the past decade.

Passkeys, ironically, required more steps when pulling from the password manager, including required clicks in less convenient places. I hope these types of issues get ironed out eventually.

I use a password manager with passkey support and still disabled all my passkeys. The user experience for passkeys is so much worse even when support exists.

Your comment strikes me as particularly harmful and misguided because autistic people are often specifically targeted for abuse and even seen as deserving of abuse.

I am sort of grateful, because you’ve unintentionally really made it starkly clear to me. We should not platform unrepentant enablers of abuse regardless of their prior contributions, it simply causes too much harm.

Pea mushers

Honest suggestion: take a civics class to brush up on stuff like this. Theory is great but if you don’t understand the system of government under which you live, you have no hope of changing it.