Kinda think they’re just a kid with intermediate english and too much time on their hands

Y’know, I hadn’t actually considered that possibility, but you might well be on the money there. Thanks for the charitable lens.

Reolink is easy to DIY, has sane privacy policies if you want to use their web services, and they support self-hosting your own streaming + recordings if you don’t.

They’re the usual rec in these threads, and with good reason.

They “moderate” AskScience and AskHistorians while having absolutely no interest, knowledge, talent or skill whatsoever on those fronts — which I see as pretty corrosive and counterproductive in terms of community building.

Fully agreed with you that I don’t think they’re malicious in intent, but Dinkleberry’s functional impact on this website is overwhelmingly negative in my book.

I was active on there for a few years.

The mods are uber-censorious, in short. There were also a few power users who liked to brigade anything they disagree with.

Lemmy isn’t infallible or immune to such behavior by any means — but the public modlog, option to instance hop, and federated-community nature make it feel far more open and transparent. Tildes is much more of a walled garden, for better or (IMO) worse.

The court filing is linked in the first paragraph and worth a read. The article is a bit vague because the claims in the filing are pretty sweeping, but to list some highlights:

• Brave started selling copyrighted scraped articles in bulk from their search index to AI companies
• Brave built explicit and targeted functionality into their browser to circumvent newspaper paywalls
• Brave repeats long, verbatim sections of NYT & other papers’ material on request through their AI web search feature

I’m neither an attorney nor a huge fan of IP rights writ large, but in my reading, the newspapers are making a pretty strong case that Brave is consciously stealing and reselling copyrighted material in unaltered form for monetary gain.

Yeah, it’s sysprompt only, so you can trivially sidestep it via:

• Jailbreak prompt
• tweakcc to alter the prompting baked into claude code
• Any other non-CC harness
• Scripted API calls

As usual, Anthropic are just opticsmaxxing because they don’t want to get completely buried in a courtroom. And as other people have pointed out upthread already, it’s already a bit of a moot point since the Chinese models are already eating Claude’s lunch and will do the same stuff without complaint.

I used to work in a radiology department, and whenever a paranoid thought about radiation exposure would enter my head, my mind would run straight to shoe-store fluoroscopes in an “it could be worse”-kinda way.

Always made me feel better lol.

Oil is a good start, but you need to potentiate the toxic properties of the oil and spread it throughout the water column with Corexit to ecocide like the best of ‘em.

It’s a nondescript off-white powder, in the raw. Mine was packaged into capsules by the pharmacy, but I did pop one open to inspect because I had exactly the same curiosity lol.

I don’t have personal experience on this front, but I imagine for injected administration, which is the more common route, it would be made into solution or suspension and kept in a refrigerated multiuse vial, e.g.:

I had chronic heartburn issues for a few years, preceding and during the COVID era.

My doctor asked me about the heartburn during an annual visit, told me she’d had success treating people with a 30-day oral regimen of BPC, and asked if I would be interested in trying it as an unproven-but-promising approach. I had no idea it was being used in that way at the time, but understood the risks and decided it was worth trying.

The compound itself came prepared in capsules from a local compounding pharmacy and cost ~$200 for the full supply.

I took it daily, and while I still had heartburn for the first few weeks, it felt like I could shrug off the damage better and had less esophageal discomfort. Around the three week mark, there was a notable remission of reflux, and after the full course, I’ve been able to live and eat normally without any GERD-related symptoms. I don’t know how much of the QoL improvement can be chalked up to direct action of the peptide, versus the peptide acting as a salve to wean off the PPI I was taking — but if nothing else, it made that transition far more bearable than it otherwise would have been.

I did not notice any systemic effects on healing and recovery during the 30 days, nor any sort of unpleasant side effect.

The reason peptides are largely a grey-market phenomenon is because they’re not easy to patent or otherwise monopolize through IP laws. Unlike your ordinary run-of-the mill medication, peptides are chemically simple, and often mimic or occur as endogenously-produced compounds in living animals.

They’re promising research targets from a medical POV, but the pharma industry has been systematically ignoring them for decades due to difficulties around profiting from them, as demonstrated by the current rush of GLP-1 analogs. Any firm that invests in the clinical trials to prove safety + efficacy of a given compound won’t be able to stop competitors from ripping off their work.

And to be fair, this incentive misalignment is a global issue rather than a US/Canada problem.

Adding onto this, they’ve been big in bodybuilding circles for about two decades, but have been gained popularity in recent years due to Joe Rogan types and the MAHA crowd boosting them.

The safety profile is marginally better than other grey-market compounds due to them being protein “fragments”, but there are overall major risks around contamination, QC, and secondary effects, generally speaking.

The big names are the GHRPs (growth hormone releasing peptides), used as anabolics, and the healing accelerators BCP-157 and TB-500.

I was legally prescribed BCP-157 by my doctor (PO as a GERD treatment) around 2022, and can speak to it pretty well if anyone has questions.

The history is a bit confusing because the frontend scandal you’re referring to was for a frontend called “tesseract”, but piefed has also long had a questionable blacklist of phrases applied to screenshots and stuff using the Tesseract OCR toolkit. Piefed has been much more open about it than the frontend dev was, but it’s the same idea:

https://join.piefed.social/2026/08/04/anti-fascist-piefed-features/

This whole account is obvious “agentic” spam and y’all just upvoting without reading a damn thing.

Click the link if you don’t believe me.

I’m going off wikipedia for that, which seems to suggest the usual formula is ket + mdma + street “coke” — but with that “coke” being the usual adulterated mix of 5-10% real cocaine heavily cut down by levamisole, caffeine, meth, lidocaine, and inert filler. (Street mdma and ket are often cut with some of those too but hard to say how much they’re contributing.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusi_(drug)#Pharmacology

Lol different strokes I suppose; I can get behind the individual pieces (meth aside), but the thought of ketamine + stimulants sounds like mixing shrooms + red wine & xanax.

One part to turn the brain off, and a second part to fill that empty head back up with chaotic bad ideas best not acted on.

You’ll definitely get fucked up if that’s the goal, but they produce two very different vibes that pull in opposite directions.

Tusi is a new one to me. That combo sounds absolutely fucking miserable.

My extremely back-of-envelope estimate would be that it’s 100,000x slower to run inference on an IoT botnet compared to a data center GPU.

100x penalty for cpu inference, 10x penalty for cpu quality, 10x penalty for crappy ram + disk, 10x sync penalty because you have to split up layers across nodes.

And this is ignoring the standard showstopper issues you get with high-bandwidth distributed networking applications with spottily connected nodes.

If you wanna talk about runaway AI risk, then the real threat to humanity is a frontier model with unauthorized data center TPU access, not IoT. The call is coming from inside the house, and they even spell this out at the beginning before pivoting to the fearmongering.