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Small doses. Never enough to disassociate. Only lots of LSD and 4-HO-DET ever did that to me.

The most striking memory with DMT was at night seeing a moonlight cloud full of skulls staring back down at me. I frequently saw skulls in any texture.

It was very long ago. Unfortunately the dealer was raided.

It left a noticable residue in the simplistic vape we had and a few subsequent uses still carried traces of it.

Re:Krazam OS on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @02:46PM (#40135629)
"Use code: RFC9899 at checkout for 15% off your order"

A reference to their video IETF Celebrates The Standards [LIVE at Demuxed '22]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAkAMDeo_NM

Re:Misra C++:2023 Published on Sunday December 17, 2023 @01:18PM (#38674990)
I recently watched this webinar[0] about it, presented by the company ParaSoft, which develops a static analysis tool and compliance reporting solution for businesses required to use MISRA C++[1].

[0] https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18694/602198

[1] bhttps://www.parasoft.com/white-paper/buyers-guide-static-cod...

Re:Prophetic Perfect Tense on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:18PM (#37694348)
r/BrandNewSentence
A recently announced breach at Retool[0] involved the use of a deepfake version of an IT employee's voice for social engineering.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500895

This link is not working for me.
>who’s the victim

The article discusses 20 victims.

Whoever is generating and distributing these images should be charged with distributing child pornography. Doesn't matter if the images are AI generated.

That's my initial response, anyway. I'll concede that it's not well thought out. For one, it isn't comprehensive enough to solve the problem of the perpetrator being halfway around the world.

Listening to an audiobook narrated by an AI voice can get old after a few hours. There is absolutely still hope for traditional voice narration, especially if different voice actors want to voice different characters in the story.
Re:The Bogus CVE Problem on Friday September 22, 2023 @06:13AM (#37610147)
Do you have any thoughts on CVSSv4[0]? It appears to incorporate finer-grained and organization-specific scoring to address issues many have with the one size fits all approach currently used for CVEs.

[0] https://www.first.org/cvss/v4-0/

Re:The Bogus CVE Problem on Friday September 22, 2023 @06:12AM (#37610143)
Do you have any thoughts on CVSSv4[0]? It appears to incorporate finer-grained and organization-specific scoring to address issues many have with the one size fits all approach currently used for CVEs.

[0] https://www.first.org/cvss/v4-0/

Re:The Bogus CVE Problem on Friday September 22, 2023 @06:12AM (#37610138)
Do you have any thoughts on CVSSv4[0]? It appears to incorporate finer-grained and organization-specific scoring to address issues many have with the one size fits all approach currently used for CVEs.

[0] https://www.first.org/cvss/v4-0/

Re:The Bogus CVE Problem on Friday September 22, 2023 @06:01AM (#37610079)
CISA-KEV is a good list, but updates to it can be delayed by days to months.
The Brightline has a good reputation among my friends in Florida. Traveling from Palm Beach County down to Miami Dade has never been easier.
Re:Fosstodon is now invite only on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:38AM (#37599283)
Most mastodon servers don't limit discussion to a central domain of topics.

If you still feel limited, then the solution to your problem is to have multiple accounts for the mutually-exclusive communities you enjoy. That's what people do on Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter with their alt accounts. Keep that in mind whenever you encounter someone online using an anime profile pic.

The major factor I look for when choosing a mastodon instance is the business model. The vast majority are free, which leads to either limits on registration, ads, or spammy free-for-all instances. I want to join a mastodon instance that I can pay for, as a control over these types of problems. If it can sustain itself through membership, then the experience and policies should be relatively stable.

For the above reasons, I use mastodon.green.

Re:iPhone User runs out of Secure Element space on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:28AM (#37599111)
They have like 2-3 dozen credit cards stored in there.
Re:Framework – We are not sustainable on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @04:16PM (#37589574)
It's awesome! I don't have a problem with the headline at all, and I appreciate Framework's work on environmental sustainability. Maybe I should have said it was a catchy headline instead of characterizing it as clickbaity.
IMO this article is in response to the controversy generated as a result of the August 7 YouTube video by Shoe0nHead, The Male Loneliness Epidemic[0]. The video got a lot of heat on Twitter and other social media places. Right wing commentators on YouTube had a lot of positive responses. A follow-up [1] was uploaded 2 days prior to the article.

[0] https://youtu.be/rQv8VuLpKN4

[1] https://youtu.be/qVKvEaokV6I

Re:Framework – We are not sustainable on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @02:47PM (#37588281)
I had the same initial reaction. Perhaps it was intentionally clickbaity?
>Both octopi and octopodes are acceptable spellings, but octopuses is the more widely used spelling, especially in formal writing and speech.

Source: https://grammarist.com/usage/octopi-octopuses/

>A fresh batch of basil at the grocery store is essentially a luxury item

Not in Vietnam, and not in the Chinese (Great Wall)/Korean (Hmart, Lotte) grocery chains in the US. Eating a whole sprig of basil is common in various Vietnamese meals. My point is that basil doesn't have to be a luxury item. It grows very well without much effort.

Re:SimulaVR $1.2M short of the project's total cost on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @11:14PM (#37580015)
I may be sufficient. SimulaVR has put in work early on to improve the experience. One example is font smoothing you can see in their demos.
This article is also referenced by the Impermanence page of the NixOS Wiki. Contains methods for ZFS, Btrfs, and others: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Impermanence

I enjoyed attempting this with Impermanence on /home directories. It made me feel like my desktop system was setup very intentionally. The feeling reminded me of when I first setup Arch Linux on an mdraid5.

I was surprised to discover this use case. It's a little scary to imagine that resumes may eventually need to be optimized for LLMs.
I'll echo a positive experience using Steam on NixOS. Almost makes me wish my Steam Deck was running it too.
Re:US gov seeking comments on DCAT-US Schema v3.0 on Monday September 18, 2023 @12:47PM (#37558617)
I haven't kept up with National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)[0] since the first Obama term. Is this related somehow?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIEMOpen

Re:Stolen van Gogh Painting Worth Millions Returned in an IKEA Bag on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:23PM (#37513579)
If this was all an elaborate ruse to make us want to go shopping at IKEA, then I'll concede that it worked.
Re:3D printing on OpenBSD? Yes, that’s a thing on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:34AM (#37509572)
If they ever do a follow-up on this topic, it should include a 3D-printed yellow pufferfish.
Re:Tubi sees impressive growth, with over 74M monthly active users on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:38PM (#37500040)
The fact that Tubi is owned by Fox partially explains why it has more classic movies than Netflix. While I am glad that these movies can be streamed, it saddens me that Netflix's demise is at the hands of the cable/media companies that it originally sought to topple. I may not agree with the bizarre DEI/SJW/"Modern Audiences" choices that Netflix has been pursuing over recent years, but I still see them as important in the struggle evolve past legacy media. Now the same legacy media companies have the upper hand. The situation is quite hopeless as most viewers only care about what they see on the screen and in their bank statements, not the ethics about who owns what.

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