https://youtu.be/W8tRDv9fZ_c

They may or may not be used here. You could use LLMs to parse the content of sites being visited by web clients on your network. Then, ask the LLM whether the content includes certain topics or is work related. Based on the results of that, you add/remove the site from a blacklist.

Is this better than just string matching? I would say likely so, though more stochastic in the results. It would let the LLM provide summaries/context of the pages, and not by just confined to specific strings in a list. It might be better ramble to handle context and complexity of the desired outcomes.

For example, there was a paleontology conference at a hotel once that was stuck behind a firewall blacklisting all sites with the string ‘bone’ in them. Completely ridiculous. The string ‘bone’ has different meanings based upon context, which simple string matching cannot provide, but an LLM might be better and identifying and acting accordingly.

America is owned and operated by rich people. They couldn’t make money running passenger trains so once we were ordered to invest in car-only infrastructure the trains were mostly disbanded and shut down. There’s a ghost of a system left with just a few corridors that could be considered bare minimum service in a developed nation.

How many kilometers of high speed rail does the US have? Zero. We have some that gets close, but not really.

My mid-sized city has two trains per day, one each direction, and they both leave between 1am and 2am. In Germany you would have 30+ trains per day in a city this size, likely a notable S-Bahn network, and also some trams and/or U-Bahns in the city to compliment busses. I’ve got busses in town, but they operated about every 30-45 minutes each, with evening service being every 60 minutes. Here’s the fun part: our busses are the most used public transit system for a mid-sized city in the US right now and it’s still pathetic when compared to even basic services in Europe.

DB needs to keep getting investment. Germany must get to a dedicated passenger rail network to separate out the freight trains. DB should also be re-nationalized and operated as a national service, not a for profit system that will inevitably fail as a commercial venture, leading to yet more terrible service. Here’s hoping the latest German Parliament follows through on investment money that they pushed through at the start of the year! Also, keep the Deutschland Karte! That’s such a great resource for everyone.

My city has two trains per day: one each way. They leave at 1am and 2am. The US train system is hilariously bad.

I know that DB in Germany is horrible compared to the rest of Europe, but at least it has trains that run during daylight hours!

Costco polish dog (from the freezer aisle, since they stopped selling the real ones at the counter). Mustard, catsup. That’ll do great. Oh, but make sure to grill it! Yeah, now I’m hungry.

Sample size: 1

That’ll do! Let’s hit the pub.

I had one of the 10" eeePC machines for years. That thing was a tank. It did everything I needed it to, especially weird networking configurations. The battery also lasted over 6 hours. I mostly ran Crunchbang #! Linux on it.

I don’t think I could live on a 10" screen anymore, but back in the day it was a dream machine.

The hotel itself was nice, and the balcony had a great view. The problem was the mattress. It was so soft that it provided zero back support. No other options were available.

The net result was both my wife and I ended up with month long back muscle spasms. It taught us a lot about how to resolve back issues, but it’s not a lesson I wanted from a relatively expensive hotel in Leavenworth, Washington.

Chicago’s flag is a masterwork.

My city did a redesign about five years ago. Our flag was in a D to F tier flag ranking. After the redesign it’s much better, but still feels like a logo more then a flag. At least they got rid of the written slogan, though!

Props to Chicago. Put that flag on everything.

I’m hoping Milwaukee adopts of the People’s flag of Milwaukee soon. That’s a serious banger too.

Yeah, the US has reached an incredibly low standard of literacy for what is supposed to be a developed nation. The numbers on reading level are scary. Also look at how much people read as adults. We just don’t learn how and then we don’t practice during our lives. It’s a nation of partial literacy being kept together my hyper nationalism and smart phones to distract us with 6 second videos.

You passed the one that matters: you’re interested in having a democracy.

Addendum: There’s a new car coming out in the US. It’s a 6 seater that’s 5.8 meters long and is around 8000 lbs. Two of them are the same size as a normal city bus. TWO cars == a fucking BUS.

DO NOT DO WHAT THE US IS DOING.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d_yoeXBCRjs

According to one of our adjuncts: “Windows just works for dev, why are we teaching Linux at all?”

He didn’t last.

Both very good points and grounded in reality, though my attitude is more about the general public being stupid more than the general public recognizing the limits of the roads or even the law.

https://etsc.eu/sales-of-dangerous-us-pickup-trucks-up-20-in-europe/

The uptick in people leveraging the individual registrations is a canary in the coal mine. People want to have giant wasteful crap. At least some people do. If enough people start having big trucks and SUVs on the road, the demand to make allowances for them grows. Can you knock down the old Regensburg medieval city for SUVs? Unlikely. Can you start making more suburban style roads and land wasteful areas outside of the downtown? Most assuredly.

I’m hoping smarter and more reasonable heads prevail in the EU. I don’t care what people want on this front. The car makers want to sell huge killing machines since they’re higher profit per unit. There’s at least some people wanting to buy them. The protection of pedestrians, the environment, and the city itself from terrible infrastructure designed to accommodate these trash machines should win out if at all possible.

PLEASE put a stop to insane car sizes. I’m from the US and our cars, SUVs, and trucks have gotten so huge it would be humorous if not for the thousands of extra children it’s killing each year.

In the words of the Australian health minister: is it how the US is doing it? Don’t do that.

It’s not a conservative’s problem until it effects them personally. By then it’s usually too late, but at least they feel bad about that one issue for a while.

Canada being technically in the EU geographically to become a full EU member state would be an epic “technically correct is best kind of correct” moment.

I build a bridge out of our pillows. Two bor the base, then one spanning a small gap. I put my Earthward arm’s hand up the the gap and my head on the bridge pillow.

Nothing falls asleep improperly.

At home: a hand me down Apple ][e At school: apple ][ systems At my dad’s work (spent lots of time there): IBM PC

Don’t worry, that was plenty of information for most of us. I spent all too many hours on an i286 machine, but I recall nothing else about the system.