When it all started, I had the idea to do an image of backed beans wearing denim jackets - or just denim jackets swimming in tomato sauce and title it "jaked jeans". But I didn't have the time to photoshop that image, and when I had the time the next day I didn't want to beat an already dead horse.
On the other hand, when steam had a leak a few years ago (where you could see other people’s account details after logging in instead of yours) my credit card got exchanged automatically by the bank, as they saw that I had used it to buy games on steam - even though in this „leak“ only the last 4 digits were leaked and nothing more
Depends - sometimes you see a concept that you think you can improve on. Or maybe you read about their workflow how they did the image, learn something new and want to add your own spin. I don't think, that's a problem per se, as art is often iterating and innovating and that this is the root of creativity.
The problem is more when everyone does it and the whole community gets flooded with the same image concepts/jokes. In this case, the AI communities may get hit even worse in this regard, as it's very easy to generate images and there's less skill needed than if you had to draw/photoshop/... the whole meme all by yourself, which means it's easier to enter the dead-horse-beating.
I just got it on an old throwaway account that I forgot to delete. But not as a DM as others, but as an email.
You are receiving this email because a Reddit account, [redacted], is registered to this email address.
And you can be sure that I checked off every box that you let me, so that I wouldnt receive unsolicited mails... By the way, I'm not even eligible for the IPO and you shpuld know it, reddit.
Also I heard some rumors that a few dozen internet users are from other places than the US and may not have a clue about laws and rules in a foreign country - or may have only heard a few bits and words and are trying to make sense of them.
There are three main ways how Google, Bing,… can track you:
When you’re doing a search while being logged in, it’s probably you
If you’re not logged in, they can set a cookie to recognize you on your next visit (although they may not be able to link this to you, your email address,… but that’s not needed). They may mix your searches with those of the other users of your PC, when those are using the same PC, browser and account (e.g. if you have a family PC with a single windows/Linux account that everyone uses)
Even if you’re not logged in and don’t accept / delete your cookies, they still see your IP. Depending on your ISP you might have the same Ip for a long time or you might have it rotated regularly. Now they could only track the searches of your household (assuming everyone isn’t logging in and deleting cookies immediately)
With Searxng, they can only do the last variant. But assuming you use a “real” server in the internet (and not one at home), it will likely have the same IP for its lifetime. And if you’re using it alone, that’s the only thing they need to identify you and track your searches. The more other people use your instance, the less useful this kind of tracking gets. Too much noise to identify a single person.
Having your own instance can be bad for privacy, as all your searches come from your IP (hosted at home) or the same IP (hosted on a server). They might not be traced to you personally, but you might still get personalized results or your search may still be tracked, depending on how they track you.
That's circumvented when using it with some or better many other people. But then, you need to trust the admin of that instance.
Self-hosted is easy if you know a bit about servers. You need a domain pointing to a server. If it's the only thing hosted on that server and you have set up docker on it, you can just follow their instructions here to get it running in less than 5 minutes (assuming you run the default config and don't customize all of the settings for a while): https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker?tab=readme-ov-file#how-to-use-it
It has been estimated that about 2 in 10,000 people who get measles will eventually develop SSPE
Depending in your view, thats not a really low chance. Since we're talking of a chance to die - I'd say it's high.
However, a 2016 study estimated that the rate for unvaccinated infants under 15 months was as high as 1 in 609.
Oops - kids at school are older, but these numbers are way higher... Let's just run both and see what happens. I don't have enough data, to do some "real math" but someone mentioned about 100 students being at risk of getting infected as they're unvaccinated. Lets just assume all of them get infected.
First: 2 in 10000 will develop SSPE, that means 9998 in 10000 won't. For 100 students: (9998/10000)^100 = 0.98 so, a 98% chance, that no-one is affected and tha lt means a 2% chance, that at least one is affected by SSPE.
Second number: 1 in 609 means, that 608 in 609 won't. For 100 students: (608/609)^100 = 0.85 so that's an 85% chance that nothing happens and a whopping 15% chance that at least one student develops SSPE.
I know this math I likely not near reality, but damn.
I remember this from Win 95 and Win 98, maybe even XP? You usually had a GPU, but they were more simple than today's GPUs. Oftentimes they were on-board (in contrast to today's iGPUs that are part of the processor, not part of the mainboard).
In the very early times you had 3D cards like the 3Dfx Vodoo cards. Those could only render 3D. Your desktop and other programs were still rendered by your normal GPU or on-board graphics card. They did only render 3D. You had to put a small cable from the output of your regular GPU to your 3D card's input and then plug you monitor into the 3D card. While you didn't do 3D, the 3Dfx Vodoo would just output everything it received from your regular GPU. When you played a game, it would output whatever it rendered instead.
When it all started, I had the idea to do an image of backed beans wearing denim jackets - or just denim jackets swimming in tomato sauce and title it "jaked jeans". But I didn't have the time to photoshop that image, and when I had the time the next day I didn't want to beat an already dead horse.