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It's doublespeak, a la 1984. In this case many of the words used are inversions of their usual meaning.

I'll provide some translations:

patriots -> seditionists

biblical -> cloaked in the authority of God – which here must be explicitly stated because their actions are opposed to any God of justice

open boarders -> following legal and ethical principles (remember, these people oppose ethical principles)

peacemakers -> those who use violence, or the threat of violence, to obstruct peace. See also, terrorists

besieged by dark forces of evil -> opposed by morality, ethics, or the law. The addition of "on all sides" changes the 'or' to 'and'

As a bonus, "globalists" is antisemitism. There's an old canard that justice for minorities = communism = Jewish conspiracy. This is particularly common among nazis. The convoy organizer is signaling that their group is accepting of these ideas

I imagine there's code to do something like currency conversion or maybe rewards points calculation so the displayed amount is not actually the number used for the final total

God bless America

Don't have to wait in line if you can't afford to go in the first place

Taps head

I misunderstood what "war machine" meant.

I heard phrases on TV like "it cost $1 billion dollars per month to keep the war machine running" and "the US captured 100,000 barrels of oil per day to feed the war machine" and I thought this thing must be some epic beast.

The terrorists better watch out! We're sending the war machine! It must have, like, sawblade hands and tank tracks and breathe fire and have machine gun turrets.

Imagine my disappointment when I learned that THE WAR MACHINE was just a metaphor and not a Mecha Godzilla

Your sweet aunt René well deck you in the fuckin' face!

Few things will get an adult to hit a kid as quickly as that kid questioning their religion. This, from people who insist "God is love"

I think I understand how it works.

Remember that LLMs are glorified auto-complete. They just spit out the most likely word that follows the previous words (literally just like how your phone keyboard suggestions work, just with a lot more computation).

They have a limit to how far back they can remember. For ChatGPT 3.5 I believe it's 24,000 tokens.

So it tries to follow instruction and spits out "poem poem poem" until all the data is just the word "poem", then it doesn't have enough memory to remember its instructions.

"Poem poem poem" is useless data so it doesn't have anything to go off of, so it just outputs words that go together.

LLMs don't record data in the same way a computer file is stored, but absent other information may "remember" that the most likely word to follow the previous word is something that it has seen before, i.e. its training data. It is somewhat surprising that it is not just junk. It seems to be real text (such as bible verses).

If I am correct then I'm surprised OpenAI didn't fix if. I would think they could make it so in the event the LLM is running out of memory it would keep the input and simply abort operation, or at least drop the beginning of its output.

Is this post a paradox?

I find it really concerning how little we seem to care about potentially harmful chemicals in our food.

"However, if someone is drinking a soda a day, every day, they should be careful and check out the ingredients.”

When I was a young teen I used to drink well over a liter per day of Mountain Dew. That was when it still contained bromine. I drank that much for nearly 10 years.

As someone who thought they lived in a sane society, I assumed it was safe to consume products that were labeled and sold for human consumption

What, no Debian on that list? Are you telling me that even after all these years I still haven't landed???

Same for Thunder and Liftoff, for me

TIL about error 418:

"I'm a teapot This server is a teapot, and it cannot brew coffee."

Apparently it was originally added as an April fools joke way back in 1998 but technically it is a valid error message that sites can actually use!

S_E_N_D

N_U_D_E_S

How could you not include the classic printer lp0 on fire!

I actually got that one around 2010 on Ubuntu. The printer wasn't actually on fire. If I recall it was caused by the network attached printer losing connection during a job

Huh, I can hear this meme

Suppose you were saying that about me. How would I prove you wrong? How could a thinking being express that it is actually sentient to meet your standards?

Also, I have never, ever actually received a so-called participation trophy. As far as I know they made it up just to be dicks

Maybe an app like FakeStandby would work.

If your device has an AMOLED screen it should be basically the same as having the screen turned off. You could just disable the screen timeout and use FakeStandby to turn off all the pixels without actually "turning off" the screen

Is that a reference to the Spout Lore podcast?

Vyng van Zumba (sp?) is a half-elf druid.

He comes from a long line of elfs, not those silly made-up elves

you aren't necessarily yet violating GPLv2, but you're removing a technical protection measure which is a violation of the DMCA.

Isn't overcoming a technical limit a violation itself? That's what made DeCSS illegal. They didn't have to prove anyone was actually copying DVDs with it, just that DeCSS could allow you to copy a DVD