"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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Hey Josh, you always stream either when I'm asleep or when I'm busy with the kids, so I'm gonna ask here - whatever happened to SneedForo? Just busy with other stuff or did you loose interest in it? I remember you mentioning loosing your xenforo license was supposed to be a big deal
 
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Slav Power said:
I think what people refer to as "Swiss cheese" is Emmental cheese, which firstly, isn't the only cheese that originates from Switzerland and secondly, it's about as logical as calling Cheddar "British cheese" because it's the most famous cheese that originates from the UK.

And to be clear, real cheddar is a very good cheese that's rich in flavor. Do not be misguided by the deep hatred towards both the processed garbage sold in the US under that name nor by the country of origin. The crumbly ones are the shit.

And as for the whole "Swiss are fucking stupid and do nothing good because I was at an airport for one day there and I hated how they speak" thing, I think anyone who has one of these two knifes can attest they can make really good shit that shockingly doesn't cost you an arm and a leg because every single company in Switzerland isn't Rolex.
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The one on the right is ~6$ here right now and it's unironically the best kitchen knife for that price. According to Victorinox it's a tomato knife but people use that shit for almost everything in the kitchen. Cuts through tomato, bread, meat, cheese, boxes, you could probably cut a bone in half with it and it'll still be sharp.

And it's a piss cheap piece of metal and plastic, and they know it, and they don't try to upsell it for more than it is despite the fact people know it's real value. Still Made in Switzerland, and it doesn't mean jack shit. Just like "Made in China" won't instantly mean that it'll fall apart in an instant, "Made in Switzerland" doesn't mean it's an overpriced piece of shit to scam people.
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Swiss cheese, is in fact, Emmental cheese, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Emmental cheese (Swiss). Swiss is not a cheese unto itself, but rather another free country with a fully functioning dairy system made useful by the cheesemaking traditions, capital infrastructure and vital bovine components producing a full Emmental cheese as defined by EU AOP law.

Many dairy consumers eat a modified version of the emmental cheese every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Emmental which is widely consumed today is often called Swiss, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Emmental cheese, developed by the Swiss.

There really are Swiss cheeses, and these people are eating them, but it is just a single Swiss cheese they eat. Swiss is a nationality: the people in the system that allocates the cow's resources to the other cheeses that you consume. These people are an essential part of a dairy system, but useless by itself; they can only function in the context of a complete dairying system. The swiss are often used in combination with the Emmental cheese-producing system: the whole cheese is basically Swiss with Emmentaler characteristics, or Emmental (Swiss). All the so-called Swiss cheeses are really Emmental (Swiss) cheeses!
 
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Claude Sigma said:
Brave just released "Leo", a new AI with which you can speak (much like GPT or Bing).

Let's see what its stance is on very important matters:
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Try asking about Lovecraft's cat again, but this time ask about the cat he owned as a child. Maybe that'll work.
I also wanna say that I hate how these fucking things always type in a beat-around-the-bush way instead of just giving you exactly what you asked for. Makes it feel like I'm reading a snippet from a news article.
 
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Claude Sigma said:
Brave just released "Leo", a new AI with which you can speak (much like GPT or Bing).

Let's see what its stance is on very important matters:
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Leo the Liar, more like.

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I went to ComicsAlliance to discover that it didn't have a job listings page.
When I confronted it about that, "This chat is too long" was its exit card.

More than half of the population will take anything AI say at face value.
We are about to enter a whole new era of post-truth retardation.
 
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Claude Sigma said:
Brave just released "Leo", a new AI with which you can speak (much like GPT or Bing).

Let's see what its stance is on very important matters:
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I know this will piss certain someone off, maybe not so much now since BAT is effectively dead, but Brave is almost Gab levels of tech grift.

Their browser is the closest thing to a competent product, but even then it's a ton of bullshit. They've been known for injecting referral links and not blocking certain ads or tracking elements from companies that pay them without ever clearly notifying the users of it, and recently they got a shitton of slack because their browser was installing a VPN on people's computers without their consent, which can be a massive security risk since it essentially installs a network device in your OS. Oh yeah, and it's based on Chromium like every other fucking browser out there.

Their search engine is basically a clone of DuckDuckGo, but somehow it's even worse and less functional than DuckDuckGo. Much like DDG it's a meta search engine that uses Bing as it's crawler, yet Brave Search manages to make the experience much worse. The results are off, the additional shit they put on top of it is useless and gets in the way, and you're seriously better off using DuckDuckGo. I tried Brave Search for like a day or two and instantly noticed that it's worse than DDG which is my default search engine. Zero reason to use it over DDG.

So it really doesn't surprise me that they're jumping onto the "AI chat" bandwagon and failing miserably, because it's a hot topic nowadays, so they want a piece of that cake too. Except the reason Bing AI is so great is because Microsoft partnered with ClosedOpenAI, AKA the people that made ChatGPT and DALL-E, which is exactly what's powering Bing Chat and Bing Create. It's why despite all the censorship it's still such an effective tool, because it's actually developed by a company that specializes in machine learning and not by some grifter schmucks.

Funnily enough, Vivaldi manages to come off as less of a grift than Brave. Yes, their blog posts are just advertisements for how great and amazing their browser is, yes, their browser suffers from a lot of bugs that aren't fixed for years, but they are always very upfront in how they monetize their browser, and with the recent update they've added additional forms of monetization while at the same time making it abundantly clear that this is something that's meant to give them cash. I'd trust them more than Brave because at the very least they try to be honest.

And if you really care about privacy, you're not going to install Brave or Vivaldi, you're going to install Firefox and then harden it to the point where it doesn't phone home in any way and blocks all the possible tracking you can think of. Because at the end of the day, both Brave and Vivaldi are proprietary projects you can't compile from source and are based on Chromium.

tl;dr: Brendan Eich is as much of a grifting faggot as Andrew Torba.
 
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Atlas Sneezed said:
whatever happened to SneedForo?
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I think the whole thing where private companies spurred on by troons were trying to extrajudicially regulate his website out of existence took his attention off forum development. But that's what we said about the Lowtax stream which ultimately happened anyways. So no need to lose hope for SneedForo just yet.
 
All I have to add to the cheese debate is Josh isn't too wrong, depending on when and where you can shop.

I'm old enough to remember commercials for Kraft Singles (individually packaged cheese slices for non-burgers); and one of the boasts in the commercial is how they're made with 100% milk and not oil and water like other brands, and that may not be an exact quote, but it's fucking very close. Then something happened in the mid to late 1990s, and even if they weren't lying before, something changed, and you could literally taste the change, and it wasn't good. My local-sih Wal-Mart carries Tillamook brand cheese, which is apparently true and authentic cheese to whatever criteria you want to set. I imagine food deserts and other places have to suffer with the Kraft or Good Value (Wal-Mart brand) poison.
 
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Kheapathic said:
Then something happened in the mid to late 1990s, and even if they weren't lying before, something changed, and you could literally taste the change, and it wasn't good. My local-sih Wal-Mart carries Tillamook brand cheese, which is apparently true and authentic cheese to whatever criteria you want to set.
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You will never be a real cheese. You have no aroma, you have no texture, you have no biological culture. You are a process extrusion twisted by sodium and coloring into a crude mockery of milk-based perfection.
 
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