I double-checked it bc I’m that kind of a person, but I did apparently remember it correctly too :D

Otoh small songbirds seldom live beyond 3 years in the wild :(

Just saw this article today about the phenomenon :/

AI used to remove visible differences from photographs criticised - BBC News

your bad dragon?

thank you for the detailed comment!

It will take years of work, but they made a great start on it.

Btw is it just me or parboiled rice tastes much worse than regular rice? Granted I’ve been avoiding it like the plague in the last two decades, but I have some bad memories of how flavourless and weird-textured it was.

(And since I learned the trick of cooking rice in salty, olive-oily water that I wait to boil away/absorb, that’s all I do, the end result tastes amazing compared those sad plastic bags of rice we cooked in my childhood.)

Was that red dress washed before? I always wash new clothes before the first wear, then just separate lights and darks in general. (Disclaimer: I own literally zero white clothes, so even the light ones are already pastel colours.)

I saw quite a few posts about it on hiking/sports subreddits in the olden days, it’s used for removing odour from sports shoes. I even tried it myself - depends on the shoe ofc, but like 30°C and lowest/no spin was completely fine. Pre-wipe the mud off, and add some worn old towels for padding, so it’s not just two shoes clanging around in the empty machine.

That must have been some very al dente rice. When cooked in a pan brown rice needs more than twice the cooking time than white.

I recently switched to a PyLova instance (a soft fork of PieFed), and so far this seems the most user-friendly of the three :)

Most likely. Some people in the bottom right have their face on the back of their head. (Also before I noticed that I checked in TinEye, and the earliest occurrence it found was Jan 2025.) And the whole pic has that AI way of smudging together shapes.

Same, but tbh I see like one ad every… half a year? I’m always startled when one actually gets through uBlock & AdGuard, it’s such a rare occasion.

thanks :)

According to the article, it is off by default:

According to Google’s updated privacy policy, the company still promises not to use Gmail, Drive, or Google Photos content for targeted advertising by default.

However, the policy now includes an important exception. Google says that restriction no longer necessarily applies “unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads.”

The change is connected to Google’s Personal Intelligence features, which allow services like Search and Gemini to access information from connected apps to provide more relevant recommendations.

For example, someone could give Google access to their Gmail inbox to help organize travel plans or find restaurant recommendations near a hotel reservation.

Under the updated policy, information shared for those personalized experiences could also be used to determine which advertisements appear.

What game is this from?

Sadly those flags are only temporary measures, and tend to get removed after a few months.

thanks :) need to bookmark some of these mirrors

I love that there are enough of those to be worth a separate wiki article.

I hear crypto bros swear by birdbaths xd

(I read this post 2 years ago and the “Repeat this process six more times with my six other bird baths” stuck with me xD)