That is a lovely analogy.

The Roman Pope loves Chicago-style pizza but can’t get any, while the Chicago Pope secretly prefers italian margherita pizza but can never let anyone know. It might actually get him deposed if it gets out.

They can’t really communicate much publicly, even calling each other on the phone all the time would raise suspicions in their own church, increasing the odds that they get deposed. They are both relatively tech savvy, but not savvy enough to encrypt their communications without help, so they agree to communicate in code on a public Catholic RP website.

Roleplaying as two cardinals meeting at a conclave in Rome, they discuss matters of the day and how the church (they both RP as Roman Catholics, but the Western Pope plays a cardinal sympathetic to the Western Church) should should react to it.

The season 1 finale ends with a shot of a comment on one of their posts:

This lady thinks you guys are the popes.

https://www.jezebel.com/post/am-i-crazy-or-are-these-guys-the-popes/

“The Chicago Papacy”, a prestige TV drama, imagines the present-day United States Catholic Church schisms from the Rome and names the Archbishop of Chicago “The One True Pope”. This happens during the tenure of Chicago-native Pope Leo XIV in Rome, and he and the Archbishop of Chicago go way back, and they have to work together to stop a fully-christofascist USA from launching a holy war across the globe.

I hear this criticism of LLMs all the time and I just don’t get it. They’re language models, they take language inputs and produce language outputs. They aren’t designed to do math. It’s like complaining that a reciprocating saw can’t do math.

What’s cooler than an American pope? Two American popes.

Tim Burchett is a sack of shit and anything he says should be given zero benefit of the doubt.

Gonna have to get one of those hats that hold beer, and some sort of pretzel bandolier.

At least the commute’s not so bad with the 🏳️‍⚧️ Omnibus line

Any sufficiently reliable magic is indistinguishable from science.

Oh cool, not sure how I missed that. cheers

2 things come to mind: A lot of people have no idea how to parse those errors and have no basis for evaluating which popups are serious and which are not, and a lot of people are forced by their employer to use systems that are kludged together and often have serious security vulnerabilities that they have no control over. These two things combine to condition people to ignore warnings that they really should not because they often have to in order to do their job. I can’t tell you how many internal websites I’ve seen that throw certificate errors because the sysadmin never bothered to set them up (usually excused by saying “they’re completely internal, it doesn’t need a cert”). We’ve built a system that forces people to ignore safety labels and then blames them when they get hurt.

Question for the internet at large: assuming I have an old router with openWRT on it, how should I keep it up to date? right now my strategy is “manually upgrade firmware whenever the notion enters my head and I have time” which is rare. My current firmware is several months old :/

After a quick search I found this https://dariusz.wieckiewicz.org/en/attended-sysupgrade-openwrt/ which seems like it could be made to run automatically with cron, but I don’t know if that’s A) doable, or B) advisable. Is there a community-recommended “set it and forget it” firmware update method out there?

That is undeniably a very cool kind of firefighter, but firefighting is a team sport and I think they’re all cool.

Firefighters are pretty cool.

The US is not safe. Please do not come here. It doesn’t matter what promises you get from our government. They are not operating in good faith. Don’t send your players here, don’t visit as spectators. Please, do not come here. The US is not safe.

I’m typing this on my Infinity Keyboard while sitting here in my Infinity Pajamas.

I treat it as a real question in medical settings. In some cases it can be helpful information for a provider. Even in the worst case it says “I’m not here for pleasantries, I got problems and I’m here to address them”.

Really though, it depends entirely on the person. With my partner I will try to give the most complete answer I can, with friends and coworkers it depends on how close our relationship is. With strangers it may be a completely perfunctory answer to a completely perfunctory question, especially if I’m not up for defending a non-perfunctory answer, but I like to keep my answers real when I have the spoons for it.

I have about 20 sites bookmarked with just their favicon that are sort of “first order access”, though I use some of them more regularly than others. At random intervals, one will catch my eye and I’ll think “I haven’t used that in a while, I don’t think I need that up there anymore” and I’ll remove it, usually while I’m at it I’ll remove others too. I have about a dozen folders too, these are more long-term storage, e.g. I have one for all my financial institutions (not to brag but I have several student loan servicers 😣), one for network security tools, one for rare media finding tools, etc. These are used less often and they usually get put there after I’ve had to go look them up several times. I tend to keep it well pruned though, I think I have maybe 200 distinct sites bookmarked.