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Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

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PayPal • Venmo

My partner's been horribly sick thanks to a combination of stress, a neglectful family, and a deviated septum, and we need to pay for food and antibiotics until they can recover from their latest bout of pneumonia and hopefully get the sinuplasty they need in the near future.

While we're also hoping to raise money so I can apply for a work permit and permanent residency in Canada, that's less pressing right now- once Newt is feeling better, we can complete the process for their disability funding application and finally have an income of our own. We just need to get them there.

If you're capable of helping, it would be deeply appreciated. Thank you.

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everyone is meeting me in the grotto

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it doesn’t have to be good it just has to be done

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slightly unusual gryphons

(more slightly unusual gryphons)

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i rly rly hate how this site chased so much of its poc userbase away. it feels like i'm hanging out in an ethnostate sometimes

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Very endeared by how Noelle shares food items with Kris... even if this particular one hasn't happened yet in game

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get got nerd

the angy,,,

Eurasian Nightjar, photographed by Valia Pavlou (Source)

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splatoon rated R edition and it's exactly the same but now you can understand the inkling language

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I think venus flytraps should be intelligent and ambulatory. I think they should get into the cupboards. I think they should purr when you pet them.

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one time, as a kid, I watched someone make an omelette. after stewing on the idea for a full day, I asked my mother how it worked, got a basic lesson, and then proceeded to spend the next three months in the omelette mines making 3-5 omelettes every single day (depending on how many of my siblings were left with any tolerance for eating them) until I felt I had really truly certainly gotten a grasp on the concept of the omelette

I then repeated this every time I learned a recipe, which is funny because I didn't even like cooking beyond a passing interest, I was just really interested in the idea of being able to max out the skill or something

as soon as I demonstrated mastery over something, I immediately dropped it and moved onto the next thing, and this was an understood pattern to the point where my siblings would try to prompt me into spending a period of fixation on whatever they wanted to eat at the time, and then they'd have several servings of it a day until they got sick of it and started to hate it

but them enjoying it wasn't really the goal. largely tangential. I mostly just wanted to get it down and then move on.

moral of the story: none

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not to be an american but like. air conditioning is the greatest invention of all time.

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Opalised dinosaur femur. Registration no. P 208014.

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This one goes out to that $300 shiny bubble mew card i'll never have

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i just destroyed every road that leads to rome