BearOfaTime

Bingo.

Fuck these rogue agencies. They are not the law. FDA has overstepped its authority since pretty much the start.

FDR voiced concerns about an organization like the FDA, explicitly stating they have no authority to dictate how medicine is used (only to ensure it's safe and not adulterated)... And yet here we are, with Scheduled drugs and lists of approved uses.

This possibly does happen. I wouldn't be surprised at all, but... I'd suspect it would simply be a easier to do overseas rather than contend with the controls that are in place.

What you can order on the clear web and have shipped via USPS (from overseas) is pretty telling already. The DEA intercepts perhaps 1% of those packages - so few that overseas pharmacies will re-ship if it happens.

Imagine what you can order via dark web using crypto - if it's not connected to you other than an address (which you could send it to any address and simply steal the package), the risk is minimal.

While this is true (and a problem with current engines like Google), I could see having a local LLM doing the filtering for you based on your own criteria. Then you could do a wide-open search as needed, or with minimal filtering, etc.

When I'm searching for technical stuff (Android rom, Linux commands/how it works), it would be really helpful to have some really capable filtering mechanisms that have learned.

When I want to find something from a headline, then it needs to be mostly open (well, maybe filtering out The Weekly World News).

But it really needs to be done by my own instance of an LLM/AI, not something controlled elsewhere.

With your own customization, done locally.

Why does the liquid look photoshopped at the bottom?

You.

I like you.

(For you downvoters, OP formed the question in an ambiguous way. I highly recommend watching the movie Clue to see this gag used repeatedly to good effect).

Made me chuckle... And people are sleeping here, dammit!

Just observe any politician, pundit, etc.

Their objective isn't the discovery of truth or common ground, but to achieve particular goals through argumentation... aka Sophistry.

Hahahaha, right, right.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Fortran, Cobol, Assembler.

That's from the 60's. It's a Corvette competitor, I believe it used a vette as the base, was mid-engined. Forget the name

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15355238/ultra-rare-1964-pontiac-banshee-concept-headed-to-auction/

The VPN is to give you access to your files from anywhere, since you don't have the storage capacity on your laptop for all of them.

If you have an encrypted connection to home, laptop storage isn't a concern.

As a benefit, this also solves the risk of losing files that are only on the laptop, by keeping the at home.

Yea, Syncthing has it's moments (and uses - I keep hundreds of gigs between 5 phones and 5 laptops/desktops in sync with it).

Resilio does use the bittorrent protocol, but uses keys and authorization for shares. Give it a try, it may address your need to access files remotely. I use it to access my media (about 2TB) which clearly can't be sync'd to my laptop (or phone). I can grab any file, at any time.