secretly a wizard @sleepysalamancer - Tumblr Blog

Happy May the Fourth! I added a second page to this comic from last year!

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

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Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

ex0skeletal-undead

A video for disabling on Windows which made it very easy:

spyderverse

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

ms-demeanor

Hey by the way if you're an American and you're against the war, it's your duty to call out the shit that is insane and monstrous and wrong.

If someone says something that you know to be wrong, say something. Push back on it. Iran didn't start this war. They haven't been at war with the US for forty seven years. The US didn't have to support Israel's strikes with this kind of escalation (we haven't in the past, in fact Trump hasn't in the past). The Iranian people are not looking to the US as liberators. The Strait of Hormuz was always going to be used tactically in this way, it is absurd to suggest that the Iran would open it because it is the single best method of leverage they have to resist annihilation from a superpower. Bombing civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Saying that an entire culture will be destroyed is genocidal.

There is no moral reason for the US to do this, the reasons that the US is doing this are oil and to destabilize the region. Hubris, cruelty, and a vile old man who wants to give himself a hero's legacy play a part as well.

You should be saying out loud to the people around you "This war is unjust, unnecessary, and cruel, and every reason our leaders are giving us to tell us why we're doing it is a lie."

People should know you feel this way. Some people will feel the same way, and it will be good for you and for them to know that you're not alone. Some people will NOT feel this way and it will be good for them to know that there are people all around them who haven't bought into the violent propaganda of empire.

ms-demeanor

Simple things to say to push back:

There is no justification for bombing water and power infrastructure for ninety million people; that will kill thousands of civilians and is a war crime.

Iran was bombed while they were negotiating with the countries that bombed them; they were willing to make the agreements requested by the US and Israel before they were bombed.

The Strait was open in February. If the US and Israel hadn't attacked Iran there would have been no reason for Iran to close it.

You can't be an "imminent threat" for forty seven years, so either Trump is lying about the immanency or is lying about Iran being at war with us for half a century.

ms-demeanor

Correct! If you are enlisted you made one really bad decision already, you don't have to make more. You can become a conscientious objector if possible, but if that's not possible it is better to refuse orders and go to prison than to participate in atrocity.

ramenyul

project hail mary is like i'll make you believe that friendship will save the world. i'll make you remember that our society rests on the backs of teachers and scientists. i'll make you see that even the most cowardly can be brave. i'll make you horny for sandra huller. thank you greatest scifi film of the last 10 years

cuttledreams-bugs

Finally drew the Bugs ✨ (plus a few friends)

prguitarman

Happy Anniversary. This is the original post. On this day in 2011 I was doing a charity drive for the natural disasters in Tōhoku and drew this. A few hours later I turned it into a gif and posted it here.

Here’s the original doodle before I drew it into a GIF

prguitarman

Happy 14th birthday Nyan Cat! The original post originated here on Tumblr

prguitarman

A lot has changed these past 15 years but it’s delightful to see this little cat continuing to zip past every corner of the internet. Happy 15th birthday to Nyan Cat!

Thank you to everybody who has kept it going all this time. Drew a special cake version today to celebrate 🎂✨

onenicebugperday

Sunburst candy bolas spider, species undescribed, Cyrtarachninae, Araneidae

Photographed in Thailand by Nicky Bay // Facebook // Website

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

onenicebugperday

I see lots of people asking why this isn’t called a crab spider because it looks like an actual crab. There is already a family of spiders called crab spiders: family Thomisidae. The lady above is an orbweaver in the family Araneidae, so giving her a common name with the word crab in it would be confusing!