https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

A loaded question is a form of complex question that contains a controversial assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt).[1]

Such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool: the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner’s agenda.[2] The traditional example is the question “Have you stopped beating your wife?” Without further clarification, an answer of either yes or no suggests the respondent has beaten their wife at some time in the past. Thus, these facts are presupposed by the question, and in this case an entrapment, because it narrows the respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed.

I think that all sensible people know that the Nacho Cheese Doritos are more addictive than the Cool Ranch Doritos.

I mean, they did make a lot of money, but they also had an extremely high valuation.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/pe-ratio

NVIDIA PE ratio as of November 20, 2025 is 48.45.

Something like 20 is typical for a mature company. Tech companies have, in the past, often had higher ratios, but that’s based on their expectation to grow a lot rapidly, and expecting NVidia to dramatically grow from their current — already very high — valuation is asking a lot.

If NVidia were a small tech company that was doing well and clearly had a lot of market to expand into rapidly, that would be one thing.

I think that in general, the market has been pretty good to NVidia. Their share price is up 31.22% since the start of the year. 1,247% over the past five years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_KEPD_350

Germany apparently has 600 Taurus air-launched cruise missiles.

They apparently have a next-gen longer-range variant coming out in 2029, and are ordering 600 of those.

If I had to make a guess, the second batch — exactly the same size — presumably is to replace the first, which means that they’re presumably not gonna need (all?) the first batch in four years.

Ukraine apparently also requested some.

In May 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Defence said that Ukraine had requested the missile during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.[16] In interviews in June and July 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius said that Germany would not supply Ukraine with long-range missiles.[17][18][19] In January 2024, the German Bundestag voted against the supply of the Taurus missile to Ukraine.[20] In February 2024, the German Bundestag and Chancellor Olaf Scholz again expressly refused Ukraine’s request while agreeing to deliver longer range weapons.[21][22] In May 2025 newly elected chancellor Friedrich Merz made more ambiguous statements regarding Taurus, that their delivery to Ukraine was within the ‘realm of possibility’ and that the discussion about their delivery to Ukraine would not be public.[23][24]

The “See also” section on that article is bonkers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fronczak_triple_disappearance

There’s Mono. I don’t know what portion of .NET compatibility issues that addresses in 2025.

https://www.onpointcontractingusa.com/blog/hail-damage-in-colorado/

• During 2023, reports of baseball-sized hail (over 3 inches) in Colorado surged nearly threefold since 2019, climbing from 12 to 34, pointing to more frequent extreme hail events.

• Similarly, reports of softball-sized hail (approximately 4 inches) increased to 13 in 2023, according to NWS Denver, nearly tripling earlier counts and signaling a worrying escalation in storm intensity.

Aside from property damage, I imagine that it kinda sucks to be caught outside if softball-sized hail is coming down.

Thanks for adding it!

It’s also possible to make homes resistant to disasters, but that also costs money itself. A lighthouse is an extreme example — it can ignore wind-blown hurricane debris and flooding.

But they are not cheap to build.

Meta’s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun plans to leave the company to launch his own startup focused on a different type of AI called “world models,” the Financial Times reported.

World models are hypothetical AI systems that some AI engineers expect to develop an internal “understanding” of the physical world by learning from video and spatial data rather than text alone.

Sounds reasonable.

That being said, I am willing to believe that an LLM could be part of an AGI. It might well be an efficient way to incorporate a lot of knowledge about the world. Wikipedia helps provide me with a lot of knowledge, for example, though I don’t have a direct brain link to it. It’s just that I don’t expect an AGI to be an LLM.

EDIT: Also, IIRC from past reading, Meta has separate groups aimed at near-term commercial products (and I can very much believe that there might be plenty of room for LLMs here) and aimed advanced AI. It’s not clear to me from the article whether he just wants more focus on advanced AI or whether he disagrees with an LLM focus in their afvanced AI group.

I do think that if you’re a company building a lot of parallel compute capacity now, that to make a return on that, you need to take advantage of existing or quite near-future stuff, even if it’s not AGI. Doesn’t make sense to build a lot of compute capacity, then spend fifteen years banging on research before you have something to utilize that capacity.

https://datacentremagazine.com/news/why-is-meta-investing-600bn-in-ai-data-centres

Meta reveals US$600bn plan to build AI data centres, expand energy projects and fund local programmes through 2028

So Meta probably cannot only be doing AGI work.

uncensored

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?nsfw=true

reposts

If you’re browsing “All” instead of “Subscribed” — I recommend building a subscription list of interest — there’s a bot, @[email protected] that mirrors posts to Reddit to communities on lemmit.online. You can either block the bot or block the instance if you don’t want that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people_in_Slovenia

According to the 2002 census, there were 3,246 Romani individuals living in Slovenia.[1] They constitute 0.5 percent of the total population.[2] The Slovenia Roma speak Balkan Romani and Italian.[3] The Roma have been living in Slovenia since the 15th century.[4]

So did they just now become a threat, or was it for the past six centuries too?

CloudFlare is going to have someone talking directly to a CloudFlare IP address, so it’s going to be visible.

AWS or GCP provide servers which might be behind something like CloudFlare. If they were deployed like that, I don’t believe that there’d be a straightforward way to determine that that’s where the server is hosted.

If it’s directly-accessible, and not using a CDN like CloudFlare, then it’d work the same way as if you were checking whether they’re using CloudFlare, just do a whois query on its IP address. I don’t know a real instance offhand directly-accessible on AWS, but to grab a random AWS hostname and Google Cloud Platform hostname:

$ host ec2-23-20-1-1.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
ec2-23-20-1-1.compute-1.amazonaws.com has address 23.20.1.1
$ whois 23.20.0.0|grep ^NetName
NetName:        AMAZON-EC2-USEAST-10
NetName:        AMAZON-IAD
$ host 3.192.170.108.bc.googleusercontent.com
3.192.170.108.bc.googleusercontent.com has address 108.170.192.3
$ whois 108.170.192.3|grep ^NetName
NetName:        GOOGLE
$

For a real host, we can just ad-hoc scrape lemmy.world’s instance list:

$ curl -s https://lemmy.world/instances |tr '}' '\n'|grep -o 'domain":".[^"]*'|sed 's/domain":"//' >threadiverse-hosts.txt
$ xargs <threadiverse-hosts.txt -n1 host -- >threadiverse-hosts-resolved.txt
$ grep "has address" threadiverse-hosts-resolved.txt |cut -d" " -f4|xargs -n1 host -- >threadiverse-hosts-reverse-resolved.txt
$ grep amazonaws.com threadiverse-hosts-reverse-resolved.txt|head -n1
75.184.193.54.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-54-193-184-75.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.
$ grep 54.193.184.75 threadiverse-hosts-resolved.txt|head -n1
c63b-77-100-144-83.ngrok-free.app has address 54.193.184.75
$

So there’s the hostname of a real instance using AWS directly, c63b-77-100-144-83.ngrok-free.app.

$ host c63b-77-100-144-83.ngrok-free.app|head -n1
c63b-77-100-144-83.ngrok-free.app has address 184.72.44.51
$ whois 184.72.44.51|grep ^NetName
NetName:        AMAZON-EC2-7
NetName:        AMAZON-SFO
$

There’s also istheservicedown.com, but it also appears to rely on CloudFlare.

There’s isitdownrightnow.com, which appears not to use CloudFlare.

You can monitor instance downtime at:

https://lestat.org/

To repeat my comment here:

https://lemmy.today/post/41970730/20432766

I mean, it’s easy to check whether a given instance is using CloudFlare.

$ host lemmy.world|head -n1
lemmy.world has address 104.26.9.209
$ whois 104.26.9.209|grep ^NetName
NetName:        CLOUDFLARENET
$

You can browse anonymously on any instance that permits doing so, so if you just want to browse during an outage, you can do that anywhere.

IMHO, having an account on a second Threadiverse instance isn’t necessarily a terrible idea, not just because of CloudFlare outages, but because instances do have outages for various reasons. I have an account on olio.cafe (PieFed, not on CloudFlare) and on lemmy.today (Lemmy, not on CloudFlare) because I wanted to try out PieFed, and I have fallen back to that to post before if lemmy.today has issues.

That being said, I didn’t intentionally try to avoid CloudFlare. I mean, they’re used by a lot of major sites, and I don’t expect them to have a lot of downtime. I mean, every Threadiverse instance has had downtime for some reason or another. I’ve had Internet outages, as well as electricity outages. Not all that common or usually an extended thing, but they happen.

I mean, it’s easy to check whether a given instance is using CloudFlare.

$ host lemmy.world|head -n1
lemmy.world has address 104.26.9.209
$ whois 104.26.9.209|grep ^NetName
NetName:        CLOUDFLARENET
$

You can browse anonymously on any instance that permits doing so, so if you just want to browse during an outage, you can do that anywhere.

IMHO, having an account on a second Threadiverse instance isn’t necessarily a terrible idea, not just because of CloudFlare outages, but because instances do have outages for various reasons. I have an account on olio.cafe (PieFed, not on CloudFlare) and on lemmy.today (Lemmy, not on CloudFlare) because I wanted to try out PieFed, and I have fallen back to that to post before if lemmy.today has issues.

That being said, I didn’t intentionally try to avoid CloudFlare. I mean, they’re used by a lot of major sites, and I don’t expect them to have a lot of downtime. I mean, every Threadiverse instance has had downtime for some reason or another. I’ve had Internet outages, as well as electricity outages. Not all that common or usually an extended thing, but they happen.

Took down Framework’s website, which I was using.

So, there are a couple of reasons to use CloudFlare, but I suspect that the reason that a lot of people are doing so is to deal with DDoSes, which are hard to deal with otherwise.

Like, my home instance, lemmy.today, doesn’t use CloudFlare, so it isn’t affected by a CloudFlare outage. But…it was also knocked offline for a few days about a month back by a DDoS.

A lot of major sites do depend on CloudFlare, so they probably aren’t going to have a horrendous amount of downtime — like, any issue that comes up is probably gonna have a lot of engineers banging on it pretty quickly.

It’s back up now.

!actuallyinfuriating

Ah, yeah, thanks, though the community name is incorrect (needs an underscore) and is missing the instance name.