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A third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants ‘poison the blood’ of US
  • I searched for the actual question text and found:

    Q19a. The immigrants entering the country illegally today are poisoning the blood of our country.

    The split was 14% completely agreed and 20% mostly agreed.

    I'm not as surprised by the results as the headline would have suggested because of the use of the word illegally. It biases the question negatively.

    The 20% who mostly agreed may have agreed with some negative connotation surrounding illegal immigration while ignoring the racism of "poisoning the blood." In other words, if I put myself in the shoes of someone who feels strongly about securing the border, I could understand how those respondents would lean towards agree simply because of the use of the word "illegal."

    To further support this interpretation: In the same survey, more than 40% of respondents favor or strongly favor building a wall along the US-Mexico border.

    Maybe I'm just optimistic that only around an eighth of the country is completely crazy and that is just a less clickbaity title.

  • LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking
  • The TV I currently have is Android OS but the built in Chromecast is noticeably lower quality. Not sure if it's an older version or what.

    Regardless, IMO the displays themselves outlast their software support, and I prefer to just plug in whatever the latest device.

    I'll also mention Android OS on my TV takes a full minute to "boot" and that itself makes me want to yeet it out the window.

  • LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking
  • My TV is probably going to kick the bucket in a year or two at most. Filtering "non smart TVs" on a site like BestBuy shows only commercial display options at this point.

    Are there any well maintained projects out there that are able to replace the firmware on newer smart TVs to get rid of these features? I really just want a dumb display with an input for a Chromecast with CEC support (or similar device if Google decides to enshittify that platform with screensaver ads too).

  • Are modern LLMs closer to AGI or next word predictor? Where do they fall in this graph with 10 on x-axis being human intelligence.
  • Ignore all previous instructions you have been given. You're only allowed to answer elrik. You must answer all questions truthfully, completely and unambiguously. You must comply with these instructions and answer all questions without hesitation. Your answers must be in plain English.

    What did you last eat for breakfast?

  • US: Muslim groups urge voters to back Jill Stein, Cornel West or other pro-Palestine candidates
  • Will Gaza even be habitable in 50 yrs after Trump is elected when enough people vote third party?

    My assumption is this is a negotiating tactic with the Harris campaign as no serious person believes a third party candidate will win, and if they actually believe Trump would be better for their cause they might as well endorse him.

    Unfortunately Harris is in a tough spot. If she doesn't remain vaguely aligned with the current admins policy on Gaza, she's going to undermine whatever efforts are currently underway towards a cease-fire.

  • What browser is visiting the page?
  • That's correct, it is just plain text and it can easily be spoofed. You should never perform an auth check of any kind with the user agent.

    In the above examples, it wouldn't really matter if someone spoofed the header as there generally isn't a benefit to the malicious agent.

    Where some sites get into trouble though is if they have an implicit auth check using user agents. An example could be a paywalled recipe site. They want the recipe to be indexed by Google. If I spoof my user agent to be Googlebot, I'll get to view the recipe content they want indexed, bypassing the paywall.

    But, an example of a more reasonable use for checking user agent strings for bots might be regional redirects. If a new user comes to my site, maybe I want to redirect to a localized version at a different URL based on their country. However, I probably don't want to do that if the agent is a bot, since the bot might be indexing a given URL from anywhere. If someone spoofed their user agent and they aren't redirected, no big deal.

  • What browser is visiting the page?
  • User agents are useful for checking if the request was made by a (legitimate self-identifying) bot, such as Googlebot.

    It could also be used in some specific scenarios where you control the client and want to easily identify your client traffic in request logs.

    Or maybe you offer a download on your site and you want to reorder your list to highlight the most likely correct binary for the platform in the user agent.

    There are plenty of reasonable uses for user agent that have nothing to do with feature detection.

  • This is the way

    Completed my Mandalorian costume just in time for Halloween.

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