kbf's comments

On: What the Black Hawk pilots could see, just before the crash

[kbf]

The sentence you highlighted holds the answer.

On: Elon Musk Takes Aim at Reddit

[kbf]

>(legally)

You’re operating on presumption that there’s still rule of law in the US. Elon Musk also has de facto control of the government.

On: Website for USAID appears to be offline

[kbf]

I figured linking straight to the site was good way to just show what’s going on and assumed most people interested would understand the context, but I see how it might not have been the best idea.

[dang → kbf]

I think one can argue it either way and you did nothing wrong!

On: Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024

[kbf]

Not german, but my parents reason for getting rid of their tesla this week was Musk going crazy

On: Poké Transporter GB [video]

[kbf]

I posted the video as it might be more interesting to most people. The Github page can be found here: https://github.com/GearsProgress/Poke_Transporter_GB

On: Google is no longer claiming to be carbon neutral

[kbf]

Google needs 5% of my country’s total energy consumption to run a single data center.

On: YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injection

[kbf]

This already happened after the “adpocalypse”. A lot of channels turned off ads on their videos and started doing direct sponsorships instead. After a while, YouTube decided they would just show ads on every video, even if the uploader had disabled them.

On: Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns

[kbf]

>Yet, for all we know and ever will know, it's exactly how their feature might work.

We already know how it works, it’s based on App Intents. It’s how Shortcuts has worked for years, just instead of meticulously making your shortcuts for each automation you want to do, you essentially get an ML model to make one on the fly.

On: Musk fired 80% of Twitter and everyone thought that Twitter was doomed

[kbf]

The company might still be around, but the product has suffered major damage. I’ve been hopelessly addicted to Twitter for a long time, and couldn’t get myself to stop using it after the sale even if it went against my morals. But over time the site just got so unusably bad that I eventually couldn’t put up with it anymore and the problem solved itself.

On: Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related diseases

[kbf]

I started on Remicade, but sadly I was one of the few who didn’t see results and I managed to get a lot sicker while waiting for it to do its thing. I got put on Upadacitinib and so far I feel a lot better, if it keeps working this well then I’m very happy to just have a pill to take daily. It’s pretty new, but from what I’m hearing it’s very effective.

[jpm_sd → kbf]

Upadacitinib has been a huge success for someone in my family. Spectacularly effective.

This is after trying the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, 5-ASAs, adalimumab, ustekinumab, and vedolizumab, none of which offered more than minor relief.

[spondylosaurus → kbf]

Fingers crossed for the new pill! I've also heard that JAK inhibitors work wonder for a lot of people who didn't get results from TNF inhibitors. And it's probably way easier to tinker with the dose if need be :P