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I mostly subscribe to Science channels like PBS Spacetime, Arvin Ash, Sabine Hossenfelder, Veritasium, The Science Asylum and Anton Petrov. Another channel I like a lot is Event Horizon, that has many interviews with scientists about astronomy, physics, search for alien life and artificial intelligence, among other things. The one below, about the Google language model, was particularly interesting, since it had some information I didn't see anywhere else:

A big leak about cyber warfare from russian secret service whistleblower angry about war in Ukraine codename “Vulkan Files”. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/30/vulkan-files-leak-reveals-putins-global-and-domestic-cyberwarfare-tactics

Captive orca Lolita set for release into ‘home waters’ after 50 years at Miami Seaquarium This might be one of the most satisfying stories I've ever shared. I've followed this poor girl's story since the time before time when I was young and living in South Florida. I hope it happens and it goes smoothly.

I've been thinking about doing this topic for a long time. The idea is to share your favorite channels, or the channels you are subscribed to. Here are mine: It's mostly mechanical stuff, restorations and car stuff, oh and Project Farm, he reviews everyday items in very innovative ways. My favorite ones are probably m539, south main auto, Baumgartner and ronald finger. I guess Primitive Technology is getting back in to the swing of things. Guess it would help to do a short description of each channel... South main auto - An honest mechanics shop and his day to day work Cutting Edge Engineering - an Aussie metal worker who fabricates and repairs parts for heavy duty machinery Marty T - A New Zealander living in the outback and restoring random junk M539 - BMW enthusiast who buys and repairs BMWs and usually sells them after Hoonigan - Ken Block media house which got famous with those Ken Block drift videos. They do random car stuff on that channel, but the quality is really random too. Throttle House - 2 Canadians (one is from England) reviewing cars Watch Wes Work - A small mechanics shop in a middle of no where Project Farm - Tool review/test channel (very useful channel) Tokyo Liama - Australian expat restoring a traditional Japanese house Baumgartner Restoration - An art conservator who restores paintings Andrew Camarata - A guy who builds a castle and plays around with his heavy machinery toys. Very long videos, but also very entertaining. Fuzzy Dice Project - How to restore cars as cheaply as possible Bedo's Letherwork - A cobbler and his day to day work Jafromobile - This channel is pretty old and niche. About a guy and his Hyundai Elantra trying to set good drag strip times. Mateusz Doniec - A very good fabricator Ronald Finger - A guy on a quest to restore a Pontiac Fiero. Good production quality. Primitive Technology - About a guy doing primitive technology. Think about what you could do if someone left you naked in a forest. my mechanics - A very meticulous tool restorer, who basically restores tools to better than new bad obsession motor sport - Two Englishmen on a never ending quest to create a 4 wheel drive rally mini. Geoffrey Croker - Man vs rust

Today is 1 April. I don't know if the channel is good or not, I don't watch it a lot.

Curiously enough, the biggest hurdle to installing the RTX 4070 TI was not fiddling with the cables. The computer was built cleanly, all I had to do was to just plug a new cable in. Getting the RTX 3060 12GB out of the PCI-E slot on the other hand, that was a challenge. Good thing I have really long fingers, that chunky be quiet! Dark Rock Pro and some of Asus' heatsinks almost completely prevented me from reaching the unlock button for the latch in a way so I could apply enough pressure on it to unlock. Card draws - with unaltered settings - 140W in Hogwarts Legacy on Ultra (1080p, with DLSS). 60° GPU, 65° hotspot with the fans silently spinning at 30%, 1100 RPM at 2760 MHz GPU clock. Idle power draw of the card is less than 8W, what with my (gaming) PC only having one monitor. Playing something less demanding keeps the card in idle mode and it has zero fan spinning. Guess fiddling with the power target or voltages would yield even better results at barely any performance cost. Conclusion: Faster, less noise and pretty good power consumption. The card got a whole lot of hate for the MRSP, which I understand, and it could have a better memory interface (or rather, it could have come with 16GB memory, like the 4080), but for me and my aspirations to play games at 1080p, well, I'll be good for a while now.

Managed to beat all bosses in SIFU. I found 3rd and bosses to be massive difficulty spikes. Now trying to spare them, which proves more difficult than I expected - I am training to parry and deflect more, which I think will be good for my kung-fu. I really like the combat system, though I don’t think bosses work as well as mobs. They seem to be more of a test of particular gameplay system, than interesting challenge in themselves.

I have no experience with PS5 version but am guessing it is basically like vanilla but with different control scheme. Most forbidden fist builds will still work well in vanilla, just not quite as well. It is still really, really powerful though. Various FF builds can solo POTD upscaled without armor. All the megabosses. Vanilla FF is a bit weaker than CP but plenty strong for regular POTD especially with a companion. The main thing the CP does regarding FF is it makes the weapon talent treated like a weapon. It generates focus, abilities that apply to weapons apply to the FF attack, it benefits from dual-wielding and taking two weapon fighting, and so forth. This stuff doesn't happen without the patch. I'm not sure resonant touch will work either. But you still have a lot of tools, particularly if you do something like the unbroken / FF, which I believe uses a large shield anyway, so those specs are more accurate for vanilla. So in vanilla the most important difference is the attack speed is a bit slower, so you might as well use a small shield. Xoti's Lantern (+1 monk resource per kill) and Tuotilo's Palm (has various monk bonuses) , or the large shield Akola's Apex Ward is very good and can be acquired early though it isn't obvious how (you have to tank your rep with the Huana early by murdering the people in Takano's house in the neketaka serpent crown district. Then next time you go to sea you'll spot a vengeance ship called servant of rikuhu. Sink it or board it to get the shield). Because your attack speed is slower you can't tank dex to the extent I suggested. Don't dump to 3, probably want more like 13 to 16 and compensate dumping might and / or INT. Use stats more like suggested in the unbroken / ff build. You don't have to dump INT to that extent but unless you're casting a lot of buffs it isn't really a problem. So for FF / troubadour (very interesting build) you'd want decent intelligence for your spells but pure FF doesn't much matter so it depends what you want to do. Max resolve. Put INT as high as you need it, but not maxed. The higher your INT the less dex you can have, but in vanilla I believe you can have significantly higher dex and be fine. Whatever dex value sets your attack speed the same as the curse is ideal, though it is fine if your attack speed is 2.5s and the curse lasts 2s. It just isn't max efficiency. It should be noted the ring of the solitary wanderer has a buff called "lone wolf" that gives -35% hostile effect duration. If you take eder with you it won't activate while you're standing close to each other. Which is fine, but you'll definitely want to keep up clarity of agony (-50% hostile effect duration) in that case. Or enlightened agony (gives smart also) if it doesn't make the curse too long. I use enlightened agony in my builds which allows base INT to be a bit lower. Strand of favor can help a bit too (-10% hostile effect duration). Otherwise you can follow the stats and item suggestions in the evergreen juggernaut build for that build or for a pure FF. Main advantage of pure FF is you get a big boost to accuracy from razer's edge, imagined pain, and more accuracy damage and penetration on forbidden fist from higher monk power level. And you get whispers on the wind which is super, super awesome. You flash around attacking enemies popping in and out of invisibility so there is great synergy with ajamuuts stalking cloak which stuns on attacking from invisibility. Basically with the cloak every time you use WOTW you'll stun five enemies. FF makes good multiclasses with literally everything, except cipher in vanilla. And I haven't personally tried FF/druid but it is probably fine. Of particular note to me are FF / unbroken (tanky striker), FF / troubadour (striker with summons and buffs), and FF / paladin (particularly gold pact knights get huge defensive bonuses like +7 armor from gilded enmity and stoic steel, and paladins can hand out exhortations to eder), barbarians (with blood storm and blooded etc you get massive attack speed and damage bonuses, so you can wear very heavy armor and still attack quite fast even with lowish dex). Ranger is also interesting for the accuracy buffs but you have to micromanage the animal a bit. And blood mage is top tier but rather technical learning how to play. I dont think you can make Eder a devoted. He has the default generic fighter subclass...pretty sure. I havent experimented with npc builds nearly to the extent of the main character. I've played with a party a few times. I like eder as a swashbuckler (fighter/rogue). He doesn't lose much tankiness by multiclassing and he gains rogue goodies and a lot of damage when afflictions are applied. This goes well with your FF guy because FF attack causes enfeebled so any character with that will be subject to sneak attacks. Add persistent distraction and they'll be subject to deathblows as well for a total of +80% damage from eder. This is a decent build I've used before (though I'd take conqueror stance vs mob for the accuracy and deflection) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1398100119 Eder would also do great as a pure fighter. I wouldn't make him a pure rogue. Pure rogues do best as assassins which he can't do. But pure fighters get some decent high level stuff. IMO you're best off with eder as swashbuckler though. Dual wielding sabres is popular because there are so many good sabres and they're high damage (though somewhat limited being slashing damage only), but there are a lot of good weapons and he can use whatever you want really.

Ok, thanks for all the details! Especially the part without the community patch!

"Why you enter this realm of decay and despair?" boomed the eldritch giant at the center of the Mausoleum. There was determination in the occultist's voice. "I seek the old knowledge!" he answered. The giant nodded and gave him a sad look. No one ever came looking for a quickie.

Ah. Well still worth using. +15% damage isn't that much compared to transcendent suffering and forbidden curse. The action speed buff helps a lot in vanilla because you don't get the dual wielding or two weapon style. No reason really not to install at least the basic CP though...unless doing an ultimate run I guess. Here ya go OP, just download and extract to the override folder https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/335

My favourite Australian entertainer about a famous book and how it's read

Mostly dilettante type stuff like Kurzgesagt, Tom Scott, History Matters, Epic History, PBS Space Time. Other than that some WoW streamers, Forgotten Weapons and Russian language learning channels to round it out.

@PK htiw klaw eriF Color me embarrassed... Idk why I never subbed to him. I think he got me to watch Wolf Children. @Bartimaeus I'll give them a go again. I know my brother watches them all the time. But he consumes TV Shows and movies like a crackhead. @Hurlshort Maybe you find some new stuff here. @majestic I heard about the guy, but never really dared to watch his videos. Forgot where I heard about him though, probably from some streamer.

HA! Good Fun!

torment has gotten more love than most older games which didn't sell, fallout being a noteworthy exception. https://www.beamdog.com/games/planescape-torment-enhanced/ https://www.inxile-entertainment.com/games/torment-tides-of-numenera the inxile title had actual planescpe developer folks working on their updated version. converse, josh sawyer was the web guy for torment. obsidian don't have a planescape license and their ties to the title is increasing remote. so... HA! Good Fun!

Problem with no community patch FF, you can't use lightning strikes, swift flurry-heartbeat drumming and enervating blows with your FF attack its so bad.

Yep I can verify this can easily solo the game, BUT this combo requires community patch for focus generation to work correctly. I'd do a pure forbidden fist, you don't have to cast spells as often, and it doesn't require the community patch (though I'd recommend using it anyway). The main thing to note is with a forbidden fist using the forbidden fist attack causes "forbidden curse" to build up, so you have to have a pretty specific stat spread for you to be able to spam forbidden fist without damaging yourself. The relationship between intelligence (makes the curse longer, but also your buffs), dexterity (how fast you can spam forbidden fist), and resolve (reduces the curse duration) is a little tricky but once you get it right it is very easy. Basically you want 35 resolve or as close to that as you can get. It is actually doable with the right items, boons, and buffs, even without a steadfast inspiration (which soul blade could give you for +5 resolve). Check this thread for specifics and also an alternate multiclass build that would fulfill what you're looking for. Then your intelligence should be no higher than 13, in which case you can dump dexterity to 3. You will still attack once per 2s roughly with monk's swift flurry. Alternatively you can dump intelligence, which allows you to attack a little faster, but your buffs won't last very long. Then again only buffs a SC monk really needs is swift flurry and clarity of agony. Clarity of agony is important for reducing hostile effect duration by 50%. With 35 res, 13 INT, 3 dex, swift flurry, clarity of agony, ring of the solitary wanderer, two-weapon style, dual-wielding, and strand of favor (all available before halfway through the game) the curse lasts about 2s and you can attack every 2s so it is perfectly balanced. If you want to be extra safe dump dex to 3 and leave INT no higher than 10, gives you a little more room regarding getting your resolve to 35. You should note without the community patch forbidden fist does not benefit from dual wielding, so in that case you don't dump dex, the curse will last the same amount of time but with 3 dex you can only attack once per 2.8s or so (with robes or no armor, which you don't need), so you'd want dex a bit higher. You don't need much CON, PER should be high, can have might wherever really, don't need a lot because the FF attack has a +50% damage modifier and you get another +60% or so from transcendent suffering. Then you can make a very simple script to buff yourself with clarity of agony with a cooldown of however long it lasts for your character, cast swift flurry when you don't have the dexterity inspiration, and attack with forbidden fist. Three blocks. If you want another good alternative FF / unbroken, this is made by @Not So Clever Hound

Tomo-chan is a Girl 13 Jun and Tomo go out, but their relationship can’t progress because they are not dating. And they can’t date since her father will only allow it when Jun defeats him. Funny how Jun creates a complex story in his head about her father wanting someone who can protect Tomo by her side, while her father is just being jealous.

Were going to need bigger tear gas launching drones.

Well, then he needs to beat up his writers.

Baking helped Janie Deegan as she recovered from addiction. Now, she's using her bakery to help others with an "open door hiring policy"

Rescued dolphin thrives 1 year after arriving in Florida Keys

North Carolina Church Raises Thousands to Pay Off Cafeteria Lunch Debt For Every County School

Sorcery is kinda neat, though I can't say I use any of the sorcery spells much. The teleporter is great though for serial base builders (guilty as charged). Corrupted health traits are also pretty neat (immunity to status effects baby!). The stamina loss when corrupted is kind of a severe drawback though. Still not entirely convinced the corrupted traits are really worth giving up half your stamina for. Journey is nice. The idea is good, the implementation is... Funcom, I guess. For example: it doesn't update when you do things out of order, or when you're not on that specific journey (eg. going to Sepermeru and are in two different Journeys, even though they're in the same place and are most likely done at the same time). Might not be a big deal in general for new players, more of a nuisance for old hats, possibly. the very first journey steps only work when you do what they expect at the point they expect you to do it (eg. if it says you gotta craft a mace/club, it has to be a stone one or it won't register) Haven't done all of them yet so I don't know if there's still journeys for all the lore stones, I'd be a bit sad if there weren't though. If there are, and there'd be more direction to finding all of them, I'd be all for it though since I never managed without outside help, even after playing the game for all these years now... I noticed the intro area changed when I went to try and do the journey steps. Guess I have an excuse to add yet another character to my save... As for the crafting hammer, I like it for general building, I don't like it as much for more specific items (like decorations and crafting stations), because those often require very specific/rare components and having to lug those around is often more annoying than just churning them out at a bench and then placing them (imho). Then again, since building no longer gives xp ( ) might as well enter creative mode and not bother with all the material gathering, I suppose One thing I'm noticing, since I'm on a fairly fresh character now, is that Isle of Siptah, after the massive nerfs to it, is now significantly easier than Exiled Lands. Bit of a shame that, in my opinion. It's also getting kinda ignored in some of the new events (eg. current battlepass-related event cannot be done on Siptah). Sure, makes sense lore-wise, but still ...

Tomo-chan is a Girl 8-12 Some bullies decided to mess with Misuzu and Carol to get back at Tomo. Why they wouldn’t expect her to find out is beyond me. Not to mention that they knew her surname and it’s the same of the Dojo they are terrified of. Back in middle school Jun actually thought Tomo was a boy. Even though he had seen her coming out of a female bathroom before. Misuzu’s new plan: push Jun down the stairs and have Tomo catch him. It didn’t end well. And karma is a bitch.

Stanford Medicine scientists transform cancer cells into weapons against cancer

Woman reunites with camera 13 years after losing it in a river. See the miraculously preserved pics

Don't know about you guys but I think good news is more important than ever.

When a 9-year-old girl didn’t want her goat to be slaughtered, county fair officials sent deputies after it I'm from rural nowhere and have seen a lot of kids back out of selling their animals for slaughter but I've never seen a reaction like this.

Speaking of long form videos channels, this was for the longest while the only channel I subscribed to: Joe's not been very active mostly because he's been unable to properly finish his The Witcher 3 video. It was supposed to be one video about the trilogy but YouTube had technical issues uploading an eight hour 1080p60 video and so he split it in three parts, reworked them, and only managed to release two of them in three years now. He even deleted his 5000$-a-month Patreon account because he feels bad about not finishing it. I guess it'll be done when it is done, in other words, there's a good chance that The Winds of Winter will release earlier. Other noteworthies, just without images: SummoningSalt - long form speedrun documentaries. RLM - well, needs no real introduction, been a fan of theirs for a long while now, even before they moved to YouTube. Plus some other bits and pieces that probably aren't too interesting.

Paramount owns Showtime, where it airs in the US, so that makes sense.

So I just ordered a 24 GB RX7900 XTX. Significant discount over other available RTX4080 cards, which is pretty much what it equates to, except way more VRAM and way worse RT performance. I dunno, it just kinda happened. I was resigned to not spending boatloads of money on PC parts, but to be honest I had started noticing the VRAM problem in other games as well.

Are you sure? I know of another new law, or perhaps axing an old law is more correct here, that is very popular with the kids. Just not Swedish pizza.