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**Prologue**     A watercolor sunset, it seemed, to Farrah Baxter’s edible-bleared scrutiny. Such psyche-scorching pigments—shades of aureolin, gold ochre, madder carmine, crimson alizarin, and benzimidazolone orange—seeming to flow and melt into one another, a soup fit for deities.    Her knit wool beanie caressed her upper eyelids, pinned by the heavy black hood of a sweatshirt she’d “borrowed” from an ex-boyfriend. Most of her pink-and-purple-dyed layers of hair were restrained, which suited her mood perfectly. Earphones ascended from the sweatshirt’s pocket to her ears, spilling forth Mr. Lif’s “Phantom.” Farrah loved the song, but not her current circumstanc...

I (18F) had a very intense friendship with my former **bsf** that started when we were \~12. We were extremely close, but over time things became toxic, competitive, and manipulative on both sides. I did things I deeply regret. The friendship ended badly, with no real closure. Years later, she’s back in my orbit through my younger brother, and it’s bringing up old insecurities and a need for closure. I don’t know how to deal with it. I’m 18 now, but this all started when I was around **12**, on the first day of my first year of secondary school. There was a girl crying—stress, I think—and I helped her calm down. That was my **bsf**. We instantly became friends because we di...

**Prologue**     A watercolor sunset, it seemed, to Farrah Baxter’s edible-bleared scrutiny. Such psyche-scorching pigments—shades of aureolin, gold ochre, madder carmine, crimson alizarin, and benzimidazolone orange—seeming to flow and melt into one another, a soup fit for deities.    Her knit wool beanie caressed her upper eyelids, pinned by the heavy black hood of a sweatshirt she’d “borrowed” from an ex-boyfriend. Most of her pink-and-purple-dyed layers of hair were restrained, which suited her mood perfectly. Earphones ascended from the sweatshirt’s pocket to her ears, spilling forth Mr. Lif’s “Phantom.” Farrah loved the song, but not her current circumstanc...

Hey all, it's really early into the season of course, and there's a lot of positive here, but I want to focus on some issues I've come across that I wanted to discuss; this isn't a complaint post, but rather a piece of constructive criticism with my best wishes for improvement. * 1. Sorties' Drafted Combatants. This feature goes against the spirit of sorties. Adding a set of Combatants that grant you a bonus when you select them inside the sortie when you own them has a few issues; for one, it punishes you for trying to enjoy yourself and trying out your own strategies and build ideas -- this is completely counter-productive. Secondly, it creates a forced "met...

Hello everyone! Quick note before we start: I had some life stuff going on the past few days and had to take a short break from the series, sorry about the gap. Picking it back up from here. Last time we looked at system prompts, safety training, and jailbreaking. The short version: a system prompt is a primacy-slot instruction block, safety training is a thin fine-tuned layer on top of a base model that never forgot anything, and jailbreaks work by confusing that layer or (via abliteration) surgically removing its signal from the weights. For anyone who missed the earlier days: * Day 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatbotRefugees/comments/1slbjn2/ai_basics_day_1_what_are_tokens_and_context...

my storage needs are uploading large acronis backup files (tib or tibx) from 300 to 700 gigs (could break the up if need be). i have less than 2.5 tb of backup files. acronis cloud is crazy expensive and my readynas is at end of life so cannot mesh with backblaze (buckets arent readable) and backblaze cannot backup mapped network drives i just discovered idrive and their interface is backing up a small test file right now with their free 10 gig account. also idrive officially will back up mapped drive per their support pages and it appears to be working great at this time. even full price of 10 bucks a month for a year is a good price for me. they appear to be zero knowledge, i have...

The Sin Of Pride: Lucifer Main Ability: Dominion of Pride Lucifer has the ability to dominate and manipulate the will of others, bending them to his command. This power extends not just to influencing minds but also to altering the physical world around him as he establishes his superiority. • Mind Control/Influence: Lucifer can dominate individuals, making them believe they are beneath him, enforcing his will over them. • Aura of Superiority: Anyone near him feels an overwhelming sense of inferiority or subservience, making them more susceptible to his control. • Physical Manifestation of Pride: He can create constructs of light or flame that represent his pride, manifesting...

I’m the developer of DictaFlow, a voice keyboard for iPhone and iPad. I built it because normal phone dictation is fine for a quick sentence, but it starts to feel fragile once you’re writing a longer message, email, note, or anything you might need to fix as you go. The basic flow is simple: open the keyboard, speak, and turn your voice into text you can use in whatever app you’re typing in. The part I spent the most time on is correction. DictaFlow has a feature called **Actually Override**, where if you mess up mid-sentence, you can say a correction phrase and it backs up to the mistake instead of making you stop, tap around, delete text manually, and start over. It also has sav...

Hello r/passwords, i am not a regular user here and prooooobably wont be. I am not sure where to post the thoughts that i am about to share with you. It's a sub about authentication so uhmmm... yeah. I find passkeys annoying! I ***** passkeys! I still kinda **** them. But not because the system *****. As far as i understand the paaskey authentication is similar to SSH publickey authentication. The company has one part of the key, my machine has another part (probably the private key) and thus even if someone gets my login data, they cannot just use the account whose login info they just acquired. Neat huh? Well... last year when i went through all my accounts and beefed up the securi...

Sorry for typos, am sobbing. Idk how to function, nothing is making it get better. The incident that solidified this being a fear happened 4 years ago and was a one-off so I should be over it, especially since I've kept things calm at home for over a year now and moulded myself into what was necessary (only took 19 years for my ***** ***) to stop setting off firecracker moments. I think if there had been any preamble like hitting me on the limbs or beating me that day I would have been more fine with it, because I said no too fast to a question and she, from a relatively calm conversation (some slight irritation but minor), in the span of a second or 2, grabbed a deodorant stick with a...

I (18F) had a very intense friendship with my former **bsf** that started when we were \~12. We were extremely close, but over time things became toxic, competitive, and manipulative on both sides. I did things I deeply regret. The friendship ended badly, with no real closure. Years later, she’s back in my orbit through my younger brother, and it’s bringing up old insecurities and a need for closure. I don’t know how to deal with it. I’m 18 now, but this all started when I was around **12**, on the first day of my first year of secondary school. There was a girl crying—stress, I think—and I helped her calm down. That was my **bsf**. We instantly became friends because we didn�...

Man, regeneration ***** sometimes. It's not the regeneration itself that *****. Actually, it's cool as ****. Any injury that didn't outright kill me would heal in time. And I had magic contingencies set up that would flood my body with healing and repairing magic if I did suffer an injury that should have outright killed me. No, the problem was that the actual workings of all healing magic, both of the regenerative and the reparative type, were insanely complex workings, operating on a molecular scale and requiring a high degree of communication between the different elements of it. The way I manifested regeneration was instinctive. Indeed, all healing magic is relatively s...

I recently had a Crypto IRA with Alto. They had the least amount of fees and some of the best customer service, and I just wanted to used it as a tax free IRA savings account. Started it back in late 2023, no issues at all. Fast forward to the last few months, now it looks like Alto got bought by Public. Ok, heard of Public as a a stock company mostly, but waiting to see what they offer once everything is up and running. Got it today, went straight to the fee structure. Transaction fees a bit high, but expected that. Go down lower, a Crypto IRA Custodial Fee? 0.05% per month based on the daily balance of your Crypto IRA, less any transaction fees paid in connection with Crypto IRA transact...

I think I’m past tempo lol Do I just cut out blue?

That is my Question & a sequel to a previous thread I did With Glitch and Oni Press relationship including the success of the Kickstarter & Murder Drones comic in Comic Stores What do You Think of the idea of Gameoverse comic one-shot tie-in to the Show its because one the show has art style that reminds me a lot of Archie/IDW Sonic Comics & Archie Megaman comics to so I think a comic tie-in would only be natural with RubberRoss(or known better as Ross O'Donovan) writing or a hand picked writer set as story serving as prequel or something between episodes What do You Think the story would translate into comics personally I think basically be Archie Megaman for...

Well, I 38-year-old went in the try on some pants at the Kohl’s department store dressing room when I open the one dressing room stall and saw a older man completely ***** jerking off and I said oh I’m sorry I didn’t mean to open this one. I didn’t know anyone was in it he said no big deal. Do you like what you see and I said yes I do. He said well. My wife is waiting outside the dressing room. I have a few minutes if you wanna play and I said OK have you ever been a guy? I said I only ****** a **** before. He said well if you get me off quick, maybe we can do something else I asked him how old are you? He said 72 years old. I said wow and you still have a hard **** he said of course...

Most of the agent-cost discussion focuses on input tokens — how long is your prompt, how much context does the model have to read. That's the cheap half of the bill. The expensive half is the **output tokens your agent burns rediscovering your repo every turn**. The most interesting consequence isn't saving money; it's that the agent reaches the actual problem faster, before context decay sets in. # The framing everyone uses Pricing pages have trained us to think about input tokens. Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 is $3 per million input tokens. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 is $5/MTok input. So the obvious cost-control move is "send less context" — prune your syst...

Chapter 1 MIA I found out I was pregnant on the day my mate became the most powerful candidate in the country. For ten perfect minutes, I thought it meant the Goddess had finally decided to bless us both at once. Then Ethan looked at the report in my hand and made me feel like I had just ruined his life. The doctor had stepped out to get me medicine, so I was alone when I looked down at the paper again. Pregnancy Test Result: Single Live Intrauterine Pregnancy Species Test: 99% Probability Human My baby. Our baby. A laugh escaped me before I could stop it. I pressed one hand to my mouth and the other to my stomach, already feeling foolishly protective over something no bigger than ...

**This is my first money diary, so please be kind!** **Section One: Assets and Debt**  **Retirement Balance (and how you got there):** $17,750. ($10k from my Roth IRA,  $7.75k from my job's pre-tax retirement account/pension) I put in 5% pre-tax on each paycheck ($275.16/mo), and my employer supposedly puts in 10% post-tax ($307.06/mo).  **Savings account balance:** $10,002.91 in Emergency/Job Loss fund(goal is $15k by the end of the year - I will hit $12.5k saved by the end of this quarter), $876.95 in other savings (car maintenance, health, etc.)  **Checking account balance:** $50. I use the zero-budget method. I get paid next week, also, I don’t like to have a lot of add...