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Sunday, November 2, 2025

Turn key on (do not start), turn radio/AC/fan off, set parking brake. Turn key off. Turn key on (do not start), wait until air bag light goes out, wait 3-5 seconds, then buckle and unbuckle the seat belt 4 times, ending with it unbuckled, wait for seatbelt light to flash and then stay on, then buckle and unbuckle one more time. That's it !! You can drive it around the block with your seatbelt unbuckled and the warning on the screen will stay on, but NO CHIME !!

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

the biggest takeaway was Trump’s willingness to add sanctions to those imposed under the Biden administration.

“This is the first set of sanctions from President Trump after he returned to the White House,” said Weafer. “And the fear now is that now that he’s broken, kind of like the seal, as it were, that if he is dissatisfied with any progress with Russia going forward, then he may come with more and more damaging sanctions.”

“So many of these measures have been implemented too slowly and ... a little bit at a time so that Russia has had time to adapt and to prepare and to prevent and to react,” Perrotta Berlin said.

In 1963, the U.S., the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to stop nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater.

The decision was made over environmental concerns and the fallout of the Cuban Missile Crisis, per the CSIS. The Threshold Test Ban Treaty in 1974 limited the yield of underground testing to below 150 kilotons. In 1992, Congress passed a resolution that prohibited the U.S. from conducting underground nuclear tests unless a foreign state did so, leading to the current moratorium. Of note: The 1997 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty sought to ban all nuclear testing worldwide, and it proved largely successful even though it was not universally ratified.

The SNAP shutdown halts roughly $8 billion a month in federal food assistance — money that usually flows straight into grocery stores and helps feed 42 million Americans. Without it, both low-income households and major retailers like Walmart, Aldi and Kroger feel the pinch. Driving the news: Companies and nonprofits are rolling out new programs to keep food flowing — from free grocery credits to multimillion-dollar donations.

Friday, October 31, 2025

This software is not made for making the Crawlers go away. It is an aggressive defense mechanism that tries its best to take the blunt of the assault, serve them garbage, and keep them off of upstream resources. Even though a lot of work went into making iocaine efficient, and nigh invisible for the legit visitor, it is an aggressive defender nevertheless, and will require a few resources - a whole lot less than if you’d let the Crawlers run rampant, though.

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It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, Markov-babble is added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse.