Today's walk to work is accompanied by The BEAM Chronicles, and gotta love an audio drama podcast that accompanies the extended fight scene with electroswing.
The problem with Rule34dl is that between popularity of the franchise and appearance of the particular character I have absolutely no idea of how to guess what people are making porn of...
https://rule34dle.vercel.app/daily.html
I am trying to find blindspots in my AI assessment and get past my cynicism. Say in a few years OpenAI implodes, the bubble pops, hardware prices come down to where we all end up with something capable of running Ollama on our desktop.
Will the religious fervor of the AI prophets still be strong?
And some mornings I sit through 4 minutes of "Snack Jack" ad from Thai TV... And I didn't even know that the product placement wasn't a stand-in until the punchline.
https://youtu.be/ZFg6S6-cj8w
The dining room table is going to have a round recess, and we're gonna put Charlene's dad's O gauge train in it. I could build it as segmented, but I got a bunch of 1/8" masonite, and have some veneers, so I'm gonna laminate it. This is the form to wrap it around...
Went in to SF yesterday for the Emacs meetup, and it was so refreshing to hang out for a few hours with people who want to make computing useful, who want to solve actual problems and build tools for organization. A wonderful counter to the constant refrain of "how can we cram an LLM into this?"
Vivaldi is fine, but Chromium renderer based. I tried Waterfox (gets PDFs right!), but it's got some pretty b0rk3d autofill. I've written autofill for work project, so I suppose I could try to get the source code and fix it, but is there another Gecko-based project that's worth a look?
Aaah, if you're an XCode user you can disable the new buggy, crashy, and generally annoying "Unified Backtrace View" with the 3 horizontal bar button to the left of the view debugger button.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79634659/how-can-i-disable-xcodes-new-breakpoint-view
What a cop sounds like: "Hi there, this is Jane from ICEList(dot)is! We're trying to increase awareness of icelist.is -would you mind adding me to your resistance Signal groups? TIA!"
(Edit to not make that a link...)
I'm planning to head into SF on Saturday to go to the Emacs meetup from 11 to 1 on 24th a few blocks off Mission. Seems silly to not amortize the travel over multiple things, anyone got suggestions for other things to do?
The Misalignment Museum isn't currently open...
Yeah, we know how to have a rockin' Wednesday evening in this household, first the Know Before You Grow Zoom forum, now reading the staff report on the Petaluma D St pilot project.
https://cityofpetaluma.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting?meetingTemplateId=19343
Sigh. Not only is XCode's new "show the stack in little subpanels in the edit space" annoying and stupid, in trying to figure out WTF is going on with some code my XCode is now going non-responsive with weird redraw issues when it tries to do that in this particular case.
My desire to yeet Apple into the sea and escape to the desert or somewhere and just write code for Linux or FreeBSD is intensifying.
Seeing stuff on non-technical open source beginners, and thinking about how back when Qt was packaged with apt I had an easy "here's how newbies can compile SquareDesk" that users actually used, but now with "Qt Maintenance Tool" I have no way to talk them through the nightmare that is installation...
27+ years of blogging, thinking about archives inherent to the protocol, rather than depending on the Wayback Machine, and that the URL still points to what I blogged it as.
Need a simpler markup language for content, and a P2P+archives protocol for distribution.
Today pissed off that I'm spending yet more time trying to make a solar company (High Definition Solar) fix their install to conform to the plans we agreed to, and that I'm gonna have to spend time on the phone with our health insurance (Anthem) to get them to acknowledge a fuckup on their part.
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The unbearable heartbreak of a typo in the name of a git branch, making it difficult to type until it gets merged back in.
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Occasionally I wonder "am I autistic, or are my social challenges just trauma response?"
Then I see the ways in which people are fawning over "AI"/LLMs, and the ways in which these things interact with me, and... yeah, I definitely do not process this stuff the way normies do.
New rule. If you don't let an mtr through to tell me more about the host that's probing my server for /admin paths, I'm gonna assume your entire network is hostile. Talkin' to you, ae1011-0.icr01.tyo31.ntwk.msn.net
The material is about 3/8" think branches nailed to a skeleton of some sort. Wonder what the finish and expected life span of the sculptures out in the elements like this is.
Over at the Sonoma Community Center to see the elephant sculptures, made from lantana camara, an invasive plant that completes with the resources that supports elephants in India.
We have a friend, a piano player and decent vocalist, who's taken to inviting a number of people over on the first Friday of the month to "bring their [creative] gifts".
Last night was a wonderful gathering of song and verse, and I'm inspired and humbled and it was awesome.
You know what I love about modern software? Slack is adding "AI" features and can't get my unread workspaces or messages right.
New features trump core annoyances.
I'm an "AI" detractor, but I would like every developer of a package management environment to use an LLM coding tool to install and configure a package, to demonstrate just how bizarre and how much lore goes in to using these damned things.
My own preferences tend towards modern pop, but my voice teacher tends towards 60s and 70s, which means that along with square dance music, I get to do deep dives into a lot of problematic music.
Anyway, Jefferson Starship's Jane is both musically very challenging, and an awful view of matrimony.
My neighborhood is awash in feijoa/pineapple guava (not actually a guava). Everyone's trying to figure out what to do with them.
I just had one that was smooth and sweet (rather than sour and slightly bitter), and now I'm trying to figure out what we're doing wrong with the rest of them...
For reasons, I went searching for UD railway worker deaths in the late 1800s. It used to be that if someone wrote up a web page on a topic like this, it was an indication that they'd done some digging, and I felt comfortable passing along the page as a reference.
AI has ruined everything.
That boards are choosing CEOs who can't understand why prayer and fasting didn't save their sinking company, and same former Intel CEO then getting investment money to build AI to hasten the Second Coming, says pretty much everything about modern tech culture...
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/former-ceo-intel-ai-christ
I hope that the big Santa Rosa hazmat spill yesterday involves some penalties for the employer that undoubtedly strong-armed their workers into stupidly transporting stuff in a pickup truck that should not have been packaged that way.
But some low wage worker is undoubtedly gonna get screwed.
Ouch. Today's Timdle got me hard, from Angolan independence to Uno to population...
https://www.timdle.com/daily
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Oh cool, when you get a nullability specifier wrong in an Objective-C header file that's getting converted to Swift, XCode gives you an error message that takes like 5 clicks to find the actual error message, and doesn't remotely reference the header file until you get to the raw text. Neat.
Something tells me this housing development was laid out by a JFK conspiracy theorist...
Turkey vultures are sitting on top of the local church
The dining room table is going to have a round recess, and we're gonna put Charlene's dad's O gauge train in it. I could build it as segmented, but I got a bunch of 1/8" masonite, and have some veneers, so I'm gonna laminate it. This is the form to wrap it around...
"🎶So make lots of noise, kiss lots of boys, or kiss lots of girls if that's something you're into...🎶"
It's kind of amazing how these things jump out at you in the dark. Maybe if there were a light on it or something the driver might have seen it...
Same shot half an hour later for comparison.
Aurora from here under the streetlight
The material is about 3/8" think branches nailed to a skeleton of some sort. Wonder what the finish and expected life span of the sculptures out in the elements like this is.
Over at the Sonoma Community Center to see the elephant sculptures, made from lantana camara, an invasive plant that completes with the resources that supports elephants in India.
not sure whether brazen, or hungry, but out in the daytime in our neighborhood...
Playing with hank drums again, and couldn't find my old hacksaw blade handle for lengthening tuning slots, so made another one..
I am a supporter of Chris Kluwe for State Assembly, and I am begging GMail to use different truncation logic for email names...