Dan Lyke 23:04:51+0000 (2025-10-29)—
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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.
Someone mentioned the "Ms AWs outage", and when I noted that Microsoft's product was Azure, said "Xerox was copiers, AWS is cloud".
Which is an interesting bit of semantic/trademark creep, and I wonder if it's good, or bad, for Amazon.
I talk a lot about how my blog software is two and a half decades old, but in cleaning some stuff up recently I found remnants of a system I wrote to provide web support for an iOS app that was circa iPhone 3, and bit rot is also a thing.
From paths that may not be HTTPS compatible, to depending on external mapping services...
All the commentary over the Amazon us-east failure is a good reminder that we need a solution to server discovery that isn't DNS, and deals with distributed and redundant resources better than HTTP(S) does.
I was trying to replicate a screenshot someone posted about Google's "AI" mode missing commas and giving "surface of Venus" temperatures for the inside of a beehive, and noticed that "beehive" consistently gives me misformatted numbers, where "bee hive" gives me better formatted ones.
"You’ve been chosen for a Skin Trial!" <-- subject line of spam advertising Ulta makeup products, or over-eager Tech-Priest in Warhammer 40k fiction informing a victim of upcoming excoriation?
Going back through some old bookmarks folders to see if some of the web comics I used to read are still happening.
So many redirects to malicious sites. JavaScript was clearly a mistake.
The Late Show with Steven Colbert has posted a message from the frog resistance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5zxdSObso
Dan Lyke 19:58:42+0000 (2025-10-16)—
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Trying to solve a mystery. When I was growing up in New Lebanon, NY, there was a house on Hand Hollow Rd that had a bunch of mobile sculptures in the yard. It wasn't Anton Milkowski, they were at 3 Schoolhouse Road. Might have been Alexander Calder, but he died in 1976. Anyone got a clue?
Dan Lyke 19:41:35+0000 (2025-10-16)—
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Here's the thing I don't get about FapGPT: If I wanted to sext with an LLM, I'd just answer some of those Facebook friend/LinkedIn connection requests...
Going through some old assets and loaded Neeva(dot)com, and, wow, that company imploded so deeply that you randomly get a crypto page that wants to send notifications, a product page for "fulvic ionic minerals", a malware site, and... wonder if it just got abandoned, or if it was sold.
Oh, look at this Liquid Glass ugliness. For work I'm installing Perplexity's Comet browser. It pops up the keychain unlock to import Chrome credentials (yes, I know). I've included part of my system settings so that you can see that "Reduce Transparency" is on. Ugh.
Nothing like smacking a quarter panel of a former police cruiser in the crosswalk, and having the driver complain that I hit his car.
And then say "I didn't see you" like the high vis rain jacket wasn't sufficient.
Ever since he got popped by the npm Shai Halud worm, I confess that I get extremely nervous doing anything in the repo where he does all his JavaScript work. Like "what styling package is gonna cause me to have to rotate all of my keys and passwords?" with every pnpm command.
Apropos of nothing at all, I'm reading things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring
Dear marketers everywhere (in this case YouTube Music): Yes, I have served on a jury through to verdict and it was an amazing experience that I value, but "Enjoy another trial" is not the pitch you think it is.
Eenteresting. Google Pixel 7 phone. CC app wants fingerprint enabled, so I flipped it upside down and used a non-standard finger, to force fallback to a code.
Latest Android update is doing more fingerprint recognition, I just flipped my thumb up the screen to start code entry, and it unlocked.
I have a couple of personal projects I'd like to hack together, but I'm kinda stuck because I want to move my own skills forward as I do it. Python is a fucking dependency and performance nightmare, ECMAScript involves package managers, Rust is "what if we made the code endlessly complex because you need to manually manage arenas", and I'm quickly back to choosing between C++ and Perl, and that's just solving my problem, not actually learning anything.
A friend likened LLMs treating "any retrieved piece of information on a topic / triggered by a prompt as equally valuable and truthful, to the "normalize" feature of DAW software, wherein every sound in a track is adjusted to have equal amplitude, resulting in a bewildering, psychotic-seeming soundscape."
The language of the latter 2020s will be akin to drums of the 1980s, the equalizer kicked up high, every paragraph hitting with the intensity of the Phil Collins fill in "In The Air Tonight".
Eeenteresting. Feels like this OpenAI/AMD deal could be the "AOL buys Time Warner" moment of the LLM bubble, maybe?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amd-signs-ai-chip-supply-deal-openai-rcna235860
Some "AI" generated video that shows "Sam Altman" shoplifting, interesting because it reiterates how chain of custody in evidence is gonna become much more important, but also because there's gotta be a bunch of Target surveillance footage in their training dataset. https://bsky.app/profile/abeba.bsky.social/post/3m2jmygnp4k2v
Thinking about how the tasks that people who praise AI as coding helpers are doing might be better served by more expressive (and indeed consistent) languages.
Yet another LinkedIn message for the Boardsi scam reminds me of how much we've lost with the destruction of email. We used to have strong filtering. On systems we controlled. With the ability to do automated send and receive.
Yesterday I went to a Catholic funeral, my first time attending a service in that sect. This morning I walk by St Vincent de Paul and there are food vendors and the churros truck has "come to sin" painted in the side, and... I'm tempted.
I am a supporter of Chris Kluwe for State Assembly, and I am begging GMail to use different truncation logic for email names...
And here's the one with "bee hive". I guess I are a prompt engineer now.
I was trying to replicate a screenshot someone posted about Google's "AI" mode missing commas and giving "surface of Venus" temperatures for the inside of a beehive, and noticed that "beehive" consistently gives me misformatted numbers, where "bee hive" gives me better formatted ones.
Painted over the graffiti on the benches at Bob's Beach today.
"But Linux is so ugly and hard to use".
Fucking MacOS and "liquid glass". I don't even know where to begin trying to debug this...
Picture of Charlene and me at yesterday's No Kings rally in Petaluma taken by Suzanne Clarke
Picture of Charlene and me at yesterday's No Kings rally in Petaluma taken by @d0rid.bsky.social
My view of the No Kings rally in Petaluma.
Oh, look at this Liquid Glass ugliness. For work I'm installing Perplexity's Comet browser. It pops up the keychain unlock to import Chrome credentials (yes, I know). I've included part of my system settings so that you can see that "Reduce Transparency" is on. Ugh.
Yesterday I went to a Catholic funeral, my first time attending a service in that sect. This morning I walk by St Vincent de Paul and there are food vendors and the churros truck has "come to sin" painted in the side, and... I'm tempted.