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- Comment on That one Pokémon 3 days ago:
- Comment on Llama 3 days ago:
Two people with decent sewing skills.
- Comment on A tale of two shires 6 days ago:
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 1 week ago:
If you have control of the server or platform serving the content, could look into “robots.txt” and “tarpits.” There are a few, but one example is Nepenthes: zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
If you just own the domain and it’s hosted elsewhere, you could set it up to go through CloudFlare DNS. They have a one-button scrape-stopper: blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-…
- Comment on If you are paying to use "AI", who are you paying and what are your regular usecases? 1 week ago:
I pay for Cursor, OpenAI, and Anthropic. I was paying for Google Gemini as well, but it was returning too many errors so I canceled it. I also pay for Google office, Microsoft office, and Adobe subscriptions. They inject their own AI into their services, but I end up ignoring them or turning them off.
Mostly use it for coding in Cursor, but occasionally for research into the state of AI and to make MCP extensions. It’s been worth the investment so far, given how much more of the mundane coding tasks get done by supervising it. I also had it update a Wordpress theme because I had no interest in learning the innards.
I never let them loose in ‘agentic’ mode, as they inevitably destroy all the work. I can run decent-sized models locally through lmstudio and Cline, but they’re much slower than just using Cursor and a cloud model.
Outside coding, the only usable one I’ve found is Adobe Firefly, accessed inside Photoshop (to remove material) and Illustrator (to generate simple SVGs and icons from prompts).
Every single other one, when I’ve put it to a non-coding use has been a pile of slop. If all LLMs go away tomorrow, the only one I’ll miss is the Adobe SVG creator.
- Comment on New ARRL Book Release: Stealth Antennas for Ham Radio 1 week ago:
Isn’t having an antenna that interferes with nearby civilians a big no-no? How is it that ARRL is advocating ‘stealth’ antennas? Isn’t that a little like AAA openly publishing ways to cheat on smog tests?
Am I missing something?
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 week ago:
Plot: a rival publisher hires a killer to murder a successful author over the copyright.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 1 week ago:
Actually, there is something you can do about it.
But it doesn’t involve Google.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears 1 week ago:
Kudos on consistency.
- Comment on AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea' 1 week ago:
Last time a CEO said the opposite they got pilloried. Don’t say something your product can’t back up. The lesson has been learned.
- Comment on Every day I am Reminded how much he saw our future. 1 week ago:
Love George, but holy moley, that was dark even for him.
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 1 week ago:
They’re speedrunning to GPT-9000 just so they can lay claim to the HAL number.
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- Comment on UK government to use AI to predict crime locations by 2030 2 weeks ago:
Tom Cruise lives there. Maybe he can advise them on the feasibility.
- Comment on Just in case you still don't realize that men regardless of their age will always have a grammar school view of sex 2 weeks ago:
If anyone has actually barbequed sausages on a grill, those are worthless wastes of money.
- Comment on PARTY TIME 2 weeks ago:
“2 for 1 Bonus: you can BBQ the surprise marinating at the bottom.”
- Comment on Experts discuss plans to save water as dry conditions worsen across England 2 weeks ago:
There’s an easy way. Take all your residential and commercial customers. Export to spreadsheet. Sort by monthly usage in litres. Send the top 10% a letter saying their deliveries will be curtailed by 25% until the problems are over.
What? They’re ALL commercial services? Zero residential?
What do you mean reuse bath water for plants? What’s bottom line got to do with it? WTF! Emails?
- Comment on Tell me the truth. 2 weeks ago:
Yet it’s always the unclassified stuff that makes life fun.
- Comment on I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File 2 weeks ago:
Have tried ALL the same ones. Probably even more.
Square Post-it notes. One for what needs to be done that week. Another for that day. Cross each item as I go. When every item is crossed off, crumple into bin. End of day, whatever item is left gets scribbled on fresh one for next day. End of week for the weekly one. That’s it.
Stuck on desk, to laptop, or carried in pocket. Works great. It’s all about reducing friction and clutter. If too much effort to keep track, gets easy to drift into bike-shedding territory.
Keep going back to new, shiny apps every once in a while. Always end up back on damn sticky notes.
- Comment on I may or may not have gotten way too in the trees@sh.itjust.works and eaten an entire block of cream cheese 2 weeks ago:
Whatever you’ve heard about arterial maggots is NOT true.
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 2 weeks ago:
Not just that but they’ve also got the Choco-SEB modular battery swap thing going. 2min battery stops to full charge.
- Comment on AI Startup Perplexity Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google’s Chrome Browser 3 weeks ago:
AI inside browsers. Fantastic way to collect ML learning data.
Enjoy!
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 3 weeks ago:
If you want to talk bigger picture… they built a pedestrian/bike lane with zero access/amenities at either end (unlike the Bay Bridge). No staging area to load/unload your bike, no parking, no bathrooms, no water fountains. Good luck finding all-day parking on city streets in Pt. Richmond or… San Quentin.
Here are the directions: marinbike.org/…/getting-to-from-the-r-sr-bridge-p…
Once approaching/getting off the bridge, if commuting by bike, there is no direct connection to the Bay Trail. So anyone living in Marin and wanting to commute to, say, Berkeley or El Cerrito so they can get on BART (or even the Richmond Ferry) has to risk going through heavily industrial areas or dicey parts of Richmond. On the Marin side to/from Larkspur Landing, you had to ride unprotected on the shoulder of the freeway!
Only way to use it for commuters on either end would be to park and ride, but again, no parking and ride facilities. And there’s any wonder more people don’t use it? There’s wide open space at either end of the bridge to build staging areas, especially on the Richmond side right near the Toll Plaza, but nobody wants to make it easy. It’s such a gauntlet I’m amazed that many people use it.
The solution to traffic congestion is to make public transit and alternate forms of transportation more cost-effective, functional, and convenient. That includes offering easy transition/transfer points. It isn’t to open more driving lanes. They’ve known this since the days of Robert Moses in NYC, but keep doing it.
- Comment on Kwasi Kwarteng to speak at event for firm that helps super-rich pay less tax 3 weeks ago:
Woz! Why?
- Comment on Houston Pastor convicted in $3.6M fraud case returns to Church after prison release. "It's such a blessing to have our visionary pastor back at church. We are so excited." 4 weeks ago:
Wait till the good pastor discovers crypto.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 4 weeks ago:
Clearly, the painting has special meaning to the owner and significance to the location. It’s likely made of heat-resistant material, and…
Oh, who are we kidding. It’s the same width as the stove and is matchy-match blue.
- Comment on Hope you like math 4 weeks ago:
Would plain old “What the Fuck” imply a null set?
- Comment on Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude 4 weeks ago:
Last week I asked ChatGPT for a list of coding AI agents and what was unique about each one, just to see what was out there. It spewed out a whole bunch, including a few that weren’t real agents, just tools like static code analyzers.
Funny enough, Claude Code wasn’t on the list. I had to ask explicitly “what about Claude Code?” Only then it generated a separate list with some overlap, also with irrelevant tools, that included Claude.
Laughed at how petty it was. Like Bing search not returning anything with Google in the name.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 weeks ago:
- Solitaire
- Doom
- Tetris
