Would be such a shame if third-party OSS contact managers “oopsie” don’t pass thus check, wouldn’t it, Google?

Yeah the title is absolut shit.

And a ramge

No there’s a block of updates

It doesn’t update a range, there’s a range of updates

My personal desktop? Hahahahahaha nope

My work laptop? Nervously shuffles this article under the rug before the C-suite finds it

I recently got a Deuter travel wallet (Deuter is a German Backpack/Hiking equipment manufacturer, and their stuff is usually very well made. I’ve had the same trekking backpack for 10 years now, and the way it’s looking, I’ll have it for another 30 at least).

Tbh the wallet is not very stylish… But it’s very well made, lots of slots for card, cash, and even passport, and if it does get grungy, you can throw it in the washing machine.

There’s also a smaller option if this one is too big.

I watched him for a while. And I’d say 95% of the tims, it’s fine. Chitchat, banter, technical things. But then the remaining 5% of the time, there’s suddenly a weird off the cuff remark, something that really seems like a dogwhistle, or just otherwise strange turn of phrase that makes me go huh? and rewind.

I know that’s not a lot individually, but over time it added up enough that I stopped watching.

I’m very happy with a Hetzner auction server. Though I’ve lots of different things running on it, might he overkill for “just” WordPress. They offer cheapish VPSs though. And they’re in Europe and have excellent technical support.

Not an ad, I just like them

Monkey’s paw curled, huh

Yeaaaaah. And in the end, no-one can be bothered to read the slop, and everything ships broken.

• MuseScore 4 is a (the!) free music notation software. It is genuinely fantastic. It’s also a lot of fun, if you know some notation basics and want to play around.
• Darktable is a Raw photo editor in the vein of Lightroom. Except where lightroom is sleek, polished, user friendly and Adobe (🤮), Darktable is FOSS, and clearly so both in the design and functionality: it could easily make a UX designer cry, but if you’re willing to give it a try, there does not exist a more potent raw editor on this earth. Lightroom is a toy in comparison. (Now whether you need that is another question… But I’ve been using it for more than 10 years, and am still finding new, incredibly useful sub-menus, drop-down contexts on hidden sliders,…)
• rmpc is a really cool TUI music player

Wait wat. Then how am I supposed to express exactly that? I only realized I was trans close to graduating high school. All my close friends up to that point had been male. Male gender stereotypes influenced what I did in my free time, how I behaved in class, how I saw the world.

It took effort to shed some of that. Maybe it’s because I haven’t heard it used in a transphobic context yet, but “I was male socialized” is, I’d have said up to this post at least, very apt.

Ah, I’ve hit an extremely satisfying professional milestone and thought I’d share:

“Being acquainted-enough with the codebase to be able to, with full conviction and a lot of glee, answer my LLM-head colleague simply: ‘Claude is wrong’”.

(Claude was extremely obviously wrong once you spent more than half a second thinking about its claim.)

Why! Why are media so uncritical in their reporting!

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/openai-ki-hackerangriff-100.html

Sorry, this is in German. It’s about the marketing stunt open ai pulled vis-à-vis “oh no, our new model breached containment and went ahead on its own, yep all by itself, and hacked huggingface! So scary! BTW we’d like to IPO soon and-”

The outlet above, if you’re not aware, isn’t a German news outlet, it’s THE German news outlet. They’re independent of financial interests, in that they’re publicly funded. They have an incredibly solid history of factual reporting.

Which is why it’s so aggregating to see them parrot OpenAI’s claims 1:1.

Also, don’t go in the comments. For every sane “this is obviously a marketing stunt” comment there’s 40+ “we’re cooked” comments sincerely believing this shit.

I’m getting more and more convinced that in the minds of most people, LLMs are alive, waking, thinking beings with intents and an inner life of their own.

You know.

Compared to the much more boring “expensive side-effect free function taking string as input and giving string as output”.

I hate all of this.

How about take turns.

Hm. I’ve been om HRT for, idk, 9? years now. Took Progesterone additionally for a couple of months some time after starting HRT, but didn’t really notice much difference and stopped it again.

Tbf though, my sex drive is incredibly low now. I just… Can’t be arsed to do amything about it 😄

Oh wow… First proper use-case for blockchain technology discovered! (/s… Kind of)

Ahhh come ON

Unfortunately I’m just going to have to continue using it for now, otherwise that’s months of work and (mostly) upload time that I can’t waste at the moment. Also, what’s the alternative…?

They saved lifes.

Glad to have cleared that up for you 👍