Software developer by day, insomniac by night.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • “I wrote an email to Google to say, ‘you have access to my computer, is that right?’”, he added.

    lmao right, because the support person they reached, if indeed they even spoke to a person at all, would know and divulge the sources they train on. They may think that all their research is private but they’re making use of these tech giant services. These tech giants have blatantly showed that they’re OK with piracy and copyright infringement to further their goals, why would spying on research institutions be any different?

    If you want to give it a run for its money, give it a novel problem that isn’t solved, and see what it comes up with.



  • People can call me a shill if they want. I was curious when I first tried Kagi, but sceptical, but now I’m really happy. It’s fun to see new features make it on there, and more than anything I love that I can make the search engine work for me instead of having to faff about trying to phrase stuff in a way where I can coax what I want out of it.

    If I hate a particular website, I’ll just block it and never see it again. It’s so simple. The new “AI generated” tags on images is nice, and I hope we can see something similar for websites at some point too. Maybe flag sites that are known to use LLMs for garbage accumulation. There might already even be a blocklist for that.







  • I worked with a guy who had worked at a restaurant when he was younger. There was this older man who’d come to eat lunch once a week, every single week.

    After a while my coworker learned that this man was so filthy rich he’d fly in on a helicopter from Stockholm to have his lunches there. I don’t remember exactly where the restaurant was, but it was a decent bit away, not in the outskirts of Stockholm at least. The man eventually bought the restaurant from the owners, at which point he’d ensure that it was always open for his weekly lunches. I think he bought the restaurant because they’d keep the restaurant closed on holidays and he wasn’t happy about that.

    The long and the short of it though, is that this bullshit actually happens. There are people out there that can fly helicopters hither and dither, and casually buy restaurants.




  • Yeah, I almost burned out a couple years back and the causes were way more complicated than just getting the right work assigned.

    I’d cut ties with my abusive mother. I was saddled with debt from living with her. My economy wasn’t quite working out. I was falling behind on work. Caught Covid, which screwed with my heart so my health deteriorated really rapidly. I wasn’t given the opportunity to work from home and the sum of it all just wore me down.

    The tasks weren’t the problem, honestly.