Category: internet
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AI, General AI, and other thoughts on the current state of AI
This video is somewhat pertinent AI is really starting to take off in a big way. You cannot find anything anywhere without AI shoehorned in, for better or worse. Google has AI chatbots serving up nonsense in search that you cannot turn off, Shopify has AI “helpdesk” bots that provide no better solution than just…
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Mummy Groaning
Me and my dad thought this was hilarious, and so it was his text message tone in my phone until the day he died. I remember fondly when he would text me at a random time and my phone groaned. Very funny!
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Important research: was the Eudora “New Mail” chime from Ren & Stimpy’s “LOG”?
LOG chime This occurs from second **Edit: 0:59** of this video: The chime when extracted without further processing, sounds like this: Eudora Chime I found a copy of Eudora Mail 1.44 for Windows (bundled up in an archive quaintly called “internet.zip”) here. The EUDOR144.EXE file is itself a Zip archive, and contains several files. The…
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Differences in LLMs
This is gonna be a long post filled mainly with documentation. Not really gonna be a page turner, but interesting to think about the differences as time passes. Editor’s Note: While moving my site from MkDocs to WordPress, I started copying this and realized: wow! who the fuck cares? Anyway…
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PDFs are literally the worst thing ever
They fucking suck. Possibly the worst PC invention of all time. We have this arbitrary file type that exists only to be rendered EXACTLY the same on all computers. That is a novel and purposeful idea, but when it is monopolized by a single company (Adobe) and requires sketchy 3rd party software (Foxit) or expensive…
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‘Girl Dinner’, Mental Illness, and MySpace
A while ago, there was a meme on TikTok of a girl sing-talking the phrase ‘Girl Dinner’ alongside what this girl ate for dinner, and the dinner was always very low quality and unhealthy (originally nicotine vape and iced coffee). In my lifetime, I have met a lot of girls that seem to be perpetually…
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Linux, the Steam Deck, consoles, and other tech gripes
I really love the idea of Linux taking off. It would not only be the beginning of lightweight operating systems in modern day as a gaming system, but also would start a “we don’t like megacorporations” movement that may save the free and open internet. It would mean that people would hypothetically start developing and/or…
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Kicking the can down the road
Dear readers, I ask you a question: do you know who controls you? Most will say the government, some of the funny ones will say a wife/girlfriend, others might say something like an addiction or money (an object or goal), but as far as the tech world is concerned, it really comes down to conglomerate…
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This site isn’t as good as it’s inspiration
I made this site after I saw my dad’s old site because I already had the domain and thought it would be cool to try and recreate something that my dad did in my own way, as sort of an homage to him. However, I just had the realization that I didn’t really make any…
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Google is probably evil (and I don’t really care)
Has any of you readers ever tried to use Bing? What about Apple maps? Aren’t they just fucking awful? What about iCloud for windows? :face_vomiting: I use Google not because I think they are moralistic and wholesome but because there isn’t another choice without significantly gimping myself. There two backup services for windows are one…