I don’t think it’s that deep in the case of the Spanish saying.

In French, they say « Les cordonniers sont toujours les plus mal chaussés », which roughly translates to shoemakers always wear the worst quality of shoes. That’s not because they’re aware of any transient flaw in the inherent design of footwear, though.

En avril, ne te découvre pas d’un fil.

Un April, don’t take off a fiber of clothing.

I went the self-hosting route too. I use seafile for files, immich for photos, vaultwarden for passwords, baikal for calendars and contacts, and freshrss for news. I could’ve consolidated most of it in a nextcloud instance, but I’m more attracted to the UNIX philosophy.

Regarding email, I’m using my own domain on Proton with simple login setup as a catchall to automatically create aliases. I went through all the accounts in my password manager and changed all emails to unique identifiable aliases, or straight up deleted anything I don’t see myself using anymore.

For de-googling, the hardest part after changing all email addresses on services (no redirect) was to switch “login with google” accounts back to classic accounts with credentials to either delete or switch them to a SL alias. Convenience really is how they get and keep you. I had to do the same with Apple and Microsoft too, and I’m not using these “login with…” buttons anymore.

One important lesson that you’ve learned as well is don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. Ask yourself what would happen to you tomorrow if a service you use (like Proton) revoked your account. For me, as I’ve set up catchall’s with my own domain, I could still set it up with another provider and not lose access to these. That’s also why I actively don’t treat their drive and calendar solutions as anything more than another offsite backup.

Resilience is key.

I’m sure it’s not pee, but P for something worse.

It doesn’t exactly mean bald in French. Bald would be expressed as: « pas un poil sur le caillou » meaning “not a hair on the rock (the head).”

And supporter means to bear (as in the opposite of unbearable). Also retard means lateness.

Adding wer=who but wo=where

Funny cause caillou is bald but means rock in French

Definitely. The world was so quick to sanction Russia for its invasion, but the US faces no consequences for its actions…

Thank you for your reply. I realised I don’t have enough deep knowledge about LLMs apart from empirical experience from working with it to confidently answer your question. It would be interesting to find (or create if it doesn’t exist) more research on the subject.

PSA: Prompting an LLM at length about what not to do is the best way to prime it to do that very thing. You’re loading a lot of tokens in memory and expecting a single “not” to do all the heavy lifting.

This is adjacent to ironic process theory.

3 billion

Devices Run Java

Is this going to be the Epstein-birthday-card variant?

All jokes apart, Shitler-signed dollars may become valuable if America ever comes back to its senses so I’d get a few and hold onto them.

I never thought this would need saying, but the point of writing essays in school is not the final product.

That essay will almost never be good enough to be relevant or published; no one expects it to be. The goal is to engage with the material, and learn to synthesise and present your ideas logically.

We must grade the process of writing an essay, never the final product; especially not based on how “good” an essay that final product is.

We’ve got to stop and ask ourselves why people don’t have AI complete video games for them, but do so for essays. It’s because in one case, the value is in the process, while in the other, the value is believed to be the result, but it shouldn’t be.

If people understood this, it would make no sense having AI write students’ essays. You can blame people for wanting to take shortcuts, but I believe our society and culture at large play a much bigger role in that trend.

Postponed for « five days », just until markets close next Friday. This is all just one big grift.

Runit supremacy. Welcome to the void.

My headcanon is that the shape implies the “artist” who did it stood up and walked out in the middle of the act.

… Quietly

This is a bad rant. Nvim has markdown format rendering too, does that make it worse? I’d say the markdown rendering was a good update, because now my tech illiterate coworkers can open the .md files I sprinkle everywhere and see them as their meant.

No, the true madness is the advent of tabs that stay open until explicitly closed, even if the program is terminated, and come back when you open the app from scratch.

Do a barrel roll!