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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Most people who carry guns are doing it for self-defense, not civil defense.

    The rules of an Active-shooter event are:

    1. Flee
    2. If you can’t flee, hide.
    3. If you can’t hide, fight back.

    Carrying a concealed weapon doesn’t change that. I have a little 380 pocket pistol I’ll occasionally carry. It’s low-capacity, low-power, and low-accuracy. No way am I volunteering to take on a psychopath with a long gun who isn’t worried about collateral damage with my little pea shooter, and anyone Who expects me too just because I’m armed can kiss my ass.

    I carry a pistol to protect me from muggers and car-jackers, not to protect the public.





  • Word is the fucking worst.

    “Hey Word - I need to adjust the header for just this page.”

    “No.”

    “Can I just remove the header in this page then?”

    “No”

    “How about the watermark? It’s in the way on this page?”

    “It’s tied to the header.”

    “… I’m gonna have to make like 12 documents and combine them in Acrobat aren’t I.”

    “Please log back into OneDrive.”





  • To help fight bot disinformation, I think there needs to be an international treaty that requires all AI models/bots to disclose themselves as AI when prompted using a set keyphrase in every language, and that API access to the model be contingent on paying regain tests of the phrase (to keep bad actors from simply filtering out that phrase in their requests to the API).

    It wouldn’t stop the nation-state level bad actors, but it would help prevent people without access to their own private LLMs from being able to use them as effectively for disinformation.


  • I wish I could remember the name of an extension I had on my old computer.

    It hid all ads, but also clicked them all in the background. It accomplished 4 goals:

    1. I didn’t see the ads
    2. The websites I visited made more money through the clicks
    3. It cost the advertisers money
    4. It made the cost/benefit worse for advertisers since they were paying for clicks without anyone being influenced by the ads