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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • It’s a glorified autocorrect. Using it for anything else and expecting magic is an interesting idea. I’m not sure what folks are expecting there.

    • It suggests variables and function names I was already going to type more accurately. Better, it suggests ones even when I cannot remember the name because i got stumped trying to remember.
    • It fills in basic control structures and functions more effectively than the IDE’s completion templates.
    • It provides a decent starting point for both comments and documentation (the hard part). Meaning my code actually has comments and documentation. Regularly!

    But I don’t ask it to explain things or generate algorithms willy nilly. I don’t expect or try to have it do something that’s not more than simply auto-completion.

    I honestly like it, even if I strongly dislike the use of AI elsewhere. It’s working in this area for me.




  • Quite literally my first thought. Great, but I can’t issue certs against that.

    One of the major reasons I have a domain name is so that I can issue certs that just work against any and all devices. For resources on my network. Home or work, some thing.

    To folks recommending a private CA, that’s a quick way to some serious frustration. For some arguably good reasons. On some devices I could easily add a CA to, others are annoying or downright bullshit, and yet others are pretty much impossible. Then that last set that’s the most persnickety, guests, where it’d be downright rude!

    Being able to issue public certs is easily is great! I don’t use .local much because if it’s worth naming, it’s worth securing.





  • The soulless structure of the government is not much different than the soulless structure of a corporation.

    Very different for a fundamental reason: at least in the US, one exists to serve the people, the other to extract the maximum amount of profit possible from the people. But to your point, they have similarities in that they are both entirely constructed of flawed humans. That difference in purpose though, makes a huge impact on we interact with them, what we expect of them, and our ability to influence them.








  • Nope. Many are plugged in and it will keep the seat and water warm. It further warms the seat when it detects someone is sitting on it. Kinda depends on budget, features, manufacturers.

    NGL, middle of the night visits are still a bit jarring because the heating logic tries to conserve energy at night so it tends to me room temperature. But whatevs.

    Honestly, worth it. Absolutely no regrets other than maybe not spending more 😂. At a couple hundred dollar Costco Toto model, it was already a risky purchase that at the time I simply wasn’t sure about. But yeah, it’s awesome 😎.


  • Concur.

    Two examples because life is funny like that:

    I moved into an apartment years ago where it was partially below ground. Didn’t think anything of it. And then the first morning I slept there I was startled awake by a car’s horn and then engine as it was being remote started directly in my face. Or at least, that’s what it felt like. The window was at headlight height, and the car was parked right up to the window. It was hell. Nothing could have prepared me for that. So incredibly loud and bright. Thankfully it was a temporary apartment, but lemme tell you I was highly motivated to get out of there within a few months.

    In the second case years later it was a beep. Just a constant high-frequency beep that would not end. Non-stop every hour for months. Apparently my neighbor’s RV was parked at a business’s back lot behind my house. Well, the battery was dying so the obvious move is to beep non-stop until the battery is fully dead. Months. A few weeks into this insanity I reported it to the police and they drove out and argued with me about how they couldn’t hear it and that finally it wasn’t loud enough to constitute a nuisance. I can hear it during the day, and I can sure as shit hear it in my bedroom 150ft away. Doesn’t have to be loud to me incredibly annoying. White noise would barely mask it. I wanted to burn that RV to the ground.

    Noise can be such a thing.





  • They expose themselves to risks simply by living in Russia.

    Holy hell. That is absolutely not how the world works. People have no choice in the circumstances of their birth and frankly not a whole lot of control over their lives either. Such behavior is reckless and shows a wanton disregard for other human beings.

    Please stop. Putting random people at risk of having their lives destroyed by the authoritarian regime in which they were born into is so incredibly shameful.

    What an incredible display of emotional immaturity. So much so I assume this must be trolling.

    Grow up. Quickly.

    Edit: make yourself useful and target people that matter if you need to express yourself. I hear Putin and everyone connected to him is a good choice.