Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

The last time I had an issue with Windows crashing it was a PSU that had gone bad. With a reasonable system it appears stable to me. The awful updates/reboots plan is much more impactful for example. On the list of Windows gripes system stability is actually pretty low.

If you are using Windows, wipe the hdd and install from ISO/USB. Do not use the pre-installed OS and do not install the manufacturer bloatware after your fresh install.

I'm not against fast food, but the Burger King near me is so incompetently run I haven't been back in years. I don't think putting the AI fake politeness police will help. They need real managers and help with the very basics. Politeness is way down the line of problems.

Lovely date you have there, how many gigs of ram does it have?

I got back into biking after decades of not riding with e-bikes and also gained fitness. At first I was very weak and my pedaling wasn't adding much. Within a few months I had gained the ability to clearly add power with my pedaling for extended rides. Obvious fitness gains achieved from a fun activity. For people who are too far gone to even start the e-bike can be a lifeline.

This.. When someone asks me for help these days I set them up on Chrome OS. There's less that can go wrong.

Vibe coding is like managing a flawed team of coders. I think it is right up his alley. I wish I had his prerequisites.

I am doing AI analysis on my own ip cameras and have said many times during the project that I'm glad the only penalty for false detection of a threat is a notification to me. Last night at dusk it hallucinated a black bear in my yard. I can make it more accurate by providing more data, but it takes longer and costs more.

This seems to suggest that humans were using the browser environment by hand and didn't even consider the source or using some traditional or ai tool to help audit the code. I don't know much about pen testing but I have a hard time believing that is how it's done. Maybe it wasn't how good the AI was but how incompetent the human testers were.

If the word 'literally' is used less than once per sentence it's literally written by AI. Humans literally use it as a word to put emphasis on anything, literally.

I have enjoyed creating a snapshot and allowing claude to --allow-dangerously-skip-permissions You probably shouldn't run something like that on your personal desktop or a production system though.

I changed the personality to "Cynical" and added "Consider possible drawbacks and constraints and advise about them." to the custom instructions under personality in ChatGPT. Helps alot.

I run Jellyfin, but I don't expose it to the public internet. A WireGuard server on the router is perfect for accessing LAN resources, and the app makes split tunneling easy on most devices.

The authorâ(TM)s obsession with the "biological vs. artificial" distinction is the exact same logical fallacy as arguing that airplanes can't actually fly because they don't have feathers or flap their wings like birds. The output (flight) is the same; the mechanism (Bernoulli's principle vs. biomechanics) is irrelevant. This piece tries to argue that because the brain separates language and reasoning , a machine that unifies them can't be intelligent. That is peak absurdity. It is effectively the same thing as arguing that an electric vehicle isn't actually a "car" because it lacks a combustion engine and spark plugs; or insisting that a GPS navigation system doesn't "know" where it is because it triangulates signals rather than "remembering" landmarks like a London cabbie; or, to be even more pedantic, claiming that a speedometer isn't measuring "real" speed because it calculates wheel rotation rather than "feeling the wind" in its face. The method of arrival does not invalidate the destination, and calculating a correct answer via token prediction is functionally indistinguishable from "reasoning" to the observer.