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Interacted with a reply from someone who was obviously keyword trolling. After that exchange started to feel a bit hinky, went out and searched the person's name and read a few threads, and...

Good reminder to block and move on.

Wow. If you wanted to destroy my remaining faith in an organization, you probably couldn't be more effective than an email titled "Scientific Validation Confirms Blue Zones Integrity" with body that reads like the worst conspiracy theory appeal to authority.

Thinking about the revelations about Oliver Sacks making stuff up, and what we already knew about Malcolm Gladwell, and how much we like LLMs telling us what we want to hear.

Humanity really seeks out being lied to.

That moment when I feel stupid because Apache for all the virtual domains was logging to my user home directory, and /var/log/apache wasn't readable to that user, and there were 36G of old log files clogging up my web server that I couldn't find...

Reddit post thanking someone for urging them to get extra RAM last summer has the nicest benediction:

Buddy, wherever you are now, may your core temps be low, your thermal paste always spread evenly like butter on a pancake, and your GPU connectors unmeltable.

I'm not sure how much I trust the sources, but while it seems like Waymo driverless vehicles are far safer than human piloted automobiles, the Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers:

A Monday report from Elektrek found that Tesla Robotaxis are crashing much more frequently than cars driven by humans, as the company has now reported eight crashes of its driverless taxi fleet in Austin, Texas to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration since July.

Of course that's 12x worse with a safety driver, which suggests that perhaps attention fatigue is part of the issue with drivers of Tesla cars having much worse collision rates than the automobile fleet generally?

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I suspect I'm an outlier, but the fact that I can't have the Netflix app open on my Chromecast, or have the Netflix web page open on a browser, without having overly loud trailers playing is a large contributor to my "subscribe to watch the thing I wanted to watch, then cancel" use pattern.

Figure I should note that we started watching Wake Up Dead Man, the latest Knives Out movie, and... the thing about unlikable suspects is that we have to have some reason to care what happens to them.

After we finally got Blanc on the screen, we still didn't. Turned it off to watch something else.

Well, Waterfox's response to Firefox's AI push is cogent enough that I might be willing to try it again, and file some bugs (and maybe even try to find the source to patch) their autofill issues.

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/