Kay Ohtie

Man, Vance, just shut up. You don’t have to be a sycophant to stay his VP and takeover when he kicks it.

Nextdoor drives me nuts. I see people posting ChatGPT-generated menu poster things with not-food images in them and some folks just slurping it up despite things like when there’s 5 sides listed, and because 2 of them are potato it ends up scrambling them into one gross object (raw/boiled fry-shaped potato sprinkled with paprika, mashing up ‘potato salad’ and ‘french fries’).

Or ‘chicken’ that is Ribbed For Your Pleasure, or chicken where every hair pore is toasted so that it looks simultaneously burnt and raw.

God, I’ve seen so much of this.

Only reason I’m commenting is the movie thing, cause the “hard to pay attention” is wild to me, even as someone with severe ADHD.

I don’t like going to, or sitting down for, movies most of the time because of dermatillomania (warning on images there) secondary to my ADHD resulting in me usually creating entirely new holes in my fingers/hands absentmindedly while I’m watching. There’s a secondary ADHD “itch” due to the drive for spontenaeity, but I get hooked easily on what I’m watching once I do – it’s more of a “but I could be working on X project or something” thought, but then I’ll sit and watch a 2 hour episode of Dimension 20 with no distractions like it’s nothing.

I just… I don’t get how people could pivot to being so short-attention-spanned they don’t want anything like that. Those of us with ADHD are very used to how short attention spans feel, but they’re almost never that short. What the hell.

Trying any drugs at random at a concert without someone who’s real about dose and expectations is kind of…well, a bad idea in general.

Those 20mg gummies tend to state each gummy is 2-4 servings, at least mine do. It’s why the previous source I bought from sold her Delta-8 gummies dosed to 5mg each to make it far easier to nail an exact dose.

But, I also see absurd 600mg mixed THC (10% D-9, 90% D-8) ones that say “start by taking (quarter|half) of a gummy and wait several hours before trying any more” and like… that’s irresponsible as hell to phrase, but I think the expectation is – given them labeled “maximum strength” – is that you know what you’re good for before digging into those.

I don’t know what the happy medium here is on labeling and access, as I agree on the Everclear thing, but you do have to go into a store for that at least. And, to be fair, Everclear tastes like such ass even mixed with anything it has to be diluted down to like, wine strength to be drinkable generally from what I’ve seen, or at least cocktail strength.

And even when you do, it may not accurately respond with it. Companies are conflating complicated word-relationship math with “information”, and there’s no means by which these systems can actually verify that something that came out is accurate or not, since language models just don’t work that way. They can straight up point at sources that’re real but make the wrong conclusion because the word relationships lean that way in relation to what was quoted, and no “this new model is better!” can really solve that fundamental flaw with Large Language Models in general, or things that operate like they do.

Watson was groundbreaking because of the way it worked as an information match model, designed not to be generative but merely to match one prompt “concept” with a target scored on relations. It was almost like how LLM scoring works but fundamentally still different, with a TON of hand-training done to get there. And I was just thinking about, the other day, how much I think these companies want people to correlated what Watson was doing on Jeopardy with LLMs.

I think it was a “We are numberwang” crossover/word swap/etc thing I saw and thought that maybe it was said sorta like that in an episode.

I thought numberwang was an LazyTown meme and now I’ve learned otherwise and am left more confused than ever

Serial killer shit

When I worked for a healthcare software company one of my roles was technical support on a controlled substance monitoring program on a state-by-state basis.

Cops had a separate login portal, and had to go through quite a process to get their account. Once they did, they could submit a search, but had to justify it with a reason that included the warrant number. And even then, it required secondary approval of the search request by a state-level employee.

Why the fuck is that not the minimum for searching someone’s whereabouts?

(To add, I think such programs are unethical when available to cops. For doctors, it was used to make sure a patient wasn’t doc-shopping for opiates, and even then I’m hesitant. It has a potential to save lives via intervention upon finding someone’s 'shopping, but I don’t think it’s usually used as a safe intervention.)

I see we’re continuing with conditional fat shaming again.

I took my travel guitar on my latest flight. Not as small as a Traveler-brand one, but I was able to put it behind 2 other roller-bag carry-ons that were rotated length-wise instead of depth-wise along with my partner’s CPAP. Still meant 4 bags in the overhead slot like normal. I just put my CPAP bag under the seat in front of me and didn’t bring a backpack, instead. Same net result.

But that’s with a travel guitar, specifically the Enya Nova GO SP1 which is much smaller than my mini-jumbo Washburn (EA15). I don’t know how on earth I’d fly with that short of making arrangements to put it in a special location besides the luggage compartment. I’d be too worried about it being damaged even in a hard case, especially from the atmospheric changes.

I have the X4, and I adore it. I wasn’t sure if I’d like it or not but got it on sale, and I’ve been thrilled with it and encouraging folks interested in something more portable than a typical larger e-reader. I just turn it on and read, no need to set a do-not-disturb mode, I just get to focus on that.

“Smaller screen” also sounds bad unless you have flavors of ADHD that cause you to restart the page regularly, and this actually helped me in that regard.

Like, I still have to strip DRM from books I buy if they aren’t DRM-free, but I don’t buy on the Kindle shop anymore, and most others use Adobe Digital Editions, which is fairly easy to rip using plugins for Calibre.

I think of it less as “combine”, and more “separate” on purpose. There’s the images pointing out how much stuff one had to carry before that a smartphone replaces as one slab but… it doesn’t do most of those things as well.

I really like my X4 from that standpoint. It’s much longer battery than my phone screen grants, and I don’t have to open any menus to toggle anything to say “go away, notifications”, or anything like that. I’m separated from everything else on my phone while I read on it.

But it’s also quick and cheap to make absurdly-delicious roasted veg.

My favorite: take a bag of frozen broccoli florets, mist it with some oil (it’ll harden on them), sprinkle with some salt and pepper and toss in it at 400 degrees F for like, 15 minutes. Halfway through I pull the basket and drain the accumulated water in the bottom to increase browning.

Delicious, crispy, I can devour an entire pound of broccoli that way in like 5 minutes.

Most toaster ovens, even ones with strong convection for “air frying”, are not quite consistent enough in their heating. You have to pay far more than you would for an air fryer to get even heat coil distribution and a good door seal for that. The specific kind of rapid cooking that dessicates and browns the surface you get out of air fryer devices is just kind of hard to replicate outside of them.

If you ever look inside an air fryer you can kind of immediately see why – the heater-to-volume ratio is absurdly close. You have the equivalent of the biggest coiltop stove burner directly above a few quarts of air volume with a fan forcing air from it to circulate. It’s just kind of unfair of a comparison for both toaster ovens and even full-size ones that advertise an “air fryer” mode by comparison for that reason.

My only wishlist for Navidrome is SSO support besides reverse-proxy/forward-auth headers. I’ve got that setup with Authentik and Nginx Proxy Manager, but having to make specific path exceptions or duplicates with rewrites for apps/API, rather than just being able to generate an app password/token in Navidrome for an app to use, definitely is annoying. I don’t think I saw a write-up anywhere but I figured out what was needed.

If I recall, in the US, anything in a food advert photo that is meant to come with the product – IE, the toppings of the burger – must be real food, and cannot be paint or such or that’s false advertising. The milk in cereal is provided by the consumer, so they can use the glue there. And while the ketchup is applied via syringe, it is, in fact, ketchup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIEhDSWXeF4

What they get away with is the arrangement of the ingredients, things like splitting and spreading a pattie to make it appear larger, fluffing the choice lettuce pieces and tomato slices, using hidden toothpicks to arrange things.

It’s possible the Japanese ad you presented isn’t food at all, and just model food, like presented in shop storefronts – looking like the real thing. That steam is definitely added after the fact. It also has a bit of a sheen in spots on the bread that makes me think it’s just plastic, but I don’t think the same “false advertising” laws apply in Japan.

I’m trying to figure out what leads someone to look at this and say “yes this is good” and then fucking print it, or pay to have it printed. Like, why would you just… print without even fucking looking?

Not an article, but as others have pointed out with Google, what’s more likely is that Apple hasn’t added an explicit processing exception to the US GIS data published at the federal level.

Most map providers ingest this data and process it, along with adjustments or additions of their own, and that includes the names of features like Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico. Google appear to update their GIS data very frequently, hence it appearing the same day it was published by the USGS.

Apple must take longer. In addition, the zoom level thing is probably from it just prioritizing the Canadian GIS data at that zoom level for that feature body, which still has the correct name. Meanwhile, MapQuest would’ve outright added a processing rule to rewrite that name so they can continue to use the USGS GIS data but have “Lake Ontario” show up properly. Same thing for both Google and Apple on “Gulf of America” showing up, because Google processes daily and Apple less often and neither added a rule to keep the canonical name the same.

So I don’t know if I’d say “capitulation”, in terms of what that generally means, taking specific actions to give into something, but maybe it does, since this is effectively Apple’s inaction passively leading to it. Maybe it’s more complicity through inaction.

My partner and I refer to the remote on that thing as “the bean”