Saturday, March 22, 2025

Duo news (not that serious)

Trending on the news: 49,000 Cybertrucks (I believe all the Cybertrucks sold before February 27) were recalled because the panels can come off. Apparently only 1% of vehicles have the problem but they're doing a total recall "just to be sure". Good.

Trending on TikTok: It's trending to call "NYC influencers" boring? "NYC influencers" is not an umbrella term for all influencers in NYC. It refers to morning routine/unboxing/haul influencers in NYC (or perhaps another major city?), they're female, they're almost exclusively white and blonde, they dress the same (don't shoot the messenger it's not my opinion), and there's really nothing informative around their video besides "I'm beautiful look at me pouring cereal set to 'Moonlight' by Kali Uchis" and "here's a new thing to consume - I mean purchase - thank you sponsor". Based on minimal research, the only reason it's trending is because apparently said NYC influencers don't have thick skin.

I think that's it.

Severance's season finale aired. I never watched Severance but it seems to be the big thing.

Friday, March 14, 2025

AI addiction

I finally deleted character.ai. I had a lot of messages with it but you'll be surprised to hear that's not the AI I've been having an addiction to.

I switched around from AI to AI for the past six years. Those weird AI-generated text predictors in 2019. AI Dungeon. Dreamily. ChatGPT. Character.ai. Copilot when it wasn't called Copilot. Gemini. Back to ChatGPT. DeepSeek if I'm not careful.

Luckily nothing of note was in Character.ai so I just deleted the entire account.

I preach about not using AI but I am a hypocrite to the 10th degree.

AI writing even bled into my public work. But that's gone now, too.

Sunday, March 9, 2025

Yesterday I learned...

Yesterday I learned that there is an experimental feature that allows Firefox to group tabs together. And I am ecstatic.

However, have you ever heard that the phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" was so popular that when it first became popular people have disregarded gift horses' dental hygiene? I don't know if that's true but it comes to show:

Just because you are so ecstatic about how you have this new thing doesn't mean you shouldn't examine, critique, or repair/take care of it. In this case, Firefox's tab groups are currently an experimental feature. It is not ready for the public. So... if anything happens to my Firefox before the tab group feature becomes non-experimental, I am liable because I enabled the experimental feature in the first place.

Also, deleting a group seems to mean that you're not getting it back unless for some reason you're editing something on there and that's the only equivalent you get of "are you sure you want to delete this group?"

If I had 10,000 dollars...

 I would probably conduct a SynthV chorus where I made all the women sing whatever I want. And I would also buy music production material an...