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Popping over here quickly to say that you can block the outgoing requests to Gemini by adding `appsgenaiserver.*google\.com` to your pihole denylist. Also recommend adding `(\.|^)gemini\.google\.com$` just because. Google, please, just stop.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Contemplating Church numerals through the crutch of Peano axioms: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Actually trying to implement any arithmetic operation from first principles: Well this fucking succs. What the fuck

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

So, at the risk of angering tech folks, I find the drive towards LLM generated unit tests somewhat baffling, especially for net-new code. When I was in college, we were taught test-driven development, because tests specify what your code should actually do. I wouldn't want an LLM written code spec.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Is anyone else just not interested in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way.

submitted 84 days ago • 197 comments

Saving "effective goals are motivating, not overwhelming".

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Working at a B2B tech company startup is searching through your company's internal search for how to use your benefits, and finding results for your sales _to_ that company before finding results on how to use the benefit.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

I have, as a 30 year old dude, needed to remind myself that if I'm in a big box store on a stressful day, that opening up a lootbox of Magic cards won't actually make me happier. Lootboxes are capitalism's second-biggest innovation in making people spend money without restraint.

submitted 321 days ago • 1 comment

using ancient magical animals shapshifted into human beings to fix the relationship between a dancer and his tea merchant father in a comedic dramedy set during the Chinese New Year.

submitted 371 days ago • 0 comments

hello, good morning i just witnessed someone use the acronym “bdsm” to mean “business development, sales, and marketing” and i have never been so glad to have my camera off

submitted 448 days ago • 262 comments

TIL, astronomers can have a different year length than the rest of of (sidereal years). Which makes me wonder if timestamps for astronomy software uses terrestrial time or sidereal time.

submitted 456 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think we've reckoned with the psychological damage of fraudsters. Not even the large ones, I'm just thinking of the barrage of DMs from fake profiles in any online space. It makes us so unable to trust the humanity of others who want a new connection.

submitted 460 days ago • 0 comments

yep, this tracks.

submitted 461 days ago • 0 comments

Alright, this is not tech related so hope you're not following me just for that. The SF Bay Area just is too gender imbalanced. Ballroom dance is mostly guys. I went to a mixer for kink community yesterday and it was almost all guys (guys here meaning people who use she/her pronouns).

submitted 461 days ago • 3 comments