I recently read that the police can court order Ring to disclose my private camera footage.
In addition to that, it probably does free license plate scans for cops, and might assist ICE or something. Or sell me more crap on Amazon? So… who knows what they do with it! The data is in Ring’s cloud. I have no clue what they do with it, and that bugs me.
So, I immediately nuked my entire Ring setup (factory reset) and am going to pawn it immediately to buy a replacement.
This is a stub, a TODO item for myself. I want to make a list of my fave games, minecraft modpacks, music, movies, and books.
Another TODO would be to pull data from my Bandcamp and just dump it here.
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I just deleted my LinkedIn account. It feels fantastic to be rid of it. I’ve gotten rid of my Facebook account as well.
About 3 times a week, I get calls from recruiters and cold calls from companies I’ve never heard of. I’m hoping that entirely ceases now.
Yeah…that’s kind of it. I’m going to post here and try to do decentralized microblogging. I’m sick of corporations pushing their constant stream of mildly stimulating 10-second videos down my throat.
I host self-hosted AI models on a dual-CPU desktop that has a 24GB AMD GPU. It’s neat but surprisingly slow and can’t handle models whose .gguf files are larger than like, 9GB.
Despite this limitation, I was able to make a toy demo where I use an AI model to continually update and edit a Git repo.
https://github.com/meltingscales/pillbugplants
I’ve learned that “Aider” is a neat, young, and somewhat buggy AI coding tool to rival Claude’s CLI.
Corporate america seems addicted to acceleration and causing burnout.
I recently read a Microsoft article about AI, about “Frontier Firms”.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/2025-the-year-the-frontier-firm-is-born
I think America needs to slow down.
When I read Microsoft’s article about “Frontier Firms”, I just fear that companies will use this as an excuse to fire workers and replace them with AI agents, and then over-work existing “high performing” employees.
What’s the difference between “malware” and “software”?
In my opinion, it’s the human who labels the code that. Code is merely a mechanism to modify data. It has no emotions, intent, “inherent evil-ness”, etc. Do hammers enjoy being used to hammer nails?
A gun is an inert piece of metal. So is a screwdriver, or a hammer. You can use them to hunt for food and build a house, or to hurt other people. Are they “safe”? When are they not “safe”?
Paying for Windows?
23andme going out of business!
Okay. So…business cards suck! They’re annoying, expensive to get printed, and get outdated quickly. I’ve been to so many networking events where I’ve gotten a stack of business cards, only to throw them away a few weeks later.
Let’s fix it with technology!
See below for a picture of my business card.
3 years ago, in 2022, I made a ReactJS package to render business cards in HTML:
https://github.com/meltingscales/react-business-card-hfbp?tab=readme-ov-file
I recently read an interesting article about a neural network that, instead of artificial neurons, has logic gates.
https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/difflogic-ca/?hn
The paper described its neural network as “sparse”, and this made me want to ask ChatGPT “Why does this paper describe logic-gate networks as sparse?”
I didn’t realize this really important fact:
In “Deep Neural Networks”, they’re called “Deep” because it’s a 2D matrix of nodes “neurons” that are FULLY CONNECTED to every single output in the previous layer.