Notices by Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)

'I cannot tell you when the current mania will end and this bubble will burst. If I could, you’d be reading this in my $100,000 per month subscribers-only trading strategy newsletter and not a public blog. What I can tell you is that computers cannot think, and that the problems of the current instantation of the nebulously defined field of “AI” will not all be solved within “5 to 20 years”.'

https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html

@lindsey my own drawing level has a before-art teacher and after-art teacher discontinuity :) The nibling has a super artistic parent who has been teaching them colors and how to look at things since before they could talk, and now goes to art classes with them. I can see all the influences and also they have their own unique eye and aesthetic that I personally love 🌈

And never forgot the UNBLINKING EYE of the abstract rainbow unicorn, same artist, age 4 years old. Technically it is also drawing rainbows with markers but I never made anything this creative or terrifying

I know I am biased, but I really am impressed by the art my 6-year-old honorary nibling creates. Look at the highlights and shadows on this cubist pumpkin! I was drawing rainbows with markers at this age

@jalefkowit @cstross you kid, but: https://a16z.com/anime-is-eating-the-world/

@suldrew @kf supervillains have better costumes

Also I did a fair bit of googling about various electrical wiring testing and repair topics and hoo-boy did I get a lot of AI results. My current AI detector algorithm is:

1. Mealy-mouthed banal summary-style introduction
2. Numbered lists preceded by "such as"

Sometimes I will read past #1 but #2 is the clincher.

Oh and there was a zap and a burning smell when my screwdriver touched the metal faceplate of the junction box the thermistor shares with the single pole light switch on 240v. Maybe it was static electricity... I hit the breaker and pulled the light switch out and while I couldn't see the copper, there sure were four or five deep scores on the hot wire that were jammed up against the various items in the junction box. I love household wiring, always a surprise. (I taped it up just in case.)

I accidentally went to a Dutch language movie with no subtitles today and I understood an astonishing amount. I can read most news articles in Dutch too. That's 2.5 years of Duolingo, < 50 hours of group classes, 1.5 years living in Amsterdam, and one Dutch friend who texts with me in Dutch to arrange watching her dog

Thermistor down to 10C now 😂

@dgentry was that at Sun Microsystems? Because it sounds like a thing that would happen at Sun 😂

Anyway, good times, fun mystery, I only broke things a little bit, and now it is time to check if I have the right kind of silicone caulk to seal the junction boxes without creating a fire hazard. And now I have an okay Haweets multimeter and a terminal block operating tool for the next time something goes awry.

I also found some obvious after-the-fact add-on patches from the control box to the valves that turn on the hot water to the floor pipes in each room.

It looks like the original design was one power/control wire per room, actuating 1-2 valves per room. But we have a weirdly shaped giant living room that uses 4 valves, so they had to use two wires for the living room and patch in an additional control connection. Those wires are zip-tied on to the main zip-tied bundle.

That sensor reads 12C most of the winter because it is on the windward wall which is not well sealed and the junction box has an extra unnecessary knockout. The lowest set point on the heater is 15C, so it would be heating 24/7 most of the winter. That is helemaal niet Nederlands.

A previous resident must have yanked the sensor wires out of the terminal block, breaking the terminal block as well. Better no heat than spending too much on heat!

I did some continuity testing and all seemed well after reseating the terminal block which I had half-dislodged while taking the cover off the controller box, disabling almost all the heating in the house for 2 days of 0C weather. 😂 So I decided to take a look at the other end of the wire at the thermistor in the bathroom.

As I was popping the plate with the thermistor out of the wall, I realized that an icy draft was howling through the junction box, directly onto the back of the thermistor...

I finally understand the history of the temperature sensors of my in-floor heating.

When we moved in, the wire to the Pt1000 thermistor in the bathroom was disconnected, causing it to read 400C. After 5 repair appointments, it was only disconnecting sometimes. I jiggled all the connections and it stopped disconnecting.

But now it read about 12C all the time. I figured there was still a wiring issue and bought a multimeter (my US multimeter got left behind).

I asked AliExpress to send n00ds, and honestly this was the best possible result:

@kf this sounds like the beginning of a supervillain origin story

Every line of this article on is carefully crafted to make me burst a blood vessel

https://gizmodo.com/ai-has-enshittified-americas-advanced-stealth-fighter-2000527934

@bert_hubert met AI kunst, natuurlijk