Notices by Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)

I ended up installing it on so many devices, so that I'm now in the middle of deleting them one by one.

It's a shame. I'm exhausted.

Privacy is a natural right.

Sigh. I'm exhausted.

Do you guys know about a Firefox and Chrome extension called Bonjourr?

It basically just makes your start page look stylish, like a smartphone's welcome screen. You can also add widgets for bookmarks, the weather, or quotes, and for a little while, it was one of my favorites.

But it betrayed me. My Cloudflare One caught it sending telemetry to doubleclick.net an insane number of times.

Hello.

Yeah. LLMs are definitely useful, no doubt about it. They're powerful tools that let you keep up the appearance of working without ever having to spend the time or mental energy to actually focus on the task.

But here's the thing. The brains of people who have become addicted to LLMs have turned into mush—their intellect has become as soft and fragile as tofu!

AI—specifically LLMs—is a genuine form of technical debt for us.

The survival of AI companies depends entirely on their ability to attract constant investment. Once the bubble bursts, simply switching to paid services or usage-based API pricing won't even come close to making up the difference.

They haven't paid copyright royalties for most of the creative works in their datasets, and as a result, they're stuck dealing with constant "model distillation" attacks from Chinese startups backed by the Chinese government.

After the bubble collapses, AI will become incredibly expensive—so much so that it won't even be comparable to the cost of hiring senior human engineers.

Now that the LLM "trial period" is over, we're being put to the test: can we prove we aren't hooked on it like opium?

Japan has been hit by a string of earthquakes and typhoons one after another.

Good morning, fellow Fedizens.

It's now Sunday in Japan.

Good morning, fellow fedi folks.

It's Thursday.

Firefox is at it again, pushing another pointless update and messing around with the settings menu.

Thanks to that, it's now clashing with the Firefox PWA extension, and I can't open the extension panel in the PWA anymore.

By the way, the attached screenshot shows my 2017 MacBook Air running Debian as it is now.

While it's accurate to call it ethnic cleansing, it looks like an even more malicious form of racism.Amnesty report accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' in West Bank amid expanded settlements
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People in Japan view coexisting with swallows very positively and place great importance on maintaining their habitats.

Look at this. The station staff at our local station take excellent care of them.

@raccoon Personally, I don't think the swallow's song is all that beautiful, but for many Japanese people, myself included, swallows are deeply connected to rice farming and are birds that remind us of our roots.

So, even if they build nests on our homes as they please and scatter droppings everywhere, we shouldn't get rid of them for that reason alone.

After all, we can't forget where we came from.

@raccoon Japanese swallows traditionally played a role in pest control for rice farming.

Since I'm not a rice farmer, personally I'd rather they get rid of the hornets building a nest on the side of my house, though.

So, if you chase the swallows away, all sorts of bugs will breed during Japan's hot and humid summers, which is a real pain.

@aral Hello, Aral.

GoFundMe is blocking our donations to Gaza.

Please encourage those who are Gaza-verified to switch to a fundraising platform other than GoFundMe.

In my town, it's right around the time of year when baby swallows leave their nests.

The twittering of the swallows echoes in every direction.

@atomicpoet That sounds like medieval or Renaissance music.

I specialized in Western music composition at university, and I really think it's the Renaissance style that truly captures the essence and charm of Western music.

Music from that era isn't bound by functional harmony; its tonality is ambiguous, and it lacks the "stiffness" typical of Western music. Despite that, it features beautifully simple harmonies, making it easy to listen to even for beginners.

@atomicpoet It is not that I dislike the beauty of Western music, such as harmonic equivalence or the equal treatment of each voice in counterpoint; rather, I respect it.

For example, Palestrina's compositions are the ultimate model for me.

However, the "order" of simplicity that functional harmony and tonality aim for is different from my aesthetic, which aims to embrace chaos exactly as it is, and my view of life and death, where "eventually everything returns to Mother Earth."

My improved FreshRSS and SmartRSS combo is incredibly handy!

I can see exactly what's trending in every field, full articles and all.

I can't quite put my finger on what's really behind all this LLM hype.

This music is packed with the Japanese elements I envision within Western music.

I really hope you'll give it a listen.