Notices by Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)

I recently became eligible for disability pension benefits again, so I completed an additional $1,300 investment.
This time I increased my holdings in gold, REITs, and non-US bonds.

After graduating from graduate school, I couldn't find stable employment for quite some time and was late joining the pension system, so I can't expect much in terms of pension benefits.
That's why I must utilize tax-exempt systems to invest as much as possible from my monthly income - approximately 40% of it.

Here is what the ChatGPT answerd:

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1. Reframing “labor” vs. “work” vs. “action”

Hannah Arendt famously distinguished three modes of human activity:
• Labor: the cyclical, survival‐driven tasks (e.g., agriculture, cooking).
• Work: the creation of durable “world‐building” artifacts (e.g., buildings, texts, software).
• Action: the political and interpersonal engagement that brings people together.

By this schema, staring at screens can be meaningful “work” if it produces something lasting—code, processes, documentation—that others rely on. It isn’t mere “labor” in the primitive sense, but part of the uniquely human capacity to build and share a common world.

In other words, Google likely prioritizes displaying smaller Ping-related Google Video URLs over URLs from other official services.

This contrasts with DuckDuckGo and Brave, which prioritize bringing trustworthy, authoritative URLs to the top of search results.

I investigated the search queries that SearXNG sends to Google and performed the search directly on Google.

As it turns out, it wasn't a bug in SearXNG!
To my dismay, even when searching directly on Google, in a Japanese-language environment with the country code set to Japan, the top search result shows a Google Video URL instead of the standard Google URL.

This afternoon, I was testing and modifying requests sent from SearXNG regarding an issue where searching for "Google" in Japanese settings on SearXNG causes a Google Video URL to appear as the top search result.

Firefox has a built-in library called PDF.js that converts PDFs to PNG images, but Chrome doesn't have this feature.

Good morning, everyone on Fedi.
Cursor doesn't help reduce workload at all—it's just a time thief.
As expected, it struggles with API specifications and bug fixes.

Lately, installing npm packages takes forever. Maybe my environment is messy.
Well, it's just like how my room is never tidy.

I figured it out myself. It was an issue with the SSL certificate.

@steter My Iceshrimp client automatically converts your YouTube links into an Iframe video player. I had a lot of trouble implementing this in Vue.js.

@steter It would be great if YouTube embeds in posts would work with Summary Proxy.

@steter Bravo!

Hi all you fedi's out there.
I am Kotaro, with ADHD.
I am leaving today for a 5 day/4 night trip.

It's a holiday!

Google Translate is not as good as DeepL.
That is a lack of understanding of English grammar.
But spending $15/month on a fedi translation is a waste, to say the least.

McDonald's hamburger patties are Australian beef, so this tariff has nothing to do with it. But the reality is that our country imports much of its wheat from the US. The price of bread may go up.

That's it for today's work!
Yikes. Trump's self-proclaimed reciprocal tariffs are making the yen stronger all at once.
Why is the U.S. dollar weakening when it is Japan that will be hit economically?

Good evening, everyone at fedi.
The Trump administration is really trying to destroy the global economy.

Open AI GPT-4o has already been deployed via Microsoft Azure by some of the biggest names in the world.
What does it mean, then, that economies around the world are so heavily dependent on language models created with such pirated datasets?

We are faced with two choices: either the AI bubble will burst at once, or the concept of copyright will be eradicated.Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O’Reilly bookstechcrunch.com/2025/04/01/researchers-suggest-openai-trained-ai-models-on-paywalled-oreilly-books/

@dansup Something wrong with you?