Notices by Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)

@aral

I don't know who you are.

You are probably a white man from somewhere in the West, and likely one of the advocates for the Small Web, which means you probably have some connection to the founders of Kagi. You were already well-known within Mastodon.

And because I felt I could trust you for some reason, I am able to use the Gaza Verified system.

Without Gaza Verified, I can't tell the difference between scams and people genuinely asking for donations. And that's something that can't be achieved by the system alone.

It surely wouldn't work without your ability to earn people's trust.

Aral-san, that's what I found so wonderful about your project. Thank you for everything 😊

It's kind of wild seeing people in the US freak out now that they're realizing all the world's billionaires are pedophiles. I think that's a pretty healthy reaction, in a way.

In my country, it's totally normal for guys to watch porn featuring high school girls, which I think is awful, but I bet our rich people aren't as bad as the ones in the US. Of course, you still see adults getting arrested every week for getting involved with high school girls.

So yeah, this whole thing is just super weird to me.

The GPT-OSS 20B model attempts to write configuration files in its own way, even after I have it read the official documentation multiple times using RAG.

It's quite a troublesome situation.

This suggests that these models are not very proficient at executing tasks precisely according to detailed instructions.

Well, I suppose that's enough for today. Time to head home.

@dalias Very unkind.

Good evening, everyone on the Fediverse.

For us beginners in software engineering 🔰, the usual learning path is to first start with HTML, then learn how to write CSS and operate WordPress, study the basics of JavaScript, learn how to handle the fetch API and asynchronous processing, then try building a web server with PHP, Python, or Node.js. Finally, we peek at or edit WordPress blog posts with MySQL, and then build an alternative front-end for WordPress to knock on the door of full-stack engineering.

I get that, but I have to wonder if it truly counts as learning "engineering" if this entire flow is completed using only GUI SaaS tools, without ever once touching Linux.

@CartyBoston In short, these days the learning process can be completed just by combining GUI-based SaaS and LLMs.

As you know, you don't need phpMyAdmin to set up a WordPress environment.

I think you only need to log in directly to the MySQL database from the terminal.

I still don't know what phpMyAdmin is for, but if you want to feel like you're "directly" manipulating something, the terminal alone should be more than enough.

Good morning, everyone on Fedi.

The muscle pain behind my shoulder still hasn't gone away this morning. It really feels like I can't stretch it out properly.

By the way, even though I've been working with HTML and CSS for web submissions for about four years now, this web game project of ours is the first time I've ever been involved in implementing an authentication feature.

Until now, I thought it was standard to maintain authentication state on the web using session cookies, and I assumed it required some special setup on the front end.

But it turns out, that wasn't necessary at all. I was surprised to learn that within the same domain, browsers now automatically send cookies.

The popular, frequently booked inns at Ginzan Onsen in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, known for their fantastical, exotic snowy landscapes, can only be reserved for parties of 2 or more.

The place is optimized for heterosexual dates. It's quite a problem, you know.

In exchange for that "free" thing, aren't you sacrificing something?

Kotes Journal - Oracle Is Free, Cloudflare Is King, and You’re the Product
blog.kotaro.me/2025/12/21/oracle-is-free-cloudflare-is-king-and-youre-the-product/

Any password a human or LLM can think of is already in a cracker's dictionary.

If it's not a randomly generated passphrase, it will be guessed.

Good morning, everyone on Fedi.

It's a cold Sunday in Tokyo today, with a very chilly rain coming down.

For the first time in a month, I'm sorting my Fediverse posts by topic, creating context, proofreading the text, and posting them to my blog.

From Beef Bowls to Women’s Rights: Why Japan’s Comfort Food Coexists with a Dark Reality
blog.kotaro.me/2025/12/06/from-beef-bowls-to-womens-rights-why-japans-comfort-food-coexists-with-a-dark-reality/

It's really disappointing that, with Microsoft 365 automation, you can't accomplish everything programmatically that you can do manually in the GUI.

For example, PowerPoint's "Change Picture" feature lets you replace just the image file path with a single right-click, while keeping the picture's position, layering, and properties intact.

I think functionality like this should have been made easy to implement with code from the very beginning. It's just too much to have to delete the image and re-add it every single time.

The fact that I'm always content with my current situation might make it seem to others like I lack the ambition to grow.

However, for our generation, knowing what is enough and not being greedy are very important.

After all, there are people in other walks of life whose ultimate goal has become raping high school girls.

Therefore, I think I'm one of the fortunate ones.

@aral That's great. I see you're continuing to work on the Gaza verification. Thank you always for your help!

@steter Is that you singing this song in your own voice?

Also, do you like Marilyn Monroe?

@steter Hello. Do you make music too?

@CartyBoston Hello. Are you talking about OpenCV?

@CartyBoston Does it monitor the garden to keep animals from messing it up?

Or maybe it sends you notifications based on changes in the weather.

@CartyBoston A system that uses an alarm or strong lights to scare them off seems like it would be relatively easy to implement. The hard part is detecting them when the animals aren't moving. Maybe we could place microcontrollers connected to temperature sensors.