Notices by Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me), page 3

It wouldn't be surprising at all even if the US these days invaded neighboring countries for outrageous reasons just to manipulate the futures market.

Before I knew it, only Costa Rican coffee beans have gone up in price. Did they get invaded by the US or something?

It seems the time has already come for the cherry blossoms to scatter...

I use direct transfer platforms like Gaza Verified, Chuffed, and GoFundMe to donate to the people of Gaza, but that doesn't mean I don't believe in the capabilities of official support channels like international NGOs, the UN, and international human rights organizations.

I am donating to the people of Gaza, but at the same time, I want to revitalize this fediverse community.

I consider myself to be investing in connections with people on the instances around kotaro.me.

Taking a walk with Debian is wonderful!!

On a 2017 MacBook Air running Debian, I can send and receive cherry blossom photos using a cross-platform file transfer app instead of AirDrop.

These are the first cherry blossoms I've seen blooming this year.

The buds still really stand out, don't they.

Embedded YouTube videos will not play when connected through Cloudflare One's WARP.

The victims of war crimes from 25 years ago only existed as blurry images on TV.

Now they're right here, among my followers on my microblog.

In that sense, the fediverse offers a completely new user experience.

Spain 🇪🇸 has a pretty good government, don't they? He's a man with a backbone who won't bow down to the US 🇺🇸.

Hello, everyone on the fedi.

I can't use mTLS authentication in Firefox for iOS. It's a real shame.

Good morning, fedi folks.

Recently, there have been several news reports indicating that China's 🇨🇳 carbon dioxide emissions have started to show a gradual decline.

In China 🇨🇳, perovskite solar cells, a technology my father invented, are being implemented on a massive scale, and their progress is among the most advanced in the world.

I really hope that companies in Japan, as well as in Europe and the US, will keep up and invest in efforts to promote the widespread adoption of perovskite solar cells too.

@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.