Notices by Æ. (aesthr@wandering.shop)

@dalias yeah sure, if you use a private custom definition of “kids” then any statement about those can be true

Oh, “the kids are alright”?

Spend a week among present day psych students. That’ll give you a reality check.

The ableism alone is weapons-grade, and it’s sometimes worse than the stuff that significantly older lectures will teach.

And many of these people are going to be tomorrow’s therapists.

They’re going to cause immeasurable harm.

This is why people don't take open source seriously

Yeah, I'm totally going to install the harfbuzz freetype2 fribidi library, sure, that sounds like a normal thing to do to m computer.

Calling .unwrap() on a value in Rust is like asking a German "How are you?"

You *might* be fine but there's also a chance that you'll be here for much longer than you bargained for.

Last week in a seminar we discussed a text that was largely about sexual violence, including mass rape during war. Heavy stuff.

One student admitted they had not read the text but worked off a ChatGPT summary.

They had no idea the text was about sexual violence. ChatGPT withheld that information.

This wasn’t just a minor error nor a typical LLM hallucination.

About a third of the text, arguably its most important part, went completely ignored because it didn’t match OpenAI’s content policies

Capitalism surely produces the best possible products

https://youtube.com/shorts/kTqvAZmMU48

It's a famous trope that tech oligarchs think they could totally have done a physics degree, but then they confirm it by showing e.g. how they don't understand that producing electrical energy isn't "making new electrons", which is something I learned around 7th or 8th grade physics class.

Does Sam Altman also think a water faucet creates new water? Or that wind is the creation of new air?

Full transcript: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-altman-2/

Oh, please, please actually do this. It'll be hilarious

Advertising is equivalent to code injection for your brain. Therefore ad-blocking is a necessary security measure.

Want to know that the main advantage of Bluesky over Mastodon is?

There’s not several men yelling at me, the woman who clearly must be wrong and stupid, every time I have an opinion that they don’t understand.

Fuuuuuuck!

Maintainers of KeepassXC (popular open source password manager) have started to use LLM code, which is a horrible idea for any software but especially security stuff.

https://blobfox.coffee/@Ember/115507736529184708

Details are not done but I did get it to a point where I could try it on.

And it fits, and I really like the minimalist look and the angles.

Oh, and pretty much the entire lower half (legs, hips) is still not even fully figured out but I’ll need more material for that.

But it’s required because without any anchoring on the bottom the too part slides around too much.

@kaia i thought about it but haven’t decided yet. I would have to sell them at a pretty high price given the amount of work that goes into them, but then again they are better quality than a lot of other commercial options

Much better

For something like a collar or cuff, I'd also double up the entire strap in order to have the "nice" side of the leather both outside for good looks and on the skin-touching side for comfort.

This also makes it easier to add various metal parts like D rings anywhere on it like here: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/115430515861256122

With a double strap you just need two rivets with a little space between to fit the ring. It also let's you give the whole thing a curve for a better final fit.

Make sure to use closed rivets (the ones with smooth surfaces on both ends) so they don't become (unintended) scratching hazards.

Next small leather task:

Replace this collar that’s really shoddily made and uncomfortable with one that’s simple but decent. At least I can reuse the O ring.

Look at this. It’s all just flimsy thin leather stitched and glued together into layers to appear thicker.

And since a chain is just as strong as its weakest link, the closing buckle held on with only one small rivet is a worrying weak point.

The problem there is that the collar closes with just a thin strap of questionable material and a buckle attached with one small rivet.

The force on that rivet will be partly perpendicular because the buckle is off-center, which is the weakest direction for rivets.

Two dangerous failure points.

This is why you do buckles like this: pull a strong strap through the buckle, and fix it with a rivet through both layers. This way, the pulling force on the rivet will be all lateral, which the rivet can resist best.

It also looks better imo