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I don't like it when the LLM tries to be my friend. My general prompt (a work in progress) is this. I wonder what other people use. "Answer impersonally, objectively and analytical…

What? I read all the time for entertainment and to pass the time. And I hate short-form video. Am I the only one?

Yes: Paranoid password printing with a Raspberry Pi https://7402.org/blog/2020/paranoid-password-printing-pi.html

"No loud music between 10pm and 7am." That's on private property when it can be heard by others. Laws have all kind of restrictions on the time/place/manner of self-expression when…

The only bold-faced sentence in the post is this: "Solving problems is the only way to understand physics." This is key! If you have the discipline to follow through on this, then …

I hear relatively long conversations going on at higher speeds, e.g. 25-30 wpm. I think those short exchanges you mentioned only dominate at times when there's a popular contest go…

With llama.cpp, Intel i9-13900KS CPU, 96 GB RAM, RTX 4070 running locally. The models I'm using right now with that are: gpt-oss-120b-F16.gguf Qwen_Qwen3.5-27B-Q4_K_M.gguf Qwen3.6-…

Already has been, although just small bits at present: US 2200m band 135.7 - 137.8 kHz US 630m band 472 - 479 kHz These became available in 2017 in US, following the agreement of t…

In college I used to go out to eat from time to time with a group of friends to a midnight pancake house. This was a very nerdy group! In our "culture," everyone wrote down on thei…

I'm surprised. Consulting an exposure limit calculator ( https://www.arrl.org/rf-exposure-calculator ) suggests a safe distance (FCC controlled exposure limit) for continuous (30 m…

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Does that apply to this comment on this page? ToucanLoucan 23 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] ... Americans only give a shit about the price of gas and eggs. Whoever ha…

I don't allege bad intent, but I wish people would stop using "Karen" as an insult, because I know some perfectly nice people with the misfortune to have been given that name.

That experiment might simply divide artists into those who understand bullshit assignments and can adapt to that context, and those who don't and can't. There are plenty of artists…

Is it really so obvious? It didn’t seem AI-written to me. Every day I seem to encounter (and skip over in disgust) a dozen or so AI-generated articles at the top of web searches, b…

> could've been used for a post apocalyptic sci-fi set Of course, it was! AppleTV show “Severance” https://www.newsweek.com/lumon-building-severance-real-visit...

The author talks about his motivation right here: https://www.obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/ It's not that arcane.