Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • A Railroad Prose

    Like Iron Teeth, 
    The wheels of the Train
    Grind against the rails
    
    
    The horn blows
    On a solemn cloudy day
    Not like summer day
    Baked in splendor
    

  • So very tired, so little sleep

    I woke up at 03:45 this morning. I tried to go back to bed until my 05:00 alarm but I had different ideas. So I'm exhausted, running on 5:30 hours of sleep. Didn't even get around to doing the writing I had planned because of it.

• Politics and World Events

  • Charlie Kirk Was a Hateful Piece of Shit

    With mainstream MAGA figures calling for revenge for their side, some outright calling for civil war, and morally grandstanding over the violence enacted against Charlie Kirk whilst all major left-wing media universally condemn the violence, I think the least the left should do is not whitewash Charlie Kirk's toxic legacy out of indiscriminate reverence for the dead. Let's be honest about who Charlie Kirk was.

    Charlie Kirk preached hatred and division. He peddled racist conspiracy theories, dangerous misinformation about Covid among other things, and religious intolerance. He was unashamedly anti-gay, anti-trans, racist, and sexist. He used the freedoms apportioned to him by liberal democracy to erode liberal democracy. He did not model open healthy debate. He picked on weaker debate opponents and even then employed bad-faith tactics when he was losing the argument. Charlie Kirk not only fanned the flames of political division, he profited off of it. He, along with other MAGA grifters, ultimately fomented the political environment that got him killed.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Programming

    • Using AI to write a Python CGI

      During this process, I didn't feel like a developer at all. I felt much more like a Product Manager. I would tell the AI what I wanted, see what it came back with, and would give it feedback and make suggestions. Only occasionally, if there was some small change I wanted to make, like adding a footer or something, would I actually "write" any code. It was just easier for me to add than ask it to do. And even then, I wasn't really writing anything. I would add or edit a print statement, modify the order, and change the Gemtext formatting.

      [...]

      The only time ChatGPT seemed confused and gave me outright wrong information was while I was writing this blog post. I asked ChatGPT to look at the timestamps of the chat and count how long it took to create the CGI. It told me 10+ hours. When I asked it to give me all the prompts I asked it and the actual timedate stamps when I asked, it gave me a much longer time for today, even though I wrote this on the evening of September 11th. I can look at the creation and modified times for the `moon.py` file. I started around 10:30 p.m. and I finished around 1 a.m. So I spent ~2.5 hours on this. I have no idea why ChatGPT cannot understand when I asked what I asked.