Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 12 May 2026

    The 1st of may we did our first real day-trip of this year to the Edersee (perhaps known from its "Dambusters" fame). Junior is really a water-rat, while yes, the water was still cool, the bright sun and temperatures around 25 degrees Celsius made it quiet pleasant to go into the wet element. After that we ate at a little rustical restaurant... quiet a challenge with junior hungry and wound up, but it worked out unexpected well.

    The rest of the weekend was reserved for maintenance around the house where junior was eager to "help": Just imagine a super motivated a-bit-over-three-year-old bringing tools, helping to clean out weeds and so on. As long as we managed to direct his seemingly endless energy in a /somewhat/ useful (or at least non destructive) everything went well.

  • On the inevitability of things breaking

    Do you have one of those fluffy chocolate cakes somewhere? I'd really take a byte.

    While I was entering I noticed the padlock fell from the navbar and broke. I recall talking with someone here about how things may vanish someday without making a noise, and how that would be so sad.

  • On a more positive note

    Last time I started writing a post with the title "What I've been up to", and ended up ranting about western imperialism. Hardly surprising, for it's been bothering me for a while. I was meaning to make a post about it, in fact. I also ended up saying I should also write more constructively.

  • shabby chic

    black lace hugging hips
    a sliver of tummy exposed
    body stretched long
    like a cat after a nap
    a body I can't recognise 
    surely
    that's not me
    but the shabby couch 
    in the picture
    is the same one I lounge on 
    writing this
    

  • 🕴️ NO SOLICITORS

    Chazz Martin was a former New York City ad man, twice divorced, who’d spent his entire adult life living in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. To those who knew him, he was the epitome of a New York socialite—erudite, debonair, and ruthlessly ambitious—which is why it came as a surprise when he decided to quit the ad game, sell all his possessions, and move cross country to live in an adobe shack in the badlands of the Mojave Desert.

    Chazz bought a two-story house with dirt floors, which once belonged to a famous artist who’d moved to the desert after the Great War in an attempt to recover his lost sanity. His only neighbors were a 300-acre date farm to the west and the sprawling Air Force base to the east.

• Technology and Games

  • I had enough with slops

    I don't know why. But my YouTube, Twitter (I still refuse to call the thing X) and Facebook account has been simultaneously infested with AI slop. Absolutely low effort, low quality, hype or fear mongering (I think the AI risk is real, both economy and human existence. But that needs real adult conversation). STOP! Why should I spend my effort reading your garbage when you yourselves spent 0 effort creating it?

  • Homeworlds Pyramid Game

    I borrowed the game Homeworlds from my sister, and I am really liking it so far.

  • LLM usage policy on this blog [Ed: Slop with "human touch" is still slop; editing of slop by a human does not change the fast it all started with slop.]

    AI has been spreading _very_ fast lately. And I feel conflated.. one hand it's literarly my job writing code that runs said AI and on ther other hand with pratical use, I feel that I learn nothing while using LLMs for tasks. Be it code or general understanding. Be it with Opus, GPT, Qwen or Deepseek - they are not GPT4o/Opus 3 level of sycophancy. But still.. they seem to have the tendency of jsut agreeing or reasoning from what the model assumes is _your_ position. Anothropic seems to be doing better in this category and refises or argues against nonsense more often. But I hate the fact that the models cannot pick their own opinion, hold it and update with facts presented.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Gemini on I2P