Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: AYCHOSB Wordo: OFTEN

  • becoming new

    ironically it's been easier to be the person i want to be once i acknowledged that it's actually hard to change. that discipline and choosing new behaviors means battling with your entire past self. not that it's insurmountable, but that understandably there are strong neural connections in place, and there will be a lot of resistance to anything different.

  • What's project success?!

    We do talk a lot about project success, but we don't spend enough time defining it. I'll criticize the two common definitions that cover almost all alternatives and then offer my own suggestion.

  • Busy

    Busy. Busy. Busy. Nothing in and nothing out through the i/o port. Laser focus and a will detrimental to health, breathe! Back into it again.

• Technology and Free Software

  • AI punditry

    One of the things that makes me super bored now is blogposts with a super self-assured reductive take on AI and what AI is and will be and mean and will mean. (And usually the post also has a tedious rant on what to call it instead of "AI", and why AI is such a misnomer.) Those have gotten so old already.

    Usually the take is that it’s an over-hyped nothingburger, and that take has been done to death. The opposite take is just as boring.

  • Right to Repair

    I have a 25 year old KitchenAid washer that’s starting to leak around the motor. It’s a stainless hulk otherwise with some rust on the enamel exterior.

    This is why we can’t have nice things…. The replacement kit for the motor and it’s an easy $100 more than the low end washers.

    Why are we doing this still? Why are we tolerant of an economic system that makes waste? It’s time for right to repair laws in the US. We need to stop feeding the corporations and landfills. I have a 99% serviceable machine here…