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Cake day: May 15th, 2023

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  • Fun anecdote - yesterday my new phone overheard me say something about rescheduling a vacation day. It then proceeded to add a “Vacation” booking on a completely random day.

    Naturally I asked it what the fuck it was doing, and demanded it remove its permissions to edit my calendar. It quickly apologized, then assured me it had removed its capability to edit my calendar. I told it to not lie to my fucking face, realizing it could not in fact update its own permissions. It apologized again, presumably for being a pathological liar / asshole.

    Then I disabled Gemini on my phone, and won’t be using it again. Thanks google!







  • This was always my experience as well. The deeper you go into mathematics, the more abstract / theoretical things seem to become.

    Funny you should mention digitized waveforms, a class on signals and transforms was by far the hardest part of my degree. I really struggled with both the math and the visualization. Probably the thing that ended up helping me grasp some of the course’s concepts most was messing around with convolution reverb effects for audio processing.



  • The worst part about the comment summaries is that bots are using the summary to come up with incredibly generic comments, which are then liked and give them high visibility. You can tell who they are due to the suggestive photo, and the 50% chance of nudity in their profile, and the 100% chance of that profile containing a link to a cam site (that will presumably scam you in some way). If you watch new, popular videos, there is almost certainly a porn bot in the comments. YouTube doesn’t seem to give a shit either, considering that it seems like at least half of these accounts are using the same profile image.