Ever wanted to feel like a video game character? Try installing a heavy liner in a water cistern. Nothing like dangling off a wall and doing a leap out to land in the small space in the middle, avoiding the produce (sacks of rice and potatoes used as weights).

Having slept on Conservancy's "Recommendations When Using LLM-backed Generative AI Systems for FOSS Contributions" I think my takeaway is that I am actually not saving the world. I have no interest in doing so. I'll do my own little things that will be used by the people who find them useful. If this means lessened engagement in the "software freedom" community who are busy prompting proprietary systems because they've decided they're the second coming of RMS, so be it.

time to cathederal up

Somehow I have not actually deployed any AI slop removal tech until today when I turned on https://github.com/Stevoisiak/Stevos-AI-Blocklist

Submitted Plugshare's new AI review summaries and happy they quickly blocked those.

This is somehow the featured website on https://earlyweblinks.com/ this week.

Read all about my web site here! https://earlyweblinks.com/site-of-the-week/joey-hess

Kind of reminds me of back in 1995 or so when my website would randomly end up picked by some best of the web list that I never heard of. The web is still a small place I guess.

Maybe I should join a web ring or something?

how many watts does a fridge use?

If you search this, you will get all wrong answers based on the nameplate, which lists the maximum power the fridge uses at compressor startup.

A 1 kw balcony #solar system with a small battery can easily run a fridge 24/7 365 in all weather conditions. I did that for 5 years with a similar system.

(Saudio Aramco not the one you were thinking I was thinking of.)

Remembering the insane LNUX IPO and how we all knew it was insane at the time. 26 years later that company has been absorbed by Gamsetop and the circle of meme stock is complete.

Hoping for a similar ignomious end for another.

Interesting to see what people are getting up to with vibe coding and then reverting that in the next release without any indication of what bug it introduced.

In other news, replaced a git-annex dependency and sped it up by about 400%

Interesting to see what people are getting up to with vibe coding and then reverting that in the next release without any indication of what bug it introduced.

In other news, replaced a git-annex dependency and sped it up by about 400%

this used to be a dead piano

(will be extended out with a desk)

named after a carpenter by a carpenter

did a lot of "hold this while I measure/cut" as a kid

not a carpenter

somehow rebuilding a piano into shelving+a desk for the past 4 weekends

sad that it's come to this, but here we are

I guess on the bright side, I get to do prompt engineering finally, though I have yet to use any LLM.

http://source.git-annex.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe1a3e717cf9cac2094eebaf28845cccf369c191

went with https://developers.facebook.com/search/?q=fuckoffzuck

a probably lightly provisioned endpoint and also a hilarious page if you visit it

Since meta-externalagent is hitting my cgit half a million times per day in voliation of its robots.txt, I'm wondering where to redirect that traffic to. Any suggestions?

Just plain facebook.com for now, but that seems boring.

On this muggy and rainy day, running the hot water heater in heat pump mode, and it has dehumidified the whole house very effectively. Also cooled it down some but the house design doesn't need AC anyway.

Only problem is it only needs to run for about 4 hours a day, even though there's plenty of solar power for it to run more.

become ungoogleable

I guess I'm glad I saw the fountain in its final miserable state a few years back, fenced off and choked off by temporary tennis courts, stinking of pee, loomed over by a giant naked woman.

I was briefly an almost cool kid in SF, gathering at dusk at the embarcadero to play roshambo with wannabe vampires.

RIP to that other almost life

I'll admit it, I read the orange horror-site threads on renewable energy just because I enjoy seeing SV dipshits continue to sleep on the transition.

I'll bet this poster has also complained that "solar panels don't generate power when the sun isn't shining"

I mean, I had ice before, it was just a giant tupperware taking up the bottom third of the fridge, chilled to typically -10C but sometimes as low as -5.

Have you ever tried to defrost a chest freezer with 15 gallons of ice in the bottom of it? That was not fun.

Got a conventional fridge and reprogrammed my chest fridge to be a conventional freezer, though still one under computer control so it doesn't unncessarily run down the batteries at night. I have ice and ice cream at home for the 1st time in 15 years.