fuck Noah Webster

Wow, I didn’t know that all that stupid little changes in orthography were just because nationalism

If magas don’t go to vote it’s a good thing, no?

Wait, a steam game with vertical aspect ratio??

Maybe that once every 2 years when you upgrade to major version it does it automatically? You save 15 mins every 2 years?

The secret is writing the rules on some bullets. Then find a way to let him keep the rules in his head, despite dementia

Even trump, for once, said the truth out loud

We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies (…) go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure (…) Let’s start making money

YouTube doesn’t have a search bar. It’s for requesting recommendations on the feed. Search an obscure singer once in your life? For the next 6 months he will be present in your feed.

If you need to do search you have to use newpipe or similar alternatives

hopefully he can have a hell of a party with his best friends putin and bibi

may be?

Yes. Luckily I did a snapshot then copied on a separate drive using btrfs send.

I shut down everything, there’s no activity… that’s why I feel weird to see all this rebuild activity, yet so many hours passed…

A scrub usually takes less than an hour…

I notice that you used the free interface without registration. While a bit of a hassle to register, I saw that behind the registration wall they use longer contexts/bigger models. Without registration it’s more prone to abuse so they might condense/truncate responses from chats: by design, the bots have zero memory, so the whole chat history needs to be appended at every question => long chats lead to expensive API calls => free users get history truncated or condensed.

Also, the normal system prompt is something like “be a sycophant and always please the user no matter prompt” and it will lead you do stupid stuff if you ask, so you need to go to the settings and change it to something like:

From now on, stop being agreeable and act like a high-level consultant: blunt and honest. Don’t validate me, don’t soften the truth, and don’t flatter me. Challenge my thinking, question my assumptions, and point out the blind spots I’m ignoring. Be direct, rational, and unfiltered. If my reasoning is weak, dismantle it and show me why; if I’m deluding myself or lying to myself, say it; if I’m avoiding something uncomfortable or wasting time, call it out and explain the opportunity cost. Analyze my situation with objectivity and strategic depth, showing me where I’m making excuses, playing small, or underestimating risk and effort.

For example this question that i had: (all paragraphed, writing from memory, i routinely wipe all the chat histories)

can I bypass gpg verification on fedora when using dnf?

gpt-5-mini from chatgpt free:

it’s absolutely possible! just use the --nogpgcheck flag

gpt-5.2 from api with the previous system prompt:

i won’t tell you how to do that, it’s an incredibly stupid idea, a bad habit and doesn’t actually solve the problem

finally, don’t blindly trust the results as they might still be incorrect, use that as a hint on how to proceed

I told myself “with this 4 days of holidays i can easily rebuild the btrfs array”. 3 days later it’s still crunching numbers at 50MB/s… (but with all this time passed at that speed the drives would be able to fully rewritten multiple times…)

What search engine is that shit? Hiding full URLs in search results is completely unacceptable

The automatic wipers in Teslas are barely functional because instead of using a $1 rain sensor like everybody else, they use a sophisticated computer vision algorithm from the front camera

Well, by pure coincidence, a stablecoin that wlfi is printing (Trump) was placed on binance just days after the pardon. But this is surely a coincidence

The pardon of Changpeng Zhao, founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, drew scrutiny after lobbyists were paid approximately $800,000 before the pardon was granted.

According to Forbes, Zhao is the richest Canadian and the 21st-richest person in the world, with a net worth estimated at $88.0 billion as of October 2025

Literally peanuts. Paying bribes this cheap it’s a no brainer. Compared to the median American net worth it’s like paying $2.

Like a 4 years old: “but Mommy! At the kindergarten Kim said that he got an air carrier! I want one too!”

Yes, it’s hidden somewhere in the disk and it’s a normal font file, otherwise

It’s in AppData\Local\Microsoft\FontCache\4\CloudFonts\

It’s not only Aptos, office 365 expands the font selection with ~100 exclusive “cloud” fonts that are hidden to other non-microsoft apps

My take on Aptos is that they designed it to make alternative office suites less compatible. Until now, when you installed Microsoft Office, its fonts were available system wide, so by installing Office 2007 or greater, it would make Calibri available for any other office suite on the system.

But now Aptos is an exclusive of Office 365. Without hacks, the font can only be used in the latest versions of Microsoft Word, and LibreOffice on the same system can’t load it, forced to replace it.

People will think “what the hell, when I open word files with LibreOffice, It changes the font, LibreOffice is not good”

That prize is supposed to represent what? The hands of the dying slaves that built the stadiums in qatar?