Those GB Camera pics look so cool! Iâd like to get one myself eventually, but I havenât pulled the trigger yet. Btw, I sized up one of your pics in Photopea using the âNearest neighborâ resampling, and it looks really cool blown up too:
Itâs always neat to see more folks get on the physical media collecting train. It feels so much more special when you can hold the cartridge in your hand, I think.
Thatâs really fun! I especially like the gameboy camera photos. My husband has a slight collection of gameboy colors. There used to be an amazing retro game store near us, but it moved.
a heads up since youâll see some of the post form the link preview. no specific trauma is discussed, but iâll be discussing topics that could very well be a trigger such as mental health medication, poor psychiatrists, and dissociative disorders
It is official, I have switched from Neovim to Emacs (with Doom Emacs) as my main code editor.
Content warning for discussions of fascism and white supremacy, however, as they are relevant to the unfortunately ugly circumstances that compelled me to migrate from Neovim.
big hugs from someone also on unnecessary anti-psychotics for years. So glad you are on a path to healing and understanding yourself.
Two years after the shutdown announcement, Iâve finally posted my Cohost retrospective.
politics blah
yep yep. Itâs why even with a super strong union, I am writing under a pseudonym (and knowing that in a year a typical employer might be able to pull that up anyways). Free speech winter indeed.
Countries That Have Invaded Romania Throughout History - Article in Romanian
My latest weeknote is up! Subject matter covered this week includes: website updates, insomnia, seasonal affective disorder, LLM-related issues on the small web, various TV shows (Slow Horses, Silo), books (Real Tigers), and video games (Hades, Crash Bandicoot 2, Spyro).
Finally got around to writing my Blaugust retrospective. I managed to write and post every day (yay!) but got a little burned out towards the end (boo!) and needed to step back for a few days.
Overall I enjoyed the challenge and learned a bit about myself in the process.
Itâs so frustrating how many FOSS guys reveal themselves to be such weirdos!
This is not a post by me, per se⌠It does involve me, though. This was an interesting thing to wake up to.
The gameboy camera photos are wild 
I wrote a little post about loving the process rather than the idea of the result.
The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include an elemental chart showing which ones are safe to lick, the Usenet Archives and a repository of 3D scanned images of publicly accessible restrooms. You can meet Emerald, the mosaic kitty and I talk about my recent hip surgery. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
Rain in September
I would be interested in hearing more about what the union guarantees (or doesnât) regarding member speech rights! Seems like an interesting and potentially controversial aspect of union membership. I can envision a scenario where union members try to claw back a âfree speechâ protection when someone uses it to say something controversial, transplanting the problem from the employer-employee relationship to the union-employee relationship.
Re: AI de-pseudonymization, I took this topic up earlier in the summer: LLM doxxing and the end of the anonymous web? | convexer's dumpster site. I think/hope that even if it becomes technically possible, what employers are primarily concerned with is how your views reflect on the company rather than the views themselves. Thus the fact that you are using a pseudonym provides an acceptable amount of deniability. It may even make you appear more responsible, by demonstrating that you understand the importance of segmenting your online identities.
That was a lovely read. 
(Especially after reading a post elsewhere in this forum that was almost certainly generated with an LLM, ugh.)
But how do you teach someone to love the work? You kind of have to start with that being presumed as already being in the personâa prerequisite to the class.
Back in my graduate school days, I learned very quickly which undergraduates were taking classes because they genuinely enjoyed writing about the subject matter, and which students were taking classes because they just wanted an acceptable letter grade that would get them closer to earning that all-important piece of paper. The latter group of students would frequently come to my office hours to argue with me about their grades, and were seldom interested in actually doing the work necessary to earn the grade they felt entitled to. The writing process, to them, was merely an irritating obstacle they had to overcome in pursuit of The Grade. As much as I tried, I could not teach those students how to enjoy writing (or even how to enjoy learning in general), as their outlook towards university was entirely transactional in nature.
I see the same sort of thing happening with many aspiring bloggers who use generative AI to excess. They like the idea of running a blog â and ideally want to make a bit of money with it. They like the idea of being able to present the Internet with a site full of âinteresting contentâ (in scare quotes, because their LLMâs output is obviously seldom interesting), and enjoy the ego boost when people fall for it and praise âtheirâ writing. They have no love of or respect for the process; the process is something for them to âoptimizeâ with their preferred LLM.
I think the only subset of LLM users who might be open to the idea of learning to love the work of writing are those who simply lack confidence in their own abilities. As you say, we all need to be bad at something before we can become proficient with it.
I think itâs incredibly bad luck for all of us that genAI has emerged at a time when society as a whole is very metrics- and output-focused, demanding perfection at all times and leaving very little room for being âbadâ at something. Think of all the job postings that demand âfive years of experienceâ for basic entry level jobs, or competitive first year university programs that reject students who donât have a 90% average in high schoolâŚ
