Never going to happen for the majority. Need them to buy tokens for their AI girlfriend to funnel more money to the ultra wealthy.

Supply and demand in dating social spaces, virtual or in person.

In person non-dating social interactions have been steadily declining.

When all the red pill shit first started coming out it was ironically more about self-improvement followed by pick up artist tacticts once you got your shit together.

Still misogynistic at the time and it just continues to get worse. Rather than put in the work to improve themselves, they’d rather go all handmaid’s tale.

Have ADHD. I’ve been taking a GLP-1/GIP compounded injection for a year and it has done nothing for nicotine or poor impulse control shopping. If anything it made the shopping worse as clothes no longer fitting becomes a great excuse to shop. At least that’s my experience.

Been on a GLP-1/GIP compounded injection for a year. Lost 90lbs.

I physically have a hard time overeating on fats/protiens. Like I want to vomit. Meat consumption is way down from before.

Simple carbs like starches and sugar I can overinduldge on but seem to get sick faster than before taking the medication.

It mostly helps with food related cravings but its not a silver bullet. I can still fallback to emotional eating under high stress and fluctuate +5 lbs with water retention. Its just much easier to recover.

I lost about 1/3 the weight on my own tracking everything. With the medication it tripled the rate of loss and I didn’t need to track anymore. I’m much more able to trust my body and hunger signals developing a healthier relationship with food.

strongly encouraged for me means my entire bonus is tied to skilling up with LLMs.

“cite-or-stop” with journaling, role definitions, subagents to control context windows, and shifting as much of the work as possible to deterministic scripts has yieled pretty high-quality results.

Expensive af though. Like the self-review skill I maintain before engineers put their code up for human review will find 30-40 things on average, where only a small handful are false positives, can burn 10% of a $20/mo plan’s utilization in a single run on a moderately sized PR. The default one my company setup in our source control usually finds 1-5 things and only 0-2 are of any value.

I think the first season was a shit show due to covid or the writers strike (or both).

Canceled after 3 seasons.

Pandas/Polars is all I need in a Jupyter notebook to replace Excel. Its not even a contest if you know some python for doing any real work.

I concede Excel has a lower bearer to entry for teams composed of mixed technical abilities.

Sounds like one hell of a dopamine hit. Like the self-induced pressure from procrasting injected with steroids, topped with a drizzle of adrenaline, and dusted with the strongest speed humanity has to offer.

I work with a Swift fan. They’ll cut you if you talk smack, lol. I don’t get her appeal but the observation of her fans is real.

The contrast and how vivid it is look off from what I remember. Hardware for rendering has improved a lot since it came out. Maybe the animation masked the “simplicity” for lack of a better term.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

Chromium and their particular fork have much better exploit hardening via sandboxing.

My understanding is Firefox has better anti-fingerprinting and uBlock origin via manifest v2 support (or v2 features ported to v3).

The argument often used is malicious ads. Sandboxing and hardening largely mitigates ads that contain exploits, but it doesn’t protect against social engineering, crypto mining, tracking, etc.

So I guess it comes down to your threat model and desired experience.

I personally prefer the uBlock origin experience, but an ad free experience and escape from targeted advertising was my target opsec when venturing into privacy.

Stealth is pretty great for lurkers. Could use a little more polish for image subs (porn browsing), but its good enough.

Pebble Time 2.

Mostly sleep and step counting. Media controls on occasion. Just got it so not had a chance to customize it much yet.

Coming from, in order: Garmin Vivoactive 5, 4, 3, 2, Pebble Time, Pebble OG.

Preferred the healthstats on the Garmin out of the box. Great indicator if I’m getting sick based on its measurements or if I’m not being as active as I should be.

My experience is you have to close as many degrees of freedom as possible. Its tedious as hell for generating quality code.

Its great at debugging if you require it to manage its context window by delegating tasks to scoped subagents, generate evidence with references, and verify that evidence with a minimal reproducible example. Expensive… I’ve seen them run for a solid 30 minutes before responding back (not including the “thinking” log), but it usually finds the issue.

A similar technique can be used for code generation but again it burns tokens and takes awhile. Have it generate and verify isolated reference implementations for anything nontrivial. Much easier to review with the rest of your domain and layered on complexity stripped out. The “thinking” log is interesting to watch as it bangs it head against bad assumptions or documentation and needs to start digging into dependency source code to work it out.

Only then apply the implementation to your project from the reference implementation. Takes breaking down the tasks though to small enough units and closing those degrees of freedom.

Anecdote on degrees of freedom: This one didn’t require a reference implementation in particular. I was reviewing a PR (LLM assisted, I wasn’t the authoring dev) to add signature validation to OAuth tokens. It duplicated the entire header/token parsing logic. It needed that path closed with a pointer to where the existing logic was and explicit requirements to enhance it. Refactor was great upon reviewing and the PR size was reduced by more than half.

I typically do $25-$50/yr (about $2-$4/mo). Matches the asking price for services with basic cloud supported features.

https://dashboard.etebase.com/user/partner/pricing/?interval=year

https://bitwarden.com/pricing/

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9708267671322-Signal-Secure-Backups

Nix user. The declaritive config IS the documentation and I enjoy no longer having to document how to setup my system as much. I don’t enjoy scripting or automating things, but I enjoy the benefits of only needing to do it once via Nix’s config system.

I enjoy engineering: an engineer will spend 3 hours figuring out how to do a 2 hour job in 1 hour.

Same. 80/20 rule. Even reaching 80% of my privacy goals for 20% of the effort was a ton of work. Netting that last 20% for 4x the effort I already put it in just isn’t worth it.

what did you like more about rclone than Cryptomator?

I wanted to leave Dropbox and ran across it. I liked the number of supported backends under one tool. I use it to access things beyond Backblaze like gdrive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Proton Drive. Well documented config file format. I was able to manage the config with Nix due to this.

Is it suitable for sync, or is it more for backups

It works great for one way sync. Bisync I never got working well enough to trust it. Bisync is nice for 3-way merges (two devices modifying files on the same cloud drive). Dropbox, gdrive, OneDrive win here. I’ve learned to live without it.

I’m ideally looking for near-ish to real-time sync for contacts, notes, files, and pictures

On a computer the fuse mounted volumes are near live. Cahce locally in a VFS. Anything else you’d have to script probably. There is rclone-watch but can’t say I’ve tested it

With Round Sync you can browse with live refresh when you move between directories, but syncing would be on a schedule. Looks like a 15m interval is the fastest frequency.

Are there any frontends for Linux you’d recommend, or do you script out the functionality you’re looking to implement?

I mostly just mount on login with the VFS cache. Use my normal file browser. One command per mount. Its rare (practically never) that I need to work on something without internet, so I don’t deal with trying to script syncs. I tried in the early days of playing with it, but fuse mounts ended up meeting my needs.

No GUI that I use outside of my normal file browser. The only thing I need to use the CLI for is cleaning up soft deleted files and old versions (Backblaze specific thing).