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I am reading a lot of blog/personal sites these days. I like it so very much. One post I enjoyed is the one below. I can’t believe how these LLMs are rampant everywhere now, and the effects are becoming worse every time.
So there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence floating around that using ChatGPT essentially trains people out of thinking for themselves, and now there’s more and more scientific evidence coming in that says the same thing. If you turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and so on every time you run into a problem that you can’t immediately solve by yourself, pretty soon you will have lost the ability to do so in the first place.
— Is the ability to think going to become a rare and valuable skill? - 82MHz
Won’t let a world gone mad ever bring me down
Gave everything I had to turn it back around
Cause our time’s worth something bigger than both you and me
I can’t live my life always backing down
I gotta do this right, then they can’t make a sound
Cause I’m not here for nothing, least I can say
I stand for somethingYou and me, we stand for something
— All Signs Point To Lauderdale by A Day To Remember
In July 1925, on the island of Helgoland, Werner Heisenberg made a breakthrough that gave rise to modern quantum theory. A century later, physicists are still exploring what it truly means.
― 100 Years of Quantum: Perspectives on its Past, Present, and Future by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Fun discussion.
Seiya soiya
We are the kids from yesterday, today.
https://youtu.be/YXiLHIYqb_Y
Schools that boast their rankings for marketing to get more students, seem to me like they’re just focused more on other things rather than on education itself. The advertised employment rate of such schools fits in that circle as well. This somewhat tells what the system is all about.
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Let’s migrate all from my self-build custom Android ROMs to the available official builds at the moment, trying to save some by avoiding servers for now. No Google Apps (GApps) and even microG for my main daily driver.
It takes a large appetite to bet on your one wild, precious life and decide what is best for you, to get offline, even when the whole world is shouting at you to better get yourself on LinkedIn, create Instagram to not miss out on the whole entire world having fun, to be well suited for life in the 21st century.
Man, I was just so tired of losing my time, attention, energy, humanity to Big Data.
There is no reward for losing all your life, so decide.
Take your freedom.
It’s free to be free.
You decide.
- Mehret Biruk
Just switched after a long while from Debian Stable with XFCE to Debian Testing with GNOME. GNOME does feel smoother now even on old hardware. ^_^
Hell yeah! \m/
Few things I’ve been playing around these days:
- I just recently found out that Netlify CMS, which I have been using to generate posts easily on this site has been rebranded to Decap CMS. I went ahead and changed the necessary moving pieces, which is not a lot, and I have been using it now typing this.
- Updated Hugo (which statically generates this site) to v0.127.0, thankfully nothing breaks so far.
- I am now signing my Android custom ROM builds with my own private keys. This is for the new requirement of Play Integrity that checks now if the ROM is signed or not.
- Ditching again Google Apps on my phone for microG, hopefully I won’t revert back due to some apps that requires it.
- Changing the site colors to light mode.
I’m now inspired to add the tech I’m using here, as well as updating my site again, credits to Derek Sivers for the motivation for all of this.
Listen also to Choi Yuree here. :)
Stillness……
After a month of trials, I finally built a stable custom Android rom for my old device. I now even tried applying backported security patches. All is good.
Frequent evening bike rides while stargazing with clear skies on a remote area has been the highlight of these past few days together with my listening parties.
Some xkcd strips while I’m at it:
Rise up early, tried to chill for a bit, remembered to fix some deprecated functions in Hugo, and suddenly this website is now using v0.102.0 version, which is latest as of today. Nice holiday.
Read manga for the whole day and rediscovering my previous music taste. This week has been good so far.
Good anime comes with good OP and ED songs. Here are my picks for Winter 2021 season: