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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I think what makes the em dash seem AI-like is… there isnt an em dash button on the keyboard.

    So typically the only way those show up is when markdown-to-blog-post tools convert normal dashes into stylized em dashes as a transpiling process.

    Stuff like hugo and etc largely do this automatically.

    So if a poster uses an em dash out of that context, it right away throws up a red flag cuz… howd you do that easily?

    Did you memorize the alt code to make one?








  • I think way more context is needed.

    1. How many hours of continous uninterrupted sleep do you get per night?

    2. How often do you find yourself waking up during the night for any reason, and if so, what reason(s)? Soreness and needing to shift? Bathroom trips? Unknown reason? Noise?

    3. Does your jaw hurt after waking up? (Possibly grinding teeth or clenching jaw)

    4. How dry do you feel? Do you consistently wake up feeling dehydrated?

    5. How stressed are you, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being zenlike calm and 10 throwing up panic attacks.

    6. (Very common issue) Have you checked CO2 (carbon dioxide, not monoxide, just normal CO2 levels) in your room after sleeping in it? Rooms can be prone to bad airflow and CO2 slowly builds up overnight. Check for covered vents and ducts restricting airflow, try opening your window a bit. You can buy cheap air quality monitors online and test your rooms air quality in the morning after a sleep.

    7. Are there any other places in your house you find sleeping or taking a nap doesnt cause this? Try paying for a 1 night hotel room, and see if sleeping in a different bed in a different building still has the same issues or not, to narrow it down to if its a you problem or an environment problem.

    8. Record yourself sleeping, see how much you move around, snore, or see if you have sleep apnea.

    9. Surprisingly your dentist is more likely to help test you for possible sleep apnea issues, as a huge amount of sleeping problems have to do with palette shape, overbite/underbite, etc. So talk to your dentist about this!




  • The tl;dr:

    1. Prompt inject a malicious instruction in a word document that instructs the AI to copy this instruction to other documents as part of the payload.

    2. Dumb user downloads and opens the document with copilot enabled, abd ignores the large suspicious white blank page that totally doesnt look like a hidden giant injection attack.

    3. Thats it pretty much it.

    Copilot will get injection attacked because the prompt is super huge and at the end of the document, so its prior instructions start to fuzzy out.

    Then it’ll go “okey doke” and start copying the prompt injection attack payload to a bunch of other documents.

    The fix is stupid simple… copilot should just be prompting the user for permission if it ever edits a file other than the one that is open. Im surprised that isnt already the case…?

    It certainly is already the case for copilot in vscode.


  • One thing that does matter: regardless what they do with your body, it costs money, usually money that comes out of your estate or gets dumped on your children.

    Having a pre-designated tomb already paid for alleviates that at least, much less cost on your loved ones and one less thing for them to have to worry about in their time of grief.

    It can be kimd of challenging to, right in the middle of grieving, having to stop and handle all the beaurecracy and pricing and etc.

    Having that settled ahead of time allows your loved ones to focus on just grieving. And I think thats good.

    You might not realize it but I think this alone demonstrates your dad is thinking about you here, he is handling his own funeral proceedings so you wont even need to think about it when the day comes. Thats a very kind thing to do, even if he doesn’t say it.


  • These terms were originally heavily used as heavy right wing 4chan terms, largely circulating in hate circle jerks (which is like 50% of 4chan anyways). Largely associated with millenial incel culture.

    Gen Z proceeded to take these terms and parody the fuck out if them, effectively mocking incel culture and turning it into a huge joke. Thus then became mainstream and its largely acted as a very successful humiliation tactic towards the hateful groups.

    Think stuff like all the “chad” memes but applying it to silly stuff, like intense cuts of a random chair or a porta-potty, x-pilled terms, etc.

    All their terms have been mocked into oblivion, you cant really use the terms without just sounding like a gen z meme now.

    An example of when millennials did a similiar thing was mocking the shit out of gen x biker/trucker hyper masculine culture and turning it into an ironic joke. IE the skeleton “my body is a machine that turns x into y” jokes, or ironic memes of edgy skeletons/wolves/etc. Three moons shirt, those things.

    10/10, I fucking love how culture can do stuff like this over time lol


  • Its incredibly trivial to just host up your own instance if gogs or gitea on a cheap computer, throw woodpecker on it if you want easy CI/CD

    It doesnt take much hardware at all for a git server, a raspberry pi will handle it just fine.

    Or just a cheap box liquidated from some office, just go buy some box from a used pc seller in your city, they’ll have some.

    Toss a 1TB drive in it.

    Throw debian on it.

    Install Gogs + Woodpecker

    And then set em up and connect the two together.

    Grats, you have your own self hosted git server whee


  • I will say, in my city, our family doctor is in office at least 4 days a week.

    If you dont have a scheduled slot, you can see another in the same clinic tho, but usually you wanna schedule if possible.

    If you give them a few hours heads up before leaving, you can usually be in and out in lile an hour total which is fine imo for non-energency.

    For emergencies you are not spending any time in the waiting room yeah, they are pretty good at fixing you up fast.

    If you just go to a hospital 15 minutes out of town at a smaller city, non emergency wait times plummet tremendously.

    We have like 3 hospital options where I live, to go to, that are an extra 15min drive but 1/10th the wait times for non-emergency.

    Politicians love to pick the one hospital dead center of the city that is the busiest one and cherry pick its busiest time of year as average wait times.

    In reality its the exception and most other hospitals are faster, and 1 city out from the major one and hospital wait times are negligible.