Incredible, how good water kefir tastes! Added some loquats to the fermentation. Great alternative to kombucha 👌

A shame not all developers provide a (signed) checksum of the programs they write.

Got chickens 2 weeks ago. We get up to 7 eggs each day. Feeling like a rich man!

Amazing how AI speech synthetisation sounds more and more natural. The demo is impressive. Apart from a couple weird glitches I felt like having a normal conversation. Coincidentally the movie Her was set in 2025.

Sesame

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

At Sesame, our goal is to achieve “voice presence”—the magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.

They say they probably open source their model in a 1-2 weeks

GitHub

GitHub - SesameAILabs/csm: A Conversational Speech Generation Model

A Conversational Speech Generation Model. Contribute to SesameAILabs/csm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Comfrey split and planted, finally have enough to circle my first tree . I started with 2 plants 2 years ago and now have over 30 atm (lets see which newcomers make it)

I disabled auto loading of profile pictures. Seeing @QnA not being the blue robot but grey is so weird

Did you know you could inherit land by just proving you are worthy in terms merit? Even if you don't care about inheriting property, this self-led curriculum is a great way to learn skills and gain experience to live self-sufficiently.

Been scything a lot the past three days. I still have the feeling of the sensation of the blade cutting through the plants

Are there already slang words for bitcoin, bits or sats being used? Like we say bucks, quid, pavos, dime, etc.

Modern cars are a privacy nightmare 🤯

I used AI often when it became powerful enough to write code, but this excitement quickly wore off after lots of time wasted reviewing the code and fixing bugs and removing garbage. Nowadays I may ask AI some random questions if I don't quickly find my answer searching the web or let it solve a small very contained problem. Are you still using AI for coding? Does it really save you time?

Thinking back on my childhood and teenage years. We had a TV in every room. I had one, my brother's had each their own. Those boxes were constantly on, even for background noise. I liked watching TV, especially Simpsons and a documentary show called Galileo. "I'm getting smarter" I told myself. But over the years the quality of Galileo dropped significantly. At some point they carved out a whole section for a fat guy called Jumbo reporting on the biggest junk food he could eat. I got really frustrated with this enshittification. When I saw a Jumbo special announced, I was around 18 years old, and I finally decided to switch off the TV for good. So, I guess thank you Jumbo for pushing me over the edge and never wanting to watch TV again 🫡