AI knows it's a machine. How much more self-aware do you want it to be?

Newly released footage of the January 8–9 massacre in Iran. The source was in Iran during the massacre but did not attempt to release the video due to security concerns. He waited till he was out of the country before posting it.

I was focused on other things and hadn't had much time for vibe coding lately. In the meantime, I heard about a tool called Agentation that lets you annotate specific parts of a GUI and explain what needs to change, instead of writing lengthy prompts trying to describe which button or element you're referring to. Today, I finally got back to vibe coding. My first mission was to figure out how to install Agentation and get it working, only to discover that Codex already has this functionality built in! I'm officially a Codex fanboy now!

Starting a new no-coffee streak today. Going cold turkey. 🦃

AI-generated content may be incorrect. Human-generated content may be incorrect - and for sure is so fucking slow!

Today, we went to a violin competition. Watching the musicians play, I felt the same admiration and envy I have always felt toward people who can make music. I wanted to be one of them once. I began my self-funded music education as an adult, around the age of 24. A few years later, I left Iran and music was one of the things I had to leave behind. Still, I kept telling myself that I would return to it someday, even if that meant starting again in my forties or later. But something shifted today. I realized that I can be content with enjoying someone else's musical ability. I will probably never play like the musicians I watched. They have spent much of their lives becoming this good. They have built themselves around their craft. Even becoming a decent amateur would demand more time and focus than I may ever want to give it. For a long time, admitting that felt like giving up. Now it feels more like accepting who I am. There are things I have pursued with the same depth, things I may understand or do at a level that is uniquely mine. My life has been shaped by ADHD, varied interests, and all the strange rabbit holes I have followed. I may not have devoted myself to one instrument, but I have built myself too, just in a different direction. My musical education was short-lived, but it was not wasted. It opened a door to classical music that might otherwise have remained closed. It taught me how to listen more closely and gave me a deeper appreciation for what musicians are doing when they play. So I am going to let musicians be musicians and I am going to be what I am. I can accept that I may never become a musician. I can keep watching other people play, admiring them, and even envying them. That envy might even deepen my sense of amazement and admiration.

Bella Ciao’s melody is most certainly inspired by “Koilen,” recorded in 1919 by Russian-born Romani-American accordionist Mishka Ziganoff. “Koilen” comes from the traditional Yiddish song “Dus Zekele Koilen” (“The Little Bag of Coal”).

Our bathroom walls were covered in black mold. I asked ChatGPT what would remove it, then had it find the right spray in a Polish online shop and translate the instructions. I ordered it, followed the directions, and the mold was gone in no time. We live in an amazing time, innit?

With a multi-vendor multisig setup, you can sleep soundly through this constant turmoil. Several things would have to fail before your funds were affected and the probability of all those components failing simultaneously is far lower than the risk posed by a single point of failure. Multi-sig is relatively easy to set up with Bitcoin. For other cryptocurrencies, multisig is either more complicated or maybe impossible.

We live in wild times really!

My wife believes headphones are for husbands.