Software developer by day, insomniac by night.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • “I wrote an email to Google to say, ‘you have access to my computer, is that right?’”, he added.

    lmao right, because the support person they reached, if indeed they even spoke to a person at all, would know and divulge the sources they train on. They may think that all their research is private but they’re making use of these tech giant services. These tech giants have blatantly showed that they’re OK with piracy and copyright infringement to further their goals, why would spying on research institutions be any different?

    If you want to give it a run for its money, give it a novel problem that isn’t solved, and see what it comes up with.


  • People can call me a shill if they want. I was curious when I first tried Kagi, but sceptical, but now I’m really happy. It’s fun to see new features make it on there, and more than anything I love that I can make the search engine work for me instead of having to faff about trying to phrase stuff in a way where I can coax what I want out of it.

    If I hate a particular website, I’ll just block it and never see it again. It’s so simple. The new “AI generated” tags on images is nice, and I hope we can see something similar for websites at some point too. Maybe flag sites that are known to use LLMs for garbage accumulation. There might already even be a blocklist for that.








  • I don’t know about German, but in Swedish it looks really messy if you sunder your compound words. In general I think people know what you mean regardless, but you can end up with peculiar double meanings. There are plenty of signs, notes, and what have you that people have posted online for a laugh.

    Off the top of my head

    • Gå lättpackad i fjällen
      • Travel lightly (as in luggage) in the mountains
    • Gå lätt packad i fjällen
      • Travel slightly intoxicated in the mountains
    • Sjukgymnast
      • Physiotherapist
    • Sjuk gymnast
      • Diseased/Sick gymnast
    • Årets sista svenskodlade tulpaner
      • The last Swedish-grown tulips of the year
    • Årets sista svensk odlade tulpaner
      • The last Swede of the year cultivated tulips

    It’s also worth noting that the tones can be different, so if you “hear” the words as you read them, then “lättpackad” and “lätt packad” sounds different.