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My heartfelt apologies to Oulunkylä
ChatGPT4 has emotion now, and I asked it to write a song about everything being just OK in Oulunkylä (A neighborhood of Helsinki). I have visited there and one of the dentist's office signs declared itself to be an "OK Dentist," which prompted this massively incorrect song about the neighborhood.
(Verse 1) Oh, the streets of Oulunkylä are so…
New Glasses
For most of my life I had to visit the optometrist yearly as my vision changed frequently, but as I got older, my eyes stopped degrading. For the last 5 years, I was on the same prescription, which is worth celebrating. However, I noticed a slight blur at a distance, and for the last 3 months, I just sort of lived with that new reality. At first, I…
New Year Reading Plan
Next year I want to encourage my children to read the Bible through at least once. However, I found that most yearly Bible reading plans repeat reading the books of Psalms or Proverbs. Sure, that feature may make normal daily reading more enjoyable for adults, but extra reading is too much for children who have never read the Bible before. I wanted…
TIL: Zoom has captions
The Zoom application has built in AI captions for various languages. It is great for those hard of hearing to read the words that are spoken.
In other news, you can select the spoken language to be in Finnish, speak in English, and get wonderfully funny sentences in Finnish.
Who is the author in AI-generated content?
As AI tools are becoming more frequent, many have found interesting use cases. Some are using AI tools to publish children's books or other creative works primarily done by humans. However, when one publishes a work that was generated by AI, who is the author of the work? Should a notice be included or a sub author be added to the work that was der…
Personal Tech Debt
This past week I have been able to traverse down the rabbit hole of personal tech debt. After a week's work, I think I was able to get to the bottom and give everything an updated timestamp! All kidding aside, here were some of the projects I was able to revisit:
Kubernetes Cluster
My k8s cluster hosts websit…
Speaker Windows
I have been working on a personal project to organize my preaching illustrations. Whereas one could use a tool such as Notion, Evernote, or Obsidian, I have had a desire to keep my data in an easy to use interface. I should not have to spend 10 minutes to find that illustration I need. Plus, those services might charge me more than $3/month to acce…
What will cause you to change?
"I am right. Therefore, you must change." This is a common sentiment among anyone who holds an opinion. Major convincing arguments are then given as to reasons why others must change to your point of view.
It is proud to assume that you have all of the right answers to everything. To make such a claim is to decree that you are like God: all-…
Three goals in Bible Reading
Recently, I evaluated why I take time out of my day to read the Bible. I have heard that the Bible has one singular meaning. If that is true, then reading the Bible through once is sufficient. However, those that promote singular meaning also advocate for daily Bible reading. This seems like a logical fallacy, which should be addressed; nevertheles…
Link sharing in the blog era
I just remembered how painful it was to share content through a blog to friends. Social media, such as Twitter, solved that issue. I do not want to attempt trying to remember my Digg.it password (Does the site even exist anymore?)
Anyway, I said all of that to say this: I know where both of these locations are:
Read more → After setting up an RSS reader and a bridge to pull in tweets, I no longer access Twitter. If there is interesting content, I click the link on my RSS reader and comment directly without visiting the Twitter homepage. If I were a more regular user of Twitter, I think I would use this extension: Read more → This morning I read from one of the people I follow a short, concise list of comparing Depression and Anxiety. It is quite good to read over, but I think it is quite lacking in its explanation. Primarily limited from the 280 character posts on Twitter. It is very ironic - to me at least - that when I visit drive.google.com on a Chromebook, I am presented with a notification to install Google drive. This is a Chromebook. Google apps are loaded by default. This includes Google drive. I just prefer the web experience over the native file explorer. The new year has already been dubbed by some in the tech world as the year of RSS, meaning people will ditch social media for the consumption-style RSS feed. It is the same concept of switching from a smartphone to a mobile phone. You might be thinking, "Why would anyone go backwards in technology?" Everyone may have their own reasons for doing so,… LastPass was recently hacked and the hacker was able to steal keys from a developer which had access to the company's backup files. In the backup files, the hacker could use the decryption keys he stole from the developer to create something like: It is impossible to define a complex thought with one sentence. Even the previous sentence demands further information. What kind of thoughts do I mean? What is the reasoning for saying such a thing? Context adds further information to the reasoning behind such a statement. It also sets the stage for the real reason for the statement or provokes fu… The painfully slow death of social media is pushing the masses back into our blog-o-spheres. In 2 years, the only people doing social media will be those who are not technical enough to click a one-button wordpress/ghost install and pay $5/month from a hosting provider.
Of course, there will be the faithful few who still insist that Markdown is the…Extension to make Twitter more usable
Depression and Anxiety
Ironic
2023 - Return to the Syndicated Stone age (RSSa)
I think I will keep LastPass
somesite.com,<plaintext_username>,<…
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Impossible to define
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