The narrative around people who do not use generative “AI” constantly changes. When the technology was new, you could “get away” with not using it just because not everyone even knew about it. Later, you could avoid it because you didn’t need (poorly generated) images. With every one of these steps, the technology became more normalized and applicableOnly in the sense that it could poorly imitate work done by humans. The quality was even worse than it is now to more types of work.

I’ll be honest: I’m bummed out about the world. There are people out there who take the near-infinite resources at their disposal and use them — not to solve world hunger or cure diseases or fix the climate, but instead to make stochastic parrots that use more power than entire cities to generate statistically probable words which just happen to further divide communities and spread blatant lies. This sucks.

I wanted to make a logo and 88x31 button for my website, but I can’t draw. Let’s see if I can get ImageMagick to do it for me.

This has been a part of my life for a long time now, and I’m tired of hiding

Every now and then, I get hit with the urge to make this website prettier. What is prettier you ask? Good question. I’m not sure; I think it just means making it look less like the template I’m using. Add something ✨unique✨.

As is the case every time, I’ll have been browing other peoples’ websites which are all super creative and unique looking and have that extra bit of flair that my site lacks.

Enabling Full Disk Encryption on an existing Fedora Workstation installation without having to re-install, and then ensuring everything is unlocked automatically at boot.

I volunteered as first aid provider at an event, this is how it went.