Holy shit! Just watched "Hardcore Henry". The most Cyberpunk thing I have ever seen. What a wild ride.

Warning, if you have issues with motion sickness then it is not recommended. I don't have issues, but some of the camera work really tested me.

dude1: Some man died from euthanasia.
dude2: He committed suicide?
dude1: No, he was killed by a gang of kids in China.

So I thought of this joke today so its definitely a work in progress. But then I wondered what happened with the suicide machine in Europe. So I found this horrifying account.

https://care.org.uk/news/2024/...

I mean, she got what she paid for...but...this is so fucked. I have seen a few discussions on this and there are complications to this account of what happened. I expect it will take months if not years to sort out what actually happened.

Imagine if it failed due to a dev bug? Who would want to work on such a machine? Seems so fucked.

I checked out a mining technology course at the college. It was a boring class.

Somebody from Alaska randomly texted me to go to lunch somewhere. So I am sending them memes about eating people.

Why do Javascript devs prefer dark mode?
Because cockroaches run away from the light.

Don't care for Teslas as vehicles. But I might be swayed to drive this once or twice:

So a lot of games have in game fake operating systems. They are usually just standard fare utilitarian. I got to thinking that maybe I will have a brand of OS in game that is loosely similar to certain IRL OSes. However, I want to have at least one in game brand OS that insults the user.

user: <clicks on browser in fake computer OS> (loosely based on IE)
computer OS: Don't use that you stupid asshole!
user: ...

#!/usr/bin/python3
import base64

message64 = "WW91ciBtb20gd29uIHRoZSBnYW1lLg=="
message = base64.b64decode(message64)

print(message)

Was taking the garbage out. I had left a heavy creme carton sitting out as it was empty and the garbage was full. It had a slight bulge to it.

my thoughts: Hmmm... a bulging cream vessel...

This was a series of words I had not yet thought about before. It could have multiple meanings. Some more enjoyable than others.

We had a series S Xbox. Somebody left a drink too close and I think it spilled inside. The series S no longer functions. My son has been bugging me for a few months to fix it. He is gone this week for a competition.

Last night I went to walmart at around 6pm. All the weirdos were already there. (so was I, what does that say?) Got heckled in the parking by some randos in a car. (honestly have no idea what they said because lazy asses don't even try to speak anything but inner city garbage) I looked toward them and looked away. Fuck that noise. Shit heads keep showing up in my town. (thanks California, you are leaking)

Anyway I get a series X and brought it home. I set it up where the older one was. Am not going to say a word. I named it: "Dad's XBox". Gonna see what the kids say when they all get back. I stood it on end so nobody can spill anything into it.

Looked through gamepass. Not that great a selection IMO. Noticed Starfield is there. It sucked so bad it will probably always be on gamepass. Trying to recoup lost revenue. I might try and see just how bad it is. I dunno. Would rather play a TES game. Gonna try Outer Worlds I think.

I think the charcoal series X actually looks cool. Seems to have cool features too. Like you can play a game on there on your phone or some shit. I think steam has that too. Wild.

Third dick related injury on devrant in 2 weeks. I was walking and stepped on mine. I hate it when that happens. Its still black though.

Working on graphing points in a Cartesian space (4 quadrants). I am wondering why the software I am mimicking has the x axis going the wrong direction. I am absolutely certain the x axis went the other way. So I talk to my boss about it. He is like it went this way when he learned math. I am like wtf? This generation learned all new math? I look it up and realize it always went positive to the right. I slowly remember the things I graphed in the past. This shit didn't change.

I have been away from doing any real math so long I am starting to hallucinate axis the wrong way. WTF is this shit!? For like 2 to 3 minutes I was gaslighting my boss with my ignorance. He was gracious enough to let grandpa figure it out for himself. Thank you kind boss.

I can whirl beautiful interfaces and make efficient memory contraptions, but I can't remember how equations dance in the moonlight...

Things I didn't know existed, but now do because of devrant:
1 - calico dicks
2 - naughty trolling C devs that are girls
3 - dev elitists (actual elitists, not just trolls)
4 - superior German devs
5 - starving webdevs
6 - angular anger
7 - forum spam wars
8 - super shitters
9 - pedophile game devs who get banned
10 - you shouldn't say your mom to people because sometimes people's moms are dead

Parts I used to buy for electronic circuits are now being called vintage. Fuck me...

I did find a replacement on Mouser though. Very similar specs.

Assholes trying to sell originals for like $25. The replacement part is like $4. I bought a bunch of these parts before the company died a second time. So apparently I have some expensive high grade shiz!

Trying to figure out how to link this to dev...

If you like my Javascript posts you are awesome.
If you don't like my Javascript posts you are welcome.

"You can't argue with the TV"

This statement is true when engaging with people online. The TV has told them what to think. Sometimes it takes a jarring moment to shake someone out of this trance. For some nothing will break the programming.

I can tell when someone isn't thinking for themselves. They repeat the standard media terms, and then use those terms to dehumanize people. They can then dismiss any counter information as being from "those people".

I assume this is some kind of protection mechanism. I suspect people are afraid of being wrong and their ego won't allow this. So the conclusion seems to be: people who don't believe the TV "must" have character faults. Some even have fantasies of harming those who don't agree. I have witnessed this a few times with a few different people. It would be sad to live like that. I don't understand or comprehend that kind of hate. I can only suspect this comes from the TV content. I don't know because I haven't watched it in almost 15 years.

The AP is a trillion dollar propaganda machine. If you can see through its facade count yourself lucky.

Pray for people to wake up. Remember you can't argue with the TV. Just move on.

On a side note. Viewership of traditional AP media is now in the toilet. So I hope that is progress.

Been waking up with the cold the last few days. Sitting at work getting a bit dizzy. My voice dropped and I am sounding like I have a really deep voice. Somebody commented about it. I said: "Yeah, my balls finally dropped."

Just want to go home and sit and shoot people in game. Also pet the dogs and talk to the kids. Wife feels like crap too.

Can't stop thinking about gem dev tech. Kinda distracting. I think we live in an age of tons of shitty games. Plus the promise of a ton of innovation. Major studios just keep getting shittier.

I am actually impressed by CyberPunk 2077. They made the world interaction a lot of fun. I am really enjoying the magic system...errr...I mean tech hacking. Needs testicular torsion though. Maybe there is a mod.

So I am thinking about doing joke magical effects in a game. I see memes online about "testicular torsion" as a joke magic spell. Which on its own would be hilarious. Then I thought there needs to be a boss or class of characters that are immune even though they are dudes.

So I got this image of a chad boss you are fighting. You decide to cast testicular torsion on him. He makes a grunting noise and seems to be invigorated by the spell. Even some of his stats improve.

Then he says, "Jokes on you! I am into that shit!"

Every once in a while the volume for my default audio output decides to max out on login. How this can happen is apparently a mystery. Other than its a shitty OS called Windows 11. Windows 10 never did this shit, or if it did it was fixed quickly and never did it again. So there is always a non-zero chance of logging into windows and getting ear raped if you have headphones when playing any audio.

Enter SetVol.exe. Apparently open source and can be run in a batch script. So now I have this kludge of every time I login a task is run to call my bat file to fix this garbage. This is the worst case of quality control I have seen in any supported product. Not a single MS helper in any channel online has had a good fix for this. This is a fundamental design issue in how they handle volume settings. Absolute garbage.

Everyone from ma and pa to audio engineers are screaming about this. How? How does it get this bad?

Why does little shit bother me so much?
Trying to start a game of cyberpunk 2077. The opening area has a TV on. First I hate background shit, but I was watching the ads because they are kind of interesting. But it subtitles on the TV in the middle of the image on the TV. This bothered me so much that I got a couple of mods to make it so I can turn the tvs off/on, but also removes the subtitles.

If you have tv subtitles in game, why overlay it over the video? I have a feeling, despite all the mods I added, that this game is going to disappoint me again. I checked. I only have like 40 hours in this game according to steam. Did it really suck that bad? Or did I just not get into it?

People in the USA: We have a fetish for feet.

People in Europe: We are into meters.

Why do Europe people kink shame USA people?

So I have heard that some neuroscientists think brain function might be operating on a quantum level. I also know we are inching closer to quantum computing.

Does this mean as these two sciences converge we may develop consciousness transfer when they do?

I want a game world that has magic, tech, and rpg elements. Single player. Maybe some modern world too.

I have ideas where it starts medieval and introduces magic and tech due to parallel worlds/civilizations. I would link magic and tech at a base level so they interact. It would also be a lot of bullshit fiction to make this happen.

I thought about starting in modern world that makes contact to parallel worlds and this starts chain reactions of conflict inter-dimensionally. That would allow for anything to go at that point.

Anyway, just posting my thoughts. In the end I will rely heavily on player suspension of disbelief. They will either accept my bullshit or play something else.

Welcome to my fucked up world bitches!

Some 20 years ago I was out on my deck and I found this all metallic green fly that was smaller than normal flies. Even the head was green. Not quite the same, but similar to the picture.

I caught this fly inside a little plastic cup with a lid. I wanted to look at it up close. Then I saw a little tiny jumping spider a little bit bigger than the fly. I lifted the lid slightly and coaxed the jumping spider inside the cup as well. So now I had this little jumper hunting this cool green fly. I set it down and did something else.

Later I came back and the spider had the fly. He was having green fly snack. I left it alone again. When I came back I was absolutely astonished by what I saw. The metallic green fly was dead on the bottom of the cup. But it was now a metallic blue color! What?! Then I realized the loss of moisture probably caused the skin/shell to contract changing the wavelength being reflected to a blue color.

This made me wonder. How many entomologists have specimens what are labeled "green fly", but the specimens are blue?

Is this an early example of web devs (spiders) making CSS changes to nature?

I hate tech.

Trying to find a solution to problem in tech:
- 5 to 10 minutes searching for the correct terminology for the problem you are having.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find a solution.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find the correct terminology because the first terminology was wrong.
- 5 to 10 minutes finding the correct solution for your platform version.
- all the while dodging sketchy AI results
- Either you find a solution or you find it can't be fixed on your platform because X vendor is a POS.

So, this is not quite what happened today, but it pisses me off. I cannot imagine not being non-technical trying to use any platform this day and age.

I am trying to access data off of a backup. The data I want is in a user directory on a windows backup. I cannot get to user content because the user for the machine the backup came from is not known. I try with explorer and it says I need to elevate priv. So I do. It sits there and just spins icon doing nothing forever. The volume for viewing the backup is read only (actually a good idea, but annoying, can't change permissions).

So I remember that explorer artificially enforces permissions on folders. So I get Q-Dir which has worked in the past. So I get it installed and it fails to elevate privs. WTF! Everywhere I search I see no solution and shitty AI results. Then from the back of my mind I remember. Run Q-Dir as admin (which doesn't work on explorer due to artificial enforcement). So I do. It can access anything from the backup regardless of location.

WHY THE FUCK DO THESE BULLSHIT BARRIERS EXIST? It only causes frustration from users and locks people out of their data.

I hate technology.

So today I was trying to get a java program to run in Linux that needed a bat file to run in Windows. I was looking at the file and didn't know what it would take to do all the commands in Linux. So I said fuck it and had my chatgpt account do the conversion. It actually did it perfectly and replaced Windows specific commands with Linux equivalents. It reworked the data and set environment variables correctly. It also ran the java program.

Unfortunately I think the Java program had made assumptions about the environment and used hard coded Windows style paths. Rather than using some paths in a filesystem generic way. So it just excepted when trying to read files that were there, but had wrong slash in filename.

It was a good test though. I may have chatgpt take a whack at other scripts I don't want to take the time to look up syntax.

Going to be drawing patterns during a weld using a high powered laser. This pattern determine the shape of the laser point. Not sure on radius of laser output. Probably mm/um in size. Won't be able to "see" the pattern. Anyway, I suggested default pattern chains: 666, 420, 69. So far nobody really likes those options. Maybe I will do emojis.

I think I will need to optimize pattern distance between points. So I might get to do a real algorithm for this. I have not seen the requirements for this part yet. But I am thinking maybe A* for shortest path to next point. Or maybe some flood fill. Could be fun. It would be wild to use a gaming algo to melt metal. lol

So I uninstalled Xbox App off my computer like a week ago. Today I get a notification to check out XBox Game Pass. So I find in notifications it has separate app or thing installed to notify about shit like that. So I removed that.

I also don't like the pos Game Bar. It won't let you uninstall in apps. So I searched and found this command:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage

Good bye MS POS Gaming Overlay. Good bye Gayme Pass Notifs.

So I am on Pro version of Windows 11. Is this shit not able to be removed from Home version? What a garbage future we are in.

I am so naive about LLMs. I wanted to know if I can just make one trained on text I produce. I don't even know what that means. But I read that it can take a huge effort to train one.

The more I read about this subject the less I understand. I assume some are available commercially:
https://github.com/eugeneyan/...

But I don't even know what that means. If I wanted to make an LLM to handle text interactions with NPCs what are we talking about here? Is it a multi-gigabyte file? Do I have to worry about what it was trained on? I don't want one that has infinite knowledge. I don't want it to have any frankly. I want to provide its reality as the sole creator.

The problem is I don't even know what the question is to ask it properly. I assume I need something that teaches it english, but then what comes after that?

dude: Super Bowl!
chick: Can I have the soup in the bowl?

chick: <Jumping out of bathroom naked>
chick: Super Pussy!
dude: I will have the soup.