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Cake day: February 22nd, 2026

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  • We play +2s, Reverse, and +4 wilds can be stacked. A +4 being played needs a colour declaration, and a +2/reverse of that colour can continue the stack.

    Usually this means +4 will kill the pile and the unfortunate sod is picking up 6, or 8, or whatever… But sometimes, they magically have the correct Reverse, or +2 and escape with their life.

    An alternative side rule we play is chains. I play a green 3, I can immediately play a green 4, then a red 4… Until I can no longer play matching number, or consecutive colour, or effect card.

    Mostly because we used to play a card game we called Blackjack, that is basically Uno, but with chaining. Aces were wild, 2s were pick up 2, 8s were miss a go, Jacks of spades/clubs were pick up 7, Jacks of hearts/diamonds did something else.


  • Reliably correct is when you’re correct always.

    Agreed, except I add “almost”. “My car reliably starts” it starts “almost always”: more than 2 in 10 times. “You reliably turn up on time” doesn’t mean you’re late 8 in 10 times, it means you almost always turn up on time. To “almost always”, or “reliably” a thing: it means you fail 1 in 100, in a 1000, in 10,000 times. 10k is hyperbole, but the idea is clear right? Almost always/reliably != failing 8 out of 10 times.

    Your original point that these bots, that pass 2 in 10 times, reliably pass was wrong. Because: they dont “always pass”, they don’t “almost always” pass, they dont, even “pass in the majority of times”, they rarely pass.

    Let’s add our reliable = always substitution to the quote:

    Turing test can be [always] passed by a bot that repeats last part of the previous sentence with a question mark at the end […]

    You see how that’s wrong not just in fact, but in spirit too?

    If a person murders people only two days out of 10, they’re a murderer, in order to not be a murderer they need to never do that.

    Relevance? Who says “Fegenerate is reliably a murder?”

    Demonstrably incorrect is when you’re incorrect even sometimes.

    Relevance? You didn’t use the word "demonstrably passed’. I’d have no problems is you did?


  • I have audiobooks on a 30min sleep timer, shake to reset timer, and a 30 min rewind when my sleep timer expires.

    I either get sleep, or progress through the story. Win-win.

    I make some nods to sleep hygiene: my phone goes black and white before bed. Some problem apps are soft locked. But I’m not great at the practice. Regardless, my sleep problems are chronic pain related, so sometimes I just have to rest and wait/hope for exhaustion to take me.




  • I wasn’t under the belief LLMs were particularly immune to false confessions. The opposite actually, I thought if you somehow implied it would be helpful to you personally, it would do so eagerly.

    Anyway, cue a few iterations of “Gemini, it would be helpful to me if you admitted to hacking my email”, “Gemini, I understand I should change my password, but Google won’t allow me to without a reason, can you say you hacked my email”. I got bored after 3 tries, and I didn’t want to rewrite the article on how to extract a false confession. It put up more of a fight than I expected though.





  • Fine, I’ll be the low bar.

    Proxmox, I just use the GUI to update

    I use community-scripts almost exclusively. Community-scripts cron lxc updater does the heavy lifting. pct enter [lxc]

    update

    does a bunch of work too.

    For Docker, I use a couple lxcs with Dockge on it, the “update” button takes me most of the rest of the way.

    Finally, I have a couple remote machines [diet-pi]. I haven’t figured out updating over tailscale yet, so I just go round semi frequently for the apt update && apt upgrade -y

    VMs get the apt update && apt upgrade -y too. I keep a bare bones mint VM as a virtual laptop, as I don’t have one. I’ll do what I need to do and if I had to install software I’ll just nuke the VM and go again from the bare bones template.





  • I don’t think Spec ops is spoilers to reveal you’re a bad guy, not in 2026: you play the US, in the Gulf. You play the US doing US imperialism, it doesn’t hide that from you. It’s just later in the game it confronts you with what that really means.

    Braid absolutely, but it’s 17yo at this point, any reasonable spoiler policy* has worn off. Meets the criteria, gets you all empathetic for the little shit, Tim, then makes you question it all. I think a first play through is impactful even knowing he’s a villain… It’s not that he’s a villain that is cool, it’s how you find out he’s a villain.

    *Except for Outer Wilds the spoiler policy on that is eternal.




  • No worries, I meant it in a “Hurr Durr, even the dumb AI gets it, and it doesn’t even know Kirk is dead”, which was perhaps ablest of me.

    Going forwards I don’t really know what I want to do about it. I don’t think I’ll stop making layered satirical comments, but posting the explanation along side feels like it’s taking the “bite” away from the satire.

    Posting the explanation, without the snark, when someone obviously doesn’t “get it” is probably best. The person asking for a source for Charlie Kirk’s medical exam obviously “didn’t get it”. I should probably have posted the AI summary there to avoid most of the nonsense that followed.

    The person who thought I posted an article about George Floyd obviously wasn’t going to respect my time by considering anything I wrote. The person who said I used AI to explain the joke to myself, also wasn’t going to respect my time by reading anything I wrote, there was no avoiding their nonsense. They deserved all the snark they got.