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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • God I hate it when an article sucks me in with a title about how LLMs are useless trash but then goes on to include shit like this:

    I write this as a practitioner, not as a critic. After more than 10 years of professional dev work, I’ve spent the past 6 months integrating LLMs into my daily workflow across multiple projects. LLMs have made it possible for anyone with curiosity and ingenuity to bring their ideas to life quickly, and I really like that!

    Maybe the author is trying to preach to the hoodwinked and avoid being summarily dismissed by the AI hype spreaders before they even start writing the article. But surely they’ve already sabotaged any chance at breaking through the brainwashing with the title.

    If any of you ever write about how shit LLMs are, please please please don’t feel like you have to dedicate any portion of your article at all to granting them any charity. I assure you, they deserve absolutely none.


  • This comment is more about FOSS than about 3D printing, but if you’re interested in GPL violations, you should know about the court case SFC v. Vizio. If it goes the way the SFC is pushing (and the courts have made a surprising amount of noises suggesting they’re broadly sympathetic to SFC’s arguments), ordinary end users will have a lot more leverage to push companies to honor the terms of the GPL and provide source code as required by the GPL. Every manufacturer of smart TVs, smartphones, game consoles – hell even robot vacuum cleaners, cars, and sex toys – if they include GPL’d code in those TVs, they’re required to provide source code to users on demand. As it is now, companies can (and do) flagrantly violate the “source code provision” requirement in the GPL. But this case could change that.


  • Is there consensus on who would be best to migrate your “things” to? Maybe what do folks think of Printables?

    I do more publishing than downloading. And I’m interested in one that’s in the spirit of FOSS. Friendly to permissive licenses. (Unfriendly to more proprietary licenses is a big plus IMO. I’m a fan of attribution and copyleft requirements. Noncommercial limitations, I’m relatively indifferent to.) Not enshittified and not likely to enshittify any time soon.










  • I’ve had some stink bugs too, and it seems like most of the means the internet recommends for dealing with them suck in some way (only some of them literally like what you resorted to).

    • Squashing is universally contraindicated.
    • Sucking them up with a vacuum can make your vacuum stink.
    • Putting a light on a bowl of soapy and/or vinegary water would work, but is kindof a messy pain to deal with.
    • Pesticides are generally dangerous to humans.
    • My preferred option – catch them gently and take them outside alive – runs the risk that they’ll just find their way inside again

    But I guess I find that last option the least offensive.

    There was one I dealt with differently, though. I dropped him into a spider web a spider had built over my kitchen sink. I like to think the spider was very appreciative.