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Cake day: July 5th, 2025

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  • Found out my old road race shifters have the same cable pull ratio as my newer stuff. I’ve been stressing because I’m in the middle of a major rebuild of my bike and really needed new shifters, which was like $500 to replace everything. On the other hand my old race stuff “requires” a super rare rear derailleur according to the sketchy internet, and of course the buy buy buy info from the manufacturer. So today I got stuff sorted and physically measured the cable pull and my race stuff is exactly the same as my current stuff, just with one less rear cog. I can space that out fine. So I get away without any spend and get a major upgrade to my old gear too.



  • I agree, but the tool is not to blame and never has been. This is not unique. The same thing was said with the advent of digital photo editing. Fakes predate that when people made them with film. In each instance, it is the ethics of the people that are the problem. At the deepest abstract levels, if you play out all of the implications, there is no difference between a tool and the thoughts in your head. Blaming tools is always a problem and only an illusion of a solution.

    I have been able to edit photos like this since before AI, but have never done so. When I was a kid in school I drew stuff like this. So the problems is actually intent and social accountability more than anything else.

    I don’t like that the issue boils down to this. I think it is ugly, but I think the alternative is far far worse. I think those that are pushing this issue are convenient idiots combined with people that are hell bent on a fascist authoritarian future that is truly horrendous. If posting dubious child nudes of me will stop fascism and WW3, what poses would you like me to strike?


  • Look at the vocab.json of nearly any model vocabulary. In CLIP, it is organized at the end in the last ~2200 tokens of SD1 CLIP which is used by all diffusion models. The bulk of the code is in that last block, however there are 2337 tokens with code in a brainfuck style language using the extended Latin character set. Any idiot that looks at this will spot how these are not at all part of any language words or fragments and where there are obvious functions present. If you have ComfyUI, the file is in ./comfy/sd1_tokenizer/vocab.json.

    The most difficult are models, like the T5xxl have this code precompiled and embedded in the vocabulary.

    I am playing with Qwen 3’s right now, which has the much larger world model of Open AI QKV hidden layers alignment. Unlike CLIP, Qwen’s vocabulary starts as 2.8 MB of compressed json, and the extended Latin is intermixed in the total. This one is present in ComfyUI at ./comfy/text_encoders/qwen25_tokenizer/vocab.json. You will need the jq package to make the json readable, or other ways. If you have jq and ripgrep (rg) on your system, then try cat ./vocab.json | jq | LC_ALL=C rg '[[:^ascii:]]' That method is much less organized than CLIP, but this model has 103,378 lines of code using the same character set. I have reverse engineered most of the tokens used to create this code. I modify the vocabulary with scripts to alter behavior. Explaining the heuristics of how I have figured out the complexity of this structure is fucking hard unto itself, never mind actually sorting out any meaning. It really sucks when people are assholes about that.





  • It will culminate in revising “minor” to something scientific. Age is arbitrary and impossible for AI alignment to handle. Neoteny and the Tanner Scale is visually present and real. That fundamentally shifts culture in large ways because retention of childlike traits is neoteny, and the scientific definition of beauty. That is well outside the scope of Anglo cultural awareness, and will be hard for the Puritan backwardness to adjust. Like Riley Reid is so popular because of her neoteny. Even with actors like Tom Cruise, the reason people like ‘short people’ in media is the neotenous head to body proportions closer to 1 to 5. All cartoons are doing the same but exaggerated. “Minor” must be scientifically grounded better than the age when male children are large enough to carry the kit of grossly immortal mass murder orgies the halfwits call war.

    Arbitrary age is irrelevant in purely visual media. Attempting to somehow mass surveil everyone to enforce it is dystopian insanity. The only solution is to be more scientifically grounded. It is ugly, and a bit ick, but whatever, those are illogical emotions fighting real justice and must be suppressed. Most countries like Germany and France have lowered their ages for minors. The only scientifically relevant ages are puberty and cognitive maturity at 25. Make it 25 and you will be supporting your kids until 25 financially, and the military will fall apart from people with the mind to question orders and think for themselves in mass.

    Edit: To be clear, I do not want people fucking kids or what not, or exploiting them. I’m against authoritarian parenting by proxy with a state making up for terrible parents, but that is another thing entirely. I do not care about this personally or in justification of anything. It is simply an observation of inevitability as data expands and ages. Images in 100 years will still be around just the same. Their categorization must be derived from the pixels themselves. There is no other long term solution. How anyone feels about that is totally irrelevant stupidity and amounts to nothing more than stupid children putting their head in the sand and saying “nuh uhh!” Science and democracy are ugly. They always have been. If you cannot handle the ugly with the good, you are a fascist or authoritarian, and to that dystopian nightmare culture, fuck you for starting a war for democracy soon. Sincerely.




  • Maybe I do not understand the vector here, but I think you should be able to use a DNS filter log, like a whitelist firewall. Use the log to see what servers are blocked when you try to open the app. Then just whitelist those servers.

    The proper argument is not for Ad Block. That is just a lazy hack. The proper argument is that you have a right to a front door on your home – a digital front door, a right to lock it, and a right to decide who may enter your home. This is what a DNS whitelist filter does. If you are not allowed to use a DNS whitelist, your home has had the door ripped off and are being forced to allow stalkers, thieves, and slavers into your home to manipulate and exploit you. Never talk about ad block. That is politically irrelevant. I do not care if the lock on your front door in the real world has great pick resistance. It is just as much a symbol as it is a device. The primary reason for losing rights is from people failing to argue well, and understand their rights like this. I am one of the few people that does DNS the hard way and run a whitelist filter.







  • If there were cheap, open source, resin 3d printers with an open slicer, I would be tempted to design a keyboard that uses light pipes and 2-4 LEDs per key to make something like this. Many early electronic display devices worked like this. Like some of the early Apollo program hardware NASA used were just little incandescent bulbs barely more than a Christmas lights. These were angled and projected onto a plastic lens with specially angled facets on the back that created a pathway for one of eight bulbs to create a numerical display. Fran’s Lab on YT tends to show off stuff like this. It should be possible to make a similar light pipe design for multiple key backlights.

    I would probably get too side tracked in making printable mechanical keys.