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  • The technology that will replace us

    I saw a post on reddit with a bunch of hilarious responses when asking ChatGPT “How many Rs are in Strawberry?”, so I got on Chatbot Arena and tried it myself. If you aren’t familiar, Chatbot Arena is a leader board for various chatbots. You can submit a question and it will send it to…

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  • Mind Your Business

    What was the motto on the first US coin? MIND YOUR BUSINESS I’ve long been aware that in god we trust was not mandated on our currency until the red scare of the 50s, but thanks to checking snopes while bored at work I now know the original motto. I’m totally in favor of bring…

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  • New blog theme

    I spent a couple hours at work browsing different themes for the site. I’m still not quite happy with this one, but it will work for now. I’ll probably spend the rest of the night looking into creating my own theme.

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  • Truth Social is like a parody of itself

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  • Ron Swanson

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  • VNC over Guacamole

    I’ve been using the new setup from work for a couple days now and I have decided to run a network cable to my office finally. I’ve got an old cheap wifi card that is only connecting at 144 Mbps up/72 down, so I’ve had to configure the display for 8 bit color. The default…

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  • Guacamole – Day 4

    Configuring VNC was pretty trivial. I went with TigerVNC server on my Gaming(it’s named gaming, but is no longer fit for gaming as it’s 10 years old) computer. The setup was trivial. Install, poke holes in firewall, set password, and configure the connection in Guacamole. It doesn’t really perform that bad, but I’m guessing RDP…

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