“The app said scan my eye. It was non-specific as to which”

It’s Tinder; shouldn’t it be scan bobs and vagene?

https://bannedbyanthropic.com/

I believe the word is capricious. Everything cloud based is at the whim of someone else.

There are ways to mitigate against that, but ultimately if it’s not yours…it’s not yours.

No.

Clankers were trained on the writing style of individuals such as myself (ASD). While I do consciously (and subconsciously) code switch, I’m aware I have a default “sounds like ChatGPT” voice when dealing with technical discussions, especially if I’m trying to be precise or guard myself from accusation or attack.

I’m ok with it, but I’m now going to autism at you / over explain it, partially because I think it might help you parse the difference between human and machine when reading these things.

You asked in apparently good faith and you deserve a full explanation.

The underlying pattern comes from a perversion of the “measure twice, cut once” mentality; I create the crux of the argument, forecast likely objections, rewrite to close off said objections, sand the edges off, check if I was unintentionally offensive, check if I presented the facts to the best of my ability, check for logical fallacies, then finally sweep to see if there is any ambiguity or obvious attack surfaces left. Then I read it out loud to myself.

That mode flattens everything into a “safe, palatable, high signal to noise ratio, use dot points so people don’t lose you, don’t write like yourself” style.

(And I still miss typos sometimes. That actually really, really irks me).

Anyhow, when I said the clankers copy us, I didn’t mean just vocabulary. Expand the CoT (chain of thought) the next time you use ChatGPT; you’ll see they made it do this exact same process.

PS: You’re not the first to point it out either. It’s one of the reasons I dubbed my blog Clanker Adjacent

Yes.

And thank you for saying “elevate the head of the bed” rather than just “elevate your head” - lifting the whole upper body/torso works much better than just adding pillows under the head. Stacking pillows can just bend the neck instead of actually elevating the torso. For some, that makes snoring / sleep-disordered breathing worse. A double whammy.

Bodies are ridiculous. Worst. Idea. Ever. :/

Point of interest:

Barrett’s esophagus is commonly associated with long-standing GORD/reflux. One of the better ways to improve or control GORD in people who are overweight is weight loss. Excess abdominal fat can raise pressure inside the abdomen and worsen backflow, which is why left-side sleeping is often recommended for nocturnal reflux

Of course, not all GORD is caused by central adiposity; for example, a hiatus hernia may contribute and is associated with weakening of the diaphragmatic hiatus, age-related tissue changes, and repeated increases in intra-abdominal pressure such as coughing, vomiting, straining, or heavy lifting.

Even so, excess weight - especially central adiposity - tends to worsen reflux rather than help it.

TL;DR: if you have reflux, are over the age of 40 and are overweight…get that shit sorted. Uncontrolled GORD can and does lead to Barrett’s esophagus.

I get where you’re coming from, but the issue isn’t that YouTube makes money, it’s how aggressively they’re doing it simultaneously.

• Charge advertisers? Fair enough.
• Charge viewers a Premium fee to avoid ads? …ok.
• Quietly tighten the screws on ad-blockers while doing both? That’s where it gets cynical.

The platform runs on creator content, yet payout rates, especially for smaller channels, have barely moved while YouTube’s revenue keeps growing. They’re squeezing every side of the equation at once while the people actually making the product worth watching see the least of it.

Ad-blocking isn’t theft. It’s a rational response to a platform that’s decided unskippable ads are acceptable on top of an already profitable model. If the value exchange felt fair, fewer people would bother. Early days of streaming showed that people accept a fair deal. Enshittification has driven many of us back to the seven seas.

Izzat anything like FreeBSD?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amirhusain/2026/04/01/ai-just-hacked-one-of-the-worlds-most-secure-operating-systems/