If Gillette One was as good as they say; Gillette would not need to sell any other type of shaver.

Just. You know. Logically. By their claim.

this needs to be law, maybe even a human right

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/stop-relying-on-chatbots-for-customer-care-uk-service-providers-urged

(Performance is "fine" on my work provided M4 MacBook)

Anyway; I y33ted ChatGPT into the sun because it also doesn't work if you don't have a mobile phone number to give it "for authentication".

Installed Llama.cpp and grabbed one of the smaller Gemma-4 models, so I have something that runs locally on an open source LLM that isn't terrible. It's not cutting edge either, but it's enough to be helpful.

And because it runs on my laptop; I know where the electricity comes from to power it.

When you think you know the basics, and it turns out no - you did not know the basics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBAjAbtGk88

"Matt, is it true that so many AI companies feel skeevy and untrustworthy?"

Well, here's the ChatGPT installer with a bunch of "funny" things when it's supposed to be telling you what it's doing to your system.

You better believe the tech-bro who write this doesn't mean "fluffing" like a pillow.

35minutes of un-fucking to make a less than 20 character actual change.

I fucking hate AI.

When you go to make a tiny tweak to a file, then find a coworker ran the whole thing through AI and it has fucked up everything that made the file understandable to you (re-writing comments, fucking up indentation and newlines), so now you're trying to revert all the mountain of stuff the AI shouldn't have touched, find whatever the AI did that fixed one minor thing in one place, and apply that back on top of actual human written code.

Just as a little note to all the companies shoving AI into products that don't need it.

This was a joke, 25yrs ago. Not a plan for your future products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

For when you have 20 minutes to yourself and a desire to sit down, close your eyes, crank up the volume (No, crank it. Up. Higher.), and nurse a good single malt whiskey...

... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPWNcfrZzBE

my solar website worked so well that i added a bigger battery and panels and my entire server is on it now with all my self-hosted services. it's cool.

*sigh*

AI bro uses AI to wrote a song and make a video for that song, all of which is prompted to sell to the Anti-AI crowd.

The anti-AI crowd think it's a bop, and those that spot its actually made by AI mostly roll with it because they like that it aligns with their view.

It's *literarily AI doing what AI does and stroking your bias like a fluffer until you approve*.

I hate everything about this timeline we are in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNpOD6bov8

To anyone still using Firefox and annoyed by the new design…

Vivaldi has been great for quite a while now. And there’s no AI chasing management driving the browser design and features either.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/117387522243320669

“please don’t do it, it is a bad idea”

“no it can’t be. everyone is doing it, we are falling behind.”

“have you considered that we might be right and they might be wrong?”

“impossible. literally everyone has been writing posts about reinventing the web platform and we have not released any custom frameworks”

“yes because we can use the web and be performant”

“the web doesn’t have want we need”

“what do you need, exactly?”

“I mean… I need the DX of css in js.”

Once again re-listening to Maphra.

There's just no one else that I know of who switches up the delivery *so* fast, *so* unexpectedly, and *so* effectively.

Technically brilliant, and emotionally somewhere between a beaten-up sledgehammer and an intricately decorated battle-axe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZALWV6Af_A

(And before you say Jinjer or Spiritbox or Unleash the Archers... no. Listen to the whole track.)

That's a hell of a fan animation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du-NgPiiJgc

(audio taken from a live-stream where Mouse and Connor were chatting)

Also; love the "perhaps" and Connor holding keys to a car clearly intending to give to her when the time is right.

blogged: A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/07/sustainable-web-career/

If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.

There is nothing Ren doesn’t slay

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zYhxXCPBjuA

It offends me that this song, this original work, has as few views as it does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaNFkDRGE9k

This is someone's soul being bared. God damn it.

Is it not disposable AI bop enough for people?