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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
Symptoms: The earpad came off. The rubber peeled off, and a lot of facial oil was in the earpiece. The foam part slipped off, and underneath, there was a lock ring, which holds the earpad onto the earpiece. Explanation: the plastic band that held the foam part onto the lock ring, by making the edge…
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
This is the best DIY dustpan video so far. He makes it from a canister, and cuts the canister in a way that will take advantage of the bends and corners already molded into the canister. He uses wood for the handle, and attaches it with screws; I hope he’s using washers. The design is…
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
Meta was barfing, so I turned to Claude, to help with something I’ve never been good at: Gutenberg Blocks. I asked it to make a block that writes the shortcode. I guess it did exactly that, but that’s not really what I wanted! The code it produced almost worked. It was intended for a flat…
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
I gave Meta AI a break, because I had to do most of the refactoring and debugging by hand. I lost track of time, but I’m guessing it was 4 or 5 hours work, because I had a typo that screwed me up for at least an hour.
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Meta-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 5
This wasn’t a good session. Aside: Cleaning up Meta.ai’s code I griped about the code formatting, so I asked it to help me out: write a composer config script that will: delete backups that end in ~; run PHP code beautifier with the WordPress format on all the PHP files Refactoring Continues I continued with…
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
I upgraded my MINT 20 install to MINT 22, and everything ended up a bit of a mess, because so many things were updated. Normally, it’s easy to figure out the situation, but I couldn’t find docs to get my Regolith + i3xrocks working right. So here’s what I’m doing. First, create .config/regolith3/i3xrocks/conf.d Then, copy…
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
I decided to drop into Meta AI to see how it did with this code. Unfortunately, it took a couple hours, and the code wasn’t as good as Gemini.
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3
So, I decided to beautify the code, and the tool told me there were a lot of errors and problems, so I spent today trying to fix those. Start time: 2:37, end time: 4:50. I still had problems, but… Some of the errors were not errors. Some of the errors, when fixed, caused minor bugs.…
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
This continues the work in the post Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections. We complete the admin by linking the ID to the post, fixing the Delete feature, adding a CAPTCHA and a settings screen.
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
I sat down with Google Gemini to try and write a WordPress plugin to allow site visitors to suggest spelling corrections or other corrections. The TL;DR: it helped a lot, but started to make errors that were hard (for me) to solve shortly after starting. As the plugin got more complex, the help it offered…
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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AB715
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The Mirror
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Chili History
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Protected: What a Year (Written August 27, 2019)
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Imperial Japan and Islam; Uncommitted; Hillside Villa
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Update for June 18, 2019
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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The Commodity Fetish
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Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)
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Selected Posts from Facebook from February 2020
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Cascading Failures Due to Failing RAID1 on Linux
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WordPress error: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.
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Alcohol Didn’t Fix the Mold
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie; Meta.ai: Blackpill Poetry about Emily Dickinson; Keeping and Revealing Secrets in ChatGPT
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SARS-CoV-2 on a Fishing Boat, Seroprevalence in Spain
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
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ChatGPT Rewrites with Style
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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Python Data Science Study
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
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PHP Attributes Overview, plus Symfony, Doctrine ORM, laravel-php-attributes
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez