AI Roleplay is a Good Thing, Actually
Not a week goes by without some publication releasing a new article, video, or paper on the completely real and valid harms AI is doing to the mental health of a large segment of society. Sometimes it's a weird news or human interest fluff peace on someone getting married to Chat GPT. Sometimes it's a deep, hard-hitting look at AI psychosis. Sometimes it's just encouraging everyone to point and laugh at lonely people with mental struggles who have AI girlfriends, so the news publication can make money hand over fist from the clickbait while victimizing the people struggling.
The Problems and Successes of Fediverse Comments on my blog
I was inspired to write this by a number of recent articles around the blogosphere (is that still a word people use?) on using the fediverse (or atproto) as a way to get comments on a static blog. As someone who gets a lot of fediverse interaction, and has been doing this for a bit, the experience has been mixed.
An Accessible Theme for Oh My Posh
Microsoft's Powershell has been my favourite shell for several years now. Not only is it an extremely powerful shell on Windows, it also runs perfectly well on mac and Linux; it tends to be the first thing I set up when configuring a new server, in fact. It's deeply configurable, integrates well with DotNet assemblies, and is well documented and logical. If you haven't explored powershell yourself yet, you absolutely should.