Darkoshi
I've seen demos of some of the recent real-time voice-enabled AI bots, but this was my first time interacting with one. I had tried to initiate a return on the Walmart.com website, but it gave a message "Sorry, we’re unable to process this part of your request", telling me to call their customer service phone number. So I did, half-expecting to get a recording telling me to call back during other…
I got a DW message from user "lol12121212": Hi [personal profile] darkoshi, [personal profile] lol12121212 sent you a message on Dreamwidth. The message is: Dreamwidth - Unusual login attempt Hello, We’ve noticed a sign-in to your Dreamwidth account from a new IP address or a device we don’t recognize. As a standard safety measure, we’ve temporarily limited access to your account until we can…
I've let the hairs on my chin grow out. Last month I counted about 60 of them, half white and half dark. Now after 2 months, they are about 1.5 cm long, all on the bottom of my chin. To begin, I just didn't feel like taking tweezers to them like usual. I've been busy, and it was easy to keep skipping it. I've plucked them most of my adult life. Sometimes I let them grow out for a while, but this…
I took the Huge Vegan Survey . One of the questions was about one's religion/belief system, with quite a few choices listed. I pondered whether "None", "Atheism", or "Agnosticism" was most accurate for me. I decided on "None". I am atheistic in that I don't believe in a God in the typical sense; I perhaps 95% don't believe in any type of supernatural entities or forces at all. But there's that 5%,…
previously When using a can opener to open metal food cans (aka "tins"), I leave a small section of the lid attached to the can for recycling purposes. I try the same with pull-tab lids, though those are harder to keep attached after bending them up and back down. I've heard you're not supposed to put small loose objects (like the can lids) in the recycling bin, but if it's attached to the can,…
I didn't think FedEx would deliver today on a Sunday, since the door hanger indicated "the next business day". But before bed, I checked the tracking page to make sure. Surprisingly, it indicated an Estimated Delivery Date of "Today By End of Day". I didn't trust that but didn't disbelieve it either. Soooooooooooo... At 4am, I cut off a 9"x6" rectangle of white plastic from a mailing envelope and…
When you accidentally drop something small... you hear the sound it makes hitting the floor.. but then, searching the whole floor, even with a flashlight, it is nowhere to be found. It's happened in the past with a needle. Today it was a chocolate chip. Both things potentially dangerous to be left on the ground, for people walking barefoot, or dogs snooping around. comments
I've watched only a few of the shows below. But I find it interesting how many television series are based on shows from other countries rather than being originals. These star a character with Autism, Asperger's (as it was called then), or other neurodivergent traits. Astrid et Raphaëlle (2019 TV series) A Franco-Belgian detective television series. It features two policewomen: Major Raphaëlle…
Looking through some unread emails in my inbox today, I opened one from April 24. Google sent it with Subject: "Updates to our partner ads setting control". It states: At Google, we believe you should always be in control of your data. That's why we've built My Ad Center and many Google Account tools, like Privacy Checkup, that make it easy to manage your data, privacy, and security settings.…
I found out that mosquitos shelter under the English ivy, so I have renewed impetus to pull it all out where it grows on the ground along the back fence. There have always been too many mosquitos in the back yard. After dusk, I go in and out the side door so as not to scare away the little bird that has taken to sleeping in the ceiling corner of the front porch. Kroger had fresh organic Brussels…
I've started watching this show on PBS: Patience (TV series) Premise: A detective inspector (DI) forms an alliance with a brilliant, self-taught, autistic archivist who has been working in the criminal records department of the City of York police. It seems another take on "brilliant quirky female individual helps police department solve crimes" like High Potential, Elsbeth, etc. So far, I find it…
Eating a wintergreen-flavored antacid tablet followed by a spoonful of maple-flavored granola cereal tastes delightfully like sweet cappuccino for a moment. comments
I wish I could remember everything. The happenings, the emotions, the smells, the view from my eyes. But in such a way that I could put the memories away and forget again whenever desired, like a notebook of notes, when I was done reminiscing or done checking up on facets of my past. I suppose it would to too hard, having to decide all the time if I wanted to forget something or not. Would I be…
The mockingbirds are up early for the first day of summer. comments
There was a negative political ad on TV, nothing new about that. But this one had disclaimer text at the bottom "DRAMATIZATIONS IN THIS AD WERE GENERATED WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" (in capitalized but narrow font, so not particularly prominent). The ad showed video segments of one of the Republican contenders for the SC governor's race taking a lie detector test and lying so much that she…
I was hoping they'd have a confirmed answer by now as to what caused the sonic boom here on May 28. A jet? A meteor? But there is no consensus. NASA says no meteor. A couple of people who track meteors have indications it was a meteor. I felt it as a big ::WHOOMP:: - similar to the booms earlier this year when Fort Jackson exploded old ordinance. The cams rarely pick up earth movement but this…
According to the weather websites, it's 96 degrees Fahrenheit (or less) outside in this area. According to my porch thermometer, it is nearly 106 in the shade! Indoors, an old round thermometer showed 76 degrees, while my smart thermostat showed 83. After putting the old one outside in the shade of my house for an hour (on top of an upside down cloth clothes hamper to insulate it from the hot…
Some nights I'm so tired that I have to fight to stay awake, and other nights I tinker on my computer until the sun rises and still feel uninclined to go to bed. Perhaps it's the difference between 5 and 7 hours of sleep, or between 4 and 6. For some time, I had an issue with my feet. After a day's sedentary work, they would start to feel strange, tingly and sort of swollen in the ball of the foot…
A new Star Wars movie premiered two weeks ago, and I didn't even hear about it until today, by chance after clicking to read this article: Star Wars Is Changing Forever In 2 Weeks (May 6, 2026). Y'all people posting about news on Dreamwidth have let me down, LOL. Or maybe I missed some posts. But really, I haven't felt the same about Star Wars since it moved to Disney+, a streaming service which I…
(previously) The metal mixing bowl made a lovely resounding ring when something touched it. I tried to recreate the sound, and figured out how. When the bowl is supported only on the bottom (like when balancing it on my hand), and its side is tapped, ta-da! RINGGGGGG!!! It is a much lovelier sound than when I hold it lightly by its upper edge and tap the bottom, which is what I'd normally think to…
Note to self: If there are files which I don't feel are important enough to keep on my laptop, and which to save laptop space, I store only on an external Hard Drive, *** be sure to save it on multiple external hard drives, in case the one goes bad! *** (There are photos which I can't find, from when I was house-shopping 20 years ago, of all the houses I didn't end up buying. I am sure I deleted…
(whereby by I post unimportant things that briefly catch my interest, instead of the longer things I've been wanting to post, but haven't had time for) The Wiktionary entry for Klang mentions a language I wasn't familiar with, Hunsrik . It's a dialect of German mixed with Portuguese and words from indigenous Brazilian languages, or rather: a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the…
Clank (Wiktionary) Noun: A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal. Usage notes: Clank usually expresses a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. Edited to add: And yet, this glass lid just made a "Clingggggg!" sound. In English, the word cling* isn't used for sounds. But German does; it has the verb "klingen" for the ringing of bells. *I was wrong.…
There's a very nice crescent moon out tonight, the dark part lightly visible again, 3 stars artfully arranged before it, and a bright planet below. comments
I wonder if people who don't have an internal monologue do actually have one, but in the other half of their brain. Maybe their awareness is centered on the side of the brain not involved in speech, versus people who are aware of the monologue. I wonder if some people who don't have an internal monologue still talk to themselves out loud, or if they don't at all (since for me, talking to myself…