Smiffy 2.0.2 RC1

I other news, I have very little in the way of useful shoulder joints, and rotator cuff tendons - WHAT rotator cuff tendons?

The human body is a wonderful thing, because that is far less inconveniencing that I assumed it would be.

I'm a gonna lift myself out of this. Lift carefully, lift often.

...continued/ that I am genuinely good at, moreso than anything I have done before.

I think that, this time, I might actually be back here a bit more. But this year is going to be fucking hard, and that's understating it.

I will leave it there. And, FFS, Bosky, character limits?

.../continued So I am now on Jobseeker allowance, which feels ironic, since the jobs I am seeking are good, five-figure ones. But, when you have nothing but debt, having been in a coercive/financial control situation, you have - less than nothing. But I have something that I can prove... /continued

.../continued and built portfolio that has even impressed me, when my demon assistants point out exactly what I HAVE built. This year is going to be HARD. First tie severed, I am shuttering my business, which was never viable, but my only means of survival, in my FORMER relationship. /continued

Heyheyhey, kids! It's been all go here! I have gone past the point of no return. I am declaring "separated under one roof", which is a Thing, in the eyes of Service Australia. I am applying for jobs for which I am very much qualified, since I have re-skilled... /continued

It's been the proverbial nazi bar, for over two years. I only left my account there for identify protection, probably naively. No decent folks should go anywhere near it.

An interdental floss holder. with floss fitted, beside a metal ruler, showing it is about 70mm long. Made of translucent plastic.

Well. Idea->Inkscape->Orca Slicer->print. And it damn well worked. Despite the machine being rated to a minimum of 0.2mm, my 0.15mm slots came out fine. PETG, 3mm nozzle, printed at a super-slow 25mm/s.

Another source of disposable plastic eliminated. I have spares printing.

Love the outfit, such rad colours!

Yeah, Marty, but what if Santas IFF fails? That wouldn't be -pretty. I don't know if NOAA has the tracking ability, but certainly NASA.

Happy birthday, anyway, mate. I am less than two years away from another decade, but feel like I've got time off, for good behaviour.

Every use, I'm throwing away not just used floss, but PLASTIC. So, it looks like it falls on me to create a sustainable alternative. A re-threadable frame. To the labratory, Igor! *cackles*

Well, I'm out of floss pickers, and the shops are shut. If you don't know them, they are dental floss, in little plastic frames - my mouth is too small, and my hands too big, to use regular floss, so these a perfect. Or, are they...?

If you start seeing random characters, that's not part of it. That's Felicia and Freda, who adopted me back in February (they just turned up, as tiny kittens) who I don't think like my abuser any more than I do, so like to hang with me, sometimes on my keyboard.

Seriously, they are not a danger. People deploying them without understanding - are. They don't think. They are probabalistic systems. This means that they can't work deteminalistically.
2+2=4
2+2=4
2+2=would you like me to describe a camel?

I guess the thing it's really taught me, is that the under forties should not be allowed to do computer-touching, unless supervised by a responsible adult. (I used to say under 50, but have to consider my beloved.)

Haha, no, I got THEM. These kids ain't got nothing on a 58yo engineer who risk-assesses by basic nature, and can smell bullshit at five thousand yards. I am totally in my element.

And my girlfriend has what I have, PLUS a literal lifetime of abuse, and cPTSD. And I started building this with her in mind, and - it's a total game changer.

Jim, I started off, not knowing how it works, but seeing exactly how it's broken, and have been building work-arounds, ever since AND THEY ARE WORKING. The core project has been building a cognitive prosthesis, a tool that lets me THRIVE, despite the AuDHD.

Right now, I am building portfolio. 1st of Jan - I need a job, in a whole, new sector.

But, seriously, it blev me off my feet. 8 days after first contact, I was starting to draft a book on prompt engineering, for non-IT people. It is so compatible with my personal AuDHD, that it has doubled the number of hours I can work a day.

So the biggest "I will never do this" twist: I have seen through the smoke and mirrors, and general hype. I am now working with LLMs. Properly, and effectively. Despite being far older than the tech, it's like I was born to it. Go, Team Neurospicy!

Thank you! I am trying to be here, when everything is - trying.

Or screen. I might be able to make a model, but when it comes down to 2D construction, and especially using software that relies on icons - I'm stuffed.

Was stuffed. Because I looked at the whole system, and found the accessibility weakness.

(I will continue, later.)

But, combining the two things, I had to surmount a large obstacle. My specific neurodivergence makes all GUI software a challenge to use, and when it comes to drawing programmes and CAD - close to impossible.

I can visualise highly complex things, just fine. But I can't get that onto paper.

So, since I was last here, I have done two things, that I had pretty much said I would never do.

The second one - I now own a 3D printer. I am still a big fan of subtractive manufacturing, but the other thing has created a NEED. I need to build wearable hardware that can actually be WORN.

Also, as it involves ML & NLP, but not an LLM (unless it is answering complex questions) they'd probably dispute "AI", as well.

...so others might question "wearable.")

Vapourware reviews is a new one on me.

(Related to the content, I am actually working on pendant, as part of my "cognitive prosthesis" but, since it contains a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, just for starters, and is built mostly from commodity modules, it's going to be the size of a late 90's Nokia...

Well, I'm back. I tried to do this a couple of days ago, but I wrote it as a thread, using the app. I had not saved the last post of the thread. Open the app again - no thread.

I've had some big changes happen. I'd write a thread, but - see above.

I am wrestling with the New Me. Which is basically a self discovery of all the stuff, long-repressed, for reasons too complex to go into, here.

I say "self" discovery, but it's my wonderful partner who has encouraged it out of me.

I am now comfortable about being pan/poly.

And AuDHD. Very.