Arni Rat

Arni Rat

@arnirat.tv

A rat who plays video games in your attic.

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"…some insist that it is all as simple as learning to use AI well, as if we had not just undergone a nearly 20-year, society-wide experiment showing that a so-called 'tool,' say a smartphone or a social media platform, will (mal)form even the most vigilant … user into its own image and shape."

Everything I do for a while has to be through the lens of how it's going to make money or keep a roof over my head if all else fails. Streaming is neither of those things. I hope you understand.

We all joke about getting old, and maybe it’s how we cope, but when you have that first actual crisis moment I hope you treat yourself well because that shit fucking sucks.

Everything is hitting very hard all at once. I'm gonna try not to spill it out here of all places but this is kinda all I have right now so no promises.

If I die suddenly it could be weeks or months before anyone notices so if you don't hear from me for a while that's probably what happened.

Been getting a lot of "congrats on the move!" when I never wanted to. Been getting a lot of "can you get help from family or friends?" and this is why I just don't talk to people anymore.

Did a job coding assessment for shits because I thought I could use the practice. Predictably flamed out. No big whoop. Fascinated by the dichotomy of "Coding is dead. Want the job? Learn AI." and "Want the job? Code this entire system in 60 minutes. Don't even think about using AI."

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JBRedux@jbredux.dev

I'm writing a mod in C# and it's reporting a warning on line 3 of a file but the warning is blank for some reason so the "problems" overview just looks like this

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this is the stupidest thing ive ever drawn

BD Art@iboulderdash.art

What if Mina the Hollower is Miss Bianca and Bernard's daughter? Think about it. She's a white mouse with dark eyes with an excellent fashion sense, like Bianca. And an earnest, hard-working attitude, like Bernard. The age lines up too, if you pretend that mice live longer than two years.

Dunno if I can go another 2-3 weeks without sleeping in my own bed again. Unfortunately I'm tethered to a job interview next week that affects where I end up living, and I'm not in a position to blow it off.

I'm thinking when I do stream again, I'll be paring down my setup and polishing up the basics. I don't know how much of my life streaming is going to be, but I understand that my time on this planet is finite, and I don't want to spend any more of it fucking with Unity.

And maybe this is unfounded, but with vtubing/vrchat stuff, I get annoyed with being tethered to 5-year-old versions of an engine that's already hard to find good documentation for. Like I understand why that is, but again, don't wanna spend years banging my head on that particular wall.

Went to view some apartments today and they asked me to open this website on my phone to scan my face and government ID. What the fuck is happening

Still bitter about being told by a psychologist "Have you tried watching less news?" when it takes constant conscious effort in this country to -not- see the most horrific fucking thing you can imagine every single day.

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The Fallen Ange- uuh, Bat. Mina nursing the edgy bat. I didn't think Thorne would end up being the subject of this reference to Alexandre Cabanel's painting😆

Last full day in the house. Trying not to have big feelings about it. We move forward.

Next couple weeks are gonna be the busiest and most stressful for me, so expect relative silence. I really appreciate those who've reached out to check on me.

Thought I'd pack the rest of my stuff today and instead have a throbbing occipital headache.

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Replying to @moomanibe.bsky.social

Anyone who's ever fixed anyone else's code has the required understanding to know LLMs are just useless toys. Anyone who understands diminishing returns knows it can't get better using pattern replication, you need to model the logic. Someone who doesn't understand both is not a good programmer.

I'll be in a better mood soon. The last bit of work on the house is done so we're free and clear for closing, and that's a load off. Once I'm settled into a new place I can start making real plans.

I don't know. I have no idea what software teams want out of a candidate anymore. They're all out of their fucking minds.

"Yeah you did this part of the code challenge but not this other part that wasn't presented and we expected you to guess out of thin air." Every single fucking time.

Look, chat, I'm not an amazing engineer. Maybe this is just the years of impostor syndrome finally proving itself right and now that the mask is off I have to grind out a living the hard way. Fine. But man, fuck this. Fuck this whole fucking wasted year.

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Did you know that rats can learn to drive? Scientists have taught them to steer tiny cars for a snack. Ours are still on passenger duty, but they are getting real comfortable on a car. Rats are much smarter and more playful than they get credit for. #HeroRATs #APOPO

Last full week at the house. Everything going according to plan, yet everything feels like failure.

Liquid Glass slider on maximum opaqueness, Increase Contrast and Reduce Transparency buttons checked in Accessibility. The menus are still this transparent.

And look I know this is just another comorbidity of fascism but if you design anything at all please don't insist that you know what's best for everyone just because you think it's cool.

I stuck with Mac for so long because it was BSD-like and "well I -might- use Logic and Scrivener more someday" but it's getting every bit as insufferable as Windows. I already have a Debian desktop I can do 99.9% of everything I need on. Will just need to figure out streaming when I get back to it.